Posted on 10/02/2006 8:06:25 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
Sam Walton was a great man, I doubt he would recognize a company today that makes it difficult for it's employees to go to church on Sundays
A company that provides employment to more people than any other deserves to be destroyed.
Success is failure.
Right on, kudos to you.!
What happened to Wal-Mart managers owning stock in the company and having a stake in the operation?
>>>"We have a free-market economy. ...bla bla"
I would agree with your post, but his is happening across the board regardless of the business and education status of its employees. I don't agree with the democratic/liberal solutions, but at least they are not in denial with regards to the problems, be it retirement, healthcare, education, etc.>>>
Blah blah blah is right. It's the same old crap with no solutions. Blame the people who work there, etc...
It's threads like these that make me questions my political leanings. I am NOT for socialism, but the stereotypical purely self interest of most Freepers is sickening. These same people would be complaining about their tax dollars (as I have) because the corporations are making millions, while we are funding their payroll. (essentially)
If someone is in a job that doesn't pay them what they want, they are free to go back to school, take job training, take courses online, etc., etc., etc. If people are "trapped," the snares are of their own making.
I'm sick of the victim mentality of too many people in this country, aided and abetted by the liberals constantly telling everyone how cr@ppy everything is. We've gotten to the point in this country that as soon as people don't have everything they think they deserve, they start looking around for someone else to blame.
If people aren't happy with their situation, they need to look in the mirror for the cause.
>>>"Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer..."
A company that provides employment to more people than any other deserves to be destroyed.
Success is failure.>>>
A corporation that makes millions while it's employees are having to make up the difference of what they don't make by going to government assistance is a failure. If Freepers are too ignorant to think that the only thing that makes a company is a 'success' is the profit margin, you people are in for a wake up call.
But that's what I said - they all do it.
I disagree that it's happening across the board. If you have job skills, there is work for you. Those who don't have skills need to get off their duffs and make changes.
I have been a staunch Wal-Mart supporter, was a manager with them once upon a time, and my wife still works for them.
These new policies are the exact opposite of what has made Wal-Mart successful and they have, in the last six months, apparently decided to kill the goose that laid the proverbial golden egg. Sam Walton's legacy is dead, and the associate is now considered a dispensible commodity. The employment agreement that long term associates made with the company have been buried and they are indeed being intentionally pushed out. They do have a hiring freeze on full-time employees at stores under the "new flight," and are increasing the hours required to be "full-time" in order to squeeze out the long term employees who were grandfathered under the old hour requirement. I HATE UNIONS, and think that these new policies will create a niche in Wal-Mart's armor that the unions will ooze through.
The idiots are sucking up to the Rainbow Crowd and are basically pulling a Dixie Chicks manuever, by alienating their base.
We sold off our stock last week. The wife is hanging in there for a few more years and then she is gonna bail.
Exactly, I will be across the street at Target shopping, thank you very much!I rarely go to Walmart for one basic reason.
I hate lines.
Target seems to hate them too.
Wallyworld is either indifferent or loves them.
-Eric
Read my post.
I am a die-hard free-marketeer, but they are bleeding themselves.
Find another place to shop!
>>>If people aren't happy with their situation, they need to look in the mirror for the cause.>>>
Good for you!!! I'm so glad you are such a BEAMING success that you cannot see past your own self.
In our area, there have been people who have worked for these textile industries for 20 odd years (my husband is one) and now IS going back to school. Good for him. Luckily, I make enough money to support our children (who up until a few months back, we supported quite well thank you) until he does get his degree/certification (as he has chosen welding to go with his machine mechanic certification he already has). Good for us! Now about the guy whose wife was at home with his kids, because all good Freepers think that the wifey should stay home with kids and make a better civilisation and all. Now that fella is forced to go to work wherever he can find it because he has to pay the bills in the mean time. Walmart? Probably, since it is virtually the only employer left in our rural area. Move away, surrrreee, that'll work since he has no job and can surely buy/rent a house with NO JOB. "Trapped by your own making" is an arrogant and INCORRECT assessment.
God hope Karma doesn't come your way soon and you don't have to eat your words anytime soon.
They offer as good a package as you can find and it is easily available. That canard is union B.S.
...the corporations are making millions, while we are funding their payroll."
It is not an option, they are forcing everyone they can into part-time and not hiring any full-timers.
I HATE UNIONS, and think that these new policies will create a niche in Wal-Mart's armor that the unions will ooze through.Yep, and they will deserve it.
I briefly worked for a division of a large corporation. One of the reasons I left: I was sitting in on a "counseling" session for an employee, and found myself agreeing 100% with the shop steward.
I used to be completely anti-union. I still don't think they are even remotely neccesary in plants where the ultimate decision makers are on-site.
But in large multi-plant facilities where the "headquarters" people call the shots, they definitely have a role. In some cases, they allow the plant management to treat workers fairly, when otherwise they would be unable.
-Eric
Exactly.
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