Posted on 09/04/2013 1:53:55 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Get a grip, WM folks. Starter jobs are just that... not meant to be careers.
As a former Chicagoan (40+ years ago) and now a Tennessean, I call it the Land of Stinkum.
Being a former Walmart employee from a long time back, I can safely say that the company will not tolerate this and will be handing our pink slips and final paychecks to anyone who decided to strike. Walmart doesn’t play around with this kind of proto-union nonsense.
The problem is with people who want to turn entry level crap jobs into a career.
Has the price of crack gone up all that much?
“The problem is with people who want to turn entry level crap jobs into a career.”
They quit school and all they can get is a crap job. Well, McDonald’s and Wal-Mart jobs were intended as entry level. Nobody said you could quit high school and raise a family on minimum wage. That’s why you get a minimum wage job in high school for spending money and some work skills. Then, you graduate, get further training at a university or technical school or the military and then get a real job.
Yes, there’s no way to support a family on an entry level job. But if you didn’t finish high school it’s nobody’s fault but yours.
If you didn't finish high school and didn't get married but had some children anyway ...
The last Wal-Mart store I remember opening had about 200 positions to fill and got about 3000 applications. Any Wal-Mart employee stupid enough to picket will be replaced before a cat can lick it’s &$$!!!
Fire them all and give the jobs to those who wish to work for a reasonable wage in a “stepping stone” job.
A relative who works for the corporation tells me that if they strike the theft loss will plummet. Locally employees get fired for stealing regularly, only to be replaced by others whose only goal is to do the same. Most of the cashiers seem to be able to afford new SUV’s and hair/nail care while shopping with their EBT cards.
“If you didn’t finish high school and didn’t get married but had some children anyway ... “
Yep. That’s not Wal-Mart or McDonald’s fault either. There should be some consequences. My mother said that some people were destined only to serve as horrible examples for the rest of us.
There was an attempt a few years back to unionize the butchers that Wal-Mart had in their meat departments.
Wal-Mart decided to close all of them.
These dumb asses should think twice about what they are doing, they may wind up with no job at all.
A lot of people ... like ten of my children ... don't learn a thing until reality hits them upside the head with a brick (or the floor, for the baby). Gosh, that sounds like me!
Well we’ll make a special trip to WM on that day to do our biweekly shopping...
...f’en union trash.
Will anybody notice? Will anybody care? I don’t. There is no limitation on a disgruntled or unhappy employee GETTING ANOTHER JOB!! We live in a nation of lazy dumbasses.
I’m a skilled employee with many different certifications I had to study for and earn the privilege of the company schooling and paying for. During the time I only had my initial radiographer cert, I was making less than 15 dollars an hour. During that time my duties were akin to a burger flipper or shelf stocker..
The good news first. You don’t have to scrub floors and clean the rest rooms at WalMart ...unless you want to!
Bad news: you probably can’t get a second part time job if your first one is WalMart. The way they schedule you, you really don’t know what days you work and what days you don’t, until about 2 weeks in advance. Some weeks you’ll get Fridays off, some weeks you won’t. One day you’ll work 10 to 7, next day you’ll work 2 to 7pm. A computer will assign you a schedule and there’s not much you can do about it unless you want to be scheduled way less than part time.
Get the other job first, then tell WM you’re available 2 days a week.
But hurry. Every day another WM customer learns to do self-check.
PS the health benefits are for full time associates and there aren’t many of those around these days. WM has seen the handwriting on the wall (obamacare).
They do. And I think I just now understand why the signs are usually posted on automatic doors where, if you get close enough to read them, they go sideways behind the glass wall where another sign hides them completely...
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