Who’s been to a Wal-Mart Super Center?

[Trojan4Life]

allan from fallbrook,

send me your e-mail address and I’ll give you the straight scoop, won’t do it in a public forum though. Overall, I think the pendulum swings both ways and like any large organization, Walmart tends to overcompensate in the name of avoiding lawsuits. There is probably better opportunity for women in this company than most, I know at least two women who in the last year were promoted to officer positions in the company. Many women store managers as well.

I won’t disclose my position here, but I am a salaried associate at Walmart and I’ve been with the company for about a year. If you’ve ever seen CNBC’s “Age of Walmart” and “The New Age of Walmart” (available online) it paints a fairly accurate picture of the Walmart environment.

[Trojan4Life]

allan from fallbrook,

send me your e-mail address and I’ll give you the straight scoop, won’t do it in a public forum though. Overall, I think the pendulum swings both ways and like any large organization, Walmart tends to overcompensate in the name of avoiding lawsuits. There is probably better opportunity for women in this company than most, I know at least two women who in the last year were promoted to officer positions in the company. Many women store managers as well.

I won’t disclose my position here, but I am a salaried associate at Walmart and I’ve been with the company for about a year. If you’ve ever seen CNBC’s “Age of Walmart” and “The New Age of Walmart” (available online) it paints a fairly accurate picture of the Walmart environment.

[Trojan4Life]

allan from fallbrook,

send me your e-mail address and I’ll give you the straight scoop, won’t do it in a public forum though. Overall, I think the pendulum swings both ways and like any large organization, Walmart tends to overcompensate in the name of avoiding lawsuits. There is probably better opportunity for women in this company than most, I know at least two women who in the last year were promoted to officer positions in the company. Many women store managers as well.

I won’t disclose my position here, but I am a salaried associate at Walmart and I’ve been with the company for about a year. If you’ve ever seen CNBC’s “Age of Walmart” and “The New Age of Walmart” (available online) it paints a fairly accurate picture of the Walmart environment.

[Trojan4Life]

allan from fallbrook,

send me your e-mail address and I’ll give you the straight scoop, won’t do it in a public forum though. Overall, I think the pendulum swings both ways and like any large organization, Walmart tends to overcompensate in the name of avoiding lawsuits. There is probably better opportunity for women in this company than most, I know at least two women who in the last year were promoted to officer positions in the company. Many women store managers as well.

I won’t disclose my position here, but I am a salaried associate at Walmart and I’ve been with the company for about a year. If you’ve ever seen CNBC’s “Age of Walmart” and “The New Age of Walmart” (available online) it paints a fairly accurate picture of the Walmart environment.

[Trojan4Life]

allan from fallbrook,

send me your e-mail address and I’ll give you the straight scoop, won’t do it in a public forum though. Overall, I think the pendulum swings both ways and like any large organization, Walmart tends to overcompensate in the name of avoiding lawsuits. There is probably better opportunity for women in this company than most, I know at least two women who in the last year were promoted to officer positions in the company. Many women store managers as well.

I won’t disclose my position here, but I am a salaried associate at Walmart and I’ve been with the company for about a year. If you’ve ever seen CNBC’s “Age of Walmart” and “The New Age of Walmart” (available online) it paints a fairly accurate picture of the Walmart environment.

[Trojan4Life]

allan from fallbrook,

send me your e-mail address and I’ll give you the straight scoop, won’t do it in a public forum though. Overall, I think the pendulum swings both ways and like any large organization, Walmart tends to overcompensate in the name of avoiding lawsuits. There is probably better opportunity for women in this company than most, I know at least two women who in the last year were promoted to officer positions in the company. Many women store managers as well.

I won’t disclose my position here, but I am a salaried associate at Walmart and I’ve been with the company for about a year. If you’ve ever seen CNBC’s “Age of Walmart” and “The New Age of Walmart” (available online) it paints a fairly accurate picture of the Walmart environment.

[UCGal]

I think Captcha was referring to the time Walmart got busted with a cleaning crew of illegal immigrants. Worse, they’d literally locked them in a store overnight. (Fire safety issue).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48612-2005Mar18.html

I personally don’t shop at walmart because I don’t like their policies towards the hourly employees. Perhaps they’ve fixed it since the book Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich, came out… but I was horrified that low paid hourly workers were required to work off the clock, were given info about how to apply to medicare programs, WIC, etc. Why would they provide that information in the employee breakrooms if it wasn’t something the employees qualified for? In other words, many of Walmart’s employees are living at a poverty level. Hard to call that living wages.

I’ve shopped at super-walmarts – mainly when on roadtrips and it was the only thing readily available from the freeway. At home, I choose to shop at Costco – where they pay wages high enough that many employees are still there having started in college. They have their degrees – but like their employer and work enough to stick around for 20 years or more. (Check the badges of the costco workers – it has the number of years.)

It’s a personal choice. Not forced on anyone else. But given options, I won’t shop at Walmart.

[UCGal]

I think Captcha was referring to the time Walmart got busted with a cleaning crew of illegal immigrants. Worse, they’d literally locked them in a store overnight. (Fire safety issue).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48612-2005Mar18.html

I personally don’t shop at walmart because I don’t like their policies towards the hourly employees. Perhaps they’ve fixed it since the book Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich, came out… but I was horrified that low paid hourly workers were required to work off the clock, were given info about how to apply to medicare programs, WIC, etc. Why would they provide that information in the employee breakrooms if it wasn’t something the employees qualified for? In other words, many of Walmart’s employees are living at a poverty level. Hard to call that living wages.

I’ve shopped at super-walmarts – mainly when on roadtrips and it was the only thing readily available from the freeway. At home, I choose to shop at Costco – where they pay wages high enough that many employees are still there having started in college. They have their degrees – but like their employer and work enough to stick around for 20 years or more. (Check the badges of the costco workers – it has the number of years.)

It’s a personal choice. Not forced on anyone else. But given options, I won’t shop at Walmart.

[UCGal]

I think Captcha was referring to the time Walmart got busted with a cleaning crew of illegal immigrants. Worse, they’d literally locked them in a store overnight. (Fire safety issue).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48612-2005Mar18.html

I personally don’t shop at walmart because I don’t like their policies towards the hourly employees. Perhaps they’ve fixed it since the book Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich, came out… but I was horrified that low paid hourly workers were required to work off the clock, were given info about how to apply to medicare programs, WIC, etc. Why would they provide that information in the employee breakrooms if it wasn’t something the employees qualified for? In other words, many of Walmart’s employees are living at a poverty level. Hard to call that living wages.

I’ve shopped at super-walmarts – mainly when on roadtrips and it was the only thing readily available from the freeway. At home, I choose to shop at Costco – where they pay wages high enough that many employees are still there having started in college. They have their degrees – but like their employer and work enough to stick around for 20 years or more. (Check the badges of the costco workers – it has the number of years.)

It’s a personal choice. Not forced on anyone else. But given options, I won’t shop at Walmart.

[UCGal]

I think Captcha was referring to the time Walmart got busted with a cleaning crew of illegal immigrants. Worse, they’d literally locked them in a store overnight. (Fire safety issue).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48612-2005Mar18.html

I personally don’t shop at walmart because I don’t like their policies towards the hourly employees. Perhaps they’ve fixed it since the book Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich, came out… but I was horrified that low paid hourly workers were required to work off the clock, were given info about how to apply to medicare programs, WIC, etc. Why would they provide that information in the employee breakrooms if it wasn’t something the employees qualified for? In other words, many of Walmart’s employees are living at a poverty level. Hard to call that living wages.

I’ve shopped at super-walmarts – mainly when on roadtrips and it was the only thing readily available from the freeway. At home, I choose to shop at Costco – where they pay wages high enough that many employees are still there having started in college. They have their degrees – but like their employer and work enough to stick around for 20 years or more. (Check the badges of the costco workers – it has the number of years.)

It’s a personal choice. Not forced on anyone else. But given options, I won’t shop at Walmart.

[UCGal]

I think Captcha was referring to the time Walmart got busted with a cleaning crew of illegal immigrants. Worse, they’d literally locked them in a store overnight. (Fire safety issue).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48612-2005Mar18.html

I personally don’t shop at walmart because I don’t like their policies towards the hourly employees. Perhaps they’ve fixed it since the book Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich, came out… but I was horrified that low paid hourly workers were required to work off the clock, were given info about how to apply to medicare programs, WIC, etc. Why would they provide that information in the employee breakrooms if it wasn’t something the employees qualified for? In other words, many of Walmart’s employees are living at a poverty level. Hard to call that living wages.

I’ve shopped at super-walmarts – mainly when on roadtrips and it was the only thing readily available from the freeway. At home, I choose to shop at Costco – where they pay wages high enough that many employees are still there having started in college. They have their degrees – but like their employer and work enough to stick around for 20 years or more. (Check the badges of the costco workers – it has the number of years.)

It’s a personal choice. Not forced on anyone else. But given options, I won’t shop at Walmart.

[blahblahblah]

If you support Wal-Mart by shopping there, remember that someday you might be working there as well. That is, if you’re lucky enough to have a job at all.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Ghandi

Do you wish for a future where everyone works for $9 an hour so that they can buy goods imported from countries that that have no labor, environmental, or food safety standards like China? Then by all means let Wal-Mart into your town and shop there.

Also, I love the argument about how Wal-Mart helps poor people. If we keep letting Wal-Mart help poor people, we will all soon join their ranks.

[blahblahblah]

If you support Wal-Mart by shopping there, remember that someday you might be working there as well. That is, if you’re lucky enough to have a job at all.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Ghandi

Do you wish for a future where everyone works for $9 an hour so that they can buy goods imported from countries that that have no labor, environmental, or food safety standards like China? Then by all means let Wal-Mart into your town and shop there.

Also, I love the argument about how Wal-Mart helps poor people. If we keep letting Wal-Mart help poor people, we will all soon join their ranks.

[blahblahblah]

If you support Wal-Mart by shopping there, remember that someday you might be working there as well. That is, if you’re lucky enough to have a job at all.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Ghandi

Do you wish for a future where everyone works for $9 an hour so that they can buy goods imported from countries that that have no labor, environmental, or food safety standards like China? Then by all means let Wal-Mart into your town and shop there.

Also, I love the argument about how Wal-Mart helps poor people. If we keep letting Wal-Mart help poor people, we will all soon join their ranks.

[blahblahblah]

If you support Wal-Mart by shopping there, remember that someday you might be working there as well. That is, if you’re lucky enough to have a job at all.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Ghandi

Do you wish for a future where everyone works for $9 an hour so that they can buy goods imported from countries that that have no labor, environmental, or food safety standards like China? Then by all means let Wal-Mart into your town and shop there.

Also, I love the argument about how Wal-Mart helps poor people. If we keep letting Wal-Mart help poor people, we will all soon join their ranks.

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