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Yes. These practices of poor pay and poor benefits that WalMart provides its employees is not new nor has it improved. Shameful! Gigantic profits for a few elite is made by impoverishing many US citizens. The odd thing is, many people actually defend this practice of WalMart!?
If you don't like what Wal-Mart pays its workers then don't work for Wal-Mart. It's that simple. It's only the busy body libs that think they have to tell everyone else how to live their life that have a bug up their butt over working for Wal-Mart.
In other words, you are in support of full government entitlements for those who are unemployed and refuse to work for low wages and pitiful benefits.
Gee, you could have gone to a thrift store and spent half that - and benefited a charitable organization at the same time.
What thrift store?
Do you think that every town in America has a furniture store and a thrift store? Do you think that every town has a choice of grocery stores? Do you think that every town has a choice of banks? A choice of phone companies?
Snobs are people who look down on other people because they don't have the same luxury of choices the snobs have.
Depends on what their bills are and how well they manage their money.
Sorry, but a monkey could be trained to do most entry level positions. Literally anybody could do those jobs. Why should someone be paid more than the job is worth?
A job is an agreement between two private parties to exchange labor for compensation. If both parties agree to the compensation package at the time of hiring, and both parties are living up to that agreement, why should you give a rat's ass about what that agreement is, if you're not one of those parties?
Labor is labor. A person working an honest job full time should at least be able to support themselves and their health insurance. Otherwise, we have a huge economic problem growing in our country!
The problem with walmart is the vast majority of their jobs are part time. That and they'd rather fire everyone in a store than let it unionize. They will spend a fortune preventing people from being able to earn a livable wage at the most profitable retail store in the world.
And that list foes mention cashier and stocker which is like, pretty much everything as far as the store goes. So less than 10 bucks an hour, no full time and of course no benefits.
Unless they are holding a gun to someone's head, and making them work at WM, they are not preventing anyone from earning a specific wage. If you want to work at WM, you take the pay they're giving. Want more, work somewhere else.
As for "no benefits" you might want to look around. Except for the union thugs out there, not many jobs come with benefits these days.
Yeah I totally agree. So sick of seeing so many people sticking up for Wal-Mart in this discussion. It's like somebody said something about their kids, "oh please leave poor WM alone." They are hugely profitable and refuse to share most of it with their employees in the form of benefits, and higher wages. It's a sick practice that the rest of the industry is following in order to stay in business. Perhaps those who enable WM to create such strong margins should revoke their support and let's see how long it takes Rome to fall...
I'm so sick of people in this country thinking that successful companies should have their money stolen from them and given to people that are employed by them. We are a free market society. To force a company to do ANYTHING really IS socialism. But we all know that's what progressives dream about.
Everyone is going on about the poor workers only being able to work part time, and being on public assistance. What if it's not working at WM that's keeping them down, but the fact that they're only willing to do the minimum, and prefer to be on assistance that causes them to work there?
Labor is labor. A person working an honest job full time should at least be able to support themselves and their health insurance. Otherwise, we have a huge economic problem growing in our country!
You're wrong. Never in our country's history has a minimum wage job provided enough to support the lifestyle you say it should, yet we've done just fine so far.
If you're a minimum wage worker, and you want more money for your time, then you need to obtain the knowledge and/or skills necessary to increase your value to potential employers. Anybody can stock shelves or push buttons on a register - it's a minimum wage position. If you want management pay, learn what it takes to be a manager and go after the job. You can't simply demand higher pay without providing the employer something worth that increase in return.
Again, I return to a job being nothing more than a contract between two private parties. Tell me why you care what the terms of that contract are, if both parties agreed to it and both are living up to it.
"You betta check yoself before ya wreck yoself..."
Go ahead and order that TV from Walmart for 4 dollars less. This is the type of thing that happens.
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I wanted an inexpensive digital camera for my daughter. After finding one with the basic features I wanted, I went to sears, target and walmart to check prices. All 3 stores sold the a camera with the exact same model number. Sears -$119 target -$109 walmart - $99 . I bought it at the manufactures online store but when the camera was delivered it DID NOT have all the features that the Sears and Target salesperson had shown me (couldn’t get help at the Walmart store). I contacted the factory store and asked them if perhaps the one I got was an older version of this camera since the model number on the unit was the correct. The customer service agent apologized and said I must have gotten one of the “WALMART” cameras. These units were manufactured just for them with the same model number but with reduced features. So while the price was a little lower at walmart, the value was worse since it was a stripped down version.
Unless they are holding a gun to someone's head, and making them work at WM, they are not preventing anyone from earning a specific wage. If you want to work at WM, you take the pay they're giving. Want more, work somewhere else.
As for "no benefits" you might want to look around. Except for the union thugs out there, not many jobs come with benefits these days.
So what do you suggest Americans do to get health insurance with these "many jobs that come without benefits?' Go on Medicaid?
I'm so sick of people in this country thinking that successful companies should have their money stolen from them and given to people that are employed by them. We are a free market society. To force a company to do ANYTHING really IS socialism. But we all know that's what progressives dream about.
Everyone is going on about the poor workers only being able to work part time, and being on public assistance. What if it's not working at WM that's keeping them down, but the fact that they're only willing to do the minimum, and prefer to be on assistance that causes them to work there?
Write something logical.
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