5-gallon yellow fuel cans

[firemanpat2910]

Wow this thread started with saving $6.00 on a fuel can and now we are talking about socialized medicine???? Ill pay the extra $6.


I had a long editorial all typed then changed my mind..

 

[MadReferee]

This is like a double post. Yellow cans and Wally World. Can't use my no-spill cans without a funnel, maybe there childproof? My understanding about Wally is that they really don't provide for their workers as much as other large employers do. So if one spouse works for Wally and another works elsewere and the second spouses' employer offers health care, they carry the first spouse. Wally does not step up to the plate for bennies is what I understand. Greg

Your understanding is absolutely wrong. My wife is starting this week part time at WM. Their starting salary is in line with what other places around here are paying. Their benefits are in line with what other similar retail businesses are providing. Their employee discount is in line with everyone else.

Unless you have some other more specific information on how and what they do and don't provide, I suggest you do a little more research like go and apply yourself. You will see that your "understanding" is so far off base it's ridiculous.

 

[turbo36]

Your understanding is absolutely wrong. My wife is starting this week part time at WM. Their starting salary is in line with what other places around here are paying. Their benefits are in line with what other similar retail businesses are providing. Their employee discount is in line with everyone else.

Unless you have some other more specific information on how and what they do and don't provide, I suggest you do a little more research like go and apply yourself. You will see that your "understanding" is so far off base it's ridiculous.

So, no bias in your support for WM then, is there?

 

[MadReferee]

So, no bias in your support for WM then, is there?

I don't believe I have any bias towards or against WM. What I have a problem with is people spouting off claiming things that just aren't completely true based on repeated rumor and inuendos. Once you get all the facts you will find that WM is no different than many other large companies. Nobody is forcing companies and individuals to do business with WM, just like nobody is forcing anyone to deal with GM, Ford or Chrysler. Last time I looked this was a relatively free country.

BTW, for part time employment in this area, WM ofers the highest wages, most flexible hours and best benefits of ANY other area company.

 

[KubotaSteve]

My brother used to work at Wal-Mart. He started out as an associate while in computer school after college. He worked his way up to Dept. Manager and then Assistant Manager. He was making some pretty good money plus bonuses. He had to make a decision whether to continue working his way up or go towards computers. He chose computers but Wal-Mart could be a good thing for a kid out of high school who can't afford college. They are pretty big about promoting from within.

 

[Iowachild]

We are one of the few, if not the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have socialized medicine. Our current tread is for private insurance. Many small companys offer health care to their employees. Any company that posts profits as grand as these, should take better care of the people who helped get them there. It seems to me the employees are just another part to squeeze as much out of as possible. As was stated in an earlier reply to this post - Someone will take there place-. Greg

I don't think anyone is forced to work for any employer in this country. People seem to get the words of the preamble of the constitution confused. It says "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
That's promote not provide. We are all free to attempt to get as much as we can and we're all free to fall flat on our faces. It's when we decide we are "owed" something the problems begin.
I'll step off of my soapbox now.

 

[schmism]

I just paid $12 for a yellow plasitc bliz brand fuel "can" from the local mom/pop hardware store. actually i was surprised they had one, and as it would have it, i despertly need more fuel in the tractor and dont have my permant fuel supply solution worked out yet.... so i bucked up and bought it and got to get another hr of seat time in yesterday cause i now once again have an almost full tank.

btw this is my permanat fuel supply solution.

Blitz 15-Gallon Professional Fuel Station&#153, Model# 11055 | Gas + Oil Cans | Northern Tool + Equipment

so i can buy a fancy 5 gallon version for $43 or buy one 15 gallon version for $99.... (course it still ant $36 for 3 plastic ones but... well i like the idea of the metal can with hose and nosel)

 

[NewToy]

The entire issue of WALMART, what they do or don't do for employees, who they buy from, and how they run their business is totally, completely absurd IMHO.

People raise cain if they're not the cheapest. Yet they expect Wally to pay wages in line with a fortune 500 CEO. They grumble if Wally sells "foriegn made products", yet they own a Kioti.

There really aren't too many options out there to buy an American MADE tractor. You can buy an American "badged" tractor but that's it.

John

 

[Inspector507]

schmism,
I like the looks of that fuel can. However it appears it will only work if its sitting up higher than the tractors tank. It's gravity flow.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

There really aren't too many options out there to buy an American MADE tractor. You can buy an American "badged" tractor but that's it.

John

Exactly my point. Take the great American Icon John Deere as a prime example. Clear back to the late 1940's, Deere was "going global". Plants in France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, and all around the globe. They did it before it became unfashionable to produce tractors out of country, and WAY before it BECAME fashionable to do the same. I hear so many people commenting on how Deere started importing Japanese products 15 or 20 years ago. It was a LONG time before that when they were bringing foriegn built tractors here. It's nothing new. It's nothing to be ashamed of. It's not going to change.

So many people want "progress". So many want development.

So many are so resitant to CHANGE.

WALMART gets lambasted for selling foriegn made products. And like I said, they get their strongest critisism from the very same people who BUY foriegn made products. The problem isn't with WALMART, it's with the American consumer who can't own up to the fact that foriegn countries can produce quality products cheaper than we can in some cases.