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[Cat_Driver]

Whoa... un twist your panties. You are hallucinating over things I DID NOT SAY. I spoke of Wal mart, period. They started this trend with cheap crap made by cheap pay. My point, I don't shop there. I don't need to give my money to a company I have a problem with on how they treat their employees, in the US, or China. I don't have a clue what you are rambling about.

I was giving you a HISTORY lesson and showing how wrong you are. Wal Mart DID NOT start the trend with cheap goods. Read some history and learn. Secondly Wal Mart does NOTHING that a lot of other USA corporation do. No you're the one that doesn't have a clue how they treat employees here or in China. You are doing nothing more than babbling liberal talking points.

Here's what you don't have a CLUE about. Prove you know how they treat their Chinese employees. Name one Chinese company, one employees with an address in China. As far as how they treat their employees in the USA they follow the LAW OF THIS COUNTRY like every corporation does. It's called EEOC - look it up you may learn something EEOC Home Page before you spew false talking points you can't prove.
You want to know what I'm talking about - FACTS not 99 percenter talking points.
Now for the last nail in the coffin of your lies. IF, and that's a capital IF Wal Mart treats their employees so horrendous, why do 1.4 MILLION of them work for them, or do they just love being mistreated. I wonder why that when Walmart opens a new store, it痴 not uncommon for as many as 10,000 people to apply for just 300 jobs. YA I KNOW YOU HATE FACTS DON'T YOU

Three out of four Walmart store managers started out as hourly associates, MAKING MINIMUM WAGE and those managers can earn up to $170,000 per year. Some former hourly associates, such as Patricia Curran, have worked their way up to top executive positions. Curran was named by Fortune magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women of 2006. Walmart even encourages associates to complete training courses during fully paid work time and offers raises to associates who complete these courses.

Walmart痴 relationship with its employees is win-win. Every wage that it pays is one that the employee accepts and a large number of individuals have successfully worked their way up the retail giant.

It offers training and development because it judges this to be good business. Such programs reward talent, motivate employees and recruit managers with extensive firsthand knowledge of store operations. With regards to wages, the company pays what it needs to in order to recruit an enormous number of competent and content associates. And it recognizes that it does not make business sense to pay more than it needs to. JUST LIKE EVERY CORPORATION ON THE PLANET

 

[troutsqueezer]

A history lesson sprinkled with large amounts of vitriol. Don't quit your day job.

Wherever a WalWart opens up, a hundred mom and pop stores close down and your quaint downtown Main Street becomes a dilapidated version of its old self. Where people gathered and drank their sodas, ate their ice cream cones and stopped to chat you now have sidewalks full of weeds and discarded hypodermic needles. Next thing there will be walking dead inside every abandoned storefront.

 

[300UGUY]

A history lesson sprinkled with large amounts of vitriol. Don't quit your day job.

Wherever a WalWart opens up, a hundred mom and pop stores close down and your quaint downtown Main Street becomes a dilapidated version of its old self. Where people gathered and drank their sodas, ate their ice cream cones and stopped to chat you now have sidewalks full of weeds and discarded hypodermic needles. Next thing there will be walking dead inside every abandoned storefront.

Hot Dammm!!! Finally a real zombie thread!

When Walmart came here, the hardware store closed, a bunch of clothing stores went. When Home Depot and Lowes showed up, the lumber yards closed. One had been in biz over 100 years. Most of the downtown areas of the county villages are antique shops, resale shops or vacant.

 

[Loren49]

I was giving you a HISTORY lesson and showing how wrong you are. Wal Mart DID NOT start the trend with cheap goods. Read some history and learn. Secondly Wal Mart does NOTHING that a lot of other USA corporation do. No you're the one that doesn't have a clue how they treat employees here or in China. You are doing nothing more than babbling liberal talking points.

Here's what you don't have a CLUE about. Prove you know how they treat their Chinese employees. Name one Chinese company, one employees with an address in China. As far as how they treat their employees in the USA they follow the LAW OF THIS COUNTRY like every corporation does. It's called EEOC - look it up you may learn something EEOC Home Page before you spew false talking points you can't prove.
You want to know what I'm talking about - FACTS not 99 percenter talking points.
Now for the last nail in the coffin of your lies. IF, and that's a capital IF Wal Mart treats their employees so horrendous, why do 1.4 MILLION of them work for them, or do they just love being mistreated. I wonder why that when Walmart opens a new store, itç—´ not uncommon for as many as 10,000 people to apply for just 300 jobs. YA I KNOW YOU HATE FACTS DON'T YOU

Three out of four Walmart store managers started out as hourly associates, MAKING MINIMUM WAGE and those managers can earn up to $170,000 per year. Some former hourly associates, such as Patricia Curran, have worked their way up to top executive positions. Curran was named by Fortune magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women of 2006. Walmart even encourages associates to complete training courses during fully paid work time and offers raises to associates who complete these courses.

Walmartç—´ relationship with its employees is win-win. Every wage that it pays is one that the employee accepts and a large number of individuals have successfully worked their way up the retail giant.

It offers training and development because it judges this to be good business. Such programs reward talent, motivate employees and recruit managers with extensive firsthand knowledge of store operations. With regards to wages, the company pays what it needs to in order to recruit an enormous number of competent and content associates. And it recognizes that it does not make business sense to pay more than it needs to. JUST LIKE EVERY CORPORATION ON THE PLANET[/QUOTE

A good portion of this post was written by Doug Altner for a Forbes article.
Why Do 1.4 Million Americans Work At Walmart, With Many More Trying To? - Forbes
Quotes from article:

"Three out of four Walmart store managers started out as hourly associates, and those managers can earn up to $170,000 per year. Some former hourly associates, such as Patricia Curran, have worked their way up to top executive positions. Curran was named by Fortune magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women of 2006. Walmart even encourages associates to complete training courses during fully paid work time and offers raises to associates who complete these courses.

Walmart’s relationship with its employees is win-win. Every wage that it pays is one that the employee accepts and a large number of individuals have successfully worked their way up the retail giant.

It offers training and development because it judges this to be good business. Such programs reward talent, motivate employees and recruit managers with extensive firsthand knowledge of store operations. With regards to wages, the company pays what it needs to in order to recruit an enormous number of competent and content associates."

It is a good idea to reference other people's work. Facts can be presented without attacking the person with whom you disagree.

Loren

 

[troutsqueezer]

Whenever you see those weird characters where there should be apostrophes and stuff, it's a pretty good sign that the text was copied from somewhere, a word processing program or in a lot of cases, the Internet.

P.S. Walking Dead, best show on TV, ever...

 

[houstonscott]

A history lesson sprinkled with large amounts of vitriol. Don't quit your day job. Wherever a WalWart opens up, a hundred mom and pop stores close down and your quaint downtown Main Street becomes a dilapidated version of its old self. Where people gathered and drank their sodas, ate their ice cream cones and stopped to chat you now have sidewalks full of weeds and discarded hypodermic needles. Next thing there will be walking dead inside every abandoned storefront.

Oh, come on now, that's straight up propaganda. Walmart rejuvenates areas, bring real jobs in a system you might make headway as a part of, and making things affordable, all those things on your list are still happening, just go inside. HS

 

[PapaPerk]

Oh, come on now, that's straight up propaganda. Walmart rejuvenates areas, bring real jobs in a system you might make headway as a part of, and making things affordable, all those things on your list are still happening, just go inside. HS

It's fact Wal-Mart has destroyed small town business. But it's not Wal-Mart... It's the people that shop there. Anything for a good deal.

Let's hope Wal-Mart is true to their word on buying more made in the USA stuff. Sam Walton supported this philosophy and it died with him.

 

[Pixguy]

It's funny to hear some family members state that they hate Walmart and will shop there to see them shop at Target or Kmart. Do they really think the stuff at those stores are domestically made and that they pay a higher wage? I think not. Walmart is just the union whipping boy.

and walk in your local A*e or Tr** Value hardware store and see mostly the same Chinese made junk at a higher price with a HS kid or retiree making minimum wage.

 

[ultrarunner]

Well there is always the other end of the Spectrum...

Over 700 city of San Francisco employees received over 200k last year not including Medical and Pension

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I was giving you a HISTORY lesson and showing how wrong you are. Wal Mart DID NOT start the trend with cheap goods. Read some history and learn. Secondly Wal Mart does NOTHING that a lot of other USA corporation do. No you're the one that doesn't have a clue how they treat employees here or in China. You are doing nothing more than babbling liberal talking points.

Here's what you don't have a CLUE about. Prove you know how they treat their Chinese employees. Name one Chinese company, one employees with an address in China. As far as how they treat their employees in the USA they follow the LAW OF THIS COUNTRY like every corporation does. It's called EEOC - look it up you may learn something EEOC Home Page before you spew false talking points you can't prove.
You want to know what I'm talking about - FACTS not 99 percenter talking points.
Now for the last nail in the coffin of your lies. IF, and that's a capital IF Wal Mart treats their employees so horrendous, why do 1.4 MILLION of them work for them, or do they just love being mistreated. I wonder why that when Walmart opens a new store, itç—´ not uncommon for as many as 10,000 people to apply for just 300 jobs. YA I KNOW YOU HATE FACTS DON'T YOU

Three out of four Walmart store managers started out as hourly associates, MAKING MINIMUM WAGE and those managers can earn up to $170,000 per year. Some former hourly associates, such as Patricia Curran, have worked their way up to top executive positions. Curran was named by Fortune magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women of 2006. Walmart even encourages associates to complete training courses during fully paid work time and offers raises to associates who complete these courses.

Walmartç—´ relationship with its employees is win-win. Every wage that it pays is one that the employee accepts and a large number of individuals have successfully worked their way up the retail giant.

It offers training and development because it judges this to be good business. Such programs reward talent, motivate employees and recruit managers with extensive firsthand knowledge of store operations. With regards to wages, the company pays what it needs to in order to recruit an enormous number of competent and content associates. And it recognizes that it does not make business sense to pay more than it needs to. JUST LIKE EVERY CORPORATION ON THE PLANET

O. K. Your break is over, time to go back out front and greet the customers. Sounds like you are on the fast track to upper management at wally world. Or, maybe your kid. Any way, without my money...