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Retail Worker Forum - SteveJobs - 03-01-2006
http://www.retailworker.com/forum
Includes the oft mentioned Costco company
Re: Retail Worker Forum - SteveJobs - 03-01-2006
Here's one:
http://www.retailworker.com/node/18663
Re: Retail Worker Forum - Jimmypoo - 03-01-2006
a bit of tunnel vision here...
>>If WalMart has the 3 to 1 ratio going on, which company is paying it's employees more? The answer is they are paying their employees identical amounts ($6 per hour vs. Costco $18)
I think I'd rather be the hard worker getting $18 over the numbnuts getting $6.
And $400 med insurance deductibles?? MY GOD!
I wish I had that deductible RIGHT NOW.
I know many professionals who maintain BCBS at $5000 deductiblle just to cover catastrophic - otherwise they couldn't afford the premiums.
F#$%*in' whiners. Realize what you have compared to those
who do not. Especially when it comes to benefits. The company isn't supposed to pick your child's father - to avoid "dead beat Dads" and costing you "more in deductible."
What kind of idiot makes this argument??
Perhaps a Coal Mining job 100 years ago is preferred, where the company furnishes everything and you shop at their store too?
Show me $20/hour plus a $400 deductible med plan, and I'll show you MILLIONS of people who want that job.
Re: Retail Worker Forum - pRON aHOLIC - 03-01-2006
Oh yes, an anonymous forum about Costco. How about some cold hard facts and links to news? No where in that post, all unsubstantiated claims. Every company makes mistakes. The Walmart culture is to consistently break the law because it costs less to litigate.
Here is some and until Costco does most of the crap Walmart does then I will keep shopping there. These are just a few reasons why Walmart is evil and sucking the life out of this country.
22 states are currently proposing legislation that would force companies such as Walmart to provide better health care to their employees. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_bi_ge/wal_mart_health_care_1
Walmart costs US taxpayers billion each year in medicaid costs. They make PROFITS in t he billions. That is NET not GROSS yet the CEO was begging Governors to help them with health costs, pathetic.
Walmart reluctantly or does not carry legal birth control even if they are the only pharamcy in town yet they carry ER pills such as viagra. http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2006/02/16/news/news11.txt
Walmart typically tops state assistance programs like in WV costing taxpayers. http://wvgazette.com/section/Series/Wal-Mart+Culture/2004122531
Walmart contibuted 20 billion to the record US trade deficit with China in 2005 of 200 billion.
Walmart has to pay $172 million to workers they denied breaks to http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/22/news/fortune500/wal-mart_damages/?eref=yahoo
Walmart discrimination lawsuit
http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/24/news/fortune500/walmart_suit/
Re: Retail Worker Forum - Stavs - 03-01-2006
I was just reading a bunch of posts on there and the common thread is wages being low. What these people fsail to realize is that the Corporate Owned retail establishments need to cut their costs to the bone in order to perform for Wall Street. Before my company went public/bought by a corporation, our payroll budgets and wages were considerably higher. When suitors were found, an immense push was made to cut payroll. Now that we are public, there is even more pressure to cut payroll and bring people in at considerably lower wages. The disturbing thing is that they are trying to eventually get to a 20% full time and 80% part time mix. Obviously we will pay peopl less and save on the benefits portion. Corporations have to perform for investors at any cost.
Stavs
Re: Retail Worker Forum - Jimmypoo - 03-01-2006
WalMart EE's get what they deserve for having said no to unions.
Strike on a Walmart nationally for a day - and that's $1 billion in sales revenue. Idiots turned down more power than USW/UAW.
Re: Retail Worker Forum - pRON aHOLIC - 03-01-2006
Jimmypoo Wrote:
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> WalMart EE's get what they deserve for having said
> no to unions.
>
> Strike on a Walmart nationally for a day - and
> that's $1 billion in sales revenue. Idiots turned
> down more power than USW/UAW.
Walmart will close a store if it unionizes. They also intimidate and harass anyone that want to vote on a union.
As I said before, Walmart is a culture of being so large it is easier for them to break the law and pay fines and court costs that it is to comply with the law.
The people that shop there and support Walmart think that the low prices come without a cost.
Check your state's medicaid stats, Walmart is ALWAYS the highest employer with recipients of medicaid, ALWAYS.
Re: Retail Worker Forum - pRON aHOLIC - 03-01-2006
Here is the store closing union story
http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/09/news/international/walmart_canada/
The store was profitable btw.
Re: Retail Worker Forum - Filliam H. Muffman - 03-01-2006
Reading through the posts at that forum I get the impression that the posts in the Costco section are made by people either trying to improve how their location works or how to get hired, and the Wal-Mart section is about 'why didn't I got the five cent raise I wuz doo.' In other words, they only reason that the Costco section has more posts than the Wal-Mart section (other than the dozens of walmartsucks.com type sites diluting the number of posts) is that the majority of Wal-Mart employees are not computer literate enough to know *how* to post comments.
Re: Retail Worker Forum - pRON aHOLIC - 03-01-2006
Filliam H. Muffman Wrote:
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> Reading through the posts at that forum I get the
> impression that the posts in the Costco section
> are made by people either trying to improve how
> their location works or how to get hired, and the
> Wal-Mart section is about 'why didn't I got the
> five cent raise I wuz doo.' In other words, they
> only reason that the Costco section has more posts
> than the Wal-Mart section (other than the dozens
> of walmartsucks.com type sites diluting the number
> of posts) is that the majority of Wal-Mart
> employees are not computer literate enough to know
> *how* to post comments.
Maybe Walmart employees don't make enough to own a computer or pay for internet service.