[Vision2020] Wal Mart Supercenter

[Donatelo Juan]

Visionaries,

I ask that you forgive anytyping erorrs, time is short and cafe internet 
costs.  I have been following your debates about the supercenter, and I 
heard chatter the last time I was in Moscow.

I am a former wal mart employee.  I have to tell all of you that wal mart 
was the best pay I received while living in Moscow for more than 13 years.  
I worked a variety of jobs, frequently at the same time in order to pay for 
school, rent, and the small other pleasures in life.  The pay was not great, 
but it was better than most.

I was not always thrilled with the medical plan at wal mart, but it was a 
medical plan which allowed me to escape paying the for the U of I medical 
plan in my last few years there.  None of the other jobs I worked at even 
had a plan for part time employees.

Wal mart was the only company which gave me paid vacations after a year.  I 
was amazed.  A whole week off, paid!

It is okay if you hate wal mart.  I just thought you should know what it is 
like from the student perspective.  For me, Wal Mart served a purpose, just 
as the other business did, a means to an end.  I have my degrees and have 
left Moscow.

Mat

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