[Vision2020] Wal Mart Supercenter

[Tom Hansen]

Perhaps if Moscow had expanded the Alturas Techno Park, or provided
employment opportunities with career potential . . .

Donatelo Juan may have stayed here in Vandalville . . . 

and raised a family . . . 

whose children may have gone on to attend the University of Idaho . . . 

and may have gone on to expand the Juan family business . . . 

right here in Moscow, Idaho.

But then, you will have to excuse me . . .

I am an optimist.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails." 
- Unknown 

-----Original Message-----

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Donatelo Juan
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 2:56 PM
To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Wal Mart Supercenter

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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