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Try some peppermint tea - might calm you down a bit. Vilified again
- the days of gentile discourse are past I fear - I will opine to the
"cutting-edge sarcasm" in another post. <br><br>
Some have commented on the Walmart movie. I haven't had a chance to
see the flick, but I have browsed through the reviews of the
"documentary". Here is a link to one of the online based
movie review sites - pointed to the reviews of "Walmart - The High
Cost of Low Prices". The movie is currently carrying a rating
of 6.6/10 - not exactly a block buster yet.<br><br>
If you scroll through the WalMart section, you will come across the blogs
- fascinating stuff - here is a sample:<br><br>
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<i>The title itself is ridiculous. The high cost of LOW price?!? are you
kidding me?? This is like trying to convince someone of the low costs of
HIGH price. If i'm getting this right, disgruntled former employees and
competitors (figures) seem to be the prime sources of dirt on this
business. People need to realize that employers don't pay the wages of
their workers....consumers do. Admit it, all of you that support this are
also supporting a tougher life on poor people for the benefit of the less
competitive 'mom and pop' stores. Sometimes the little guy sucks at
providing a good product at a good price and needs to cut his losses.
That's america folks. Hard work and true grit. Besides if I were running
a business, I'd feel pretty pathetic if the only way I could stay in
business was to enact legislation to force other companies to not compete
with me. From the worker's point of view, who's a better employer? A
small hardware store? Or a large one with many different departments?
Keep in mind that you get paid depending on how much money the store
makes. And to all you supporters of a living wage, you need to realize
(which you would have if you worked a day in your life), that most
workers don't stay at that minimum wage for long. If they're worth
anything they get promoted quickly and move up the ranks, or they'll find
another place to work that pays better. Its the lazy, pathetic ones that
stay at the same wage and don't do anything. why would you want to give
more money to someone who doesn't give a damn? Personally i'd abolish any
mandatory wage. <br><br>
God just thinking about this infuriates me. Do you people that support
this movie (face it, its not a documentary no matter how hard you try)
actually realize how awesome this company is?!?!? They have everything!
in ONE STORE. Its all really cheap and so you get great deals plus they
donated millions of dollars to Katrina Relief! And now you're attacking a
company that's there to give you what you want at a lower price. are you
NUTS? In fact, I might go there right now and purchase one of their 400
dollar laptops for christmas. Oh wait, its bad that laptops are so cheap,
we don't want any poor people buying that stuff huh? <br><br>
I hope this "documentary" makes less money than it cost to
produce it. That would make my day. <br><br>
</i>Here is another example:<br><br>
<i>Amen, dude. <br>
I'm stuck being a slave for Wal-Mart right now. <br>
The only reason I'm even there is because I need the money. <br>
Which almost isn't worth it cuz I get paid sh!t. <br>
I just got a raise after my 90 day eval and I still ain't gettin' paid
what I should be. <br>
It's probably even worse for me because I'm stuck working in the back in
unloading, which is NOT what I applied for when I put in the application.
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I freakin' hate it. <br>
The work isn't too bad, you get used to it, but I hate the fact that I'm
back there busting my ass for this place so they can have their precious
merchandise and I get paid crap for it. <br>
We should be making more than the rest of the people that work their
because they just stand around on the sales floor all night while we're
all back there unloading their huge ass trucks for hours on end. <br>
And I work with alot of ass holes too. <br>
I work with ass holes bitches and one just really freakin' stupid guy
who's been there for a few weeks and likes to act like he knows more than
everyone else and tells you how to do your job. <br>
I just wanna slap that guy. <br>
We had one really cool manager who listened to you and would actually
come back and help when it was really busy, but then he left to go manage
another store and the chick they sent in his place is such a raging
bitch. <br>
She acts like she runs the whole store when she's only an assitant night
manager, which means she walks around all night and doesn't do anything.
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The other night we were still working on one of the trucks at 9 at night
and she wanted everything taken out to the floor by 10. <br>
Dream on, bitch. <br>
This was my last resort job, too. <br>
If nobody else hired me, then I had Wal-Mart to fall back on. <br>
And lucky me I get stuck with it. <br>
Sam Walton should be dug up and slapped cuz his stores *beep* suck!
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</i>Here is a short excerpt<br><br>
<i>This is a true disingenuous assertion. Wages are set by the market,
not by Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart did not offer a better deal for its workers,
then most of them would turn their resumes to the competition. What
Wal-Mart aims at is the cadre of unskilled or elderly people, that will
accept the lower wages because the other companies will NOT hire them.
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</i>Here is the link:
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473107/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473107/</a><br><br>
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