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WalMart Asks Customers to Donate Food to Its Employees
On 11/19/13, 3:42 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:35:51 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 11/19/13, 3:25 PM, wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:06:44 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 11/19/13, 3:04 PM, wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:49:20 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 11/19/13, 2:37 PM, wrote: The ironic thing is Walmart actually pays slightly above the industry average for retail. It is the mom and pop they replaced who really offers ****ty jobs (generally lower wages and no benefits). Walmart is actually seen as a good job out in flyover land. It is the urban stores where you see these protests. What's ironic is that no matter what the right does to **** over low income people, you support it. Nobody puts a gun to these people's head and makes them work at Walmart or McDonalds. They usually do it because that is the best job they are capable of holding. The cost of labor needs to reflect the value of that labor, not some artificial number that can't be supported by the sales price of the end product. Perhaps they do it because WalMart has driven so many small businesses out of business and they can't find a decent job anywhere, because the toasters they used to manufacture WalMart buys in China from factories that employ near slave labor. Do you really delude yourself into believing Mom and Pop pay any more than Walmart? Will they have insurance, 401k, sick leave or paid vacation? Not bloody likely. In fact they are far more likely to have "cash" employees who are not even getting FICA taxes paid, particularly out in the country. As for slave labor from China, who do you think built all of your Apple stuff? An apple store employee makes about the same as a walmart retail person. If you take the average salary of an Apple employee into the $30 billion they made, an average Walmart employee shared more in the profits. 2.2 million walmart employees, $16b profit vs $30b profit and 80,000 employees. Wow...you've really bought into those bull**** TV commercials walmart is running. Do you have any data that disputes it? You make it sound like Mom and Pop are paying their employees $40 an hour. BTW do you actually know anyone who works at Walmart and how do they feel about it. I know a single mom in Oklahoma who was thrilled to get her walmart job. She finally got insurance for her kid. How soon after that did George Zimmerman kill the kid so she could collect on the policy? -- Religion: together we can find the cure. |
WalMart Asks Customers to Donate Food to Its Employees
On 11/19/13, 3:43 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 11/19/13, 3:42 PM, wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:35:51 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 11/19/13, 3:25 PM, wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:06:44 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 11/19/13, 3:04 PM, wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:49:20 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 11/19/13, 2:37 PM, wrote: The ironic thing is Walmart actually pays slightly above the industry average for retail. It is the mom and pop they replaced who really offers ****ty jobs (generally lower wages and no benefits). Walmart is actually seen as a good job out in flyover land. It is the urban stores where you see these protests. What's ironic is that no matter what the right does to **** over low income people, you support it. Nobody puts a gun to these people's head and makes them work at Walmart or McDonalds. They usually do it because that is the best job they are capable of holding. The cost of labor needs to reflect the value of that labor, not some artificial number that can't be supported by the sales price of the end product. Perhaps they do it because WalMart has driven so many small businesses out of business and they can't find a decent job anywhere, because the toasters they used to manufacture WalMart buys in China from factories that employ near slave labor. Do you really delude yourself into believing Mom and Pop pay any more than Walmart? Will they have insurance, 401k, sick leave or paid vacation? Not bloody likely. In fact they are far more likely to have "cash" employees who are not even getting FICA taxes paid, particularly out in the country. As for slave labor from China, who do you think built all of your Apple stuff? An apple store employee makes about the same as a walmart retail person. If you take the average salary of an Apple employee into the $30 billion they made, an average Walmart employee shared more in the profits. 2.2 million walmart employees, $16b profit vs $30b profit and 80,000 employees. Wow...you've really bought into those bull**** TV commercials walmart is running. Do you have any data that disputes it? You make it sound like Mom and Pop are paying their employees $40 an hour. BTW do you actually know anyone who works at Walmart and how do they feel about it. I know a single mom in Oklahoma who was thrilled to get her walmart job. She finally got insurance for her kid. How soon after that did George Zimmerman kill the kid so she could collect on the policy? Oh...the average *fulltime* WalMart employee makes $8.81 an hour, or about $17,000 a year. And WalMart plays fast and loose with employee hours and full and part time classifications. The average WalMart store requires $1.5 million in pubic subsidies for its workers so they can buy enough food to eat. -- Religion: together we can find the cure. |
WalMart Asks Customers to Donate Food to Its Employees
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WalMart Asks Customers to Donate Food to Its Employees
On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:36:46 -0600, Boating All Out wrote:
In article , says... Oh...the average *fulltime* WalMart employee makes $8.81 an hour, or about $17,000 a year. And WalMart plays fast and loose with employee hours and full and part time classifications. The average WalMart store requires $1.5 million in pubic subsidies for its workers so they can buy enough food to eat. Walmart is a deadbeat company, relying on taxpayer food stamp subsidies to keep many of their employees fed. Medicaid too. And some of their stores are really badly run. Wife stopped going to the local Walmart because the availability of some staples is hit or miss. Oddly enough, she always finds those staples at a Walmart near our son's house, in a less "expensive" area. A brief look on the internets shows Apple pays its employees more than Walmart pays, so Greg probably pulled that one directly from his ass. But hey, common wages don't matter anyway. Stock prices and executive pay matter. That's how it is in the good ole USA. Some like it that way, some don't. Easy to tell who's who in that regard. Yes, we should all be so proud of Apple: "So who's the biggest wage stiffer? Apple is by far the worst in rewarding profitability. But Walmart underpays the most people, and McDonald's pays the lowest wages. For those of us who subsidize these companies with tax dollars for their employees' food stamps and Medicaid, it doesn't matter who's worse. We're all getting stiffed. " There must be some reason you progressive mouthy liberals like Apple so much. What is it? http://www.alternet.org/labor/apple-...t-wage-stiffer [Note: All the cites you could desire are in the article.] John H. -- Hope you're having a great day! |
WalMart Asks Customers to Donate Food to Its Employees
On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:49:20 PM UTC-5, F.O.A.D. wrote:
What's ironic is that no matter what the right does to **** over low income people, you support it. .. All YOU do is sit in your sweaty basement chair and post Clip n Paste ****, Krause. **** YOU **** |
WalMart Asks Customers to Donate Food to Its Employees
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WalMart Asks Customers to Donate Food to Its Employees
On 11/19/13, 6:32 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:36:46 -0600, Boating All Out wrote: In article , says... Oh...the average *fulltime* WalMart employee makes $8.81 an hour, or about $17,000 a year. And WalMart plays fast and loose with employee hours and full and part time classifications. The average WalMart store requires $1.5 million in pubic subsidies for its workers so they can buy enough food to eat. Walmart is a deadbeat company, relying on taxpayer food stamp subsidies to keep many of their employees fed. Medicaid too. And some of their stores are really badly run. Wife stopped going to the local Walmart because the availability of some staples is hit or miss. Oddly enough, she always finds those staples at a Walmart near our son's house, in a less "expensive" area. A brief look on the internets shows Apple pays its employees more than Walmart pays, so Greg probably pulled that one directly from his ass. But hey, common wages don't matter anyway. Stock prices and executive pay matter. That's how it is in the good ole USA. Some like it that way, some don't. Easy to tell who's who in that regard. So don't work for Walmart. They don't put a gun to your head and make you work there. If they couldn't get people to work for what they pay, they would pay more or simply close the store. Ahh, a fan of the climb to the bottom. Well, of course. -- Religion: together we can find the cure. |
WalMart Asks Customers to Donate Food to Its Employees
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WalMart Asks Customers to Donate Food to Its Employees
On 11/19/13, 7:34 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:14:20 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 11/19/13, 6:59 PM, wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:31:25 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: Bull****, it is closer to $13 Documentation? I was wrong, that is the average of all employees. I've seen several reliable cites that indicate the average full time WalMart store employee is making about $8.81 an hour. A couple of years ago, the manager at that time of my local Apple Store tried to recruit me for his weekend sales staff, to help the "geezer crowd" buy and use Apple products, especially laptop and desktop computers. I don't recall exactly what he was willing to pay, but I do recall at the time...this was three years ago...that the pay range of "Apple Genius" employees ranged from $20 to $30 an hour or more in our area, and more in bigger markets. These are not the sales clerk jobs, which paid a little less back then. Don't know what the rates are these days. I really didn't want to give up my weekend days, though, but it might have been a hoot. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Appl...ries-E1138.htm Hmm. The "Genius" jobs pay pretty well for a retail store. -- Religion: together we can find the cure. |
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