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Just saw the most disturbing thing at WalMart.

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I love morons that boycott Wal-Mart. I have yet to find a mom 'n' pop shop giving mentally handicapped people jobs. AKA: A sense of purpose in life.
 
HAL9000 said:
No, Seriously, when I was in America the weirdest thing that you guys did, was singing the national anthem with your hands on your hearts at the beginning of every sporting event, it was seriously cringe worthy and it's the kind of embarrassing shit that the rest of the world see's.

This OP was a pretty good example of that.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJGfu87vm6o

You do realize this isn't unique to america, correct? In fact, they do it in england as well. (see the above video). In fact, it is more unique to see a nation that DOESN'T sing its own anthem often. Yep, the whole world is laughing at us for something the whole world does.
 
Pavlovian response does not work on most humans, consider this a zealous coach attempting "espite de corps" and team work. Probably using the Japanese corporate model.
People like "congregation" for the most part. For young people it is recognition, the older you get the, the more uh underwhelmed you tend to feel.
There is one other aspect in that it reminds bosses that people work with them and cooperation goes together.
I worked part time in a large restaurant chain as a youngster (my mother was head waitress and the owners most trusted employee). There was a parade of would be third assistant managers needing an education. The turn over was high, very darwinian. Learn quick or leave.
Many would not accept they were there to help unless supervision was needed. And to set an example /
 
Who fucking cares? If walmart didn't exist those sorry fucks wouldn't even be employed. Thank god they have some sort of income at all.
 
Cogman said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJGfu87vm6o

You do realize this isn't unique to america, correct? In fact, they do it in england as well. (see the above video). In fact, it is more unique to see a nation that DOESN'T sing its own anthem often. Yep, the whole world is laughing at us for something the whole world does.
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Yeah dude, that's an England game, it's different when they are actually representing the country, when it's just a small game with no national anything involved it's embarrassing.
 
Hahaha. Boycotting Walmart. Seriously? Well that seemed to work out just swell for you then. It's nice to know that a man-boy that can stick to his principles like that can tell us all about this horrible outrage which ranks up there with slavery.
 
mugs said:
IBM is famous for it, just like you're famous for being a repeat returning banned member. And for having an enormous chin.
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There's no comparison. IBM does nothing like that to all its employees.

Wal-Mart has done this for a very long time, and I've always been offended by it too.

I once saw the Tijuana police for gather in a circle and do some sort of chant that seemed to be a 'morale' exercise, but I didn't mind that much.

I don't think they were singing 'our police chief is great! We love the police chief!'

I do find this sort of excessive control of low-end employees - part of their whole mentality of disposable people, including their Orwellian insistence how they care so much about their employees, but do a lot that shows it's the opposite (don't get me started on their anti-union squads who fly in to any hint of a union) - offensive.
 
gorcorps said:
Who fucking cares? If walmart didn't exist those sorry fucks wouldn't even be employed. Thank god they have some sort of income at all.
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Yes, ignoramus, all those jobs Wal-Mart *destroys* that paid better in any community it moves into to extract wealth for the wealthiest family in the world, they don't count.
 
Craig234 said:
Yes, ignoramus, all those jobs Wal-Mart *destroys* that paid better in any community it moves into to extract wealth for the wealthiest family in the world, they don't count.
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And yet, at the same time walmart lowers the cost of living for everyone in the area while providing tons of jobs for unskilled workers.
 
Cogman said:
And yet, at the same time walmart lowers the cost of living for everyone in the area while providing tons of jobs for unskilled workers.
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Yep, that unskilled working class, and we know Craig doesn't want them living in poverty. Do you, Craig? So then they must have jobs.
 
Walmart is fucking evil. They do not provide any single benefit for anybody. They sell cheap crap that breaks in about 1.5ns that you will need to spend more to replace than if you would have spent if you bought one at a quality store.

I refuse to even look at a Walmart for fear that it will steal my soul.
 
yinan said:
Walmart is fucking evil. They do not provide any single benefit for anybody. They sell cheap crap that breaks in about 1.5ns that you will need to spend more to replace than if you would have spent if you bought one at a quality store.

I refuse to even look at a Walmart for fear that it will steal my soul.
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I'm currently enjoying all my cheap crap from walmart that has survived several orders of magnitude longer than your 1.5ns. 🙄
 
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