Just started as a temp remodeling a local Walmart

[vi edit]

it was never stolen, just stashed away and forgotten about by people who intended to steal them.

Oh. So there's like some sort of expiration date on when something is no longer considered stealing?

 

[yinan]

I will never ever buy anything from Walmart. I even try to avoid looking at the place for the fear it will steal my soul like a seen from Chronicles of Riddick or something. Ya, the prices might be low but you will buy the item 3 times and spend more than if you would buy a quality product.

 

[yinan]

Oh. So there's like some sort of expiration date on when something is no longer considered stealing?

Of course

 

[slag]

I will never ever buy anything from Walmart. I even try to avoid looking at the place for the fear it will steal my soul like a seen from Chronicles of Riddick or something. Ya, the prices might be low but you will buy the item 3 times and spend more than if you would buy a quality product.

I only buy the TP once.

oh, and pssst... This isn't just walmart, its American culture. Buy, throw away, buy again.

Thats why I buy older stuff and take care of it. I love lawnboys, older craftsman handtools, old massey ferguson lawn tractor.. Stuff that was built to last and does.

 

[eits]

Oh. So there's like some sort of expiration date on when something is no longer considered stealing?

Um, yeah? I had my bike stolen as a kid. If someone called me and told me that my bike was found in the woods, I really wouldn't care. It was too long ago and I'd already bought a couple bikes since then. I'd tell them to have fun with it.

 

[SithSolo1]

"Ok guys, WALMART cheer time!"

"F*CK THAT, I'm out."

 

[mwtgg]

Um, yeah? I had my bike stolen as a kid. If someone called me and told me that my bike was found in the woods, I really wouldn't care. It was too long ago and I'd already bought a couple bikes since then. I'd tell them to have fun with it.

I knew you were a tool with no sense of ethics, but this just takes the cake. Bravo!

 

[manlymatt83]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiBC4ox9GeY

 

[QueBert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiBC4ox9GeY

They couldn't pay me enough work there and do that, I wonder how often they actually perform it?

gimme a squiggly?

 

[villageidiot111]

Crazy, I just started working temp for construction at my local walmart. What store are you at, maybe we're at the same one!

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Oh. So there's like some sort of expiration date on when something is no longer considered stealing?

Um, yeah? I had my bike stolen as a kid. If someone called me and told me that my bike was found in the woods, I really wouldn't care. It was too long ago and I'd already bought a couple bikes since then. I'd tell them to have fun with it.

I don't think you're improving the public image of Chiropractors much. So, when exactly did your bike become fair game? one month, two months? Or, the end of the week when you convinced Mommy and Daddy to buy you a shiny new one?

 

[Jeff7]

"Ok guys, WALMART cheer time!"

"F*CK THAT, I'm out."

It should be something like this:

Or just wear a shirt with this on it.
(Yes, I did wear that to work a few times. Upper management doesn't really give a damn enough about the regular workers to look closely. My shift managers (night shift) though knew something was amiss when they saw me wearing blue for once. They were amused.)

Oh. So there's like some sort of expiration date on when something is no longer considered stealing?

Yup: The statute of limitations. :awe:

 

[eits]

I knew you were a tool with no sense of ethics, but this just takes the cake. Bravo!

?

ok, let's get back to my original post...

a guy was doing demolition at a store where the employees were stashing things above the ceiling tiles in order to steal them after they stopped carrying the item so the store wouldn't miss it.

the guy took them and was selling them on craigslist. i bought them. somehow, i'm a tool with no sense of ethics? are you kidding me?

did i steal the merchandise? no. did i buy stolen merchandise from the person who stole it? no.

what, exactly, did i do that was unethical? i bought wwf wrestlemania for my nes from a guy who was selling it on craigslist. he told me about how he got it and why it was still in-box and in mint condition. he had a bunch of other stuff, too.

what would have been the mwtgg approved ethical response? "fuck you, man... that stuff's stolen. not interested! you should call walmart headquarters and ship it to them."

yeah... the largest multinational corporation with an, overall, 6th largest economy in the world, cares about items that went missing some 20 years ago.

eat a dick, you self-rightous bitches... yeah, i'm talking to you, too, magnus.

 

[Kanalua]

Wow...I was a temp construction worker at a WalMart remodel in Utah (the Orem Super-center) when they converted it from a reg. walmart to a super-center. I was an employee of the Contractor, NOT WalMart...that would've SUCKED!!! I started off on the night shift, and every morning near the end of my shift we'd try with everything we had to stop from laughing at all the poor saps who had to do the WalMart cheer.

I feel for you!

By the way, be prepared for endless contradiction about the remodel. The WalMart managers would not let us use any equipment that was "too loud"...all of our pneumatic and power-tools were out...making the job a lot longer than it should have been...then the same managers who complained about the noise would complain about how long the project was taking!!!

Another hint...once all the tear down is done, you'll be amazed at how much stuff will be thrown out! if you work the night shift, that's a lot of free stuff you can grab out of the dumpster (coolers, ice-chests...tons of crap walmart just tosses!)

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

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ok, let's get back to my original post...

a guy was doing demolition at a store where the employees were stashing things above the ceiling tiles in order to steal them after they stopped carrying the item so the store wouldn't miss it.

the guy took them and was selling them on craigslist. i bought them. somehow, i'm a tool with no sense of ethics? are you kidding me?

did i steal the merchandise? no. did i buy stolen merchandise from the person who stole it? YES!
Fixed that for you

what, exactly, did i do that was unethical? i bought wwf wrestlemania for my nes from a guy who was selling it on craigslist. he told me about how he got it and why it was still in-box and in mint condition. he had a bunch of other stuff, too.

what would have been the mwtgg approved ethical response? "fuck you, man... that stuff's stolen. not interested! you should call walmart headquarters and ship it to them."

yeah... the largest multinational corporation with an, overall, 6th largest economy in the world, cares about items that went missing some 20 years ago.

eat a dick, you self-rightous bitches... yeah, i'm talking to you, too, magnus.

Out of your own mouth. It's plain that you are not to be trusted. The fact that you knew you were buying stolen goods shows you have no ethics as has already been mentioned. The idea that stolen property somehow becomes free for the taking after a certain amount of time or, that because Walmart is a multi million dollar business that doesn't "care" about the petty pilfering, shows you have no concept of ethics or morality. Enough preaching, you lack the cognitive ability and the moral rectitude to profit from my teaching.

 

[mwtgg]

?

Ok, let's get back to my original post...

A guy was doing demolition at a store where the employees were stashing things above the ceiling tiles in order to steal them after they stopped carrying the item so the store wouldn't miss it.

The guy took them and was selling them on craigslist. I bought them. Somehow, i'm a tool with no sense of ethics? Are you kidding me?

Did i steal the merchandise? No. Did i buy stolen merchandise from the person who stole it? No.

what, exactly, did i do that was unethical? i bought wwf wrestlemania for my nes from a guy who was selling it on craigslist. He told me about how he got it and why it was still in-box and in mint condition. He had a bunch of other stuff, too.

What would have been the mwtgg approved ethical response? "fuck you, man... That stuff's stolen. Not interested! You should call walmart headquarters and ship it to them."

yeah... The largest multinational corporation with an, overall, 6th largest economy in the world, cares about items that went missing some 20 years ago.

Eat a dick, you self-rightous bitches... Yeah, i'm talking to you, too, magnus.

You knowingly purchased stolen merchandise.

 

[OverVolt]

Out of your own mouth. It's plain that you are not to be trusted. The fact that you knew you were buying stolen goods shows you have no ethics as has already been mentioned. The idea that stolen property somehow becomes free for the taking after a certain amount of time or, that because Walmart is a multi million dollar business that doesn't "care" about the petty pilfering, shows you have no concept of ethics or morality. Enough preaching, you lack the cognitive ability and the moral rectitude to profit from my teaching.

lol

 

[eits]

Out of your own mouth. It's plain that you are not to be trusted. The fact that you knew you were buying stolen goods shows you have no ethics as has already been mentioned. The idea that stolen property somehow becomes free for the taking after a certain amount of time or, that because Walmart is a multi million dollar business that doesn't "care" about the petty pilfering, shows you have no concept of ethics or morality. Enough preaching, you lack the cognitive ability and the moral rectitude to profit from my teaching.

? no, i didn't buy stolen goods from the person who stole it. i bought something from someone who was doing demolition on a walmart and he happened to find old merchandise being stored in the ceiling tiles. he didn't steal anything. stealing means that you willingly took something that belonged to someone else or taking merchandise without paying for it. a nintendo game in the ceiling tiles of an abandoned walmart that is being prepped for demolition is no longer merchandise. it became junk, which he decided to take.

the idea that walmart doesn't care about a game that was stashed away and never sold 20 years ago is not something walmart cares about. the act of stealing sellable merchandise is.

is rescuing a 20-year-old nintendo game from a demolition job stealing? no.
is buying it wrong? no.
is it morally wrong? no.

now, if i bought a blu-ray player from someone who worked at walmart and he stole it, would that be wrong? yes.

there's a difference here. it's not a black and white thing. if he didn't take the unsellable merchandise that were stashed in the ceiling, they would have been destroyed and it would have been a waste.

 

[eits]

You knowingly purchased stolen merchandise.

it wasn't stolen.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Did your friend purchase the merchandise? No
Did he suspect someone else stole it? Yes
Did he make any attempt to return the merchandise to Walmart? No
Did you know how your friend came into possession of the merchandise? Yes

Seems pretty clear cut to me and, I suspect, anyone with morals.

 

[eits]

Did your friend purchase the merchandise? No
Did he suspect someone else stole it? Yes
Did he make any attempt to return the merchandise to Walmart? No
Did you know how your friend came into possession of the merchandise? Yes

Seems pretty clear cut to me and, I suspect, anyone with morals.

not a friend... just a guy off craigslist.

- no, he didn't make the purchase.
- yeah, he suspected someone was trying to steal it.
- are you serious? why would he try and return that game to walmart? shipping would cost more than that game would.
- yeah, he told me how he came into possession of the game... he found it on top of a building that he was paid to destroy. the building, and everything in side of it, was trash... therefore, up for grabs.

 

[Kanalua]

Just in hear to say, as I did earlier, WalMart throws away TONS of crap during their remodels...TONS of stuff...old merchandise, racks, pretty much everything old that they can't likely sell, they will just throw away.

If your ethics do not consider taking thrown away items as stealing, then eits may have just been buying stuff from a guy who worked at a WalMart where tons of crap were thrown out in a remodel.

Personally I did not sell anything I took from the dumpster. I mostly took water coolers, ice chests, shelving, some old WalMart uniforms and a weight belt. This was after asking the assistant manager on the site if I could take the items (any lawyer worth a dime will tell you that nothing is ever not owned by someone, even stuff in the trash).

 

[dpearson]

Crazy, I just started working temp for construction at my local walmart. What store are you at, maybe we're at the same one!

I'd rather not post my location here because this is a public forum and anyone on the internet can read this. I don't trust the vast majority of people on the internet.

By the way, be prepared for endless contradiction about the remodel. The WalMart managers would not let us use any equipment that was "too loud"...all of our pneumatic and power-tools were out...making the job a lot longer than it should have been...then the same managers who complained about the noise would complain about how long the project was taking!!!

Hmm, the contractors who are ripping up the floor don't have that problem. This guy rides a big machine with an end that looks like a big ice scraper and it rips the tile right up. It's very loud too...you can hear it throughout the store (it's a Supercenter) They start doing that at 3rd shift so I guess since there's a lot less customers during that shift the managers don't care.

It's always a hassle to shop during the 3rd shift even before the remodel because a lot of the time, half the store is roped off because they're waxing the floor or whatever, pallets and 6-wheelers block the aisles, and there's (if I'm lucky) only 2 cashiers working. You would think 2 cashiers working at 1 am would be enough, but there's a lot more people shopping then than most realize.

EDIT: I apologize, I misheard Bob when he was talking about people using shopping carts for their trash. I thought Bob was complaining about associates using shopping carts for their trash (packaging and whatnot) when stocking shelves.

What Bob was actually talking about was that apparently some 3rd shift workers were putting things into shopping carts and hiding them in the shipping containers outside the store. I don't know whether the things in the carts were merchandise or simply trash, but regardless of what was in the carts, people should not be storing things in those bins if they're not authorized to.

Also, I heard some of the guys from the DC (Walmart Distribution Center) that are on the remodel crew are making $15/hour. I'm making $7.25/hour, which is minimum wage, and I do the exact same work they do. I think they heard about the remodeling project, wanted a change of pace, and got to keep their DC pay.

Lol so who thinks I can get the managers to double my pay rate?

 

[Kanalua]

story about WalMart throwing things out: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/nyregion/06about.html?ref=nyregion

 

[daw123]

I worked for Asda on checkouts, stock-filling, etc as a summer job during University. This was just after Asda was bought out by Walmart.

We had greeters in the store to begin with, but I think the bigwigs in Walmart realised that English people really are not interested in, nor do they like the bullshit false cheeriness that US stores seem to use to entice customers.

The majority of supermarkets and shops in the UK do not have greeters or the irritating "have a nice day" nonsense you get from the staff.