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Walmart accused of rampant discrimination against females!! Lawsuit filed! Ugly fat people amazed!

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Mikal

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
(NYSE:WMT - news) was accused Tuesday of
rampant discrimination against female workers in a
federal lawsuit against the nation's largest private
employer.

The suit, which seeks to represent as many as
500,000 current and former women workers, claims
the company ``systematically discriminates against its
women employees,'' said Brad Seligman, one of
several attorneys on the case.


A federal case, hm?
 
All the cashiers were women last time i went. Maybe they feel that's discriminating? OH well. Isn't the owner of Walmart the richest guy in the world? He'll squash them like little bugs.
 
This case has been in the making for a couple of years now....I'm surprised ASHCROFT didn't squash it yet.

Wal-mart doing this is not surprising because it is led by powerful conservatives who at times must have felt like Gods.
 


<< This case has been in the making for a couple of years now....I'm surprised ASHCROFT didn't squash it yet.

Wal-mart doing this is not surprising because it is led by powerful conservatives who at times must have felt like Gods. >>



Translation: I have no idea what's going on, I've seen no evidence for either side of the story, but I'm going to believe it anyhow.
 
AmusedOne,

I just ran it through Libberish Translator 2.0 and you were close, but not quite.

&quot;but I'm going to believe it anyhow&quot;, actually translates to: &quot;As always, I have no facts, but I'll not pass up an opportunity to blame it on Conservatives.&quot;

Russ, NCNE


 
Ok, I took my inflamatory comment out. You can still find it in quotes elsewhere in the thread if you look. Ciao!
 
Come to think of it, the only people you see working at Wal-Mart are women, old men as greeters, and teenage boys on roller skates. Oh wait, I've seen men working at Wal-Mart; they're the ones in the main office. 😉
 


<< Wal-Mart, which also operates Sam's Club, denied the allegations that three-fourths of the company's 1 million employees are female, yet women only had a third of the available managerial positions. >>


maybe that's because the men who applied for these jobs were more educated? or should we give any cashier with 4 years experience in housewares a managerial position? haha...
 
I didn't even read the article but my first thought was that it might be because of managerial positions. Sure enough, it was. It has always struck me as weird that in the 4 Wal-Marts around my area that are full of women stockers, cashiers, and sales reps, not one of them is managed by a woman. There are only male managers. I guess it's about time that glass ceiling gets shattered at Wal-Mart. I guess there will be more falling this time than just prices.
 
I don't about all this lawsuit stuff, but I know that at my local Wal-Mart, there are all kinds of hot ass women who work there.

I know that statment makes no addition to the topic, just wanted to point it out 🙂
 


<< the only people I see working at Walmart now are female towelheads and female chicanos. >>



Urinal Mint,

What's that mean? They leave the towell on their head after their shower and go to work that way?

shifrbv,

That's a ridiculously simplistic interpretation. A huge percentage of the female employees started work after raising their children, another good-sized portion took time out for the mommy-track, another sizable chunk are retirees working part time, and still more don't want a management job.

The ONLY fair comparison would be between those women and those men who have similar education/experience and parallel career paths for the same length with WalMart. Of course, that will never happen, because liberals can't stand facts. It's all about feelings.

Russ, NCNE







 


<< the only people I see working at Walmart now are female towelheads and female chicanos. >>



towelheads? are you talking about arabs/hindu/etc? if you are, don't you think that's a little racist? if you're not, my apologies. 🙂
 
Russ - That's a ridiculously simplistic interpretation. A huge percentage of the female employees started work after raising their children, another good-sized portion took time out for the mommy-track, another sizable chunk are retirees working part time, and still more don't want a management job.

If you look at most Fortune 500 companies today, you will see a pretty good mix of female:male ratios in managerial positions. Women have been in the workforce long enough that it is naive to say that they &quot;don't want a management job&quot; and the good pay and perks that come with such positions. Equally naive to say that a good size are starting work after &quot;the mommy track&quot;. Many are working there while putting their kids in daycare and would no doubt like the opportunity to move up the ladder to better pay and a better position. Retirees I can understand. Maybe they just want to tool away their older years working part time and don't mind. But for the younger people who are working there and may be looking at it as a career option in an environment of job shortages in other areas, the management ratios are telling. Something is going on and compared to other large companies, it doesn't look right. It seems like Wal-Mart is trying to divide the company into &quot;overseers&quot; vs. the &quot;slave labor&quot;. People at the bottom can't advance up the ladder which is a problem.

Wal-Mart has some problems. They are one of the largest employers in the country with over 1 million employees, yet they lose about 500,000 each year and have to constantly do rehiring and retraining. They consider full time at 28 hours a week and have repeatedly threatened their employees with loss of benefits and opportunity if they unionize to go against the ridiculously low wages that they pay. A friend after working there 10 years and becoming a manager of the jewelry department still did not make over $10 an hour which is pathetic. I'm not a big fan of them. It's about time they start seeing some consequences for their &quot;management style&quot;.
 
Russ,

Although a direct comparison and statistical analysis of education and experience of the different sexes in management would be good to do, retail management at the store level takes a much smaller level of experience than many other management jobs. If the numbers show that these positions are filled by men in the vast majority, then I will believe that there must be something wrong with their system.

Very often those positions are filled directly by recent college graduates and women outnumber men in most business courses.

Michael
 


<< If you look at most Fortune 500 companies today, you will see a pretty good mix of female:male ratios in managerial positions. >>



You're comparing apples to oranges. We are not talking about office jobs, this is retail. A retail environment has many many times the number of non-career employees of an equivalent sized business in another industry.

Taking employment as a whole, is NOT a valid comparison in a retail establishment. It can only be valid if you compare career employees and the number of men who fit that category is many times that of women.

Retail is the one type of business that hires return-to-workers in far higher numbers then any other. The overwhelming majority of this type of employee are women.



<< They are one of the largest employers in the country with over 1 million employees, yet they lose about 500,000 each year and have to constantly do rehiring and retraining. >>



Again, welcome to retail. At 50% turnover, they're doing better then most of their direct competitors. It is simply the nature of the industry.

Russ, NCNE
 
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