WalMart ordered to pay 172 million for labor violations.

[fornax]

Originally posted by: maluckey
The class-action lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court is one of about 40 nationwide alleging workplace violations by Wal-Mart, and the first to go to trial. The Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer, which earned $10 billion last year, settled a similar lawsuit in Colorado for $50 million.

Who wrote this?

Wal-Mart had a little less that 290 Billion in sales for F/Y 2005. If Wal-Maart was a country, it would have the 20 largest economy in the world.

The question is, who read this 🙂 They had $290 billion is sales and EARNED $10 billion. Are you trying to tell us that WalMart earned $290 billion?

 

[BlancoNino]

Wal-mart isn't my favorite store but they are smart. Smart not to offer paid healthcare for their workers (as any economist will tell you that was one of the biggest mistakes businesses ever made in this country and that's what the waltons believe) and they're smart to avoid unions and ending up in massive debt like the UAW did to Ford and GM.

Has anyone else noticed that Wal-Mart's whiny employees that want more and more and more from the company are some of the fattest women (and men) around?

 

[zendari]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Wal-mart isn't my favorite store but they are smart. Smart not to offer paid healthcare for their workers (as any economist will tell you that was one of the biggest mistakes businesses ever made in this country and that's what the waltons believe) and they're smart to avoid unions and ending up in massive debt like the UAW did to Ford and GM.

Has anyone else noticed that Wal-Mart's whiny employees that want more and more and more from the company are some of the fattest women (and men) around?

Well, our local Walmart has a McDonalds built in. You know, Walmart must have a secret blood pact with McDonalds to force and pressure their workers into eating there so they get fat.

 

[maluckey]

Well, our local Walmart has a McDonalds built in. You know, Walmart must have a secret blood pact with McDonalds to force and pressure their workers into eating there so they get fat.

Some Wal-Marts have Blimpies as well......hmmmmnnnnnn. There might be soething to this

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Wal-mart isn't my favorite store but they are smart. Smart not to offer paid healthcare for their workers (as any economist will tell you that was one of the biggest mistakes businesses ever made in this country and that's what the waltons believe) and they're smart to avoid unions and ending up in massive debt like the UAW did to Ford and GM.

Has anyone else noticed that Wal-Mart's whiny employees that want more and more and more from the company are some of the fattest women (and men) around?

More and more and more being a living wage and healthcare that isnt 2/3 of their paycheck?

More and more being expecting to come to work and not be harassed for store problems that are out of your control?

More and more being like being given breaks mandated by the law?

I dont think unions are the answer either, but walmart does treat their employees like crap. Nothing is keeping them working there, they can quit whenever they want.

 

[BlancoNino]

I just don't know how much of this crap is true though. I know people who either work or have worked for Wal-Mart and made good money for having NO experience and doing a pretty simple job and never had a problem with management. It's not like this is the owners of Wal-Mart or the entire corporation, just some guys who manage and run certain stores that aren't the best. And yes, employees are free to quit whenever they want.

 

[compuwiz1]

My wife used to work for that gawd awful company. She was always complaining about not getting her lunch breaks, as she was a cashier. If they were busy, they would just work her right no thru without a break.
Once that lawsuit started, then even though the company was not providing a relief cashier, the kept writing her up for not taking lunch, or taking it late, even though it was their fault. Those writeups ended up being her demise and she lost her job because of it.

As you can see, I have no love for that company. :|
I generally don't like unions, but employees of those types of stores need one.

 

[BlancoNino]

My biggest concern is with the people who shop there. Talk about the trashiest people around and half of them can't even speak english much less control their children.

The funny thing is, I'll bet most of Wal-Mart's customers vote democrat lol because they're so far down on the social heirarchy with tons of children.

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
My biggest concern is with the people who shop there. Talk about the trashiest people around and half of them can't even speak english much less control their children.

The funny thing is, I'll bet most of Wal-Mart's customers vote democrat lol because they're so far down on the social heirarchy with tons of children.

I don't know what neighborhood you are in, but it's not that way everywhere, especially not around where I live. I know what you mean, as I could not stand to be in the one near us, when I lived in Washington state. Of course, before Walmart grew into the giant it is now, K-mart used to be like that. That's going back 25 years ago.

 

[BlancoNino]

Yeah I live in Wenatchee, Washington so you know what they are like in Washington State. K-mart is still bad here too. I think I'll be moving to Montana soon.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
My wife used to work for that gawd awful company. She was always complaining about not getting her lunch breaks, as she was a cashier. If they were busy, they would just work her right no thru without a break.
Once that lawsuit started, then even though the company was not providing a relief cashier, the kept writing her up for not taking lunch, or taking it late, even though it was their fault. Those writeups ended up being her demise and she lost her job because of it.

As you can see, I have no love for that company. :|

sounds a lot like my story, i worked at sams club on the 3rd shift recieving crew.

I was a forklift driver at 1st which was a full time job, trucks were unloaded into the grocery half of the store and i was to put all of that stuff up in steel and drop pallets for everything that the 5 other crew members in grocery needed, then put up what was remaining, the job was tough but i liked it. I had no idea why people bitched so much about walmart/sams treating their employees like crap.

Then sales dropped... they stopped hiring people on to 3rd shift and we wound up with 3 vacencies in under 2 months, they never filled them, jobs were assigned to people who were already working to their limits that couldnt possibly be done. I was assigned to stock 6 aisles of grocery WHILE STILL DOING MY OTHER JOB. When i struggled to complete this work, i started getting "verbals" which arent write ups but verbal warnings.

I told them flat out it was too much work and i couldnt do it in a normal shift, just keeping under my 37.5 hours was near impossible as there were days i was there when the store opened at 8am (my shift begins at 9pm).

If you get any overtime at all, automatic writeup. So my quality of work fell, everyones did, and they started writing us up for stupid sh!t. I got written up for not rotating spices properly... spices dont expire... ever. The ones that do have dates are usually 3-5 years in advance. We sell through a full stock of spices at sams in about 5 days. It was either put product on the shelf without rotating it, or leave empty holes on the shelf, which i would have also got written up for.

They wrote me up anyway after i explained the situation to them, i said "fvck you guys", walked out, and never came back.

 

[quackerww]

Nelson From the Simpson's said it best....

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