Walmart salaries approach living wage . . .

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: Wheezer

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit

Originally posted by: JD50

I knew that I would get through to you eventually.

I can see you have a lot of valuable life experience to pass on. Maybe you should go to work for Walmart and straighten out all the ingrates they seem to have working for them.


You seem to have "the right stufff" for a job like that. A big mouth and a small heart can go a long ways in today's business climate. :laugh:

why don't you put your money where your mouth is?

If walmart is so damn bad then why not go there, pick an employee you feel deserves it and offer to pay for thier further education so that they can make more money?

why don't you walk in and offer to buy a months worth of grocieries?

Why not walk in find an employee who is a single parent and offer to pay thier utilies or mortgage for a month? to help them along.


Walmart is not going to change thier ways because you think they are unfair. Its not your call, it is the call of the person working there what they feel is right for them. If they feel that under appreciated then they will have to make the decision. sh!t or get off the pot.

If you decide to boycott walmart because of thier "unfair" practices then what happens? They don't start handing out raises, they start cutting hours and laying people off....so it's not Walmart that would be screwing the people that work there, it would be you and the othes that decide not to shop there.

LOL, you've been sucking on the kool-aid a little too hard.

 

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: Wreckem

Uh only two Waltons earn a salary from Wal Mart. One gets $3million for being Chairman of the Board, and the other substaintially less.

Compared to other companies, their management makes way less. Their CEO was making $3million + $5million in stock options in 2001. There were and still plenty of CEOs of much smaller companies racking in $15-20million in salary and bonuses.

You mean some of them actually still work??

 

[Moonbeam]

There are millions of genius level Chinese and Indian executives that would run WalMart better than it is being run now for a few thousand dollars a month. Stockholders in this country need to get rid of American overpaid CEO's and hire them. The savings could be passed along to the shareholders and consumers.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit
You mean some of them actually still work??

Yeah, if your definition of "work" is logging in to check how many zeros have been added to your bank account balances :laugh:

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
There are millions of genius level Chinese and Indian executives that would run WalMart better than it is being run now for a few thousand dollars a month. Stockholders in this country need to get rid of American overpaid CEO's and hire them. The savings could be passed along to the shareholders and consumers.

You actually think there is a single foreigner, who is QUALIFIED to run a company the size of Wal Mart, who would do it for a few thousand a month...and thats it? Youre our of your friggin mind LOL

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn

Originally posted by: redgtxdi
Wal mart is an inevitability, no???

Wal Mart will pwn everyone soon enough. There will be no other place to shop because no one else will be able to compete!

And we won't be able to stop ourselves because of our desire for "cheap".

Target beats the pants off Wal-mart as far the way they are run.
They may cost a little bit more, but the stores are MUCH better and the company is way more profitable in terms for sales. I think Wal-Mart has 20% gross margins to Target's 30%.
Wal-Mart certainly is bigger, but bigger is not better, just ask GM if being the biggest is helping them any.

Target is also a sh!t company, management wise. To their customers and their employees (see my previous posting in this thread). Wal Mart treats their employess MUCH better.

 

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit
You mean some of them actually still work??

Yeah, if your definition of "work" is logging in to check how many zeros have been added to your bank account balances :laugh:

Exactly my point, yet you think paying their employees starvation wages is the right thing to do. No surprise here, your the same old idiot you've always been. If common sense was dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose.

You personify exactly what is wrong with our society and are proud of it!! You GO girl!! :laugh:

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Originally posted by: blackangst1

Originally posted by: ProfJohn

Originally posted by: redgtxdi
Wal mart is an inevitability, no???

Wal Mart will pwn everyone soon enough. There will be no other place to shop because no one else will be able to compete!

And we won't be able to stop ourselves because of our desire for "cheap".

Target beats the pants off Wal-mart as far the way they are run.
They may cost a little bit more, but the stores are MUCH better and the company is way more profitable in terms for sales. I think Wal-Mart has 20% gross margins to Target's 30%.
Wal-Mart certainly is bigger, but bigger is not better, just ask GM if being the biggest is helping them any.

Target is also a sh!t company, management wise. To their customers and their employees (see my previous posting in this thread). Wal Mart treats their employess MUCH better.

It pretty much strains credulity that WalMart treats anyone other than the primary shareholders MUCH better than Target. If that was the case Target would look like a migrant labor camp in Mississippi.

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc

Originally posted by: blackangst1

Originally posted by: ProfJohn

Originally posted by: redgtxdi
Wal mart is an inevitability, no???

Wal Mart will pwn everyone soon enough. There will be no other place to shop because no one else will be able to compete!

And we won't be able to stop ourselves because of our desire for "cheap".

Target beats the pants off Wal-mart as far the way they are run.
They may cost a little bit more, but the stores are MUCH better and the company is way more profitable in terms for sales. I think Wal-Mart has 20% gross margins to Target's 30%.
Wal-Mart certainly is bigger, but bigger is not better, just ask GM if being the biggest is helping them any.

Target is also a sh!t company, management wise. To their customers and their employees (see my previous posting in this thread). Wal Mart treats their employess MUCH better.

It pretty much strains credulity that WalMart treats anyone other than the primary shareholders MUCH better than Target. If that was the case Target would look like a migrant labor camp in Mississippi.

I agree to an extent; however, I am realistic also. Wal Mart really isnt under any obligation to answer to anyone BUT shareholders. Neither is any other public company. Wal Mart, or any other company, really, did not start up with the intention to provide the ultimate working environment. Their goal was to provide a service the public wanted, do so within the confines of the law, and return value to the ones who own the company - shareholders. Sure, small businesses open up with the intentions of providing the best product, etc...but make no mistake about intentions...it's to grab as much of a particular marketshare as they can. Period.

The bottom line, really, is that Wal Mart continues to grow because they provide what the public wants. If they didnt, sales would plummet, shareholders would react, and stores would close. Retail is retail. They dont provide any worse or better working conditions (not really) than any other retailer. But make no mistake about their goal...to provide profits to their shareholders. As it should be.

 

[Wheezer]

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit

Originally posted by: Wheezer

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit

Originally posted by: JD50

I knew that I would get through to you eventually.

I can see you have a lot of valuable life experience to pass on. Maybe you should go to work for Walmart and straighten out all the ingrates they seem to have working for them.


You seem to have "the right stufff" for a job like that. A big mouth and a small heart can go a long ways in today's business climate. :laugh:

why don't you put your money where your mouth is?

If walmart is so damn bad then why not go there, pick an employee you feel deserves it and offer to pay for thier further education so that they can make more money?

why don't you walk in and offer to buy a months worth of grocieries?

Why not walk in find an employee who is a single parent and offer to pay thier utilies or mortgage for a month? to help them along.


Walmart is not going to change thier ways because you think they are unfair. Its not your call, it is the call of the person working there what they feel is right for them. If they feel that under appreciated then they will have to make the decision. sh!t or get off the pot.

If you decide to boycott walmart because of thier "unfair" practices then what happens? They don't start handing out raises, they start cutting hours and laying people off....so it's not Walmart that would be screwing the people that work there, it would be you and the othes that decide not to shop there.

LOL, you've been sucking on the kool-aid a little too hard.

That's the best you can do?

Skirt the issue with some little snip?

Nice....see what you do it bitch whine and complain about something that you have no control over. You are complaining about things that affect other people...not yourself. People who may actually like where they are and what they do. Those that don't, have options and yes, you can help them...there is no law that says you can't help out your fellow man in times of need. But that is not what you want to happen, you want someone else to do "the right thing" because you yourself do not have the integrity to actually do something other than cry like a child how unfair the world of Walmart is.

 

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: Wheezer

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit

Originally posted by: Wheezer

Originally posted by: 1EZduzit

Originally posted by: JD50

I knew that I would get through to you eventually.

I can see you have a lot of valuable life experience to pass on. Maybe you should go to work for Walmart and straighten out all the ingrates they seem to have working for them.


You seem to have "the right stufff" for a job like that. A big mouth and a small heart can go a long ways in today's business climate. :laugh:

why don't you put your money where your mouth is?

If walmart is so damn bad then why not go there, pick an employee you feel deserves it and offer to pay for thier further education so that they can make more money?

why don't you walk in and offer to buy a months worth of grocieries?

Why not walk in find an employee who is a single parent and offer to pay thier utilies or mortgage for a month? to help them along.


Walmart is not going to change thier ways because you think they are unfair. Its not your call, it is the call of the person working there what they feel is right for them. If they feel that under appreciated then they will have to make the decision. sh!t or get off the pot.

If you decide to boycott walmart because of thier "unfair" practices then what happens? They don't start handing out raises, they start cutting hours and laying people off....so it's not Walmart that would be screwing the people that work there, it would be you and the othes that decide not to shop there.

LOL, you've been sucking on the kool-aid a little too hard.

That's the best you can do?

Skirt the issue with some little snip?

Nice....see what you do it bitch whine and complain about something that you have no control over. You are complaining about things that affect other people...not yourself. People who may actually like where they are and what they do. Those that don't, have options and yes, you can help them...there is no law that says you can't help out your fellow man in times of need. But that is not what you want to happen, you want someone else to do "the right thing" because you yourself do not have the integrity to actually do something other than cry like a child how unfair the world of Walmart is.

What issue? The fact that you think I should subsidze Walmart? Please, spare me the nonsense.

 

[Wreckem]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
There are millions of genius level Chinese and Indian executives that would run WalMart better than it is being run now for a few thousand dollars a month. Stockholders in this country need to get rid of American overpaid CEO's and hire them. The savings could be passed along to the shareholders and consumers.

How do you want to qualify, run better? Wal Mart IS the best run company in the world.

How do you explain only two times in the companies history that it has had a decline in earnings? Theres not to many companies that can say they had 40 straight quarters of increases. And the only reason its earnings declined this year, was because it pulled out of Germany.

 

[Lazy8s]

Are you kidding me? Do you have any idea how long a 2am condom run at walmart takes? I'm not kidding, like 300 people are there and there's 1 register open. Do I agree they are screwing people? Yes. Do I think they need more night people? Hell yes.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

The only people not named Walton that got a fair shake from WalMart.

Tim Guderian, 36, served in the Marines during Operation Desert Storm and works as an automotive detailer in Fort Dodge. His 44-year-old wife of nearly seven years is a sales associate at the Wal-Mart where the pair first met.