• Wal-Mart Admits it Underpays Employees by Asking Employees to Donate to Each Other for Thanksgiving
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[Quote]A Cleveland Wal-Mart store is holding a food drive — for its own employees. "Please donate food items so associates in need can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner," reads a sign accompanied by several plastic bins. The Cleveland Plain Dealer first reported on the food drive, which has sparked outrage in the area. "That Wal-Mart would have the audacity to ask low-wage workers to donate food to other low-wage workers — to me, it is a moral outrage," Norma Mills, a customer at the store, told the Plain Dealer. A company spokesman defended the food drive, telling the Plain Dealer that it is evidence that employees care about each other.[/quote] [url]http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-asks-customers-to-donate-food-2013-11[/url]
Your avatar makes an excellent reaction image for me in this case, Forumaster.
[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;42906750]Your avatar makes an excellent reaction image for me in this case, Forumaster.[/QUOTE] This is why I only use Paul's rage or disappointed face for an avatar.
imagine: customers buying food in walmart, then putting them in donation bins? :v:
I'm so happy I don't work for walmart :v:
Before the outrage train gets going keep in mind that this seems like just one local Wal-Mart that is probably only doing this because they have no control over corporate Wal-Mart.
[QUOTE=SexualShark;42906869]customers buying food in walmart, then putting them in donation bins? :v:[/QUOTE] Read the article guy. It's low wage employees donating to fellow low wage employees.
Our store does something similar, but all year round. They have a jar that they ask you to voluntarily put a buck into each paycheck so it can support other associates instead of hoofing a payraise themselves. Wal-mart is the epitomy of tight-assed frugality.
It's all the more hilarious considering they're asking a lot of their employees to start at like 3 or 4 on Thanksgiving day so they can work black Friday.
[QUOTE=-Rusty-;42906988]Read the article guy. It's low wage employees donating to fellow low wage employees.[/QUOTE] nonono, i was just saying what that'd kinda sound like if that was the case. i need to rephrase that.
Wait, what!? Wal-Mart is so pathetic at meeting it's employees basic needs that they're holding a food drive for [I]their own employees?[/i] The people working there should be barricading the store with a picket line and holding their own goddamn food drive.
that's sick, management should be contributing, or, in fact, be paying their workers a wage worth something
[QUOTE=SexualShark;42906869]imagine: customers buying food in walmart, then putting them in donation bins? :v:[/QUOTE] This actually happens in my store. Not even kidding.
"A company spokesman defended the food drive, telling the Plain Dealer that it is evidence that employees care about each other." let's exploit the altruism and community of others for our own profit
Imagine a world in which food drives didn't exist.
I used to be a Wal-Mart apologist. I'm finding that position increasingly untenable.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;42907786]"A company spokesman defended the food drive, telling the Plain Dealer that it is evidence that employees care about each other." let's exploit the altruism and community of others for our own profit[/QUOTE] That line really rang out to me more as evidence that they don't care about their own employees, not as their employees caring about each other. Pretty despicable.
If this is all you've found on how cheap Wal-Mart is, you haven't dug deep enough.
Yep. Gonna need a bucket. It's blatantly an abuse on what should be a minimum quality of life for all Humans. However nothing will come of this because the people with the actual power to change the situation see nothing wrong about this. Fuck.
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