Walmart's having a food drive

[Bob Juch]

The photo above comes from the Walmart on Atlantic Boulevard in Canton, Ohio.

That's right, it's for the own underpaid employees!

[jaybee]

Call me just a stupid, old-fashioned small-businessman but every time we start making a nice profit I pay out bonus money to the guys who put us there.

[Bob Juch]

Call me just a stupid, old-fashioned small-businessman but every time we start making a nice profit I pay out bonus money to the guys who put us there.

Sam Walton's widow and kids receive more money each year than the lowest 41% of American workers - combined.

[TheConfessor]

Call me just a stupid, old-fashioned small-businessman but every time we start making a nice profit I pay out bonus money to the guys who put us there.

Sam Walton's widow and kids more more money each year than the lowest 41% of American workers - combined.

I think you omitted a verb, so it's hard to evaluate the accuracy of your claim.

[silverscreenselect]

They could probably enjoy Thanksgiving dinner a bit more if they didn't have to be at work at 6:00 on Thanksgiving evening.

[Bob Juch]

Call me just a stupid, old-fashioned small-businessman but every time we start making a nice profit I pay out bonus money to the guys who put us there.

Sam Walton's widow and kids more more money each year than the lowest 41% of American workers - combined.

I think you omitted a verb, so it's hard to evaluate the accuracy of your claim.

Gee, I thought you were smart enough to figure it out.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

A new Wal-Mart store in Washington D.C. has been inundated with applications for associates.
The store is currently combing through more than 23,000 applications for 600 available positions, reports NBC Washington.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-mart ... z2l7XJp6GV

[Bob Juch]

A new Wal-Mart store in Washington D.C. has been inundated with applications for associates.
The store is currently combing through more than 23,000 applications for 600 available positions, reports NBC Washington.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-mart ... z2l7XJp6GV

At least the minimum wage there is $8.50 an hour.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

A new Wal-Mart store in Washington D.C. has been inundated with applications for associates.
The store is currently combing through more than 23,000 applications for 600 available positions, reports NBC Washington.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-mart ... z2l7XJp6GV

At least the minimum wage there is $8.50 an hour.

That might explain why so many people as desperate for work.

[flockofseagulls104]

Please stop posting leftist propaganda on the bored. We get enough of it in the main stream media.

[Bob78164]

Please stop posting leftist propaganda on the bored. We get enough of it in the main stream media.

It's not propaganda to note that the minimum wage is not enough to provide housing and food security. When companies like Walmart (who can certainly afford better pay) pay their employees so little that they can't afford housing and food, it's the taxpayers who pick up the slack. --Bob

[Estonut]

It's not propaganda to note that the minimum wage is not enough to provide housing and food security.

Has minimum wage ever been enough for that?

[BackInTex]

Please stop posting leftist propaganda on the bored. We get enough of it in the main stream media.

It's not propaganda to note that the minimum wage is not enough to provide housing and food security. When companies like Walmart (who can certainly afford better pay) pay their employees so little that they can't afford housing and food, it's the taxpayers who pick up the slack. --Bob

It takes two Bob. The folks working for Walmart are not being conscripted. They are free to go work for any other company that will hire them. If they need more than minumum wage they shouldn't work at Walmart. If Walmart wants to employ the same people employed by other employers who pay better, then Walmart will pay better.

The problem is, many current Walmart employees are overpaid as is, but Walmart has to pay them the Federal minimum wage. Seems a lot of people don't realize the purpose of an employee. It is not to get paid by an employer. It is to provide a service or value to the employer and they should be compensated based on that value. That value is complicated but whatever it is, the employee should be the one to make sure they can provide enough value to support themselves and their family to their employer.

Walmart appears to be happy with the type of employees they get for what they pay. Many of their former customers are not. Things may change as a result. The problem for the current minimum wage Walmart workers is many may be priced out of a job if they don't give Walmart some reason they are worth more.

[Bob Juch]

It's not propaganda to note that the minimum wage is not enough to provide housing and food security.

Has minimum wage ever been enough for that?

Yes, it used to be. Prices have risen while wages have not.

[Lackadaisical Stumblebum]

Before everybody causes permanent injury to themselves clutching their pearls and jerking their knees (what with the price of healthcare these days).......

Of course Juch didn't bother to tell you The Rest of the Story.

These boxes are in an employee only area. So fellow co-workers can help out fellow co-workers if they feel like it. Have you people never worked anywhere that a hat hasn't been passed or one of those cupboard banging things organized or a memo asking people with a lot of sick leave to donate some of theirs to a co-worker in need?

You people should be hip to this kind of thing by now, but it's so much easier to just keep stirring the shit and getting your bowels all in an uproar......

[Bob Juch]

Before everybody causes permanent injury to themselves clutching their pearls and jerking their knees (what with the price of healthcare these days).......

Of course Juch didn't bother to tell you The Rest of the Story.

These boxes are in an employee only area. So fellow co-workers can help out fellow co-workers if they feel like it. Have you people never worked anywhere that a hat hasn't been passed or one of those cupboard banging things organized or a memo asking people with a lot of sick leave to donate some of theirs to a co-worker in need?

You people should be hip to this kind of thing by now, but it's so much easier to just keep stirring the shit and getting your bowels all in an uproar......

It doesn't matter where the bins are. No one that works there should be dependant on donations in order to eat.

[elwoodblues]

These boxes are in an employee only area. So fellow co-workers can help out fellow co-workers if they feel like it. Have you people never worked anywhere that a hat hasn't been passed or one of those cupboard banging things organized or a memo asking people with a lot of sick leave to donate some of theirs to a co-worker in need?

I have donated sick leave to someone in my department who had a family emergency before, and I have seen collections for employees who had an emergency. But this is different. This is a company asking employees to help out other employees simply because the company refuses to pay a living wage.

[littlebeast13]

These boxes are in an employee only area. So fellow co-workers can help out fellow co-workers if they feel like it. Have you people never worked anywhere that a hat hasn't been passed or one of those cupboard banging things organized or a memo asking people with a lot of sick leave to donate some of theirs to a co-worker in need?

I have donated sick leave to someone in my department who had a family emergency before, and I have seen collections for employees who had an emergency. But this is different. This is a company asking employees to help out other employees simply because the company refuses to pay a living wage.

I wasn't going to respond to this typical example of Juchbaiting, but when even people who I consider to be pretty levelheaded like elwood are reading into this the same thing as Bob and the other anti-Mecca/anti-big business people are, then I guess I better at least say something...

No elwood, this isn't different. This isn't a bread line or the Salvation Mecca Army like the photo looks out of context. I don't know of any Mecca who has or even would do something as tacky as that, on the salesfloor or behind the scenes. These are collections for associates who fell on hard times due to some kind of personal emergency during the year. There was an article about this latest viral picture (maybe the one tmitsss linked to, I didn't bother to check) that explained this...

Of course, people are going to believe what they want to believe, so I'm not going to waste any breath trying to change anyone's mind....

lb13

[elwoodblues]

These boxes are in an employee only area. So fellow co-workers can help out fellow co-workers if they feel like it. Have you people never worked anywhere that a hat hasn't been passed or one of those cupboard banging things organized or a memo asking people with a lot of sick leave to donate some of theirs to a co-worker in need?

I have donated sick leave to someone in my department who had a family emergency before, and I have seen collections for employees who had an emergency. But this is different. This is a company asking employees to help out other employees simply because the company refuses to pay a living wage.

I wasn't going to respond to this typical example of Juchbaiting, but when even people who I consider to be pretty levelheaded like elwood are reading into this the same thing as Bob and the other anti-Mecca/anti-big business people are, then I guess I better at least say something...

No elwood, this isn't different. This isn't a bread line or the Salvation Mecca Army like the photo looks out of context. I don't know of any Mecca who has or even would do something as tacky as that, on the salesfloor or behind the scenes. These are collections for associates who fell on hard times due to some kind of personal emergency during the year. There was an article about this latest viral picture (maybe the one tmitsss linked to, I didn't bother to check) that explained this...

Of course, people are going to believe what they want to believe, so I'm not going to waste any breath trying to change anyone's mind....

lb13

LB, I'm sure you are right. I was not going to comment on this because the only person on the Bored who actually works there is you, and you seem to like it just fine. It is just that I am angry about a lot of things going on in this country right now, and I have to say something every now and then.

[littlebeast13]

I have donated sick leave to someone in my department who had a family emergency before, and I have seen collections for employees who had an emergency. But this is different. This is a company asking employees to help out other employees simply because the company refuses to pay a living wage.

I wasn't going to respond to this typical example of Juchbaiting, but when even people who I consider to be pretty levelheaded like elwood are reading into this the same thing as Bob and the other anti-Mecca/anti-big business people are, then I guess I better at least say something...

No elwood, this isn't different. This isn't a bread line or the Salvation Mecca Army like the photo looks out of context. I don't know of any Mecca who has or even would do something as tacky as that, on the salesfloor or behind the scenes. These are collections for associates who fell on hard times due to some kind of personal emergency during the year. There was an article about this latest viral picture (maybe the one tmitsss linked to, I didn't bother to check) that explained this...

Of course, people are going to believe what they want to believe, so I'm not going to waste any breath trying to change anyone's mind....

lb13

LB, I'm sure you are right. I was not going to comment on this because the only person on the Bored who actually works there is you, and you seem to like it just fine. It is just that I am angry about a lot of things going on in this country right now, and I have to say something every now and then.

I understand that... and you have every right to be angry at the current state of things.

But at the same time, I have to stand up to the generation of trolls Facebook and Twitter have created who post and spread their bullshit when it's something relevant to me....

lb13

[TheConfessor]

Sam Walton's widow and kids more more money each year than the lowest 41% of American workers - combined.

I think you omitted a verb, so it's hard to evaluate the accuracy of your claim.

Gee, I thought you were smart enough to figure it out.

Sorry, but I can't read your mind. I don't know what word could be added to make your statement accurate. Have? Earn? Spend? Burn? Donate?

[silverscreenselect]

It is not to get paid by an employer. It is to provide a service or value to the employer and they should be compensated based on that value. That value is complicated but whatever it is, the employee should be the one to make sure they can provide enough value to support themselves and their family to their employer.

Unless you're Payton Manning, an individual employee is at a vast bargaining disadvantage compared to an employer like Wal Mart. WalMart is to a certain extent equally dependent on its capital and management on the one hand and its employees on the other for its success, but the employees for the most part do not bargain as a unit. There are only a couple of ways they can do something about that. One is by organizing collectively, and the other is by using their true power, which is the power of the ballot, to enact favorable labor law legislation. Although Wal Mart employees can't effectively negotiate on their own, by banding together with enough like minded voters who recognize the benefits of a self-supporting working class, they can elect like minded legislators.

Walmart depends on our legal framework for its very existence. Its employees should be able to use that framework to have a livable existence.

[a1mamacat]

Oh Lord, the crap in here today

I assumed that it was a group effort to help someone out, that may have......

had a serious family situation that caused them to lose time and money, and co-workers were helping them back on their feet.

or

maybe there was a health issue,

or their house burned down,

or they were in a car crash and the other driver had no insurance.

I never once assumed that Walmart was asking customers to donate to staff. Sheesh,

[Bob Juch]

It is not to get paid by an employer. It is to provide a service or value to the employer and they should be compensated based on that value. That value is complicated but whatever it is, the employee should be the one to make sure they can provide enough value to support themselves and their family to their employer.

Unless you're Payton Manning, an individual employee is at a vast bargaining disadvantage compared to an employer like Wal Mart. WalMart is to a certain extent equally dependent on its capital and management on the one hand and its employees on the other for its success, but the employees for the most part do not bargain as a unit. There are only a couple of ways they can do something about that. One is by organizing collectively, and the other is by using their true power, which is the power of the ballot, to enact favorable labor law legislation. Although Wal Mart employees can't effectively negotiate on their own, by banding together with enough like minded voters who recognize the benefits of a self-supporting working class, they can elect like minded legislators.

Walmart depends on our legal framework for its very existence. Its employees should be able to use that framework to have a livable existence.

Walmart employees are trying to unionize. Of course Walmart is getting rid of those who try to organize that. There hundreds of unlawful discharge lawsuits pending.

[BackInTex]

Unless you're Payton Manning, an individual employee is at a vast bargaining disadvantage compared to an employer like Wal Mart.

Actually, Walmart employees are in a BETTER position than Payton. They can leave on day 1 and on the same day begin working for another employer doing the same thing for better pay. If they are worth it of course. It is up to them to make themselves worth it.

WalMart is to a certain extent equally dependent on its capital and management on the one hand and its employees on the other for its success,

As is almost every enterprise in the US and the world for that matter.

but the employees for the most part do not bargain as a unit. There are only a couple of ways they can do something about that. One is by organizing collectively, and the other is by using their true power, which is the power of the ballot, to enact favorable labor law legislation. Although Wal Mart employees can't effectively negotiate on their own, by banding together with enough like minded voters who recognize the benefits of a self-supporting working class, they can elect like minded legislators.

Sounds downright Marxist

Walmart depends on our legal framework for its very existence. Its employees should be able to use that framework to have a livable existence.

Exactly. The 13th amendment pretty much covers it. Those employees are free, free to leave Walmart anytime they want and to go work for higher wages where someone is willing to pay them those wages.