On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:59:49 GMT, "Tom G"
wrote:


"R & S" wrote in message
om...
I saw a documentary where Walmart gets 2-3 manufacture's reps in an room
and forces them to bid against one another down to the penny. They almost
destroyed Rubbermaid because the cost of raw materials went up and they
wouldn't renegotiate; Wall mart almost destroyed them. They don't treat
their employees much better either. There were allegations where they made
the employees punch out and forced them to continue working. Nice bunch of
folks.
Ron

Sister in law works at a WalMart. The "associates" were just told that all
wages are frozen as the company is opening two new stores in the area.
What's this, they can't tap their investors or profits for the money to do
that; they have to get the money off the backs of their present employees.
When she was off work because of cancer surgery, the store told her she had
to come back before the doctor recommended or they were going to give her
job to someone else. She begged the doctor for an early release. Then when
she couldn't handle carrying tires and batteries from the back room for the
mechanics to install, she asked her supervisor for a transfer to a position
that didn't require the heavy lifting. He told her he had an opening
unloading trucks....when she broke down in tears, he said "I was just
kidding". Insensitive clod or maybe typical of management at WalMart. A
fellow employee asked her once where her husband was at the moment and she
said that he was at a union meeting (works somewhere else). Her supervisor
overheard and called her into his office and told her that she couldn't use
that word (union) in the store and that he was supposed to write her up for
doing so but wasn't going to "this" time. What a place to work....I can't
believe the job market is so bad that people feel they have to put up with
that kind of crap.

Tom G.


Nothing against your sister in law, but really. Not all, but a good
percentage of Walmart workers (at least in my 3-4 local stores) really
don't look like they would be able to handle working anywhere else. As
far as your sister in law, when the supervisor said he should write
her up...she should have demanded that he did so. Then she should have
taken a copy of the write up to the local tv satation, newspaper, etc.
Walmart does not like that kind of publicity. The only thing that
bothers me about the Walmart bashing crowd is that they say Walmart is
helpng the Chinese blah blah blah....then they go to KMart, Sears,
Home depot, etc etc etc. and buy Chinese made stuff. I don't see much
difference really...except it's cheaper at Walmart. I just bought some
nice guitar cables at Walmert, made in MO...so I was glad to see that
they still have some USA stuff.