Wal-Mart strikes throughout several states

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/09/walmart_strikes_spread_to_more_states/

Thoughts?

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

Pirate700

Actually, Wal-Mart pretty much shuttered all the main streets around these parts. Now instead of a bike store, a book store, a shoe store, a hair salon, etc., there's just Wal-Mart.

It sucks.

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

Pirate700

Yes, they should be thankful for not having health insurance, and for having wages so low they might as well be on welfare, and for Walmart running all other possible places of employment out of town.

These employees are just being ungrateful scum!

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

Pirate700

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

Pirate700

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

br0kenrabbit

Actually, Wal-Mart pretty much shuttered all the main streets around these parts. Now instead of a bike store, a book store, a shoe store, a hair salon, etc., there's just Wal-Mart.

It sucks.

Agreed. They also pay extremely terrible despite their profits. They rely on a high-turnover rate to keep wages low. It's a scumy company.

Though I worked for Target and they did the same thing.

Wal-Mart and the other big shoping corps didn't create jobs, they just shifted them from locally owned business to their own.

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

Pirate700

I used to work at Wal-Mart after I lost my actual job for a couple of months - they really treat their employees like complete crap. Novotine

And they know they can get away with it because the turnover is so high and the economy is so bad that many people have few or no alternatives for work.

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

br0kenrabbit

Actually, Wal-Mart pretty much shuttered all the main streets around these parts. Now instead of a bike store, a book store, a shoe store, a hair salon, etc., there's just Wal-Mart.

It sucks.

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

Pirate700

Actually they might have been able to get jobs elsewhere if Wal-Mat didn't strangle out all the locally-owned business.

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

Pirate700

HA!

That's rich, rosebud............

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

Pirate700

Better not be critical towards the government, afterall your lucky that your safe and secure thanks to the security provided by them.. You realize how fvcking stupid this logic is right?

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

worlock77

Actually they might have been able to get jobs elsewhere if Wal-Mat didn't strangle out all the locally-owned business.

it's called competition, become a better business or get destroyed.

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

bigfoot2045

Yes, they should be thankful for not having health insurance, and for having wages so low they might as well be on welfare, and for Walmart running all other possible places of employment out of town.

These employees are just being ungrateful scum!

Working at walmart isn't a career... If you apply for a job there hoping for decent pay, benefits, and long term advancement then you have failed in life...

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[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

kingkong0124

Actually they might have been able to get jobs elsewhere if Wal-Mat didn't strangle out all the locally-owned business.

it's called competition, become a better business or get destroyed.

It's not actually competition when you cannot possibly compete.

[QUOTE="Novotine"]I used to work at Wal-Mart after I lost my actual job for a couple of months - they really treat their employees like complete crap. bigfoot2045

And they know they can get away with it because the turnover is so high and the economy is so bad that many people have few or no alternatives for work.

Better off without shops like WalMart.. they ruined everyone's businesses.. small stores around here all closed becuz of it.Dogswithguns

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

bigfoot2045

Yes, they should be thankful for not having health insurance, and for having wages so low they might as well be on welfare, and for Walmart running all other possible places of employment out of town.

These employees are just being ungrateful scum!

Yeah I agree, competition sucks.

Are people seriously trying to defend the business practices of the corporation that has a highest percentage of employees on public aid than any other company in the US?

Are people seriously trying to defend the business practices of the corporation that has a highest percentage of employees on public aid than any other company in the US?

worlock77

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Are people seriously trying to defend the business practices of the corporation that has a highest percentage of employees on public aid than any other company in the US?

Toxic-Seahorse

Legal ain't the point. The fact is they're a parasitic company that are ultimately a huge drain on communities and society.

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"][QUOTE="worlock77"]

Are people seriously trying to defend the business practices of the corporation that has a highest percentage of employees on public aid than any other company in the US?

worlock77

Legal ain't the point. The fact is they're a parasitic company that are ultimately a huge drain on communities and society.

How so? Who's forcing the people in these communities to shop there? They can just as well go to the "mom-and-pop" stores if they choose.

[QUOTE="worlock77"]

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

kingkong0124

Actually they might have been able to get jobs elsewhere if Wal-Mat didn't strangle out all the locally-owned business.

it's called competition, become a better business or get destroyed.

You're pitching a wheel-chair retard against Usain Bolt and yelling 'Get better, bi***.'. How alienated are you?

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[QUOTE="worlock77"]

Actually they might have been able to get jobs elsewhere if Wal-Mat didn't strangle out all the locally-owned business.

iHarlequin

it's called competition, become a better business or get destroyed.

You're pitching a wheel-chair retard against Usain Bolt and yelling 'Get better, bi***.'. How alienated are you?

So this "wheel-chair retard of a business would be better serving of it's customers than the Usain Bolt of a business?

[QUOTE="iHarlequin"]

[QUOTE="kingkong0124"]

it's called competition, become a better business or get destroyed.

SpartanMSU

You're pitching a wheel-chair retard against Usain Bolt and yelling 'Get better, bi***.'. How alienated are you?

So this "wheel-chair retard of a business would be better serving of it's customers than the Usain Bolt of a business?

In the long run, yes. Small businesses lead to a better distribution of wealth (more people making an average-decent amount of money, rather than a few making absurd amounts of money) than behemoth companies. Over a longer period of time, the number of employees would be similar, the amount of revenue generated similar, but the profits would be distributed more evenly. Most Americans (and, consequently, most gamespot posters) abhore the notion of limitting a company's reach and state-enforced boundaries, so I can understand why this is a controversial opinion here.

Are people seriously trying to defend the business practices of the corporation that has a highest percentage of employees on public aid than any other company in the US?

worlock77

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[QUOTE="iHarlequin"]

You're pitching a wheel-chair retard against Usain Bolt and yelling 'Get better, bi***.'. How alienated are you?

iHarlequin

So this "wheel-chair retard of a business would be better serving of it's customers than the Usain Bolt of a business?

In the long run, yes. Small businesses lead to a better distribution of wealth (more people making an average-decent amount of money, rather than a few making absurd amounts of money) than behemoth companies. Over a longer period of time, the number of employees would be similar, the amount of revenue generated similar, but the profits would be distributed more evenly. Most Americans (and, consequently, most gamespot posters) abhore the notion of limitting a company's reach and state-enforced boundaries, so I can understand why this is a controversial opinion here.

You're assuming that the prices these small businesses are selling their products at are the same. You're also assuming that the prices of these products won't change with an increase in wages.

[QUOTE="iHarlequin"]

[QUOTE="SpartanMSU"]

So this "wheel-chair retard of a business would be better serving of it's customers than the Usain Bolt of a business?

SpartanMSU

In the long run, yes. Small businesses lead to a better distribution of wealth (more people making an average-decent amount of money, rather than a few making absurd amounts of money) than behemoth companies. Over a longer period of time, the number of employees would be similar, the amount of revenue generated similar, but the profits would be distributed more evenly. Most Americans (and, consequently, most gamespot posters) abhore the notion of limitting a company's reach and state-enforced boundaries, so I can understand why this is a controversial opinion here.

You're assuming that the prices these small businesses are selling their products at are the same. You're also assuming that the prices of these products won't change with an increase in wages.

The only thing I'm assuming is that we can agree that, given certain benefits, paying more for a product is worth it (for society as a whole, not the consumer as an individual). You (Americans) of all people should know the best, with how you're exporting most of your raw production to China and other third-world countries where labour is cheaper.

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[QUOTE="iHarlequin"]

In the long run, yes. Small businesses lead to a better distribution of wealth (more people making an average-decent amount of money, rather than a few making absurd amounts of money) than behemoth companies. Over a longer period of time, the number of employees would be similar, the amount of revenue generated similar, but the profits would be distributed more evenly. Most Americans (and, consequently, most gamespot posters) abhore the notion of limitting a company's reach and state-enforced boundaries, so I can understand why this is a controversial opinion here.

iHarlequin

You're assuming that the prices these small businesses are selling their products at are the same. You're also assuming that the prices of these products won't change with an increase in wages.

The only thing I'm assuming is that we can agree that, given certain benefits, paying more for a product is worth it (for society as a whole, not the consumer as an individual). You (Americans) of all people should know the best, with how you're exporting most of your raw production to China and other third-world countries where labour is cheaper.

That has nothing to do with what I said and is basically just rhetoric. You did the exact same thing in the other thread where you clearly demonstrated you have no idea how capital markets work or why they exist.

Why do you assume these things? I need an explanation.

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[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

kingkong0124

Actually they might have been able to get jobs elsewhere if Wal-Mat didn't strangle out all the locally-owned business.

it's called competition, become a better business or get destroyed.

[QUOTE="iHarlequin"]

[QUOTE="SpartanMSU"]

You're assuming that the prices these small businesses are selling their products at are the same. You're also assuming that the prices of these products won't change with an increase in wages.

SpartanMSU

The only thing I'm assuming is that we can agree that, given certain benefits, paying more for a product is worth it (for society as a whole, not the consumer as an individual). You (Americans) of all people should know the best, with how you're exporting most of your raw production to China and other third-world countries where labour is cheaper.

That has nothing to do with what I said and is basically just rhetoric. You did the exact same thing in the other thread where you clearly demonstrated you have no idea how capital markets work or why they exist.

Why do you assume these things? I need an explanation.

Why do I assume this? Because it iss what I think, and it being what I think, it is what I consider more humane. It's awfully petty to think that shaving a few dollars every time you go to the market is more important than the general welfare of society. It's your right to have a diferring opinion, however.

You're right, though: it was stupid of me to assume that we'd agree on such a topic.

Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

Pirate700

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Most Walmart workers are lucky the store is even around or they wouldn't be able to get jobs anywhere. They should be thankful, not striking.

bigfoot2045

Yes, they should be thankful for not having health insurance, and for having wages so low they might as well be on welfare, and for Walmart running all other possible places of employment out of town.

These employees are just being ungrateful scum!