Wal-Mart's Ad Campaign...what do you think?

Wal Mart offers benefits to all employees, full or part time, according to their website.

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Originally Posted by sparks19

You show me a big name company like Walmart and McDonalds that pays high wages and top notch health benefits.

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I rest my case. Corporate America is hamburgers and discount chains to others...forget GE, Boeing, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Cummins, Citicorp...etc....etc

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Originally Posted by Pembroke_Corgi

I know that some people get benefits, but what about all the countless "temps" or people they hire only part time? I know at quite a few retail establishments there is schedule fixing to make sure people don't qualify for insurance.

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What Walmart does often is subcontract work. That is how they avoid responsibility. Example....the people who were cleaning the stores...the ones who were being paid $2.50 per hour? Walmart skated on it as they were employed by a subcontractor.

A business is a business. If you don't like it don't patronize it. I love walmart. I go there all the time. Not for the low prices (I don't see much difference) but because they carry so many items. I also like Apet Inc. who supplies Wisconsin walmarts with nice quality fish, but that's a whole new can of worms.

Walmart right now is going through a huge change, as far as employees go. First off they are requiring uniforms for teir employees, that was supposed to start jan 1 2007. The uniform will be blue shirt, khaki pants. Pretty much just like target. They are also changing the Dept. Manager scheduling. instead of dept. mngr. working mon-fri, they are now requiring them to work a swing shift, ie. working different hours and diff. days of the week. Also they are trying to remove all full time employees, and making them part time. ie, only working 34 hours a week as oppossed to 40.

i used to work at Wal-mart years ago, and I was a dept mangaer, as a dept. mngr. I only made 50cents and hour more than your average employee. If you wangted to make any money, you ad to be asst. mngr, but then you would get shifted from store to store. The benefits were good, but the pay itself was not. in my opinion. I know many people who styill work there, and they are not happy with all these new changes.

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Originally Posted by sparks19

LOL I was gonna say the same thing.

Walmart isn't the only BIG WIG company that pays minimum wage. McDonalds for one. Plenty of "family" people have to work at McDonalds and they don't pay any better.

I worked for Walmart and they treated me great and I had no complaints.

You show me a big name company like Walmart and McDonalds that pays high wages and top notch health benefits.

My local Grocery store has self check out scanners as well. Should I boycott them too? Where should I shop?

yes other jobs hire people that are o ut of work but if Walmart is so bad then why does anyone work there if everyone is handing out jobs to people who have none? I would say working at Walmart is better than nothing ;)

for crying out loud, look at tim Hortons (Canadian coffee shop) It is almost a RELIGION in Canada. They make so much bank it's insane. You know how much I made when i worked there? Minimum wage. They treated me like crap. I got two fifteen minute breaks and the rest of the time I barely had time to get a drink of water or pee.

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I understand what you mean! I am on the fence about the scanners. I don't really know if it cuts jobs or just adds more convenience or whatnot. At any rate, I prefer to have a person checking me out because I scanned something twice on accident and it was such a pain to fix! lol :D

Yep, working somewhere is always better than working nowhere! (*smacks own hand* bad grammar!) :D

I had the same experience with Subway. It was definitely the worst place I've had employment.