See, the thing about Wal Mart is...
I like Kung-Fu.
Wal Mart is evil. And good jobs? Yeah right. I worked for Wal Mart for a whole 2 minutes. I applied, got called back for a GROUP interview. It wasn't even really an interview, they just made us watch movies and then told us where we would be working. I got stuck in the furniture department. Me, in the furniture department? I'm not saying I'm much bigger now, but when I was 18 I was scrawny. And they expected me to move around couches for 5.75 an hour. And they put the big dumb guy in the electronics department. Bah! Lucky for me, I got hired at Albertsons an hour later which turned out A LOT better.
Anyway, unless their hiring system has changed, it stinks. And so does the company.
Mr Thou! Mr Thou!
I also worked there a while. They are evil. Yes, they do have group interviews; workers are expendable anyways. I don't know for sure but I'd guess that the average worker stayed there maybe 2 weeks. Massive numbers of people would be hired and quit almost immediately. You had to give them 3 weeks notice if you were going to miss a day of work, but they could change your work schedule with no notice. You don't get health insurance until you've been working there for a whole year. The pay is not even enough to support a single person, and almost everyone who worked there had a second job. I refuse to shop there (never shopped there before I worked there either, but definitely not after).
They also do show you propaganda movies on a regular basis. Generally it has Tina Turner music and a bunch of people in WalMart outfits smiling and working like dogs. We'd be herded into rooms and made to watch them on special occassions. On VERY special occassions everyone would get into a big line and do this weird chant and then stand and cheer for 5 minutes straight. The old WalMart-for-life people would do the chant, that is, and myself and the new please-let-me-find-another-job people would stand around in general disbelief. It felt almost like working for a cult sometimes.
That's sad. I hate Walmart.
omfg xDOriginally Posted by Dr Unne
I've never worked there but I have worked in jobs that are crappy liek that ie McDonalds. Glad I have a good paying job that gives me 40+ hours a week and good benifits now
I hate Walmart, with a passion. I've never worked there. I've only been inside the actual thing once. But that was enough for me. As soon as I walked in there, I felt very...unclean. Most things were off, or hanging off the shelves, and hardly anyone in there spoke english. I couldn't find anything, let alone buy anything. Yuck. I'll never go back there, and, especially after reading this, I'll never ever work there. But that counts as never going back there.
Hey I had to do that to and Thatw as a few months back and I'm 16 dude so don't complain.A little labor does a man good.lol.Plus furniture sure did beat working at the cash registers.
Oh yeah the walmart I worked at really wasn't that bad.The manager was kewl.But it sucked.in a big way.Anyway thats all behind me.I only did it for two paychecks so i can play FF11.oh yeah and my friend wanted to bet me and he said he'll pay me double what i got on my paycheckk.I.E. I got 250 per pay check.so yeah I got 1k out of hte deal.
So anyway I'm a high school student so you can't espect me to have a cubical job.So dont call me a low life for it!!.
anyway walmart is very very evil.
Last edited by lordblazer; 01-13-2005 at 09:25 PM.
I worked at Wal-Mart for 3 months when I was 16. Lets just say it was my first job and the most horrible. I quit there to work at McDonalds. I still bu stuff from there all the time, but would never work there again.
Last edited by theundeadhero; 01-14-2005 at 02:24 AM.
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Wal-Mart allows you to buy crap at a low cost. It's everywhere and it helps people out. It's far from evil. Maybe inferior to most places, but definately a useful place when there's nowhere else (And even when there are other places).
I never go to Wal-Mart, for my own reasons, but I know people who don't shop anywhere else.
No, Wal-Mart is evil. They move into communities, set up shop with prices in the basement fooling community members into thinking thait their goods are of a decent quality and will remain at said low prices. This drives away all of Wal-Mart's competion (the mom and pop and other privately owned businesses I was talking about in the other wal-mart thread that generally sell excellent quality goods, treat their few employees fairly, and turn enough profit to live off of). Then Wal-Mart, now being the only supplier in this community, raises the prices sky high on cheap goods made by Mexican school children in Chiapas for five cents an hour while guerilla warfare goes on around them each day to try and liberate the state so the people and freaking afford to feed themselves again.
Please see also; Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvado, Costa Rica, the Northern Marina Islands (A US TERRITORY FILLED WITH SWEATSHOPS) Vietnam, Thailand, China and a whole slew of other third world countries who make products they could never afford even with Wal-Mart's rolled back prices.
I hate Wal Mart. When/if I am a successful person, I will do everything in my power to see to it that no one in my family (immediate or extended) has anything to do with Wal-Mart ever again.
*explodes*
OH! And what's more is that they don't let their employees unionize! I've read about and talked to people who worked for Wal-Mart and even mentioned something about unionizing/a union somewhere else and they were fired almost immediately.
Gah!
Signature by rubah. I think.
Shhh... the wal-mart can HEAR you!
But seriously we the people have got to put a stop to wal-mart before it becomes to powerful, they already tell the production companies how much they will sell the item for. This is pushing American companies overseas, to lower production costs and keep profit margins high, after wal-mart lowers the price.
(*i didnt view the link*)
The new world is inevitable. :evilking:
Why do I care about mom and pop? I want low prices durnit! If small shops can earn my buisness more power to them, if they have something Wal-Mart doesn't or for a better price that I like they win, if not too bad, Wal-Mart is better.
I don't understand how you can honostly believe Wal-Mart is going to take over the world, don't you know the American goverment disallows a monopoly? :rolleyes2
your very very conservatie and irrational dude lol.They jack up the prices as soon as theres no other competition left.
edit-Hey Harvest Moon the government has challenged Walmart before and those coporate lawyers are bastards.
edit- I've been to Chiapas its not any guerilla warfare in mexico.Shows how much you know about mexico.Oh yeah You know who you are if you said that.Now I would understand if you said Panama
edit- yeah walmart hates open shop.They much prefer a closed shop.(you should know what this means if you know american history).Anyway Theres not much we can do about i.We have to let them have there sweetshops in other countries and then they will come and make our children sufer then cut off there finger nails and gulge there eyeballs out.Then they would whip them and say "YOU DONT FEEEL PAIN1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW WORK I SAY WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Last edited by lordblazer; 01-14-2005 at 05:07 AM.
saying you hate walmart and is evil is cheesy if your going to back your statements with things like, i dont like how people talk there. thats no way to hate a place.
i personaly dont like walmart because they seriously underpay their employees, especially those with ethnic backgrounds
And despite all of its faults, it's the largest retail chain in the world. There's reasons for that, too, which any prospective business could probably learn from.
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