Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Wal-Mart declares war on single mothers
Wal-Mart announced today that December sales at stores open at least one year would rise 1.6% instead of the 1% gain it had initially expected. They also announced that they will soon be moving all of their 1.3 million employees over to a new “flexible” scheduling system.
It will force employees to be flexible with what hours they work.
This means that a single woman working for Wal-Mart who must rely on daycare to watch her children will have a much harder time making those arraignments. They will be forced to find daycare providers that are just as flexible as Wal-Mart is forcing them to be.
This will not only adversely effect single mothers. It will throw a monkey wrench into any working family.
Wal-Mart claims to be making this change to it’s scheduling system to cut labor costs. Something I wouldn’t think would be necessary when you consider how much profit Wal-Mart makes. Whatever happened to the trickle down theory? Wal-Mart rakes in massive profits yet still comes up with new ways of paying less money to the American worker.
That’s not the way it is supposed to work. Sales are up. Higher then they expected. They still find a new way of cutting pay to American workers.
Wal-Mart moving employees to new schedule system [Yahoo!]
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why does it matter? if i am paying you you should work when i say work. if you do not like it go find another job. i get sick of people thinking that business must bend over backward for the worker. have trouble working as a single mom? dont become a single mom or find the kid a daddy!
Yes, why should the American worker having any type of rights? Why should they be afforded the right to any type of stable home life with their family?
Unless of course they were born rich.
In fact, businesses ought to require their employees to live in tiny cabins behind the place of business. That way, if and when the massa/employer needs them to step’n fetch something, they will be close at hand.
Good lord, I hope Lucas was joking. Businesses seem to have forgotten that it is their workers who make things run. These same workers also help support the store by shopping there. These business need to step up and support their workers the way their workers support them. Not just Wal-Mart but across the board.
You are sick of businesses bending over backwards for the employees? I’m sick of businesses paying out obscene amounts of money to their retiring CEO’s with the money they made by shafting their workers. Pensions being abused, money being stolen from the company coffers so somebody can have a 4 million dollar birthday bash, etc. etc. The rampant corruption in upper management is disgusting. Meanwhile the workers who run your stores and keep them operational so that customers can come in and buy stuff are getting paid less and less.
And your comment about single mothers. WTF? Find the kid a daddy or don’t become a single mother. There are so many cases where it is the daddy who runs away in the first place. While I am sure there are a few, most don’t PLAN on becoming single mothers. I guess you don’t have a problem with the dead beat daddies who aren’t paying their fair share for a child that they brought into the world as well?
I’d like to see you put your business ideas into practice and see how long you have any employees. You can’t expect employees to be loyal to you if you aren’t equally loyal to them.
I guess you don’t have a problem with the dead beat daddies who aren’t paying their fair share for a child that they brought into the world as well?
why did the girl have sex with a dead beat? do not screw dead beats. keep your pants on. wait and find a man that is a good man who would never run off on you. if he does run off on you go find a good man willing to help you bring up your child. you do not have to love him as long as he is good to you and your child. we are a selfish people now. these girls get knocked up by the bad boy and then they still want prince charming after they have a kid.
I’d like to see you put your business ideas into practice and see how long you have any employees. You can’t expect employees to be loyal to you if you aren’t equally loyal to them.
if you do not want to work at walmart do not screw up your life. get an education. stay away from sex and drugs. rise above your economic childhood. poor people can get grants or loans to go to college. crying about your economic background is nothing more than a crutch. it is easier to bitch and moan than get out there and do something. you do even have to go to college to rise above walmart. you just have to be willing to work hard and save money. i know it is not easy. that is where the problem is… it it aint easy americans do not want anything to do with it
this is not the 1860s or the 1890s. i was not born rich. i was born poor and raised middle class. i am middle class now because i worked hard like i was taught by my mother and father. i never once worked at walmart. that was below me. i scooped horse crap on a ranch. i worked construction. i cleaned up after people in a bar and grill. i never had to flip burgers or work at walmart. i went to college and got a good steady paying job.
if your working for a company like enron all i can say to you is you got in the wrong business. if they cant pay you what you have earned over the years that is a shame. you should be reimbursed and get your retirement from them or god forbid the government. but walmart is not enron.
Lucas,
I admit. I’m a big fan of your movies. Except the one with the Ewoks. And the one where Darth Vader was a little boy. That one sucked too. Other then, I respect you for your movie making abilities. What I don’t respect is your twisted view on businesses that screw their employees like Wal-Mart.
If there was ever a company that made enough money that it could/should provide decent pay and decent health care, it would be Wal-Mart. Instead of paying their employees a living wage and offering them decent health care, they offer them insurance that is too expensive and doesn’t adequately cover medical expenses. Wal-Mart has designed their health insurance with the idea that associates (what they call their employees) will not use it and instead elect to use their spouse’s insurance. Their spouse that doesn’t work for Wal-Mart and instead works for an employer that provides adequate health insurance.
The problem arises when the Wal-Mart associate doesn’t have a spouse. Their only option is to take the Wal-Mart insurance they simply cannot afford or to get coverage from the state. That is why so many Wal-Mart associates have children receiving state-funded health care.
Wal-Mart is one of the richest corporations in the world, yet they choose to pay their employees crap. It’s a prime example why the trickle down theory doesn’t work.
Thanks for stopping by Lucas and May The Force Be With You.
“Wal-Mart is one of the richest corporations in the world, yet they choose to pay their employees crap. It’s a prime example why the trickle down theory doesn’t work.”
should pay and could pay means nothing. they have a right to do as they please as far as i care and it seems as far as most state and fed laws care.
the trickle down system does not work? then do not depend on it. i do not know about other states but in my state you can work the government system and get lots of food stamps and money. the more kids you have the more you get. they are bastard kids and your not married? even better. if you do not make more money than the limit you and your kids can both get on a state funded health syatem that asks no questions and has no limit on what they will pay. your better off not working at all than working at walmart. the problem is society as a whole my friend. unless its a law it aint going to get done. no one does what is right, poor or rich.
my girlfriends mama works at walmart and has for 13 years. yes it is a crappy job with little pay or health coverage but she does not complain. it gets her and her sick husband by while they wait for his ss to kick in. there is nothing else she can do that is as easy as stocking and price checking. she is grateful walmart gives her any health coverage because she used to work for a little mom and pop store for 5 dollars an hour and nothing else. there is no right and wrong anymore. there is only the law. if walmart can use loop holes to get around a law, more power to them. instead of crying about how wrong it is get a second job or a new job and then save, save, save, so that you can escape. marry a rich man and woman. whore yourself out. do whatever you must or lay there and take it. if you wait for others to help you your weak. as i said few, rich or poor, in todays society do what is right.
watch south park. you can not stop walmart even if you want to.
Rick…
It’s a losing battle… lucas is just an **hole.
Up here in the hinterlands, I’d like to quit shopping in Mall-wart, the place for cheap plastic crap, but I can’t… all the small, local, and independent stores I used to use have been put out of business.
I’m glad I won’t see this country destroyed by stores like Walmart, presidents like Bush, and jerks like lucas.
It’s true, I’ve visited “hinterlands” a few times myself. There used to be businesses that were owned and operated locally that are now just gone. Walmart is the center of all consumerism for the folks in areas like these and that really sucks because the corporation (a legal entity with no soul) absolutely MUST take whatever measures it can to grow. If growth means screwing people in little or big ways, then that’s what will happen because the corporation is obliged to satisfy a board of directors and shareholders who are in it solely for profit… even if some people are getting screwed in the deal.
that’s my boy!
Hello,
Chick from the “Skull and Crossed Bones” on T-shirts at Wal-mart discussion.
In it I made a reference to Circuit City. I will not ever shop there again because they are doing basically the same as Wal-mart.
They are laying off employees just to say that they can come back to work for a lower pay. Oh, the catch is that they have to wait months before they can re-apply for the same job, if that job is still there at the end of the time.
It is hard enough to get a job in this country (even with a college degree…or should I say especially with one) without getting fired for doing your job the way they want you to.
It seems that the less educated that one is the more chance one has of getting a job. Of course those of us who went through college can’t get a job to save our lives because we are either ‘over’ qualified or not experienced enough for the industry. (Again, what the heck does a graphic artist know?) People who quit High School can get jobs pretty much anywhere (Ok you do have to have at least a GED to get a decent one.) Heck some rock stars are highschool drop outs. What does that tell one about our educational system or lack there of?
The point is, get rid of the people that are NOT doing their jobs and put that money into programs that will prove to the ones that are doing their jobs they are heard and appreciated for doing the best possible jobs they can.
The employees are the company and with out them the company would not survive. The CEO and board of directors could not ‘possibly’ get off their collective butts and actually work, now could they? *gasp* Such an anti-big (glutonous, ham handed, underhanded, you get the idea.) business attitude that I have!
“Nobody’s perfect and I’m nobody.”
Pinque
pinque, at first I felt bad for the Circuit City employees, but then I remembered something.
I hate the people that work at Circuit City.
I have never spent so much money at a store and been treated so badly by employees then I have at Circuit City. I will actually pay more for a product somewhere else. The only time I will buy something at Circuit City is because I simply cannot get it anywhere else.
We are getting a Best Buy down the street from Circuit City. Once it opens, I plan on never setting foot in Circuit City. I’m sure Best Buy employees can be dicks too, they just have a lot of catching up to equal their Circuit City counterparts.
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