What do you think of Wal-Mart "unfair business practices" towards their low-paid employees ?  Fair  or UNFAIR?
150279
Hey, if it was SOOO terrible, people wouldn't shop there.  So... good for them, it's Capitalism.\n\nActually though, I'm from Michigan and I know that health benefits can ruin a company.  GM and, more recently Fords, has been SUFFERING and forced to fire people.
773551
I've seen it and it is pretty disturbing.  Most of the stuff in Wal-Mart is cheap Chinese garbage, so I won't shop there any more just for that reason.  The last time I bought a coffeemaker which promptly fell apart and I decided my time was worth more than the hours spent taking the crap back and standing in the returns line forever.\n\nThere is a new Wal-Mart that opened up about 8 miles from me and I am considering making up a whole lot of small signs that say "Made in China by Forced Slave Labor" and putting these things all over the store.  \n\nI hate that place with a passion.
871531
They also keep wages low. I don't think that's a fair trade. The economy wouldn't crash though. That's a myth perpetuated by corporations that make obscene profits and would like to keep it that way. They are not stupid enough to raise prices to the point where most people couldn't buy their products.
599075
I think it is because customer service oriented jobs are being performed by the couch potato generation.  They think they are doing us a favor by being there.  Labor laws protect the employee but not the employer.  It is hard to weed out the individuals that are lazy.  It's not like the days when somebody could be fired on the spot.  Now there is so much red tape to terminate somebody.  I feel your pain though.  I have a hard time having to bag my own groceries after putting in a ten hour day!  I voice my opinion by making a copy of my receipt and mailing it to the business owner or manager with my complaint.  This way; they know exactly who the individual was, what time and date the incident occurred, and what my issues were.  Most of the time I get a letter explaining that the problem is being addressed.  Sometimes, the individual puts two and two together and is much more pleasant to me the next time I pay the place of business a visit.
484175
I think logic would tell that what they just did was wrong, unethical and more than likely ILLEGAL.\nYou can't promise a person this wage, and then change it. That'd be like me hiring you, promising you 10 bucks an hour and then you find out that you are only making 8.50..\n\nThey can't rip you off like that. It's an injustice! Fight the power!\n\nSeriously. Go get your money that you worked hard for, and deserve.
609173
Bottom line MONEY.  The UFCW will tell you time and time again it's for the benefit of the Walmart employees, but that's a blatant lie.  It's for the benefit of the UFCW management.\n\nIf WalMart Employees wanted a union, they could form a powerful union on their own.  The major problem with this issue, if you increase costs to Walmart, you increase prices of products, you reduce your market share, and then the jobs start going away.  That's probably the reality the Walmart Employees understand.
844747
I am the boss.  I did get a tie one year from some of the women that had worked for me, I have not seen anything since then.  Most of my employees whine and cry and complain about the workplace.  Even when I had bought them doughnuts they complained about what kind I got.  I made them ham and bean soup and they complained about the type of soup.  Some people can be so ungratful.
139765
I’m sure it does affect their sales somewhat. All retail outlets censer what they allow in their stores by choosing which products to put on their shelves and which to not whether for moral or economic reasons. They also do not sell porn videos at Wal-Mart, so you could say that they (and other retailers), some by law and some by choice, have been censoring content in their stores for moral reasons.  Is it worse or better for society to have access to these items...it doesn't matter, this is a retail store and they choose what is sold there based on their beliefs and culture of the corp. involved that best suits their business needs.
25601
I personally respect Lowe's more; Wal-Mart is the largest company in the world and so could have a less than personal attitude towards their employees.
744290
No...but most are getting that way. I hate to say it, but the bosses that are jerks had to become that way due to the employees before you. 30+ years ago the workforce was interested and placed the family as number 1 priority, today they don't care so much about the family as long as you showed up for work when your scheduled and be on time on top of it!!! However...employees abused that to the degree that different corporations were losing money as well as putting a strain on the employee due to people calling in. I know it's unfair to treat great employees the same as the other employees who are not as good, but if you give to one you got to give to all. I work for the state in the nursing field, and where I work the facility use to pay for employees to go school to get their LPN/RN or even a phyc degree as long as they stayed at the facility for 5 years. They stopped paying for schooling about 8 years ago when a employee went to school to get his RN degree...after he got it he quit and went to another facility...to make it short...he got a free degree and the state ended up paying it all!!! So they stopped paying for continuing in schooling. Life in getting that way in general...we are paying for the other persons mistake! We don't want to get involued....we know of people doing things wrong all the time, but we don't want to say anything (including myself). I know people driving around without licenses/insurance, shoplifts and I know people abusing free services as well...the bottom line why my car insurance is high, is because I'm paying for the ones that don't have. If I'm going to Walmart to buy something...I'm paying for the ones that steals, cause if nobody steals the price would be lower then what it is now. So the bottom line is that bosses will almost have to be jerks...not because of you personally, but because of the ones before you.
864635
They say they are family oriented but when it comes to parents working there and need time off due to sick child or your own health they seem to down it and lay you off instead that is my own feelings..i enjoy shopping at walmart but they all need to have the same pricing..i find that one walmart is cheaper on prices then another..i guess the ones that complain are the ones that most likely have worked for them in the past or the present
558659
No because it is hurting someone. It is hurting the store especially if it is done on a repeated basis. And that in turn hurts the customers who have to pay more in that store.
609216
From my personal experience of working there ,for 2 1/2 years from Jan. 1996- July 1998 and for 9 months from Sept 2004 to June 2005, I can tell you that they are very inconsiderate of their employees, they have horrible benefits, and the pay is terrible. To be honest, I have found from working there for so long ,and "being on the inside" and knowing how the compnay really is, I have learned that they don't care about anything other than their precious money. I worked there while Sam Walton was still alive and the company didn't quite seem like they just cared about the money. It seemed more like they cared about the people working there, but now that Sam Walton is no longer here the company has gotten big headed and greedy. It seems like they'll do everything they possibly can to make a $1. All I can say is that if Sam Walton knew what his company has become he'd roll over in his grave and that's the honest truth.
608555
walmart uses slave labour, but do u seriously think that abercrombie and fitch doesnt?
846414
Wal Mart gave a one time donation to a gay organization concerned with equity in the workplace.  They had given similar donations to dozens of other organizations at the same time to dampen some of the furor over WalMart's employment practices in general.  Bowing to pressure from a conservative group, Wal Mart severed ties with the gay group.  \n\nYou EMail was of course a gross exagerration (like most emails advocatting boycotts, little truth to them).\n\nNo percent of profits were going to any groups, gay or straight.  These were one time gifts.  And the organizations involved who did receive the gift were only involved with workplace issues, and NOT the gay "movement" per se.\n\nChristian right wing groups will make little effort to stop Emails from being circulated, no will those who send them.  They stand to gain if the "untruth" still circulates, keeping their base agitated is the name of the game, not the truth.
173665
I heard something regarding Family Dollar and unfair labor practice if that's what you are referring to.\nhttp://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff41294.htm
26525
From the same article linked to by JayNick, \n\nWal-Mart's average wage is around $10 an hour.\n\nAs Tom Geoghegan, a labor lawyer in Washington (and author of Which Side Are You On?: Trying To Be For Labor When It's Flat On Its Back) points out, the relevant number isn't the average, which would be skewed upward by the large salaries of relatively few highly-paid company executives—Scott, for example, receives, by one reckoning, 897 times the pay of the average Wal-Mart worker—but the median. In the Dec. 16 New York Review of Books, Simon Head, director of the Project on Technology and the Workplace at the Century Foundation, stated, "the average pay of a sales clerk [italics mine] at Wal-Mart was $8.50 an hour, or about $14,000 a year, $1,000 below the government's definition of the poverty level for a family of three." That the current minimum wage of $5.15 per hour leaves families even farther below the poverty line is a depressing topic for another day.