Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Sign That You Are Treating Your Workers Like Shit


This is from a Walmart in Ohio, where they are running a canned food drive for their own employees.

If this is needed, you are probably not paying them enough.

Related: Walmart is America's largest employer by a lot.

8 comments:

  1. I kind of wonder if this drive was set up or approved by management, or if it was mostly by the employees who need the drive in the first place.

    Either way, I get the sinking feeling that whoever is responsible for this act of basic human kindness needs a new job about now.

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  2. Ugh, I know man. That was actually my first thought as well...

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  3. So it is in Canton, Ohio, which isn't that far from Akron for those playing at home. They have done this for a few years, and everyone says it was started by associates for associated, but management approved at some point. Walmart's PR people are spinning it as some people are in need for reasons other than low pay and it shows how much the workers care about one another. The article I posted included soundbites from people who contributed to it and those who received it. Mostly, nice we can do this, but shame if you need it, and pay is too low.

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  4. Used to work at Wal~Mart actually, and this kind of thing makes sense in a sad kind of way. There are two classes of workers just within the store: one group has benefits, stock options, vacations, the works. These are the full-time employees, of whom there are maybe 30, and they are the managers of each department, with one or two guys who have special certificates to operate heavy equipment. Now here's the twisted shitty part: there are another 150-200 people who work at the store. They're all "part-time", which means like 37.5 hours a week. That's right - you leave half an hour early. Wal~Mart staffs the store with people on this schedule, pays them as little as possible with none of the above-mentioned benefits, and dumps them before the 2-year mark when those benefits would kick in. It's a real Victorian-era labor system they've got there, and I could go on a lot longer about it, except science is calling.

    tl;dr Wal~Mart is a bag of dicks

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  5. That's really interesting Nick I had no idea.

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  7. I'm pretty sure the same thing was going on at the supermarket deli where I used to work. Except I don't think they actually had enough of the "part time" employees to pull it off without going over hours. The result being I'm pretty sure they had some 40 hour/week "part time" workers.
    Don't think they routinely dumped people for having stayed too long, though. Pretty sure they were focused on getting more staff, so they could more effectively not give anyone enough hours.

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  8. Great reading your posst

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