>>>>>Satisfy the shareholders and keep cost down.... what do you expect?
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>>>>I expect nothing else. I'm not sure how this translates to win-win (unless you exclude everybody but owners and shareholders).
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>>>>>Now, I wouldn't want Walmart springing up everywhere, but they do provide descent products at a cheap price and provide jobs to those that want to work. I think the critics of Walmart and other mega-super stores are way too... what's the word? .... way too "critical". Sure the service can be down right sucky at times and the their merchandise aren't always top-notch, but, hey, it's Walmart.
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>>>>Would you want to work for Walmart, and be treated the way they treat their staff?
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>>>What do you do if you don't like working for your employer? ..... LEAVE!
>>>Heck, if you don't like being a cashier or a stock-boy (or even a store's general manager), learn some other skill and move on.
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>>It's always so easy for someone who doesn't have to work there. We have people here in Canada, and I assume you do in the U.S. too, who are qualified engineers, doctors, etc, and who end up driving cabs, flipping burgers, or clerking for Walmart because things are not on a level playing field.
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>>>I think the better question is if you don't like what you do for a living, how/why did you end up do it?
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>>In many cases, I just told you how. Let us also not forget those many people who simply do not have the talent/ability to be a programmer, or an accountant. I know it's hard to believe in view of your constitution, but in fact, it's not true that everyone is created equal. In order for the average IQ level in a country to be where it is, many people must fall below that level. Should they then be treated as something less than you and I simply because they can't learn to do the sorts of jobs you and I can learn to do?
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>>This reminds me very much of a statement our late transportation minister made here in Ontario, about 12 years ago when he cut back drastically on highway patrols. "If you get into trouble, just use your cell phone to call for help." This was at a time when cell phones were not a dime a dozen and far fewer people owned them. The point he missed was that just because he could afford a cell phone, he expected everyone else had one too, and just because you can learn to do many jobs, you expect that everybody else can too. That assumption is incorrect.
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>So I guess you better put yourself in a position where you can afford a cell phone, or do you think cell phones should be a standard issued by the government all its people?

>So if don't have the skills to do "whatever", but yet you still want to do it....uh.. what?

Eh? All I want is for people to be treated fairly. Is that really so much to ask?

>>>The point is I don't work at Walmart store and I don't have to if I don't want to, in fact nobody has to. Tho, I guess working at their corporate office as an IT "specialist" is not much different from working for any other corporate office USA.
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>>You're probably right. So?
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>WalMart is no more crummier or better than others.
>Like I said if you don't like working at WalMart store, aquire another skill and move on.

And if you are one of those below that average line where acquiring a new set of skill is not so easy as it is for you? Oh, I get it, suck it up and if you're treated like chattel, just go with the flow.

>>>Alan, if you can build a company that hires tens of thousands of people and can pay each employee minimum of $20.00 per hour plus all the usual benefits, do it. You'll be my hero.
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>>I work for a company that has tens of thousands of people around the world, and they are all paid a proper wage, and they are all treated reasonably, nor are we unionised. Yes it can be done. The better companies do it. Walmart has enough profits that they could easily do it. They choose otherwise out of greed.
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>I think I know where you and I differ. You feel that having your "dream" job and having perks is a God given right. But I don't.
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>No one promises you a job you were trained in to do.

Absolutely nothing like what I said. I'll say this as simply as I can. There are people in this world who are not as capable as you are. They aren't blessed with the same mental acuity that you are. They end up working at Walmart because that's what they are capable of doing. You feel that it's therefore ok for Walmart to treat them like slaves, and I don't.

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>I was laid off several years ago and had to work as a computer operator for about a year before I got back into doing what I like.
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>This isn't a perfect world and it never will be..... but you already knew that.

Of course not. But that doesn't mean that the status quo should simply be considered acceptable.