>>>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?
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>>So if don't have the skills to do "whatever", but yet you still want to do it....uh.. what?
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>Eh? All I want is for people to be treated fairly. Is that really so much to ask?

Who doesn't? But that such a board statement.
As long as they get paid what they signed up for (at leasts minimum wage is the law) and they're not prevented from bettering themselves, then I think they are being treated fairly.

I read somewhere that Walmart is actually campaigning for increasing minimum wage, from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour.... which I have no argument against.


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>>>>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.
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>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.


They're treated like "chattel"?
You mean they're being force to work at Walmart and beaten if they try to leave?


>>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.
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>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.

They're treated like slaves?... really? this sound like a recording

Please, don't cheapen the meaning of the word "slave". You're disrespecting the people who chose to work there and I think more important you disrespect those that actually were/are slaves.