Walmart Asks Employees to Donate to Employees

Whew. I was sfraid nobody would play the advocate. Thanks!

Sure, there are worse things a corporation can do, and they have done them. What would be a better thing to do, considering the profit making compared to the low wage, part time hiring? Lead the way. Yes, that is voluntary, too.

This, to me, is nothing more than a slap in the face and not a nice gesture.

jesstheshow said:

i dont like Walmart anyway. My husband worked there before he went into the army and they are tyrants with their employees. i usually shop at a local level, smaller stores. if i dont like em, i avoid em

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We try to do that, too. Problem is that Walmart owns so much of the market in Alabama. We are learning to shop on the internet more, use locally produced veggies, etc.

wesley762 said:

I don't know why everyone gets all butt hurt about a company making a profit. Big or Small, they are in business to make money. Thats what Makes America, the ablity to go out there and WIN. Nothing wrong with what they are doing at all. People are not forced to work there at gun point.

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Wes, what say we don't try and turn this into a capitalist v communist thing. That is not at all the point. This thread is not suggesting corporations not make a profit, and it is not suggesting people are being enslaved, is it? Then again, are they? Guess not. Guess they could go into bank robbing, right?

No, Wes, I am for profit, don't get me wrong. I think maybe you are missing the point. Not only do they feel the need to muzzle the oxen, but they also take pleasure in rubbing their noses in it.

The multi-billion dollar in profit last year corporation, an huge profit made by selling cheap garbage and employing people in a manner that prevents them from making a full week of work much less any hope of overtime, so generously suggests that employees give to one another. Wow, at the generosity! Matter of fact, that should sound familiar - people being generous with other people's money?

PaulS said:

It might have been better to do a match - for every $ in food that each employee gave the company would match it.
That would improve employee relations and be good PR for the company.

If the employees wanted better hours, more pay and better benefits maybe they should form or join a union..... That is what employees did during the industrial revolution to make working conditions better.

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There. That sounds good. Much better than organizing a food drive for the poor to the poor while sitting on huge profits.

By the way, I am sure some of you believe I am some sort of anti-capitalist hippie, but that is very far from the truth. I am very much anti-corporatalist, though. This nation has been made a nation of worker bees for the global corporations. Notice, Labor Day and no Free Enterprise Day. It isn't as easy to start a business, today, because the corporations who bought control of the government have insured the regs protect them and hinder you. Lovely, huh? Meanwhile, we are to blindly chant mantras that are sprinkled with the truth in order to hide the ugly lies.

You know, this thread has turned into nothing more than Republican/Democrat style talking points. Not exactly what was intended, but it seems everyone is having a grand time.

I guess I should have expected this.

Enjoy! :lol: