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I've worked at a Wal-Mart for over a year before, they constantly lay off people, constantly cut hours, while I was there restructured benefits to where health care you have to pay over a couple of hundred dollars a month, have terrible turn over because they push people too hard while paying too little and therefore hire undesirables and many illegals and barely if able to speak English, though they stay more on cleaning floors.
They used to, and I'm guessing some still do, make you clock out for your ten minute breaks (no wonder they are a 1/4 trillion dollar a year company), are leaders in consumer manipulation.
Their customer service is often rediculous because no one knows anything or cares, about half the employees at any given time are new or seasonal temps. They'll hire cheap through kids and the elderly and quantity over quality, like their products which are total shit anymore that aren't worth their cheapened prices which are still multiple times mark ups for them.
They abhor unions and have meetings to warn you of people trying to start one and threaten firing if you join, telling you they are bad for you and the company, most of which don't even realize what unions are. Thats actually a point where I've seen them act really odd.
But of course there are good people in the stores too.
Ya, but their current style of business equals ruin for American Jobs and quality of life unless somehow all the American factory workers getting displaced for overseas slave labor get equal pay elsewhere which is a joke, sure some can, but when you lose thousands of jobs over night because American factories shut down, there aren't lines of people coming to hire them, no, there are lines of people already at the unemployment office waiting to greet them.
And the equal pay elsewhere is what people don't get, factory workers aren't usually skilled in high paying trades, or very educated for that matter, many of which aren't very young anymore either. They will get shit jobs for often half the pay if their lucky enough for that, now suddenly they can't pay their bills anymore.
When you hear of job creation in the wake of massive layoffs, its a guarantee that those jobs suck, and are probably being filled by slave waged illegals, seasonal and temps.
Job security does not exist anymore, people seem to fail to understand the significance of that, let alone workers rights.
"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"
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