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[_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)03:32 No.2224914
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>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)03:52 No.2224928
this is a pretty dumb argument to make. walmart could afford to raise wages without effecting
product cost if they wanted to. the reason they are successful is because they are large enough
to pursue unprofitable ventures for the sole reason of eliminating competition. this coupled with
the lack of wage pressure from employees determines wage rates. this is just straw-man journalism
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)03:56 No.2224931
Its just the people that shop at wall mart.
Seriously. If you actually talk to the people that shop there vs somewhere else (for me
Safeway/king supers for groceries) you will notice a huge difference in the intelligence levels
and general quality of a person they are.
I take my snake shopping with me some times. Its only when I go to wall-mart that people freak
out and move 2 isles over. Everywhere else there is a genuine interest.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)04:29 No.2224964
God damn people are stupid
Literally every person that was filmed is a brain dead sheep that is completely unaware of the
world around them.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)04:37 No.2224968
>>2224964
no just everyone that made it past the cutting room floor.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)04:40 No.2224970
Corporations are evil creatures.
Another fun fact about Wallyworld, though- if a Store Manager schedules less work hours (that's
less people in the building and more work for the folks that are scheduled at any given time),
the Store Manager receives a bonus pay based on the amount of money saved by minimal scheduled
work hours, provided he/she keeps the store in working order.
They've also managed to make Holiday pay count towards the amount of scheduled hours in a week
(Incentive to schedule less people and therefore pay less money) as well as take away new
associates' overnight pay and Sunday premiums.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)04:49 No.2224971
>>2224970
>Cutting costs and being more efficient is bad.
I don't understand what you are trying to say.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)05:07 No.2224974
>>2224971
Because the people don't get a bonus for having more labour. They just have way more fucking work
and the manager has to do, usually, almost zero extra work.
If you can't see that, maybe you should read up more before being a smartass about it.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)05:16 No.2224978
Walmart employees are paid so little that they have to go on food stamps, and the corporation
even works to assist them get on food stamps.
How the FUCK isn't that welfare for corporations? They're unwilling to pay their employees so the
rest of us taxpayers are left to pick up the bill?
Fuck walmart. If they can't survive with a living wage for their employees, all the fucking
better.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)05:18 No.2224980
lol that jew goblin at the end hahahaa
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)05:47 No.2224988
>>2224978
walmart does not automatically owe an employee a living wage. they owe a minimum wage for each
increment of time worked. the minimum wage is easy for a responsible, single person to live on
provided they work enough hours. if walmart does not provide enough hours, it is the employees
responsibility to find working hours with a second job.
the people on food stamps are trying to feed families or are just irresponsible/unethical. it is
not walmarts responsibility to pay for a laborer and their spouse and kid.
modern company structure is breaking away from the "youre here forever" format. just because
someone is associated with a company does not mean that the company should cater to all of their
lifestyle choices.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:00 No.2224993
>>2224988
Or get a skill that gets a hiring pay
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:03 No.2224995
That cunt with the box is like a telemarketer
Get off as many words as possible before the guy can open his mouth
>>2224988
dis nigger gets it, I'd kill for a wallmart job simply to get a reference/experience to put on
paper regardless of the shit pay
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:11 No.2224997
>>2224931
Why the hell do you take your snake shopping with you?
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:12 No.2224998
>>2224964
>literally
Learn what that word means, you illiterate cunt.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:17 No.2225003
/f/ - politics
anyways, people shouldn't be expecting to be live and support a family off of being a cashier or
some shit. they shouldn't be so angry at walmart for this sort of shit but angry at themselves
for not working towards a more proper job (or being entrepreneurial and doing shit that way) or
at whoever they deem responsible for shit economy and lack of magical free non-skilled jobs that
can never be outsourced and pay big bucks.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:23 No.2225007
>>2224998
I;m not that guy, but
"Literally"
informal
Used for emphasis while not being literally true.
"I have received literally thousands of letters""
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:26 No.2225011
I feel sorry for the old guy at the end
he was actually trying to help them out
:(
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:28 No.2225012
Globalisation is a race to the bottom as far as wages are concerned. There are two ways to raise
wages for everyone. The first is to lower the cost of hiring workers by removing regulations
which is what Peter Schiff (the guy in the video) wants. The other is a healthy dose of
nationalism where people are collectively willing to pay higher costs in return for no
outsourcing and higher wages. Nationalism is a dirty word nowadays, so I don't expect people to
pay more for goods because they don't give a shit about their fellow man as long as they get
theirs. Neither do I expect companies to not outsource labor to sketchy third world countries so
they can get a edge on the competition.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:29 No.2225013
>>2225003
/f/ is tripping on dat freakonomics and pretending it's gospel. Every economist's dream is to
remove ethics from business decisions. Too bad no sane human being would ever do that with a new
business. Only board members run businesses like that because of group think and their absence
from the ground floor of the business. They just happily look at the numbers and create policies.
Small business owners have to interact with their employees they are paying.
Everyone in this thread sounds like a 15 year old that just read freakonomics for the first time.
Reminds me of myself before I graduated college and got a job at a place where my boss wasn't
running his business with a complete lack of ethics in the name of higher overheads. Other people
matter regardless of their race, social, or economic status. It's a little thing called empathy
and you start to learn about it as you stop thinking like a teenager.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:29 No.2225014
If you do a task that toddler could do and expect to get paid enough to support an entire fucking
family, a house payment, and car payment, ALL OF WHICH YOU COULDN'T AFFORD IN THE FUCKING FIRST
PLACE, you're a fucking retard.
Don't like the job you have? GO FIND A FUCKING NEW ONE YOU LAZY TWATS, ROFL.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:35 No.2225016
The minimum wage stagnated in the sixties.
Lower income earners have been making the same amount of money for over 5 decades.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:38 No.2225019
>>2225016
The Walton family members and the other board members of Walmart and Sam's club get 50% of the
profits on everything sold in a Walmart. Obviously the only way to increase wage is to lower
production cost or raise prices. Not distribute the profits better. THAT WOULD BE AGAINST
EVERYTHING MURICA STANDS FOR.
>> [_] Disgruntled Employee 12/17/13(Tue)06:44 No.2225021
>>2225014
I'm working at Walmart now because nowhere else is hiring. Walmart moved in and shut all the
businesses in the area down except the ones who don't directly compete with them. I'm fresh out
of college and yet, nowhere is willing to hire because there aren't enough jobs or the economy is
shit, they all say. "Just move!" you say, with what money? I hardly have enough to pay the bills
and I'm splitting rent and utilities with 2 other roommates all working their own jobs. Hell, I
just scraped up enough money to afford my own car after living off of cheap foods and ramen
noodles for a few months. "Work a second job!" I've seen it said. You understand walmart
schedules each person completely random hours, ever-changing throughout the week, right? Once I
had a 2pm - 11pm shift followed directly by a 5am - 1pm shift, try explaining to your second job
that you can't work a regular schedule because your first has a hardon for making things
difficult.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:47 No.2225023
>>2225007
[citation needed]
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:52 No.2225027
>>2225021
You sound like you work in a college town.
Go get a job at a delivery place. I deliver for dominos and it's an easy $16-$20 an hour and
super duper relaxing. The hours kind of suck though.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:52 No.2225028
>>2225021
What did you major in?
I agree, by the way. Walmart is the death of small businesses.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:56 No.2225029
>>2225021
>Walmart moved in and shut all the businesses in the area down except the ones who don't directly
compete with them.
Maybe those businesses should have been owned by pussies
>> [_] Disgruntled Employee 12/17/13(Tue)06:57 No.2225030
>>2225028
I got an associates of science trying to work towards a degree in programming. It's paltry I
know, but it's still a degree. I ran out of money and had to go find a job, which is why Walmart
even happened. Of course it doesn't help that I live in the belly of the beast: Arkansas, and
we're not exactly known for our vast technological job field. I intend to move when I have the
chance but, that takes a bit of money/connections too, which is hard to save up on 7.75 an hour
and working 32 hours a week at best, even when asking for more hours.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)06:59 No.2225033
food is fucking expensive, +15% would be a total ripoff.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)07:03 No.2225034
>>2225030
work
somewhere
else
or better yet: stop voting democrat
>> [_] Disgruntled Employee 12/17/13(Tue)07:07 No.2225037
>>2225034
You didn't read the other post, did you? Not only would I Love to work somewhere else, but I
apply to jobs as often as I can. Not every city in america has tons of free jobs laying around. I
got the short end of the stick and got born to a broke-ass family in a broke-ass neck of
broke-ass arkansas. I'm scraping every cent I can and cutting the corners I can to escape this
shithole but not everyone has rich lawyer parents to bail them out, y'know.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)07:12 No.2225041
>>2225023
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729570
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)07:21 No.2225045
>>2225041
>there will be people that are mad about this
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)07:27 No.2225051
>>2224964
Welcome to Murrika
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)07:37 No.2225062
>demanding to be paid the same as many people with Associates degrees and actual careers for
working at Walmart
America, folks.
>> [_] Anonymous 12/17/13(Tue)07:45 No.2225064
>>2224928
Your English language skills show your ruse for what it really is.
