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superplayer
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Ok I was reading the article posted as
http://margaretcho.net/blog/walmart.htm
Here are some things that are necessary to distinguish between her opinion and the situation here:
1.- She (Keri Smith, the writer) doesn't like that Walmart and "the jobs it creates are low-paying jobs, with few benefits. The average Walmart worker makes about $8.00 an hour and grosses less than $15,000 a year. How are you supposed to support yourself, much less a family, on that (or what's left of it after your taxes are taken out)?"
But what we need to know around here is that those low-paying jobs are just perfect for some average citizen of Calexico, Heber, Holtville... where the lack of other jobs makes a job in walmart highly desirable. This is not the LA urban ring of suburbs where you wont make a living with a job like that. Shit, people go to Walmart every day to fill applications and keep calling all the time to watch out for openings. Besides, Give me a list of local owned stores that pay $30,000 a year or more for being a cashier or a stocker...
2.- She complains that the company is ruining local shops and creating a monopoly of stores everywhere... Welcome to America my friends, and keep hating the far left communists. If you don't like it, leave it, this is the destiny of the poor working class like us in a capitalist world
3.- There are complaints that some managers in walmart stores accross the country have been corrupt and agressive and often been responsible of harrasment and other sorts of discrimination. Well this has to do (though I may be wrong) with particular managers only since the company is so large that something wrong had to happen somewhere sometime, because of probability of corruption that we are all tempted to ... and I don't think a few evil managers represent Walmart overall. I think of it like a christian church denomination that has just become too large, until there are sectors in the denomination that finally had gone in excess and anomalies, only a small congregation of a few people will have its harmony and all...
This is why I go to Walmart. I save money and dont give a shit about local shops, for I would know that they wouldn't give a shit about me if I beg them for a shitty part time job. They also give jobs that are not full time so they won't have to pay benefits. Anyone want to beg an Asian 99cent shop for a part time job??? They prefer people like recent immigrants since their lack of english skills will keep them submissive to them. Anyway, I know that not all the local shops are like that, though, I would still go shop at Walmart... |
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bemisnorris
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| Posted: 19 Oct 2004 04:15 PM Post subject: |
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| superplayer wrote: | 1.- She (Keri Smith, the writer) doesn't like that Walmart and "the jobs it creates are low-paying jobs, with few benefits. The average Walmart worker makes about $8.00 an hour and grosses less than $15,000 a year. How are you supposed to support yourself, much less a family, on that (or what's left of it after your taxes are taken out)?"
But what we need to know around here is that those low-paying jobs are just perfect for some average citizen of Calexico, Heber, Holtville... where the lack of other jobs makes a job in walmart highly desirable. This is not the LA urban ring of suburbs where you wont make a living with a job like that. Shit, people go to Walmart every day to fill applications and keep calling all the time to watch out for openings. Besides, Give me a list of local owned stores that pay $30,000 a year or more for being a cashier or a stocker... |
I'm not saying that people are better off with minimum wage jobs, but if you think a family in the Imperial Valley can live off an $8-an-hour job, then I want some of what you're smoking. |
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mof
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verbal
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| Posted: 20 Oct 2004 04:35 PM Post subject: |
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No matter what I buy at Wal-mart, I for the most part, drop a 40 spot each time go.
And for all you haters out there I got two words for you: You Communist. |
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superplayer
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| Posted: 22 Oct 2004 01:44 PM Post subject: |
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| bemisnorris wrote: | | I'm not saying that people are better off with minimum wage jobs, but if you think a family in the Imperial Valley can live off an $8-an-hour job, then I want some of what you're smoking. |
Not to really dispute this with you but sadly there are several families that live with minimum wage. Examples include: a single mother and her two babies, a family with seven children but both the husband and wife work the minimum wage, etc... I am not talking about people on welfare, ordinary people with no aid from the government live like that... If someone does not believe it then that person must have been lived with parents that make $80K per year... |
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elchrist
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| Posted: 22 Oct 2004 01:52 PM Post subject: |
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| superplayer wrote: | | bemisnorris wrote: | | I'm not saying that people are better off with minimum wage jobs, but if you think a family in the Imperial Valley can live off an $8-an-hour job, then I want some of what you're smoking. |
Not to really dispute this with you but sadly there are several families that live with minimum wage. Examples include: a single mother and her two babies, a family with seven children but both the husband and wife work the minimum wage, etc... I am not talking about people on welfare, ordinary people with no aid from the government live like that... If someone does not believe it then that person must have been lived with parents that make $80K per year... |
Certainly a family can live off minimum wage salaries, but it can get extremely difficult as that same family unit grows or encounters an emergency.
Minimum wage might provide you with adequate living accommodations, but when a child becomes ill or requires dental work for example, then those expenses are a big hit. So big, they tough it out sometimes in order to feed themselves or pay the rent.
So yes, minimum wage might be enough, but without medical coverage it's difficult. |
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superplayer
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| Posted: 22 Oct 2004 07:13 PM Post subject: |
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| no question ever about that |
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elchrist
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| Posted: 05 Nov 2004 09:55 AM Post subject: |
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| Doors to the Wal-Mart (located a half mile away from the pyramids) are now open to the public. |
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elchrist
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| Posted: 03 Mar 2005 11:56 AM Post subject: |
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I've crossed over to the dark side...
I can't wait to make 5% cash back on all my purchases at the Calexico Wal-Mart Supercenter.
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pato
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| Posted: 03 Mar 2005 01:51 PM Post subject: |
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| They'll also be building another wal-mart supercenter in Mexicali, by the Cety's University. I guess 1 wal-mart is never enough. |
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