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Wal-Mart Asks Workers To Donate Food To Its Needy Employees

Superfly said:
I'm still trying to figure out why this is a big deal. So what if they are asking their employees to donate a can of food or two. Not everybody who works at Walmart is destitute.

Walmart workers cover a huge swath of different types of people, so it's entirely possible that the people who are not fixed-income elderly, or single mothers with 4 kids, would be willing to donate a little food to help those who need it.

I swear - what is $5 or $10 in canned goods to help someone who is hungry?? Or even just a can of peas, or a box of instant potatoes? What is that, a dollar?
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Most Walmart Workers Didn't Earn $25,000.00 Last Year
 
Gipper said:
Yeah, I'm going to start boycotting every corporation. That's sensible.

Obviously I'm the same. Good call there.
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None of that is required to paint yourself a laughable caricature. You're doing fine right from where you're at.
 
Summerwind said:
None of that is required to paint yourself a laughable caricature. You're doing fine right from where you're at.
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This will be good. Defend your claim. I want details.

I need to know that senility hasn't taken effect.
 
Bob N said:
Well it appears that a Cleveland, Ohio Walmart is holding a food drive so that it's employees can have a nice Holiday meal. The sign in the store, accompanied by several plastic bins, reads: "Please donate food items so associates in need can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner."

Really? Thank goodness those people are employed so those associates don't have to get on food stamps. :roll:

What cracks me up with some people that see nothing wrong with what Walmart is doing would probably go berserk if you wished them "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." :roll:
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Walmart hires people nobody else will. Is it really so horrible to allow a mother out of the house a few hours a day while the kids are in school even if that mother is on welfare? Geez. You people act like every employee of Walmart is a full-time 40 year old college graduate who lost his factory job because of Walmart and has a mortgage and kids to put through college so he has to work at Walmart and give up the house and prostitute his daughter to survive.
 
Gipper said:
This will be good. Defend your claim. I want details.

I need to know that senility hasn't taken effect.
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I'd rather just keep laughing at your caricature. If I give you details you might stop being a laughable caricature and then where would I get my humor? Bless your heart.
 
Superfly said:
I'm still trying to figure out why this is a big deal. So what if they are asking their employees to donate a can of food or two. Not everybody who works at Walmart is destitute.

Walmart workers cover a huge swath of different types of people, so it's entirely possible that the people who are not fixed-income elderly, or single mothers with 4 kids, would be willing to donate a little food to help those who need it.

I swear - what is $5 or $10 in canned goods to help someone who is hungry?? Or even just a can of peas, or a box of instant potatoes? What is that, a dollar?
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I agree, and good post superfly.
 
Kreton said:
Anyone who walks into a Wal-Mart, knowing what they are, is so self centered and greedy I doubt they are even remotely willing to help someone else unless there is a tax break in it for them.
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Yeah we are sure you never eat fast food, use the local car wash, get pizza delivered or a paper, get your oil changed at a Quick lube, buy anything at a convenience store or coffee shop. Nice selective memory.
 
Summerwind said:
I'd rather just keep laughing at your caricature. If I give you details you might stop being a laughable caricature and then where would I get my humor? Bless your heart.
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And thank you for proving my point.
 
American said:
And the localities appear to be freely offering them, so the local citizenry needs to reign them in right?
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Yes. Sooner or later Walmart will have to show people that they're ready to not only be financial leaders, but leaders in doing what is right as citizens of a community and quit acting like they're standing in a soup line while the chauffeur waits at the limousine.

And I most certainly believe that this is going to happen in the near future after this report starts circulating in the media.

By cracky I can't control how much they pay their workers but you watch me contact my local and state representatives and give them my :twocents: ;)
 
j-mac said:
What a bull **** hit piece article, but then again consider the source, HuffPost.
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There are links for you to click on at the site. :shrug:
 
Gipper said:
And thank you for proving my point.
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Just as a side note, I can't read your posts without them being in Sheldon's voice in my head, which is awesome. It's my favorite show.
 
ernst barkmann said:
no such thing as wage slavery.

wages are earned on a voluntary basis..no force is applied to people to take a set wage.

slavery is not voluntary.
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Correct. Welfare is slavery. Choosing to work instead is a sign of personal responsibility. Don't repeat that too loudly, the nanny staters need a victim pool, even if those they choose don't consider themselves victims. But there is voluntary slavery, it is called debt.
 
Bob N said:
There are links for you to click on at the site. :shrug:
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If you don't like WalMart don't shop there. Simple as that. But, for God's sake realize that it isn't up to you to determine what they pay their employees, or what their employees accept to work there, or what they do for charity, or anything else....
 
Superfly said:
So?? They can't afford a dollar??
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Making $25,000.00 a year, Ma'am? And with the prices of goods and services? Apparently not if you have kids of your own.
 
Bob N said:
Making $25,000.00 a year, Ma'am? And with the prices of goods and services? Apparently not if you have kids of your own.
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Then don't have kids if you can't afford them. That's a sign of immense irresponsibility at the least - mental defect at the worst.
 
j-mac said:
If you don't like WalMart don't shop there. Simple as that. But, for God's sake realize that it isn't up to you to determine what they pay their employees, or what their employees accept to work there, or what they do for charity, or anything else....
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True. But the subsidies they get becomes my business. And I will complain to local and stae representatives. Be rest assured. ;)
 
Superfly said:
I'm still trying to figure out why this is a big deal. So what if they are asking their employees to donate a can of food or two. Not everybody who works at Walmart is destitute.

Walmart workers cover a huge swath of different types of people, so it's entirely possible that the people who are not fixed-income elderly, or single mothers with 4 kids, would be willing to donate a little food to help those who need it.

I swear - what is $5 or $10 in canned goods to help someone who is hungry?? Or even just a can of peas, or a box of instant potatoes? What is that, a dollar?
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I think you might have missed the point of the article. The food donations are for WalMart employees who don't have enough $$ to get themselves a nice Thanksgiving dinner. It's not for the random poor. They are soliciting for donations for their own employees. Why don't they just give a $100 bonus to every employee in the store? that would give those employees a more than nice meal.
 
Gipper said:
Then don't have kids if you can't afford them. That's a sign of immense irresponsibility at the least - mental defect at the worst.
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Well the same can be said for a business that can afford to buy it's own land but wants local and state governments to do it for them--especially if that business can afford to purchase it's own land. :damn
 
Bob N said:
Well the same can be said for a business that can afford to buy it's own land but wants local and state governments to do it for them--especially if that business can afford to purchase it's own land. :damn
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If they don't purchase the land, then they can't bitch when all sorts of government regulations start messing with their business.
 
Bob N said:
Well the same can be said for a business that can afford to buy it's own land but wants local and state governments to do it for them--especially if that business can afford to purchase it's own land. :damn
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As well as pay it's own taxes. Many Walmart stores collect sales tax but then keep a portion of it as it demanded such to open the store. There are apparently many shuttered Walmarts because after the initial 5 year demand, cities refused to continue that aspect so Walmart just up and left. I'll look for a link.
 
Rocketman said:
Yeah we are sure you never eat fast food, use the local car wash, get pizza delivered or a paper, get your oil changed at a Quick lube, buy anything at a convenience store or coffee shop. Nice selective memory.
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Personally, when I eat fast food it's almost always at an In 'N Out Burger, which pays their employees better than other chains. Once in while I have to eat elsewhere, but we're talking once every year or two.

I don't use the local car wash

I don't have pizza delivery where I am (although I admit to picked up up pizza from a locally owned business... I also eat at other locally owned restaurants in town)

No paper delivery (although I do wish I could get it, but they don't deliver to the house where I am)

Never gone to a Quick Lube; I use a local mechanic who has a pretty good business going. I admit I did Big O tires for a few years, but stopped using them back in 2006.

Haven't gone to WalMart in YEARS; Target? Went once in the last 8 years. Don't go to Costco (although they pay decently from what I've heard) either.

Ok, I do buy some things from Kohl's. Hard to find locally-owned clothing stores. And yes, I go to BevMo and Best Buy now and again. Even hit Lowe's once every year or two. It's hard to avoid big stores altogether.

But WalMart? No - their policies have led to a climate of very low wages and very low payments to suppliers. Yes, that means their stuff is cheap; and I know a lot of people who are desperately scraping by need those low prices; but to me, WalMart has led the lowering of everyone's boats, not the raising of the boats.

And in this case - the store should just give bonuses for its workers, not ask other workers to cover the shortfall in their employees' pay.
 
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