Trump thinks wages are to high, get's caught and lashes out

[JimBowie1958]

Now you know how everyone feels about your posts.

Go back to your blow up doll, Clayton, and let the adults discuss this without your poopy britches stinking it all up, mk?.

 

[rdean]

"During an interview on CBS’ Face The Nation, Sen. Sanders said, “Meanwhile, interestingly enough, John, this is a guy who does not want to raise the minimum wage. In fact, he has said that he thinks wages in America are too high. But he does want to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to top three-tenths of one percent.”

Trump responded by throwing a fit on Twitter:"

So trump wants people to work for lower wages!! and the rubes in flyover country cheer from their trailer parks!!!
The cletus's turn to their wives and say: ye hear that sallie sue! tell ya boss at the waffle house we don't need you to be makin' those high dollar wages!! jesus will provide !!


"During the debate, Trump said, “But, taxes too high, wages too high, we’re not going to be able to compete against the world. I hate to say it, but we have to leave it the way it is. People have to go out, they have to work really hard and have to get into that upper stratum. But we can not do this if we are going to compete with the rest of the world. We just can’t do it.”

A Terrified Trump Throws A Twitter Tantrum After Bernie Sanders Truth Bombs His Lies

He doesn't understand that if the US wants to compete, it needs to get BETTER EDUCATED to get the high tech jobs, rather than aiming for low wage jobs which the Chinese can do for cheaper.

Better educated?

gop cuts education nationwide - Google Search

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Does the vast majority of minimum wage workers have a IQ of less than 80?

Wait, you dont think that morons are over-represented in the lowest paying low skill jobs? Seriously?

There are government programs to help those who truly need it, no one is starving.

No, the government programs run out of money each year and August to September a lot of people are turned away from free services at public hospitals for example if they dont have life threatening injuries, again because of the black market illegal labor claiming so much of the resources.

Yes, there are millions of kids that go to bed hungry in America every night despite having employed parents.

I used to be among them.

I call bullshit on the millions of kids that go to bed hungry every night in America. If you went to bed hungry then you had lousy ass parents.

If programs run out of money, which again I call bullshit on, it's because of those that abuse the system.

 

[peach174]

The bigger the government, the less for wages and benefits for the workers.

How does the government win with a smaller tax base?

Government should not win anything.
Our Government is suppose to stay out of our lives, not take most of our money and tell us what we can and can't do.

 

[JimBowie1958]

We can talk about slavery, forced labor, and all that, but right now, just being a regular full time worker is next to being a wage slave. A friend of mine that worked at Books A Million said basically the same kind of crap went on at their store too.

Think Walmart is an Evil Empire? Wait Until You Read This... - Forward Progressives

Yet the average Walmart employee makes $8.81 per hour. It would take the typical full-time Walmart employee 818,553 years to make as much as one heir to Walmart is worth ($15 billion on average). So keep all of that in mind as I tell you about what it’s like working for these greedy bastards.

When you first get hired you’re given an orientation, like at most jobs. In this orientation you’re shown several videos, one of which is called “The Benefits of Working for Walmart.” But it’s really a 30 minute video bashing unions. No, I’m not kidding. It’s literally a video about 30 minutes long of people telling you how terrible unions are to work for. After that, depending on your job, the training is fairly typical. But the true nature of the greed of this company is found in how they run their business. See, everything is controlled in Arkansas. From the air conditioning and heat, inventory to the scheduling system.

Everything is controlled at their home office in Arkansas. ....

“Full-time” at Walmart is just a term, it definitely doesn’t mean 40 hours per week. It’s common for “full-time” Walmart employees to get 32-34 hours a week. For part-time, sometimes you’re lucky if you get 20 hours. And don’t even think about overtime, they’ll write you up if you go over 40 hours in a week without permission.

If you work over 6 hours you’re required to take a lunch. I’m sure this stems from previous lawsuits against them for not giving employees the legally required break and lunch times. In fact, to ensure those working 6 hours or more take a lunch they lock them out of any system until they clock out for at least 30 minutes. And be careful, they schedule a ton of 5 1/2 hour shifts so you’re only required to be given one 15 minute break, and if you happen to stay a little later and go even 1 minute over 6 hours—you’re required to take a lunch. If you don’t, you get written up as well. Not because they care about ensuring you’re given the breaks/lunches you deserve, but because they don’t want to get sued for not giving them to you.

When you work at Sam’s Club you’re required to sell memberships—and credits, and early renewals and warranties. Honestly, checking out at Sam’s Club borders on harassment. They’re strict on these numbers and ride the employees relentlessly about hitting “goals.” Are there perks to reaching these goals? Well, sure—you get to keep your job. That’s basically it. Mind you, they put this kind of pressure on employees making less than $10 per hour. They treat them more like high-level sales employees than what they are; low-level hourly cashiers.

Towards the end of my time at Sam’s the regional manager, which is the person overseeing all the clubs in a certain area, told every Store Manager that they were required to hit their numbers and cut 110 wage hours—per day, every day. He actually told them, “You’re asking yourselves right now if I really said hit your numbers and cut 110 hours daily, and yes I did. I don’t care how you do it, just get it done. Oh, and make sure we don’t have long lines, our ‘member service’ stays top-notch and our employees have positive attitudes.”

 

[Lonestar_logic]

We can talk about slavery, forced labor, and all that, but right now, just being a regular full time worker is next to being a wage slave. A friend of mine that worked at Books A Million said basically the same kind of crap went on at their store too.

Think Walmart is an Evil Empire? Wait Until You Read This... - Forward Progressives

Yet the average Walmart employee makes $8.81 per hour. It would take the typical full-time Walmart employee 818,553 years to make as much as one heir to Walmart is worth ($15 billion on average). So keep all of that in mind as I tell you about what it’s like working for these greedy bastards.

When you first get hired you’re given an orientation, like at most jobs. In this orientation you’re shown several videos, one of which is called “The Benefits of Working for Walmart.” But it’s really a 30 minute video bashing unions. No, I’m not kidding. It’s literally a video about 30 minutes long of people telling you how terrible unions are to work for. After that, depending on your job, the training is fairly typical. But the true nature of the greed of this company is found in how they run their business. See, everything is controlled in Arkansas. From the air conditioning and heat, inventory to the scheduling system.

Everything is controlled at their home office in Arkansas. ....

“Full-time” at Walmart is just a term, it definitely doesn’t mean 40 hours per week. It’s common for “full-time” Walmart employees to get 32-34 hours a week. For part-time, sometimes you’re lucky if you get 20 hours. And don’t even think about overtime, they’ll write you up if you go over 40 hours in a week without permission.

If you work over 6 hours you’re required to take a lunch. I’m sure this stems from previous lawsuits against them for not giving employees the legally required break and lunch times. In fact, to ensure those working 6 hours or more take a lunch they lock them out of any system until they clock out for at least 30 minutes. And be careful, they schedule a ton of 5 1/2 hour shifts so you’re only required to be given one 15 minute break, and if you happen to stay a little later and go even 1 minute over 6 hours—you’re required to take a lunch. If you don’t, you get written up as well. Not because they care about ensuring you’re given the breaks/lunches you deserve, but because they don’t want to get sued for not giving them to you.

When you work at Sam’s Club you’re required to sell memberships—and credits, and early renewals and warranties. Honestly, checking out at Sam’s Club borders on harassment. They’re strict on these numbers and ride the employees relentlessly about hitting “goals.” Are there perks to reaching these goals? Well, sure—you get to keep your job. That’s basically it. Mind you, they put this kind of pressure on employees making less than $10 per hour. They treat them more like high-level sales employees than what they are; low-level hourly cashiers.

Towards the end of my time at Sam’s the regional manager, which is the person overseeing all the clubs in a certain area, told every Store Manager that they were required to hit their numbers and cut 110 wage hours—per day, every day. He actually told them, “You’re asking yourselves right now if I really said hit your numbers and cut 110 hours daily, and yes I did. I don’t care how you do it, just get it done. Oh, and make sure we don’t have long lines, our ‘member service’ stays top-notch and our employees have positive attitudes.”

Tissue?

 

[Penelope]

If a person can make a living at the lowest level of employment, where's the incentive for improvement?

What do you mean?? lowest level of employment. What do you think that is??

I mean minimum skill/minimum wage jobs.

Why are you asking me what I think it is when I'm the one that said it?

I think I'm trying to get at the point, that when someone wipes the butt of a CEO's their shit doesn't smell any better than a janitors.

In that respect even a min wage job person has a skill, I have watched janitors in the hospital , and some do actually clean the handles of doors whereas others do not. They work hard and many do like their job and take pride in it.

Mopping a floor doesn't take any skill. That's why it's called "unskilled labor".

Some examples of unskilled labor include sanitation, workers, custodial workers, farm workers, painters, grocery clerks and assembly line factory workers. Unskilled labor jobs require little or no special training and make use of limited skills. Many menial or repetitive tasks fall under the classification of unskilled labor. Jobs that can be learned completely in 30 days or fewer are often classified as unskilled labor.

Yes I learned how to become a gas station attendant and several years later how to clerk myself out, we all can pump gas now and check our own oil. I will still stand in line at the grocery store as that is some ones job. Of course this is not an issue for the wealthy, they usually have chauffeurs and hired shoppers.

If tech is not taking our jobs, they will import workers, with the various work visas , or export our jobs overseas. Even today the skilled, college grad's jobs are becoming harder to find. I do try and enc. physical therapy and microbiology, as wars and bugs will drive the future forward.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Tissue?

Go ahead and laugh it up, dude, but this is the driving force behind the return of socialism in this country.

then managers will need the tissues, not the employees, much as it was from 1945 to 1970.

There can be reasonable steps to make everyone happy, but one side always has to totally fuck the other.

What a crying shame.

 

[peach174]

We can talk about slavery, forced labor, and all that, but right now, just being a regular full time worker is next to being a wage slave. A friend of mine that worked at Books A Million said basically the same kind of crap went on at their store too.

Think Walmart is an Evil Empire? Wait Until You Read This... - Forward Progressives

Yet the average Walmart employee makes $8.81 per hour. It would take the typical full-time Walmart employee 818,553 years to make as much as one heir to Walmart is worth ($15 billion on average). So keep all of that in mind as I tell you about what it’s like working for these greedy bastards.

When you first get hired you’re given an orientation, like at most jobs. In this orientation you’re shown several videos, one of which is called “The Benefits of Working for Walmart.” But it’s really a 30 minute video bashing unions. No, I’m not kidding. It’s literally a video about 30 minutes long of people telling you how terrible unions are to work for. After that, depending on your job, the training is fairly typical. But the true nature of the greed of this company is found in how they run their business. See, everything is controlled in Arkansas. From the air conditioning and heat, inventory to the scheduling system.

Everything is controlled at their home office in Arkansas. ....

“Full-time” at Walmart is just a term, it definitely doesn’t mean 40 hours per week. It’s common for “full-time” Walmart employees to get 32-34 hours a week. For part-time, sometimes you’re lucky if you get 20 hours. And don’t even think about overtime, they’ll write you up if you go over 40 hours in a week without permission.

If you work over 6 hours you’re required to take a lunch. I’m sure this stems from previous lawsuits against them for not giving employees the legally required break and lunch times. In fact, to ensure those working 6 hours or more take a lunch they lock them out of any system until they clock out for at least 30 minutes. And be careful, they schedule a ton of 5 1/2 hour shifts so you’re only required to be given one 15 minute break, and if you happen to stay a little later and go even 1 minute over 6 hours—you’re required to take a lunch. If you don’t, you get written up as well. Not because they care about ensuring you’re given the breaks/lunches you deserve, but because they don’t want to get sued for not giving them to you.

When you work at Sam’s Club you’re required to sell memberships—and credits, and early renewals and warranties. Honestly, checking out at Sam’s Club borders on harassment. They’re strict on these numbers and ride the employees relentlessly about hitting “goals.” Are there perks to reaching these goals? Well, sure—you get to keep your job. That’s basically it. Mind you, they put this kind of pressure on employees making less than $10 per hour. They treat them more like high-level sales employees than what they are; low-level hourly cashiers.

Towards the end of my time at Sam’s the regional manager, which is the person overseeing all the clubs in a certain area, told every Store Manager that they were required to hit their numbers and cut 110 wage hours—per day, every day. He actually told them, “You’re asking yourselves right now if I really said hit your numbers and cut 110 hours daily, and yes I did. I don’t care how you do it, just get it done. Oh, and make sure we don’t have long lines, our ‘member service’ stays top-notch and our employees have positive attitudes.”

So?
If you don't like working for others, become your own boss.
That is the beauty of being an American.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Mopping a floor doesn't take any skill. That's why it's called "unskilled labor".

Some examples of unskilled labor include sanitation, workers, custodial workers, farm workers, painters, grocery clerks and assembly line factory workers. Unskilled labor jobs require little or no special training and make use of limited skills. Many menial or repetitive tasks fall under the classification of unskilled labor. Jobs that can be learned completely in 30 days or fewer are often classified as unskilled labor.

But dont they also require honesty, diligence, pride of labor and a good attitude?

Hard to find that among robots and debt slaves, dude.

 

[JimBowie1958]

So?
If you don't like working for others, become your own boss.
That is the beauty of being an American.

Dont see that anyone doesnt like working for others.

IT's just that those whip marks leaves scars, you know?

 

[JimBowie1958]

There used to be an implied social contract in this nation that if you worked hard, obeyed the laws and was an honest person, you would become successful here in the US. Businessmen saw this as a good thing to grow the consumer market. Most people liked it as it let them buy a small house, raise a family and have hopes about the American dream.

Then this Marxist dichotomy-vrs-Peasant Whip crackers took holld and replaced it.

Now we have managerial types who take pride in fucking any employee that they can, metaphorically and literally.

We have Marxist union organizers that are not interested in making anything work, because the less things work the closer they feel like they get tto that wonderful Dictatorship of the Proletariate.

The rest of us need to throw these extremists out of the country and run things for our own selves and stop letting the ideologues and greedy fuctards run shit any more.

 

[EverCurious]

I'm sorry that policy still exists, what doesn't exist anymore is employees who work hard... Ask any manager or business owner about how many "bad" employees they've had to deal with and the kind of things they do. Its at the point now that a lot of small businesses have given up on the "don't hire family" thing because those are the only people they can trust...

 

[Penelope]

We can talk about slavery, forced labor, and all that, but right now, just being a regular full time worker is next to being a wage slave. A friend of mine that worked at Books A Million said basically the same kind of crap went on at their store too.

Think Walmart is an Evil Empire? Wait Until You Read This... - Forward Progressives

Yet the average Walmart employee makes $8.81 per hour. It would take the typical full-time Walmart employee 818,553 years to make as much as one heir to Walmart is worth ($15 billion on average). So keep all of that in mind as I tell you about what it’s like working for these greedy bastards.

When you first get hired you’re given an orientation, like at most jobs. In this orientation you’re shown several videos, one of which is called “The Benefits of Working for Walmart.” But it’s really a 30 minute video bashing unions. No, I’m not kidding. It’s literally a video about 30 minutes long of people telling you how terrible unions are to work for. After that, depending on your job, the training is fairly typical. But the true nature of the greed of this company is found in how they run their business. See, everything is controlled in Arkansas. From the air conditioning and heat, inventory to the scheduling system.

Everything is controlled at their home office in Arkansas. ....

“Full-time” at Walmart is just a term, it definitely doesn’t mean 40 hours per week. It’s common for “full-time” Walmart employees to get 32-34 hours a week. For part-time, sometimes you’re lucky if you get 20 hours. And don’t even think about overtime, they’ll write you up if you go over 40 hours in a week without permission.

If you work over 6 hours you’re required to take a lunch. I’m sure this stems from previous lawsuits against them for not giving employees the legally required break and lunch times. In fact, to ensure those working 6 hours or more take a lunch they lock them out of any system until they clock out for at least 30 minutes. And be careful, they schedule a ton of 5 1/2 hour shifts so you’re only required to be given one 15 minute break, and if you happen to stay a little later and go even 1 minute over 6 hours—you’re required to take a lunch. If you don’t, you get written up as well. Not because they care about ensuring you’re given the breaks/lunches you deserve, but because they don’t want to get sued for not giving them to you.

When you work at Sam’s Club you’re required to sell memberships—and credits, and early renewals and warranties. Honestly, checking out at Sam’s Club borders on harassment. They’re strict on these numbers and ride the employees relentlessly about hitting “goals.” Are there perks to reaching these goals? Well, sure—you get to keep your job. That’s basically it. Mind you, they put this kind of pressure on employees making less than $10 per hour. They treat them more like high-level sales employees than what they are; low-level hourly cashiers.

Towards the end of my time at Sam’s the regional manager, which is the person overseeing all the clubs in a certain area, told every Store Manager that they were required to hit their numbers and cut 110 wage hours—per day, every day. He actually told them, “You’re asking yourselves right now if I really said hit your numbers and cut 110 hours daily, and yes I did. I don’t care how you do it, just get it done. Oh, and make sure we don’t have long lines, our ‘member service’ stays top-notch and our employees have positive attitudes.”

If a person can make a living at the lowest level of employment, where's the incentive for improvement?

But that is all some people can do. Are you saying that people with IQs lower than 80 who cant learn more difficult labor should just starve or live paycheck to paycheck?

Does the vast majority of minimum wage workers have a IQ of less than 80?

There are government programs to help those who truly need it, no one is starving.

You mean disability?

 

[Lonestar_logic]

We can talk about slavery, forced labor, and all that, but right now, just being a regular full time worker is next to being a wage slave. A friend of mine that worked at Books A Million said basically the same kind of crap went on at their store too.

Think Walmart is an Evil Empire? Wait Until You Read This... - Forward Progressives

Yet the average Walmart employee makes $8.81 per hour. It would take the typical full-time Walmart employee 818,553 years to make as much as one heir to Walmart is worth ($15 billion on average). So keep all of that in mind as I tell you about what it’s like working for these greedy bastards.

When you first get hired you’re given an orientation, like at most jobs. In this orientation you’re shown several videos, one of which is called “The Benefits of Working for Walmart.” But it’s really a 30 minute video bashing unions. No, I’m not kidding. It’s literally a video about 30 minutes long of people telling you how terrible unions are to work for. After that, depending on your job, the training is fairly typical. But the true nature of the greed of this company is found in how they run their business. See, everything is controlled in Arkansas. From the air conditioning and heat, inventory to the scheduling system.

Everything is controlled at their home office in Arkansas. ....

“Full-time” at Walmart is just a term, it definitely doesn’t mean 40 hours per week. It’s common for “full-time” Walmart employees to get 32-34 hours a week. For part-time, sometimes you’re lucky if you get 20 hours. And don’t even think about overtime, they’ll write you up if you go over 40 hours in a week without permission.

If you work over 6 hours you’re required to take a lunch. I’m sure this stems from previous lawsuits against them for not giving employees the legally required break and lunch times. In fact, to ensure those working 6 hours or more take a lunch they lock them out of any system until they clock out for at least 30 minutes. And be careful, they schedule a ton of 5 1/2 hour shifts so you’re only required to be given one 15 minute break, and if you happen to stay a little later and go even 1 minute over 6 hours—you’re required to take a lunch. If you don’t, you get written up as well. Not because they care about ensuring you’re given the breaks/lunches you deserve, but because they don’t want to get sued for not giving them to you.

When you work at Sam’s Club you’re required to sell memberships—and credits, and early renewals and warranties. Honestly, checking out at Sam’s Club borders on harassment. They’re strict on these numbers and ride the employees relentlessly about hitting “goals.” Are there perks to reaching these goals? Well, sure—you get to keep your job. That’s basically it. Mind you, they put this kind of pressure on employees making less than $10 per hour. They treat them more like high-level sales employees than what they are; low-level hourly cashiers.

Towards the end of my time at Sam’s the regional manager, which is the person overseeing all the clubs in a certain area, told every Store Manager that they were required to hit their numbers and cut 110 wage hours—per day, every day. He actually told them, “You’re asking yourselves right now if I really said hit your numbers and cut 110 hours daily, and yes I did. I don’t care how you do it, just get it done. Oh, and make sure we don’t have long lines, our ‘member service’ stays top-notch and our employees have positive attitudes.”

If a person can make a living at the lowest level of employment, where's the incentive for improvement?

But that is all some people can do. Are you saying that people with IQs lower than 80 who cant learn more difficult labor should just starve or live paycheck to paycheck?

Does the vast majority of minimum wage workers have a IQ of less than 80?

There are government programs to help those who truly need it, no one is starving.

You mean disability?

No.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Tissue?

Go ahead and laugh it up, dude, but this is the driving force behind the return of socialism in this country.

then managers will need the tissues, not the employees, much as it was from 1945 to 1970.

There can be reasonable steps to make everyone happy, but one side always has to totally fuck the other.

What a crying shame.

I will laugh.

It's hilarious!!

 

[Lonestar_logic]

Mopping a floor doesn't take any skill. That's why it's called "unskilled labor".

Some examples of unskilled labor include sanitation, workers, custodial workers, farm workers, painters, grocery clerks and assembly line factory workers. Unskilled labor jobs require little or no special training and make use of limited skills. Many menial or repetitive tasks fall under the classification of unskilled labor. Jobs that can be learned completely in 30 days or fewer are often classified as unskilled labor.

But dont they also require honesty, diligence, pride of labor and a good attitude?

Hard to find that among robots and debt slaves, dude.

Honesty, diligence, pride of labor and good attitudes aren't skills.

 

[Penelope]

We can talk about slavery, forced labor, and all that, but right now, just being a regular full time worker is next to being a wage slave. A friend of mine that worked at Books A Million said basically the same kind of crap went on at their store too.

Think Walmart is an Evil Empire? Wait Until You Read This... - Forward Progressives

Yet the average Walmart employee makes $8.81 per hour. It would take the typical full-time Walmart employee 818,553 years to make as much as one heir to Walmart is worth ($15 billion on average). So keep all of that in mind as I tell you about what it’s like working for these greedy bastards.

When you first get hired you’re given an orientation, like at most jobs. In this orientation you’re shown several videos, one of which is called “The Benefits of Working for Walmart.” But it’s really a 30 minute video bashing unions. No, I’m not kidding. It’s literally a video about 30 minutes long of people telling you how terrible unions are to work for. After that, depending on your job, the training is fairly typical. But the true nature of the greed of this company is found in how they run their business. See, everything is controlled in Arkansas. From the air conditioning and heat, inventory to the scheduling system.

Everything is controlled at their home office in Arkansas. ....

“Full-time” at Walmart is just a term, it definitely doesn’t mean 40 hours per week. It’s common for “full-time” Walmart employees to get 32-34 hours a week. For part-time, sometimes you’re lucky if you get 20 hours. And don’t even think about overtime, they’ll write you up if you go over 40 hours in a week without permission.

If you work over 6 hours you’re required to take a lunch. I’m sure this stems from previous lawsuits against them for not giving employees the legally required break and lunch times. In fact, to ensure those working 6 hours or more take a lunch they lock them out of any system until they clock out for at least 30 minutes. And be careful, they schedule a ton of 5 1/2 hour shifts so you’re only required to be given one 15 minute break, and if you happen to stay a little later and go even 1 minute over 6 hours—you’re required to take a lunch. If you don’t, you get written up as well. Not because they care about ensuring you’re given the breaks/lunches you deserve, but because they don’t want to get sued for not giving them to you.

When you work at Sam’s Club you’re required to sell memberships—and credits, and early renewals and warranties. Honestly, checking out at Sam’s Club borders on harassment. They’re strict on these numbers and ride the employees relentlessly about hitting “goals.” Are there perks to reaching these goals? Well, sure—you get to keep your job. That’s basically it. Mind you, they put this kind of pressure on employees making less than $10 per hour. They treat them more like high-level sales employees than what they are; low-level hourly cashiers.

Towards the end of my time at Sam’s the regional manager, which is the person overseeing all the clubs in a certain area, told every Store Manager that they were required to hit their numbers and cut 110 wage hours—per day, every day. He actually told them, “You’re asking yourselves right now if I really said hit your numbers and cut 110 hours daily, and yes I did. I don’t care how you do it, just get it done. Oh, and make sure we don’t have long lines, our ‘member service’ stays top-notch and our employees have positive attitudes.”

We can talk about slavery, forced labor, and all that, but right now, just being a regular full time worker is next to being a wage slave. A friend of mine that worked at Books A Million said basically the same kind of crap went on at their store too.

Think Walmart is an Evil Empire? Wait Until You Read This... - Forward Progressives

Yet the average Walmart employee makes $8.81 per hour. It would take the typical full-time Walmart employee 818,553 years to make as much as one heir to Walmart is worth ($15 billion on average). So keep all of that in mind as I tell you about what it’s like working for these greedy bastards.

When you first get hired you’re given an orientation, like at most jobs. In this orientation you’re shown several videos, one of which is called “The Benefits of Working for Walmart.” But it’s really a 30 minute video bashing unions. No, I’m not kidding. It’s literally a video about 30 minutes long of people telling you how terrible unions are to work for. After that, depending on your job, the training is fairly typical. But the true nature of the greed of this company is found in how they run their business. See, everything is controlled in Arkansas. From the air conditioning and heat, inventory to the scheduling system.

Everything is controlled at their home office in Arkansas. ....

“Full-time” at Walmart is just a term, it definitely doesn’t mean 40 hours per week. It’s common for “full-time” Walmart employees to get 32-34 hours a week. For part-time, sometimes you’re lucky if you get 20 hours. And don’t even think about overtime, they’ll write you up if you go over 40 hours in a week without permission.

If you work over 6 hours you’re required to take a lunch. I’m sure this stems from previous lawsuits against them for not giving employees the legally required break and lunch times. In fact, to ensure those working 6 hours or more take a lunch they lock them out of any system until they clock out for at least 30 minutes. And be careful, they schedule a ton of 5 1/2 hour shifts so you’re only required to be given one 15 minute break, and if you happen to stay a little later and go even 1 minute over 6 hours—you’re required to take a lunch. If you don’t, you get written up as well. Not because they care about ensuring you’re given the breaks/lunches you deserve, but because they don’t want to get sued for not giving them to you.

When you work at Sam’s Club you’re required to sell memberships—and credits, and early renewals and warranties. Honestly, checking out at Sam’s Club borders on harassment. They’re strict on these numbers and ride the employees relentlessly about hitting “goals.” Are there perks to reaching these goals? Well, sure—you get to keep your job. That’s basically it. Mind you, they put this kind of pressure on employees making less than $10 per hour. They treat them more like high-level sales employees than what they are; low-level hourly cashiers.

Towards the end of my time at Sam’s the regional manager, which is the person overseeing all the clubs in a certain area, told every Store Manager that they were required to hit their numbers and cut 110 wage hours—per day, every day. He actually told them, “You’re asking yourselves right now if I really said hit your numbers and cut 110 hours daily, and yes I did. I don’t care how you do it, just get it done. Oh, and make sure we don’t have long lines, our ‘member service’ stays top-notch and our employees have positive attitudes.”

If a person can make a living at the lowest level of employment, where's the incentive for improvement?

But that is all some people can do. Are you saying that people with IQs lower than 80 who cant learn more difficult labor should just starve or live paycheck to paycheck?

Does the vast majority of minimum wage workers have a IQ of less than 80?

There are government programs to help those who truly need it, no one is starving.

You mean disability?

No.

Oh, welfare then. I mean if they cut back on janitors, and now one is out of work, who was living paycheck to paycheck and his unemployment runs out, as everyone is cutting back on janitors, what is this unskilled worker to do. He has 2 children in school and his wife is working part time at Walmart?

What now?? They have not been able to save a dime, but both of them are hard workers , never missed a day of work and were there on time all the time.

Oh their car broke down and wife takes the bus to work. What now?? His low IQ is rather a disability , he did graduate from HS but that was when they didn't care if one knew how to read or not.

 

[JimBowie1958]

I'm sorry that policy still exists, what doesn't exist anymore is employees who work hard... Ask any manager or business owner about how many "bad" employees they've had to deal with and the kind of things they do. Its at the point now that a lot of small businesses have given up on the "don't hire family" thing because those are the only people they can trust...

I know that there are bad employees, but when a manager has almost all bad employees, its kind of like that expression, 'If you meet one ass hole during the day its bad luck, but if everyone you meet is an ass hole, then YOU are the ass hole.'

Managers need to learn how to motivate their employees and that skill is just as important as balancing any books and running the store.

IF a manager cant manage to find anything but ass hole employees he needs to find a new career.

 

[mamooth]

Trump has just done a full 180 here, and now says wages are too low.

Donald J. Trump on Twitter
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Wages in are country are too low, good jobs are too few, and people have lost faith in our leaders.We need smart and strong leadership now!
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A spine of steel, the Donald has. The best guess is that Trump's previous wages-are-too-high claim did not play well with his blue collar base.

That flipflop has to sting the Trumpskyites here. Sanders beat Trump like a gong and forced Trump to completely reverse positions. All that's remaining to be seen is what creative excuses the Trump cultists come up with to maintain their belief that DearLeaderDonald is infallible.