Reason #1,873,319 To Love WalMart

Mike Finley

This is where you guys miss the boat. You're saying with millions of employees how can everyone be kept happy?

You need to get it through your head that this is not made up stuff this is not some frivilous issue. This is not about a disgruntled employee working in the jewelry section in one Walmart in one city.

Walmart has been sued an extrodinary amount of times for cut & dry labor violations, for extradinary amounts of money due to the large number of violtions.

Do you understand this? This is as cut and dry as you telling an employee I'm not paying you time and 1/2 for over time. which is a VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL LABOR LAWS - plain and simple. It's the exact same cut and dry scenario.

There are no gray areas with these lawsuits, there is only denial on Walmarts part and stalling. In the end they have been sued many, many times and lost or settled because they are guilty.

This is not about Walmart being misunderstood, this is not the law of averages in play where they are so big they are bound to have a few labor issues. This is cut and dry Walmart intentionally practicing illegal labor practices for as long as they could get away with them, doing it on a huge scale, being sued many, many times and losing.

If walmart was an oil tanker being sued for poluting the sees it would not be about them accidently dropping a bucket of oil over the side one time, it would be similar to an oil tanker openning all the valves and running up and down the coast intentionally dumping an entire super tanker load of oil on purpose.

Now until you understand that, there can be no discussion.

Mike Finley

The answer to your questions are very simple, because your question is based on one problem.

You're ignoring the fact that if your good willed contractor who was able to have a lower overhead and passed his savings on to his customers was identical to Walmart, his lower prices and lower overhead would be due to

- screwing his suppliers - signing contracts and then not honoring them. Running suppliers out of business, etc...
- screwing his employees - not paying overtime, discriminating against women, paying lower than market salary, playing games with hours to avoid benefits... etc..
- providing low quality products

So you need to fix your question about your good samaritan contractor, otherwise what you are asking is irrelevant.

It's not about lower prices or in this case lower overhead. It's how the lower overhead is achieved.

Willie T

Ok, Mike, accepted. WalMart can remain the heavy. I guess they can handle it.

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BamBamm5144

I see your point Mike. I also think that some employees are trying to find anything that they can complain about to get some money out of the big company. Companies that big are going to have problems constantly. I don't think there is a way around it.

What you have to accept is that Wal-Mart is not going to go anywhere. They will constantly grow and pretty soon we will be buying Wal Mart logo tools and materials. Like I said before, the guy had the right idea and it worked. Lets say 20,000 employees of the roughly 1.4 million are unhappy a year that is still less than what 2% off the top of my head. If Wal-mart goes out of business, who will hire those people?

Mike Finley

I'm sure there are some employee like that working there. However other companies of similar size don't have the same history of lawsuits against them.



Sure, however other companies of similar size don't have the same history of lawsuits against them.

I don't know about that. Nothing is forever. You know that company called Sears? They were so big at one time, so revolutionary that they actually sold houses. Not anymore.


I doubt it, but you never know.

Arbys? McDonalds? The local movie theater? A car wash? That's about the extent of their qualifications I believe.