Ebbery body loves to pick on Walmart. Best deals in town. Why don't we pay burger king employees $40 an hour? Hell they're worth it! Just the taste of that cold grease in my throat after eating a double whopper with cheese gives me heart palpitations and murmurs......but I like it! Certainly someone deserves a raise for that experience. DAMN!
I've never seen an employee of Walmart forced to work for them, ever.
Finding good competent answers about product is almost impossible because they are not formally trained on the product to know it, just the whole "other" side of the equation which means
take it off the truck
put it on the shelf
organize it when people like me disorganize it
The level of knowledge to complete those tasks are simplistic, require next to no education level. It's retail in the form of low-level entry work.
If you want to make a career through walmart, go for it; you'll earn your stripes and expect slave labor wages along the way.
It's another way for public scrutiny to hold just one company accountable for the industry and the wages it bears.
IF you started paying higher wages to walmart workers, you'd have to start bringing in EDUCATED, TRAINED, KNOWLEDGEABLE clientell that either know the inner workings of the retail industry, held a # of years in the retail business so that when they enter the workplace at Walmart, they hit the ground running.
You don't find that with new hires at walmart. It's the "default" place to get a job when you've ran out of options. Since they are a large company they are the push button catch all for all the problems of poor people.
When I became a business owner, I watched how the leeches came out of the muck ponds asking for money for this, money for that, "Please, Do this for the children".
All geared at the heart strings. Of course there are "those" that need help.....but it doesn't always have to be in a form of a monetary payment.
I got solicited by the CFO for somebody locally that had cystic fibrosis. I'm pretty sure that as a kid, I was around this girl as we played on the same street.
Well, she was given a short time to live and I gave money to the good cause.
I've had to block 6 email addresses and have pitched more publications, publications I'm sure I paid for to send to me as now I'm a willing participant to provide a draw of income to. And that's just one....
Oh *$&! my throat and tongue is swelling up! Damn $4 prescriptions from Walmart!