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- thinman1189, on 04/10/2008, -1/+30Can I see your receipt for that incriminating video?
- insinuate, on 04/10/2008, -6/+24***** THE RIAA!!!!!
- kylere, on 04/10/2008, -4/+22Walmart is BAD for America, simple fact, but I expect to hit -30 diggs for saying the truth. Their corporate PR team does a great job of digging down anyone who speaks against them. Check out PBS's report on Walmart (You can watch it online) at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walm ... if you want to know truth.
- Gir53457, on 04/10/2008, -2/+17No, then I and hundreds of thousands of others would be out of a job. What walmart needs to do is crack down on the abusive locations and stop trying to prevent us from unionizing. Also a decent living wage for our employees who are over 65 wouldn't hurt, but we'd also settle for fixing the water fountains so we can stop buying water bottles.
- StealthMonkey, on 04/10/2008, -5/+16I think people should be paid what they are worth in terms of market value. If you don't get paid enough, increase your skill set and market value -- take a class or get certificated in something. The idea that we can inflate wages because some people have low wages and we feel bad about that is insane. If we want to end poverty, why don't we just raise the federal minimum wage. If 5.15 was bad, and 7.25 is better, why not 12.00 or even 30.00. Why not make sure everyone make 60k/yr. Hell, why stop there. If you think that what I just said is foolish, you are right. You obviously can't do that, and the same thing goes for inflating wages a little -- if the economic principle of artificially inflating wages doesn't work, then the principle of artificially inflating wages a little bit doesn't work either. The only thing that accomplishes is making us feel better about ourselves because we "helped people." If it was that simple to rid America of poverty, we would have done it. People that claim we should artificially raise wages don't understand economics.
- Shawn4168, on 04/10/2008, -13/+24Don't like what Wal-Mart pays its employees? Don't work there.
Don't like their business tactics of competitive pricing (aka Capitalism)? Don't shop there.
Regardless, the rest of us are sick and tired of hearing about it. - mendozatron, on 04/10/2008, -2/+10I love to complain about walmart as much as the next guy. Why was i never meant to see the drag video, it's funny but i don't see anything bad about it.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -1/+9I'm sure if we looked hard enough we could uncover plenty of unsavory stories about any number of companies and their off-site shenanigans.
Didn't we also have a recent article in which it was documented that WalMart was the biggest single provider of aid during the Hurricaine Katrina disaster. And just the other day, all the employees at the local store received a wage increase of $1/hr.
I realize WalMart is the 800lb gorilla, but come on guys, there's more important stuff in life. - justice7, on 04/10/2008, -20/+27its fun to hate big corps isnt it? lets all hate together now.
- StealthMonkey, on 04/10/2008, -2/+9First of all, hospitals in the United States are required by law to treat anyone who comes to their ER with a medical emergency. Second, the federal government already provides healthcare for a lot of people that can't afford it. You are either to ignorant to know about it, or leaving that fact out to push your agenda. For those who don't know, we have healthcare for the elderly, it's called Medicare, we have healthcare for the poor, it's called Medicaid, we have healthcare for the children, it's called SCHIP.
- CaptainBryan, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6Sparta?
- SteveIsTheDude, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6Pepsi *IS* baby formula in Kentucky.
- aladrin, on 04/10/2008, -3/+8Awww, that's too bad... WalMart broke a verbal agreement and is now having to pay for their mistake. Poor WalMart.
- Petrarch1603, on 04/10/2008, -3/+8calm down donnie darko
- Nishnabotna, on 04/10/2008, -0/+4But he's got a point because they do have a lot in common with blood sucking leeches. My brush with Unions has left me pretty sour on them, and I'm NOT management - just a loser that they are supposed to be "protecting". And by protecting, I mean shaking down.
- jerbaker, on 04/10/2008, -3/+7The problem is that ignoring Wal-Mart doesn't make the problem go away. My tax dollars pay for emergency room visits by their employees that are too poor to afford health insurance, small mom and pop businesses still go under whether I shop there or not, I have to deal with the traffic the stores generate whether I shop there or not, I have to pay tax dollars to subsidize public transit for their employees that can't even afford a car. I'm tired of corporate welfare giving Wal-Mart a free ride. If my tax dollars are going to getting workers and shoppers to and from Wal-Mart and making sure their employees are healthy enough to work, I want Wal-Mart to reimburse me. Choosing not to shop there doesn't accomplish that.
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -0/+4And just who the ***** is gonna take your order at McDonald's, that's what I want to know?
- hollywoodphony, on 04/10/2008, -4/+8Ha, way to get back at WalMart, but I wish I could see those videos now!
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -0/+4The Wellcome Trust is simply that. A trust of the late Sir Wellcome. It sole mission is to provide charitable donations and grants. It's not a publicly traded company.
Big difference - yojiffyskippy, on 04/10/2008, -0/+4The small businesses went out of business when everyone stopped shopping at the small businesses. The people in the communities made a decision to support Walmart and not their local business. The blame goes on the citizens and not Walmart.
- SteveIsTheDude, on 04/10/2008, -1/+5I am gonna combine your comments: "I hope to step over the dead uneducated, usless people's bodys in the street" - You see, together your coments make a nice sentence...
- insinuate, on 04/10/2008, -0/+4Anyone have a link to a torrent or an NZB?
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -3/+7Since when did digg become afraid of a man in drag? OHHHHHHH....it's ok for flaming homosexuals to be in drag, but not Big Bad Corporate Wal-Mart employees?
- MiDri, on 04/10/2008, -1/+5You raise the min wage $2, the price per month for insurance and everything else will go up by $2x40x4 (40 hour work week.) Meanwile many people who make more then min wage (say people making $10) may not see a pay increase and effective means they lost income of $2x40x4
- graddatadda, on 04/10/2008, -2/+6don't worry, I'm sure someone will show another reason that the war is a miserable failure and the ***** will provide plenty of vile hate towards the patriot that posted it.
- oscarwp, on 04/10/2008, -2/+5How do you propose to educate people? Spending less money I suppose...
- TheSolomon, on 04/10/2008, -1/+4Wow, theorize conspiracies much? Documenting planned events, especially when they're large in attendance, is perfectly normal. Maybe they wish to review the tape later to help them better plan next year's event... maybe they make the video for those folks unable to fly-in to attend. There's nothing evil or dis-trustworthy about this video; you probably have lots of reasons to dislike this company, there's no need to distort the intentions of something as insignificant as "video taping corporate retreats."
Plus this thing seems like a complete non-issue. Walmart apparently snubbed the video company, which is crappy. That company is seeking to recover some of its future-estimated profits by selling the footage to the highest bidder... which is pretty shady, but not bad on its own. Attempting to imply there's some weird ritualized, drag-show, bizarre cult-like stuff going on to sell them? That's simply idiotic.
Corporate events frequently do odd-ball, silly stuff to try and make things more interesting, and to help relax the group and bring them closer together. Even some of my high school retreats had a costume event, which would invariably turn into a half freak show, half drag show. Putting people into uncomfortable situations, when done in this context, can help us laugh at ourselves and LIGHTEN UP.
Let's focus on the real reasons to dislike Walmart, like the fact it's the vehicle for all of us to cause the destruction of small towns and small businesses, and the robbing of American jobs to be shipped overseas. (Because, keep in mind, Walmart isn't an island. The only reason it's able to do all of those nasty things to businesses and jobs is because *we* allow them to do so by insisting on the lowest price on anything and continuing to shop there.)
"Evil Walmart" goes away the moment a majority of us stops being cheapskates and starts caring more about quality & worker's rights over quantity & lowest price. - yojiffyskippy, on 04/10/2008, -0/+3Amen. Every dollar you spend casts your vote of support. Whether it be at Walmart or at your local small businesses.
- KSUdesigner, on 04/10/2008, -0/+3I don't think the socioeconomic status of parents has squat to do with your success in business. My parents live in a trailer park, barely claim 10 grand on their income every year and were major drug addicts when I was growing up. By your logic I will never be successful in business. But in reality I saw that I don't want to live life like my parents, went to college and got an education and got a decent job. 4 years later and I am Art Director for an advertising agency and have a fairly successful freelance business on the side. So aside from the fact that I didn't want to end up like my parents, what indications would lead anybody to believe that I'd end up successful in business based on the status of my parents?
- SteveIsTheDude, on 04/10/2008, -1/+4I think he likes saying "step over the dying on the street"... You should use my jazzed up version, "I hope to step over the dead uneducated, usless people's bodys in the street, on my way to get a latte." I added the latte part, you can use it, no charge!
- inactive, on 04/10/2008, -1/+4And I counter your anti-WalMart site with something more revealing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ... - VitriolAndAngst, on 04/10/2008, -3/+6It isn't that we just HATE big corporations. It is that most big corporations got that way, because they've been ruthless and remove their competition through unethical means. It is challenge to Democracy that the founding fathers recognized. They thought of "incorporating" as a special privilege that could be removed if a corporation got too big or powerful, produced more than one product, or even if a company lasted more than a person's life time.
We all want good products and good prices,.. it's just that having good paying jobs and a good lifestyle should be more important to us and our government. But amazingly, there are so many people trained to like working 60 hours a week and anxious about getting sick, losing a job, and losing their house that they just love it when Big Corporations shift costs onto the public while taking advantage of the government.
Case in point would be WalMart teaching employees how to get Medicare -- because they qualify due to the really low wages. - inactive, on 04/10/2008, -0/+3Wal-Mart has committed many horrible acts over the years, but this is by far the worst. I mean, putting a fat man in a revealing toga? Dear God, no amount of scrubbing will ever remove those images from my brain.
- Shawn4168, on 04/10/2008, -1/+4I'd be interested to just what percentage of your tax dollars go to pay for these things. You make it to sound like every Wal-Mart employee is just another welfare case mooching off the system. These people pay taxes too. Wal-Mart pays taxes. Wal-Mart generates sales tax revenue (probably more than any other business in America). I feel like you have a very narrow viewpoint on this issue. You fail to realize that tens of thousands of other businesses also don't provide health insurance for their workers, many of them being the same "mom and pop" businesses that you claim are going under due to Wal-Mart.
I'd rather that these people whom your tax dollars are supposedly paying for, have a job at Wal-Mart than no job at all. - Butros, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2But I like paying 2 bucks for a knock off version of 8$ head and shoulders...
- AlKo, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2I like how ABC squeezed a Hillary plug in there...
"The Clinton campaign has since stated, "As president, she will fight alongside labor to promote the economic growth of America's middle class," and that Clinton strongly believes that Wal-Mart employees should be allowed to unionize. "
Hmm... interesting for the MSM to not mention anything about Hillary's lack of action when employees attempted to unionized previously??? Hmmm?? Despite being on the board??? - orangefly, on 04/10/2008, -3/+5that will be a new job for people that don't want to work at walmart anymore....picking up the dying in the street....
- Butros, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2stealthmonkey's is a voice of reason
- thebaron2, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2That's not why people shop at Wal-Mart, though. They shop there for prices. Their business model is to buy in hu-*****-mongous volumes to drive costs down and save pennies at the register, and that's why people shop there.
They *could* just choose to buy more expensive goods, but then they're sending a big "***** you" to all of the people that rely on the savings they make when they shop there. Not to mention that buying the more expensive stuff would kill any incentive for American firms to become more efficient and try to get that business back. - stealthc, on 04/10/2008, -7/+9Time for the two minutes hate everyone!
- thebaron2, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2Not sure why pentalive is getting buried. Wal-Mart is not a manufacturer - that's just a fact.
- DeFex, on 04/10/2008, -12/+14Not to mention the part about destroying millions of small businesses and jobs, sending manufacturing jobs and money to china in exchange for crap service jobs selling instant landfill and producing nothing of any value.
oh yeah the economy is being destroyed by "credit crisis" this has nothing to do with it at all. - jcastillo81, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2exactly what i was thinking...
- ucg1, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2I don't eat at McDonald's and never will again. In fact I'd be very happy if McDonald's suddenly couldn't find people to work for them and franchises had to close down.
- jserio, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2Video of Sam Wall talking about women in the company and points out a "strong willed" woman on the board: HILLARY!!
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4619927 - cambob76, on 04/10/2008, -1/+3Wal-Mart and the like are the end product of capitalism. Enjoy!
- mrblonde554, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2I hate walmart as much as the next guy but that video was pretty funny. I like this site better -
http://www.walocaust.com/site/ - StealthMonkey, on 04/10/2008, -1/+3@oscarwp
You are so sadly mistaken. NOTHING is ever free. Where do you think the money to pay for the system comes from? - inactive, on 04/10/2008, -2/+4So what are you suggesting. WalMart not help the employees in any manner?
Does Lowes or Home Depot pay salaries that don;t qualify their employees for health care? How about your local grocery store? - MikeDirntRulez, on 04/10/2008, -1/+3HEY! HEY!!
We're supposed to hate large corporations no matter what positive influences they have on local employment rates or what humanitarian relief is being provided on behalf of the company.
I think you need to leave. -
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