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Wal-Mart Exposed: Videos You Were Never Meant To See
abcnews.go.com — From the tough anti-union talk to the wilder side of men in drag, videos of Wal-Mart corporate meetings are being sold to willing buyers, and the corporate behemoth is not happy about it.
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- hollywoodphony, on 04/10/2008, -4/+8Ha, way to get back at WalMart, but I wish I could see those videos now!
- macweirdo42, 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.
- unreg, 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 $1/hr.
I realize WalMart is the 800lb gorilla, but come on guys, there's more important stuff in life.- TheGuruStud, on 04/11/2008, -1/+2Too bad walmart aims to destroy it Tthat's why I care that they're *****.
- etnoo, on 04/10/2008, -28/+21I hope every walmart burns down.
- Pixelante, on 04/10/2008, -10/+9Don't dream it, be it.
- Petrarch1603, on 04/10/2008, -3/+8calm down donnie darko
- Gir53457, on 04/10/2008, -2/+16No, then I and hundreds of thousands of others would be out of a job. What walmart needs to do is crack down on the abusive locations and stop trying to prevent us from unionizing. Also a decent living wage for our employees who are over 65 wouldn't hurt, but we'd also settle for fixing the water fountains so we can stop buying water bottles.
- Shakermaker, on 04/10/2008, -2/+1This.
- sovietninja, on 04/10/2008, -1/+1Is.
- CaptainBryan, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6Sparta?
- Shakermaker, on 04/10/2008, -2/+1This.
- Butros, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2But I like paying 2 bucks for a knock off version of 8$ head and shoulders...
- speakeasy602, on 04/10/2008, -20/+7Wal Mart is nothing but a bunch of bastards. go to http://wakeupwalmart.com. You'll see some crazy stuff there.
- frishack, on 04/10/2008, -7/+4LOL at this website. WAAAAH , I was too stupid to educate myself, and now I'm stuck working at Walmart. WWAAHAH , give me everything for free. Raise my cashier monkey wages . WAHAHAHAHAH
- unreg, on 04/10/2008, -1/+4And I counter your anti-WalMart site with something more revealing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...- 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.- TheGuruStud, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1They also cost a trillion dollars in wasted tax money on health care for THEIR employees. They are not do gooders by any stretch of the imagination. What they do give is in the sole intention of cutting taxes. They would rather your whole family starve and die before they lose a buck.
- MikeDirntRulez, on 04/10/2008, -1/+3HEY! HEY!!
- justice7, on 04/10/2008, -20/+27its fun to hate big corps isnt it? lets all hate together now.
- insinuate, on 04/10/2008, -6/+23***** THE RIAA!!!!!
- justice7, on 04/10/2008, -3/+2first time i thought that comment was hilarious
hahahahha
- justice7, on 04/10/2008, -3/+2first time i thought that comment was hilarious
- 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.
- ChainerX, on 04/10/2008, -3/+4Maybe it's because they really are pricks?
- 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.- unreg, 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?
- unreg, on 04/10/2008, -2/+4So what are you suggesting. WalMart not help the employees in any manner?
- pintomp3, on 04/10/2008, -2/+2weren't you the guy sticking up for enron?
- brainboy77, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1they made a south park episode about this.
- insinuate, on 04/10/2008, -6/+23***** THE RIAA!!!!!
- naterpoke, on 04/10/2008, -23/+17i dunno why everyone has it out for walmart, they want to have the lowest prices so they cut money where they can, aka paying their workers who have the skills of sand people lower wages. Big business is all the US has left in the world and we're turning on it :/
- oscarwp, on 04/10/2008, -14/+7Do you think people should make a wage that allows them to afford things like healthcare or would you rather step over the dying in the street?
- naterpoke, on 04/10/2008, -8/+5 id rather have dead uneducated useless people than a bastardized economy based on catch-up and ***** that skews the scope of EVERYTHING, you're retarded
- oscarwp, on 04/10/2008, -2/+5How do you propose to educate people? Spending less money I suppose...
- 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...
- frishack, on 04/10/2008, -2/+1@oscarwp. If you want an education, then you have to turn in your Television to get it. No TV during your re-training, monkey.
- macweirdo42, on 04/10/2008, -0/+4And just who the ***** is gonna take your order at McDonald's, that's what I want to know?
- 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.
- 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.
- oscarwp, on 04/10/2008, -9/+5Sooooo... do you think people should be able to afford healthcare or would you rather step over the dying on the street?
- 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.
- oscarwp, on 04/10/2008, -5/+1I suspect that you're of the opinion that that we should cut down on schip and medicare. Or are you for socialized healthcare to take care of the people who can't afford it? If the latter is where you stand, I agree, if healthcare is free then people could afford it.
- 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!
- 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?
- 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
- FatherVic, on 04/10/2008, -4/+2Isn't that what minimum wage is for...
Politicians believe that the minimum wage is livable (even though it cuts people's hours who make it because costs have to be recovered) So wal-mart pays livable wage in the eyes of liberals... so what are you complaining for? - Butros, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2stealthmonkey's is a voice of reason
- oscarwp, on 04/10/2008, -9/+5Sooooo... do you think people should be able to afford healthcare or would you rather step over the dying on the street?
- 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....
- oscarwp, on 04/10/2008, -5/+1Not sure if you were sincere here or not, but it does seem like that's what some people would rather have (they usually change their mind when someone they know/are related to is affected though).
- yojiffyskippy, on 04/10/2008, -2/+2You must earn your wages and it will remain that way until you and the Socialist DNC change it.
- naterpoke, on 04/10/2008, -8/+5 id rather have dead uneducated useless people than a bastardized economy based on catch-up and ***** that skews the scope of EVERYTHING, you're retarded
- oscarwp, on 04/10/2008, -14/+7Do you think people should make a wage that allows them to afford things like healthcare or would you rather step over the dying in the street?
- stealthc, on 04/10/2008, -7/+9Time for the two minutes hate everyone!
- jcastillo81, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2exactly what i was thinking...
- thinman1189, on 04/10/2008, -1/+29Can I see your receipt for that incriminating video?
- fulibs, on 04/10/2008, -18/+12Walmart.... the 2nd largest charitable organization in the WORLD. Maybe they will stop and give you all a real reason to hate them.
- graddatadda, on 04/10/2008, -4/+5I'm sorry, you were saying something about Wal Mart and their abuse of imminent domain?
- Gir53457, on 04/10/2008, -2/+3Walmart doesn't abuse imminent domain. Your local governments abuse imminent domain when they decide they want more tax dollars from your area so they re-zone it for business and evict all the residents to build a shopping complex on their hopes and dreams. Then suddenly Walmart hears about this and buys out the land.
- pauleric, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2How do you "abuse imminent domain"? Does it have something to do with internet domain squatters abusing the ability to suddenly buy domains? Or are we really talking about abuse of the spelling checker?
- pintomp3, on 04/10/2008, -3/+1"Then suddenly Walmart hears about this" LOL or is it because walmart twists the arms of local officials into using imminent domain, giving them tax breaks, and paying for utilities to be put in otherwise they will set up the store right outside the border?
- Gir53457, on 04/10/2008, -2/+3Walmart doesn't abuse imminent domain. Your local governments abuse imminent domain when they decide they want more tax dollars from your area so they re-zone it for business and evict all the residents to build a shopping complex on their hopes and dreams. Then suddenly Walmart hears about this and buys out the land.
- Intangible360, on 04/10/2008, -3/+4I'd be happier if they spent that money on paying their employees. If I were the most charitable individual in my town does that give me free reign to abuse others or even excuse any of my misdeeds? Of course not!
- Ryokurin, on 04/10/2008, -3/+22nd largest charitable organization in the world? Far from it. That's Welcome Trust at 24 billion. They are only the largest corporate donor, and only for the past three years. I wonder why... They have been the #1 store for much longer than that...
- unreg, 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
- unreg, 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.
- graddatadda, on 04/10/2008, -4/+5I'm sorry, you were saying something about Wal Mart and their abuse of imminent domain?
- 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.
- pauleric, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1Ah...the naïvité of youth is so refreshing. Please allow me to explain: Something like that is easily ridiculed. Many people don't like Wal-Mart. Such people will use it to ridicule them. You can use pretty much anything for such purposes but comedy gold is comedy gold, after all. Ridicule is no big deal. Effective ridicule is bad for business. I don't think I have to explain that anything bad for business is viewed askance by management.
- DinosWillDie13, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1Major WTF moment with 38 seconds left in the video. That is enough for me. haha
- 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.- TJATL, on 04/10/2008, -11/+3small businesses destroyed? sure, hard to compete, but those employees and store owners got a job at wal mart i'm sure. How did wal mart send manufacturing jobs to china? they have no control over that.
- davewelsh79, on 04/10/2008, -5/+6Sure they have control over it. They could choose to buy the more expensive locally produced product. Then the local producer stays in business or even expands and then more local workers are employed.
Or they can just buy the cheapest products they can, which invariably come from other countries. Then foreign manufacturers prosper and hire more foreign workers.- FatherVic, on 04/10/2008, -3/+3Buying American for the sake of Buying American screws over poor people who cannot afford the markup on a premium. If it costs more to buy the product... we see inflation over a wider area thereby increasing the gap between a livable wage and minimum wage. Now you are perpetuating a cycle of inflation that screws millions of Americans all for the sake of making a point and saving a few jobs over here. Problem is... When inflation starts... people suffer... business suffer... the job market suffers... Costs move back to the store... pretty soon, it is too expensive to have so many people employed. Now everyone loses.
Good Job... - 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.
- FatherVic, on 04/10/2008, -3/+3Buying American for the sake of Buying American screws over poor people who cannot afford the markup on a premium. If it costs more to buy the product... we see inflation over a wider area thereby increasing the gap between a livable wage and minimum wage. Now you are perpetuating a cycle of inflation that screws millions of Americans all for the sake of making a point and saving a few jobs over here. Problem is... When inflation starts... people suffer... business suffer... the job market suffers... Costs move back to the store... pretty soon, it is too expensive to have so many people employed. Now everyone loses.
- cubicledrone, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0Huffy Bicycles. 'nuff said.
- davewelsh79, on 04/10/2008, -5/+6Sure they have control over it. They could choose to buy the more expensive locally produced product. Then the local producer stays in business or even expands and then more local workers are employed.
- frishack, on 04/10/2008, -5/+2LOL at you not understanding capitalism.
- 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.
- pdxnick, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0I agree with you , but lets place the guilt on greed. People don't want to pay more for the same stuff at a small business.
- pentalive, on 04/10/2008, -2/+3Walmart is a reseller, it makes very few things itself. Walmart's suppliers are the ones taking jobs overseas. And what does Walmart have to do with the credit crisis? nothing.
Your arguements have DeFex in them. : ^ ) - thebaron2, on 04/10/2008, -0/+2Not sure why pentalive is getting buried. Wal-Mart is not a manufacturer - that's just a fact.
- TJATL, on 04/10/2008, -11/+3small businesses destroyed? sure, hard to compete, but those employees and store owners got a job at wal mart i'm sure. How did wal mart send manufacturing jobs to china? they have no control over that.
- yellowcakewalk, on 04/10/2008, -8/+2Mall*Wart
- stealthc, on 04/10/2008, -13/+11Wal-Mart - big and powerful organization that has corrupt people in it, but it depends on people voluntarily patronizing its stores in order to stay funded.
US Government - big and powerful organization that steals money, property and land by force, with guns, shoots people with Tasers when they do not immediately submit, tortures foreigners, invades other countries, and is the only group to ever deploy nuclear weapons against anyone, and it used them on civilians, and it gets to take your money right out of your bank accounts if it likes.
Guess who the biggest villain is in this picture.- TheSolomon, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2I think you're confusing the use of tasers by local law enforcement officers with the United States government. Certainly the federal government has its own issues, but let's not confuse it with people on par with college campus police--which is where some of the biggest taser abuse has come from. :)
- stealthc, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1Should I have said "Government *in the US*" instead? I know the majority of Taser culprits are State employees.
- altgeeky1, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1Wow, you've got a chip on your shoulder. I'm sure someday we will read about a little incident, where your rage explodes on innocent public.
Take your meds.
- TheSolomon, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2I think you're confusing the use of tasers by local law enforcement officers with the United States government. Certainly the federal government has its own issues, but let's not confuse it with people on par with college campus police--which is where some of the biggest taser abuse has come from. :)
- handyjosh, on 04/10/2008, -8/+2The very fact that Wal Mart decided to record and archive the meetings of the higher echelon personnel screams that they cannot be trusted, even within their own organization. Not all the information available will be negative, but hey maybe this little infraction will make the big bad giant realize that people are people, not just nameless peons to serve the greater master, or the almighty dollar....
- 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.- thebaron2, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1I agree with everything you have to say except for the demand for quality. The goods you find in Wal-Mart are the same ones you find in Target, Jewel, Kroger, Publix, et al...
The differences, a few anyway, are that Wal-Mart buys in enough volume to get bigger discounts, has a more efficient inventory and distribution chain that keeps costs low, and doesn't spend as much money on the "frills" of some grocery stores (decoration, clean floors, etc...).
The actual products, though, are the same from store to store.- TheSolomon, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1That's not always true... many of the clothing lines are Walmart-only, and many types of goods, such as electronics, are the "value" lines. (For example, you'll see what looks like a steal for an LCD television, but when you compare prices you find that particular model isn't carried in places like Best Buy or Circuit City, and when you compare specs, you see it's subpar by comparison. Again, not always... model X123 will be the same as model X123 elsewhere... just that frequently you'll see model X100 at Walmart, where elsewhere you can only find X300 to compare.
- thebaron2, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1I agree with everything you have to say except for the demand for quality. The goods you find in Wal-Mart are the same ones you find in Target, Jewel, Kroger, Publix, et al...
- 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."
- 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.
- greenlight2001, on 04/10/2008, -10/+9Hey, as long as I can get my baby formula and Pepsi at the lowest price possible, am I right? Am I right? Yeah, you know I'm right.
- SteveIsTheDude, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6Pepsi *IS* baby formula in Kentucky.
- greenlight2001, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1Haha. That made my day. :P
- FatherVic, on 04/10/2008, -1/+1I can't wait until you try to raise kids and a family.
- greenlight2001, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2You don't even know the half of it. You want my medical school loan payments? You want my undergrad loan payments? How about my mortgage and car payment and malpractice insurance... the list goes on. Just my medical school loans alone are over 2 grand a month. You know how much residents make on average? About 40 grand a year PRE tax. I put out 24 grand on student loans a year POST tax. Yeah, I'm pretty certain I have NO idea what it's like to wonder how I'm gonna pay for my bills each month. Ofcourse myself, like you, CHOSE our given path so I'm not bitching, just making a point that I have money issue too, but I still avoid WalMart like the plague.
Oh and yes I have a girlfriend who pays her half on stuff, which is the only way I could have a place to live and a car to drive.- FatherVic, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2BOO-HOO!!
I already have most of that... plus a wife and kids...
When you make a budget... You have to consider the cheapest way to purchase quality goods. So you buy some things at a premium. But groceries are generally cheaper at wal-mart and so are diapers, milk, cleaning supplies, toys, household goods, light bulbs, trash bags, etc.. I could go on... You are still single. and it looks like you are a doctor. So until you are living on a $63K/yr salary with a wife, 3 kids, mortgage, 2 car payments, insurance, etc... don't talk to me.- greenlight2001, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2Hey ass, I never said there were no kids in the house, my girlfriend has a kid who lives with us. Even still, I avoid walmart. Their produce sucks, their customer services sucks and they suck all around. My desire to get huggies at the lowest possible price does not drive me into the arms of a company that cares very little about it's employees or the community they are in. If you really want to be a thrifty shopper, buy the more expensive items you need on line. Website like slickdeals and fatwallet always have threads running on where to find the best (price wise) diapers deals, or formula or whatever you need. There's no need to fellatio walmart anymore.
- RunnyBabbit, on 04/10/2008, -2/+1I can't believe FatherVic is trying to start a penis-waving contest over who's poorer.
- FatherVic, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2...way to miss the point.
- FatherVic, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2BOO-HOO!!
- pintomp3, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1especially on a walmart wage with no health care.
- FatherVic, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2Yeah, too bad Walmart can't do something to help people with no healthcare... like cheap prescriptions. That would really help millions of Americans with no insurance..
- greenlight2001, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2You don't even know the half of it. You want my medical school loan payments? You want my undergrad loan payments? How about my mortgage and car payment and malpractice insurance... the list goes on. Just my medical school loans alone are over 2 grand a month. You know how much residents make on average? About 40 grand a year PRE tax. I put out 24 grand on student loans a year POST tax. Yeah, I'm pretty certain I have NO idea what it's like to wonder how I'm gonna pay for my bills each month. Ofcourse myself, like you, CHOSE our given path so I'm not bitching, just making a point that I have money issue too, but I still avoid WalMart like the plague.
- cambob76, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1Baby formula + Pepsi = YUMMY!!!!
- brainboy77, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1pepsi? pfffh! coke is a real man's soda.
- SteveIsTheDude, on 04/10/2008, -0/+6Pepsi *IS* baby formula in Kentucky.
- DarkReign16, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2Wow. That is bizarre. And to the tune of, "walking around in women's underwear" no less....while, er, walking around in women's underwear.
- Shawn4168, on 04/10/2008, -13/+23Don'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.- graddatadda, on 04/10/2008, -8/+2yeah I am too! I mean, where else am I going to see fat obese chicks with mullets and nascar dish soap??? MURIKA FTW!
- thebaron2, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1At Dollar General.
- 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.
- Fisa, on 04/10/2008, -2/+1Given this, it seems to me your problem doesn't lie so much with Wal-Mart as with how your tax dollars are being spent. Perhaps it would be more effective to work toward electing officials that more closely agree with you on how your tax dollars are spent?
- cubicledrone, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0The only problem with your theory is Joe Suburb competing with a quarter-trillion dollar corporation. Yeah, that's a 'T'
- cubicledrone, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0The only problem with your theory is Joe Suburb competing with a quarter-trillion dollar corporation. Yeah, that's a 'T'
- 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.- jerbaker, on 04/11/2008, -1/+1"You make it to sound like every Wal-Mart employee is just another welfare case mooching off the system."
Let's face it: our economy is driven by consumer spending. The less consumers have to spend, the worse the economy is. It stands to reason that the more people there are making less money, the less they'll spend. Does that not make sense to you?
You have this strange notion that there were just millions of unemployed people milling about on the streets until Wal-Mart opened its pearly gates and gave them a job. They create jobs, in part, by destroying them elsewhere. All jobs are not created equal, and you need a way to make a meaningful comparison. How about we measure how many dollars per man-hour their jobs pay, or something along those lines?
I wish we could measure how much of our tax dollars were going to subsidize the business models of many corporations. It's no coincidence that this is nearly impossible to do.
"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."
Even better would be a job at their old shop.
- jerbaker, on 04/11/2008, -1/+1"You make it to sound like every Wal-Mart employee is just another welfare case mooching off the system."
- Fisa, on 04/10/2008, -2/+1Given this, it seems to me your problem doesn't lie so much with Wal-Mart as with how your tax dollars are being spent. Perhaps it would be more effective to work toward electing officials that more closely agree with you on how your tax dollars are spent?
- 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.
- ucg1, on 04/10/2008, -1/+1I don't shop at Walmart, but I have people angry at me because I refuse to shop there. I don't get it. I'm not getting in everyone's face telling them to boycott Walmart, either. I just simply won't shop there, but if the subject comes up, people tend to flip out and try to convince me that I should shop there. It's like there's some Walmart-cult out there or something, they get very defensive at the very implication that there might be a reason not to shop there.
- graddatadda, on 04/10/2008, -8/+2yeah I am too! I mean, where else am I going to see fat obese chicks with mullets and nascar dish soap??? MURIKA FTW!
- TJATL, 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?
- ucg1, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1I don't see anything wrong with this, but it is kinda bizarre coming from Walmart.
- mrzack, on 04/10/2008, -10/+2Most men in power are latent homosexuals. like Bush and his male prostitute/reporter Jeff Cannon/ or errr... Gannon.
http://www.thelawparty.com/FranklinCoverup/frankli ...
and this pic of bush dressed in drag: http://www.thelawparty.com/FranklinCoverup/bushmal ... - insinuate, on 04/10/2008, -0/+4Anyone have a link to a torrent or an NZB?
- Sean42, on 04/10/2008, -5/+2Nothing like listening to some geezer spew hate about unions being "blood-sucking-parasites".
Great PR you putzes.
Oh and Wal-Mart Sucks.- 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.
- graddatadda, on 04/10/2008, -4/+3Boy I hope this doesn't damage Wal Mart's capitalistic rep. There are still two farmland areas left where I live, it'd be perfect to set two Wal Marts right there next two each other. I mean, nothing inspires beauty like the sunrise coming over that happy face and the words "wal mart." Goddammit, I'm crying now just thinking of all those products I can get from China now without visiting there. God I love Murika.
- pongx, on 04/10/2008, -2/+2So what you're saying is that corporate America is ruled by former frat buddies who drink a lot and act like jackasses when possible?
This just in! The sky is blue! - 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/ - 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.
- designer, on 04/10/2008, -4/+3Digg + Wal-Mart = Wal-Mart is Evil.
- georgewellsca, on 04/10/2008, -6/+7"Unions are blood-sucking parasites" - I couldn't have said that part any better - I am in total agreement (and I work for a large, privately owned company and make more than my union-counterparts in the same area, because I work hard and get paid based on actual performance, not the minimum required) - Digg me down, but these are the facts!
- pintomp3, on 04/10/2008, -2/+2without collective bargaining and the right to strike, we wouldn't have a middle class, child labor laws, or workplace safety requirements.
- sigg14, on 04/10/2008, -1/+2liar liar
- govsucks, on 04/10/2008, -6/+2Tough anti-union talk makes me want to go shop at wal mart now
- Ruiner, on 04/10/2008, -4/+1The idea of Wal-Mart having a union is silly. That like McDonalds having a union or McUnion.
- pintomp3, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1walmart's in germany have unions.
- sigg14, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1cashiers already have a union, walmart just won't let its employees organize
- mlvassallo, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1I love seeing things that I'm never meant to see! I must be ***** up...
- cambob76, on 04/10/2008, -1/+3Wal-Mart and the like are the end product of capitalism. Enjoy!
- Csense, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1And your recommended alternative would be......?
- rasinhussy, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0Would the end product in your dreamy Socialist society some how be any better... F8CK NO!! Capitalism all the way!!!
- VitriolAndAngst, on 04/10/2008, -3/+1This issue is bigger than just WalMart:
Everyone who works in this country ought to be able to raise a family. We can't all be motivated, career go-getters because there are only so many positions available. I am, by the way, a go-getter, but that's probably because having some success leads to an attitude that you can succeed. If you never had success and opportunity, you get an "attitude." It's a self-fulfilling prophesy. Poverty and stress actually releases more Cortisol, and recent studies are showing, this lowers peoples' IQ and makes them more aggressive. Again, a self-fulfilling prophesy of people who are called "losers." You are most likely a go-getting, intelligent and successful person because you were raised by people who had some success -- it isn't genetic or because you are better for the most part, but that environment gears you for more success. The socioeconomic status of your parents, has more to do with your success in business, than your grades or degree in college.
There will always be the same number of "losers" in a society, no matter how difficult you make their life. A society can either choose to make those people comfortable -- like Sweden or Iceland, or they can let them sink, like Mexico. For instance, in the Middle Ages, apparently, there were people toiling away and still poor -- was that because they were all lazy? Is everyone in Mexico lazy?
Mexico is actually a wealthy country with oil exports. So is Holland. One country does not move money from the wealthy, does not provide infrastructure, and does not push their technology to be energy independent. Basically, one country treats the people without money like dirt, and the other country invests in their people to raise their standard of living. Where would you like to live if you might not make the cut to be one of the fortunate "go-getters" in the top 5%?
If we allow no standards to what companies can get away with -- they "winning" companies, will always get a competitive advantage by taking more advantage of their employees and/or the public good.- 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?
- jcastillo81, on 04/10/2008, -1/+1Walmart is nowhere near the worst corporation in the country.
There's another one that is responsible for wasting 100's of billions of stolen money every year, is the country's biggest polluter, forces many people into poverty and gives incentives for others to stay in poverty, constantly lies to its investors and customers, is severely discriminatory, employs violent thugs and sexual deviants, supports anti-gay and anti-atheist organizations, imprisons people who oppose it, creates dangerous black markets, attempts to brainwash millions of children, defends and empowers companies like Walmart, destroys the value of our money, overreacts to possible threats and causes millions of dollars and hours of lost productivity, forces its customers to fill out mountains of paperwork and jump through meaningless hoops to do business, angers people around the world on a daily basis, prevents little girls from starting their own African hair braiding business, steals your property, kills thousands of people a year and is generally not very nice. And if you don't want to do business with them that's too damn bad.
I'll give you 1 guess who it is...- brainboy77, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1yeah, i'm going to need the first letter. letters. word. words. the whole title of the company.
- vidorian, on 04/10/2008, -2/+3I;m sure this will be buried but here goes.
If people who worked at wal-mart were capable of making more money in the same town wouldn't they switch jobs? The truth is wages in this country are stagnate in almost every field. If you look at wal-mart locations smaller cities and rural America wal mart actually provides good paying jobs and benefits. If it's wages were so awful then no one would work there but the truth is, it is the best job they can get in their area.
I think i've said this before but it bears repeating. My cousin married a guy who at 16 went to work at winn-dixie stocking shelves after 10 years and a few promotions a wal-mart super center opened in his town. Worried about the impact of the supercenter he approached his superiors asking how it would impact his job. He was informed the only thing that they could promise is that his wages would not be cut. He applied at wal-mart and was hired on at $13 an hour that was that was about 6 or 8 years ago. He now makes over 60k a year with full benefits and a very nice 401k. Next year he hopes to be put into the managers program where he would makes upwards of a 100k a year. This for a man who barely finished high school. And in a town where over 40% of the children enrolled in public school are on free or reduced lunches.
Wal-mart has made millionaires out of countless employee share holders.
Is everything wal-mart does right? No i disagree with a lot of it but their goal is to keep the lowest prices possible that they in turn pass on to the customers. I can name a lot of companies who treat their employees like crap, low wages, no benefits cut corners and they don't pass the savings on.
The retail industry is fickle to say the least. If prices didn't matter then woolworth, tg&y and many others would still be in business today. The truth is in retail if you don't have competitive prices you will not last. Mass buying power can only lower prices so much. - Electrickazoo, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1I used to work for sam's club, which is a part of walmart, and we never had anything like this....if you don't count the group cheers, forced smiles, and degrading attitude of your superiors. I never recovered isles dressed in drag though, Looks like a fun time.....
- Kathy100, on 04/10/2008, -1/+1The U.S. government gives walmart $200,000 every time they open a store here. Most of the employees are on food stamps. Hillary was on the walmart board a few years ago too.
- christianboutin, on 04/10/2008, -2/+2This is ridiculous. It's ok to hate, folks, but at the very least hate for the right reasons. The video is worthless. How people act during business parties and so on shouldn't be a factor in pretty much anything.
- d2340, on 04/10/2008, -1/+1This is what happens when you don't honor business agreements. I hope Walmart learns a hard painful lesson out of this mess!
- 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- gnixon70, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1I also found that rather reveling. wasn't sure if they were referring to Clinton till I saw the camera on her.
- ScienceDoc, on 04/10/2008, -2/+3Wal Mart is the epitome of greed. You pro-Wal Mart folks that buy into it are just the kind of moron that is destroying this country. You probably voted for Bush too. I am guessing twice.
- rasinhussy, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0You are the epitome of greed sir! You with your car filling up on gasoline day by day, putting money into the hands of Islamic fascists. Do you have a TV or a computer, things you have that others do not have. The definition of Greed is: a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (as money) than is needed.
You Greedy Bastard!!
- rasinhussy, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0You are the epitome of greed sir! You with your car filling up on gasoline day by day, putting money into the hands of Islamic fascists. Do you have a TV or a computer, things you have that others do not have. The definition of Greed is: a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (as money) than is needed.
- gnixon70, on 04/10/2008, -3/+4I worked for WalMart while I was going through college and I didn't find them to be a bad place to work for. They were real flexible with my hours, and always got off when I needed it (granted that was rare). They treated everyone (at least in my corner of the world) pretty good having cookouts during work for people who had to work on holidays, and other incentive reasons.
While I was there, even as a part time employee, I still had medical, dental, 401, and profit sharing. Which was, by the way, much more then I got on my first job in my chosen profession.
Grant it, the pay wasn't all that good, but then again, I wasn't building rockets, or performing surgery there anyway.
All in all, My experience as an employee at Walmart was a pretty positive one. anyway, thats my two cents - 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???- MedHead, on 04/11/2008, -0/+1I was wondering what news outlet was going to go for the Wal*Mart-bashing story. Surprise, surprise, it's ABC.
- gametester, on 04/10/2008, -0/+0You reap what you sow
- caponumen, on 04/10/2008, -0/+1Yep, they are EVIL......
- rasinhussy, on 04/11/2008, -0/+0Wal-Mart is Evil!! How dare they give employment to over 2 million people, helping them live better lives. How dare they sell food and things to people that truly need them at the best price. How dare they make a profit while doing it, no other company does that!!
They are so evil!!!- graddatadda, on 04/11/2008, -1/+1Yeah! Sock it to'em! How dare the pay decent wages to 2 million people helping them with living miserable lives? How dare they sell biochemically engineered food and things to people who will eat them and then in turn have some sick cancer 10 years from now. How dare they use imminent domain, no other company does that!!
- rasinhussy, on 04/11/2008, -0/+0It's Eminent domain dumb ass! And many companies do it (Walgreens, Lowes to name a few) Last I checked "Eminent Domain" is right of a government to appropriate private property for public use, usually with compensation. Wal-Mart is not taking the land from the small business owners, it's the ***** greedy politicians who see lots o' money coming there way. Wal-Mart may sell GE foods, but isn't it the suppliers that are sending the food to Wal-Mart giving them no other choice. Go to the ***** scientists playing God with our food sources, Wal-Mart is just a retailer.
I myself work for Wal-Mart and get higher wages than I would at competing retailers, so don't give me that *****!!
I will "Sock it to 'em"!! Socks 3 for $1 at Wal-Mart. LMAO!
- TheKappa, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1Goddammit, I hates Walmart! I hates it, Precious!
- ThisIsGroovy, on 04/24/2008, -0/+0Too funny!
Serves them right for their business practices! I've heard for years about how they treat women, how they try to keep pay low (below average) and don't want to provide decent health care for their employees! I DO NOT like unions, but neither do I like companies that work their people hard and keep all the profits for themselves!
I also hope this exposes Hillary Clinton for the two-faced liar that she is! - STobin723, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1Wal-mart's egregious actions have secured them a position on Corporate Accountability's Corporate Hall of Shame this year. Visit:
http://www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/campaign/hall ...
to cast your vote on this year's most irresponsible corporation. The 'winner' will be formally inducted into this year's Hall of Shame and be monitored by CAI for the remainder of the year.
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