Rabbit!

You don't know anything about Walmart's history with its workers. There's is ample material available, including books by writers who worked there - openly under their own names -- and reported the conditions.

You also don't know anything about the poverty in the areas where Walmart chooses to locate, where there are literally no other job options available.

I wish for you some day to be in the position of these exploited people. Let's see how arrogant you will be then!

HB

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Higgs Boson
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As I said, lots of others pay crappy wages. Walmart catches this kind of slur as they are non-union. No one forces anyone to work there. Whether you like it or not, Walmart employees and all they other folks working low pay jobs are exchanging in a voluntary exchange of good and services between consenting parties. You are missing the "consent" part. And I have to give these people their due. They could be sucking off the public tit instead of working for a living.

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Todd

HB never misses an opportunity to throw in his leftist politics.

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Frank

And you can't help like the guy despite it too. Leftists are not much into the open exchange of ideas now-a-days. In my childhood, they use to love debate. Not anymore. And open debate is necessary for a republic to survive. Higgs will let you discuss alternate opinion to an extent. Better than most. Most just start flinging names, meaning they don't got nothing and they just lost the debate. Higgs is a good sport most of the time.

Yesterday, I introduced the cute little fellow (the Wabbit, not Higgs) to Walmart's own, 89 cent per bottle, Louisiana Hot Sauce. Cheapest one I could find. (It smells bad too. I'd never put it on food.) Hit him with cayenne powder on Tuesday. No sign of the wabbit so far.

I bought it from a friendly employee at Walmart who had voluntarily accepted work at Walmart, rather than sucking off the public tit.

Walmart is a great place for those with no work experience and no skills to start working their way up. It is also great for retirees that need to kill some time and/or supplement their income. Someone told me off the record at the local Walmart that they are having trouble finding employees that will pass the drug test.

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Todd

Now we learn that paying workers a decent wage rather than exploiting people who have no alternative is "leftist politics".

You learn something new every day!

What's NOT new is that some people think they are better than their fellows. Almost makes you wish there was some being Up There handing out justice.

HB

HB

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Higgs Boson

You get paid what the market will bear. And you only seem to care if the shop is non-union. And, yes it is "leftist politics". You are told who to hate. And it really doesn't matter what they pay. Just who is and who isn't union. And no one thinks they are better than anyone else, that is just more slurs.

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Todd

Right, God made me better than most and I took advantage of it. It was not my fault.

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Frank

HB's bunnies are welcome to share his carrots equally even though they had nothing to do with their production ;)

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Frank

That's like saying that Amazon is located on the net because all users are dirt poor. Walmart stores are located in neighborhoods of all socieo economic levels but mostly affluent... if the Walmart where you live is located in a ghetto what does that say about you? It's no coincidence that the Walmart bashers are typically at the lowest socieo economic level. Obviously you've no marketable skills, and it shows from reading your posts, it's highly unlikely that you finished high school. There are three Super Walmarts that I shop in the area where I live, all in very affluent NY Capitol district hoods... in fact the largest Walmart in the US is located in a very affluent section of Albany. Several of my neighbors work for Walmart, all very well paid and happy with their job... maybe you and your ilk are of the mind set that all Walmart employees stock grocery shelves, nothing is further from the truth, most of their employees are in management positions, many hold highly technical positions... Walmart pays its accountants, IT people, buyers, marketing people, building maintenance staff, etc. as well as any comparable company and usually better. People with your attitude feel the way you do because you aren't qualified to stock Walmart's shelves. I also know people who think like you, they or someone in their family was fired from Walmart for stealing and/or drugging. Walmart has a very strict policy regarding stealing and drugging, one offence and you're gone. Walmart also does not tolerate poor attendance, if you don't show or are late you had better have a good reason. I've even ran into folks shopping at Walmart who have told me that they hate Walmart, that they'd never shop there... and there they are with a full cart of groceries. I like Walmart, simply because I like paying less. However their stores are also spacious, scrupulously clean, there's lots of parking, their staff is helpful and polite, and they sell the same exact products as everywhere else only at lower prices... the bottle of Heinz ketchup at Walmart is precisely the same as from any other store, only it costs significantly less. Why don't you apply for a job at Walmart, I'd be curious to know if they'd hire you to mop their toilets.

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Brooklyn1

I gather HB lives in the land of the fruits and the nuts - not the real world.

I find local Walmart a great place to shop with good prices and friendly help.

Walmart also goes through extra pains to make sure it sells decent products. I've done some work for a couple of vendors wanting to sell there and know this as Walmart required information on the products that other stores didn't.

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Frank

He lives in the PRC (Peoples Republic of California). You got to love Jerry Brown: a left wing fiscal conservative who keeps his word!

If you can find anyone to help.

I have worked for those that sell to Walmart. Walmart is brutal on them. It is very hard to make a living selling to them. But, it is not personal. It is just business

By the way, I have always found the argument that Walmart places themselves in economically challenged areas to be a bit lazy. 1) it is not true, and 2) if it was true, why would you want to take those jobs away, other than you'd rather poor folks suck off the public tit rather than work for a living?

By the way, sometimes Walmart sells marginal rejects on stuff because they are cheaper. For instance, don't buy AAA, or AA batteries from them. Half of them will be dead before their expiration date. But this is no different from being informed on your purchases no matter where you shop.

Now, lets get all those poor people working at Walmart out of their jobs and on the public tit!

The problem with Walmart is 1) they are successful and 2) they are non-union.

Oh and they make great bunny repellent.

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Todd

?? What makes you reach that conclusion? Quote please.

And, yes it is "leftist politics".

How embarrassing!

HB

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Higgs Boson

Yebbut the 3 US posters other than you who are in this thread would be considered to be on the extreme rabid right in other first world countries.

The US has long had a bad reputation for exploitation of workers. It wasn't always so and at one time it had a fine history but not since WWII at least. Low wages paid in the US get very bad comments and press here from tourists and the media. Wal-mart has been one of the companies mentioned but not the only one.

In addition tourists gripe where tips are expected to be handed over after any form of service provision. Employers who expect customers to pay for both goods received and then service provided by their employee rather than them pay a proper wage are considered to be exploitative.

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Fran Farmer

I wrote a longish post basically agreeing with you and citing some bits of history that got us to where we are, then I lost it.

It is very painful to have lived through better times and see one's beloved country losing its soul.

HB

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Higgs Boson

Just read your own stuff.

It is only embarrassing that you let others tell you who to hate.

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Todd

Only in your mind. Maybe Higgs' too. Were three are pretty much in the middle of the conservative (Jeffersonian Liberal) movement. You and Higgs and out in left field with the goats. Neither one of you are capable of the interchange of idea necessary for the proper health of a representative republic. Both of you just throw insults. Then accuse other of being intolerant and closed minded.

Leftover old war b*** s***.

More leftover old war b*** s***.

We let the market determine what you are pain (in most cases). This is how freedom and the free market works. If you want elitists to choose who pays what, then if the best case you get a decaying European socialist toilet. In the worst case, you get a Nazi/Soviet style socialist tyranny.

You are forgetting, in America, even the poor people are fat.

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Todd

I know exactly what you mean. You can at least take comfort in knowing that at least the residents of your country can manage to elect a President who seems like a decent human being. Sad tough about all the vitriolic comments that are sent his way - no doubt due to him dusky skin colour and the red colour of the necks of those who make such comments.

You should see the creep we have heading up our country at the moment, and none of his hangers on seem to be any better. I never used to feel ashamed of my country but increasingly that is how I am feeling.

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Fran Farmer

People with your views sit politically on the far right on the world stage. You might manage to figure this out if you used your passport more and/or read more of the world press.

Maybe Higgs' too. Were three are pretty much in

"Conservative, (Jeffersonian Liberal)" says it all as you would realise if you had knew what you were writing about or got out more.

You clearly have no idea what the rest of the world reads or sees or thinks about the politics of US citizens.

Speaking of insults.....

Your ignorance can't change the history of the Labor movement either in the US or around the world. Do some reading on it.

What a stupidly illogical comment.

When were you in my country? For how long? How many returning tourists did you speak to? Which newspapers TV channels and radio stations did you follow?

More ignorance on your part. Do some reading on Political Science before you use terms that you clearly don't understand. 'National Socialism' is far right. 'Soviet Socialism' is far left.

And before you repeat your ridiculous comment based on the presence of a word that causes alarm bells to go off in that cranial cavity of yours, you might wonder why the long form of the name of North Korea is the 'Democratic People's Republic of Korea'.

'Fat' is a physical condition. 'Exploited' is a political and social condition. 'You' are ignorant and parochial and rabid and right wing.

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Frank

Yep. We haven't had much of a left wing for several decades. It has reached the point that a non-trivial segment of the population thinks having public schools equates to repressive socialism.

I forget where, but I read an interesting article a month or three back on tipping. Turns out that when it started, many US states considered it so vulgar that there were laws prohibiting it.

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Drew Lawson

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