Wal-Mart food drive

[poindexter]

A Thanksgiving food drive started at Wal-Mart.... *for* the employees.

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/walmart-employees-organize-food-drive-----for-other-walmart-employees-191602622.html

Mods, you can delete if you think this falls under politics.

 

[KJIM]

Political? How so?

I've worked at multiple other organizations that have taken up collections for fellow employees. Not necessarily for foodstuffs, but for money that could be applied to food, or whatever.

It's not new. Why is it news?

 

[RickStain]

Political? How so?

I've worked at multiple other organizations that have taken up collections for fellow employees. Not necessarily for foodstuffs, but for money that could be applied to food, or whatever.

It's not new. Why is it news?

It scores an emotional point.

 

[da man]

They probably should have done this at a couple of the newspapers I worked for. It would have come in handy.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

They probably should have done this at a couple of the newspapers I worked for. It would have come in handy.

We usually got a deli tray if we had to work in the office on Thanksgiving or Christmas. It was one of those things where there was a debate as to whether you would have preferred they do nothing at all...

 

[LongTimeListener]

This food drive is going to be the plot driver of the new "It's A Wonderful Life" movie, which also features Mr. Potter as the benevolent Job Creator.

 

[poindexter]

Political? How so?

You've never seen JR's posts on a Wal-Mart thread, apparently.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I've worked at multiple other organizations that have taken up collections for fellow employees. Not necessarily for foodstuffs, but for money that could be applied to food, or whatever. It's not new. Why is it news?

Some may believe there's news value when the employees one of the (if not the) wealthiest corporations in the country, which makes billions in profit and pays its upper management mega-millions, are reduced to begging each other for foodstuffs so they can enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner.

Then again, others may not. Whatever the traffic will bear.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I've worked at multiple other organizations that have taken up collections for fellow employees. Not necessarily for foodstuffs, but for money that could be applied to food, or whatever. It's not new. Why is it news?

Some may believe there's news value when the employees one of the (if not the) wealthiest corporations in the country, which makes billions in profit and pays its upper management mega-millions, are reduced to begging each other for foodstuffs so they can enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner.

Then again, others may not. Whatever the traffic will bear.

Reduced to begging while working at a store which sells *drumroll* food.

If they truly gave a **** - which they don't - They'd offer their employees a half-off discount on groceries for a day so they could stock up for holiday meals. But that just might Christ-like or something so that'll never happen.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I've worked at multiple other organizations that have taken up collections for fellow employees. Not necessarily for foodstuffs, but for money that could be applied to food, or whatever. It's not new. Why is it news?

Some may believe there's news value when the employees one of the (if not the) wealthiest corporations in the country, which makes billions in profit and pays its upper management mega-millions, are reduced to begging each other for foodstuffs so they can enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner.

Then again, others may not. Whatever the traffic will bear.

Reduced to begging while working at a store which sells *drumroll* food.

If they truly gave a **** - which they don't - They'd offer their employees a half-off discount on groceries for a day so they could stock up on holidays. But that just might Christ-like or something so that'll never happen.

Nah, can't do that. The shareholders will scream.

 

[britwrit]

In closely-related news, the Wal-Mart corporation donates a barrel full of fish to the internet.

 

[canucklehead]

Worked at a newspaper where employees — who were paid **** — traditionally received $25 each Christmas to buy a turkey. New publisher comes in, gets involved in United Way so he can look like a good guy.
Come Christmas he tells everyone he's planning to instead give our turkey money to United Way. Someone must have confronted him because he suddenly changed his mind.
Before I got to this place the $25 used to be a $500 bonus I was told.
Old deskers received shares in the company, which was owned by the richest man in Canada.

 

[Morris816]

I've worked at multiple other organizations that have taken up collections for fellow employees. Not necessarily for foodstuffs, but for money that could be applied to food, or whatever. It's not new. Why is it news?

Some may believe there's news value when the employees one of the (if not the) wealthiest corporations in the country, which makes billions in profit and pays its upper management mega-millions, are reduced to begging each other for foodstuffs so they can enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner.

Then again, others may not. Whatever the traffic will bear.

Reduced to begging while working at a store which sells *drumroll* food.

If they truly gave a **** - which they don't - They'd offer their employees a half-off discount on groceries for a day so they could stock up for holiday meals. But that just might Christ-like or something so that'll never happen.

FWIW, the discount store I worked at for a couple of months did give an employee discount for all purchases. I have no idea if Wal-Mart does that or did at any point, though.

 

[RickStain]

Wal-Mart gives a 10% employee discount after 90 days of employment, iirc.

 

[User 11148]

My word ... "Reduced to begging" ... the shamelessness of some of you. And here I thought those of journalistic tendencies had an especial affinity for "the facts."

 

[Batman]

I've worked at multiple other organizations that have taken up collections for fellow employees. Not necessarily for foodstuffs, but for money that could be applied to food, or whatever. It's not new. Why is it news?

Some may believe there's news value when the employees one of the (if not the) wealthiest corporations in the country, which makes billions in profit and pays its upper management mega-millions, are reduced to begging each other for foodstuffs so they can enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner.

Then again, others may not. Whatever the traffic will bear.

Reduced to begging while working at a store which sells *drumroll* food.

If they truly gave a **** - which they don't - They'd offer their employees a half-off discount on groceries for a day so they could stock up for holiday meals. But that just might Christ-like or something so that'll never happen.

Perhaps an enrollment to the Jelly of the Month Club is in order? It's the gift that keeps giving, the whole year 'round.

 

[apeman33]

Wal-Mart gives a 10% employee discount after 90 days of employment, iirc.

Walmart employees have a card so they can use their discount at any store. Swipe it like a debit card at the end of the sale.

But the discount doesn't apply to food. (Or didn't when I was working there.)

 

[JR]

Wal-Mart gives a 10% employee discount after 90 days of employment, iirc.

Yes, and that should rise them out of poverty.

Hey, we know you're paying you **** but here's a charity box.

And, of course, there's no class system in North America.

 

[Starman]

At my first full-time journalism job out of college, the NEWS EDITOR (the No. 3 guy in an 8-person newsroom) was paid little enough he qualified for food stamps (he had a wife and infant daughter; they lived in a town 25 miles away).

Occasionally he did the family grocery shopping at the local food-mart. One of Mr. Publisher's big-man-around-town/king of the morning coffee klatch buddies saw him paying with food stamps. For the next several days at the morning coffee confabs in the local diner, Mr. Publisher's buddies gave him all sorts of crap for not paying his news editor enough to feed his family without food stamps.

Mr. Publisher walks into the newsroom and orders Mr. News Ed to see him in his office.

Mr. News Ed walks in the door. "Hey, it looks bad when you are buying food around town with food stamps," says Mr. Publisher.

"Yeah, maybe we should do something about it," says Mr. News Ed.

"Right. Well, from now on, don't use food stamps when you shop for food around here."

End of meeting.

 

[Mark2010]

Hey, Wal-Mart employees (and newspaper people) have to eat, too. Although I guess there is something wrong with a company whose products are priced such that their own employees can't buy them.