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[obzai]

Fuck you, Wal-Mart, fuck you.

"She said that she was let go a month before she was to complete her ten years and thus qualify for profit-sharing and other retirement benefits."
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan06/Bliss17.htm

You fucking evil bastards.

Comments

[maffyew]

Time shaving happens here, too.

We just call it "unpaid overtime" - despite the fact that workers doing unpaid overtime are casual employees, and therefore the term shouldn't even exist unless you're on a contractual agreement.

It's only getting worse.

[obzai]

Time shaving I more or less expect, I guess.

Firing someone under those circumstances? I object to that. Obviously we don't know the whole story, maybe she was stealing cheezels, soaking them in petrol and setting fire to them under the boss's car. But if she wasn't, and the situation geniunely is that simple, that's a pretty damn low way to go about doing business. You don't get rid of someone that close to retirement, even if their position just became redundant... you find something else for them to do for a month, surely.

At face value that really just spoke volumes to me about the complete lack of any kind of moral conscience or basic human decency present in that company and the system in general, slamming the door on a long-term employee to prevent having to pay them any bonuses.

I so hope I'm wrong on that one, but I fear that I'm not.

[hobzai]

That is exactly the way they operate, Obz. They are absolutely ruthless. If you're looking for basic human decency - sorry, sir, nil stock showing.

[obzai]

Hey, as long as they go to church on Sundays they're good people though, right?

[hobzai]

My anger at Wal-Mart's business and employment practices is almost limitless. They're like a fucking virus. As both you guys would know, they're not the only one doing it. McDonalds and Starbucks are two others who pull similar stunts. I could rant for pages but I won't.

Recommended reading: "No Logo" by Naomi Klein.