« previous next »
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4   Go Down

Author Topic: Wal-Mart Workers Strike  (Read 3376 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline mamacags

  • Smells like teen spirit
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4281
  • Reputation: +444/-113
  • Little Miss Cranky Pants
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #50 on: October 13, 2012, 06:35:50 AM »
I am here every single day.  I just do a lot of my reading on my cell which is a total PITA to reply with.
Logged
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2828/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #51 on: October 13, 2012, 06:36:56 AM »
Quote from: mamacags on October 13, 2012, 06:35:50 AM
I am here every single day.  I just do a lot of my reading on my cell which is a total PITA to reply with.

Is your daughter practicing that stuff I sent?  :-)
Logged
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline mamacags

  • Smells like teen spirit
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4281
  • Reputation: +444/-113
  • Little Miss Cranky Pants
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #52 on: October 13, 2012, 06:37:41 AM »
As for the OP...Do you need a ****ing midol?  I have a super industrial size jug of them that I eat like candy.  So you should trust me when I say that having your tampon in crooked is no way to go through life son.
Logged
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2828/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #53 on: October 13, 2012, 06:41:19 AM »
Quote from: mamacags on October 13, 2012, 06:37:41 AM
As for the OP...Do you need a ****ing midol?  I have a super industrial size jug of them that I eat like candy.  So you should trust me when I say that having your tampon in crooked is no way to go through life son.

 :rotf:

I'll never think about tampons the same way. EVAH. Havin' 'em in crooked is bad juju, eh?

h5
Logged
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58696
  • Reputation: +3070/-173
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #54 on: October 13, 2012, 06:50:21 AM »
Quote from: mamacags on October 13, 2012, 06:35:50 AM
I am here every single day.  I just do a lot of my reading on my cell which is a total PITA to reply with.

Thanks, mama.  I didn't know that, and was worried.
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline vesta111

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9712
  • Reputation: +493/-1154
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #55 on: October 13, 2012, 08:47:53 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on October 12, 2012, 07:16:07 PM
They have a cart for giving shock treatment to Vesta.   She's over, I think.

I think so, the darn thing seemed to zap me everytime I drove past the expensive items,  a bit of subliminal message to make me stop and wonder if I really needed that item and to keep moving.   

I think my Hubby put them up to this, when we enter the store it is a battle between us, as fast as I fill up the cart of impulse items he is running about putting the items back on the shelf.    Those darn shelves with the [as seen on TV] items, he tries everything he can do to keep me away from, he gets quite upset if I even look at an electric potato and vegetable peeler for only $29.95.

Sea, Hubby does all the food shopping in our home, as I am now a stay at home house keeper he decides what he wants me to cook.   No problem as I am a  bad cook  he often will go for weeks living on sandwiches rather then a proper meal. You may have seen him 3-4 times a week looking at the deli goodies with lust in his eyes for good potato salad or slices of honey baked ham.







 
Logged

Offline Undies

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2515
  • Reputation: +308/-54
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #56 on: October 13, 2012, 08:54:18 AM »
Quote from: vesta111 on October 13, 2012, 08:47:53 AM
I think so, the darn thing seemed to zap me everytime I drove past the expensive items,  a bit of subliminal message to make me stop and wonder if I really needed that item and to keep moving.  

I think my Hubby put them up to this, when we enter the store it is a battle between us, as fast as I fill up the cart of impulse items he is running about putting the items back on the shelf.    Those darn shelves with the [as seen on TV] items, he tries everything he can do to keep me away from, he gets quite upset if I even look at an electric potato and vegetable peeler for only $29.95.

Sea, Hubby does all the food shopping in our home, as I am now a stay at home house keeper he decides what he wants me to cook.   No problem as I am a  bad cook  he often will go for weeks living on sandwiches rather then a proper meal. You may have seen him 3-4 times a week looking at the deli goodies with lust in his eyes for good potato salad or slices of honey baked ham.

My wife bought one of those miracle bras off the "as seen on TV' aisle.  She loves it.  It ain't all bad.







  
« Last Edit: October 13, 2012, 09:02:14 AM by Undies »
Logged

Offline mamacags

  • Smells like teen spirit
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4281
  • Reputation: +444/-113
  • Little Miss Cranky Pants
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #57 on: October 13, 2012, 09:00:46 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 13, 2012, 06:36:56 AM
Is your daughter practicing that stuff I sent?  :-)
Yes. Thanks so much for your help too!!!!
Logged
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Offline jtyangel

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9116
  • Reputation: +497/-110
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #58 on: October 13, 2012, 09:50:09 AM »
Quote from: mamacags on October 13, 2012, 06:35:50 AM
I am here every single day.  I just do a lot of my reading on my cell which is a total PITA to reply with.
Ditto. That's what happened to me too. Hate replying on the phone
Logged

Offline RobJohnson

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8876
  • Reputation: +332/-109
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #59 on: October 13, 2012, 04:39:42 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on October 12, 2012, 07:17:34 PM
You noticed that, she didn't talk about that nice, respectful associate in the deli!! :bawl:

Retail deli can be a tough job. They work very hard.

I know first hand. I was "third in charge" whatever that means after only nine months at a grocery store chain in Illinois while I was between car dealership jobs. I needed a steady pay check in the winter months to pay my rent. Some found it funny to see me working there, but they were working 60 hours a week for 100% commission and I knew they were not making any commission...keep laughing, lol

The store director tried to make the me the deli manager after six months, we had an increase in sales, CSI, etc...the UFCW blocked it. It would of been a set schedule, quicker health benefits, and about $8 more an hour, for doing the same work I was already doing...My deli manager could not make a simple sign without misspelling words like "New York"... I simply did not have enough seniority for my hard work to pay off. I hate unions.  :-)  

They had new contract language that was to make seniority a secondary requirment allowing "what was best for the store" to trump....the store director, his DM, just could not get it done...so I left and took a job running a resturant, in which I learned even more and made more money.

If you are non union now, unions are not usually a good thing to sign up for. Take my word for it. (for the lurking DUmmies)

I have held elected union offices with four different locals, two were out of Chicago and one shared an office with ACORN.
Logged

Offline vesta111

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9712
  • Reputation: +493/-1154
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #60 on: October 13, 2012, 05:35:32 PM »
Quote from: RobJohnson on October 13, 2012, 04:39:42 PM
Retail deli can be a tough job. They work very hard.

I know first hand. I was "third in charge" whatever that means after only nine months at a grocery store chain in Illinois while I was between car dealership jobs. I needed a steady pay check in the winter months to pay my rent. Some found it funny to see me working there, but they were working 60 hours a week for 100% commission and I knew they were not making any commission...keep laughing, lol

The store director tried to make the me the deli manager after six months, we had an increase in sales, CSI, etc...the UFCW blocked it. It would of been a set schedule, quicker health benefits, and about $8 more an hour, for doing the same work I was already doing...My deli manager could not make a simple sign without misspelling words like "New York"... I simply did not have enough seniority for my hard work to pay off. I hate unions.  :-)  

They had new contract language that was to make seniority a secondary requirment allowing "what was best for the store" to trump....the store director, his DM, just could not get it done...so I left and took a job running a resturant, in which I learned even more and made more money.

If you are non union now, unions are not usually a good thing to sign up for. Take my word for it. (for the lurking DUmmies)

I have held elected union offices with four different locals, two were out of Chicago and one shared an office with ACORN.

They tried to bring in a union to my work place and the company printed out what benefits we already got and the by state labor laws. 
 They printed all these out with the company benefits and state laws on one side of the paper and the union benefits, plus the cost to join and weekly deduction for dues on the other.

It was easy to see that the state and federal laws covered us at no cost and with no union the company benefits covered us with health insurance, a 401K plan and yearly bonuses.   

Unions were usefull 100 years ago, but today with the government laws useless in most cases. We have OSHA to cover work conditions, have an accident and they are right on it.  Sexual harassment, is taken care of by law as is unreasonable reassignment of a job,    As in hiring a 90 pound woman to work the switch board then sending her to another job that requires her to lift 50 pound boxes every 3 minutes. 

   

Logged

Offline seahorse513

  • I don't take shit from anyone!!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5260
  • Reputation: +491/-247
  • British by birth, American thru naturalization
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #61 on: October 13, 2012, 05:38:44 PM »
Quote from: vesta111 on October 13, 2012, 08:47:53 AM
I think so, the darn thing seemed to zap me everytime I drove past the expensive items,  a bit of subliminal message to make me stop and wonder if I really needed that item and to keep moving.   

I think my Hubby put them up to this, when we enter the store it is a battle between us, as fast as I fill up the cart of impulse items he is running about putting the items back on the shelf.    Those darn shelves with the [as seen on TV] items, he tries everything he can do to keep me away from, he gets quite upset if I even look at an electric potato and vegetable peeler for only $29.95.

Sea, Hubby does all the food shopping in our home, as I am now a stay at home house keeper he decides what he wants me to cook.   No problem as I am a  bad cook  he often will go for weeks living on sandwiches rather then a proper meal. You may have seen him 3-4 times a week looking at the deli goodies with lust in his eyes for good potato salad or slices of honey baked ham.

We have several honey hams, not to mention 4 types of potato salad....You don't need to buy anything Vesta. Just hello would be nice...







 
Logged
The sea is treacherous, but an even hand on the keel brings it safely to port.

Nothing is sexier than a man and his gun!!!

A man should prefer his own company to that of others, because no matter where he goes,he'll find himself there..

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money".  Lady Maggie Thatcher

Offline RobJohnson

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8876
  • Reputation: +332/-109
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #62 on: October 13, 2012, 05:59:22 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on October 13, 2012, 06:35:50 AM
I am here every single day.  I just do a lot of my reading on my cell which is a total PITA to reply with.

I can feel your white light. I knew you were here.  :-)
Logged

Offline RobJohnson

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8876
  • Reputation: +332/-109
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #63 on: October 13, 2012, 06:05:33 PM »
Quote from: vesta111 on October 13, 2012, 05:35:32 PM
They tried to bring in a union to my work place and the company printed out what benefits we already got and the by state labor laws. 
 They printed all these out with the company benefits and state laws on one side of the paper and the union benefits, plus the cost to join and weekly deduction for dues on the other.

It was easy to see that the state and federal laws covered us at no cost and with no union the company benefits covered us with health insurance, a 401K plan and yearly bonuses.   

Unions were usefull 100 years ago, but today with the government laws useless in most cases. We have OSHA to cover work conditions, have an accident and they are right on it.  Sexual harassment, is taken care of by law as is unreasonable reassignment of a job,    As in hiring a 90 pound woman to work the switch board then sending her to another job that requires her to lift 50 pound boxes every 3 minutes. 

   



I agree for the most part.
Logged

Offline NHSparky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24431
  • Reputation: +1278/-617
  • Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso!
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #64 on: October 13, 2012, 07:46:09 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on October 13, 2012, 06:37:41 AM
As for the OP...Do you need a ****ing midol?  I have a super industrial size jug of them that I eat like candy.  So you should trust me when I say that having your tampon in crooked is no way to go through life son.

It's even worse when he puts them in backwards and he's using the string to floss from the inside.

Talk about your cotton-pickers.

Oh, and noobie?  120 million a year is chicken feed in the grand scheme of things.  IBEW alone is pushing a billion per year.  Then there's SEIU, AFSCME, the Teamsters, NEA, etc...

Starting to get the ****ing picture?  WalMart employees, IF they unionized, would be part of UFCW...ONE union.

Now disappear, scumbag.
Logged
“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.”  -Henry Ford

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2828/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #65 on: October 24, 2012, 02:13:29 PM »
I'm laughing my ass off because chrisbeenumbers just sent a hate-filled, "**** you asshole" PM to me.

Jeezus H. Sufferin' Keerist.

This idjit comes in, whines about Wal-mart, shits on the carpet, and leaves for a couple of weeks to come back and send hate-filled rants via PM?

At me?

 :crybaby:

 :bwah:
Logged
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline CG6468

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11493
  • Reputation: +540/-210
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #66 on: October 24, 2012, 02:17:03 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 24, 2012, 02:13:29 PM
I'm laughing my ass off because chrisbeenumbers just sent a hate-filled, "**** you asshole" PM to me.

Jeezus H. Sufferin' Keerist.

This idjit comes in, whines about Wal-mart, shits on the carpet, and leaves for a couple of weeks to come back and send hate-filled rants via PM?

At me?

 :crybaby:

Cowards be what they be.

 :bwah:

Logged
Illinois, south of the gun controllers in Chi town

Offline Gina

  • Tinker Twat
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13088
  • Reputation: +830/-102
  • Short Bus bound!
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #67 on: October 24, 2012, 02:37:04 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 24, 2012, 02:13:29 PM
I'm laughing my ass off because chrisbeenumbers just sent a hate-filled, "**** you asshole" PM to me.

Jeezus H. Sufferin' Keerist.

This idjit comes in, whines about Wal-mart, shits on the carpet, and leaves for a couple of weeks to come back and send hate-filled rants via PM?

At me?

 :crybaby:

 :bwah:

He did the same to me a while back for the same thread.  Guess he got out of jail and came back to read the replies today. :)
Logged






"An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer." Phillip of Macedonia, father to Alexander.

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2828/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #68 on: October 24, 2012, 02:42:27 PM »
Quote from: Gina on October 24, 2012, 02:37:04 PM
He did the same to me a while back for the same thread.  Guess he got out of jail and came back to read the replies today. :)

He called me a "****ing bitch" so he might've gotten me confused with you.

In any case, the sumbitch has been shitcanned.  :-)
Logged
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline Gina

  • Tinker Twat
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13088
  • Reputation: +830/-102
  • Short Bus bound!
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #69 on: October 24, 2012, 02:46:05 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 24, 2012, 02:42:27 PM
He called me a "****ing bitch" so he might've gotten me confused with you.

In any case, the sumbitch has been shitcanned.  :-)

No, I am ****ing whore.   Has mamacags pissed him off?
Logged






"An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer." Phillip of Macedonia, father to Alexander.

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2828/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #70 on: October 24, 2012, 02:51:03 PM »
Quote from: Gina on October 24, 2012, 02:46:05 PM
No, I am ****ing whore.   Has mamacags pissed him off?

Well, the timbre of his PM indicated that he was pissed off at the entire world. So mamacags must've been in there somewhere.  :lmao:
Logged
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline Gina

  • Tinker Twat
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13088
  • Reputation: +830/-102
  • Short Bus bound!
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #71 on: October 24, 2012, 02:57:37 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on October 24, 2012, 02:51:03 PM
Well, the timbre of his PM indicated that he was pissed off at the entire world. So mamacags must've been in there somewhere.  :lmao:

It must have been her white light
Logged






"An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer." Phillip of Macedonia, father to Alexander.

Offline RightCoast

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3438
  • Reputation: +185/-24
  • Semper Fi means more than most will ever know
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #72 on: October 24, 2012, 03:41:47 PM »
I can't wait for Wal-Mart to unionize so I can start paying $389.99 for a can of cat food.
Logged
nine eleven is a car
nine one one is an emergency service
September 11, 2001 was an attack
Never Forget, or Minimize.

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2222/-127
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #73 on: October 24, 2012, 03:43:19 PM »
Quote from: RightCoast on October 24, 2012, 03:41:47 PM
I can't wait for Wal-Mart to unionize so I can start paying $389.99 for a can of cat food.

The left never seems to realize that.  Unionizing those stores would hurt poor people more than it would help the workers in those stores.
Logged

Offline RightCoast

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3438
  • Reputation: +185/-24
  • Semper Fi means more than most will ever know
Re: Wal-Mart Workers Strike
« Reply #74 on: October 24, 2012, 03:44:39 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on October 24, 2012, 03:43:19 PM
The left never seems to realize that.  Unionizing those stores would hurt poor people more than it would help the workers in those stores.

Yet they are smarter because they "care" more.
Logged
nine eleven is a car
nine one one is an emergency service
September 11, 2001 was an attack
Never Forget, or Minimize.
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4   Go Up
« previous next »