Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Dec-07-11 01:42 AM
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We have a family friend that works at Walmart
and I am not sure how it works, but the hourly employees get bonuses every quarter if they meet certain goals, etc.
These are the low wage workers...and apparently they have all been expecting their quarterly bonuses to do their Christmas shopping.
Until today, they were all told that in the spirit of the holidays, Walmart donated the money that was to be their bonuses to charities.
WTF???The people that were looking forward to and desperately needed those bonuses ARE the people who will be using those charities and undoubtedly, Walmart will be getting a nice big tax write off for THEIR charitable contribution on the backs of their workers.
Just in case you needed another reason to hate Walmart.
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Dec-07-11 01:46 AM
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1. That's what happens when there is no union collective bargaining agreement
The company can just make up and change the rules of the game any time they want and for any reason they want.
My Wal-Mart boycott will be 10 years old in July 2012.
Luminous Animal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Dec-07-11 01:52 AM
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4. I've never shopped there. (I do 99% of my shopping at thrift stores and buying used in Craigslist)
and I don't know what I would do if it were the closest store within 30 miles.
TexasTowelie (134 posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Dec-07-11 02:45 AM
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11. Has anyone checked with an attorney?
Bonuses are considered compensation. Depending on the jurisdiction and the ingenuity of the attorney, there may be a violation of the Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
hugo_from_TN (892 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Dec-07-11 03:29 PM
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25. Didn't this same thing happen to Clark Griswall?
Maybe cousin Eddie will 'take care' of the situation?
madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Dec-07-11 05:38 PM
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37. I have several friends and a niece who work there. I will ask them about this. n/t
Fair Witness (32 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Dec-07-11 05:45 PM
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41. It must be up to local managers...?? I saw your post and called my next door neighbor who works
at the local WM. She said that she got her bonus and they matched the amount and gave it to 3 local charities. I suppose it works different in other places...?
Bonuses are rarely part of any negotiated contract for retail workers, but they are part of the contracts of the evil banksters most of the time. Even multimillionaire athletes have negotiated bonuses for meeting certain goals.
We used to get monthly bonuses and a yearly bonus based on company profits and our gross pay, but they stopped that when the old manager died and they hired an idiot. Now we are lucky to get a ham at Christmas.
But they don't donate that ham to the local Mosque and make you pay taxes on it.
She may not do that, but if you turn around you can get one hell of an inspection.
Ms. Ed can kiss franksolich's ass.
She may not do that, but if you turn around you can get one hell of an inspection.
We compare our sales on a year to date basis....so say we(base #'s)made 50,000.00 on 12/7/2010 today we may have made 75,000.00, therefore 25000.00 is our profit.then we take our losses which include claims(broken items sent back to warehouse),shrink(theft), and store use items. If someone is negligent and causes an accident(associate or customer), all these UNpredictable liabilities affect our bottom line...once the numbers are computed, the remainder becomes our profitsharing check.
Ms. Ed is lying again.
As she always does.
Apparently every Wal-Mart, or just about every Wal-Mart which probably includes the Wal-Mart where the unappellated eohippus' "family friend" works, donates money to various charities this time of the year, and gives out employee bonuses.
The biggest liar on Skins's island is trying to make it sound as if Wal-Mart gave the employee bonus money to various charities.
She's such a ****ing liar, Ms. Ed.
And again, God forgive me for saying this, but lousy white trash too.
Ms. Ed can kiss franksolich's ass.:tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue:
:panic: I have never seen you cuss :panic:
<<moons only the primitives, when decent and civilized people aren't around, but the primitives are lurking.
:panic: I have never seen you cuss :panic:
I'll have to ask but I think the Horse's Ass has mistaken the double donation WM does each year............
I don't think Ms. Ed mistook a thing.
I think the unappellated eohippus, as she always does, purposely lied.
Ain't gonna never happen, though.
I have seen Frank cuss, perhaps once. As moderator, he'd mistakenly deleted someone's post and was quite upset about it. He dropped an F bomb.
On the Road (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 11:09 PM:lmao:
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83. Just Imagine if Walmart Started Offering Circumcisions --
This place would explode.
Ain't never not going to happen.
How's that?
Yeah, that was a case where GOBUCKS two years ago made a most-excellent post, a literary post for the Ages, and I wanted to quote him and say something, but hit the "modify" button instead, deleting his literature and installing mine. Apparently there was no way to recover what had been Skinnered.
I've done similar things with my own posts before. I've hit the back button that took me away from the post I had written, but I found out that I can hit the forward button and it will take me back to the post I had just written.
I've hit the back button that took me away from the post I had written, but I found out that I can hit the forward button and it will take me back to the post I had just written.
vesta? is that you? :lmao:
SheilaT (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 10:47 PM
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77. My best friend from high school is a
corporate attorney for WalMart. I cannot fathom how she does it, because politically she's a liberal Democrat. Might well be quite at home if she were to visit DU.
She's been with them at least 15 years now, and she has always complained rather bitterly about training men in her department who then get promoted over her. My last visit to her about four years ago, she showed me where newcomers (male) to her department lived: in veritable mansions considerable more lavish than her perfectly nice place. I don't understand why she stays with them. I don't know why she's not part of the gender discrimination lawsuit. Surely she could work for any other corporation and earn as much money. Maybe even more, considering they clearly don't pay their female corporate attorneys as well as the male ones.
And here is the semi-rare bouncy within a bouncy :bouncy: :bouncy:Good find. I'll hit you with your first ^5 for that.
well, for someone who has worked for Walmart 7 years 10 months and a handful of days. this is not true. Three factors fit into this, sales/profit, loss and safety.
You guys are really smart, you will understand.
We compare our sales on a year to date basis....so say we(base #'s)made 50,000.00 on 12/7/2010 today we may have made 75,000.00, therefore 25000.00 is our profit.then we take our losses which include claims(broken items sent back to warehouse),shrink(theft), and store use items. If someone is negligent and causes an accident(associate or customer), all these UNpredictable liabilities affect our bottom line...once the numbers are computed, the remainder becomes our profitsharing check.
It does go by store, full timers got 59.00 and part-timers got thirty at our store. There are alot of stores that don't do well at all ever!!! I have gotten 500.00 checks before in other quarters, so a store can do really well.....
As far as charities go, each store or district has a specific charity. Ours is Children Miracle Network at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center in Portland. We have associates that make stuff for it(For example I make 30 coin pouches, that i donate towards that, Other associates do different things)and Carolyn(volunteer) has a little table that she sells the stuff on and takes donations...
Not all stores do that...Some might just do a lump sum every month, but, it will affect the bottom line of that particular store...
Whore With No Brain is a lying bitch!
And this surprises you?!?!?!? :???: :mental: :tongue:
The deal with Ms. Ed is that she lies about the stupidest, most harmless, most innocent things; cases where telling the truth would be easier and quicker.I don't know if she could have matched nutcase nadin, but around mid-year she had the chance to be a strong contender.
The unappellated eohippus, along with the burdened primitive, the now gone-away "Tyler Durden" primitive, is that she lies about things that might escape less-sharp eyes. You might recall the burdened primitive used to bitch and moan about Ronald Reagan causing him to lose is good job in the oil industry down in Texas.....when as it turned out, he lost it in 1977, when Jimmy Carter was in the White House.
The burdened primitive went out to lunch on that story for years on Skins's island; that Reagan had lost him that job.
With Ms. Ed, even if she says something like "I went to the hardware store this morning," it's a lie.
Bulletin Justin (39 posts) Wed Dec-07-11 05:56 PM
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46. I got my bonus-----I work for Walmart
I work part time for them, and while there are many things the corporation does that I find distasteful, I must make corrections when necessary. Perhaps that applied to one particular store because I indeed did get my quarterly bonus.
renate (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 07:36 PM
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52. that's good to know
I loathe Wal-Mart but I'm glad that not all stores are quite as bad as the one described in the OP. Not that being better than an abusive slavemaster is a *huge* compliment....
emilyg (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 07:36 PM
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53. My friend got hers, too.
creeksneakers2 (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-07-11 11:14 PM
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84. I work there and I got a bonus too
Walmart treats me pretty well for a part time job.
madmom (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-08-11 03:50 PM
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99. Talked with 2 of ny friends today, they both got their bonuses. Something doesn't
seem right here, there are several on here that say the same thing, but everyone is still jumping on the bandwagon to castigate.
Thanks for bringing those over, madam.
I tell you, Ms. Ed is a ****ing liar.
Next to her nose, one of those giant redwoods in California would look like a toothpick.
She needs to be called out on this.
No link. Just the word from a friend of a friend of a friend..."My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious. "