Walmart: Everyday Low Standards - Part 2

So... in other Walmart news that didn't quite make the press recently because it just won't make enough money for large media outlets... there's this story.

Walmart fired a pledged and dutiful employee of five years stricken with sinus CANCER and an inoperable BRAIN TUMOR for testing positive for (legalized in that state) medical marijuana. Prescribed by his doctor to relieve the effects of cancer, he continued to give "one hundred and ten percent every day" for "12 to 14 hours a day."

Oh, and by the way, he was also a 2008 Walmart Associate of the Year.

Now that Walmart has FIRED him, they are challenging his eligibility for unemployment.

This is the same corporation that took out "Dead Peasant" insurance policies on their employees. This is a policy their employee knows nothing about. They take policies out on employees that are janitors, drivers, and other positions that have stressful working conditions and yield a higher percentage for illness and death. The equation looks like this.

More dead Walmart employees = $$$$$$$$$$$

The families of the deceased... they get... well, nothing.

Walmart only looks out for Walmart.

Do you think Walmart would have fired an employee using LEGALIZED medical marijuana if say, I don't know, you could get it at Walmart?

If Walmart can't sell it - they're against it. That's why there's no love from them. They can't sell it. Maybe in a couple years, if you absolutely had to go in there, you'd be greeted with a "Hello, Welcome to Walmart. I Love You." (i.e. Costco from Idiocracy)

But I digress. This is a company seeking public sympathy trying to capitalize on the "Attention, Walmart Customers: All Black People, Leave the Store Now" incident.

I'm not saying that incident represents their public motto, but in a reverse case if someone slipped an illegal substance in your drink and you failed a drug test, they'd fire you and make sure you received every enforceable penalty and claim you should have known what you were drinking.

Walmart should have had a better system on who has access to their PA system. They should have known better. And if they want some sort of sympathy, should lead by example or when their example of operation (if it happens to you it's you're fault) is turned back on them, should just roll back the prices and have another sale.

Walmart: Everyday Low Standards

"Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now."

Those were the exact words heard over the PA system in a New Jersey Walmart.

Walmart's always been the store that had everything - including racism.

Now you can get a cheap sweater on aisle six, a bucket to poop in on aisle nine, and racial remarks over the loud speaker.

They can say this was an accident, but do you think there would ever come a time when they said: "Attention, Walmart customers: All current stock holders, get the fuck out!"

In 2006, Walmart's website recommended that the audience which liked DVD's like Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and documentaries on Martin Luther King Jr. would also like Planet of the Apes.

BUT...

Their website has a section on diversity. It reads:

"Diversity and Inclusion are enduring values embedded into our culture. From our board of directors to our associates and customers, these values are fundamental to both our business and mission of saving people money so they can live better."

We have to believe them right... I mean it says it right there on their web page.

Where can I sign up. I can work full time for $10.84 an hour --- $19,165 a year. That number doesn't include health care and also is $2000 below the Federal Poverty Line for a family of four.

Their slogan: "Save money, live better."

Deceptive.

THEY SAVE MONEY, THEY LIVE BETTER. Everyone else gets bent over.

Walmart CEO Lee Scott made $29.7 million last year. (1551 times the average worker at Walmart)

They save money - not paying their employees a living wage, covering only half their workers on health care, costing taxpayers $400,000 per community per year for public assistance programs, avoided paying $2.3 BILLION in state income taxes between 1999-2005, and their presence drives down wages and increases poverty in communities.

And we all know where people living in poverty shop right.... WALMART.