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I love that website.  I had forgotten to say something on UO a couple weeks back when it first hit the nerd gossip websites.

Those pictures are just horrible. 

Those photos are classic. It is no surprise I loathe this place for a million reasons. I always say...everytime I pass one I feel a sudden dip in the IQ, a burgeoning waistline, and a sudden urge to buy a trailer.

Those photos are classic. It is no surprise I loathe this place for a million reasons. I always say...everytime I pass one I feel a sudden dip in the IQ, a burgeoning waistline, and a sudden urge to buy a trailer.

 

Oh Honey, even I wouldn't let you do that.

Those photos are classic. It is no surprise I loathe this place for a million reasons. I always say...everytime I pass one I feel a sudden dip in the IQ, a burgeoning waistline, and a sudden urge to buy a trailer.

 

Oh Honey, even I wouldn't let you do that.

 

Hahaha, the summer I was a server at Bob Evans I felt totally left out of the employee break room conversations cause they were always talking about the latest deal they got on some contraption for their double-wides.

 

Seriously, though, I feel like I'm physically dirtier and dumber after walking out of Wal-Mart.  I avoid it at all costs.  My family has rather un-PC names for each Wal-Mart within a 15 mile radius of the 'rents house in St. Louis.  There is actually one really nice (Target-like) Wal-Mart there, though.  It's in an area that is mostly Indian people, so it doesn't even feel like you're in a Wal-Mart!  My parents go out of their way to go to that one, cause the other ones are just like the People of Wal-Mart website.  For some reason in St. Louis (I guess proximity to Arkansas), Wal-Mart is apparently cheaper (price-wise) than Target, which is why my mom goes there.  Thank god that's not the case in Cleveland.

People of Wal-Mart's Facebook page has a lot more photos than their website.  It's a sad world we live in, folks.

Thats why MTS wears big sunglasses and a hoody when he is forced to go to walmart.

Thats why MTS wears big sunglasses and a hoody when he is forced to go to walmart.

 

What possible reason could you have to go to Wal-Mart?

That site makes me sad for humanity. :-(

Thats why MTS wears big sunglasses and a hoody when he is forced to go to walmart.

 

What possible reason could you have to go to Wal-Mart?

 

Example: 

[*]My parents are having a party and beverages might be cheaper.  So we'll get a bunch. 

[*]I bought the kids new bikes.  The same bikes was significantly cheaper than at toys r us or the other retailers we researched.

[*]My mom may buy planting and gardening supplies

 

So, in an effort to save a few bones, you're cool with contributing a business who routinely violates labor laws, including discrimination against women, denying overtime and ignoring state rules on breaks?  To say nothing of the negative impact a place like that has on the local economy...

So, in an effort to save a few bones, you're cool with contributing a business who routinely violates labor laws, including discrimination against women, denying overtime and ignoring state rules on breaks? To say nothing of the negative impact a place like that has on the local economy...

 

I deny overtime to my employees.  Overtime is seriously a killer to my bottom line, and I can not have people on it. 

So, in an effort to save a few bones, you're cool with contributing a business who routinely violates labor laws, including discrimination against women, denying overtime and ignoring state rules on breaks?  To say nothing of the negative impact a place like that has on the local economy...

 

Yes.  I'm not going to lie.  However, it's not like we patronize walmart on a regular basis.

 

Also, is it proven that they: 

[*]Routinely violates labor laws

[*]Including discrimination against women

[*]Deny overtime (to every worker?)

[*]Ignore state rules on breaks?  (in every state??)

or is it just alleged?

 

When I ask that I'm not being a walmart apologist, but asking to educate myself.

 

So, in an effort to save a few bones, you're cool with contributing a business who routinely violates labor laws, including discrimination against women, denying overtime and ignoring state rules on breaks?  To say nothing of the negative impact a place like that has on the local economy...

 

And you're on the internet which means you are using a computer produced by capitalist dogs with parts made by underpaid, underaged workers overseas and the electricty is being provided by the evil energy companies who are destroying the atmosphere. Just sayin'...

 

Thank you "Big Brother"?  LOL

^ If you want to see the small community integrity/local character/identity preserved in your city...the local business entities that are still the backbone of the nation...then you should be willing to spend a few more cents for the sake of that alone. Their is a "high cost of low price" factor here and the high cost is seeing empty buildings all over the place and all that is connected with that..in it costing a community.  Wal-Mart is the most 'hauled into court' entity of its kind to date...and there are many good reasons for it. I suggest you visit sprawl busters and learn more about that. This company is so huge and powerful that they can go into small communities and dictate the planning...even if the community does not want them.  The local retail economy basically becomes homogenized to the point you have no choice but to go there...and in many cases WORK there too. It is time we learn the advantages of diversity breeding stability in the economy---and how sprawl-mart undermines that diversity all over the place when you see a myriad of empty places everywhere you look. Gone are the taxes and jobs those businesses were providing.

 

As a general rule of thumb, 5 places employing 20 people are better than one entity employing them all, and building our whole economy around that one entity---because if they fall, we all fall. Honestly, I can sit here and write a 10 page essay as to why we hurt ourselves by choosing to support this place so much, but I just do not have the time. It is up to those who are not informed about this issue to do the looking up themselves, and there is plenty of information out there which demonstrates the obvious. I am not saying they do not have a place in the economy, but what we do NOT need is saturation to the point nothing else is left and like drones and clones, we all are forced to shop at the same place.

 

Allowing sprawl-mart and their developers to dictate land use and city planning is like letting loggers dictate forest management, or letting placing Dracula in charge of a blood bank. They will do only what serves their shareholders well..and NOT what serves the best interest of the stakeholders in a given community. There is a big difference between the two.

 

So often, after point of sale factors, we often discover that the bargain we get is costly in the long run. In another thread, I posted many of those factors (Ohio leads nation with empty Wal-Marts thread) The quality, service and knowledge is missing from these giants. Also, you are often getting an inferior product posing with a name brand label..or the cheaper version of a particular brand. But, they sell it as though you are getting the same quality for less..and a lot of the time is is pure B.S. I can prove it in the vacuum cleaner industry because I have been involved in it all my life and know the big guys deceptive tricks. More junk winding up in landfills after a short time.

 

The bottom line is so many of us want these unique hip neighborhoods with all the cool little businesses... well good.. But those same businesses are not museums posing to look cute so we can show out of towners the "cute little neighborhood." They are real and need our support.  Few people understand just how hard it is to run a small business and the passion, work and effort many of these entrepreneurs put into it.. How they are willing to bend over backward etc...  To me, that is worth spending more.

 

To me, that is worth rewarding just to have the real experience of a locally owned and independent operation...where I can get to know the merchant who brings me the products, who The more the giants are supported, the more it takes away in the economy for the individual to to survive who does not want to have to resort to working for someone else like Wally World as a door greeter. We don't need these places on every corner. Ohio is paying dearly for this when you look through all their smoke and mirror propaganda and pr marketing.

 

Woah.. I already wrote way too much, but this place is not the benefactor to the community it is always posing to be. Yes there are some  others out there who are similar, but this is about WM, specifically right now. I will never set foot in this place. Since littering is an issue these days... I am appalled to see all the crap that accumulates around their stores, and I thought they were supposed to be the pillars of examples of 'being green'...geez.. it is bad enough they clear 60 acres of air cleaning, water purifying wetlands which did all that free of charge....only to tell us they built a 'green' building. What a joke!

 

Still, there are many who for some reason feel obligated to defend this company to the end... I just don't know why..when it is clear they need to be more accountable.

So, in an effort to save a few bones, you're cool with contributing a business who routinely violates labor laws, including discrimination against women, denying overtime and ignoring state rules on breaks? To say nothing of the negative impact a place like that has on the local economy...

 

I deny overtime to my employees. Overtime is seriously a killer to my bottom line, and I can not have people on it.

 

Which is perfectly understandable.  But having your employees work more than 40 hours a week and denying them overtime pay is not okay.  It's illegal, and for good reason.

ok....we have a walmart thread.  This thread is about the PEOPLE OF WALMART. 

 

Let get back to laughing at them.

 

THANKS!  ;)  ;)

The last time I went into a Wal-Mart (YEARS ago, can't remember the reason, had consumed copious amounts of alcohol), right there at the entrace was a dirty diaper, open on the floor. 

 

We turned and walked right back out.

^ Like I said.... Its about satisfying stockholders not stakeholders. As a company, as long as they profit....they could care less about trash and vile filth flying all over the place...and by continuing to support only them....we succeed in driving their profits to the moon... to the point they are more powerful than a community's government, or actually 'become' their government......Then after that....we will continue to breed the lowly suckers  who think they're getting a bargain, in those pictures. In other words, the die-hards are hurting themselves and they just cannot see how. A kind of sad 'no-turning 'back' now cycle. It makes me want to vomit. But if I do, it will be on their door where no one will mind as long as they saved 5 cents on their underwear. High cost of low price...and in knowing the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

 

I like the C3PO, btw!  :lol:

Mine is of the guy in a Wu-Tang t-shirt, holding a shotgun. 

OMG MTS... This site is amazing LMAO.

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So, in an effort to save a few bones, you're cool with contributing a business who routinely violates labor laws, including discrimination against women, denying overtime and ignoring state rules on breaks? To say nothing of the negative impact a place like that has on the local economy...

 

I deny overtime to my employees. Overtime is seriously a killer to my bottom line, and I can not have people on it.

 

Which is perfectly understandable. But having your employees work more than 40 hours a week and denying them overtime pay is not okay. It's illegal, and for good reason.

 

Not true, exempt employees are just that, exempt from federal labor laws (Professionals, management and executive employees fall under this)

 

the OP (gotribe) may have exempt employees

So, in an effort to save a few bones, you're cool with contributing a business who routinely violates labor laws, including discrimination against women, denying overtime and ignoring state rules on breaks? To say nothing of the negative impact a place like that has on the local economy...

 

I deny overtime to my employees. Overtime is seriously a killer to my bottom line, and I can not have people on it.

 

Which is perfectly understandable. But having your employees work more than 40 hours a week and denying them overtime pay is not okay. It's illegal, and for good reason.

 

Not true, exempt employees are just that, exempt from federal labor laws (Professionals, management and executive employees fall under this)

 

the OP (gotribe) may have exempt employees

 

Obviously, if gotribe's employees were exempt, he wouldn't be worried about overtime being "a serious killer to (his) bottom line." :)

 

I've noted that I'm not a fashion expert a number of times on this site.  But, I have had nightmares about being seen in public dressed like some of the people on that site.

So, in an effort to save a few bones, you're cool with contributing a business who routinely violates labor laws, including discrimination against women, denying overtime and ignoring state rules on breaks?  To say nothing of the negative impact a place like that has on the local economy...

 

I deny overtime to my employees.  Overtime is seriously a killer to my bottom line, and I can not have people on it. 

 

Which is perfectly understandable.  But having your employees work more than 40 hours a week and denying them overtime pay is not okay.  It's illegal, and for good reason.

 

Not true, exempt employees are just that, exempt from federal labor laws (Professionals, management and executive employees fall under this)

 

the OP (gotribe) may have exempt employees

 

Obviously, if gotribe's employees were exempt, he wouldn't be worried about overtime being "a serious killer to (his) bottom line." :)

 

 

Good Point,

I was just correcting your statement that implied that denying any employee OT is illegal, just non-exempt employees

"Denying overtime" doesn't necessarily mean denying time-and-a-half compensation for hours worked over forty. More often, it means not scheduling employees to work more than forty hours in a week.

 

Some businesses hire temps or part-timers to fill in schedules to avoid working permanent full-time-employees past a normal 40-hour schedule. Sometimes that's done to accomodate seasonal peaks.

"Denying overtime" doesn't necessarily mean denying time-and-a-half compensation for hours worked over forty. More often, it means not scheduling employees to work more than forty hours in a week.

 

Some businesses hire temps or part-timers to fill in schedules to avoid working permanent full-time-employees past a normal 40-hour schedule. Sometimes that's done to accomodate seasonal peaks.

 

Right.  That's why I specifically mentioned that it's perfectly fine to "deny overtime" to employees, if this what gotribe meant by it.  I clarified that it is NOT perfectly fine to deny hourly workers time and half pay if they work over 40 hours. 

My job occasionally takes me to the rear of Wal-Marts.  Your Zanesville Wal-Mart says hi;

 

lol-mart.jpg

 

edit: This is one of those things where you see something new every time you look. :D

My job occasionally takes me to the rear of Wal-Marts.  Your Zanesville Wal-Mart says hi;

 

lol-mart.jpg

 

Translation please!

Clearly this is some warning sign between interdimensional beings, or 'Vedors', who have found Wal-Mart to be as distressful as we do. Mang is imploring Antt to stay away, and 'form the door'...or 'Porduct' as they apparently refer to it in their language...back to whatever world it was they came from.

 

OOOH! I love PORDUCT!

I believe "PORDUCT" is one of those meat combos (a la turducken) consisting of a pig stuffed with ducks.  I don't know where the "T" came from, though.  Maybe a typo?

I think that may just be a regional variation on the spelling.  I'm still trying to figure out what a safty!per is, and why we should be thinking about it.

I believe "PORDUCT" is one of those meat combos (a la turducken) consisting of a pig stuffed with ducks.  I don't know where the "T" came from, though.  Maybe a typo?

 

The "T" is for trky. :-)

That site is hilarious! lol!! Thanks MTS!

That site is hilarious! lol!! Thanks MTS!

 

Who is this David guy of the yellow stars?  Get with the program sir!

That site is hilarious! lol!! Thanks MTS!

 

Who is this David guy of the yellow stars? Get with the program sir!

 

He'll be with the program after his foot is done swelling and his Oxycodone runs out :)

Where have you been?  I've tried picking on others, but they can't take it as you do!

My job occasionally takes me to the rear of Wal-Marts. Your Zanesville Wal-Mart says hi;

 

lol-mart.jpg

 

edit: This is one of those things where you see something new every time you look. :D

 

You should post this to failblog.org. Seriously.

Wow! What a vile person....But its typical of much of the kind that the place draws. Stay tuned... Wal Mart Swimsuit Contest coming up next!

Walmart Swimsuit Contest?  Hmm.  This just might be the first time I have NOT looked forward to something on UrbanOhio. :lol:

Oops didn't know Hayward already posted this lol

My job occasionally takes me to the rear of Wal-Marts.  Your Zanesville Wal-Mart says hi;

 

lol-mart.jpg

 

edit: This is one of those things where you see something new every time you look. :D

 

You should post this to failblog.org. Seriously.

Just got back in town, now I can do just that.  Nice idea.

 

http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=2744211456

Wal-Mart starts selling caskets, urns online

By Associated Press business staff

 

MILWAUKEE  -- The world's largest retailer wants to keep its customers even after they die.

 

Wal-Mart has started selling caskets on its Web site at prices that undercut many funeral homes, long the major seller of caskets.

 

The move follows a similar one by discount rival Costco, which also sells caskets on its site...

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/wal-mart_starts_selling_casket.html

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