I assure you, starting wages at wmt in the Atlanta metro area are $9/hr+...i have relatives that work there. Even though, if they were 8.65 as you state, that's much more than the federal minimum wage. And again, we are talking entry level wages--if YOU owned a business, i challenge you to tell me honestly that you would pay beginning employees with no valuable experience more than that...if you did, you would not be in business very long, my friend. Minimum wage is a transitory area--very, very few people stay stagnant at that scale, yet you and others seem to view the american people through a 'soup-line' mentality as if we are a bunch of people living on the street with no opportunity to better ourselves... I started out at minimum wage, and had to live on it for a short period of time. whats wrong with that? it taught me a lot of valuable lessons that I have carried with me my entire working life. It worked for me and others--and it will continue to work....
10,000 Line Up For a Walmart Job
by sammielee24 65 Replies latest jw friends
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sammielee24
My sister works at a Walmart - she doesn't make $10.00 an hour and she's been there for over 7 years - still working part time as well. I joke with her about how Walmart reminds me of the old company stores - you put in your time, get paid and then turn around and hand half of that payment back to the store because you shop there before you leave to go home. Anyway - the rest of the story is here - and for those that choose to disbelieve what the paper is reporting, what can I say? sammieswife.
The job-seeking frenzy may be a peek into a larger economic picture. A report from the U.S. Labor Department last week indicated a surprising plunge in job creation by private employers in November, with new jobs far below the level needed to keep pace with population growth.
Christine Roberts, a 39-year-old married mother of six, is hoping to get a job at the Wal-Mart deli. Roberts, who has long worked as a nursing assistant in Sandy Springs, wants a job closer to her Decatur home. At the Memorial Drive store, "I could walk to work," she said Thursday after filling out her application.
Wal-Mart has long declined to reveal starting salaries at the store, but reports that the average hourly wage for regular full-time associates is $10.65 an hour.
Kamal Oliver, an employment and training analyst with DeKalb Workforce Development, a county organization that helped facilitate Wal-Mart's job fair this week, said the turnout dwarfed the numbers of job hunters who applied for a job last year at the Wal-Mart on Chamblee Tucker Road in north DeKalb County."This says to me that a lot of people are looking for work," he said
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sammielee24
My sister works at a Walmart - she doesn't make $10.00 an hour and she's been there for over 7 years - still working part time as well. I joke with her about how Walmart reminds me of the old company stores - you put in your time, get paid and then turn around and hand half of that payment back to the store because you shop there before you leave to go home. Anyway - the rest of the story is here - and for those that choose to disbelieve what the paper is reporting, what can I say? sammieswife.
The job-seeking frenzy may be a peek into a larger economic picture. A report from the U.S. Labor Department last week indicated a surprising plunge in job creation by private employers in November, with new jobs far below the level needed to keep pace with population growth.
Christine Roberts, a 39-year-old married mother of six, is hoping to get a job at the Wal-Mart deli. Roberts, who has long worked as a nursing assistant in Sandy Springs, wants a job closer to her Decatur home. At the Memorial Drive store, "I could walk to work," she said Thursday after filling out her application.
Wal-Mart has long declined to reveal starting salaries at the store, but reports that the average hourly wage for regular full-time associates is $10.65 an hour.
Kamal Oliver, an employment and training analyst with DeKalb Workforce Development, a county organization that helped facilitate Wal-Mart's job fair this week, said the turnout dwarfed the numbers of job hunters who applied for a job last year at the Wal-Mart on Chamblee Tucker Road in north DeKalb County."This says to me that a lot of people are looking for work," he said
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Tatiana
A very good thread about Walmart, capitalism, and corporations. 137 posts, and good info. Walmart uses every trick in the book to make sure they don't pay you what you are worth. They did not get to be the richest company in the world by treating associates fairly.
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journey-on
yet you and others seem to view the american people through a 'soup-line' mentality as if we are a bunch of people living on the street with no opportunity to better ourselves
Owenfielddreams......my sentiments exactly. You stated my thoughts perfectly.
The fact is (now all you bleeding hearts out there close your ears or stop reading), this country IS full of people wanting a hand out instead of a hand up.
As long as the producers of society are willing to foot the bill, these people will stand there with their hand out demanding more and more and more. They will scream
and whine about their "plight", yet never take advantage of all that IS already out there and available for them. They would rather yell that THE PRODUCERS WHO HAVE SUCCEEDED
BE TAXED EVEN MORE. Nobody wants to take anything away from the disenfranchised, the elderly, or children. Society should provide for its needy. But
too many are needy because they have chosen that as their lifestyle and have come to expect it.
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beksbks
My god woman you need to get out more. You are in some kind of Fox News vacuum. Why don't you educate yourself some before you start making such ridiculous blanket statements?
Do you ever entertain the possibility that corporations are evil/greedy? That the playing field isn't level? Or is it always just a case of pure damn laziness? Or is just easier to assuage your conscious to believe it so?
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owenfieldreams
Walmart pays what the market dictates. I can remember 25 yrs ago applying for a job at wmt, and they wanted to start me out at 3.15/hr. Hello? They start people out now much, much more than that, even when you index it to inflation. Do they pay 25.00/hr for manual labor like a company that's losing money left and right like Ford, GM, or Chrysler? No, because Wmt understands that there primary responsibility is not to provide employment, but to provide a profit for individual shareholders. The fact that they provide jobs in the process of that is a side benefit. If you dont like that, then you are against capitalism and for socialism.
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beksbks
These people are not lining up for a handout, they are lining up to WORK!
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bigdreaux
That the playing field isn't level
not level? the very man who started wal-mart started with nothing and was a success through hard work and the ability to do something better than anyone else.
i went to school full-time, worked a full and part time job because i wanted a better future. you have to EARN it. sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to support you is b.s. no one is FORCED to work there. if you don't like your situation CHANGE IT!!!! YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR FUTURE!!!!!!
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beksbks
Why don't you people rail against some of the real tax guzzlers? Corporate bail outs, Haliburton and the like, and the Bush war machine??