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  Behind the yellow smiley face (Wal-mart)

  by Sadie5 in

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  it's been a year since i started my job at wal-mart.

  it has been an eye opening experience how they treat their workers.. here is one the ways they cut costs.

  i was hired as a sales clerks which is the lowest paid position.

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  Ballistic: To give you an idea what the wages for these places are: most workers can put in a 40 hour week and qualify for food stamps, medicaid and other goverment aid. This would include unloaders as they start out a dollar more per hour than sales clerks. Cashiers get some kind of commision based on the # of items they scan. The faster they scan the more they make. Of course Wal-mart once again finds away around this by keeping just a few "official" cashiers on hand and cross training the lowly paid sales clerk to check during busy times. And the sales clerk/cashier doesn't get the commission.

  And a lot of the workers there are working another job in addition to Wal-mart. Maybe their primary job was cut back in hours or wages or both. Or they have lost their main job through downsizing, lay-offs or closing and then are forced to work two jobs to keep up with their bills.

  And a number of them have been through really difficult times. Been on welfare, filed bankruptcy, lost homes, vehicles and other pocessions. Wal-mart appears to be a white knight, giving them a job when they are so down and out. It almost seems to me like Wal-mart has a direct connection to the welfare office. But Wal-mart preys on their desperation, their fears of going homeless and hungry, and they feel forced to work wherever management sends them. After all there is a long line of people wanting to take their place.

  And the Wal-mart commercials! they are on all the time and we are so sick of them. They are a big joke.

  Sadie
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  Behind the yellow smiley face (Wal-mart)

  by Sadie5 in

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  it's been a year since i started my job at wal-mart.

  it has been an eye opening experience how they treat their workers.. here is one the ways they cut costs.

  i was hired as a sales clerks which is the lowest paid position.

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  It's been a year since I started my job at Wal-mart. It has been an eye opening experience how they treat their workers.

  Here is one the ways they cut costs. I was hired as a sales clerks which is the lowest paid position. It was fine, work was easy. Now they are taking the sales clerks and having them work a shift unloading the truck. Unloaders are paid more, they should be, the work is very hard. But since our "main job" is sales clerks, they get to have unloaders at a sales clerk price.

  One of the ladies that I work with, went through living in a homeless shelter with her two kids, then got the job at Wal-mart, and is trying to get back on her feet. She is terrified of losing her job, so even though she didn't want to, she worked on the truck when they told her to go out there. After 4 hours, she came back to the sales floor filthy, sore and exhausted.

  I have protested to the management that I cannot work on the truck. I am 48 years old, and not up to the physical work of unloading a truck, and I was hired to be a sales clerk, not an unloader. This was never mentioned at my interview. They said unless I bring in a note from my doctor, I am expected to unload the truck.

  I am looking for a different job and hoping I can get out of Walmart. I'm hoping I get hired someplace else before they tell me it's my shift to work on the truck. I will refuse and most likely get fired. They really are evil. Next time you shop there, think about how they got their prices so low.

  Sadie
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  It's my Birthday!

  by Sunspot in

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  something odd has happened, my 25 year-old mind is trapped in a 63 year-old body!

  (sigh)

  my hubby sent me a card that said "i'm so glad you decided to stick around for another year!

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  Happy Birthday!
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  Older sisters and long hair- now a no-no?

  by Sadie5 in

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  ran into a jw yesterday who didn't mind talking to me.

  she is 50+ and wears her hair long, about to the middle of her back.

  she said she's been told by the brothers to cut her hair, that women her age should have short hair styles.

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  Ran into a JW yesterday who didn't mind talking to me. She is 50+ and wears her hair long, about to the middle of her back. She said she's been told by the brothers to cut her hair, that women her age should have short hair styles. Is this just a local thing? Or is this something like the beard issue for men? Any thoughts?

  Sadie
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  Sad News...

  by Sentinel in

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  my mom had her valve replacement and triple by-pass surgery today.

  the operation lasted five hours, and they had just gotten her to her room at 8:00pm when she went into cardiac arrest.

  the doctor tried everything, even opening up her chest and massaging her heart.

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  So sorry to read this. Praying you find comfort.

  Sadie
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  Do you trust JW's?

  by desib77 in

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  i guess i'm asking in more of a business aspect?

  or in any kind of dealings with them.....for example, because of their morals honesty is "supposed" to be practiced.

  would you hire one because of this?

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  Having been on both sides of the fence, I would say I am not impressed by JWs as being honest. There are honest individuals in the group but I have found them to be the exception.

  I have found that the witnesses create a loophole for dishonesty by using the "don't take a brother to court " scripture. This would be in dealings amongst themselves.

  As far as worldly people, I remember talking to someone outside the organization. I explained to her all the things JW are taught about what the people in the world think of them. She laughed so hard, most people don't give JW's a single thought.

  Sadie
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  Sexual Harassment at Work

  by Sadie5 in

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  just another adventure in my returning to the work force.

  (wal-mart) when i worked almost 2 decades ago, women just put up with whatever was said/done to them.

  i could completely identify with anita hill.. one evening last week, i was in our break room with one young female associate and two young male associates.

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  Hi All,

  Just another adventure in my returning to the work force.(Wal-mart) When I worked almost 2 decades ago, women just put up with whatever was said/done to them. I could completely identify with Anita Hill.

  One evening last week, I was in our break room with one young female associate and two young male associates. One of the males made a very vulgar sexual comment to the female. The other male looked shocked but then both of them burst out in uncontrollable laughter. The female kept saying that's not funny. I sat there shocked.

  I didn't mention the incident to anyone but it bothered me. I talked to a member of management the next day and said I was offended by a comment that a male associate had made. I had to make out a full report and talk to someone from home office.

  They interviewed the other three. I got a chance to talk to the young female who told me the male associate often said things like that to her. Why would she put up with it? I saw the second male associate and he was very respectful to me. I haven't seen the male associate that made the comment, I don't know if they gave him some time off, or let him go.

  I enjoy working in a clean environment and just couldn't see turning the clock back to the dark ages.

  Sadie
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  I'm tying the knot - so here are some bloke jokes! (for women only!!)

  by Sirona in

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  it's the 3 week countdown to my wedding.

  i'm getting married on the 4th june to a fantastic guy who i love very much.

  the thing is, i'm having "wedding nightmares" lol - i'll dream that i have nothing to wear on the day, or that i forgot where the wedding is being held.

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  congratulations! Wishing you a happy life.

  Sadie
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  I really don't want or need them for friends anyway

  by Sadie5 in

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  just dropping in for a short visit.

  the last couple of weeks i have run into quite a few witnesses at wal-mart where i work.

  most of them talk to me, in fact one asked for my help yesterday in picking out some clothes, she had just had a masectomy and needed some new blouses.. it was right after that i ran (almost litereally) into another one this one i usually just see from a distance so didn't know if she saw me or not before this but here we were standing face to face.

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  Hi All,

  Just dropping in for a short visit. the last couple of weeks I have run into quite a few witnesses at Wal-mart where I work. Most of them talk to me, in fact one asked for my help yesterday in picking out some clothes, she had just had a masectomy and needed some new blouses.

  It was right after that I ran (almost litereally) into another one this one I usually just see from a distance so didn't know if she saw me or not before this but here we were standing face to face. I had just walked around a very tall rack and we almost bumped into each other. My reaction was to say hello, I try to greet all customers, it's part of my job. The look on her face was priceless. She was stone faced, no expression and seemed like she was just looking right through me. No verbal response at all. I quickly walked away, with just a bit of anger swelling up inside me. "That Bitch" was all I could think of. I had to put away several items while she was in my department and we kept crossing each other's paths. She always had that cold stone face whenever she saw me. I am not DF or DA, just a fader.

  This woman is the wife of an elder. She wears the pants in the family, was always telling her husband what to do, volunteering him for parts and stuff. She has also been in and out too, she has problems with fornication and was DF for a time. This was prior to her husband becoming elder. Also there were times when they were broke and my husband and I would help them out. My husband worked on their car almost on a weekly basis for free. She would call whenever their washer or any other appliance would break down and my husband would fix it for nothing.

  And so now she doesn't want to even say hello to me because I don't go to meetings. Fine, who needs her kind for a friend anyway? She is nothing more than a user. Use people and throw them away.

  I have found other people to be friends, and they are good people who appreciate me for who I really am.

  Sadie(just venting)
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  We're always being asked for our SSN

  by Sadie5 in

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  our little town's public library started a policy where to continue to borrow books we had to provide a copy of our driver's license.

  i refused saying if they wanted to see my dl each time i borrowed some books to prove my id but i wasn't going to have a copy of my dl somewhere in there files where who knows who has access to them.. now they come up with another policy where you have to list your ssn, provide a photograph to be put on file in order to take out books.

  this includes children too.

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  Our little town's public library started a policy where to continue to borrow books we had to provide a copy of our driver's license. I refused saying if they wanted to see my DL each time I borrowed some books to prove my ID but I wasn't going to have a copy of my DL somewhere in there files where who knows who has access to them.

  Now they come up with another policy where you have to list your SSN, provide a photograph to be put on file in order to take out books. This includes children too. I let them know that we have borrowed books for almost 20 years and have always returned them. With this new policy in place, we will stop borrowing books. Giving out all this private info is just now worth it.

  We took one of our children to a new doctor. They wanted the child's SSN as well as one of ours. We refused to give either. They still took us a patients.

  Why are they wanting more and more info all the time? anyone else run into this?

  Sadie