PM should work. Even in Canada.:03::D

Some years ago I was a contractor working on a a new Walmart. When they took the store, I always laughed in the morning watching the employees. Some manager would gather them all up, get them in lines and do exercises while spewing some motivational speech.....

"OK, you guys can do it, 20 jumping jacks..yay Walmart employees"..

What utter BS........

Wolferz

PM coming your way.

That was in the old days from what I understand these days you pretty much show up and go home.

One of my cousins has worked for them for years not sure why he has for so long likely because at his age and education level and in his region the only other jobs are just as bad or worse.

Anyway he told me once some big wigs where going around checking how the merchandise was displayed (a huge deal to these retail chains) well he was responsible for an entire section I think it was the school/office supplies area.

Well one of his friends worked in the next area over and my cousin noticed that a customer had come through and mucked stuff up and being what he thought was the action of a good employee and friend he started correcting the shelves.One of the big wigs caught him in the process and asked what he was doing so he explained.

End result my cousin got chewed out his co-worker/friend got chewed out and after that point neither ever got promoted beyond the position they where despite both being very good employees.

This was some years a go mid 90's as I recall.Still kind of odd that a company would discourage the idea that all employees should have a vested interest in keeping the store looking good which should be the bottom line for a retailer to have the customer most satisfied.

That's an interesting story, because when I worked at a local Wal*Mart during the Christmas season 2005 they told me that my job when I wasn't busy with something else was to keep an eye out for stuff customers had misplaced and keep the shelves neat. Our last hour every night was spent straightening one section or another.

No, that 15.7 billion dollars in profit. That means that after theyve already paid for their employees and business expenses, they made 15.7 billion dollars. Where does that money go? Into the pockets of the people at the top. Instead of using those profits for the good of the whole company, and pocketing less, they take it all for themselves. All these insurance companies and banks and corporate moguls constantly talk about how hard they and their company have been hit hard by tough times when in reality the rich have never, ever been richer. Truth is, when the moguls cut corners, they don't do it for the corporation's (and everyone in it) well-being, they do it for themselves.

http://www.utrend.tv/v/9-out-of-10-a...-blowing-fact/

Sounds like a regression into the days of Rockefeller and Carnegie to me. Not only that, but the 1% of the 1% (.01%) gave 1.68 billion in campaign contributions in the last election cycle: nearing 30% of all donations given. Every single house rep and congressman that won an election in 2012 recieved money from the 1% of the 1%

What the heck are you trying to argue? I said in that post that 15.7 billion dollars is a lot of profit to me.It was meant as a joke myself having only ever had at most $8,000.00 in my bank account and the most money I ever held in my hands was $10,000.00 which was a loan for personal loan given to me in cash by a bank teller.

To me 15.7 billion dollars seems like a lot.I am aware that Wal-Mart obviously expends a huge sum of money to make that much and of course the lions share of that expenditure is not in payroll.

I understand what the term profit means.

@SailorSteve I'm not 100% sure the reasoning all of this happened to my cousin might have just been a particularly mean higher up.Also he assumed that perhaps this person was trying to judge how well the people handled their own area of responsibility and was displeased for this reason because in theory it was a "failure" on the other guys behalf.

Might have just been a grumpy person who knows some people feel that if they do not find something wrong they are not doing their jobs.Or like NCOs in the military one sits and yells all day and the other commands respect in a different way.

also I can only relay the story as my cousin told it to me.

I misread what you said, my apologies. The rest of my post wasn't directed at you, though, more of my take on it.

Sorry if what I said came out wrong. I wasn't questioning the story. As I said, I just found it interesting that different managers would be so different. I assumed that my experience was official policy, but maybe not.

No worries fellows. Wally world isn't worth fighting over.

I've worked more than my fair share of jobs where the owner/s reaped all the benefits and treated me and my fellow employees like we were dirt to be walked upon.
I had one owner chew me out for sending a customer to his cousins' business. When I caught my breath and explained the situation, he returned later and apologized. That kind of freaked me out.:huh:
Funny story about that boss...
One of his sons would work there during the summer break from college. This kid was a real piece of work. He would walk around the shop drinking soda pop. Not soda pop that he bought. It was usually someone else's or one that had been abandoned days earlier. When he walked, his head would snap back and look up every three or so steps. Like his legs were attached to his head with a rubber band that tightened up as he went along. He possessed that typical rich kid, silver spoon arrogance.

He nicked a drink of my Coca Cola one day and my co-worker saw him do it. So I hocked up a big old loogie, deposited it in the can and set it out for him to find. I checked it an hour later and it was empty.:haha:
One summer they put him in the service department to fetch customer cars after they had been serviced. He brought one out of the shop, scraping every guard pole on the way. He walked up to the customer, handed him his keys and took the mans' drink right out of his hand and took a swig, handed it back and told him what he had done to his car, shrugged his shoulders saying sorry and walked away.Three steps and snap, look skyward.

Big plus on the lung button.;)

That guy sounds like a true definition of 'waste of skin'.

Oh, he was.
If I could have stabbed him to death with a rusty screwdriver in a restroom and gotten away with it, I would have.:D

Everyone that worked in upper management was related by blood or marriage. A totally nepotistic bunch.

One of the best jobs I ever had was at a warehouse for an international book distributorship. Great because of the way we were paid, the days off, the free books, the guaranteed raises and more. They were absolutely anti-nepotism, which is a good thing but made me a little sad. One of the team leaders was the stepson of the manager, so even though he was one of the best they had and very much deserved to move into management, he never could, at least until his stepdad retired. A good policy, to be sure, but sometimes I think a good thing can be carried too far.

The thing about that is family are not always the best workers of course people with that mind set never realize it or they just assume that non-relatives would be worse and less trust worthy.

Some people are the exact opposite my uncle owns a machine shop and some of his sons and other relatives have worked for him.Only he never showed any favoritism towards family.Of all the management only one of them is a relative one of his daughters actually and he actually fired one of his sons.

In the town I live near there was a very popular diner well the place went out of business here about a year ago.The was the daughter who was in charge of the servers and the front of the house well she was stealing money and had been for years her parents did not find out until it was too late apparently she had been doing so for years and the parents never suspected it of course until it was too late.