I love this, 100% one side look at business with no consideration for
anything else. If you walked like you think about Walmart you'd hit every
wall you walked near.
How many people does Walmart employ? Where would those people be working if
they did not work at Walmart? That local takle shop you mentioned? I think
not. If they did, what would they get paid an hour? Would they have a health
plan? Would they have life insurance? Yup... everyone people I know who
works at a local tackle shop does so mainly for the benefits and high pay.
While I believe in protecting employees rights and that many companeis take
advantage of employees, no one is forcing them to work there. If Walmart
does something wrong... nail them for it. But to think that because But
people just love pointing at the "big guy" and taking pot shots without
really looking at the big picture.
And, as Bob mentioned, don't blame the company who employees and pays
hundreds of thousands of people... blame the people who shop there because
they are getting low prices. Of course, when you have to pay twice as much
for your tackle you will have whole set of new issues to complain about.
Hey... but let's also have the _whole_ truth out the
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...urance_lawsuit
"Wal-Mart is suing AIG and Hartford Life, which sold the policies, to force
them to pay Wal-Mart's losses and additional expenses - potentially
including the cost of Monday's settlement."
"Wal-Mart is one of many large U.S. companies in recent years that have
taken out policies on the lives of employees, ranging from executives to
workers on the bottom rungs of the pay ladder, with the goal of collecting
benefits when the employees die. Companies term the policies corporate-owned
life insurance, or COLIs. Critics call them dead-peasant policies."
"SHREDİ" wrote in message
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SHREDİ wrote:
Wal Mart kills small business, free market captalism, and works their
employees 37 hrs a week in order to not have to give a health plan.
We end up paying for them.
These are just small samples of a terrible company.
Now they took out life insurance policies, on their employees, and
cashed them in for the company:
http://tinyurl.com/3x5vy
DALLAS - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has settled a lawsuit over its practice
of taking out life insurance on employees and making itself the
beneficiary. "A large percentage of the population doesn't approve of
the morality or the ethics of this type of conduct," Mike Myers, a
Houston attorney for the families, said Friday. "My clients'
reaction, when they found out, was stunned and disbelief, turning to
frustration and anger."
Buy tackle from your LOCAL tackle shop or shop online!
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