Ohio Walmart Holds Food Drive For Its Own Employees

[ibx 2]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/177241/cleveland-wal-mart-holds-food-drive-its-own-employees#

All these people need to stop demanding handouts and need to take some personal responsibility.

[weekender 0]

If they dont like their pay then they should quit.

OUR Walmart, the group circulating this photo, is a union backed group.

Walmart's response for some perspective:

“What these associates are doing is making sure if there’s someone out there with a special, critical, unforeseen need, that they’re being taken care of,” Kory Lundberg told TODAY.com. “They’re getting what they need and they’re getting support.”

Workers in need may have lost their home to fire or had a spouse who lost a job, or be dealing with "something else you can't plan for," Lundberg said. Last year, 12 associates out of the roughly 300 employees at the store received help from the food drive.

“It underscores what the culture of this company is — it’s to take care of each other," he said. "That Canton, Ohio, store is an example of it.”

"The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird."
John Frusciante

[labrys 0]

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Workers in need may have lost their home to fire or had a spouse who lost a job, or be dealing with "something else you can't plan for," Lundberg said. Last year, 12 associates out of the roughly 300 employees at the store received help from the food drive.

I'm not a fan of Wal-Mart and I wouldn't normally think to defend them, but this feels like a torch and pitchfork mob reaction to me. I don't see why anyone should think that having a food drive for people who are down on their luck is a bad thing.

Canton isn't a wealthy city. Most of the people who work at that Wal-Mart are probably happy to have a job. If they get together to help a fellow employee out over the holidays then good on them.

Owned by Remi #?

[ibx 2]

Here is some perspective for you:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-03/are-american-taxpayers-subsidizing-walmarts-low-wages

That people continue to work for corps. like Walmart proves more than anything else that people do not want to depend on welfare but want to work.

Given their useless high school education or lack thereof and no marketable skills, they have no alternative than to work in dead end jobs that often do not pay a living wage.

This is a fault of policy as much as it is a fault of the corporations. But don't forget that policy is vastly influenced by highly paid corporate lobbyists and campaign donations.

Sadly, a lot of the people depending on welfare because their jobs don't pay enough will do anything get that socialist bastard Obummer out of office and to render unions powerless.

[weekender 0]

ibx

Here is some perspective for you:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-03/are-american-taxpayers-subsidizing-walmarts-low-wages

That people continue to work for corps. like Walmart proves more than anything else that people do not want to depend on welfare but want to work.

Given their useless high school education or lack thereof and no marketable skills, they have no alternative than to work in dead end jobs that often do not pay a living wage.

This is a fault of policy as much as it is a fault of the corporations. But don't forget that policy is vastly influenced by highly paid corporate lobbyists and campaign donations.

Sadly, a lot of the people depending on welfare because their jobs don't pay enough will do anything get that socialist bastard Obummer out of office and to render unions powerless.

I stand by my first comment. if they do not like their pay then they should quit.

i do not need an education on Walmart,fyi. I love the company, i shop there on a regular basis and have been a shareholder for a very long time. I have no problem with their model. save yourself the time posting links.

"The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird."
John Frusciante

[BIGUN 1,071]

STOP!!!

This isn't about handouts and shit. It's about Walmart employees helping WalMart employees who've had a catastrophic situation occur this year and helping them through the season.

Things like a spouse losing their job, another spouse becoming terminal, etc.

You're reading the 3rd generation of morphed fucking journalism. Read this:

Wal-Mart spokesperson Kory Lundberg told Today.com that the store’s employees are upset their actions are “being twisted and misinterpreted” and that the food drive was for employees who have a “special, critical, unforeseen need,” such as their home burned down or their spouse lost a job. As Lundberg told The Cleveland Plain-Dealer: ”This is part of the company’s culture to rally around associates and take care of them when they face extreme hardships.”

In a phone call with me, Wal-Mart spokesperson Brooke Buchanan echoed these sentiments, adding that the Ohio store’s food drive is just “one example that’s been completely mischaracterized and taken out of context” of a program that allows any of its local stores or employees to “come together to help their fellow associates in need.” The company also has a program called the Associates Critical Need Trust that allows employees to donate money to help colleagues in the aftermath of catastrophes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2013/11/19/wal-mart-food-drive-photo-looks-bad-because-well-its-wal-mart/

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[labrys 0]

+1

Owned by Remi #?

[ibx 2]

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Wal-Mart spokesperson Kory Lundberg told Today.com that the store’s employees are upset their actions are “being twisted and misinterpreted” and that the food drive was for employees who have a “special, critical, unforeseen need,” such as their home burned down or their spouse lost a job. As Lundberg told The Cleveland Plain-Dealer: ”This is part of the company’s culture to rally around associates and take care of them when they face extreme hardships.”

The Walmart Spokesperson.... OMFG...

Here is another example of how great Walmart is: http://www.thenation.com/article/177254/labor-board-sides-workers-walmart-cant-silence-employees-any-longer

[BIGUN 1,071]

ibx

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Wal-Mart spokesperson Kory Lundberg told Today.com that the store’s employees are upset their actions are “being twisted and misinterpreted” and that the food drive was for employees who have a “special, critical, unforeseen need,” such as their home burned down or their spouse lost a job. As Lundberg told The Cleveland Plain-Dealer: ”This is part of the company’s culture to rally around associates and take care of them when they face extreme hardships.”

The Walmart Spokesperson.... OMFG...

Here is another example of how great Walmart is: http://www.thenation.com/article/177254/labor-board-sides-workers-walmart-cant-silence-employees-any-longer

So, you don't like the real shit.... so you go find something tangential to your original post to support it. You should be on "Dancing with the Stars" with that kind of side step. Why don't you just come out with a "top ten list" of reasons to hate Wal*Mart and include your own reasons for beating this drum and be done with it.

No one's saying Wal*Mart is king here. Least of all me... but, don't point to a rancid news reporting, what another news agency reported, that someone said, 3rd generation, Huffington style article without peeling back a few layers of research first. Use the Internet; don't let it use you. That'll get your hand slapped. Consider this a life lesson and go do something nice for someone.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[ibx 2]

[SkyDekker 1,145]

BIGUN

STOP!!!

This isn't about handouts and shit. It's about Walmart employees helping WalMart employees who've had a catastrophic situation occur this year and helping them through the season.

Things like a spouse losing their job, another spouse becoming terminal, etc.

You're reading the 3rd generation of morphed fucking journalism. Read this:

Wal-Mart spokesperson Kory Lundberg told Today.com that the store’s employees are upset their actions are “being twisted and misinterpreted” and that the food drive was for employees who have a “special, critical, unforeseen need,” such as their home burned down or their spouse lost a job. As Lundberg told The Cleveland Plain-Dealer: ”This is part of the company’s culture to rally around associates and take care of them when they face extreme hardships.”

In a phone call with me, Wal-Mart spokesperson Brooke Buchanan echoed these sentiments, adding that the Ohio store’s food drive is just “one example that’s been completely mischaracterized and taken out of context” of a program that allows any of its local stores or employees to “come together to help their fellow associates in need.” The company also has a program called the Associates Critical Need Trust that allows employees to donate money to help colleagues in the aftermath of catastrophes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2013/11/19/wal-mart-food-drive-photo-looks-bad-because-well-its-wal-mart/

ibx is just being silly. I work for a large international company. We do the same thing. Then donations are matched to some degree by the company and distributed to those employees in need.

Last occurance was the Calgary floods and a number of employees who lost their homes.

Reading something nefarious into that is a little silly, and by a little silly I mean completely retarded.

[BIGUN 1,071]

I'm currently on contract for an organization that has a similar program... In fact, employees can donate a portion of their sick time to a Catastrophic Sick Time bank.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.