Ok fellow folkies here are a couple of Walfart tidbits.

My long-time (and long suffering) girlfriend Nancy recently got a job with...the dread Walthing. She is in the Bakery. She thought that she would be baking. Reasonable. Wel everything they bake is frozen and made in the mines of Bentonville (or somewhere). Sure she "bakes" she plops the stuff into a walk-in oven (Hansel and Gretel come to mind) and the stuff bakes. Well it ain't the worst job but she and I have hated Walstuff from day one. She says its like "sleeping with the enemy". The store's manager's name is Blaise. which, from what I see going on there should be spelled Blase (I can't make accents over the es). She says there are many employees who just wander around looking busy, they don't do a thing. She has one friend whose job is to travel about the store with a shopping cart and pick up stuff "mislaid" in one department and return it to the correct place. She "missed" the pound of hamburger that was in the sporting goods department for a month, though. I heard of someone opening deer "scent" bottles and letting them dribble all over stuff. Oh my! and there's the guy who went to work for Walburp, punching in each day, going home and relaxing then coming back in time to punch out. He managed this for three months before they asked him to leave! They didn't fire him, by the way. We know a person who hasn't worked for the Walthing for almost a year but they still carry her as being "on leave" and she still has her benefits! Walmuck is non-union (duh) and periodically various unions try to change that. A new campaign is about to begin. We shall see. An historical note: this specific Walshite is the very first "Supercenter", ever.

When my ex first saw Walcrud she said: "Gee, 'Stuff Are Us"."

Walcrap doesn't pay a living wage, it is only marginally better than unemployment comp or welfare. They haven't a clue about how to deal with customers, yet management insists that each and every employee greets each and every customer as they come in, usually with "How may I help you?" They have "pep rallies" each morning before they open the doors getting the wage slaves who work for them to jump and cheer and clapp in unison. Employees must wait SIX months for health benefits. The chain is very flexible when it comes to hours an employee works and allow an employee to log as little as 36 hours a week and qualify for benefits. Of course the employee must pay for these benefits.

It is our experience, here in a small Missouri town, that the Walmonster provides the majority of jobs. This sound OK until you realize that amny of their employees (as my girl friend) are NAFTA refugees. We have lost four major employers here in the last four to five years. A common phrase heard here in Franklin county, Missouri. "
Well, I can always get a job at Walmart".

May God judge them as they shgould be judged and please, let me know so I can watch.

CB