Walmart cuts starting hourly pay for some workers
Walmart cuts starting hourly pay for some workers
The retailer says the change will create consistency in starting hourly pay across individual stores.
The retailer says the change will create consistency in starting hourly pay across individual stores.
“Consistent starting pay results in consistent staffing and better customer service while also creating new opportunities for associates to gain new skills from experience across the store and lay the groundwork for their career regardless of where they start,”
Ok miss PR person. Please explain your rationale cause that shit makes no sense.
I worked somewhere that was killing off their QA department and in a company wide meeting explained it by saying “when you go to a store a pick up a part, you expect it to have gone through QA” Lots of head scratching that day. They still don’t QA their products. They just ship them and let the customers complain if something is wrong.
Reminds me when we had three companies merging at the same time and the bosses brought everyone in to tell the grunts and sales people that no one will be losing jobs. I ask, "You know when you move in with someone and you have to get rid of a set of dishes. Do you think you need three sets of dishes?" Yeah, so there were tons of lay offs.
probably went something like this: someone at a low paying store complained about the store 4 miles down the road paying more. so they're addressing that 'issue'.
meanwhile, record profits and unprecedented wealth for one family
One of the top employers whose employees use public assistance like food stamps cutting starting wages? This timeline sucks.
they hate their customers just as much as their employees, those stores are nasty
Walmart profits are subsidized by your tax dollars
Weird how that consistency can't be created by raising wages.
When you didn't think they could be more evil:
Oh quit being so obtuse. They only generated 143 billion dollars in profit last year. How can they be expected to pay their employees a living wage like that??
Yeah plus they have over 2 million associates per their website. Even if they COULD give everybody a raise, that's only like $70,000 per person.
I'm actually surprised they were paying what they pay. My nephew got hired to move carts around for $19 an hour. Sure, it's part-time, but that's a crazy starting wage for a big box store in Indiana.
Edit: Before you think I'm pro-Walmart, fuck Walmart. I hope every store closes down and the Waltons go bankrupt.
Edit 2: Also, minimum wage should be $21 an hour everywhere, so it's only a crazy starting wage because Indiana is a fucked up red state.
I haven’t shopped at Walmart in years. Their stores are truly shit.
Best deals around.
I personally think there's not much variation in grocery stores if they have the products I want.
I'm surprised they had room to cut without going below minimum wage.
Remember, they're not anti-union, but they're not neutral either.
EDIT: Since people seem to be missing the joke here, this is a common line in anti-union propaganda training videos.
They literally got rid of the deli meats counter because they voted to unionize. They are completely anti union
For anyone who doesn't know, I was quoting their union-busting videos.
Amazon and Lowe's use that same line.
Anyone who thinks they're not anti union isn't paying attention.
the in-store butchers and bakery, too, iirc.
I worked for a Wal-Mart once. They literally have anti union propaganda in their training material
Also Ross. They're a gross company that treats their workers like shit. When you start working there they give you pamphlets on how to sign up for social services like food stamps. They also have one of those employee funds, where everyone pays into it every month and if someone has an emergency they can use money from it. Maybe if they paid their employees a livable wage they wouldn't need makeshift insurance funded by their impoverished workers. So fucked up.
I would've expected you to get the joke then.
I once listened to someone who managed a walmart-esque store complain how to get their cashiers who earned slightly above minimum wage to go above and beyond their required duties
Not like that!