If you think SprawlMart up there is bad, you should try living in the South for a while, yo. Those up north bitches ought to be thankful for their mostly white asses.
What I meant to say: This doesn't justify WalMart's presence on the planet, but white people who work at this store up north (or any place other than the American south) have it a lot better than mostly black and female employees in similar stores in the south.
D did IT for WalMart stores in and around New Orleans, and found that these women weren't even allowed to vent their frustrations for fear of reproachment and, at worst, termination. They just want to hang onto their jobs, even if it means that men younger than them pass them up in promotions and raises. All while they are forced to put up and revere pictures of their most successful CEO (Sam's son).
I have no idea what the storm is going to do for the region. My hope is that quite a few of these workers have gone on to jobs of equanimity in other parts of the country.
Because sometimes Wal-Mart is the only place that's open at 2 AM and you need more Tums?
That's the only reason I've shopped there in the last, um, four years. Back when I worked for Computer Renaissance, Wal-Mart was our supplier for cleaning products and the like, so we had an expense account there. Does that count as 'me shopping there'?
Sometimes your sanity/poverty level slips from "Insane With The Plague" to "Oh My God, I Am Poor And Going To Die" (trademarks pending). When your sour milk smell of financial desperation can be noticed by friends in the next county.
This is when you shop at Wal-Mart. Because you've got no fucking margin with which to be ethical. Because their board is absolutely right that the only thing the consumer truly cares about is the price. There is a logical disconnect to anything else for most double wide Americans. But even if you genuinely care and are informed, if you don't have that margin then it just doesn't matter. The ethics and ideals just can't win against a few extra bucks saved that you need.
I am thankful to not be in that state anymore. The last time I went in was a few years back to get a medically necessary Big Mouth Billy Bass and WalMart was the only place tasteless enough to have them for sale.
Re: Because...benchiladaDecember 15 2005, 07:03:21 UTC
I hear you, but I have a hard time buying that...no pun intended.
That's part of Wal-Mart's ploy, the whole "We are the cheapest...oh, by the way, did you hear STEALTH is out on DVD? No? Yeah, well it's over by the checkout..." bullshit.
Up until recently, even in C-U, with a total of 100,000 people plus students, we had some cheapass grocery stores. As cheap as Wal-Mart, where impulse buys were fucking Skor bars, not DVD's. Where are most of them now? Undercut to death, destroyed by the "Wal-Mart is Your Cheap Friend" ploy.
Yes, I understand the point you're getting at. Yes, I've been so poor that making the coffee too weak meant boiling some of the liquid off and drinking it anyway, and that you smoked each cigarette until you heart the filter sizzle, and generic Chef Boyardee sounds good...
But when you find out the truth...hell, even if I get back to being that poor, I can't get back to Wal-Mart. Not when I see that my going there means that I'm screwing more poor people. Figuratively, that is.
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FUCKERS!
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And, in answer to a query from yesterday, what makes them better?
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No more posting whilst fucked-up on glue, darling.
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What I meant to say: This doesn't justify WalMart's presence on the planet, but white people who work at this store up north (or any place other than the American south) have it a lot better than mostly black and female employees in similar stores in the south.
D did IT for WalMart stores in and around New Orleans, and found that these women weren't even allowed to vent their frustrations for fear of reproachment and, at worst, termination. They just want to hang onto their jobs, even if it means that men younger than them pass them up in promotions and raises. All while they are forced to put up and revere pictures of their most successful CEO (Sam's son).
I have no idea what the storm is going to do for the region. My hope is that quite a few of these workers have gone on to jobs of equanimity in other parts of the country.
All said: SprawlMart sucks.
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That's the only reason I've shopped there in the last, um, four years. Back when I worked for Computer Renaissance, Wal-Mart was our supplier for cleaning products and the like, so we had an expense account there. Does that count as 'me shopping there'?
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This is when you shop at Wal-Mart. Because you've got no fucking margin with which to be ethical. Because their board is absolutely right that the only thing the consumer truly cares about is the price. There is a logical disconnect to anything else for most double wide Americans. But even if you genuinely care and are informed, if you don't have that margin then it just doesn't matter. The ethics and ideals just can't win against a few extra bucks saved that you need.
I am thankful to not be in that state anymore. The last time I went in was a few years back to get a medically necessary Big Mouth Billy Bass and WalMart was the only place tasteless enough to have them for sale.
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That's part of Wal-Mart's ploy, the whole "We are the cheapest...oh, by the way, did you hear STEALTH is out on DVD? No? Yeah, well it's over by the checkout..." bullshit.
Up until recently, even in C-U, with a total of 100,000 people plus students, we had some cheapass grocery stores. As cheap as Wal-Mart, where impulse buys were fucking Skor bars, not DVD's. Where are most of them now? Undercut to death, destroyed by the "Wal-Mart is Your Cheap Friend" ploy.
Yes, I understand the point you're getting at. Yes, I've been so poor that making the coffee too weak meant boiling some of the liquid off and drinking it anyway, and that you smoked each cigarette until you heart the filter sizzle, and generic Chef Boyardee sounds good...
But when you find out the truth...hell, even if I get back to being that poor, I can't get back to Wal-Mart. Not when I see that my going there means that I'm screwing more poor people. Figuratively, that is.
On a lighter note: kittens.
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