Originally Posted by lil brown bat

Sorry if this sounds personal -- it really isn't; many people use your reason -- but I find that a flimsy cop-out, personally. People who are working at Wal-Mart and similar bastions of solid employment typically don't have a plethora of choices. It's disingenuous and verges on "let them eat cake" arrogance to pretend that their being there is a matter of "choice" like a yuppie suburbanite's "choice" between latte and cappuccino. Wal-Mart is cheap; compassion is cheaper.

Originally Posted by ReachHigher

yea I forgot that I was arguing with people who drive to a job that makes $5.75 an hour when gas costs $4.22 a gallon. Logic clearly isn't these people's strong suit.

Originally Posted by ReachHigher

So I generally choose not to patronize walmart for several moral reasons...but today I was in desperate need of some CD-Rs so I could mail a file to my university and the only place anywhere near me that sells them is Wally world. So I grudgingly got on my bike and made the 4 mile ride on some pretty dangerous roads only to find that they have no form of bike rack whatsoever. That's typical for this area so I've become used to just taking my bike into stores...in fact I usually use the basket on the back as a shopping cart.

So I walk into the walmart and the most evil grandmother I've ever met grabs my arm with her claws and says I can't bring it into the store. I explained to here there was nowhere outside to lock it up and that I had brought it into that particular store with no problem. She insisted that I had to leave it in the foyer and I calmly said that I wasn't going to leave a 600 dollar bike just sitting in the foyer and that I'd like to speak to her manager.

So the manager comes out and says I can't bring the bike into the store, so I explain to her that there are safe places for people who drive to lock their cars but there is no safe place for me to lock my mode of transportation. She says that I should have driven there I told her that I didn't own a car and that my bike was my only form of transportation and I couldn't risk having it stolen. She said I couldn't bring it in because they sell bikes in the store. So I said but those bikes don't look anything like this and this is clearly not a brand new bike, so why is that a problem. She insisted that for the safety of the other customers I couldn't bring it inside, so I asked her why she thought a bike controlled by an adult was more dangerous than a shopping cart being pushed around by someone's bratty kids. So she switched back to the excuse that they sell bikes in the store so I couldn't bring another bicycle in. I was starting to get really frustrated since I had ridden all the way there seemingly for no reason, so I asked her if they also sold shirts in the store. She said yes so I took off my jersey and said well then I'd better not bring this in either. She got kind of flustered and said that it was a different situation but couldn't explain why. So I said that if they also sold shorts in the store that I'd better not wear those in either and I took off my shorts. Same goes for the shoes and sunglasses. Now I'm standing there in my spandex and a sports bra and I ask here if I can leave my things behind the customer service counter where they will be safe until I finish making my purchases and she said that I couldn't come into the store without shoes on, to which i responded "but I certainly can't wear shoes into the store because you sell those here and someone might think I've stolen them." She threatened to call security if I didn't leave so I told her that I would never be coming back to that store again and that I was glad I hadn't driven there since the gas to go four miles was probably more expensive than what her underpaid employees make in an hour.

Her expression when the shirt came off was absolutely priceless...I was pretty tempted to take off the spandex too but I wasn't sure what constitutes indecent exposure in Virginia so I figured I'd err on the side of caution. Still I had a decent sized crowd gathered before the end of the discussion. Anybody else have issues with Satan's superstore?

Originally Posted by lil brown bat

Sorry if this sounds personal -- it really isn't; many people use your reason -- but I find that a flimsy cop-out, personally. People who are working at Wal-Mart and similar bastions of solid employment typically don't have a plethora of choices. It's disingenuous and verges on "let them eat cake" arrogance to pretend that their being there is a matter of "choice" like a yuppie suburbanite's "choice" between latte and cappuccino. Wal-Mart is cheap; compassion is cheaper.

Originally Posted by lil brown bat

Sorry if this sounds personal -- it really isn't; many people use your reason -- but I find that a flimsy cop-out, personally. People who are working at Wal-Mart and similar bastions of solid employment typically don't have a plethora of choices. It's disingenuous and verges on "let them eat cake" arrogance to pretend that their being there is a matter of "choice" like a yuppie suburbanite's "choice" between latte and cappuccino. Wal-Mart is cheap; compassion is cheaper.

Originally Posted by no motor?

Notice the "some" that was in italics? They were making the same point you did, but in a more compassionate way.

Originally Posted by no motor?

I'm one of those people that's pretty involved in the community, and every year for the last 6 or 7 years I've lined up volunteers to ring the bell for the Salvation Army for one of the local service clubs. The one request I've consistently heard is to not have us go back to Walmart. Everyone that went there hated it because the customers were so unpleasant. Some were pretty nice, but enough of the rest of them lacked enough compassion that we've gone elsewhere since the year we were at Walmart.

Originally Posted by Barabaika

It's strange.
Probably, the Walmart workers have to pay for the stolen goods. Why can't they stop suspicious people?

Originally Posted by -Devil-

on that note, one of the ones i have to go into though, does have bike racks out front ... so it is more location dependent i guess.

Originally Posted by charly17201

$5.75 an hour********** $4.22 a gallon**********

Where the heck do YOU live???

WalMart here pays $10 an hour and gas is $3.99.

Originally Posted by neilfein

Okay, let's try it this way:


When you put on a uniform, you are a representative of your employer. That entails a small share of responsibility for your employer's actions and policies - and you get some of the blame as well, no matter your reasons for working there.

Originally Posted by Barabaika

It's strange.
Why did you buy a $600 bike for commuting if you can't leave it locked to a light pole or a similar object and always have to bring it inside? Buy a $125 Walmart commuter bike and have no problems.

Probably, the Walmart workers have to pay for the stolen goods. Why can't they stop suspicious people?

Originally Posted by lil brown bat

Who they?

The original poster.

Your point is?

Originally Posted by genec

So who the heck shops there???

Originally Posted by ews

I can't believe people are giving your kudos for your immature little stunt.

Originally Posted by Alathea

Pic's or it didn't happen!

Seriously though, in Rural NE sometimes WM is it. OR joining the Army, which is what I did because it paid better at the time. While some employee at WM can't make decisions, the Managers have an awful lot of latitude to make your (employee) life suck if they want to, and in the WM realm, the GM of a store is next to god.

Of course, I worked LP, which is outside of the management arc of WM so I could supersede them if necessary to investigate loss, or fire someone, if I had to. It still paid crap, though, for as much responsibility as I had.

CAS