So...one of the wealthiest corporations in the world takes even further advantage of some of the most miserably treated workers in the country by refusing to let them take time off, lest they have to train more people to work at $7.50 an hour? Even when doing so endangers the public health?

Man, do they deserve a union.

Walmart doesn't care. They don't have to.

FTFA: Employees who miss a day due to sickness receive a one-point demerit and lose eight hours of wages.

Wait... what? So if you are sick and can't work, Wal-Mart takes back 8 hours of pay?

So if you worked 24 hours that week and had one day where you were sick and called off, you're only going to get paid for 16?

Am I reading this correctly, or do I need more coffee?

I'm sure the policy is exactly the same for Walmart's corporate employees.

There's a {cough}{cough}{hack} smile {cough} on every {hack}{cough}{cough} aisle.

Meet Us at the Stick: So if you worked 24 hours that week and had one day where you were sick and called off, you're only going to get paid for 16?

Am I reading this correctly, or do I need more coffee?

I don't think that is legal, I think they just don't get paid for the day they didn't work.

Meet Us at the Stick: Am I reading this correctly, or do I need more coffee?

Basically they do not give paid sick time.

Meet Us at the Stick: FTFA: Employees who miss a day due to sickness receive a one-point demerit and lose eight hours of wages.

Wait... what? So if you are sick and can't work, Wal-Mart takes back 8 hours of pay?

So if you worked 24 hours that week and had one day where you were sick and called off, you're only going to get paid for 16?

Am I reading this correctly, or do I need more coffee?

I think they're saying they lose 8 hours of wages because they missed a day of work. I assume these are hourly folks who don't accrue vacation time.

This is an outrage.

Those of you who will no longer shop at WalMart, step forward.

/does not step forward.

SpinStopper: Walmart doesn't care. They don't have to.

Does spreading this sickness increase profits or decrease profits?

The more people that get sick, the more tissues/cold remedies/Sprite and chicken soup they sell.

So it's in the best financial interests of Wal-Mart to make their customers sick. Yet another reason to make sick workers spread their germs all over the store.

benlonghair: This is an outrage.

Those of you who will no longer shop at WalMart, step forward.

/does not step forward.

I stepped forward about five years ago. Does that count or no?

benlonghair: This is an outrage.

Those of you who will no longer shop at WalMart, step forward.

/does not step forward.

Walmart is totally the only company that does stuff like this.

benlonghair: /does not step forward.

benlonghair out shopping with the old ball and chain:

Lando Lincoln: Does spreading this sickness increase profits or decrease profits?

Increase. They have a fully scheduled staff at almost all times.

Newsflash: People who aren't working don't get paid. More at 11.

Tharagleb: Newsflash: People who aren't working don't get paid. More at 11.

Says the man posting on Fark during business hours.

/getting paid
//Not working.

Tharagleb: Newsflash: People who aren't working don't get paid. More at 11.

The problem is the demerits- they can be fired for missing only six days of work. When people get the flu they can be sick for about a week, so they're pretty much forced to come in while sick or risk being fired.

Discount brains in aisle 4

Tharagleb: Newsflash: People who aren't working don't get paid. More at 11.

I get unlimited sick and personal so I'm getting a kick out of your silliness.

It will be a cold day in hell when I call in sick. My 'sick time' will be for when I feel well enough to do something fun.

I've never set foot in a wal-mart. I plan to continue this policy indefinitely. Plus, I have no desire to shop somewhere essentially guaranteed to have sick people working there.

Gods have been using innocent children to make their point since the beginning of time.

It's not like Abraham offered to sacrifice himself to make god happy.

Goddammit. Wrong thread.

I recently read a book about the 1918 pandemic and the author pointed out that one of the factors that led to the spread was the Army not quarantining soldiers at a base with an outbreak, but, instead, to continue troop transfers as usual for the war effort and thereby spread the disease to new victims.

SpinStopper: Walmart doesn't care. They don't have to.

aaaaaaaaand.... we're done.
Good work.

The Icelander: Goddammit. Wrong thread.

And yet, your post could have worked if this thread had taken a dark spin already.

/if I were young Issac I would overpowered 100+ year old Abraham and asked him what he was smoking

benlonghair: This is an outrage.

Those of you who will no longer shop at WalMart, step forward.

I won't shop at walmart, but not because of this.

Survival of the fittest.

Dancin_In_Anson: It will be a cold day in hell when I call in sick. My 'sick time' will be for when I feel well enough to do something fun.

THIS.

I HATE having to call in sick when I'm too sick to get off the couch. Our administrator blocked the door today, and wouldn't let one of my co-workers in. She's been coughing and weezing for a week, took a few days off, but is clearly not well.

Now, because she came in for a few days last week, another of our co-workers got sick.

jonasborg: Survival of the fittest.

I imagine the people who shop at Walmart already have fairly strong immune systems from being exposed to the germs at your typical Walmart.

This is doubly true if they buy food there.

The Icelander: jonasborg: Survival of the fittest.

I imagine the people who shop at Walmart already have fairly strong immune systems from being exposed to the germs at your typical Walmart.

This is doubly true if they buy food there.

Especially considering the percentage that hale(sp?) from Mexico and countries beyond, where things like innoculations may not be as common as they are here.

If my local Wal-Mart is any example, most Wal-Mart are a nifty breeding ground for various diseases cultured in a veritable smorgasboard of ethnic, cultural, religious and environmental backgrounds.

I shop at Wal-Mart and am a shareholder. I'm not going shop at Mom & Pop's Sports Emporium and subsidize them when I can get the goods 40% cheaper at WMT. Many bemoan the fate of these small stores; don't. If they cannot compete, they're in the wrong business.

chrisco123: I shop at Wal-Mart and am a shareholder. I'm not going shop at Mom & Pop's Sports Emporium and subsidize them when I can get the goods 40% cheaper at WMT. Many bemoan the fate of these small stores; don't. If they cannot compete, they're in the wrong business.

Cheaper is always better.

The Icelander

Cheaper is always better.

For the same product it is.

chrisco123: when I can get the goods 40% cheaper at WMT

If it's the same thing, I don't either. But most of the time, it's not the same thing.

chrisco123: The Icelander

Cheaper is always better.

For the same product it is.

External costs are no costs at all! FREE MONEY!

Tharagleb: Newsflash: People who aren't working don't get paid. More at 11.

NEWSFLASH: another idiot poster DNRTFA.

If they call in sick, they don't get paid, but they can also be fired or penalized based on a "demerit system."

Also, one of the country's largest employers is not following CDC guidelines.

But who cares. If an employees is hacking up phlegm, they move them out of the food aisles.

what_now: I HATE having to call in sick when I'm too sick to get off the couch.

Always always ALWAYS call in too well to work.

chrisco123: For the same product it is.

Walmart sells the same products as other places. In no way do they encourage their suppliers to make cheaper models so they can undercut their competitors.

chrisco123: The Icelander

Cheaper is always better.

For the same product it is.

If it were the same product, I would agree. However, almost everything bought (notable exception: pre-packaged food) at Wal-Mart isn't the same.

You go buy a pair of Levi's at Wal-Mart. Then go buy a pair at JC Penny. Which pair is thin and crappy, and which pair fits like a real pair of Levi's?

Buy a toaster or a blender from Wal-Mart. Then buy the same model from Sears. Which one dies after 4 months?

I could repeat this for almost everything. Pens. Cell phone chargers. Lamps. ANY FREAKING TOOL.

Wal-Mart "saves" you money by charging you 80% of the cost of the real thing for a cheap knockoff (even the brand name stuff is lesser quality) that will die quickly, forcing you to replace it.

whistleridge: If it were the same product, I would agree. However, almost everything bought (notable exception: pre-packaged food) at Wal-Mart isn't the same.

Hmmm. I wonder why that is? Is it because of the regulations put in place by the FDA?

Damn those regulations!

What's the problem? Should I be forced to keep people on my payroll if they can't bother being careful enough to avoid getting sick?

shiat. A couple years ago I needed to buy a vacuum. I bought one at WalMart and it died within six months. So I then overpaid for a damn Oreck, which also recently broke.

I think I will buy a Dirt Devil from Target.

I HATE WalMart.

We should have a main page WalMart discussion thread -- I bet it would be longer than the Halloween Ghost Stories -- and twice as scary.

jaylectricity: Should I be forced to keep people on my payroll if they can't bother being careful enough to avoid getting sick?

What if I come into your store, get sick, then decide to sue? If the judge doesn't immediately dismiss, how much would such a lawsuit cost?

Dinjiin: What if I come into your store, get sick, then decide to sue? If the judge doesn't immediately dismiss

Immediately? Maybe not. Pretty darned soon? Believe it.

Dinjiin: jaylectricity: Should I be forced to keep people on my payroll if they can't bother being careful enough to avoid getting sick?

What if I come into your store, get sick, then decide to sue? If the judge doesn't immediately dismiss, how much would such a lawsuit cost?

Read the article...look for the words "Decision Day" and then come back to me.

Nabb1: Dinjiin: What if I come into your store, get sick, then decide to sue? If the judge doesn't immediately dismiss

Immediately? Maybe not. Pretty darned soon? Believe it.


I dunno. If the CDC issues guidelines for combating an epidemic, and WalMart ignores those guidelines- and it can be proven that WalMart disregarded the health of it's customers, a lawsuit wouldn't be the most ridiculous thing.

If WalMart had a policy of not cleaning up blood, and you caught a blood born pathogen, you would have a lawsuit.

/BTW, my gumbo was a disaster.

jaylectricity: Read the article...look for the words "Decision Day" and then come back to me.

It is really tempting to give you a response that shows how you are not actually addressing the post you are answering, but, since you are an obvious troll, I am not going to bother.

Trolling a WalMart thread is beyond sad; it is borderline pitiful.

ExJerseyGirl: jaylectricity: Read the article...look for the words "Decision Day" and then come back to me.

It is really tempting to give you a response that shows how you are not actually addressing the post you are answering, but, since you are an obvious troll, I am not going to bother.

Trolling a WalMart thread is beyond sad; it is borderline pitiful.

Why? This customer wouldn't sue if I fired everybody that got sick all the time.