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.