Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Perkins, that page is very, very misleading. For example, it states that 95% of its employees have healthcare. What they fail to tell you is that only a fraction of that number is actually through Walmart. Most of its employees who have healthcare are on Medicaid or other sources.
Also SIX months before you're allowed to enroll in their healthplan? And a year for part timers? Gah.
Such a clusterfuck it all is.
Yup. And they do do the full time, it's just carefully allocated.
I do wish everyone would stop calling it Obamacare. For one thing, that's polarizing. For another, it's polarizing and calls out the crazies. And it ain't great. A start, at least. TO SOCIALIZED MEDICINE OMG TYRANNYFASCISMHITLER.
OK, sorry, just channeling the crazies.
I was using that to point out they do hire full time people.
As I said, I know they have issues, but frequently there is exaggeration involved.
Though nearly 95 percent of our associates have some form of health insurance,
I wonder how many of those are on Medicaid? My source was a social worker friend who told me about a former client put on "medical leave" while being pregnant because otherwise they would have had to rehire her into a different job with worse benefits.
Full time people who work 34 hours a week for about $9 an hour.
There's a reason I shop at Costco and won't set foot in a Wal*Mart.
Low prices happen at a cost of something...
God, I'm in a shit stirring mood.
That's....not network TV.
Well, yeah. "Corporations are killing your kids" wouldn't be able to sell any commercials. "You lazy parents are killing your kids" can. (The first episode, there were several fast food commercials. The second one, the only food commercials I noticed were for pasta sauce, but I wasn't totally paying attention.)
The book by Ellen Ruppel Shell called "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture" is a really good look into it, sarameg.
The Walmart here is the only store twenty or more miles in any direction with a lot of things people need -- affordable clothes and housewares, for instance. They also carry groceries, and it's one of only three grocery stores in town. And in the winter here, when the routes either north or south aren't really fit for travel, that's a big thing.
It also employs a hell of a lot of people, which is a really big thing -- we have entire strip malls standing empty.
It also employs a hell of a lot of people, which is a really big thing -- we have entire strip malls standing empty.
Man I hate strip malls. It didn't even occur to me that we might be trading mega stores for strip malls.