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.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
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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.
Lee - Mar 26, 2010 6:18:24 pm PDT #19059 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
smonster - Mar 26, 2010 6:19:03 pm PDT #19060 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
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.
javachik - Mar 26, 2010 6:20:03 pm PDT #19061 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
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.
sarameg - Mar 26, 2010 6:20:19 pm PDT #19062 of 30001
Low prices happen at a cost of something...
God, I'm in a shit stirring mood.
Hil R. - Mar 26, 2010 6:25:18 pm PDT #19063 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.)
javachik - Mar 26, 2010 6:27:10 pm PDT #19064 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
The book by Ellen Ruppel Shell called "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture" is a really good look into it, sarameg.
Amy - Mar 26, 2010 6:28:18 pm PDT #19065 of 30001
Because books.
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.
Trudy Booth - Mar 26, 2010 6:30:55 pm PDT #19066 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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.
smonster - Mar 26, 2010 6:31:34 pm PDT #19067 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
That's a statement that applies to the whole country, Hec.
sarameg - Mar 26, 2010 6:32:14 pm PDT #19068 of 30001
java, one of the local businessman has been good at deflating the Walmart with reputable links. It's depressing, yet the immediate gratification factor for the larger area is huge. I'd much rather have a small grocery and several local businesses which could provide the same, but they don't have the startup and construction capital something like a Walmart does.
Traffic is so fucked.