Walmart workers filmed playing iPad frisbee
Four Walmart employees were said to have been sacked this week after filming themselves deliberately throwing what they claim are boxed iPads around one of the supermarket chain's stockrooms. The workers, from Walmart's Pikeville, Kentucky store, can be seen lobbing boxes carelessly around the room. “This is why you don’t buy …
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Finally, a healthy use for a ...
iCrap product.
Now, how about a Mac for weight lifting or football.
Wal-Mart Employee satisfaction?
I guess if they didn't pay them in Food Stamps their employees would have more pride in the work ..
Re: Wal-Mart Employee satisfaction?
I guess if 80% of the people refused to work at Wal-Mart because the salary wouldn't sustain them, then Wal-Mart would pay more. Unfortunately, more than 80% of them may live paycheck-to-paycheck and therefore may not have the luxury of holding out for more.
Re: Wal-Mart Employee satisfaction?
I deeply regret that I can only upvote this once.
I'd also like to widen the debate a little and plant another thought...
The people looking after you aging and/or infirm relatives in care homes? For the most part they're on minimum wage and have crappy dehumanising terms of employment (zero hours contracts, rock bottom minimum holiday and sick leave entitlements shift pattern which vary at little or no notice and make no allowances for the needs of the employee and/or their own families, minimal job security, that sort of thing...).
The people looking after your kids in privately run nurseries and pre-schools? Pretty much the same for the most part...
The people on the ground in the private companies who are tendering to take over public services currently provided by government and local authorities? Guess...
Pay minimum wage, offer lousy standards of job security, and give demumanising working conditions: Get minimal effort, low levels of commitment, and a bad attitude.
Now imagine that rather than working in Walmart's stock room moving consumer goodies from one place to another these guys are in a care home feeding, cleaning, and providing for the basic day to day needs of your parents and grandparents, or doing the same for your pre-school children in a creche, or maybe they're collecting your rubbish, or perhaps dealing with disposal of hazardous waste. That's your future that is. Or maybe it's your present...
Re: Wal-Mart Employee satisfaction?
And yet when discussing CEO pay and bonuses - or pay for elected officials - the argument is always that you have to pay high salaries to get the best people.
Re: Wal-Mart Employee satisfaction?
How many Walmart shoppers are on food stamps? The answer is quite a few.
"At the stroke of midnight, a growing number of Americans are lining up at Walmart not to cash in on a holiday sale, but because they’re hungry.
The increasing number of Americans relying on food stamps to survive the sluggish economic recovery has changed the way the largest retailer in the United States does business.
Carol Johnston, Walmart’s senior vice president of store development, said that store managers have seen an “enormous spike” in the number of consumers shopping at midnight on the first of the month. That’s typically when those receiving federal food assistance have their accounts refilled each month.
“We’ll bring in more staff to stock. We’ll also make sure all of our registers…are open…Some people may think at 12:01, Walmart’s very quiet, but in a lot of our areas of the country, 12:01 is a big day or a big night for us, actually,” Johnston said.
Becca Reeder and her husband, T.J. Fowler, are one of the families shopping before the sun rises.
When NBC News visited their home six days before the first of the month, they had no milk in their refrigerator. Among the few things left were water, bacon grease for the dog’s food, a little bit of apple juice, cheese and tortillas."
The clientèle that Walmart attracts are the same demographic as the people who work there.
Wal*Mart = Mall*Wart
Low low prices.
In the case of Apple products, often $0.12 cheaper (e.g. $599.83 instead of $599.99).
Yeah, thanks.
I loved...
...that theres is a place called Pikeyville in redneck country.
At least now we understand
why HP famously use half a rainforest's worth of cardboard and packing materials to ship a RAM stick. Looks like they had this sort of thing figured out years ago!
Time to round up the Animals...
And do some turkey bowling.
Doubt
The storeroom appears to be muddle. Likewise the load on the trolley. Is it really like that in the backroom of the greatest shop on the planet ?
The camera was expertly placed to see the thrower and the throw.
Maybe it's a good thing...
.....that these idiots are all out of a job now. If they can't afford the hideous amounts of food they must have eaten to get into that state maybe they'll lose some weight.
Just a rehearsal
Perhaps they can now get jobs handling guitars for a major US airline?
Ahahahahaaaaa!!!!
Hahahahaaaa!!!... iPad frisbee!! I like it....!!!!
iPhone owners weird width/height ratio ... on their videos
Is it just laziness filming stuff in a "standing letterbox" ratio, or do the manual feature an order that the new owner should use the iPhone that way when filming. It's a grandiose waste of space and unnatural in every sense of the word. Stop it!
And they wonder
And Americans wonder why most of the world think they're utterly stupid morons with no sense of what they are doing.
I'm totally digging the irony here
Wal-Mart employees earning around $8 per hour, willfully abusing and damaging merchandise made by Chinese sweatshop workers earning around $14 a day, sold to idiot hipsters for upwards of $1400 apiece.
Boo yah!
punishment?
Wall-Mart sure have a way to know every single that was in that room at that money. and those idiots should be forced to pay for every single thing broken + a nice 15 to 20 years in jail is in order.......
Re: punishment?
Wow. I'm glad I don't live in your world.
Make them pay for their stupidity, absolutely. Sack them even. But 15 - 20 years in prison for a bit of foolishness? You don't think that's even a teensy bit extreme? What do you advocate for people who write on toilet walls then? Death?
"Some viewers have questioned whether it's all a fake."
I doubt it and there is nothing new under the sun.
I once worked in the warehouse for a certain high-street electrical retailer before graduating to the dizzy heights of having my own truck[1] and delivering their shit. When I first started and before they came over all security conscious, all the electronic gear lay around the warehouse in small heaps.
Picking a component Hi-Fi system consisted of one bloke with a sack barrow standing in the aisle while another wandered off into the stacks and slung boxes. Bloke #1 would catch (mostly) and stack the boxes on the barrow.
You'd be amazed just how much punishment this stuff would take and still be OK when unpacked on delivery. That was back in the days when styrofoam packing was de rigeur, I'm not sure this eco-fiddling cardboard crap offers the same shock-absorbing capabilities.
When we weren't throwing things around the warehouse we'd make a tape ball and, er, throw it around the warehouse.
[1] London traffic is so much more enjoyable when you have the intimidation factor of a battle-scarred, unmarked, white 3-ton truck and the self-righteous invincibility of youth going for you. Especially in the days before traffic cameras were invented......
Punishment will be meted out
to every other stock person in every other Walmart store for the crap those 4 pulled. My husband works maintenance for WM, and he has to ask management to unlock the doors to the trash dumpster every time he wants to empty his trash cart because once, several years ago, ONE maintenance worker was throwing good merchandise in the dumpsters for his buddies to come pick up so they could pawn it. Now ALL maintenance personnel have to have management unlock the doors to the dumpsters and then lock them up to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Not all WM employees are morons, some of them are working there because they can't get hired anywhere else because of age or disability (my husband is a 56 year old retired, disabled Navy veteran, and no one will hire him at his age, even though he's a coded welder and has a boiler's license).
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