Wal-Mart lets Michael Barbaro inside the war room:
Wal-Mart is taking a page from the modern political playbook. Under fire from well-organized opponents who have hammered the retailer with criticisms of its wages, health insurance and treatment of workers, Wal-Mart has quietly recruited former presidential advisers, including Michael K. Deaver, who was Ronald Reagan's image-meister, and Leslie Dach, one of Bill Clinton's media consultants, to set up a rapid-response public relations team in Arkansas.I'm thinking two and five years down the road... what will we all make of this?When small-business owners or union officials - also employing political operatives from past campaigns - criticize the company, the war room swings into action with press releases, phone calls to reporters and instant Web postings.
Posted by Kevin on November, 1 2005 at 05:49 AM
agamakis wrote:Cashier meeting notes:
At a store meeting in a Wal Mart Store.
The Head CSM said because no one whould change their schedule the store manger would not give them any hour but would cut their hours.
What is it either or neither nore. Because the store manqager wants what he wants when he wants it.
Everything with Wal Mart is Always Their Way.
At one store an associate comes into work 1 hour early and is allowed to clock in. Another associate looks at the schedule wrong and is told you may not check in for 1 hour either go home and come back or sit in the back for 1 hours time.
It is important for the American people to learn of these dangerous labor practices.
Now they are telling us corporate has a rule if you are the first one in you must stay on the tobacco register all day or until you leave. So when asked to see the rule, they said it was an email but you are not allowed to see it. Others are not allowed to bring their coats or purses to the front of the store. But Little Miss Brown Nose comes and does as she pleases. When you ask mangagement why? It pleases the store manager to let her do as she does. What about ethics in the same store the Manager and his wife work at the same location. Ethics? Store Managers make their own rules. When you use the open door or chain of command they say there is nothing that can be done or will be done. What a company. Can anyone help or have suggestions. I would have thought in 2005 there would be laws to protect the workers and those who manage should not be above the law?Curious in Wal Mart
-- November 1, 2005 05:26 PM ∞
wrote:So you're saying that the associates should be able to set their own schedule? If you cannot work when the managers need you to work, then why should they give you hours just so you can work? It doesn't work like that at any other job. I am a head CSM and every cashier wants to set their own schedule through availability. Thats not possible. Everyone can't work 7-4 M-F. I don't need 20 cashiers at 7am on Monday and 10 on a Saturday at 2pm. The world isn't perfect, and you don't always get what you want. Thats why its called work.
-- November 1, 2005 06:14 PM ∞
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-- November 1, 2005 09:12 PM ∞
