Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
If Walmart does not hold the title of “Most Evil Retail Corporation” as of yet, it appears to be doing everything within its power to achieve that name. Aside from destroying small businesses across the country as well as the towns that used to house them, operating incredibly atrocious production facilities, engaging in abuse of workers, and providing genuinely poor service and prices, Walmart remains determined to suck up every last dollar that it has immorally taken from the working poor over the last fifty or so years.
Even when Walmart workers themselves have finally been pushed beyond what they are able to stand, the corporation is incapable of providing concessions to even the most reasonable demands.
Thus, as Walmart workers have been forced to take action in the form of strikes and political/consumer pressure, Walmart steadfastly refuses to exhibit anything resembling humanity or even basic fairness.
Although Walmart could scarcely sink to further depths of greed and depravity, the corporation has indeed attempted to cover all bases in its race to return to the days of weave room girls and the horrific labor conditions of the industrial revolution. This much is evidenced by the recent release of Walmart training documents which were uncovered by Anonymous and made public by OccupyWallStreet. (see here also.)
These training documents are quite typical of the mindset of a major corporation. Yet they are also incredibly corny in terms of their suggestions and scripts of how to handle specific questions coming from employees.
The scripts supplied by the company predictably make the tired claim that unions are just after the employees’ money. The training manuals also promote “company loyalty,” and what they refer to as “open communication,” a term used synonymously with the “open door” which is nothing more than a laughable attempt to claim that employees have the ability to address all their concerns to the proper authorities without the presence of a union. The training manuals also stress the need to contact a special hotline to report any talk of unions or unionization.
Activist Post
If Walmart does not hold the title of “Most Evil Retail Corporation” as of yet, it appears to be doing everything within its power to achieve that name. Aside from destroying small businesses across the country as well as the towns that used to house them, operating incredibly atrocious production facilities, engaging in abuse of workers, and providing genuinely poor service and prices, Walmart remains determined to suck up every last dollar that it has immorally taken from the working poor over the last fifty or so years.
Even when Walmart workers themselves have finally been pushed beyond what they are able to stand, the corporation is incapable of providing concessions to even the most reasonable demands.
Thus, as Walmart workers have been forced to take action in the form of strikes and political/consumer pressure, Walmart steadfastly refuses to exhibit anything resembling humanity or even basic fairness.
Although Walmart could scarcely sink to further depths of greed and depravity, the corporation has indeed attempted to cover all bases in its race to return to the days of weave room girls and the horrific labor conditions of the industrial revolution. This much is evidenced by the recent release of Walmart training documents which were uncovered by Anonymous and made public by OccupyWallStreet. (see here also.)
These training documents are quite typical of the mindset of a major corporation. Yet they are also incredibly corny in terms of their suggestions and scripts of how to handle specific questions coming from employees.
The scripts supplied by the company predictably make the tired claim that unions are just after the employees’ money. The training manuals also promote “company loyalty,” and what they refer to as “open communication,” a term used synonymously with the “open door” which is nothing more than a laughable attempt to claim that employees have the ability to address all their concerns to the proper authorities without the presence of a union. The training manuals also stress the need to contact a special hotline to report any talk of unions or unionization.