Wal-Mart Watch Releases Board Profiles

You must be concerned if you keep coming on this site though.

Sickofspin
Hate to write it but you have posted a most “stupid” post.
This thread is most informative and has nothing to do with
“mud-slingling”

Incidently (though almost impossible to prove) I will bet
anything that the “majority” of WM employees are not
satisfied.  If they were why has WM again just recently started to increase basic wages due to the “griping”

Yes WM does a good job of community involvements --
that is called “PR”

Have a blessed day “Sickofspin”—post again but keep
the facts correct.

Seriously, all of the people saying that Wal-Mart employees are happy working there should actually go work there before making their stupid pronouncements.  Yes, some people are happy working there because they don’t know what else they could do and they’re happy to be able to pay their bills.  However, this does not mean that working at Wal-Mart is great and that there are no complaints.  So, why aren’t these people working there, oh, I know, it’s because they are able to do something “better”, unlike a huge percentage of people who work at Wal-Mart (despite the fantasy that Wal-Mart is simply a stepping stone to being a “sucessful” member of society).  This mentality is a great way to be able to sleep at night (assuming that they even care).  The only excuse for shopping at Wal-Mart is if you are poor (like the employees).

By the way, I wish that MY wages were increased, but I learned a long time ago that hard work doesn’t mean s--t at Wal-Mart so I don’t even care anymore.  I have slowed down a lot recently, and part of it has to do with medical problems that are draining my energy and part of it has to do with the fact that working hard doesn’t mean anything because as far as Wal-Mart is concerned you are no different than a hammer or a wrench.  Basically, I go in, do the bare minimum, and leave.  I can’t wait to get out of that s---hole of a job.  Working fast food was better and that’s pretty sad.

Generic, you are such a victim.

Big T in Rogers

Since you work for WM do you have any idea as to what
the “laogai’s” are in China?? (I hope I spelled that correctly from memory) I thought WM or someone wrote about them.

Thanks, and all have a happy and Blessed day!!

I think it has something to do with china forced labor.

I dont work for wal-mart, I work for a supplier that sells to wal-mart.

Big T in Rogers, AR

How many of your co-workers have been layed off to keep within the price limit demands of WM for lower prices? The high cost of lower prices even affect suppliers that sell to WM.l

Big T

you are correct in that it is a forced labor incarceration in China where “dissidents” are sent.  What I am trying to find out if “ do these camps product products, that are sold by
Wal-Mart and other American Companies?

This should be investigated --I believe a William Wu who
spent many years in one of these camps has been speaking out and trying to inform us.  However, you never read about this in any newspapers.

All have a blessed day in our Saviour’s Love and Grace

YOU CAN’T BE TOO KNOWLEDGEABLE!

One has got to ask how “knowledgeable” you are “KNOWLEDGEABE in MO.”

Most of the basic questions you are asking about laogais in China could be answered in an instant by checking out Wickipedia at: http://www.en.wickipedia.org/

So are laogais another good reason to support and shop at Wal-Mart?

Screwed

Thank you for looking it up, and I hope others did likewise.
That was the intent for readers to become informed.  Is that not the purpose of this Website --knowledge?

The question of “does WM get products from such” still
remains.  I don’t know.

Your final sentence was not any part of my post.

<strong>THEN HOW COME YOU CALL YOURSELF, “KNOWLEDGEABLE?”

You say: “The question of “does WM get products from such” still remains.  I don’t know.”

This comes from the wickipedia article at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laogai

“There are accusations that Chinese prisons produce products that are often sold in foreign countries, with the profits going to the PRC government. Products include everything from green tea to industrial engines to coal dug from mines. However, these products make up an insignificant amount of mainland China’s export output, and it has been argued that the use of prison labor for manufacturing is not itself a violation of human rights and that most prisoners in Chinese prisons are there for what are generally regarded as crimes in the West.”

“The downfall of socialism has reduced revenue to local governments, increasing pressure for local governments to attempt to supplement their income using prison labor. At the same time, prisoners do not make a good workforce, and the products produced by prison labor in China are of extremely low quality and have become unsalable on the open market in competition with products made by ordinary paid labor.”

What’s it sound like to you?  If you are trying to make the case that Wal-Mart gets some of its products via Chinese prison labor, you’d be the 1st to make that “discovery!” With all of the scrutiny on Wal-Mart today, that fact would be out there by now.  The fact is, there is no evidence of this.

Kathy,

We have never laid anyone off to keep with in the price of Wal-Mart.  Infact we increase head count last year.

You have to increase head count to keep ahead of all the workers that get fed up and leave!

“Annual employee turnover hovers at nearly 50 percent-Wal-Mart just hire 600,000 new employees a year, a figure without precedent in the annals of business.”
(Taken from “The bully of Bentonville” by Anthony Bianco)

Screwed --here we go again.  (yes I know all of the information you posted is on Wilipedia and anyone can research as I wanted them to do) Just because I do consider myself knowledgeable, I do not know where WM gets all of their products and neither do you.

What did I pose as a question?  Does anyone know --as a certainty-- if any products came from the laogai?  That is how a person learns and becomes knowledgable in life
I don’t post as a fact something that I am not positive about, but I do ask a question. 

That is the overall problem of this site in that everyone wants to belittle and call names of a sort to others, but no one benefits.  Take this thread about the board profiles.  We can learn about these directors (and yes some of it is in the WM shareholders packet—but not all get it).

On the directors one of them puzzles me and that is because of her close ties to the “La Raza” group.  I did not find this mentioned on here.  Sure it is all politics as to who is “anointed” to become a director—for what reason do you think that Hillary Clinton was on the board a few years ago.

JM as a general rule I don’t agree with you, but you are on target as to a large turnover and it believe it is around l00%.
If a store has 300 employees—in a years time they will hire 300 new employees for those who leave.  Sure some stay on, but as an overall percentage it will be l00% of the total.

Big T

You did not lay anyone off, but you still haven’t increased my allowance!!!