Wal-Mart Watch Report: “Work at Your Own Risk”

NEEDS TO BE DONE IN OHIO !

A (((tip))) of the Anti Wal-Mart tin foil hat to the crack research team at WMW. I’ve done enough independent research to see you guys do a bang-up job.

I Second Ken’s Sentiments!

According to the full report, “Wisconsin enacted the first workers’ compensation law in 1911...”

Where is Fighting Bob LaFollette when you need him?

Also needs to be done in South Carolina.

Several fellow associates in my store received on the job
injuries over the past few years, are still under medical
care, and do not have workers’ compensation. 

We need all the help we can get.

Most States differ in their Workmen’s Compensation laws.

You can’t take the above as gospel for all the states.

Usually, the state mandates that an employer has insurance with a carrier to cover workmens comp.  You are then audited upon the gross amount of payroll.  The problem on here is that so many post with very limited knowledge.

This is not to say that for some it takes time to get the claim processed, due to many factors, primarily lawyers.  Yes companies including WM fight these claims to keep insurance rates down.  The above article is not completely fair.

Another Pro Wal-Mart Troll Heard From

Thank you Sage for your useless 2 cents.  Now be a good troll and go back under your bridge and play with RDS and Nick.

Screwed

I hate to deal in name calling and personal insults but you bring out the worst in me. You are an absolute loser. You deal in lies, slander and cowardly personal attacks when an intelligent subject is being discussed. Is it because you can’t understand the argument or because you know that logic and fact do not support your point of view?

You have yet to post anything of redeeming value. You have contributed nothing to any of our discussions. You are a negative person who has nothing worthwhile to add. You cannot discuss reality and you spend all your time insulting those who are attempting to maintain at least a modicum of intelligent conversation.

If you can’t follow our discussions, why don’t you at least listen and learn? Pick up an economics book, go to a website that teaches you about capitalism, read a history of business in the US. Better yet, take a tour of the world and see how poor other nations really are and you will appreciate the wealth and comfort we have here in the US. Even our poor people live better than the middle class in Europe!

I realize, Tom Boese, that you are bitter because nobody watched your hack film. Get used to it. There are thousands of film school graduates who probably could not convince anyone to watch their garbage. You are not alone.

It is my hope that you come away with something from my rant. Perhaps you can get yourself an education and become a better person. Then you can contribute to our discussions. Notice I didn’t say you had to agree with me on anything. If someone else has a logical, reasoned, factual point that makes more sense, I will acknowledge that and accept it. I don’t have all the answers. But I do have intelligence, reason, curiosity to learn new things, an open mind and no ego. I want to learn. I read everyday. I want to better myself. I don’t take my frustrations out on people who post on a blog!

Good luck to you, Screwed. Perhaps you can even tell us, at some point, just how, exactly, you were “screwed” by Wal-Mart.

Thanks.

To “Screwed by”

I don’t know if you have ever been in a business required by law to carry workmen’s comp ins., if you did you would understand the veracity of my post.

I though you had posted one time that you were still working at Wal-Mart, however with all the advantages they give women in business, you should start a company.  Then see if they give you a better deal on insurance as a woman contractor. WM does not set the state statutes.

Perhaps you can even tell us...

What is with this editorial “we” and “us”?  As the saying goes: Have you got a mouse in your pocket? Just who are you presuming to speak for, Nick?  I know you don’t speak for everyone because you don’t speak for me.

As for judging the style/content of other posters, I think the adage ‘people that live in glass houses’ applies here. If your posts contained all the attributes you find lacking in Screwed’s stuff, you and I would be on the same page, and we’re not!

**Take note, Mary. This ‘we’ stuff applies to you as well.

No problem Ken.  Seeing your theories on how Walmart should be run absolutely leads me to say i don’t think you and I would ever be considered a “we”.

Seeing your theories on how Walmart should be run....

What fault do you find with expecting competence from people paid millions per year?

I’ll go on record and say while noboby speaks for me I will add this from an observer’s point of view:

I stand with Nick, Mary, and RDS on much of what they have to say, as Nick and Mary have a pretty good grasp of ECON 101, and RDS speaks from the “been there/done that” point of view, which carries much more weight than the opinions of a bunch of people who have some sort of axe to grind with Wal-Mart, of all things.

In closing, for those who are still lurking in the shadows observing, ask yourself how could anyone possibly take someone who has a hell-bent agenda (e.g., Screwed and Ken V in Texas) seriously?

Cheers,

Bill

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...ask yourself how could anyone possibly take someone who has a hell-bent agenda (e.g., Screwed and Ken V in Texas) seriously?

I dunno, Bill, but they do.

:o)

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ~ Upton Sinclair

Ken V.

You quoted Upton Sinclair.  Is that your attempt to explain why you post the way you do?  Are you paid by WMW?

Are you paid by WMW?

No, not by WMW.

I know value and Wal-Mart doesn’t meet my qualifications. ~ Ed Witlen

Ken V,

“No, not by WMW.”

How about the UFCW or SEIU?

How about the UFCW or SEIU?

Nope and...nope.

I know it puts a serious crack in your world view, guys, but I’m not pro union. I’m not anti union either. Let’s just say I’m ambivalent. I post here because they are kind enough to provide a forum, but beyond that I fall back on the Arab proverb:

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Gee Ken, What’s Next?

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

The next thing you’ll be telling us is that you’re really Osama bin Laden.  :o)

Isn’t this pretty much the tactic the U.S. likes to use?  We thought Osama was an alright dude when he was fighting those “evil” Russians.  Of course we also thought Saddam Hussein was OK as long as he was fighting the Iranians.

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