Walmart offers Thanksgiving workers measly discount in place of holiday pay

[kpete]

Staff at retail giant not entitled to time-and-a-half holiday pay
Walton family that owns Walmart worth more than $190bn




https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/27/walmart-thanksgiving-workers-holiday-staff-pay

[Phoenix61]

1. That's pathetic. nt

[Aquaria]

2. How utterly chintzy

The billionaire who owns the grocery chain where my husband works offers holiday pay without a fuss. Plus a 10% discount on store-brand food (including fresh meat!) year-round. And they get another 10% off during Thanksgiving week.

And they pay better and treat their employees better than Mal-Wart ever has.

You have to be stone-cold desperate to work for those greedy Walton ghouls.

[pwb]

4. It is hard for billionaires to share.

Anytime.

[YOHABLO]

5. Let me get this straight, a mere 10% on grocery, and a 15% only if

they work on Thanksgiving and can only be used from Dec.5th at midnight till Dec.6th midnight? A company that is worth 190 billion? They need to unionize. Greed is good.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Minor Correction

The sentiment of your post is spot on, but the $190B is the holdings of the family.Walmart is >$386B.
Actually makes it worse, right?

[Newest Reality]

6. Wealth addicts...

Those people that addicted to their wealth are on the same par as with other addictions. It could be drugs, sex, power or money, but it has a negative impact. After all, that's the difference between occasionally doing something and feeling compelled to repeat the experience and ramp up the rush.

This culture not only ignores the serious, negative ramifications of those kinds of addicts, it supports and applauds their disease. It says, "Are you really wealthy? Well, you deserve more!" When anything becomes an addiction that means it is somehow dysfunctional and it has a negative or destructive effect on self or others. Well, we are seeing it in something like that ridiculous, pathetic, miserly discount.

You can call it affluenza, or maybe they are wealthaholics, but it is clearly going to kill democracy and take us all to the brink of poverty if it the denial continues. We need a cure for this parasitic behavior. I have no problem with someone accumulating some wealth, we all should be prosperous. However, when it is never enough, nor will it ever be, it tends to drain our society and leech our commons into fragments and dust. So, you have 1-billion dollars? Nice. Oh, you want 100-billion, now? You can see the logic.

Think of how much people with server addictions go through to get their "fix". If someone addicted to opioids breaks into a house to steal things to get a fix, they are considered to be criminals and will be arrested and maybe they will get rehab, but we don't seem to offer much of that. When the wealthy steal the surplus of our labor and convert it all into profit for themselves they are lauded for it? Nobody cares?

[csziggy]

7. My SIL works for Walmart - she used to get a 40% discount for working Thanksgiving

So every year she'd miss Turkey Day with the family and would buy all her Christmas presents at Walmart with that big discount.

Maybe this year she will decide to spend the holiday with her family instead. 10% is not really worth missing that time in my opnion.

[Ms. Toad]

8. Looks to me like 25%

10% usual discount (covers not normally covered grocery items) + an additional 15% discount (not clear whether it can also be used on grocery items)

[csziggy]

9. Still not as much as she was used to

I'm still not sure I will make it tomorrow. I have two pecan pies in the oven and a batch of zucchini and summer squash cooling on the stove top. But my husband can carry it over to share.

Between my niece being found dead Sunday and the political situation, I am not enthusiastic about spending time with people. Although most of the host household did not vote for Trump, my SIL's husband did. It would be hard for me to keep from mentioning the impeachment hearings or the additional stuff that keeps coming out.

Frankly, I'd rather stay home. I may be sick tomorrow morning...

[Ms. Toad]

11. We're going to my family this year -

ostensibly because my parents are still around, but won't be forever. But the bonus is that the politics are more comfortable there.

But Friday is still the ginormous family party with my spouse's family.

I've got 24 pumpkin pies - not quite in the oven . . . but that fun task awaits me when I return home. (16 baked Monday for our school's feast - 24 (or as close as I can get to 24 between 5 PM and tomorrow) for the local homeless shelter)

Sorry to hear about your niece.

[csziggy]

12. The deaths of our parents tore my family apart

So there was no plan for a Thanksgiving get together even before the niece died. In fact, the niece's mother (my younger sister) was on a European cruise, her husband in Morocco with his dying mother, and her sister in Ukraine working with refugees. I pretty much only speak to my oldest sister, the niece who was in Ukraine, and a couple of nephews (the sons of my oldest sister who died in 1993).

On the other hand, my husband's family pulled together after their mother died in 2017. Fortunately, most of them are Democrats - but the family with a large enough house to host holidays is ultra right wing Christian. I try to avoid politics, but this year it will be hard.

The "fun" year when people wanted to know what I'd been up to was 2008 when I was very active in Obama's campaign. Since then my SIL's husband has barely spoken to me - which is a relief - but it does make things a little awkward.

[Ms. Toad]

15. Fortunately, when my spouse's parents died, the kids pulled together

Politics are still challenging - it tends to be the boys against the girls. The most vocal of the boys always comes to Thanskgiving dinner at one of the sister's house. I'm glad not to have to put up with it this year.

Sorry you've had such heartache recently.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. It's a wonder they didn't say "go home and give thanks that we haven't fired your ass".

That is fitting to the Walton's and GOP's Ayn Rand-style free market economic thinking.......

Time to re-remind my family to stay away from Wally World......

[budkin]

13. TEN PERCENT??

Absolutely disgusting.

[Hortensis]

14. Wealthiest non-oil corporation on the planet, ranked among

the very largest, including state-owned oil corporations.

[Johnny2X2X]

16. This is evil

To have this little regard for your employees and their family is a symptom of pure evil. There is no other way to describe it, it’s greed on a level that is evil.

[oasis]

18. Oligarchs of the world unite!

[tavernier]

19. Yes I'm on Face Book today wishing my far away friends

a happy Thanksgiving. Sorry. But I have also included this article, which I hope will be shared by all.