My Initiation at Store 5476 / Will Steve Carrell or Will Farrell play the lead

[BrklynLiberal]

when they make this into a movie????

Hilighting is my comment...

JUST after 9 on a rainy December morning, the employees of Wal-Mart Store 5476 gathered in the electronics department and arranged themselves in a circle. This 24-hour supercenter was still sleepy, with only a few customers steering carts slowly through the aisles of Christmas ornaments, Q-Tips and boxes of Toaster Strudel.

Suddenly, the soft electric hum of the store was pierced by the sound of nearly 40 workers shouting in unison: “Good morning, Vickie!”

Their eyes were on an assistant manager, Vickie Smith, as they clapped their hands twice, stomped their feet twice, pumped their fists twice, and topped it all off with a “Whoo-whoo!”

So began a 10-minute meeting that takes place three times a day, at the beginning of every shift, not only here at the Wal-Mart on Cooper Street in Deptford,{rhymes with "STEPFORD"} but at every other Wal-Mart in the nation. That’s 4,200 stores, 12,600 meetings a day.

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this inspiring story continues at

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/business/20walmart.html?em=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1261422058-Yht1lONhR3AXWgdPEe7U1Q

[DJ13]

1. I see that often in the early hours when I shop there

(Take my wife to work, then stop on the way home.)

Its really a turnoff as a customer to see these cult meetings going on.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. It is very eerie.

I had friends years ago that got involved in that pyramid scheme Amway...name is now Quixtar. They also do the chanting, and the family "getaways" and encourage members to associate only with other members, and to sell sell sell..to everyone they know.
I was a bit taken aback since this person was pretty smart...but this scared me. Came to my house with an "associate" and tried to pull me in. Scared me....

[DJ13]

4. I was unemployed in the late 80's, almost got into Amway as well

The more I heard, the less I wanted anything to do with them.

As you said, it scared me as well.

[brendan120678]

3. I worked three years at a Wall-Mart Supercenter...

to help pay my way through college.

This article pretty much sums up my entire experience.

[Syntheto]

5. What's your point?

...What about how the Japanese do calisthenics together? Should people be ashamed of where they work? At least they have a job.