I kind of think they operate under different laws up there, Bill. The one good thing I can say for them down here is they seem to hire a lot of marginal people who probably would not be able to get a job elsewhere, especially since the college students take all the fast food and small store clerk positions in this town.
-- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Street photography - religious objections (now Socialists) > > >> ======= >> And quite a few others since. Smoke and mirrors -- disinformation and >> misinformation -- is quite active in the US. Now people who should >> support unions, >> working people who need them, like underpaid and non-healthcared >> Wal-Mart >> workers for example, don't. Unions helped improve things for people >> for decades, now >> they are perceived as evil by many. > > Don't knock Wal-Mart. > They are one of the better retail sector employees. > I don't have Wal-Mart USA numbers, but I expect they are similar to > Wal-Mart Canada, in that they average about $5000.00/year profit per > associate, or somewhere in the range of 35%. > They don't have a lot of room to give huge raises out. > Wal-mart isn't the evil company that it is fashionable to meake them out > to be. > I was a Wa-Mart associate for just short of 9 years, and can't really > think of anything bad to say about them. > > William Robb > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
