A group of Walmart employees posted a photo to Facebook on Thursday showing a food bin at a store in Oklahoma that was apparently put out as part of a food drive to help needy employees.
The accompanying caption for the photo detailed how Walmart holds interoffice food drives for hungry employees “rather than agree to pay a decent wage or provide full-time hours.”
The photo was posted to the “Making Change” page, a campaign which describes its mission as “challenging Walmart to act responsibly and help rebuild our economy.”
Last year, Walmart was criticized for setting up donation bins at a store in Ohio. During that drive, Kory Lundberg, spokesperson for the company, told The Plain Dealer newspaper that the drive was evidence that employees care about one another.
h/t Raw Story
That’s kind of perverted but I suppose it’s needed since Walmart does it’s best to manage employees hours and keep them low so they do not have to pay benefits. At least they acknowledge that their employees are unable to make ends meet with those low low everyday wages they pay by permuting food drives to take place.
Sadly Walmart is not the only retailer paying those low low wages and diligently putting effort into keeping employees hours below the threshold for paying benefits or even overtime on holidays.
You’d be surprised if you saw others who are doing this. Human Resources departments starting adopting Walmart employment practices as their own years ago.
Any of you familiar with Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) ? Don’t you just love this outdoor retailer that calls itself a Co-op (to lessen their tax burden) and all of its wonderful toys for active adults? They use the Walmart model but I’m pretty sure they’d never allow a food drive for their employees who are “In Need” Oh…and record profits every year I believe…
I’ve got a radical idea- Walmart should pay a decent wage. They should also pay their taxes instead of forcing their employees to seek government assistance without paying taxes!
We cant pay you more, but we can soak your co-workers if yer hungry…
Oh what a brave new world we’ve wrought.
And here is a list of people who should die:
http://insiders.morningstar.com/trading/executive-compensation.action?t=WMT