|
Yep. Big subject. I"m no expert on it and only know what little I see from time to time, or read.
My daughter is an asst. mgr. at a Walmart in Dallas. She's been there a year. She doesn't get overtime as an asst. mgr and hasn't worked less than 60 hour weeks for the past year, yet gets paid for 48 hours of work. The turnover in her store is roughly 120% and has gone as high as 150%. My daughter is in charge of hiring, firing, training and other matters, plus works the registers when needed. It's basically a sweat shop.
In many small towns Walmart is the ONLY game in town. I often visit my uncle in a WV town of 15,000 people. The new Walmart store, 5 miles outside the town has drawn ALL the trade there and the main street in town looks like one of the Western mining Ghost towns. The people who work there are happy to do so because there isn't much of an alternative, but they get paid less.
Not much of a life for my daughter. Her husband hasn't worked in 3 years, so she feels trapped. Hopefully she'll be able to break away and get a life if her husband ever finds a job. He's a EDP guy, one of thousands got laid off down there.
|