I was recently hired part-time by Wal-Mart as a Cashier earning $ 8.50 per hour with no health/dental/life benefits for one year from my initial hire date unless I am reclassified as a Full-Time employee. It is a common practice of Wal-Mart to hire mostly part-time employees, thereby increasing profits at the expense of their workforce and the communities in which the stores are located. Unfortunately many Wal-Mart associates whether full or part time rely upon taxpayers to assist them in meeting basic needs for health through Medicaid programs, food through Food Stamp Programs, and housing through Federally Subsidized Housing Programs. These programs are taxpayer funded.
I have several years of post-secondary education, certification in Network Administration, and licensure in Broadcast Engineering and registration as a Pharmacy Technician.in a normal economy I would have no difficulty obtaining suitable employment - however in this econlmy I am fortunate to have a job working for Wal-Mart. My story is simple - Consumers have a choice, they can shiop Wal-Mart without considering that the bargain they think they are obtaining at the store is costing them with higher taxes or they can open their eyes to the truth.
I had an opportunity to provide exceptional customer service by advising a customer with eyes open that she did not need to purchase software from Wal-Mart to obtain a quality solution for a word processor on her computer or sell a closed minded individual a well-deserved high priced software solution. As you can imagine, a few fact finding questions would be necessary. The customer approached my line with a few items including Microsoft Office 2007 which she was planning to install on her new computer which she stated she was surprised did not have such software pre-installed and was very pleased to find Office 2007 on sale in our store. She was elderly and may not have known she had options but it was equally possible she saw what she thought was a real bargain. As it turned out she was bargain shopping and commented what savings she was able to realize on a few unrelated products so I decided to stick it to her rather than telling her she could find a comparable software program free on the internet to download known as Open Office... One for the late Mr Sam Walton - just watch the earnings of the company soar on the NYSE ticker WMT... As word gets out hopefully more Wal-Mart employees will stick it to well deserving consumers who are supporting a company that screws associates and the communities where their stores are located every day.
God Bless America and a sincere word of Thanks to the taxpayers (including myself) who make public assistance programs possible for the working poor... I am a single parent (father) with two children... My children receive NO Child Support (and their biological Mother would give up her Parental rights to them if the legal system would allow) free lunches at school, Medicaid and one child is disabled.in addisition, my family of three receives Food Stamps ($76 per month) and at the time of this writing I am still eligible for Medicaid providing me with necessary Rx medication costing more than $700 per month without insurance. If I am dropped from Medicaid as a result of a part-time job (32 hours per week) I will probably have to leave Wal-Mart or hope to receive my Medication through a pharmaceutical assistance program. I work for Wal-Mart, a multi billion dollar corporation and as consumers you are feeding the fire - but if you want to pay higher taxes and are willing to lend a blind eye to the truth, as an employee of the corporation, I am more than happy to be loyal to my employer in the name of putting the screws to you and do so with a smile and a sincere Thank You to you - the customer.
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