Wal-Mart Cuts Some Workers’ Hours After Pay Raise Boosts Costs

[JahFocus CS]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

We keep wages constant, people say they aren't paid enough.
We pay them more, they are surprised when we cut their hours.


I say we just bring back chattel slavery, this time for everyone regardless of skin color, and they will all be housed on our corporate plantations and have food provided to them. There should be no more complaints given the 24/7 welfare.

 

[Captain]

I don't know. But I do know that when you're the largest company in the world, the layman is just going to look at dollar amounts and not these numbers in context. We're talking an international conglomerate responsible for over 11,000 stores in 28 countries, under a total 65 banners and 2.2 million+ employees with the most revenue in the world. shyt just aint gonna be as easy as just "raising wages" without cutting into something else. They spent 1 billion raising wages just to cut hours. They were going to find a way to preserve their shareholder obligations no matter what.

I think that's the root of the problem, shareholders' interest is increasing revenue and WM by law is obligated to comply.

Why is @Camile.Bidan still allowed to post in HL?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

We keep wages constant, people say they aren't paid enough.
We pay them more, they are surprised when we cut their hours.


I say we just bring back chattel slavery, this time for everyone regardless of skin color, and they will all be housed on our corporate plantations and have food provided to them. There should be no more complaints given the 24/7 welfare.

this is walmart btw

 

[daemonova]

some people on my job are not on the schedule for 7 days straight

 

[wheywhey]

Compare the above to a Company like Gilead which makes money selling AIDS drugs to Governments. Gilead has a 51.53% profit margin and a 65.89% operating margin. They earned 12 billion from 24 billion in revenue. Making money from the tax payer is by far the best business period.

That's why some want to privatize public schools and/or offer universal vouchers.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

If we're going to talk about a living wage why do we only talk about employers?

Couldn't you blame grocers for food costing too much? Landlords for rent being too high (which may be the biggest issue here)? And gas stations and refiners for gas being too much?

Isn't there tons of blame to go around? And this isn't just about wal mart since most don't work at a large corporation. Why does the onus for providing a living fall on some guy who just wants to run a bagel shop?

 

[tmonster]

If we're going to talk about a living wage why do we only talk about employers?

Couldn't you blame grocers for food costing too much? Landlords for rent being too high (which may be the biggest issue here)? And gas stations and refiners for gas being too much?

Isn't there tons of blame to go around? And this isn't just about wal mart since most don't work at a large corporation. Why does the onus for providing a living fall on some guy who just wants to run a bagel shop?

start a thread

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

some french revolution, guillotine shyt would be

That wouldn't be a solution though.

I would hope your solution, if you ever put any thought into it, would have some kind of plan for the millions of workers who would be unemployed once Walmart went out of business.

I agree 100% that Walmart's business model is basura. Their profits = the money they take in from welfare. This is a fact. But that problem is secondary to the fact that so many Americans are perpetually dependent on welfare and minimum wage jobs in the first place. Chopping off Sam Walton's head might satiate your envy fueled bloodlust but it wouldn't do shyt for all the newly unemployed Walmart workers that would come out of that.

People need to stop tacking their hate for the rich as some kind of sympathy or activism for the working class.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

144 billion net worth? they should sacrifice a fifth of that network and make America's largest employer into a living wage and raise the standard of living.

How much of your net worth are you sacrificing to do anything for anybody but yourself?

Redistributionists love to dig around in the next man's pockets

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

Their profits = the money they take in from welfare. This is a fact

They would be in government programs with or without Wal Mart.

 

[Gains]

wal mart just started cutting employee hours

 

[Yapdatfool]

Leave wages stagnant = prices rise, employee hours cut/laid off.
Increase wages = prices rise, employee hours cut/laid off.
Decrease wages = prices rise, employee hours cut/laid off.

Just can't win.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

start a thread

You seem to feel more strongly about this issue than I do. Plus I've seen Venezuela.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

These people would be in government programs with or without Wal Mart.

Not sure how thats relevant. Walmart's profits basically match the money spent there in govt benefits from workers and non workers. So their operations are def critically subsidized by govt benefits.

Redistributionists are all too eager to cut off America's nose to spite its face, putting their own spite and greed ahead of the people they claim to be looking out for. Welmart cant exist as is into perpetuity, generating its profits from transfer payment programs. But I dont see how putting it out of business overnight is the best short term solution for the millions of people who work for it, and the hundreds of millions of folks dependent on its low prices. There has to be some kind of transition or action period that benefits the workers redistributionists claim to want to help.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

Not sure how thats relevant. Walmart's profits basically match the money spent there in govt benefits from workers and non workers. So their operations are def critically subsidized by govt benefits.

So you are saying they would make no money without government social safety nets? And would not exist?

How are government subsidies to individuals a profit for WalMart?