Saturday, November 19, 2011

Honestly I really think we should have been told the other part of the story in class. Now everyone is on a 'i hate walmart/walmart is evil' rampage and I really don't think that is fair. My brother works at Walmart so after watching this video I asked him about it. When he went to Fremd he watched the same video. He said that he has never been asked to work over-time off the clock and that even if he ever was Walmart gives their employees permission to go and talk to their manager right away if something like that occurs. If the manager is of no help they can continue to move up the line to speak to above manager after manager and push it until there is a response. They are told they can do that. Yes, Walmart has done a lot to keep unions out of the store, but most people that work at Walmart have come in because they don't want to work under a union. If they had wanted then they could have gone to work at Jewel or some other company. They chose that and walmart has the right to not want a union. Don't get me wrong I think what was shown in the video was sad on a lot of levels but I think it was also very one-sided and that is wrong for us to not be shown both sides. Walmart also started off as a small business and grew into a huge corporation which was really what the little companies that were shown were trying to do as well. So no, I don't think Walmart is bad for the economy. I think every company has things to work on, including Walmart but that is part of the process of having a business.

3 comments:

Mrs. Corcoran said...

You will see the other side in class on Monday, AND everyone will be asked to re-evaluate their thoughts in their blog posts. I had to change some things around in our schedule since I had jury duty, and unfortunately, we didn't have time to get to the pro-Wal-Mart argument before I left. I totally understand your concern about not seeing both sides yet and just wanted to confirm that you WILL see some of the more positive aspects of Wal-Mart. I'm glad that you have spoken to a Wal-Mart worker with a more positive experience than those in the video, and your comments have certainly gotten us headed in the right direction for class on Monday. If your brother has any other thoughts that he'd like us to consider, I'd love to hear them. Thanks, Katie!

katie sharp said...

okay, cool!

Mana Juretic =^.^= said...

Part of owning a company does not entail buying your products from sweatshops so that you can sell things for low prices. Wal-mart is hurting our economy in many ways and threatening the idea of free-market, soon there will be no room for the little guy to get his piece of the pie because no one will be able to compare.