Posted by swampeastmissouri on Wed, Nov 21, 2012, at 8:19 AM:
If the ones that are scheduled to work on Friday November 23, 2012 do not show up for work they are subject to termination of employment. This company has no collective bargaining agreement where a contract is expiring on Friday so it is not an official strike. If they want to keep there jobs they better show up for work if scheduled.
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I don't like Walmart and I don't care for Unions.
So I could care less if nobody, customers or employees show up at Walmart tomorrow, or for the days in the foreseeable future.
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Wed, Nov 21, 2012, at 8:46 AM
More liberal democrat BS. And today the SEIU - a huge Obama financial supporter - is protesting around the Los Angeles airport on the busiest day of the year to cause havoc and get attention. These protests are spontaneous and have no permits.
I'm sure the Obama voters on here are proud of their actions. You voted for this, own it.
-- Posted by not_sorry on Wed, Nov 21, 2012, at 9:06 AM
If I had the substanial cash to offer the local theater workers enough to stay home on a Saturday night, I would suspect a civil court would find me liable for the theater's loss of revenue.
Since Walmart is a large "profitable" company that didn't build it's self, they owe it to give back and spread the wealth around in fairness, after all, it's only a drop in the bucket for such a large company. Remember, how much Walmart makes per second justifies any malice toward the company.
-- Posted by Old John on Wed, Nov 21, 2012, at 12:42 PM
Wouldn't it be great fun to strike against the strikers?
-- Posted by voyager on Wed, Nov 21, 2012, at 12:52 PM
Wal-Mart has been a favourite target of the Democrats for some time.
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Wed, Nov 21, 2012, at 1:56 PM
-- Posted by Old John on Wed, Nov 21, 2012, at 12:42 PM
I used to think Sam Walton built it.
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Wed, Nov 21, 2012, at 5:14 PM
I'm having a hard time getting my pea sized mind around this. Walmart workers according to the what little news I have seen today are portrayed as threatening to strike.
Although it is reported that a small percentage of Walmart employees are ready to demonstrate their want for more by disruptive picketing etc, it seems to me outside forces are at work here.
Soros and other wealthy liberals in the big money business have contributed to [I don't know who gets the money] the organization of protests.
Why would the Dept of Labor recognize a union that does not represent Walmart employees?
Who has what to gain here?
From the article: Harris said. "We've been dealing with these issues for so long, we could care less about losing our jobs.
I suspect that guy has a mouse in his pocket for it is about people's jobs. If folks didn't care about their jobs they would not be working. Sounds to me like another community organizer project to get the workers inducted into the union that is stirring them up rather than risk the Walmart employees forming their own labor council of communication of grievances.
-- Posted by Old John on Thu, Nov 22, 2012, at 9:06 PM
I'm sure the Obama voters on here are proud of their actions. You voted for this, own it.
-- Posted by Dug on Wed, Nov 21, 2012, at 9:06 AM
Kind of bossy for a loser - your side should have voted. I think we (President Obama voters)own the win; why wouldn't we? BTW - thanks for the encouragement and have a happy day.
-- Posted by Deb56 on Thu, Nov 22, 2012, at 9:27 PM
thanks for the encouragement -- Posted by username1 on Thu, Nov 22, 2012, at 9:27 PM
The truth is bossy and it's yours to deal with.
I'm having a great day and sleep well knowing I didn't vote for a president with a record of high unemployment, highest deficits/debt in history of the world (look it up), failed foreign policy and record welfare/food stamps. And the war against Americans - wealth envy. You asked for it, you got it. Not me.
-- Posted by not_sorry on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 1:31 AM
I hate to be the bearer of bad news , almost all of the Entitlements are maxed out -- there is nothing really left to give away ..
-- Posted by .Rick. on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 10:24 AM
Nah, Rick.... Obummer has more to give. Yesterday it was suggested on Speak Out that "Smart Phones" were a "Silly waste of money".
Obummer can cancel all of the smart phone contracts of the folks like me who have one and are so wasteful, even if we can afford them, and divert that money to the takers.... that way they can sit on their couches, watching their 50" HD flat screens and add a few "Twinkies to their diets, after he saves that "Too Bug to Fail Company" from bankruptcy with some more borrowed money of course.
Has anybody checked, did any of the holders of the 'Twinkie Company' donate huge sums to the Obama campaign?
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 10:40 AM
BC,
So we can start watching for the Obama government to start giving them their ROI with our money.
I think I have a plan, rather than give the money to the government, if I see it, I want it and I can pay for it, I'll just go ahead and buy it. Give em the used merchandise instead of cash, after I am done with it.
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 11:26 AM
Wheels, I wouldn't be surprised if gov makes rules that allow them to treat any sizable retirement cash holdings as a taxable asset.
-- Posted by Old John on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 12:01 PM
Old John,
You are just full of good news! But, I think you could be correct. As I hear it the confiscation act known as the Inheritance Tax is due to change from a 35% tax on everything over $5,000,000.00 to 55% tax on everything over $1,000,000,000.00. Look for a lot of farms to change hands as older owners die off and the heirs have to sell them to pay the government what they demand. We need to watch how our congressmen and senators vote on that one and use it for a scorecard in 2 years.
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 12:07 PM
Ooops, I think I fot a little generous with the zeroes. Make that $1,000,000.00
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 12:10 PM
Also cannot hit the right keys, 'fot' should be 'got'.
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 12:11 PM
Like BC says either way didn't matter much. But, I do enjoy the fits you guys have because President Obama won again. All that blowing leading up to the election and you were all wrong...and you're still blowing. You didn't learn much.
-- Posted by Deb56 on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 12:46 PM
There is nothing to be learned from someone who has nothing to teach!
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 12:49 PM
-- Posted by username1 on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 12:46 PM
All you guys? Wrong again. Find one single post - anywhere - that I said Romney was going to win. You won't. Obama was an inexperienced poor leader before the election. The election changed only one thing - he gets to push this country further into ruin for 4 more years.
-- Posted by not_sorry on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 12:56 PM
"...I find it amusing to read comments from those who choose to waste money on things I see little to no value in."
Me'lange, Besides TV and smart phones, what in your opinion is the biggest unneeded waste of money with today's folks?
-- Posted by Old John on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 1:13 PM
Have Wheels: It is apparent that not only do you not think before you speak..you do not proof read before you post. Just a slight observation on my part.Looks like this guy Dug might fall into the same category. Does he ever say anything nice?
-- Posted by left turn on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 2:13 PM
ME'LANGE, or anyone: Back to your original query---DID anyone 'strike' as they threatened? Or, did they reconsider?
Likely can't go by any of the local "Wal-Troughs"---but how about the bigger-wallows, in the larger-metro area(s)?
-- Posted by donknome-2 on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 3:00 PM
Have Wheels: It is apparent that not only do you not think before you speak..you do not proof read before you post. Just a slight observation on my part.Looks like this guy Dug might fall into the same category. Does he ever say anything nice?
-- Posted by left turn on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 2:13 PM
Leftist,
I will start with you. Observe away, but if you are of the opinion that I care what you think, I do not. I am a poor typist always have been, and the arthritis in my fingers makes it worse. But I do definitely think before I post and thinking ahead of my typing ability sometimes produces screwy results. Now try to not mistake me for someone who gives a s*** again.
Now I will eat and deal with the other smart arse later.
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 6:14 PM
-- Posted by Dug on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 12:56 PM
LOL
-- Posted by Deb56 on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 7:05 PM
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Estate planning can reduce tax consequences, for those who choose to plan ahead.
Speaking of financial planning, I find it amusing to read comments from those who choose to waste money on things I see little to no value in.
It is concerning to read a comment that calls for the city to invest in "smartphone applications", when I recognize with an average household median income of $42,000 and assuming average household expenses, the average budget "should" NOT afford a smart phone monthly committment or 160 TV channels for that matter.
Some never grasp this financial planning concept--just because one can "afford" a monthly expense, does not mean one "should" spend those funds rather than save/ invest it. Too many can not see past today's "wants".
Regarding cell phones, I have come to view a cheap pay-as-you-go cell phone as a "need" (rather than a "want"), given the age and health of relatives. (And the value equals one movie ticket.)
Personally, I see no value in a smart phone monthly service expense, pretty much the same as funds those choose to gamble with. Money thrown away for entertainment. :-)~ Is it my business about an "individual's choice"? Nope, but I certainly feel free to have an general opinion; especially if someone gripes about how little their monthly income affords them.
-- Posted by Me'Lange on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 12:55 PM
MeLange,
Your revelation on Estate Planning reducing tax consequences.... was that supposed to be news? I did my Estate Planning 13 years ago with an excellent law firm and attorney heading up the financial planning branch of their operation... and he and I have reviewed and updated it a number of times since. As a matter of fact I have an appointment to discuss any needed changes as I speak.
You speak in terms on these threads that tries to make the rest of us think you have superior knowedge. I happen to not buy into that theory.
Yesterday you mouthed off about those of us who have smart phones, indicating we were a bunch of dumb arses and they were a silly waste of money. I believe it comes from sour grapes and a deep down feeling of inferiority on your part.
Not that it is any of your business, but I earned my money, starting off very poor and building a business that will celebrate it's 50th anniversary in a few short months. And in spite of a two bit president who has not so much as run a lemonade stand, I and my wife built it together, with hard work and plenty of sweat equity.
I am not going to boast about what I have or do not have, but will tell you this much, what I have earned and invested has been properly taken care of and if my disposable income allows me to own a 4000 sq ft house as I did, not because I needed it, but because I built it as an investment at the right time and sold it for a profit and had a place to live in the mean time, I will do so. Also if my disposable income allows me to own four automobiles, two to drive for my wife and I and two because they are collectable and I like to look at them, that is nobody's business but my own. Likewise if I decide I want a smart phone that I can use in my business and hobby as an aide I will do so. You may find it silly and see no value in it, but I do. I see no value in premium channels nor do I see value in Netflix, but I do not call it a silly waste of money. I do like the western channel and turner classic movies, and would you like to know why MeLange? If or not you do I will tell you anyway. It is because I was so busy working when those movies were hits at the box office that I never had to time to watch them. So they are many times new movies to me. But you find that objectionable. However I doubt you find it much more objectionable than I do your attitude.
You find it amusing that people waste money on things you see no value in. Really? In many cases I believe it equates to envy. You speak of what people with an average household cannot afford. Maybe they can, maybe they cannot.
Where do you have your financial planning office, since you like to speak with authority on the subject? Most of what I have heard from you could be picked up from a magazine article on the subject, but it rarely makes the reader an authority on the subject.
Since you have chosen to make a smart phone a subject of scorn, why don't you enlighten yourself on all of the useful things a business person can do with one? It might open up your closed mind.
I still do some work for my old company and I can sit under a tree in Bollinger County or elsewhere and pull down a spreadsheet on my smart phone and have a mini meeting right there, and have done so.
So if you don't have the education to properly evaluate a product, you need to leave it to someone who does.
As a PS, I do not like to gamble and I do not drink a lot.... but when I do decide to have a beer or buy a six pack... you will see me with a premium product in my hand if it is available... and that is because I like and appreciate it. If it is not available, I will most often be holding a Stag rather than a Budweiser, because I like it better.
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 7:45 PM
-- Posted by left turn on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 2:13 PM
Hey sweety! Is that what you're looking for - something "nice"?
I say a lot of nice things that most liberals don't notice. I can't stand Obama and his socialist big government policies as president so if you're a fan - and it appears you are - then you won't like what I post. But that won't stop me. You also appear to to be new.
Welcome.
-- Posted by not_sorry on Fri, Nov 23, 2012, at 8:25 PM
Wheels, I think it is just human nature to look across the fence and wonder why the neighbor with the smallest yard has the biggest and best lawn mower and a car that barely runs. We also all seem to concern ourselves with people on food stamps owning smart phones and big screens. I spent $700 for a stupid pedal car, but it's mine and takes up space that could better be used in our modest house. I knew a fellow that litteraly would go hungary to afford an upgrade to his race car.
I was at a car wash with my father in law one time and a young guy he knew pulled up with a new 4x4 truck covered from tire to top with thick gumbo mud. He asked him, Joe, what do get out of taking your new truck out in the mud and abusing it that way? Joe countered with his own question, Well what do get out of buying a new car? 'About ten years and then I gotta buy another one.'
MeLange, I was amused at the dually pick up truck fad. So many I know bought them and never needed them, just looked cool I guess. Same with the four wheelers that were always in the back of the trucks as to say "look what I got". Fireworks are nice to look at but shooting dollars into the air for a few seconds of ooh and ahh is something I can't get into.
Very expensive restuarants is silly to me too. I've been fortunate to vacation at some luxary resorts and enjoyed, but that $50 rack of lamb that left me ordering a second entree to fill up a skinny guy is plain silly. Most folks that were paying their own tab, I suspect, were there to impress folks they didn't even know.
-- Posted by Old John on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 12:03 AM
Wheels, I read the first line of your rant and didn't waste time on the rest.
-- Posted by Me'Lange on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 6:24 AM
I don't believe that for a minute.
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 8:21 AM
I didn't go to Wal-Mart yesterday. How did the strike work out?
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 8:25 AM
This holiday season support your locally owned Small Business they would appreciate it. Small Businesses are the back bone of our economy.
-- Posted by swampeastmissouri on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 9:26 AM
"How did the strike work out?"
A big sale on bowling ball covers and baseball caps?
With employment opportunities slim it looks like they could have bought some protesters for Cape too.
-- Posted by Old John on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 10:24 AM
SH
I did not even drive by a Walmart yesterday.
Swamp,
Against a promise I made to myself to stay at home, I did visit an independant merchant yesterday to replace the chair that I had purchased from him in 1998. The chair bottom could no longer resist the load I was placing upon it daily and was gradually getting closer to the floor. Wow, did I get sticker shock! But I "wasted" some more money and will soon have a new chair under my bottom.
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 10:35 AM
"Old John, When it comes to frugal-ness, you and I seem to be on the same wave-length."
Yeah, we both sometimes make up our own words, spelling and punctuation.
-- Posted by Old John on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 10:36 AM
What irritates me most about Wal-Mart is the length of time it takes to go through a check out line. Forever it seems. And just me luck tghe customer just ahead of me in the line always seems to have some problem or other which causes further delays.
Never have had such problems at either of the two grocery stores.'
Just my pet peeve.
-- Posted by voyager on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 11:37 AM
Voyager, I try to never get behind a cart full of premium meats and goodies I seldom buy for myself. It most always means at least two transactions per cart load, one with the blue card that requires a manager, the other prompting a search for coins to cover the cash part.
I drove past Walmart accepting it was worth the premium price to avoid the parking fiasco. I was surprised to find I spent the same if not a little less.
-- Posted by Old John on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 12:03 PM
I do most of my grocery bulk grocery buying at Krogers or Food City. Ever time the checkout goes remarkably fast even if there's a line aheaad of me.
I buy so very little from Wal-Mart, usually less than 20 items. Hence the "20 or less items" checkout lane. I swear it taskes twice as long than at the grocery stores.Can anyone exdplain the difference,
I have tried shopping after midnight when the store is virtually empty.
Sad to say it usually requires taking time to run down a checkout clerk (oh, sorry, "Associate).
-- Posted by voyager on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 3:58 PM
Dr. Doom, you would do well to stay out of airplanes. If there were a plane crash and you were aboard, it is doubtful there would be any mourners. Just another ho-hum accident, another stastic.
-- Posted by voyager on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 7:43 PM
Correct. None of these protests would be occurring if Romney had won. -- Posted by Spaniard on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 10:55 AM
Incorrect. You were blaming Bush for years after Obama won. Why do you get upset when people blame the *current* president for the *current* situation? Yet *you* blame Bush from 4 years ago?
-- Posted by not_sorry on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 10:31 PM
It appears the union backed strikers failed on this one.
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 11:06 PM
Wheels, I've figured all along that the protesters were hired hands of union-community organizer agitation.
If Walmart would surprise the country by announcing it was going to a full time employee basis there would be equal protests that they were biased against "Well I'm a single mom and..".
Surely, somehow they would be then be racist or unfair to someone.
That video of the checkouts reminded me of cattle going through the gates for a delousing.
And even though a lot of that merchandise was imported, those sales support a lot of American jobs of transportaion, distribution and assembly.
I say "go Walmart go!"
-- Posted by Old John on Sun, Nov 25, 2012, at 12:29 AM
Old John,
I really had little interest in how it came out, but does not surprise me. In this area you can listen to the construction union people preach union, union, union. But drive through a Walmart parking lot and look at the bumper stickers on the pickup trucks. The loyal union folks don't want anyone using a non-union carpenter or electrician, but don't mind buying non-union so long as they think they are saving a nickel.
So from that angle, I agree, go Walmart. On the other hand, I do not like Walmart and their business practices. They have ruined a lot of small businesses in this country and while I still sometimes end up at Walmart, because they are the only game left in town in some cases, I limit my purchases there.
And yes, you are herded through the place like cattle.
A seperate but related issue. How do you think the construction unions and their ability to drag out a job feel about this.
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Sun, Nov 25, 2012, at 12:46 AM
Wheels, I am aware of Walmart business practices when it comes to keeping their word. I's been a while back and I don't remember where or who it was about, but I do remember it was a credible story related by someone I knew and trusted. It went like this: A guy leased Walmart a large property, revised it to Walmart specs and they moved in. Two years into the ten year lease they quit making the payments but continued using the property while lawyers kept in contact promising to "renegotiate" the lease contingent on expansion. All the while they had purchased property across the way and planned replacing the store with a super center.
Of course he took them to court but after umpteen postponements, red tape and other delays he ran out of money to pay his own lawyers and was left to file bankruptcy.
That Chinese company reminds me of the kind of thinking that went into the construction of the Empire State Building where a lot of components were built and shipped to the site on time and ready to install.
As far as the construction union goes, they were the main thrust in the success of the Home Depot and the DYI industry as a whole. You can only charge so much for popcorn until someone comes along and sells you a corn popper with instructions for less. The union priced themselves out of a lot of the homeowner market.
-- Posted by Old John on Sun, Nov 25, 2012, at 1:16 AM
9:46 AM Shenanigans or abusing customers in electric shopping carts might get one banned from WalMart for life.
-- Posted by survivalist on Sun, Nov 25, 2012, at 1:31 PM
-- Posted by Have_Wheels_Will_Travel on Sat, Nov 24, 2012, at 11:06 PM
The alternative is STAY IN SCHOOL!!!
-- Posted by We Regret To Inform U on Sun, Nov 25, 2012, at 2:10 PM
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If the ones that are scheduled to work on Friday November 23, 2012 do not show up for work they are subject to termination of employment. This company has no collective bargaining agreement where a contract is expiring on Friday so it is not an official strike. If they want to keep there jobs they better show up for work if scheduled.
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