Poll of the Day > Wal-Mart is a horrible place to work.

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Sega9599 posted...

That kind of attitude ensures poor customer service. - "i know we got more in the back, but i can't be bothered and besides, it's walmart!" , bored look, no interaction
Lack of care with goods - slam boxes with tvs down, damaging them ensuring customer gotta come back, placing things in wrong place
Lack of personal hygiene - not washing hands, wiping nose on back of sleeve,

I mean, that kind of employee who isn't even going to pretend to care isnt someone you want working in your business anyway. I know there are some who make the job their life: that's not mandatory, but in this front end customer service job, I expect a somewhat decent experience as a customer, and all these things affect that experience.

Then perhaps the employer in question should try to earn employees' respect. I'll happily agree that half-assing the job or otherwise disrespecting an employer that does try is a dick move, but the very question you quoted presents the alternative in which an employee should be expect to respect their employer and the job that is asked of them.

Count_Drachma posted...

lolwut? You've generally described working in general.

Why yes, it is indeed the norm for employers to treat employees like garbage, and the prevailing workplace culture frowns on anyone questioning or challenging that. Welcome to the point.

Count_Drachma posted...

Unless you're running a company, 90% of the time it's the best for now because most people always want more (unless they're living on the dole or something), either from that company or finding a different company.

There's a world of difference between seeking advancement within a field you generally want and trying to get out of a job you don't want at all but have to take as a stop-gap measure because food isn't free. I'm referring to the latter.

Count_Drachma posted...

And unfortunately, the USA -- from the government to entertainment -- has villainized the idea of hard work

Nobody's vilified the idea of hard work. What is being increasingly vilified is working hard for exploitative bosses who refuse to properly compensate employees for that work or do anything that might make it more pleasant, as new fora emerge in which people can share their discontent and challenge the notion of "paying your dues." And that's something that absolutely should be vilified. Disagreeing on that point is just blatant corporate bootlicking (which means I fully expect you to throw yourself into it with your reply).

Count_Drachma posted...

Within the next hundred years, I fully expect the US will be overtaken by any of the nations that value hard work.

The US has already been overtaken by the nation to which the US gave the majority of its economy because they liked the idea of being able to get away with treating workers even worse than they're allowed to on US soil. That's nothing to do with "valuing hard work" and everything to do with slavery being illegal but also profitable.

dioxxys posted...

No furries but I did meet a customer once who was legitimately insane about Apple and treated it like his religion even though they fired him.

That was one of the most awkward conversations I've had with a customer. We were taught to be polite to customers but the guy just kept wanting to talk and the more I talked to him the more I realized how batshit and crazy he was.

At one point he showed me like this card with an Apple mission statement on it and I thought he was handing it out to me so I put it in my back pocket while we were talking. Turns out the guy treated it like smeagol treats the ring of power. Guy absolutely almost lost it when he found out it was missing.

apple products are alright but they aren't worth converting non apple users to apple. I say this as an apple user

rexcrk posted...

The thing that people like you (or this online character that you play) dont understand is that its not about not wanting to work. Its about not wanting to spend your life slaving away for what amounts to very little.

Not everyone gets opportunities in life. Sometimes you get dealt a bad hand and have to make the best of it. Im a very hard worker but because I didnt really have choices or opportunities, Ive never been able to get a job where that hard work actually paid off.

Now I know that you have a work fetish (or at least pretend to for your online persona) and maybe you like living to work. But not everyone does.

You make bizarre claims and ridiculous strawmen in transparent attempts to justify the unjustifiable.

If you feel that you're being underpaid, learn a new skill and do something else. I've done that multiple times in my own life. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and spend your time thinking about solutions instead of justifications for why things are the way they are. You can either blame luck or you could do something about it. Regardless, you stick to the victim-persona you're playing, you'll never be happy. And, honestly, I'd like for you to be happy.

Hard_Light posted...

keep watching oann, it's extremely blatant that that's all you do given these talking points you keep parroting lmao

Keep parroting your same stupid narrative where you pretend everybody you don't like gets their talking peoples from bogeymen in your own mind.

Hard_Light posted...

here's a revelation for you: people want to work

Here's a revelation for you that's common-sense for 99% of the rest of the population: some people want to work, many people don't. There's a reason the phrase "TGIF" is a thing and, contrary to your claims, OANN or whatever phantom bogeyman you're choosing didn't invent it.

There are a lot of people who don't like working. There are a lot of people who refuse to engage at work. Quiet-quitting and similar phenomena aren't new, there were movies being made about it in the 80s and 90s before you were born. None of this is new -- even if it's gotten worse over the years -- although you'll pretend it is to justify your nonsensical narratives about radio stations or whatever the latest bogeyman of the moment is for far-left slackivists.

Hard_Light posted...

working hasn't been villainized, low pay and shit working conditions are what's been villainized. however, the right doesn't like this and has been trying for decades to convince people that everyone else is actually lazy and don't want to work.

It's hilarious that you actually believe this, although unsurprising given how much other manufactured nonsense you've bought into.

Hard_Light posted...

all you have to do is go outside to see this, but youve not only taken their bait, but you consumed enough of it now that your personality isn't even real. it's manufactured because you can't think for yourself

>Talks about people taking bait and not thinking for themselves
>Has repeatedly parroted a manufacturing talking point out some radio station or whatever that nobody listens to

BUMPED2002 posted...

Most places in the US especially hourly paid places are a nightmare.

lolwut? Stop.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

In the words of Jim Cornette, my asshole bleeds for you and these billion dollar corporations who thrive on exploitation.

Would that be the same Jim Cornette who pointed out that he'd go months without taking a single day off? The same Jim Cornette who worked countless hours and worked for a boss who worked even longer and more ridiculous hours?

adjl posted...

Nobody's vilified the idea of hard work.

Which is just a fictitious statement.

adjl posted...

What is being increasingly vilified is working hard for exploitative bosses who refuse to properly compensate employees for that work or do anything that might make it more pleasant, as new fora emerge in which people can share their discontent and challenge the notion of "paying your dues." And that's something that absolutely should be vilified. Disagreeing on that point is just blatant corporate bootlicking (which means I fully expect you to throw yourself into it with your reply).

Which is a nonsensical statement topped off with an idiotic ad hominem, but by all means, continue spouting that crap. Maybe you could insist that everybody should start off as being a CEO given how much you dislike the idea of earned advancement.

adjl posted...

The US has already been overtaken by the nation to which the US gave the majority of its economy because they liked the idea of being able to get away with treating workers even worse than they're allowed to on US soil. That's nothing to do with "valuing hard work" and everything to do with slavery being illegal but also profitable.

I feel like you were trying to make what you thought was a clever point, but it mostly sounds like a jumbled mess.