This and the experience working at Walmart should look good on their resumes when they look to step up to a management position at Sizzler.
Walmart has been widely condemned for offering its employees only low-paying, dead end jobs. Even President Obama criticized Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign for having served on Walmart’s board and stated that the firm ought to pay “a living wage.”
In inner-city Detroit, however, where the unemployment rate is estimated at an astonishing 50%, the prospect of a Walmart job may appear far more attractive.
Four inner-city Detroit high schools have decided that employment with Walmart is an opportunity worth training their students to pursue. The schools have teamed up with the giant merchandiser to offer a for-credit class in job-readiness training that also includes entry-level after-school jobs.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the principal at one of the schools optimistically suggested that “the program will allow students an opportunity to earn money and to be exposed to people from different cultures — since all of the stores are in the suburbs.”
The announcement of the program outraged Donna Stern, the Midwest coordinator for the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights And Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). “They’re going to train students to be subservient workers” she told the Free Press. “This is not why parents send them to school.”
I hate to break this to Donna Stern but the reason I pay taxes to send kids to public schools is so the school can teach them enough so they will be a productive part of the workforce.
After that I really do not care who has what job. Most people start at the bottom of the latter – how far they want to go up it is up to them.
Walmart is a Wall Street creation. The basics are kill off small business, get a subsidy for doing it and collect fat paychecks at the top. Having government pay health care expenses and the top guys make even more and you pass the expense on to small business which gets killed faster. We have 100,000 houses full of Chinese drywall, so take a demolition class. Never pay for the same real estate twice. Mamas keep your babies out of cheap Chinese cribs. You would thinks somebody in timberland USA could build decent cribs.
Why is everyone so down on Wal~Mart when Wal~Mart is nothing more than the result of Free Trade. The policy rammed down our throats by the Free Trade Traitors in Washington D.C. (they call themselves Democrats and Republicans)
free trade benefits walmart a little, but without it, they wouldn’t be going bankrupt.
here’s the skinny after ol’sammy died
the family that control(s) wally got a lil greedy ..so ol’family walts or walton calls up the money makers(mongers) makes a few phone calls
soo you cut some hours ,call 32hrs full time because 40hrs is the federal guideline that requires all the benefits people expect from a fairly high demand job.
then when the econ sux , cut more hours, cut a few employee’s and make basically that when you work for them that you’re not just working as just the “bag-boy” or “kart-wrangler” you’re also stocker and in some cases a janitor when the run to home-depot for help doesnt succeed lol ohh and if you want some fun at wally – show up with a sign or a t-shirt that says unionize wal-mart !! roflmaoo
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the arguement of the living wage makes sense – when you work in america the lower level (entry level) jobs are poorhouse jobs ; when you go to work you spend gas, you spend money for food whether you make it at home or buy it from some place ; then you spend more money for vehicle maintenance ; and then clothes for the job ; and the insurance offered especially for whats needed like dental has all sorts of catches that make it little more than a very poor discount program..and on and on and on… most of the people that end up really working there are former jailbirds and stoners – some places do hire teens -the average those teens are being taught responsibility in some manner or have a upper level financial parents that they really are only doin the jobs for either high-school credit or for some extra scratch cause pappy and mommy wont pay for the prada bag .. — the other half of the same percentage are teens that got stupid and didn’t know how to read the condom instructions lol
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i agree a mega industry with bottom barrel jobs that have no fundemental merit of education value has no place in the educational system any more than teaching a intelligent design course in SCIENCE class — its contradictory.
Here’s the catch 22 – if Stealcode-soft or the other team of high end program and computer design industries did something similar those are valuable skills that further computer sciences which gives america a further lead on the international system.
a problem occurs – depending the state such as florida people are effectively paid to breed, the more ya breed the more you get .. and who breeds indiscriminately? without thought to resources /impact or sustainability — typically those that are unaware they arent the center of the universe, that the PBS is something women get once a month and think “Electrolites are what plants crave”
soo whose at fault? the breeders, the offspring or the government, ?? lol decide american whose at fault for the genetic dumbimifaction of america??
What would China do?
I wonder how long it will be before the american public will have to bailout Walmart… Think about it, if Wallmart employees would all go on strike at once, the entire nation would suffer shortages. This is why the Anti-Trust laws were enacted in the first place. When a company’s so large, it’s success or failure is a matter of national security, then it’s too large. Regulation isn’t a dirty word, it’s a necessary evil.
It’s Detroit.
If the people there were good thinkers, they wouldn’t have sky high unemployment rates.
So of course the chance for those kids to have jobs is vehemently opposed.
Anything else would violate the Forrest Gump Box of Chocolates rule: Stupid is as stupid does.
I don’t know why the denizens of dvorak.org hate workers so much. WHy the condescension towards managers at Sizzler?