Here is an example from the Boston Globe: Police in New Haven, Connecticut have accused a
If they find him, that is.
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Showing posts with label Wal Mart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wal Mart. Show all posts
Monday, August 24, 2009
728...Do Not Hit Your Boss With A Baseball Bat
I should not have to tell you this but, hitting your boss with a bat, aluminum or wood, is a big no-no and could affect your performance review and possible promotion.
Here is an example from the Boston Globe: Police in New Haven, Connecticut have accused aWal-Mart worker of beating an assistant manager in a store aisle with an aluminum baseball bat after getting reprimanded for the second time in a few days. Apparently this is against the law in Connecticut. Officer Joseph Avery said Tuesday that police are still looking for the 26-year-old suspect who is alleged to have hit the assistant manager, George Freibott, about a dozen times with the bat breaking various things: arms, fingers, teeth. Big owies all over Mr. Freibott have resulted in five oh planning to charge the unnamed assailant with first-degree assault and breach of peace.
If they find him, that is.
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Here is an example from the Boston Globe: Police in New Haven, Connecticut have accused a
If they find him, that is.
WFDS
Monday, August 17, 2009
682...Tuesday Morning Six Sharp
It's you, me and Candace Hanna on 93.1 CKCU.
Joining me from his palatial estate in the secluded suburbs of the city will be Doug Hempstead from the Central Canada Exhibition Association. The Ex, or, as I like to refer to it, Vanier Visits The Glebe, [An 11 day retrospective of Wal Mart fashions] starts Thursday of this week and is always a blast.
Check me out, tomorrow, early, 93.1.
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Joining me from his palatial estate in the secluded suburbs of the city will be Doug Hempstead from the Central Canada Exhibition Association. The Ex, or, as I like to refer to it, Vanier Visits The Glebe, [An 11 day retrospective of Wal Mart fashions] starts Thursday of this week and is always a blast.
Check me out, tomorrow, early, 93.1.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
190...Wal Mart, Costco and MIchael Moore
Michael Moore makes a great point in Post 187 about the demise of General Motors.
In that diatribe he talks about how GM, making record profits, decided to cheap out and send their manufacturing and jobs south of the border to Mexico. This meant that, on top of devasting communities like Mr. Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan, they also eroded a really important and loyal base of car buyers, to wit, GM workers.
This reminded me of the difference betwixt Wal Mart and Costco. As a patron of both stores I know that they both offer superlative value and customer service. Where they differ is in their attitude towards their employees, especially those at the bottom of the pyramid. Wal Mart is essentially minimum wage from cradle to grave; the guy chasing carts in the Costco parking lot is making 40,000$ a year.
The Costco reasoning is that they want their employees to be able to afford homes and to afford filling them with things bought at Costco. Costco CEO and co founder Jim Sinegal, in a fall interview on www.fastcompany.com [linked above] says as much. Jeff Chu and Kate Rockwood write that "Wall Street grumbles that Costco cares more about its customers and employees than its shareholders; it pays workers an average of $17 an hour and covers 90% of health-insurance costs for both full-timers and part-timers. Yet revenues have grown by 70% in the past five years, and its stock has doubled. In typically blunt language, co founder and CEO Jim Sinegal makes his case for why "big box" and "progressive" aren't mutually exclusive."
If General Motors had of torn a page from Mr. Sinegal's book perhaps, just perhaps, you and I would not be involuntary co owners of the company.
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In that diatribe he talks about how GM, making record profits, decided to cheap out and send their manufacturing and jobs south of the border to Mexico. This meant that, on top of devasting communities like Mr. Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan, they also eroded a really important and loyal base of car buyers, to wit, GM workers.
This reminded me of the difference betwixt Wal Mart and Costco. As a patron of both stores I know that they both offer superlative value and customer service. Where they differ is in their attitude towards their employees, especially those at the bottom of the pyramid. Wal Mart is essentially minimum wage from cradle to grave; the guy chasing carts in the Costco parking lot is making 40,000$ a year.
The Costco reasoning is that they want their employees to be able to afford homes and to afford filling them with things bought at Costco. Costco CEO and co founder Jim Sinegal, in a fall interview on www.fastcompany.com [linked above] says as much. Jeff Chu and Kate Rockwood write that "Wall Street grumbles that Costco cares more about its customers and employees than its shareholders; it pays workers an average of $17 an hour and covers 90% of health-insurance costs for both full-timers and part-timers. Yet revenues have grown by 70% in the past five years, and its stock has doubled. In typically blunt language, co founder and CEO Jim Sinegal makes his case for why "big box" and "progressive" aren't mutually exclusive."
If General Motors had of torn a page from Mr. Sinegal's book perhaps, just perhaps, you and I would not be involuntary co owners of the company.
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