Walmart Asks Employees to Donate Food to Help Starving Coworkers

you just said it yourself, the persons responsibilities are to simply care for the patient as far as feeding,changing and helping them into a wheel chair. they are not performing surgeries, prescribing medications or anything, and if something goes wrong they alert those who are qualified to help. Its an ENTRY LEVEL POSITION,they are there to learn and work towards becoming a nurse or to help them continue on to a medical career. Id say where you are they dont pay much, because when my friend got into that she was paid $10/hr down here for being a nurses aide when she first started.

and secondly what you are speaking about is a totally different field all together anyways. Are you gonna tell me that a person who is a cashier should make as much as a person who cares for hospital patients ? this is what im talking about as far as you are not thinking about what you are arguing. In my opinion a person with responsibilities of caring for human lives should be paid well more than a cashier, but according to you a cashier deserves the living wage just as much which is preposterous on all accounts.

 

You are free to choose to remain ignorant.

 

Everyone deserves a living wage that works hard. We would have less crime if people could survive on what they make. There are a lot of low paying jobs here because they can collect welfare just to stay home and do nothing all day. Some aids here make 10.00 an hour and some make 9.16 Wa minimum wage here is 9.16 we have the highest minimum wage of all the states it has not hurt business and our economy is good.

 

i do agree that the minimum wage is too damned low, in fact most companies pay more anyways. Hell the Mcdonalds right across the street from me starts people off at $8.25, i know this because i was thinking about getting a job there for a little extra income when thins got a tad rough.

and you are right, the answer does lie in the middle of the arguments. Somewhere a compromise can be made, it may not cure the problem all together but it can make things better. The thing is the minimum wage shouldnt be a national thing, it should be dealt with individually from state to state as far as the cost of living in particular areas. What im trying to say is the minimum wage in Los Angeles would have to be higher than the minimum wage in Tupelo,MS because the cost of living is different. It should go by regions basically, because as the minimum wage in bumblefart,Kentucky might be great, but back in LA you will get nowhere on $7.25.

so yeah i believe that would be a good place to start.

 

ummmm if minimum wage you say is $9.16 then why did you just tell me in your last post that a nurses aid was making $7.25 an hour? you are not making sense somewhere.

secondly once again, what you are speaking of is not feasible in this economy or reality. you dont get $12/hr just because you bag groceries lmao. its bagging groceries, not caring for hospital patients so why in the same hell would they get paid the same amount for less responsibilities ? Again stop thinking with your heart and think with your brain.

thirdly its Washington for christ sakes, not California, Flroida or NY.

 

I agree Teeko. If everyone who works got a living wage then there would be less crime. I personally think that some people turn to selling drugs as an example because they feel they can't make enough money without doing so. The same goes for prostitution. I honestly think that some people turn to crime because they can't survive on the miserable wages they receive. Regardless, it is still wrong to commit such crimes and such crimes must be punished.

 

I also wonder what phone they have on their pocket, what their monthly cigerrette budget is, etc.

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what is a "living wage" other than an arbitrary number made up for political point getting.


you can live off of minimum wage. sorry the boss drives a caddy while you drive a 20 y.o. chevy.... but that's why education and/or hard work are important.

 

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Because I am talking about the fed minimum wage. I lived in Arizona and aids there make 7.25 an hour. Same as housekeepers, and fast food workers.

 

They are not starving because they get foodstamps. Walmart should be ashamed of its self. They benefit from the work and depend on the government to pay half their wages.

 

This is a well thought out post and it makes a bunch of sense but this doesn't (but back in LA you will get nowhere ). I really think that this is a bigger picture than just California. Take gas for example is $3 bucks a gallon. That mean at $7.25 an hour you get about 2 gallons of gas. Even at the dollar store that won't go far.

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2 thumbs up... Yup, the US is becoming a low wage service sector.

 

You gotta ask yourself, do you want workers to go hungry or do you want to continue to get your linens and bath towels at a low price? I enjoy fresh, soft, bath towels; please don't take those away from me.

 

Show me a hungry walmart worker... not some bias news article on the internet being pushed by pro-union members.

 

Personally, I would be fine with having to buy less expensive items if it meant that workers at Walmart (or anywhere else for that matter) were paid a just wage. I would also be fine with paying more for the same items for the same reason.

 

But that's the point (what I bolded) ! The minimum wage is NOT A NATIONAL THING ! Many states have higher minimum wages. As you note, a McDonalds near you already pays $8.25. Many of us know of other "minimum wage" types of jobs that pay $11-12 per hour. The remedy is not to mandate a wage, but rather to have a better economy, as a rising tide most certainly lifts all boats, and let supply and demand set the rates. The more government gets involved, the worse it will all get. We lost our manufacturing base precisely because of government-mandated non-competitiveness.

 

Whoever thought of that is a very compassionate person. That looks like the work of some caring Walmart employee I wanna hug. Maybe it will inspire others to do the same in their workplaces.

 

you still can.. Just shop at Nordstroms, or other high end shops. Or boutique stores.

 

Don't be sophomoric.
The food drive is to help employees who may have fallen on hard times, same thing thousands of other businesses do every year.
Are you new to the planet ?

 

Nothing has ever stopped you from paying more. Nothing stands between you and charity.

 

now how are those hungry employees gonna help other hungry employees, if they can't even help themselves ?

 

Sorry I don't mean to laugh, but lmao. Those towels were most likely made by people who don't make squat in a 3rd world country, then shipped on a NAFTA freeway that you paid for.

 

Some shops pay alot to their associates... The question is, can you afford it???

 

I like charity just as much as anyone, but that even bites back.

 

I find Walmart employees to be among the most virtuous in our society today. These folks do not have to work. They can pick up the phone and call a social security disability lawyer right now and stop working. Many of them are grandparents raising kids at day and working at night to pay for everyone else in the family's drugs and alcohol. Some are working there as a second job to pay child support. I'm proud of these people for working at all. There are ways out. I see it all around me and in my own family.

 

Working people should be able to feed themselves...