Wal-Mart, Unbeatable Prices vs. Beat Up Employees!!

Walmart is the largest retail company in history; it has over 4,000 stores and close to two million employees in the USA. They are also one of the top money making companies in the world. Walmart's over $400 billion in revenue last year makes it the 23rd-largest economy in the world. One would think that a company with such success will take care of their second most important asset, their employees; unfortunately this is not the case. Walmart’s founder, Sam Walton, opened his first store in the early 1960’s. His idea was to have the lowest retail prices than any other competitor. In order to do so, Walton decided to create the morals of, company first and employee last. This way, Walmart is able to gain a huge profit and still keep their prices low; great for Walmart, but not good for the employees. The employees are the victims to that profit focus business idea. Walmart’s employees receive low wages, unreasonable benefits, short hours, poor working conditions, and treatment as a nuisance rather than commodity. Walmart employees should be compensated fairly because they are the ones that helped the company grow into the billion dollar conglomerate it is today.

I refuse to be a part a mission of vast profit in exchange for mistreatment of employees. It is sometimes believed that no one will do something for nothing, above all, corporate America. Walmart promises the lowest prices competitively by means of unfair employment, crushing the competition, and taking advantage of loop holes in the law. The insane thing about it is they have been getting away with it for decades. Most importantly, Walmart needs to show recognition, appreciation, and respect to their employees. A change will happen if the company makes changes in their policies, workers stay fighting for their rights, and all the people that disagree with Walmart's policies to boycott. Wal-Mart needs us to spend our money in their stores. If the flow of revenue slows down or even stops, Wal-Mart's big wigs will panic and will want to change. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks decided not to give up her seat in the bus. Intern, a boycott was mandated against the bus company and it made the world see how a major company change its policies quickly.  

The American dream

 

In the late 1700's, the American dream was a comforting hope for people relocating to this country. The dream was possible because of the massive amount of resources saturated in America, and the chance for someone to start a new life from their previous oppressed situations. If someone had the ambition and the ability to achieve, they can prosper regardless of social class.

           Fast forward about 200 years, the American Dream was the opportunity for Americans to achieve prosperity through hard work. One could purchase assets and their children can grow up to receive a good education and career without limits. Choices can be made by the people without confinement that bounded people according to their class, race, religion, and ethnicity.
           Today, the American Dream is a slick scam to influence Americans into false hope, debt, and eventually surrendering our independence. America needs to be alert to this scam. The media, government, and cloaked powerful influence, keep us with horse blinders on to achieve their common goal. Their goal, I believe, is persuasion; to have us purchase way above our means in false hopes to capture this dream. We are forced to stay with a monetary disposition, so we are always in competition with one another to see who is better or who has more than the other. In turn, we end up in debt and debt means someone owns someone else. I am not a fortune teller, but we all should see the direction this country is heading; with worldwide debt, constant political issues, frightening skeletons that are popping out of government closets and the corruption that big corporations are getting away with. America, enable your peripheral vision! We need to look around us and see for ourselves what is going on in this country and around the world. Yesterday, the American dream was important domestically and especially important to foreign hopefuls. Only we the people can recreate that positive dream concept, if not, then God (please) bless America.      

 

 

 

 

Class and Education.

     I started working at the age of 13 and I am now 40 years old. I believe that my level of education determined what jobs I applied for and what respect and pay I expected. 

     Personally, I will not tolerate disrespect no matter what my level of education is.  Nor would I disrespect others under any circumstance.  However, the more education I have, the less disrespect I will tolerate.

     So at age 13, I was so excited to work that I did not really evaluate how I was being treated.  I was treated as a laborer, nothing less or more.  As I got older and more experienced, I expected wages to match my capabilities and definitely was aware when I was disrespected. 

     In time, I realized that no matter how much experience I had, I was still  treated as a nobody because I did not have the education.  That is when I realized that higher education made a difference in how others viewed and ultimately, treated me. This led me to return to school to pursue a bachelor's degree.

     At my current place of employment, I am very much aware of  the difference, not only in pay, but in the level of respect given to those with advanced degrees.  I believe they are treated like royalty, while others, blue collar employees (like myself) are treated like peasants. For example, the engineers at my job will not even consider the input  of the HVAC technician when planning a project.  They appear to have the notion that our input is insignificant to the planning of any project.  However, when failure occurs after the project is complete, we are very much consulted and viewed as important.

     Unfortunately, society views educational level as very important in determining pay and respect.  Realistically, I believe that educational level should be a major determining factor in salary compensation, but not respect.  Respect is something that should be given to all employees across the board, whether you sweep the building or manage the building.