An Now this… how to pack the crowd
It might explain why I needed to bring 20 extra folding chairs when I went to these meetings, in order to be able to sit down.
Found on the Wakeup Wal-Mart website:
PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject: moscow, id.
so there is/was a huge debate with the city and walmart. walmart wants to upgrade the walmart into a supercenter, by building a new one. not only this, but only eight miles away in pullman, wa. they are trying to build another supercenter.
so i was an associate with this store during the city council meetings. in morning meetings at work, they discussed how people of the community faught hard at the council meetings to make sure walmart did not win the land to build a bigger store. so what did they do? they offered each associate(+1 or 2 guests) to attend a city council meeting as a group, with members of management. they clearly said it was simply to make numbers for walmart look bigger. to make it look like more people wanted it.
to get people to sign up to go, they bought dinner for anyone who went.
and told us, we didn’t have to vote, or talk, just come and sit down.
hmm. bribe?
in any case i came to work yesterday, having taped a wake up walmart flyer inside of my car, and about two hours before my shift was over, i got called up front, where my store manager, an assistant manager, and the personnel associate, took me outside to my car.
they lectured me for almost an hour, though not really giving any substantial evidence as to why the issues on the flyer were so incorrect.
now i feel that if they valued me as an associate (let alone one that worked at a walmart before, and came back) they would have actually tried to sway the way that i thought about the company, rather than giving me the ultimadum of, take the flyer down and keep working, or keep it up and leave. do they teach store managers exactly what to say in these cases? it sounded more scripted than anything.
i actually respeced the people at this store, more than the ones at the store i worked at in tennessee, and they didn’t treat me disrespectfully, because they always beg you not to quit. but, i just think it’s an amazing move to let an associate go for this reason, instead of changing my mind about the issues i feel are questionable.