Just when you think Wal-Mart can't stoop any lower.....

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/25/walmart.insurance.battle/index.html?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

  Unreal.

[24KT]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/25/walmart.insurance.battle/index.html?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

  Unreal.

Unreal doesn't even begin to cover it. I am so enraged by this I don't even dare voice my fury 'cause it would probably fry my motherboard. I will simply say this is a prime example of why affordable universal healthcare is an urgent necessity in your country.

[Hugo Chavez]

I watched this the other day... Disgusting...  This is why we want corporations running everything we know

[Hugo Chavez]

Unreal doesn't even begin to cover it. I am so enraged by this I don't even dare voice my fury 'cause it would probably fry my motherboard. I will simply say this is a prime example of why affordable universal healthcare is an urgent necessity in our country.

"Our Country", you don't have affordable heathcare in Canada 

[Hugo Chavez]

Walmart gets Worst Person in the World
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23819388#23819388

[Hugo Chavez]

yes, person matches as a description of Walmart... They are a corporation which is technically considered a person!!!!  Lame shit as that is...

[24KT]

"Our Country", you don't have affordable heathcare in Canada 

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're saying in this comment.

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  Well, I'm not necessarilly in favor of Universal healthcare; I was just seeing red after I heard about this. The Walton family's legacy of greed will catch up to them sooner or later. Hopefully sooner.

[Hugo Chavez]

  Well, I'm not necessarilly in favor of Universal healthcare; I was just seeing red after I heard about this. The Walton family's legacy of greed will catch up to them sooner or later. Hopefully sooner.

second most sued entity next to the government...  I don't know if that's true, but I know it's something they brag/bitch about.

[kh300]

Unreal doesn't even begin to cover it. I am so enraged by this I don't even dare voice my fury 'cause it would probably fry my motherboard. I will simply say this is a prime example of why affordable universal healthcare is an urgent necessity in your country.

post a pic of yourself topless. it'll make you feel better, i swear

[Hugo Chavez]

post a pic of yourself topless. it'll make you feel better, i swear

 

There will be no Hyena porn on this board, any attempt to post such will get you turned in to DHS ... 

[240 is Back]

I sued them while in college over the summer, probably 8 years back?  

a shelf fell on my head.  they sent me to the doc to get the bump checked.  as they drove me back from there in a manager's van, (another guy got hit too, we were both getting checked out), an 18-wheeler truck ran a red and nailed us at 70+ mph.

completely demolished the van, everyone got hurt, dragged us 300 feet pinned under the 18 wheeler hauling mulch.  it sucked.  he had some kind of machine air brakes and couldn't stop so he just ran the red.

anyway, i spent the summer in bed with all these back probs, and they demanded i come back to work in 7 days or they'd fire me.  took a year, but they finally paid me for my summers' work.  they were a hard-ass sue though.  lawyers were pricks, their docs were pricks, even when my back had this huge swollen area, they said I should be back at work.

[Hugo Chavez]

I sued walmart while in college over the summer, probably 8 years back?  

a shelf fell on my head.  they sent me to the doc to get the bump checked.  as they drove me back from there in a manager's van, (another guy got hit too, we were both getting checked out), an 18-wheeler truck ran a red and nailed us at 70+ mph.

completely demolished the van, everyone got hurt, dragged us 300 feet pinned under the 18 wheeler hauling mulch.  it sucked.  he had some kind of machine air brakes and couldn't stop so he just ran the red.

anyway, i spent the summer in bed with all these back probs, and walmart demanded i come back to work in 7 days or they'd fire me.  took a year, but they finally paid me for my summers' work.  they were a hard-ass sue though.  lawyers were pricks, their docs were pricks, even when my back had this huge swollen area, they said I should be back at work.

serious?

[240 is Back]

serious?

oh yeah.  i was a broke ass college kid, didn't know any better, i almost went back after 4 days, like the other 2 hurt people did (an asst mgr and a stocker).  They went back on crutches and pain meds.

I'd never sued anyone before and haven't since, I'm certainly not the suing type.  But I got hurt, they gave me a lot of vicodin, and told me to be back at work tomorrow or I'm fired.  My dad took me to a lawyer.  didn't want to do it... but i was legitimately hurt.

[w8tlftr]

I sued walmart while in college over the summer, probably 8 years back? 

a shelf fell on my head.  they sent me to the doc to get the bump checked.  as they drove me back from there in a manager's van, (another guy got hit too, we were both getting checked out), an 18-wheeler truck ran a red and nailed us at 70+ mph.

completely demolished the van, everyone got hurt, dragged us 300 feet pinned under the 18 wheeler hauling mulch.  it sucked.  he had some kind of machine air brakes and couldn't stop so he just ran the red.

anyway, i spent the summer in bed with all these back probs, and walmart demanded i come back to work in 7 days or they'd fire me.  took a year, but they finally paid me for my summers' work.  they were a hard-ass sue though.  lawyers were pricks, their docs were pricks, even when my back had this huge swollen area, they said I should be back at work.

If you're serious then "HOLY SHIT!"

You're lucky to be alive.

[240 is Back]

If you're serious then "HOLY SHIT!"
You're lucky to be alive.

i'm just vegging out in the passenger seat, the manager was driving, older guy in back.  never saw the bitch coming.  light went green, she even hesitated a second, then started to drive.  this fvcker just hit us so hard, there's nothing to describe it.  it was all slow-mo as it happened.  this loud loud loud noise - like metal being just twisted or something... and i could look out the drivers door window, and actually see the side/front of the big mack truck.  it's pulling out van UNDER it.  hard to explain.  As it was skidding, we're getting pulled under it as more of the van collapses.  Everyone lived, luckily.

[Hugo Chavez]

oh yeah.  i was a broke ass college kid, didn't know any better, i almost went back after 4 days, like the other 2 hurt people did (an asst mgr and a stocker).  They went back on crutches and pain meds.

I'd never sued anyone before and haven't since, I'm certainly not the suing type.  But I got hurt, they gave me a lot of vicodin, and told me to be back at work tomorrow or I'm fired.  My dad took me to a lawyer.  didn't want to do it... but i was legitimately hurt.

Goddammed good for you!!!!  I solute you!  You did right, don't ever feel bad about it...

[w8tlftr]

i'm just vegging out in the passenger seat, the manager was driving, older guy in back.  never saw the bitch coming.  light went green, she even hesitated a second, then started to drive.  this fvcker just hit us so hard, there's nothing to describe it.  it was all slow-mo as it happened.  this loud loud loud noise - like metal being just twisted or something... and i could look out the drivers door window, and actually see the side/front of the big mack truck.  it's pulling out van UNDER it.  hard to explain.  As it was skidding, we're getting pulled under it as more of the van collapses.  Everyone lived, luckily.

Fvcking Wal-Mart. 

I hope you don't have any permanent injuries, Rob.

[240 is Back]

nah, my back is a little slow at time, there's a weak spot that flares up at times, but that's why i lift weights, to try to fill in the gaps. 

the whole situation sucked. 

[w8tlftr]

nah, my back is a little slow at time, there's a weak spot that flares up at times, but that's why i lift weights, to try to fill in the gaps. 

the whole situation sucked. 

I got a hummer in a car from a woman that didn't realize teeth were a big NO.

That's as close to a nasty car wreck as I want to get.

[240 is Back]

Goddammed good for you!!!!  I solute you!  You did right, don't ever feel bad about it...

thanks man.  i have been in so many car wrecks and close calls i've lost count... never when i'm driving, always riding along.  3 years ago my head actually broke the windshield in a car wreck (no seatbelt, riding shotgun, airbag deployed but not quick enough) and I walked away without any injury, cat scan completely fine.  6 years ago a ricocet from the rifle range split my forehead open, bunch of stitches and a big lump on my head for 3 months.

when I was 1 week old, my mom was riding in backseat and they were hit by a drunk driver.  There weren't seat belts in 1976... you just 'held' the baby in the back.  well, I went flying - a week old and 8 pounds lol - and my uncle, the driver, instinctively raises his forearm and blocks me as I leave my mom's arms headed for the windshield.  I bounce to the floor, car gets totalled, everyone dazed... i ended up completely covered in transmission fluid somehow... everyone thought it was blood... but I was fine.

just bad luck, or good, I don't know.  the only thing I remember from all those wrecks and the ricocet is that you never see it coming lol... you're lali-gagging along with a smile, suddenly you're knocked the fuck down.

[w8tlftr]

thanks man.  i have been in so many car wrecks and close calls i've lost count... never when i'm driving, always riding along.  3 years ago my head actually broke the windshield in a car wreck (no seatbelt, riding shotgun, airbag deployed but not quick enough) and I walked away without any injury, cat scan completely fine.  6 years ago a ricocet from the rifle range split my forehead open, bunch of stitches and a big lump on my head for 3 months.

when I was 1 week old, my mom was riding in backseat and they were hit by a drunk driver.  There weren't seat belts in 1976... you just 'held' the baby in the back.  well, I went flying - a week old and 8 pounds lol - and my uncle, the driver, instinctively raises his forearm and blocks me as I leave my mom's arms headed for the windshield.  I bounce to the floor, car gets totalled, everyone dazed... i ended up completely covered in transmission fluid somehow... everyone thought it was blood... but I was fine.

just bad luck, or good, I don't know.  the only thing I remember from all those wrecks and the ricocet is that you never see it coming lol... you're lali-gagging along with a smile, suddenly you're knocked the fuck down.

You owe your guardian angel a case of beer.

[240 is Back]

You owe your guardian angel a case of beer.

haha you got that right. 

[War-Horse]

Damn, Life is fragile huh 240......love every minute, it could be your last...



Friggin walmart...this is why i dont understand why people think unregulated markets work.  It doesnt...private enterprises dont need to care about the economy or long term.  theyare paid to produce profit at the expense of everything.

The weakness is that american companies cannot compete with global economies in which people make 1.00 a day.     Itll never work. If you want NAFTA or other agreements then the big economies will crumble and the small will rise.   this adjustment will cause the things you are seeing.

BTW.  I dont believe in total regulation as private enterprise does work. But eventually the greed actually starts forcing companies out of the country or reducing benefits so the ceo can have a raise....thats not good.

[240 is Back]

walmart does exist in a competitive market.

they dont even own the low-end store segment - You'll still find 40 Dollar Generals in every town in the USA.

They're just the biggest store in their group, and the biggest company in the USA.  Someone has to be the biggest.  Yes, they underpay and they have a huge huge turnover rate as a result.  But, for the millions of people who don't have the mental capacity to do complex jobs, walmart is a good fit.