don't buy your christmas ornaments at walmart!

[spokewench]

I do not see that this is a political issue - When did human rights and plain honest decency become political?

I do not shop at Walmarts because of practices like this AND because consumerism to purchase the cheapest item available is not sustainable! To buy junk and then throw it away is just not in my vocabulary!

I would much rather pay a little more for a quality product that I really need and that will last a very long time

Now, don't get riled up - this is my opinion and they way I live my life. Anyone else is free to do as they please

spoke

[Zen]

It's not just Walmart.

[mimitabby]

you're right, Zen, it isn't; but they are the biggest in the USA and most notorious for these practices. We haven't even started talking about American employees.

[Triskeliongirl]

Another NON WALMART shopper here. Thanks for sharing this Mimi. We either make our ornaments (and its something to do with the kids, stringing popcorn and cranberries, etc.), or have a collection of ornaments we have built up over the years that we have purchased from local craftspeople when we have visited other countries.

[Kitsune06]

you're right, Zen, it isn't; but they are the biggest in the USA and most notorious for these practices. We haven't even started talking about American employees.

No kidding. I'm still in disbelief over how X was training on very busy 8-hour days, then was told that without a break, she'd do her 2-16 hour weekend shifts (8 hours between the two) . So it was get home at 7, get up at 5, be there by 6, get home at 10:30... repeat... and then again when she moved to her week shift, another 32 hour weekend and up at 6 to get there on time in the morning. Not counting day shifts and night-time on call where people actually have gone 24+ hours without sleep (work all day, on call and called in all night, then staying over all their regularly scheduled shift) but what're we going to do- boycott the healthcare industry? Who puts people in charge of this sh!t?

[mimitabby]

yeah, Kit, I agree; healthcare... That's another can of worms. I have a friend who is a doctor. He got out of ER for that very reason. They were so overworked that he was afraid he'd lose a patient while giving someone else a prescription for cold meds...

[Brandi]

I am with you on this one as well. I hate shopping at wal-mart. it gives me a headache! maybe cause their stuff is made in china? I will not slam anybody for wanting to stick up for human rights. There is already enough of that going around you know?

[bmccasland]

Any of you remember when Sam Waldon (Walton?) - the founder - was alive and Walmart advertised that much of their merchandise was "Proudly made in the USA"? Many of the changes were made after he died. I try to avoid Wally World as much as humanly possible.

[Starfish]

what're we going to do- boycott the healthcare industry? Who puts people in charge of this sh!t?

I talked once to a friend of my mine who is a physician. She totally defended these types of hours, saying that it really culled out the weakest links, so that the ones who made it through were the best. (I'm not saying I agree with her, just that she was defending it.)

She's an OB/GYN. She said, do you really want someone delivering your baby in the middle of the night, after delivering a bunch of others that week, who wasn't good at thinking and working under zero sleep conditions? (Again, just passing along what I was told.)

[bmccasland]

I talked once to a friend of my mine who is a physician. She totally defended these types of hours, saying that it really culled out the weakest links, so that the ones who made it through were the best. (I'm not saying I agree with her, just that she was defending it.)

She's an OB/GYN. She said, do you really want someone delivering your baby in the middle of the night, after delivering a bunch of others that week, who wasn't good at thinking and working under zero sleep conditions? (Again, just passing along what I was told.)

Obviously this Doc doesn't have much experience working weird hours for months on end. Statistically more night shift workers have more on the job injuries than any other shift. The main problem, they're chronically sleep deprived. I know I was when I worked nights. Oy don't even get me started.