Sorry for dredging this back up but I just found another case of what appears to be Wal-Mart dropping the ball regarding a charitable donation.
The “no wrap” policy is also largely in place so that organizers can separate the toys into age-appropriate categories – that way they don’t send a baby something like Leggo, with small choke-risk parts and that a 6-year-old doesn’t end up with Alphabet Blocks.
Since when, may I ask, is the placement of something in a WalMart bag proof that it was purchased at WalMart? If the dumbass wanted to ensure that all toys placed in the bin were purchased, his instructions should have been to include receipts. The fact that his supposed ‘instructions’ did not prevent stolen goods from entering the bin in the first place just adds another layer of stupidity to the whole situation, and further erodes any shred of belief I may have had in his story.
-lv
What difference does it make? I don’t care if he told her in writing and she signed it. He was a fool with a scrambled priority list.
Additionally, what he told HER doesn’t have any effect on what the DONORS do! Was she supposed to stand there all day and instruct everyone how to wrap the toys that they left? Wrap them herself?
Every single day I find new reasons to be deeply grateful that I now work at home, for myself, and am spared any risk of developing this drone mentality.
If this post appears to be an anti Mal-Wart rant, then so be it. I’ve been following the evils perpetrated by this corporate leviathan for some time, and check articles to avoid furthering urban legends. Did they steal the toys and restock them? TRUE.
Do they place American flags outside their stores? Only if that doesn’t get tossed from the budget, which is an easy ‘out’. Mr. Roll back has to make the balance sheet work somehow, even if it involves a blind eye to the symbol of the country whose structure allowed Mal-Wart to prosper and become the world’s largest corporation.
The abuses perpetrated by this company, one that would have you view them as a down-homey, Gramma-dog-and-apple-pie, outfit are beyond comprehension. Regular news readers will recall the articles regarding destruction of internal safety studies, shredded when workers were injured owing to those same studies recommendations not being implemented. Although a non-union worker myself, Mal-Wart’s anti-union policy is appalling.
I’d like to believe that Mr. Walton didn’t want it this way, but given how it is, I’ll drive farther and spend more if I have to, and sleep better knowing I’ve not furthered something I firmly view as the American dream turned nightmare.
Meh. Mehopes it’s just the “lone schmuck” idea.
Well put, danceswithcats. These reasons alone would be enough for me to forswear Wal-Mart altogether, but combined with their pseudo-morality (forcing edits of media), their documented history of forcing employees to work overtime off the clock, and the way they rub their so-called communtiy involvement in our faces, it’s enough to turn the stomach.
Barbara Erenrich’s book Nickled and Dimed has a wonderful section on what it’s like to work at Wal-Mart. Having worked at a competeing chain, I can vouch for most of her information. These companies treat their employees like inhuman garbage, because they know if you quit, it’s no big deal. They can replace you easily. They have no incentive, or interest in treating their employees well. Work there for a week or two and you’ll realise just how disposable you are.
Getting back to the OP, I started another thread on this subject a week or two ago, not realising that it had already been brought up. In there, I said that I had just sent an e-mail to Wal-Mart, asking if the details of the story were accurate. They did not deign to respond, even with a form letter.
Hey, that’s Wal-Mart.
They have a history of boneheaded public relations, usually based off their habit of making decisions based on the bottom line and ONLY on the bottom line (with the occasional Directive From Above thrown in there, whether it makes any sense or not).
Just a reminder that Wal*Mart has many, many stores. This seems to have been an isolated incident. Horrible, yes, stupid, yes but normal of their corporate being? I think not.
Wal*Mart was very instrumental this past summer in helping with the fire efforts here in Colorado. They work very hard on a corporate level to be a caring company.
My brother’s company builds many Wal*Marts and this is just a stupid example of stupid people, not the company as a whole.
Please don’t base your opinion of WalMart based on one manager that probably doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground. People make mistakes but having dealt with WalMart in the manner I have, through my brother’s dealings, they are as good a company as any of them out there, if not more caring. Wal*Mart is just an easy target because they offer products at very low prices.
I still don’t get why I have panic attacks, every damn time I enter their stores though. It’s really weird but I do.