Walmart Mentality with handicaps!!!!!

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Hmmmm… figured I had to start a new thread for this one. Forgot to mention in the other that I did work at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Bartlesville, Oklahom for 2 years. I think the biggest bitch I have ever had concerning this place is the electric wheel chairs. I get so pissed off about them. Seriously, if you are like old old old old or crippled or some other severe deal going on and you need one FINE!!! I love it I am all for it, if the suckers are down and not charged I will push your ass around the store myself to help you shop, you have enough problems in life not to have to walk 3 miles picking up two or three things in a big ass store. But here comes the hardcore bitch now. People aren’t going to like this and some of you will get pissed but here it comes anyways.
IF YOU ARE A BIG DISGUSTING SLOB OF A FAT ASS STAY OFF THE WHEEL CHAIRS. WALK YOUR MONSTER SIZE THIGHS AROUND THE STORE AND USE YOUR FREAKING LEGS TO KEEP OFF SOME OF THAT WEIGHT YOU SLAM TWO FISTED DOWN YOUR MOUTH EVERYDAY. AND DON’T GIVE ME SOME SHIT ABOUT “OOOHHHH ITS MY OVERACTIVE THYROIDS NOT MEEEEEE” I CAN CARE LESS ABOUT YOUR OVERACTIVE THYROIDS. EAT HEALTHY BECOME A VEGETARIAN TAKE SOME VITAMIN PILLS AND START WALKING EVERY DAY CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN ETC. BUT STAY OFF THE HANDICAP ELECTRIC WHEELCHAIRS YOU ARE BREAKING THEM BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT HANDICAPPED YOU JUST HAVE A BIG FAT ASS!!!

Ok I feel much better now :slight_smile: It just pisses me off to see some 96 year old hobbling around the store with a cane or walker about to have a heartattack because fatasses are using the electric wheel chairs. Oh yeah and you never ever ever ever ever ever ever to infinity see one of those fat people using one of the manual babies you have to use your arms on. NEVER NEVER NEVER, you know why??? :slight_smile: thats right kudos to you cuz they are a lazy fatass :slight_smile:

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This really should be in The Pit given the nature of the OP.

I appreciate that everyone has a point of view unique to themselves, however I find it offensive for you to determine what does or does not constitute the need for a wheel chair.

There are many people out there with illnesses that are overweight because of their illness. This in turn for people whom are severely overweight make it difficult on their bodies.

There also are those that would be considered thin but are in need of such devices but you don’t know that because you are not that person. Many look and see outwardly a person in perfect health but for some reason or another they require assistance.

Also, some people have a very low metabolism and no matter what they do their weight stays up there.

So, in fairness to those you are poopooing you might consider you don’t know the whole story.

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I’ll second that. And since I have the magic button … Techchick may now respond properly. Just as a small bit of advice, consider this, anytime you feel it necessary to type an entire paragraph in CAPS, the post most likely belongs in the Pit.

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Considering that your employer has more money that Bill Gates (literally), I’m surprised that you aren’t bitching and moaning about WalMart’s failure to buy enough wheelchairs so that everyone who needs one can use one, instead of sanctimoniously judging people whose infirmities you don’t know the first thing about. But I guess I’m not surprised to find a post that is certifiably 100% thought-free from an individual who would choose “Quisling” as a user-name.

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Thanks Unca,

I pretty much said my peace. I don’t feel the need to further comment unless someone else or the OP has something insightful to say about this.

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Let’s just say I’m not hopeful.

Ya know, one of my old mentors rode an electric cart like this. From looking at the poor guy you’d never know he had problems other than his weight, but under the surface, yow! The poor guy had diabetes (most of both feet had been removed), a heart defect they suspected to be hereditary, and in his youth he’d caught polio, too. He’s dead now, though, so at least you won’t have to worry about him breathing your air. Bite me.

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Those chair are there for customers who need them. How else is someone who is morbidly obese going to shop? Depend on others? Right… You think the store is going to run up to someone like that and say “I’m sorry, those are for people who really need them, not a person of your size. Get your lazy butt up and walk.” Right, they’d be sued in minutes.
Heck, it won’t bankrupt the company to buy one or two new ones a year if they do break. They’ll make it back anyway.

And who in the hell are you to assume everyone is lying about the reasons they can’t lose weight? Hell, I saw on cnn.com the other day a virus that might cause certain people to gain weight!

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Jodi, Jodi, Jodi.

Why the hell should Wal-Mart have to provide the wheelchairs at all? If memory serves me right, all that they ahve to do is make the store wheelchair accessable. I was under the impression that they had wheelchairs available as a courtesy to those who might be moer comfortable in one, and more likely to shop longer and buy more. In my estimation, most people who need a wheelchair to get around have a wheelchair. How else did they get into the store? Levitation?

And after reading your little diatribe there, I would have to put the same qualifier on individuals who choose “Jodi” as a user name.

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Thanks for correcting me there this did belong in the pit my bad there. But my opinion still stands you shouldn’t need an electric wheel chair because you are fat. I’m sorry the wheel chairs are there because they are for people who need them not lazy fatasses. I do understand there are some fats who have other problems and I grant them my apologies but 9 times out of ten I just don’t see it.

Also thanks for being intelligent enough to realize what Quisling means. If you check the dictionary the only definition is not the one concerning some Polish Bastard who betrayed the Jews mmmkay? It can also simply mean a traitor and a turnabout and was the name of an underground paper I ran in college for 3 years. I like it and am sorry if you don’t :slight_smile: heh heh

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I guess you’re one of the assholes who was against Casey Martin riding a golf cart in the PGA.

next time you see a 96 year old hobbling around your miserable store, first of all congratulate them for still being mobile, second, offer to go get them whatever it is they need, but them again, I’m assuming whoever with the walker had somebody drive them to the store.

Learn all the facts before you condemn, you prick.

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I’ll say this slowly so you can understand, but I don’t have much hope that it’ll help, since you didn’t listen to anyone else.

Some… times… you… can’t… see… the… prob… lem… a… per… son… has.

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Vidkun Quisling (1887 to 1945) was a Norwegian politican during the Second World War who collaborated with the Nazis. The word did not exist before it became associated with his actions, which is why Merriam-Webster lists its only meaning as “traitor or collaborator”.

Not a nice chap, really.

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MR. CYNICAL says:

Perhaps you need to read my post again. Did I say Wal-Mart had any obligation to provide wheelchairs? No, I did not. What I said was that if a person was going to complain about insufficient wheelchairs in the store, it might make more sense to blame the store than to take it upon yourself to judge those who use them and, without any evidence, conclude that they don’t really need to use them. I’m sorry that point somehow escaped you.

Totally irrelevant to the OP and to my response.

If you have some definition of “Jodi,” any at all, then by all means trot it out. I’ve always been interested in what my name means, since no two “baby-name”-type sources seem to agree. In the meantime, you might try looking up the definition of “Quisling.” Oh, and you might try defending the OP, if in fact you find it defensible, instead of taking me to task for pointing out that it is stupid, which it is.

QUISLING says:

How do you know that the people using the wheelchairs do not have disabilities other than their weight, which you just can’t see?

The point that seems to be escaping you is that people you insensitively define as “lazy fatasses” may in fact need wheelchairs, even though some medical-doctor-masquerading-as-a-stock-clerk such as yourself doesn’t recognize that.

And if you don’t see it, it must not exist, huh? Too bad Wal-Mart didn’t institute a policy by which you personally had to screen each person for disability before letting them use the wheelchairs. Oh, and I don’t think “they” appreciate being called “fats” any more than people with reduced intellects (naming no names) appreciate being called “stupids.”

You draw a distinction between one particular traitor and a traitor in general, as if the former is unacceptable but the latter is not? Interesting. Be that as it may, I don’t give a shit what name you post under, I just don’t expect brilliance from people with user names like “DipShit,” “Hitler,” “Fartalot,” or “Quisling.” That way I’m not disappointed.

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Quisling,

It’s attitudes like that that give people pause when it comes to the human race as a whole.

My cousin, for example, looks like the healthiest person you would ever see. She’s not overweight, she’s not too thin to the average person she is the picture of health.

Unfortunately, they don’t don’t know that she suffers from Multiple Schlerosis (sp). She gets weird looks because of the times she requires a wheel chair, a cane and uses the handicapped spots at the mall or store.

An old friend of mine also suffers from MS. She uses a cane and not severely overweight but is overwieght and needs her cane to get around. Standing up for periods of time, or walking a long distance is very difficult for her as well.

Obesity has many faces and I am sure that there are just as many reasons, including a lot of people that do to medical reasons are that heavy. Also, many that have gotten to that point that would otherwise be healthy have their reasons for being overweight. Many of which are so overweight it has caused serious problems with their heart, joints, etc.

But I highly doubt you would even consider that your opinion does not change their circumstances. I also think that no amount of trying to help you understand, that you are probably wrong in guessing as to why some people are obese, will do any good.

Your distaste or whatever it is you have about obese people seems pretty out there. Get over it.

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Techchick, you put that quite eloquently. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

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look at him, he works at Wal-Mart…I guess he’s not smart enough to work anywhere else. Lazy, stupid fuck.

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<Raises hand timidly, speaks in small voice> I have an electric wheelchair but it stays at work because I can’t afford to buy a van to transport it and voc. rehab. says they don’t help with that. So I leave the chair at work where I need it most and just try to cope the rest of the day. When I enter a Wal-Mart or Safeway or any of those huge, warehouse-type shopping centers, I eye the motorized carts and wheelchairs longingly, but it’s the attitude of people like Qlueless that stops me. I’ve gotten enough funny looks parking in the handicapped spots; I’m afraid of dealing with the stares and judgment of people like him in the store. What if someone comes right up and challenges me? Accuses me of just being a lazy fat-ass because they can’t know that I have muscular dystrophy? I’m not the “F— You!” type. I’m more the “run (or limp, rather) out to my car crying and vow never to shop there again lest I run into that person” type.

I guess since I’m shielded by the relative anonymity of the web, I will say that Qlueless is a bigoted, loudmouth, mean-spirited little jerk. I sure hope that if you find yourself injured and unable to exercise and you become a fat ass in a Wal-Mart wheelchair that you aren’t judged as harshly as you’ve judged others.

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Gr8Kat,

I have known Mr. Cynical for quite a while and I am sure he didn’t mean it in that in a mean way at all.

< slaps Mr. Cynical’s typing hands, think before you type stupid…I know you wouldn’t do that intentionally but ya doofus! Now you owe me and Gr8Kat lunch, so there. >

As for your circumstances, this is exactly what I was talking about. The OP really fucked up on this one.

< didn’t mean to speak for you Cynical, hope you aren’t pissed at me >

::::cowering in corner til she gets the green light from Mr. Cynical:::::

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I have congestive heart failure. I can manage to walk for a few hundred feet at a time. I CANNOT walk for half an hour at a time. Even 10 or 15 minutes will wear me out. Most Wal*Marts, other discount stores, and grocery stores do not have places where shoppers can sit for a minute or two, and I prefer not to collapse in the aisle. I have collapsed in the past, either from the CHF or because one of my knees has given out on me unexpectedly.

I have my husband or daughter drop me off at the store entrance, walk to the scooters, and then my husband or daughter goes and gets the key to it, if it needs a key.

I have other problems, too, but very few of them are visible to the naked eye. For instance, I STILL have open wounds from surgery four months ago. The scooters give me an opportunity to get out and about, which I would otherwise not be able to do. I mean, I look FORWARD to a trip to Wal*Mart. That shows you how desperate I am to get out of the house.

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What upsets me is when children insist on playing on them, or teenagers take the wheelchairs. I saw a kid start to play with one. I told him not to and his mom flipped out on me. Well, junior (who was all of 12-old enough to fucking know better) tried to get out and FELL!
(I wanted to laugh so hard!)