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Eat Shit, Wal-Mart. Some More.

Detrix Young, a Wal-Mart employee in Aiken, South Carolina, reports that she sat in a store-wide meeting where one of her female co-workers asked why the men in the store earned more than the women. One of the male managers answered that “men are working as the heads of their households, while women are just working for the sake of working.” Another male manager laughed, even though several of the women were single mothers trying to make ends meet on a Wal-Mart paycheck.

:: HEAD EXPLODES ::

Posted in Douchebaggery, Roundup of Rage. on Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011

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  1. susie said

    Did you read Nickeled and Dimed? Wal-Mart sounds like a horrifying company. Hideous.

  2. No, I’m sure I’d have a stroke.

  3. Class-action discrimination suits are hard to win, and Wal-Mart has built up some experience beating them.

    Still, the next line in the article is particularly damning: “Young is one of more than a hundred current and former Wal-Mart employees who submitted declarations to a federal court in support of their joint claim that Wal-Mart ? the nation’s largest private employer ? discriminated against women in stores around the country, paying them less than male workers and promoting them less frequently.”

    More than 100 submitted documentation? Looks like Wal-Mart’s going to lose another one.

    (What makes it worse, though, is that the members of the class—female employees of Wal-Mart—will not see much compensation as a result. And Wal-Mart’s efficient supply-chain management squeezes out local competition. So many of these women aren’t working at Wal-Mart because it’s the best job around…it’s one of the ONLY retail jobs around.

    So, many got screwed. They won’t get compensated. And when it’s all done, Wal-Mart will just be forced to screw them less.

  4. Oh, that ticks me off! I think it’s that kind of mindset that explains the attack on teachers (while the fire fighters and police officers get a pass). We’re just babysitters. It’s what we were made to do. Grrrr.