Monday, February 20, 2006

Wal-Mart CEO to employee - Quit bitching. Just quit.

The CEO of Wal-Mart recently told an employee who was complaining about the inadequate health benefits the company offers that if he doesn't like them, then he should quit and find other work.

When a store manager complained to Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott about the low pay, inadequate health insurance and continual union-bashing that Wal-Mart practices, Scott told the manager "Quite honestly, this environment isn't for everybody. There are people who would say, 'You should take the risk and take billions of dollars out of earnings and put this in retiree health benefits and let's see what happens to the company'. If you feel that way, then you as a manager should look for a company where you can do those kinds of things."

Do we need to know anything else about Wal-Mart to quit buying there?

This was published in the Independent from London. We haven't seen it in U.S. news media, have we? I'm sure that we can thank the government for permitting the concentation of the corporate media for this "oversight."

1 comment:

Dharmagirl said...

Good post :) i will go forth unto the independent and read therein!