Wal-Mart dumps vets photos
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Did you know that all the smocks Wal-Mart employees were once required to wear were donated to a veterans' organization and were turned into blankets? Did you know that each store will pump thousands of dollars into charities in each community?
Just because the company doesn't broadcast it's charitable works doesn't mean they are being done.
Compared to Wal-Mart, McD's itself is upscale.
The skepticism content of my blood remains high, let's put it that way.
In Wal-Mart's case, they had better do a lot of broadcasting. I bet I'm not the only one who questions their sincerity. I mean, come on, it's...it's WAL-MART for cryin' out loud! The ultimate in faceless, heartless, gigantic corporations. They don't give a crap about their employees, how would you expect them to treat total strangers?
I wanna thank you for that link. I am laughing so hard I'm crying.
Then maybe you should do your own research instead of expecting them to "broadcast" everything. Figure it out instead of using all of your energy on being skeptical.
I know. Doesn't it make you want to go lurk in a Walmart parking lot and do some wildlife photography?
Upscale? Did they shovel the piles of shitty diapers out of their parking lots?
I agree with Walmart.
The way the wars are going we Walmart will need to open up a store just to have room for all the photos.
I mean do you people think they were going to keep the pictures up for the end of time? "But we are at war!!!!" WE ARE ALWAYS AT WAR!!! It's real easy to say "We are at war" to every fucking thing. If i was a dumbass president I could bomb France just to say we are at war.
The way the wars are going we Walmart will need to open up a store just to have room for all the photos.
I mean do you people think they were going to keep the pictures up for the end of time? "But we are at war!!!!" WE ARE ALWAYS AT WAR!!! It's real easy to say "We are at war" to every fucking thing. If i was a dumbass president I could bomb France just to say we are at war.
If I understand it, these boards were photos of employees serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, most of them probably kids who were working in Wal-Mart, saw no future there for Christ' sake, and joined the military.
I think it is not so much tasteless as it is sad, completely sad.
Then, you throw in a bunch of older Vet's photos who also work there - another layer of pathetic - an older Vet, who has to work in a fucking Wal-Mart, wear a blue vest, and kiss people's asses who are 20 years younger and 100 years stupider.
It also strikes me as insidious. It is only natural to honor co-workers going to War, but to have this Corporate Giant that has done nothing but eviscerate American small businesses - which used to be part of the "american dream" - selling for peanuts, paying its people in peanuts, as if "cheap" was the new Idol to bow down before ~ and the American worker, their wages worth less and less over the last 20 years, very often having little choice but to shop there, for their survival - it really has been like that - this blue-vested Giant putting up a supposed Tribute Board when neither Wal-Mart, nor the Government, could give two shits about some soldier from a small town -
sure, the co-workers care, but on the base level it seems to be a Recruitment device.
Fuck Wal-Mart indeed. They have the poor by the balls, and piously have these photos posted of whatever pathetic serf it was that went to get shot at for french fries and oil.
And they've got people so fucking brainwashed, that of course, we're hopping mad and offended to see the Board come down.
Fortunately, there is an underlying hilarity to this story: that Wal-Mart thinks it's going to make itself "upscale".
I know. Doesn't it make you want to go lurk in a Walmart parking lot and do some wildlife photography?
^ LOL - What a gem of a site! People watching is definitely a fun and fascinating activity. I want to start doing it more.
I plan eventually to buy a pen camera/recorder that I can wear on my shirt/jacket just for the purpose getting good shots of people in their natural habitat without disturbing them. Also, for a stationary people watching, a nice digital camera with a strong enough zoom to capture folks from a solidly safe distance.
Great, I just wasted 45 minutes looking at that. I'm never gonna get my packing done!
Always glad to help.
If they'd never had the memorial in the first place, that would be one thing. But by removing it like they did, they spat in the faces of every veteran.
Baba, just think about this logically for a moment.
If your store decided to voluntarily do a nice thing and put up a photo wall honoring veterans (or something similar), should it be required to continue to host that photo wall indefinitely regardless of subsequent company policy or remodeling? It's not the Vietnam Memorial, it's not being made of marble to stand the test of time, it's a photo wall in an operating business with a new nationwide interior design scheme to conform to.
Isn't demanding that a person or business who makes a nice gesture continue to do so forever lest they get accused of disrespect kind of counterproductive? It just makes people say "screw it, better to not get involved in the first place and avoid the criticism." Which seems to be exactly what you are advocating by somehow saying they're "worse" than those who made no attempt to acknowledge veterans at all (not that someone should be required to do so or that they're wrong to not do so).
Finally, they're not even getting rid of the photos anyway, they've just taken the time to transfer them all into a scrapbook which will still be on display at the store. They were under no obligation to do so, they did it before there was any "controversy" (which sounds like one angry guy judging by the article) and therefore nothing has functionally changed except the way you view the photos.
All in all, I'd say the way they handled this from setting up the wall in the first place to taking it down and putting it in the scrapbook was pretty damned decent of them...
Which brings me to the greatest tragedy of all. The fact that you made me defend Wal-Mart.
Do you have any idea how painful it is to pop my eyes back in after I've gone the full Gowron?
They make lots of charitable contributions. Not because they care, but because it makes them look good in the public eye. If it was out of the goodness of their hearts, they would do it without fanfare, as opposed to calling a press conference every time they present some organization with an oversized novelty check.
Not all of them...I threw mine in the trash. Never wore the thing anyway. Or the name badge, for that matter. Occasionally they'd crack down and make us wear them. I'd wear it for half a day, throw it away when I got home, and wait for the next time they cracked down and tell them I needed a new one, then repeat said procedure.
Perhaps.
At the very least, if we ever had to take down that wall, I would hope that we would warn customers ahead of time so that it wouldn't look quite as heartless as what Wal-Mart did.
Oopsie!