Do the workers get health benefits while they're working? Or is that benefit just for people higher up the ladder? It seems surprising to me that a cashier would get that kind of benefit given what I hear about Walmart.

West Plains could hold their MENSA meetings in a closet.

a walmart here in Oregon let a guy where a kilt behind the pharmacy counter, so i'm not really sure about so called standards

Walmart does not give those benefits after 20 years of service.

You just destroyed lawrenceRaider's retirement plan.

If he wouldn't stop requesting hugs from customers and wouldn't stop willfully violating the price matching policy even after having been warned about both of those things, he should have been fired.

They used to, granted it's been 20 years since I worked at Walmart.

My family is from there, Walmart is literally a lot of peoples highlight in the day. I remember going as a child and being so bored out of my mind. But the girl that lived next to my great aunt that worked at the diner turned into a porn star. So there is that. Well a one off porn star, who I just happened to see in Hustler in the 90s.

Well, yeah.

You just don't do bareback in the handicap bathroom stall there??

thats him

http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townn...44bd.image.jpg

Walmart makes sure employees are not full time, or direct them how to get benefits from the government.


But I did not know about the 20 year full benefits thing, that is an interesting twist to the story.

ding fries are done

awe, that would be an interesting thing to add to the story.

But it makes sense, they have crap benefits now at Hallmark for all the remaining workers. So I would guess most businesses are that way now.

^this

Whats the whole story...

No company is going to fire anyone over a 50 cent discount

speaking of, where's Brad been?

Here's the story as presented in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

WEST PLAINS, MO. • Frank Swanson loved to hug his Walmart customers, specifically the women. He said it was his way of saying “thank you for your business.”

But on Saturday, three weeks shy of his 20th anniversary with the store, he gave his last hug. Three of his bosses called him into an office. The hugs were inappropriate, they said. They also said he broke store policy by selling a gallon jug of tea 50 cents cheaper than the list price. Such a transaction is allowed if the customer has a circular from a competitor showing that they are selling an item for less. But in this instance, Swanson took the customer at her word.

Swanson’s bosses wrote him a check for unused vacation and personal days and showed him the door.

Word of his firing hit social media, and as things can often do when they hit the Internet, support came fast and furious for Swanson, along with stinging commentary for the country’s largest retailer. A Facebook page, Hugs for Frank, was set up, inviting people to a protest outside the store this Saturday. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 1,000 people had indicated they planned to attend.

“Walmart was blessed to have Frank as an employee, not the other way around,” store customer Melanie Vincent said in a Facebook post. “I sure hope another business will leap at the chance to hire Frank so that they can also be blessed. Whoever made this decision at Walmart made a very bad mistake, and I hope Walmart corporate will see that.”

The company released a statement, saying, in part, that “part of being a cashier is making sure customers are paying for their merchandise before they leave the store; in many instances, this was not happening.” As a result, Swanson was let go.

Swanson, 52, said Tuesday that Walmart made it sound as if he had been letting customers walk out without paying for items, something he would never do. But he did admit to not following store policy, which requires that the customer present a competitor’s ad showing the cheaper price. At that point, Walmart will sell the product for the lesser amount.

“They said I was making the price up out of my head. They made it sound like I was giving groceries away,” Swanson said.

Swanson also said managers had warned him about the hugging, which he said he started back in November, around Thanksgiving. After about three months, he said, managers told him he had to stop giving hugs without asking permission from the customer first. From January until his firing, he said, that’s what he did.

Though the online support for Swanson has been overwhelming, not everyone came to his side.

“My husband was a department manager for Walmart,” Stacy McCallister said on Facebook. “He has told Frank not to be hugging on people. He even heard Frank joking around with customers about not going to give them their change back until he got a hug from them.

“My husband has also heard other people try to tell Frank that he was going to get into trouble with this. Whether anyone likes it or not, under normal circumstances, that is considered sexual harassment.”

Under normal circumstances, there would probably not be such a groundswell of support. But Swanson is not your typical 52-year-old man.

When he was in the eighth grade, and a star defensive football player, he and his younger brother, Drexel, were riding in the back of their grandfather’s pickup after delivering a load of wood.

The brothers, standing up in the back of the truck, began throwing the leftover wood at signs alongside the highway. Frank fell out, fracturing his skull. He was in a coma for six weeks. The accident left him with brain damage and partial paralysis on his right side. He could no longer play football, but he became the team manager for the next four years.

“My brother doesn’t have a mean bone in his body,” Drexel Swanson said in a Facebook post calling for a boycott of the West Plains Walmart. “His purpose in life since his accident has always been to make other people feel good about (themselves) and to bring a smile to their face.

“He loves to hug people, especially the older generation. He says they don’t get enough hugs in their life.”

Frank said Tuesday afternoon that he had just finished a job interview at the Ramey’s supermarket store. It went well, and he was en route to Hirsch Feed and Farm Supply for another interview. He is confident he will get a job soon, but he is following Drexel’s advice to hold out for the best offer.

“There’s going to be a picket line in front of the store on Saturday. I can’t believe they are going to do that,” Frank said of his supporters.

Asked if he supported the protest, Frank hesitated.

“I guess,” he said. “There will be hot dogs and hamburgers.”

Link:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...7563629e8.html

I'll protest anything for free hot dogs and hamburgers.

Hey, how about stop shopping at Walmart?

This.

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Yeah, some Walmart employee tries to hug me or my family and we're going to have some real problems.

As for the attempt to strike an emotional chord with this sob story... Walmart treats all their employees like garbage. But when you want to save .33 on a bag of nacho chips, no one gives a shit.

it's in the job description

Yep.

Everybody bitches, but few actually take action. My family took action.

Done...

..sounds like the other cashiers are slacking.

It does if you do it over and over again. It's a behavioral issue, if anything.

My dads whole family is from there too, I like the town. One uncle owns a pallet company, one was a barber for years

As a consumer not trying to pull one over, I applaud ol boy for keeping the line moving by not requiring some decrepit, extreme couponing hag to have to fish around in her purse for the competitors ad. Promote this guy to xpress lane.

Everyone cares about the business til they're 8 deep in line, holding 2 items, and some CP'ers wife is trying to produce an ad, checkbook in hand, while her husband goes full Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the women's restroom.

uhggg....
don't even get me started on 'Extreme Couponing'.

In this day and age a male just cannot go around giving women unsolicited hugs.


But he was Brain damaged....,

Glad to see people are becoming educated to George's bullshit.

FTR, I know nothing at all about this story but I know the history of the OP. It's pretty much always bullshit.

I need 100 boxes of Tide please


Then stopping having 10 kids!!

"I spent $400 on rice cakes, so i can use my coupon for a free tub of butter"!


these idiots talk about saving money by buying a bunch of shit they probably wouldn't otherwise buy in the first place, just to 'save money'. saw one lady with probably 50 bottles of ketchup, and heard her remark that due to her coupons, they were only $.25 a piece"!!
or, just not buy a shit load of ketchup and save the $12.

There will literally never be an OP that contains the whole story. It's simply not possible.

Without reading through the rest of the thread....

This statement from Walmart makes it sound that the guy had a history of discounting items, had been warned, and terminated when he did it again.

If that's the case - that's on the employee. If you are warned not to do something that is against company policy, and you do it anyway, then you deserve to be fired.

If that's not the case - then screw Walmart.

However, I reserve my judgement until I see what actually happened.

Lol at the,article saying tgat under normal circumstances hugging would be considered sexual harassment.
I'm not defending annoying random hugging but it's not sexual harassment.

Well if you could sell 49 bottles for half price you come up quick.

I should have my wife start extreme couponing and selling the shit for half price, "would you like some toilet paper or tide with your oil change today? How about some tampons or a case of Gatorade?"

Exactly my thoughts.

Instead of the customers saying "Hey, XXXXX grocery store has this for $1 cheaper; price match it." He was likely telling the customers that the other store had it cheaper & simply giving them the discount without proof. Simple violation of company policy that resulted in termination.

Sounds like he was nice enough guy, but being a nice guy while violating company policy gets the same result as being a dick & violating company policy....termination.

Especially one that works for wal mart and is hugging customers. I can almost guarantee they have a policy against it.

"We will have a protest in support of Frank in the Walmart parking lot on Saturday. Hot dogs, hamburgers, buns, chips and bottles of water purchased from Walmart will be supplied to protesters"

I'm sure Frank & Beans wasn't an ideal employee. Probably a lawsuit waiting to happen.

I'm also sure that Walmart, like any employer, can find a "legit" reason to fire anyone if they want to bad enough.

Wal-mart should ask Target to hire him to simmer down his cause. Just an easy political move IMO.

I have a firm policy against buying secondhand ketchup.

It can be if you build your technique right.

Discount stores sell it all the time, how about if I told you it was unclaimed freight?

Unclaimed freight is still new. It's unclaimed. There's not another name on the title.

You buy ketchup in store and resell it it's still new. I'm not changing labels either.

Ok would you like this unclaimed ketchup?

But the stores have ketchup quality control. They've got bar codes and ketchup-sniffing dogs and security. If I'm buying ketchup from an individual how do I know that they're replacing the contents with koolaid or clotted pig blood or something?

On a related note, I always find it weird if I go into a TJ Maxx and see food for sale. TJ Maxx is an outlet clothing store. Where has that food been and how many times has it changed hands before it ends up in a TJ Maxx? Why does TJ Maxx even sell food? I feel like they're picking up surplus stockpiles from 1950s bomb shelters or something.

It's sealed.

LMAO the tag.

You ma-ma-ma-make me happy!

LMAO

LMAO.

shit, the bitches I see on Facebook reselling crap around here do it for like 90% retail. Which I don't get. Gee, sure let me drive all the way to your house to buy shampoo for 20 cents less than Dillons.

Got a FB "friend" that goes on those buy/sell/trade pages, buys stuff off of people, then 2 days later tries to sell it for more money than she paid for it. It's her "job".

I post reports on this from three different news sources, and suddenly this is "George's Bullshit."

You may agree with Wal-Mart. Personally, I think the guy got a raw deal. But that doesn't make this story "Bullshit."

Cognitive Dissonance spills over from the DC. Guess I should have posted this thread over there, as this thread is bound to get dragged in to that cesspool anyway.

When you hold people's change until they give you a hug, it is sexual harassment. Read the whole story. And he just started doing this last thanksgiving. They try to make it sound like slow poke has been giving out hugs for almost 20 years... More like 6 months after 19 years of no hugs.

Nothing you described explains anything that can be defined as sexual harassment. The act of hugging is not sexual harassment.
It's a completely made up definition to fit a made up context.

There's about 2 million lawyers who'd love to represent some woman who got hugged by this guy and didn't like it...field day...and then to go on and sue WalMart for letting such behavior to have continued so long...

In what way is it not? He's withholding something that is rightly theirs unless they give him physical affection. It's the definition of sexual harassment.

Yep...

Then you wouldn't be able to hug your own children you stupid ****.
You are showing you just believe what ever your told and the legal system is your god.

Something that is rightly theirs? What a bunch of made up junk that still doesn't mean sexual harassment.

I don't want just anyone hugging me but that doesn't make it sexual harassnent just because I don't like it.

What's next? Patting a chick on the knee or elbow is rape?

Once you've established the success of withholding change for hugs, it's a pretty short step from that to withholding change for nipple tweaking. Walmart may have averted a bigger problem down the road.

It's kind of creepy that he was only doing this to women, too. It would be kind of creepy if he did it to guys too, though, so I'm not sure which is creepier. Maybe he shouldn't have been hugging at all, and instead doing polite bowing.

That's because lawyers are good at bending truth and flat out lying.
It doesn't make hugging equal rape in reality

Are you brain damaged also? Forcing physical contact by withholding your property is not even the same universe as hugging your kids.

JFC you are dumb.

Probably would have been a good idea. Over there, we know you're a disingenuous shithead that can write a damned good game day recap.

LMAO

:bravo:

Once you make hugging sexual harassnent, you can argue that kids don't know any better and use it against someone.
You talk about a pc and dumbed down culture and yet you are being just that when you buy into this crap.
You let the legal system do your thinking for you.

When discussing a crime that is usually a sound course of action...

ROFL what does- go tomb of the unknown soldier- mean?

You of course don't comprehend what I meant.

You let the legal system define truth for you.

:shrug: Protecting unknown women from the trans, I guess.

I think it means the husband is standing silently by the restrooms (which are at the front after the cash register) while his couchbeast is checking out

You act like it's a choice...

No, when I typed it, I'm almost positive I was envisioning a CP'er standing guard over the women's restroom from the trans while his couchbeast is checking out.

just because someone has the law on their side, doesnt make them or the law right or true.
apparently your comprehension is pretty low.:eek:

LMAO

God you're an idiot.