Walmart's Working Poor

I really wish I could lose it.

2005-09-30T14:43:00.000-07:00

I really wish I could lose it.
It is getting real old and there are times when I wish I could just shut off the instinct to continue on.
I have repeatedly told myself that I cannot possibly know or see something that no one at Walmart knows. I have repeatedly told myself it will get better on its own.
I have often wanted to run away from what is driving me to find a way to get all of it somewhere that it will do some good.
I imagine it is a sense of failure that makes me want to quit and yet it makes me want to continue at the same time.
One day at a time and at least I know that I am clear of the imminent failure that will occur in the future if all of it continues as it is.
I feel really bad for Lee Scott and the rest of the corporate officers. They may have money at the end of it all but they will also have to live with the outcome and maybe someday explain how they could let money rule. I have no idea of how or when it will all come out, I do know that without change from what it is today that eventually even if the things that are really wrong never are brought out the company will suffer and eventually it will go the same way Kmart did only bigger and worse.
At least I know I have tried. At least I know that the original concept was a good one and that Sam Walton was a good person.
How I wish I could hate the company and all it stands for. I can’t. Even with all of the injustices and all the lies I know it was meant to be a good thing.
There is so much good and it is blocked out by the inability of the corporate officers to accept any responsibility for the problems.
The problems are of course varied, some are real, some are imagined, some, are rumors.
I just know that when you are doing what you believe is right you have to do your best to let it be known.
It is more than seven months since they terminated me, or told me I was terminated. Months later someone said that wasn’t the case I walked off the job. It didn’t happen that way.
It makes no difference now anyway, not to Walmart, not to any of the corporate officers.
It is a lie like all the rest and can be covered up.
Oh how I want to give up, wish I could.

Regards,
Julie

Yes,

2005-09-17T09:17:00.000-07:00

Yes,

I had given up hope and had it renewed when Mr. Jackson called.
I knew, I was told not to expect him or anyone else to come through.

I imagine it is my inability to believe that although the stock has dropped a good sixteen dollars in just over six months that Walmart corporate would not want help reviving the stores, the associates and trust within the walls of the stores.

There are only so many times that trust can be lost before it is gone for good.

I thought Walmart Corporate was filled with well educated and hard working individuals that would look at the failures of the past and present and work to make them right. To change things for the better.

I thought any number of times I might be able to help and each time someone took a minute or two and contacted me with a response I thought was genuine it wasn't long before I was back to square one and looking at the entire situation alone.

Okay, I put myself into a position where Walmart associates directly contact me for advice on how to handle situations that they are living through at work. I really don't mind. I am glad when I can help them hold on to what they have and look at and live through it in a better way.

I guess it is an ego thing or it may be one of those situations where no one wants to admit that they failed.

I very well may fail because there are over six hundred concerns on my list, most of which I have already taken care of. Most of which validate what I have known for a long time.

Simple things and it shouldn't be that way I tell every one of the associates that I can only help in some ways. I can advise them on what they may try that won't result in termination.

I had such faith in Walmart that I was wrong and following company policy is not a guarantee they won't find a way to terminate you if someone wants you gone.
I know there is no real open door.

That is not bad if you know it. I did something wrong when I use to tell people the open door worked. It wasn't the open door. It was the people behind it at any given point and if they didn't like you the door would slam shut and it would result in termination.

At least in a few cases I know that I prevented some really great associates and salaried members of management from leaving the company and have done what I can to dispel the inaccuracies that are out there about the company.

I do know that corporate is fine on it's own. After all I am sure that if Walmart goes into bankruptcy once the stock falls further, and it will, the people who made enough while it was doing well will be okay. As far as the others. Oh well.

I have a very difficult time lying and a difficult time accepting propaganda on both sides.

Once again I see others are willing to invest time in helping the associates and they are not Walmart people.

Someday.

I will advise associates to contact their dm regional or corporate if I cannot find a way to resolve issues they bring to me until I find a better way.

JULIE PIERCE WARW 225-273-4354

ASSOCIATES FINDING A VOICE

2005-09-13T10:11:00.000-07:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/national/03walmart.html?ei=5035&en=99f9f9aa473a2317&ex=1212120000&adxnnl=1&partner=MARKETWATCH&adxnnlx=1126630893-tnp7iUXkMoGjarltjF5Skw

SOME KATRINA LINKS

2005-09-02T18:22:00.000-07:00

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20050902065409990026&_ccc=6&cid=403 http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20050901223609990005&_ccc=1&cid=403 http://news.channel.aol.com/http://news.channel.aol.com/blogs

Hurricane Katrina the best and worst

2005-09-02T08:46:00.000-07:00

Hurricane Katrina the best and worst
This hurricane has started something not new but something that is a part of everyone and hidden somewhere in the back of our heads.Media frenzy on the people that are dead and dying. A new sensationalizm has turned into what again is something that Americans now see as entertainment.Watch the loss, watch the misery. Talk about the pain and agony of those who can not do what others can.Promote the story anyway you can and allow the media the ability to go on and on with a story as dark as death and a tragedy turned into a real time movie.911/Katrina/Iraq anything that this desensitised country can watch.Okay so I am unrealistic.Send in more buses, vans, boats. Yes more. More copters and find a way to get a C5 to the airport and the people to the C5.No time to waste for this continuing soap opera.The City of Baton Rouge was a fairly quite city at night. It no longer is as the influx of people has crowded it and turned it into a city that is not sleeping easy.There are people walking the streets and traveling the highway at 1am in a quantity that is now noticeable.There are more people outside and more people doing things and of course with that, even if the law will not admit it an increase in unlawful activities.More later....

A new organization is forming. WARW is presently organizing workers across the United States.

2005-09-01T08:04:00.000-07:00

A new organization is forming. WARW is presently organizing workers across the United States.
Presently.
No Dues just Solidarity.

JULIE PIERCE WARW 225-273-4354

Due to the unresponsive way that labor unions and Walmart treat and communicate with workers. I will do everything to explain and attempt to do good b

2005-08-26T07:57:00.000-07:00

Due to the unresponsive way that labor unions and Walmart treat and communicate with workers. I will do everything to explain and attempt to do good by all workers. I will communicate, answer phone calls and questions and provide a pre publication copy of my book to anyone who is interested in making Walmart a better place for all associates. I will answer all communications from all who have an interest in making the workplace a better place. I will answer all correspondence from anyone including other union members, members and non members of any union. I will answer any media or corporate inqueries and I am Julie Pierce, searching for a name for the union that Walmart Associates need. I am Julie Pierce and will answer any question to the best of my ability to any member or non member of any labor organization, any political organization or any corporate officer. Thank you, Julie Pierce 225-273-4354

Site is really good

2005-08-23T07:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.retailworker.com/forum/210?from=75This site is really quite good.Presently I am still working on the book and sending out queries to agents and publishers.There have been a number of leads and I am doing what I can to find out as much as I can.I still have no real answer from corporate about my termination or as I was told, my walking off the job.I have no idea of why I feel I shouldn't pry about it. I have sent another email to corporate to see if I can get answers...I may have to get an attorney to actually find out. Walmart causes alot of it's own problems.

Walmart

2005-08-15T08:08:00.000-07:00

Walmart

Over 100 million consumers shop at the retailer daily.

Some how the retailer manages to elude the real story (not a corporate account or book) in all forms of media.

Anti Walmart organizations, only increase Walmart’s PR campaign (at low price media coverage for the company) it allows the corporate offices to use the media to fabricate more of the good and deny the bad, free.

Deep inside the stores a turnover rate of at least 44% nationwide causes Walmart to hire new associates at the rate of 600,000 a year and somehow at the same time manages to instill a mind set that no one can touch its illusion of clean.

Mosquito bites annoy Walmart but it has never been bitten by the associates that keep the stores running at a profit. Not yet.

News organizations…all of them in some form avoid reporting on Walmart.

They will not report, so you decide why.

Only a very small fraction of lawsuits make their way into news coverage. When it is too big to ignore, a tactic Walmart uses in its own public relations.

Attorneys who will take on the giant are few. The people that want to or need to sue usually can’t because of the cost.

They get away with so much because it is cheaper to walk away. They get away with it because it is so big and David hasn’t shown up yet.

This story is written from inside the Walmart stores and dedicated to Walmart Associates across the United States that inspired it.

2005-08-12T08:32:00.000-07:00

This story is written from inside the Walmart stores and dedicated to Walmart Associates across the United States that inspired it.
Walmart, an opportunity, an experience, a lifestyle that can only truly be accessed from the store level and has not been covered by the media in this way.
Walmart associates across the United States have a view of what Walmart really is and in this book, written from the inside, the experiences of the associates are revealed and documented.
Walmart associates from the east to west coasts have read this in its original form and agree with its contents. (Comments supplied upon request)
Communication with more than thirty-five Walmart executive and corporate officers including CEO; Lee Scott tell of conversations, situations, and meetings that show what the company really is like to work for and how the corporate offices will twist the truth to its advantage.
The people behind the success of this retailer are the associates, dedicated at times to the point of living “The Walmart Way” and being part of a cult.
Through the Public Relations Department the media coverage of the company promotes the illusion of clean while the associates continue to work for a company that is no longer what its founder intended it to be.
The book shows what it is like to live life today, “The Walmart Way” Not Sam’s Way.
My Walmart Career was seven years long in four states, three regions, six, districts within ten stores for twelve store managers.
While working for Walmart as a field manager in New Hampshire, all adults in our family worked for Walmart in different stores and locations with thousands of Walmart associates.
My total retail and food service experience includes thirty years in numerous positions both in union and non union shops for retail chains and restaurants, proprietor of a restaurant and banquet facility in Oklahoma and as a franchise owner in three locations in the Florida Gulf Coast.
The book is fifteen chapters the last of which is being written and titled “Withdrawal and Recovery”.
It includes information that will be of interest to Walmart associates, their families and to stockholders and retailers everywhere.

Walmart Financials

2005-08-02T12:10:00.000-07:00

Take a look. Most associates have no real idea of what corporate does with the money the associates work to give the company.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104169/000119312505077391/ddef14a.htm#tx20316_22

Lies, Deceit and the Thesaurus

2005-08-02T11:57:00.000-07:00

Lies, Deceit and the Thesaurus

Day after day, the news, the media, and the entire world have become more deceitful than ever.
How many lies are broadcast in one day?
How much of “the no spin zone” is spin?
How many lies are told to stockholders, workers, citizens, and our children by the media, the government and what once was thought to be honest people in general?
Where did the real truth end and the lies begin?

Our language has turned into a thesaurus of words that change their meaning and as each day passes and lies become the norm. Use of the English Language is becoming filled with a new form of deceit.

The democrats take words and change them into their own form of reality along with the republicans and our government officials.

Extremists use the word “Jihad” as if it were some new word they didn’t think of until now. Holy war isn’t good enough as the entertainment value is not there when using the words as we knew them. As we knew the words used today, they would have never been used that way in the past.

How can they expect our children will ever know the difference between right and wrong let alone right and left wing politics if they cannot tell what the truth really is?

Daily, corporations, businesses, government officials and others use the words of our language to form their opinions in the most deceitful ways possible. Stock holders are consistently lied to because to do otherwise would open up a can of worms that could never be closed. The stock market would crash and all of the liars would lose all of their money and with it businesses would close and the “war of the worlds” could become a reality.

It isn’t the United States, China or North Korea that is causing this. It is humanity.

How do you make yourself trust a liar? By accepting the lie as truth and refusing to stand up and see that person for what he or she is.
Why do you force yourself to act as if you trust a liar? Because your livelihood depends on being able to do so and you, your family has to survive and you don’t want them to eat dirt.

Are you, is everyone a part of it in some way? Yes.

If you accept a lie when you know it is a lie you are a part of it.
If you continue on and allow the lie to live without standing up for the truth you are as responsible for it as the person who created it.

Take any word and run it through a thesaurus and see for yourself.

Our language has become even more complex than the Bible was. Our language is subject to interpretation and the spin is forever changing, erasing and adding a new meaning to everything that is said.

It is often the easy way out to ignore lies. To excuse lies. You can make an excuse for almost anything if you try hard enough.

Religion, ethics, integrity and the truth, where did it all go and is it anywhere I can go to?

Is success dependent on your ability to discount the lies that a corporation tells?
Is success dependent on the ability to deceive and spin the truth into a web of lies that cannot be detected easily?

Is it a fictional story that has come true?

“It Takes a Village” “It Takes a Family” It takes the truth to learn what is right and what is wrong. The right is not always right. The left is not always wrong.

Christian, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Atheist or Pagan, do you know what your child is thinking, accepting as real?

Liberal, Conservative, Extremist and Radical, do you know where you belong.

Your boss is a liar. Do you tell him that you know he is? Your company spins the truth into a web of deceit. Do you question it or hide from it?

Taking the bad with the good is fine, but make sure you know which is which.

A simpler time, a time when a lie was not the norm and words meant what they were meant to mean.

Walmart The Attorneys And More...

2005-08-01T08:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-walmart1aug01,0,3105527.story?coll=la-home-business

Check this out...

So I am short on patience.

2005-07-25T10:02:00.000-07:00

So I am short on patience.I admit it. At this time, after more than seven years of playing the games that Walmart likes to play I find that they are basically really unconcerned or they don't ... in many ways...practice what they preach.A sence of urgency is so very important at the stores. So I either have to believe there is no sence of urgency at corporate or they are so involved in covering up problems that they just do not have the time.Could be they don't know what they are doing although I still do not believe that.An email recieved on 7/22 an email sent out in response immediately and nothing.I seriously don't expect that Jared will ever call and when I get to the point where I call him he will not have any answers unless they are letting him in on all of it in advance.

Walmart The American Way?

2005-07-19T11:25:00.000-07:00

I just cannot seem to explain it. It could be that it is unimportant now but will be looked at in the future and understood.
It really annoys me.
Yes, I know what all of it looks like.

Sour Grapes.

It could be looked at that way but seriously all of what happened was only a side effect of what had been going on for a long time and finally hit.

Frustrating? Yes it is.

Do I miss Walmart?

I don't think I miss WALMART. I miss the associates and the people that were sincerely good people wondering what happened.

I miss being able to help some of them through the back office politics where a hard worker is made to feel like a slug or worse.

I miss being able to advise the ones that were never informed of how to avoid the traps that the management sets.

I do not miss WALMART CORPORATE, Lee Scott, Mike Huffaker, and all of the people that allow them to lie and cheat not only the associates but the stockholders on a daily basis.

I do not miss the average retail "your a woman they will not accept you as their supervisor thing."

I do not miss the store manager that for some reason felt the need to lie about me and try to get me to sign off on it.

I do not miss the regional personnel manager who I agreed to disagree with.

I do not miss the training classes that virtually mean nothing because you are not allowed to implement what you are taught.

Walmart is the way it is because of many things.

One is certainly it's ability to promote the "Illusion of Clean" while it looks like and presents itself as down right dirty.

I have to be sceptical of anything that comes from the corporate offices because I personally know they are a bunch of liars. No one in Lee Scott's position could be so stupid. I admit I have repeatedly told myself that they are that stupid, but I know they can't be.

I have done all I could to protect myself from admitting that the company is bad and probably because I didn't want to feel as if I were so stupid for believing in it.

Still from outside I know there has to be good in it and although they are worse than I ever wanted to admit I tell myself that they could be worse.

Statistics, the true reality of what is in my face and the knowledge of how they do what they do.

There are so many facts that show the company is really only a temporary place for anyone at any point.

My list of good and bad will follow later today. So I can face reality in one swoop and hope that the workers will go somewhere else, anywhere else.

So I can admit that though I always wanted to be 100% Pro Walmart and not admit that it is actually what will prevent many from becoming something more.

So now I see what others cannot see and yes it could all sound like sour grapes, but I know that even if the labor unions made their way into WALMART it would never be a place where a person could be real or be proud unless they could lie to themselves the way I did.

Terrorism Is...

2005-07-18T09:48:00.000-07:00

Our President Thank God is Strong and putting up a good fight for our country and against the terrorists that exist in this world. Against the explosives and the suicidal maniacs out there who many seem to think would be better served by therapists offering up reasoning and love.

The frustration continues and many years later I have no choice but to open my eyes to the reality that our country is not what it should be. It is not much different than it was in the seventies and eighties except the actual working poor have gathered resources and our family is no different.

Sure over the years we could have split up and went out there on our own and I have serious doubts that we would be as well off as we are, even though there are still problems.

Our government, the politicians dabble in things like health care, labor, laws and actually not much of anything changes.

In my lifetime I have seen things and I have ignored what did not hit home. Can any of our elected officials see more or attempt to do more with situations that they have not lived through?

In my lifetime I have been in situations that only by the grace of God I was allowed to take care of.

In my lifetime I have been able to take care of the most important things that our family had to deal with but did nothing to make it better for anyone else and it is now coming back, oh so quietly and reminding me that nothing has changed.

I tire of seeing the world look at the US as something it really isn’t. I tire of the old fashioned red tape that allows some to cut it and others to be strangled by it.

I tire of the waste of time, energy and see that the priorities that our government should look at are being ignored while our politicians argue over cover operatives that were not covert.

I sincerely feel down because there is no one to do the research and work and as tired as I am have no idea of what the answer is.

Terrorism lives everywhere. It is down the street. It is in other countries. It is a Muslim extremist and it is a sexual predator.

Terrorism is not being able to find health care, and watching your children make the attempt to find it without getting government assistance.

Terrorism is allowing your grandchild to walk down the street unattended.

Terrorism is getting no answer to any relevant question you have.

Terrorism is the politicians wasting their time and spending the money that could have paid the doctor.

Terrorism is the media and the repeated issue of all of it with no one actually seeing what is going on.

Terrorism is the email auto response that only means that no one will see the message.
If the message is read it will be answered by someone who is only doing so to justify a pay check.

No one cares.

Fighting anything is a timely matter that the average wage earner hasn’t the time or energy to continue fighting.

The losses are the children and their children continuing to survive through all of it only when someone somewhere takes pity on their plight.

Seriously, if you can’t get it into the media forget it and if you do you had better stay with it, pound on it, and not let up or they will forget it.

Our politicians have become media entertainment for the privileged few who have the time and money to watch.

It is all one big joke.

I just didn’t realize it was going on for all this time. It really hasn’t changed a bit.

For some reason as your income grows in the smallest way, you tend to forget the way it was. It hasn’t changed. I changed and even though it was a small change it was enough to allow me to forget.

I can only hope that it doesn’t happen to me again.

Unions are NO better

2005-07-18T07:59:00.000-07:00

The unions are no better.
Calls to any labor union result in NO communication.
There is no way to win over anyone when they will not answer a call.

Maybe they are working together.

The union gets a cut on supplies.

I don't know...

I do know it is older than getting old.

Unions will not help...daily they prove they were never worth anything and still are not worth anything.

1984 strike against Pathmark local 464A the contract was ratified because we needed to live...if I remember right.
They sold us out.
They gave it away.
At least we got a paycheck and could take care of our families once we went back in.

It's more than twenty years since and they are still going down.

Walmart...China

2005-07-18T07:12:00.000-07:00

They keep them poor in China Too...Walmart

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071700931.html?referrer=email&referrer=email

Keep Them Poor and Busy...

2005-07-18T07:08:00.000-07:00

Keep them poor and so busy they cannot find the time to see what is happening.

Our Children's Safety...Sexual Preditors

2005-07-13T16:13:00.000-07:00

Our Children's Safety...Sexual Preditors
Someone has to start it.Someone has to do it.Please help me.I am putting some of the other things aside and have started to contact the State Senators and Federal Senate on the reform of all laws pertaining to Sexual Preditors.We have to take care of our children before it touches any more homes.Call...fight...I have promised to lobby in Louisiana and am doing everything I can to get Cathline Blanco to push this quickly but it should be a national effort and a federal law to put these people away as long as they live.Please call every politician you know.I will post the phone numbers for all of them or a link to them as soon as possible.please...this is for the children.

Preditors and Our Government

2005-07-12T15:10:00.000-07:00

Preditors and Our Government
I was mortified again watching The O'Rielly Factor when the state of Louisiana almost made the friendly list for sexual preditors.I wrote to Blanco's Office this morning.Across the United States we all need to do something to have the law changed to put these preditors behind bars and keep them there.Registered pedifiles slip through the cracks. Children are molested and killed and the only way to change it is to put up one heck of a fight.If you don't vote, if you don't watch the news, if you care about nothing else, care about our children.Call, email, write, fight the good fight for our kids.

Short and Not So Sweet

2005-07-10T17:53:00.000-07:00

Julie Pierce
12719 E Millburn Avenue
Baton Rouge, LA 70815
225-273-4354

Resume

Work History upon Request

Thirty Years of Experience in Retail, Food Service and Franchise Ownership

I have retired from retail temporarily and will only consider offers that are made from ethical and moral corporations and companies.

Non Union or Union companies are both acceptable but must have a corporate and management policy of being ethical and dealing with all situations with Integrity.

Seriously, I am very tired of the lies and attitudes that are a part of Corporate America and the cause of the larger part of the problems that I see as typical in the retail industry.

I am looking for a company that more than likely does not exist at this time.

One where the workers are respected and are treated as they should be and not expected to hide or run away from situations that are caused by unethical or unmoral issues. The issues of sort that surround many hard working American Families and make it difficult if not impossible to work in an atmosphere where truth and failure can be tolerated.

My experience has led to sales increases of up to sixty one percent in my areas of responsibility and customer service issues have never been a cause for concern under my watch.

I have worked as an hourly associate in many different capacities and have been a manager of up to five hundred employees in big box retail environments.

At this time I am only interested in executive or corporate positions again with a company that will allow me to be myself and not insist that I give up integrity for profits that will eventually be lost in the mist of an associate base that is not happy with the company they work for.

If it is possible to be real with your company and not a requirement that lies are the larger part of the management I may be interested.

Dennis and Walmart

2005-07-10T12:45:00.000-07:00

I am sure that as always Walmart will help where it can.
Water, ice, immediate needs for people and after seeing what anything good means to the corporate officers I cannot help but feel the only real reason for any of it is a tax write off and good press.
It makes no difference it will still be good where they help and the associates that help are doing it for the right reasons, not the corporate reasons.
To be real, Lee Scott and family are safe. Arkansas is not withing a real danger and if Lee feels like staying home no one will tell him he can't.
I am sure all management is expected to be there to pull as many pallets of water, batteries etc to action alley and to inflict guilt and threats apon any associate having a problem getting into work or wanting to go home early.
Walmart is no longer family friendly.
I hope there are no terminations connected to this disaster.
Ten months ago when Ivan came close to Louisiana I waited hours in order to get to work in Gonzales and they made the attempt to coach me (write me up) for the delays.
I fought it.
I am glad I have no resposibility to Walmart now.
Best to All

Today I made an attempt...

2005-07-09T14:02:00.000-07:00

Okay, I haven't done it yet but will. Walmart associates are reading a pre publication copy of the book all over the United States and I have decided I will publish it soon.

From the inside out.

It is old news.
It is not going to go away or get better.

The company is virtually filled with liars who have no respect for anyone who works for them.

When or if you rock the boat they lie until they find a way to fire you.

I know, they did it to me but I am not filing a lawsuit I am publishing a book about it.

If my agent does not get a sale soon I myself will put it out and then Walmart can sue me if it wants to.

I am tired of Walmart trying to make itself into something it isn't. After seven years of it I have seen enough and even been treated like a criminal for nothing that couldn't have been taken care of if someone would have listened.

For a while I had hoped to make it right and had hoped someone would realize I wanted nothing more than to help. I hoped, why I don't know. I would be wrong to expect to be treated with respect and my morals will not allow me to co exist with liars. As much as I wanted a career with Walmart I don't think I could ever go back to working with a bunch of lying managers or indifferent executives and it makes no difference how good the company was...it isn't any more.

Now I realize I must be out of my mind to think that this company could or would want to do anything the right way when it comes to it's associates.

www.thewalmartwaynotsamsway.blogspot.com

www.walmartnews.blogspot.com

www.walmartassociatescentral.com

The offer of the pre published work has been taken by a number of associates and hopefully the book will come out before the documentary by Robert Greenwald.

I did not work with Greenwald. I did not sign a release or make available to him information on Walmart that he would use but I was criminally investigated and terminated because someone obviously thougt so.

Thanks it gave me time to work on all of it.

Julie Doering Pierce..."The Walmart Way" Not Sam's Way...Walmart XIII AD

Digging Up Some Dirt

2005-07-09T13:54:00.001-07:00

There was always some kind of dirt, but after so many years in retail it was not a shock especially in stores so big.

Gender discrimination is something that I imagine many women my age put up with because it was always there in some form and you either would except it or not work.

So when Walmart said I couldn’t have the lead position in the meat department in 1998 I took what they would let me have and discounted it as a situation where if I wanted to stay with the company I had to take it.

I should have known that if a store that wonderful to work in could be that way it would continue on and it did.

Gender Discrimination
By job, pay and promotion
Retaliation
Especially for using the open door
Sexual Harassment
The old fashion kind, the kind that you try to ignore because you see it but are not part of it so you avoid the people that do or promote it, to say something, explain how it affects anyone means trouble for you later.
Seeing promotions not based on what you know but who they know or slept with.
Not all associates can be wrong about the same thing, the same instance and how it was hidden or taken care of.
Ethics
Misappropriation of Trust Funds that the associates donate to explained away as bad judgment by Lee Scott.
Interrogations, not interviews, look up the meaning if you have to. I was not a part of any criminal activity but was treated like a criminal.
Plain old terminations produced by individuals that obviously thought lying was better. Why? Because if they didn’t lie they had no excusable reason for terminating someone they just didn’t like.

How can you look at someone and lie to their face? It seems to be a requirement for Walmart management.

So I made a mistake by causing them to work. I reported unethical behavior. I reported lies. I did not except bogus accusations and I requested an attorney be present during the interrogations.

Add it to the book and or write a new one.

I will be glad to send to all Walmart Associates that request one a copy of the book pre publication.

I will as in the past hold all contact confidential. I don’t want them to do to you what I allowed them to do to me.

Regards to all email me at juliejpjersey@aol.com or call me at 225-273-4354.

The book will be sent either via email or snail mail.

Digging Up Some Dirt

2005-07-09T13:54:00.000-07:00

Seriously why don't they accept the fact . It is only entertainment and you wouldn't know a real American news story if it bit you.

2005-07-08T10:16:00.000-07:00

Seriously why don't they accept the fact . It is only entertainment and you wouldn't know a real American news story if it bit you.

Entertainment quality is what the news looks for on every level.

If they were reporting the news they would report the things that are important to the average American and not only the sensationalized instances.

The afl-cio and Walmart are the same and the unions are basically in it only for profit.

As any business would they work on their bottom line and do not seem to care about the average American worker any more than Walmart does.

There is sensationalism in chasing after Walmart on a big or large level and even this is discounted much like the items that line the clearance aisles in a Walmart Supercenter.

Was: An important issue. Now: not worrying about it.

The president of the afl-cio could care less about the real way to take them on. Gaining the kind of solidarity that could do it. At the same time, Walmart just fires anyone who says anything negative about it and the culture that kept it able to avoid union problems is evaporating at a rapid pace.

Maybe, just maybe this is their way of making it all stall. They know that the average American is to busy working, too busy doing what has to be done to survive to fight one or the other.

Sensationalize.

Walmart associates across our country have told me I should add more dirt.

I tried not to. I made every attempt to keep it straight down the middle and the media ignores it all.

Misappropriation of funds, using an associate trust fund to reimburse management for extensive management relocation expenses and taking the donations given in belief they would be used only for crisis situations.

Doing it so quickly I would think it must have been done before.

Lying about it on paper and the phone and getting away with it. The source of the initial reports, who, when, why.

Executive and corporate officers justifying the use of donations for corporate expenses but it is okay because after all it is Walmart doing it and they seem to be above the law.

A downward trend for every Wal-Mart associate working at a career with the company.

I could have been unethical, it would have been accepted.

I could have been a liar, it would have been accepted.

I could have been disrespectful of the associates working to provide for their families and helping the company by working twice as hard to do a job that is usually not appreciated or treated with any form of respect.

When do I give up? I’m not sure yet. Destroy me, yes they did in a way but I was not surprised by it, I was just too deep, it was turn into one of them or fight it.

I fought them and lost.

Julie Doering Pierce..."The Walmart Way" Not Sam's Way...Walmart XIII AD

AFL-CIO No interest in growing

2005-07-07T08:06:00.000-07:00

AFL-CIO and Walmart
And the unions wonder why they are having trouble getting Walmart associates to unionize?

They are not much different from the corporate officers at Walmart.

They are not concerned with the facts and especially the individuals that may or may not be interested.

Contact, communications for years have provided me with only reasons as to why they do not have the time or do not have a place for me to even attempt to help.

Obviously the AFL-CIO is as many have said running nothing other than a business. At least that is the way I see it as years go by with all of them being virtually unresponsive to the kind of information that could help them.

If attempted contacts overall are handled this way I am not surprised that they are going to be laying off any number of their associates. You don't need that amount of people to do the job when there is no real concern for the possible future union members.

Thanks for showing me where the unions stand.

I can't pay my way like Walmart

2005-07-06T16:35:00.000-07:00

Julie Doering Pierce..."The Walmart Way" Not Sam's Way...Walmart XIII AD

Conservative, yes. Unbiased I am not so sure.

No one...yes that includes the rest will do anything that is remotely truthful about Walmart.

Since Feb. I have been trying to get our story out.
I am sorry I can't pay my way like Walmart

Assistant Managers Soon To Be A Thing Of The Past At Walmart

2005-07-05T21:51:00.000-07:00

Category changes...my opinion is they are making ready for big...BIG Changes.

What once was a zone manager is now an area manager or an area supervisor. They are hourly. The life of the average Walmart Department manager is changing.
The new manager schedules look like the assistant manager schedules and are not the typical seven to four with weekends off.

If you can take it, they will give it to you.

New Department Managers are only hopeful that associates working in their areas of responsibility will do a good job in their absence.

Now it is a matter of if you are able to withstand the lies and the death of the culture as an assistant you may make a promotion or you exit.

The hourly associates will be doing the work that was once given to the assistant managers.

It was a perk. The great hours were considered a perk. A reason to be a department manager and now it is gone.

I will post a copy of the new area managers schedule as it has been written by the corporate offices.

It is obviously being followed in a number of the newer stores and will more than likely give the new area managers a feeling of accomplishment a step up or a distinct feeling that the company once again is attempting to do something that is going to cause a contreversy throughout the stores.

It is one thing for a region or division to do something new that is this different, but when the Walmart Department Manager down the road has a great schedule and one department to run it makes the other wonder why at the same or less pay they have up to four departments and a rotten schedule to do it in.

More to come...

Walmart or the United States...you decide...

2005-07-02T06:16:00.000-07:00

So many places vying for the attention of the media and producing the concept that Walmart is the main problem.In order to make sure I do not ignore the past I must mention that there has been in the past controversy over so many problems. As the United States goes...so goes Walmart.As I wrote my book on the Walmart Empire, culture, Sam Walton, the associates and the Wonderful Corporate Offices or "the necessary evil" as Sam Walton called it I realized the company was in existance almost thirty years before I had first heard of it.How I wish I had found and been a part of it while he was alive.Because I didn't know him, the research was done with an open mind and during the seven years that our family worked for Walmart I saw a distinct difference in the culture Sam Walton founded his company on and the way the management and corporate offices preferred to run the company.I do have additional work at this point. I want to find the records that will show me if such a large portion of the Walmart employee base was always in the low wage, working poor status.Again, you need to remember my version of what the working poor status actually is.I will post again later today with a fuller explaination.

Walmart and or the United States

2005-07-02T06:02:00.000-07:00

So many places vying for the attention of the media and producing the concept that Walmart is the main problem.
In order to make sure I do not ignore the past I must mention that there has been in the past controversy over so many problems.
As the United States goes...so goes Walmart.
As I wrote my book on the Walmart Empire, culture, Sam Walton, the associates and the Wonderful Corporate Offices or "the necessary evil" as Sam Walton called it I realized the company was in existance almost thirty years before I had first heard of it.
How I wish I had found and been a part of it while he was alive.
Because I didn't know him, the research was done with an open mind and during the seven years that our family worked for Walmart I saw a distinct difference in the culture Sam Walton founded his company on and the way the management and corporate offices preferred to run the company.
I do have additional work at this point. I want to find the records that will show me if such a large portion of the Walmart employee base was always in the low wage, working poor status.
Again, you need to remember my version of what the working poor status actually is.
I will post again later today with a fuller explaination.

Interesting link on Walmart

2005-07-02T06:00:00.000-07:00

This link has some interesting conversations about Walmart health care problems

http://www.denverpostbloghouse.com/lewis/index.php/2005/06/06/wal-mart-love-it-or-hate-it/

Walmart's Working Poor

2005-07-01T04:40:00.000-07:00

The Working Poor and Walmart

Part of being Blue Collar Elite

I am sure that if you requested Lee Scott to address the issue of “the working poor” you would never hear him admit that any Walmart worker could fall into that category.
Still I am sure that in many cases that is exactly what most of the full time employees with Walmart as their main source of income fall under if there are children in the family.

Many decades of income issues have made it hard here in the United States for that sector of society to pull out of the working poor classification and even though my heart has always been with Walmart because it was founded by a good man and was basically a good employer it has changed and has deterred many of it’s workers from becoming higher paid by retail standards.

Of course as with many retailers Walmart is seeking to hold down the ever escalating cost of paying its workers and avoiding the media attention that goes with it.

Any employer can justify its pay rates. Unions may win wages and benefits for its workers at the start but after time passes there is a penalty faze and it seems that eventually being a union member means nothing as even union members are told that they will not get the things they were promised.

Today, in order to live life above the working poor income line, which seems to be that level of income where you make enough not to be classified poor but not earning enough to make it to the middle class, you need more than one worker, two workers and at times much more in order to make it to middle class.

Yesterday I was watching Fox news and it occurred to me that our standard of living our country’s turn to everyone works or you will be poorer needs to be looked at once again.
Keeping up with the Jones’ once meant spending more to have what they had. Keeping up with the Jones’ now means everyone has to work or get some kind of government assistance because one person just isn’t able to do it unless they are in the work class of the Blue Collar Elite.

Blue Collar Elite is a family that stays together and arrives at middle class through unifying incomes in such a way as to allow a better standard of living. Where most of the members would not be middle class or possibly some would be considered poor because of income levels.

Our standard of living along with the changes that have occurred in the last few decades have changed so much that even the United States seems to believe that all is well.

If suddenly the entire country went back to the way the average household worked in the 1980s what would the status of the middle class family actually be?

In the seventies and early eighties as a single mom I was what I call a Blue Collar Elite. I was the sole worker and made enough to take care of my household and children, three of them.

As time passed in order to continue to live even close to the way we were accustomed it soon became a matter of, I just couldn’t do it alone.

But as with anything in this world the bold facts did not occur to me until now. I thought it could be and ignored it for many years. Even now our family is still what I classify as Blue Collar Elite.

To Be Continued