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Post by Oriet on Jun 24, 2011 2:16:03 GMT -5
In order for the women to have a case for a class action lawsuit, they have to show that the discrimination is actually happening on a widescale basis. This could be done by them bringing lawsuits against individual locations/managers/districts/whatevers as proof that it is happening as broadly as they are claiming, since there is no written policy about it. This, however, has to be done solely by the women and their lawyers. This has already been brought up, and many people, myself included, don't always like chiming in with nothing more than "I agree."
As for boycotting, I also cannot do that. I buy the vast majority of my food from Walmart and Sam's Club, which is owned by Walmart. I only go to the "proper" grocery store for a couple items that Walmart and its subsidiary don't carry, as their products are otherwise too expensive (even when it's the exact same item).
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Post by m52nickerson on Jun 24, 2011 7:51:38 GMT -5
Thing is, being discriminatory doesn't actually make them money. Changing policy is cheap. Enforcing it will cost money, but not a huge amount compared to what just a few of these lawsuits could cost them. It shouldn't take more than one or two before they start trying to head off the trend. Wal-Mart has a pretty clear anti-discrimination policy. I know, I had to sign that a read it every year while I worked for them. If there was discrimination it would have come from that store level. Each store has a manager that is given the power to promote within that persons store. District manager rarely get involved in such matter, let alone regional manager. |
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Post by Yaezakura on Jun 24, 2011 14:28:24 GMT -5
Thing is, being discriminatory doesn't actually make them money. Changing policy is cheap. Enforcing it will cost money, but not a huge amount compared to what just a few of these lawsuits could cost them. It shouldn't take more than one or two before they start trying to head off the trend. Wal-Mart has a pretty clear anti-discrimination policy. I know, I had to sign that a read it every year while I worked for them. If there was discrimination it would have come from that store level. Each store has a manager that is given the power to promote within that persons store. District manager rarely get involved in such matter, let alone regional manager. I had to read over all that stuff, too. It does pretty much have to happen purely at the store level. Which means suing corporate for discrimination is meaningless, as they don't discriminate on that level. It's not a company-wide problem. Even if there is a lot of discrimination in Wal-Mart, it's because there's so damned many that avoiding discrimination on the local level is impossible. When you consider how many stores are in lower-income areas, especially in the south, you can kinda see where it comes from. It's not coming from the people at the top. |
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Jun 24, 2011 21:20:14 GMT -5
What I hate second most about Walmart (most being their shitty employee treatment) is the fact that the one we have has only ONE video game console to try (the PS3) and ever since the dawn of mankind someone's been fucking with the PS2/PS3 controller to basically destroy one of the control sticks, rendering it impossible to keep center because it always snaps to one of the sides as if upside-down was its new center.
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