Walmart is hiring 50,000 more workers before May

[Court Jester]

Walmart is hiring 50,000 more workers before May

Walmart is planning to hire more than 50,000 workers in the United States this spring.

www.cnn.com

More good news.


"Last year, Walmart hired about 5,500 pharmacists and pharmacy managers, more than 13,000 pharmacy technicians, and about 4,500 truck drivers. The company employed 1.6 million workers in the United States as of the end of March 2021, according to Walmart's most recent annual report."

How in the hell could working at Walmart be good news? That is the most depressing place on the planet. I hate just going inside a Walmart; I worry that all that "stupid" might be contagious.

 

[btthegreat]

If they didnt have jobs at all, we'd be paying more.

One hopes that it is a stepping stone to more responsibility and/or better jobs. Everyone has to start somewhere. IMO the problem is when they squat in such entry-level jobs for decades.

One of the effects of Walmart and other big box corporate stores, is to undercut costs with those low wages and huge contracts with discounts, and drive out small local downtown businesses which could provide full time employment and which took the time to apprentice and teach the skill set. This impacts the bakery, a shoe store, a plant nursery, a pet store, a butcher, a women's clothing store, a toy store, two grocery stores, and a jewelry.

 

[rickc]

And don't complain because those who have these low wage service sector jobs don't make enough money to support themselves or pay taxes. Profits for the corporation. Shareholder value. While we subsidize their cheap labor.

Our corporations sent all the quality working class jobs to lands of cheap labor and no regulation. Profits for the corporations. Shareholder value.

All the money goes to the top. Not much trickles down.

 

[j brown's body]

I prefer the term "minimum living income". Some work is simply not worth paying what the current minimum wage is. Even hyperinflation does not increase the value of something which has no value to begin with.
If anything at all, government needs to cease subsidizing poor decisions, and promoting good decisions. While the former may be good for getting votes, the latter is the only way to begin resolving most every issue rationally.

If you work, you should be able to earn enough to put food on the table and roof over your head. Otherwise, what's the point?

 

[Crovax]

Good news for America, let's hope they pay there new employees a fair wage.

Starting pay for stockers is $15-$18/hour

 

[Crovax]

Never heard that one. Where are you getting that information?

From his backside

 

[Crovax]

Will they bring cashiers back? Or do we get to continue our employee discounts at the self checkout

Cashiers don't bring enough value for their job to exist. This type of work by the customer will become more common as we transition to the "living wage" era.

 

[The AntiDonald]

I object to having to pay Walmart's employee healthcare and if their pay is so low that employees need food stamps to eat, then I am also subsidizing their food, too.
The high cost of big box store low prices is that everyone pays, even people like me who never shop there.

If they didn't have jobs at all? Unemployment is at historic lows right now.
The point I am getting at is, Walmart shouldn't get to pass employee pay and bens to taxpayers....they're the largest retail store on Earth.

In my area, the local Walmart delivers groceries free as long as you purchase over $35.00 worth. They sell mostly all the same brands as the more expensive grocery chains. The deliveries are always on time and the prices are definitely lower. You can't go wrong.

Maybe you should start shopping there. The little tip you give the driver is easily saved in fuel and wasted time going to the store. I started using the online groceries last year when they closed down all the checkout lines. Never been back in the store since.

 

[Individual]

If you work, you should be able to earn enough to put food on the table and roof over your head. Otherwise, what's the point?

And if you don't work?

 

[CaughtInThe]

How in the hell could working at Walmart be good news?

you make money for yourself?

 

[Lovebug]

You misunderstand what I am getting at.
When you apply for a job at Walmart, first thing you get in your orientation pack is a Medicaid and food stamp application.

I didn't know that.

 

[BirdinHand]

I wonder how many are individuals that lost jobs at small businesses that were forced closed due to Covid shutdowns while Walmart remained open.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Cashiers don't bring enough value for their job to exist. This type of work by the customer will become more common as we transition to the "living wage" era.

It's not all that different than truck drivers and anything else that can eventually be done by robots. Which means a whole lot of jobs cut out for a whole bunch of humans.

 

[Cope]

It's not all that different than truck drivers and anything else that can eventually be done by robots. Which means a whole lot of jobs cut out for a whole bunch of humans.

I agree, so maybe instead of identity politics, Congress can get around to solving poverty and the loss of this part of the working sector, and we can all stop complaining about a 'living wage' that doesn't take any skill, or add any value to the company employing them, to do.

 

[CaughtInThe]

I agree, so maybe instead of identity politics, Congress can get around to solving poverty and the loss of this part of the working sector, and we can all stop complaining about a 'living wage' that doesn't take any skill, or add any value to the company employing them, to do.

what in the hell can ANY government do about millions of jobs replaced by robots??

 

[Cope]

what in the hell can ANY government do about millions of jobs replaced by robots??

UBI.

 

[Common Sense 1]

Great words of nonsense .

All the required bodies are in black bags and were Vaxxed .

Only nonsense is the above post!

 

[Lursa]

One of the effects of Walmart and other big box corporate stores, is to undercut costs with those low wages and huge contracts with discounts, and drive out small local downtown businesses which could provide full time employment and which took the time to apprentice and teach the skill set. This impacts the bakery, a shoe store, a plant nursery, a pet store, a butcher, a women's clothing store, a toy store, two grocery stores, and a jewelry.

It is competition, correct. It means that small businesses need to adapt and believe me, there are things they can do to compete that dont mean lower prices.

It's unfortunate but when I look for balance and consider the different sides, it doesnt carry enough weight for me to change my view. I do believe in that competition.

 

[Lursa]

If you work, you should be able to earn enough to put food on the table and roof over your head. Otherwise, what's the point?

If you want more than food and a roof over your head...you should develop the skills to earn that. There's no reason for anyone not 'challenged' in some way to remain in entry-level min wage jobs for years. You can build up skills in any job and move up or move on to higher wages.

And they also need to free up those entry level jobs for the people that need them for their own stepping stones...kids just out of HS, the elderly, moms returning to the workplace, etc. Those squatters are harmful.

 

[brothern]

More good news.

I seriously doubt this is ever going to happen. There's not enough people to fill those roles. There's about a dozen states right now that are experiencing their lowest unemployment rate since the federal government started keeping track in 1976. That's almost 50 years. And nationally, we are about a half million jobs away from the lowest unemployment rate we've had as a country.

 

[Fletch]

Fifty thousand more people that taxpayers have to underwrite food stamps and Medicaid for.
Because when you're Wally Mart, you get to underwrite your overhead on the backs of taxpayers.

Socialized overhead, privatized profit.

Thats how I thought most liberals viewed WalMart. I guess the OP is willing to cast that aside in an effort to give poor ol' Brandon a boost. So much for principles on the left.

 

[RAMOSS]

I seriously doubt this is ever going to happen. There's not enough people to fill those roles. There's about a dozen states right now that are experiencing their lowest unemployment rate since the federal government started keeping track in 1976. That's almost 50 years. And nationally, we are about a half million jobs away from the lowest unemployment rate we've had as a country.

It is also possible that a lot of the labor shortage is caused by people having long term covid symptoms, and they are just not phyiscally able to work

Is ‘long Covid’ worsening the labor shortage? | Brookings

Over the past two years, the media, politicians, public health authorities, and others have paid close attention to the number of lives lost to COVID-19: more than 800,000 Americans so far. Yet we hear much less about a second number: the Americans who have lost their health to COVID-19...

www.brookings.edu

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I didn't know that.

When we first arrived in Mansfield TX I needed a job, any job...and I went to Walmart.
I figured if I could get a month's work in while we unpacked and I set up my edit bay it would help.
And when I saw those two items in my orientation pack, they confirmed that everyone gets those.

"Since when?"
---Since always, as far back as she could remember, and she'd been there fifteen years.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

That's why there is a growing movement supporting the concept of a minimum 'living wage'. If you want to get people off govt subsidies, but still have people working at Wallmart etc, you pay a living wage while cutting the overall taxes paid from the savings.

Stuff gets more expensive to buy, but you pay less tax. Theoretically you end up a little better off. Big advantage for any conservative thinkers is that the things you buy carry the full cost of providing them rather than parts of the cost coming from everyones taxes. That's a true cost system where you don't pay anything for that item unless you actually buy one

The Right Wing LOVES "inverse socialism".

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

UBI.

That's something the pure capitalists cannot accept. They love technology, they love AI and they love robotics but they really just wish all the low people would just go away somewhere and die, so they
wouldn't have to be concerned with them. They also want people to stop giving birth to and raising low skilled workers, but then again they won't allow anyone to terminate a pregnancy OR even practice simple birth control.