More Walmart Mayhem

Dispatches from the field: A customer was nabbed by police for sampling raw meat at a Walmart in Pennsylvania. A woman said she had an encounter with a bat at a Walmart in Minnesota. A family of five was living in a car at a Walmart in Florida. A girl had a run-in with a monkey at a Walmart in Missouri. A man was caught in flagrante delicto at a Walmart in Louisiana. And that is just in the past few weeks.

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/13/140430202/is-walmart-a-magnet-for-american-mayhem?sc=fb&cc=fp

This is one of the few times I'll have to agree with NPR.

Can you actually imagine what it must take out of you to work there?

I think I'd rather get implants and work in a travelling carnival as the Bearded Lady than work at Walmart!

SEE! These guys are working on getting on the Carnival circuit too.

"there have been reports of two Walmart employees accused of stealing money from their Arizona store to be used for a sex change;"

carguy123 wrote: . Can you actually imagine what it must take out of you to work there?

What, you mean the free entertainment?

NPR is great! Gotta love 'em!

there is no way in hell Id ever work there...ever...in the world...ever

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304760604576428433276281402.html

A shopper at a Wal-Mart in Falmouth, Mass., uncovered a dental mystery two years ago when she found 10 human teeth inside a wallet for sale that was imported from Asia.

"I wanted to investigate it further but my supervisor said it wasn't worth the trip to Taiwan," says Falmouth police detective James Pires.

4cylndrfury wrote: there is no way in hell Id ever work there...ever...in the world...ever

Hey man, some people need those seeing-eye-goats

4cylndrfury wrote:

Thankfully my kids never thought of this one. Otherwise they'd be taking turns.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com

I'll just leave that there.

We have monkeys?

How is this thread not already moved to Off-Topic?

i DO work at a walmart.
and hate it. alot.
but its a job. to last me til I finish school in two months hopefully getting a new job sooner though)

DoctorBlade wrote:

4cylndrfury wrote:

Thankfully my kids never thought of this one. Otherwise they'd be taking turns.

I don;t know about your kids... but I want a turn too!

You should see the fat berkleys that shop at Sam's Club. I may get fired one day for quoting Groucho Marx, " I'd never join a club that would have me as a member."

I just got back from Walmart and I really enjoyed it, but I did get to leave which I wouldn't if I worked there. Where else can you shop and be entertained at the same time?

I come home with some of the best stories and cell phone pics.

Today I was entertained with the new hire's stories about how his brain was too large for the cap they made him wear.

I told him that if he got rid of the tin foil it would fit better. He said he couldn't do without the tin foil. His department manager came by about that time and told him to make sure the tin foil didn't show.

Now I'd think the kid was making a joke except for the reaction of the manager, he'd seen it before.

pres589 wrote: How is this thread not already moved to Off-Topic?

uuuuuhhhhh that's exactly where it is......

Here's a tidbit that didn't get thru my filters the first time I read the article.

"Walmart stores themselves tend to be 4 acres or so under roof — a wide expanse — plus another 20 acres of parking lot. "

DANG!

The article has a Walmart official justifying all the madness with saying that stuff just happens all over but we get caught. The one fact he's forgetting is the core Walmort (I thought I'd correct that typo but then thought about and like the "mort" part) customer isn't the higher end of the evolutionary scale.

Others do shop Walmart - I was there today - but the core Walmart fanatic isn't your core middle of the road 'Merican"

I thought the most interesting point of the article was that the illusion of freakier stuff being more commonplace these days was because of the constriction of space. With WalMart pretty much replacing main street, all the weirdness that used to be spread around an entire small town now happens under a single roof.

I'M SO DISAPPOINTED! I had to go back to Walmart and as I was walking by the auto department I saw they lady who had helped me at lunch so I asked her about the guy with the brains too large for his hat and the alum foil.

His comment about his brains being too large was legitimate, but the foil part was them making fun of a customer who either wore foil or was strange enough they thought he probably wore foil hats.

carguy123 wrote: This is one of the few times I'll have to agree with NPR. Can you actually imagine what it must take out of you to work there?

I'll have to check out the NPR article/segment, but I fully agree.

I'm just about ready to put in my notice at a big box sporting goods retailer that gets a serious amount of on-a-bus-route ghetto foot traffic and it has literally crushed my soul. I have nothing left. The utter blight of the town it's in has made me lose all hope for humanity.

I don't even set foot in a Wal Mart. It's been years since I've had a need to. Gives me the heebie-jeebies.

What's that saying? "Once bitten, twice shy."

Go to Wal-Mart on a Sunday afternoon. You will see what 1992 looks like.

Appleseed wrote: Go to Wal-Mart on a Sunday afternoon. You will see what 1992 looks like.

Not here in Alberta. Whenever I go swimming, I want the most gawdawful shorts I can find. They don't sell them here because walmart has become too trendy

How are people supposed to dress like white trash and embarrass themselves if they don't have a cheap outlet to go to?!

She got Louisiana purchase card! Mr Ghetto-- Wally World

gamby wrote:

carguy123 wrote: This is one of the few times I'll have to agree with NPR. Can you actually imagine what it must take out of you to work there?

I'll have to check out the NPR article/segment, but I fully agree. I'm just about ready to put in my notice at a big box sporting goods retailer that gets a serious amount of on-a-bus-route ghetto foot traffic and it has literally crushed my soul. I have nothing left. The utter blight of the town it's in has made me lose all hope for humanity. I don't even set foot in a Wal Mart. It's been years since I've had a need to. Gives me the heebie-jeebies.

the thing i hate the most about work is how corporate everything is. I'm getting in trouble because I the up-top work on a car that had its trans drained instead of oil pan.
the dumbass that drained the trans and DID NOT CATCH THE FACT THAT IT WASNT ENGINE OIL COMING OUT is also getting in trouble, but why the hell am I going to be written up.
I get paid 8.40 an hour to do a job that at most other places starts at 10/hr.
we are waaaaaay understaffed because they are saving money by not hiring enough people to adequately run the garage. they really don't care that nearly everyone out there hates the place. another thing I hate is sharing tools with people who don't know how to put anything back where it belongs. tools dissappear all the time too.
oh, and they won't pay for new balancers, even though it seems as if both of our balancers are just guessing and then changing their minds
nor will they pay for a new mounting machine, though one of ours takes approximately 5 minutes to put 30psi into a tire, and the arm gets stuck EVERY TIME, without fail
/rant
yeah, its a pretty swell place to work, and doesn't make me hate america by the end of a shift.