Walmart covers employee then sues in return

Olbermann sucked on MNF.

He did, I miss Dennis Miller personally...

Walmart is like old cheese that has aged too long, needs to be thrown away.

Right because nothing is worse than decent products, low prices and 24 hour shopping. Not to mention the huge number of people it employs.

This situation is fucked up, it seems like this lady deserves alot more compassion than this.

Right because nothing is worse than decent products, low prices and 24 hour shopping. Not to mention the huge number of people it employs. This situation is fucked up, it seems like this lady deserves alot more compassion than this.

Blah, only hicks go to Walmart, the rest of us who have decency don't. I admit it is great that they have employed so many people, but look at what they just did. That is messed up beyond a lot of things.

"Hello, I'm CEO of Walmart, I want to fuck you in the ass if you get hurt and we have to pay for it. Look at our papers, what are you stupid, huh? That's right, your contract with us says we are allowed to fuck you in the ass anytime we have to cover shit like this.

Signed.
Asshole, CEO
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

P.S. My lawyers said I could do whatever I want, nah nah, nah nah, nah nah!"

Wal-Mart is so successful because it does what it does well. If you have a problem beat their prices and put them out of business.

I'm sure other big box companies like Target or Shopko have the same sort of policy.

You can't. Walmart has low prices because it buys in bulk and intimidates its suppliers. You just can't do that unless you're already big.

Right because nothing is worse than decent products, low prices and 24 hour shopping. Not to mention the huge number of people it employs.

You hate big government but support big business? Why?

http://www.nationalpost.com/story-pr...7-a53a2a5ea4ca

In Wal-Mart We Trust Who did the most to help victims of Hurricane Katrina? According to a new study, it was the company everyone loves to hate Colby Cosh, National Post Published: Friday, March 28, 2008 Scott Morgan/Getty Images Shortly before Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on the morning of Aug. 29, 2005, the chief executive officer of Wal-Mart, Lee Scott, gathered his subordinates and ordered a memorandum sent to every single regional and store manager in the imperiled area. His words were not especially exalted, but they ought to be mounted and framed on the wall of every chain retailer -- and remembered as American business's answer to the pre-battle oratory of George S. Patton or Henry V. "A lot of you are going to have to make decisions above your level," was Scott's message to his people. "Make the best decision that you can with the information that's available to you at the time, and above all, do the right thing." This extraordinary delegation of authority -- essentially promising unlimited support for the decision-making of employees who were earning, in many cases, less than $100,000 a year -- saved countless lives in the ensuing chaos. The results are recounted in a new paper on the disaster written by Steven Horwitz, an Austrian-school economist at St. Lawrence University in New York. While the Federal Emergency Management Agency fumbled about, doing almost as much to prevent essential supplies from reaching Louisiana and Mississippi as it could to facilitate it, Wal-Mart managers performed feats of heroism. In Kenner, La., an employee crashed a forklift through a warehouse door to get water for a nursing home. A Marrero, La., store served as a barracks for cops whose homes had been submerged. In Waveland, Miss., an assistant manager who could not reach her superiors had a bulldozer driven through the store to retrieve disaster necessities for community use, and broke into a locked pharmacy closet to obtain medicine for the local hospital. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart trucks pre-loaded with emergency supplies at regional depots were among the first on the scene wherever refugees were being gathered by officialdom. Their main challenge, in many cases, was running a gauntlet of FEMA officials who didn't want to let them through. As the president of the brutalized Jefferson Parish put it in a Sept. 4 Meet the Press interview, speaking at the height of nationwide despair over FEMA's confused response: "If [the U.S.] government would have responded like Wal-Mart has responded, we wouldn't be in this crisis." This benevolent improvisation contradicts everything we have been taught about Wal-Mart by labour unions and the "small-is-beautiful" left. We are told that the company thinks of its store management as a collection of cheap, brainwash-able replacement parts; that its homogenizing culture makes it incapable of serving local communities; that a sparrow cannot fall in Wal-Mart parking lot without orders from Arkansas; that the chain puts profits over people. The actual view of the company, verifiable from its disaster-response procedures, is that you can't make profits without people living in healthy communities. And it's not alone: As Horwitz points out, other big-box companies such as Home Depot and Lowe's set aside the short-term balance sheet when Katrina hit and acted to save homes and lives, handing out millions of dollars' worth of inventory for free. No one who is familiar with economic thought since the Second World War will be surprised at this. Scholars such as F. A. von Hayek, James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock have taught us that it is really nothing more than a terminological error to label governments "public" and corporations "private" when it is the latter that often have the strongest incentives to respond to social needs. A company that alienates a community will soon be forced to retreat from it, but the government is always there. Companies must, to survive, create economic value one way or another; government employees can increase their budgets and their personal power by destroying or wasting wealth, and most may do little else. Companies have price signals to guide their productive efforts; governments obfuscate those signals. Aside from the public vs. private issue, Horwitz suggests, decentralized disaster relief is likely to be more timely and appropriate than the centralized kind, which explains why the U.S. Coast Guard performed so much better during the disaster than FEMA. The Coast Guard, like all marine forces, necessarily leaves a great deal of authority in the hands of individual commanders, and like Wal-Mart, it benefited during and after the hurricane from having plenty of personnel who were familiar with the Gulf Coast geography and economy. There is no substitute for local knowledge -- an ancient lesson of which Katrina merely provided the latest reminder.

I am not supporting big business in general just Wal Mart in this case

Walmart is like old cheese that has aged too long, needs to be thrown away.

Yeah, that's what happening to Kmart. But too many people shop at Wal-Mart for it to be thrown away, unless all the of the chain were blown up!

Yeah, that's what happening to Kmart. But too many people shop at Wal-Mart for it to be thrown away, unless all the of the chain were blown up!

Think of the Episode of South Park with Wall-Mart.

Think of the Episode of South Park with Wall-Mart.

When I posted, I was thinking of that exact episode. I like how everyone was brainwashed to shop at Wal Mart and then ended up working there.

This case has been resolved in benefit of the defendant. Wal-mart has worked on or has already adjusted its corporate policies. This situation is pretty common though, as far as who all it can happen to. It's written into a lot of contracts for coverage. I know the news commentators that were talking about it said that their own contracts were very similar.