Wal-Mart bans Jon Stewart's new book

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SUCCATASH

Thursday, October 21, 2004 6:55 PM

Jon Stewart sure is getting a lot of press lately.

Oct. 20, 2004
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041021/ap_en_tv/wal_mart
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"Wal-Mart canceled an order for a best-selling book by Jon Stewart and the writers of "The Daily Show" after executives learned that it contained a photo of nine naked, aged bodies, each with the superimposed head of a Supreme Court justice."

"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."

GHOULMAN

Thursday, October 21, 2004 7:29 PM

There's a fuggin' shock.

WAL-MART, destroying American towns for years all in the name of slave wages, oppression, and government payola.

ROBB1974

Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:26 PM

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Originally posted by Ghoulman:
WAL-MART, destroying American towns for years all in the name of slave wages, oppression, and government payola.

Wow people are working for Wal-Mart against thier will!! Get real 95% of all retailers pay on the same pay scale as Wal-Mart. How much do you expect to get paid to run a register and give customers
crappy service..

Edited for a typo

MAUGWAI

Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:37 PM

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Originally posted by robb1974:

Wow people are working for Wal-Mart against thier will!! Get real 95% of all retailers pay on the same pay scale as Wal-Mart. How much do you expect to get paid to run a register and give customers
crappy service..

Edited for a typo

Not everybody who works at Wal-Mart is lazy and rude, and I'm kind of offended that you seem to think they don't work hard enough to earn more. A former student of mine works at the Wal-Mart down the street. She is always polite to everybody and spends all day working hard on her feet while carrying around a pregnant belly. How she's going to pay for that baby on her Wal-Mart salary, I don't know, but she never complains, even though she doesn't get time and a half on holidays.

But Wal-Mart can't carry the Daily Show's book because it's offensive. Yeah, because treating hard working employees like they are expendible cattle is certainly moral behavior.

"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."

GHOULMAN

Thursday, October 21, 2004 9:48 PM

^^^ that poor woman! Thanks for telling us about her. Give her this article and ask her to look for more if she can - Walmart isn't the largest employer in the USA for nothing. Walmart isn't so rich because it sells wonderful things. There is a reason... and it happens everyday... at Walmart.

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SEATTLE (AP) -- A court ruled that a class action suit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Washington may proceed, allowing 40,000 current and former employees of the retail giant to participate in the suit, which alleges wage abuses.

In a press release Friday, law firm Tousley Brain Stephens LLC, the counsel for the suit, said the alleged abuses include off-the-clock work for which employees were never paid, missed meal and rest breaks, and altered time records.

A Wal-Mart spokeswoman wasn't immediately available to comment on lawsuit.

The lawsuit asserts Wal-Mart has a strict no overtime policy, which it enforces by disciplining employees who work more than 40 hours a week without prior authorization. However, understaffing of the stores leaves employees with too much work to complete in 40 hours. Thus, employees end up working for free, according to the complaint.

Wal-Mart has faced several similar lawsuits recently, alleging the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by classifying some assistant store managers as overtime-exempt.

SIGMANUNKI

Thursday, October 21, 2004 9:53 PM

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Originally posted by robb1974:

Wow people are working for Wal-Mart against thier will!! Get real 95% of all retailers pay on the same pay scale as Wal-Mart. How much do you expect to get paid to run a register and give customers
crappy service..

Actually there have been communities across america that have gone against a wal-mart moving into there community.

For instance, wal-mart wanted to move into some california town which would've destroyed it. ie The safeway payed ~$20 or more per hour where wal-mart payed less than ~$10.

But to comment on this thread. Who cares if wal-mart doesn't sell the book? Quite frankly, I go buy my books at book stores. I buy my music at music stores. etc Seems to me that the people who would go out and buy these books are willing to do the same as they tend not to be the white trash that thinks that wal-mart is the only store that exists.

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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

ROBB1974

Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:19 PM

Wal-Mart is not the only one doing this. Last time I checked Target pays around the same so does Kroger's and Albertson's. But everyone singles out Wal-Mart because they are "The Evil Empire". I wish it wasn't this way I wish everyone could make a good living doing what they loved but that not realistic, and even if we could get rid of Wal-Mart another one would just takes it place.

SIGNYM

Friday, October 22, 2004 1:32 AM

People CAN make a good living even in retail. They just have to get off their butts and take back the power that Walmart and other monopolies took away.

There are a about a zillion ways to do that, and I'll be happy to list them for you later.

SIGMANUNKI

Friday, October 22, 2004 9:26 PM

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Originally posted by robb1974:
Wal-Mart is not the only one doing this. Last time I checked Target pays around the same so does Kroger's and Albertson's. But everyone singles out Wal-Mart because they are "The Evil Empire". I wish it wasn't this way I wish everyone could make a good living doing what they loved but that not realistic, and even if we could get rid of Wal-Mart another one would just takes it place.

The pasiveness of you comment is the reason why companies like wal-mart have such great control as they do. Perhaps instead of saying, that's the way it is just accept it, we should be saying, that's the way it is, and here's what we're going to do about it.

wal-mart is an evil company, and so are those others. wal-mart just gets noticed because they're the biggest.

But, if something is done about these "evil" companies then it'd be pretty hard for another to take its place. Perhaps the US (and Canada and...) should change some laws to actually make these massive corporations responsible for something.

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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

WHISPERING

Friday, October 22, 2004 9:57 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Ghoulman:
There's a fuggin' shock.

WAL-MART, destroying American towns for years all in the name of slave wages, oppression, and government payola.

...and in europe we get a company with similar strategy called Lidl. Would rather pay 5 times more, then go to their stores.

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