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Old 06-17-2013, 01:13 PM
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Didn't Costco get started in your neck of the woods?

I have a nephew in Seattle who works as a store-opener for Costco. He had to deal with some serious health issues and Costco worked with him to help him get through it.

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My sister works for Home Depot. She ran into health issues a few years back....................and they found an excuse to cut her loose. She was hired back to a different store only to discover her previous time meant nothing and the payscale for "new" employees had dropped by $4 per hour.

Nice, Huh?

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Old 06-17-2013, 01:20 PM
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Shop at Lowes is my understanding.

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Yeah, but boycotting doesn't work these days. Neither does trying to address labor issues through the "free market". Too many people only care about that .03 cents they saved on roll of tape and don't give two hoots about employees or American workers in general anymore.

You can thank the GOP propaganda machine for that.

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Old 06-17-2013, 01:35 PM
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No Democrats shop at Walmart.

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Old 06-17-2013, 01:44 PM
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My sister works for Home Depot. She ran into health issues a few years back....................and they found an excuse to cut her loose. She was hired back to a different store only to discover her previous time meant nothing and the payscale for "new" employees had dropped by $4 per hour.

Nice, Huh?

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She got to experience Mr. Nardelli's reign of terror at HD. You mean she wasn't given a $200M severence package? Real shame, Home Depot was once a good place to work with competitive wages.
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I saw you there.....I think you were the guy that bought REO Speedwagon's greatest hits out of the $5 bin....
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Old 06-17-2013, 02:24 PM
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$5??! Highway robbery! $.30 at Goodwill

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LOL the Goodwills in Orange and Riverside Counties take all of the cds they receive as donations and post them on their auction site....you cannot buy them in the B&M stores where I live....count your blessings.

So I do not donate there anymore.
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Sure they do. But, even if they didn't, it would make no difference.
The only people that can work that out are the employees and their bosses. But, the bosses don't want to "work out" shit with anyone. It's their fiefdom and they'll run it as they see fit. This is why businessmen sometimes need a good, humbling kick in the ass.

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Sure they do. But, even if they didn't, it would make no difference.
The only people that can work that out are the employees and their bosses. But, the bosses don't want to "work out" shit with anyone. It's their fiefdom and they'll run it as they see fit. This is why businessmen sometimes need a good, humbling kick in the ass.

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