Wearing clothes from Wal-Mart...
Posted By: MT on 2009-08-29
In Reply to: Riddle me this... - Me
How is that equal to creating medical records with gross errors? My problem is not entirely with offshoring, but rather what is being offshored. Like many others, I do not shop at Wal-Mart, and I have my own sewing machine. If people want to buy things that are made overseas, that's their choice, but my concern is regarding the quality of our medical documentation here in the US. Also, there is no excuse for supposedly not being able to find an adequate amount of MT staff here in the US. The problem is that these companies do not want to pay enough to that staff. If the hospitals cut out the MTSOs and brought MT back in-house, there would be enough money to go around for everyone.
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If you are really serious about buying clothes
that are American-made, here you go:
http://www.americansworking.com/clothing.html
It's wearing thin, and I'll sign onto class action!
Right now I'm working full-time for one of the Axis of Evil...where, as we know, the recent denied-until-it-happened pay cuts and global equilibration of account levels screwed me, so I'm trying to get out of that hell hole, where the only thing left after VR gets done are the crappiest of the crap. I saw light at the end of the tunnel, and it turns out it was a train coming through to smack me head-on.
So I guess I'll hang onto the 2 jobs I have now, while I continue to look for 1 or maybe 2 that will be more amenable. I don't mind working hard and I don't really even mind the account job #2 has me on (although it has been NWA all week...must have hired some more bodies), but I hate the perceived sneakiness of it while they've got my back against the wall. GRRRR
Yay! You exchange the gas/clothes for higher electricity
and paying for reference materials and internet connectivity and...
But you have a job! and you can work naked and nobody would know. Gosh, it's a wonderful business. I'm just really happy to have a job. I don't want a good, well-paying job, just any old job. After all, I know my cousin and my best friend and four of my other friends have been laid off, and my ex-husband is sitting at home on the couch watching Jerry Springer. So I'm just really glad I have any old job because I get to work at home. We really ARE so fortunate. Maybe I really am hardly able to eat some days and sometimes have trouble paying the bills even though the company says it's stable and bought a business. I'm just REALLY GLAD to have a job! yes!
better off at Wal-mart
You would be better off supplementing your income working at Wal-Mart rather than working at this Indian-run loony bin.
Do they have Wal-Mart's in Kansas?
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And, you can also add Wal-Mart to your list
I think stores such as Wal-Mart, and there certainly are others, no doubt, that buy up the majority of their products from these other countries are putting our Americans out of work. I just shudder to think how different life is in this century compared to before we went to being such a huge importer of goods that we COULD be producing here in the US.
If you put in an application at Wal-Mart does it not ask for your SS#? sm
If you did not feel comfortable giving that info until hired, all you simply had to do was leave it blank. I am sure they would not have tossed your application due to that.
make more money at Wal-Mart
and they give you a piece of the company
lol
I recently saw a show on TV about Wal-Mart, sm
It was one of those news shows, maybe 20/20. Whatever. It talked about Rubbermaid going down the tubes because of W-M's demands on it, how generations of families worked at one particular factory which essentially supported the town. That was closed, equipment was auctioned off. I'll never forget the expressions on the faces of the men who were watching this happening. It was tragic.
Sorry, this is badly worded, but I need to get back to work.
Get a Linksys router at Wal-Mart $40-60
simple
Wal-Mart Sounds Good
Wal-Mart is starting to look better and better to me. I have been an excellent Transcriptionist for over 25 years and had planned to retire as same. The past couple of years has caused me to re-think the rest of my life. I have gone from an average of $23.00 per hour to $16.00 per hour and it makes me nauseous. The suits are getting the money that I am having to work even harder to get (for them).
So, I'm thinking about going to Wal-Mart. My mother will retire from them soon and she, believe it or not, has had a lot less stress than I have had in the past few years. I think she makes about $14.00 per hour at this point. I'm sure that starting out, you probably do not make that much, but I think that if I have to work for less money, I would rather it be for someone who didn't TAKE MY MONEY. Anybody agree????
So we threaten to go to Wal-Mart to work?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090311/wal-mart-medical-records/
If things keep going, you may do so unknowingly!
They are taking the first steps...
What is wrong with working at Wal-Mart.
My mother has worked at Wal-Mart for almost 10 years. Why does everyone act like working at Wal-Mart is for losers? Only desperate people who have no other choice work there?
Nope, not Wal-Mart employees sm
(even though, what's wrong with that) just busy mothers who have better and more important things to do than proofread on a forum, we save that for our jobs. Now back to doing the most important job...being a mother...now babs get back to your griping. Sorry you don't have a family. Hope you have a nice Easter :)
Yes I work at TT, Wal-Mart & a vet's office
Three jobs. Wasn't too hard to get. I like TT and hope that work will pick up with the new accounts but in the meantime yes I have to feed my kids and me.
I should say SHOPS at Wal-Mart --- Even Starbucks gets their coffee elsewhere!
nm
Which speaks to/with the wal-mart spoof posted
in the comedy section (link below). It's the direction of the economy. Capitalism at its best and worst; inevitability.
http://www.jibjab.com/originals/big_box_mart
A quick word of explanation about Wal-Mart
My friend worked in the division that made, organized jewelry, etc. She was not a clerk. She worked behind the scenes. I guess the suits thought that behind the scenes in Mexico was cheaper for them than to pay American workers. Anyway, my friend, a 21-years-old single mother, is now without work.
Thank you!! And if anyone on this website gripes about "offshoring" and works at Wal-Mart, you
just as much to blame as anyone hiring offshore companies. You shop there to get cheaper prices? 95% of that is made in China!
Quik-Mart doesn't require testing ...
Many MTs that I know put quite a bit of time into researching companies. Believe it or not, there are a few out there that are unscrupulous. Then, when they decide to submit their resume, they become one of the stack received and left on a recruiter's desk, only to be sent a generic thank you for applying, please test letter. Then, they're on to the testing process. Sometimes it's a screening during which you give out a lot of personal information, then a written test, then transcription, sometimes followed by a phone interview (and this is probably the only time you are looked at as a person and not just data)- you get the idea. This eats up a lot of time and energy. I don't have any first-hand knowledge about Quick-Mart, Starbuck's or the Department of Energy, but I think things work a little differently in those settings. I hope this helps you understand why it would be important to get a response for the effort. If not, well, I tried.
I do understand your position. We live in a Wal-Mart world. Some days I wonder why I bother
putting out good work. It would be certainly help my bottom line if I cared more for my production than my reports. *Sigh*
Isn't Wal-Mart the company that lied/replaced labels several years back with Made in USA? nm
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Its holiday time. I just took a part time job at K-Mart and
it is really quite fun because I get to interact with humans and do not have to stare at a computer. My part time benefits included an employee discount on merchandise from day 1 of employment, can put that on lay-away, and if the item goes on sale before you pick it up, you get it at the sale price as well as with the discount. This is a Super K-Mart, and with kids this will really help with paying for their presents. It sure beats running out of work every day and wondering if I am going to have any money for gifts.
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