where does Wal-Mart find the happy employees for their commercials?

[pstokely]

?

[Isome]

1. They buy them... n/t

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. The William Morris Agency

they're in the book, on the web, google.

[Zomby Woof]

3. a talent agency

Rest assured, they are actors.

[Roon]

4. yeah, that reminds me of the mcdonald's commercial of the worker

singing a Lion King song and mopping the floor. I don't know about you, but if I was mopping the floor at Mcdonald's, I wouldn't feel like singing.

[Sticky]

5. they are every day people

My sister-in-law was approached by Walmart marketing people in Halifax and asked to do a commercial. .

A camera crew and producer followed her for a week and filmed her in every situation.
The spots ran for 6 months. They paid her $5000.

It was cool! :)

[Michael Harrington]

6. Methadone clinics.

Those commercials amuse me, in a grim way. Read Barbara Ehrenreich's book for the real WM lowdown.

[Clark Can WIN]

7. Oh that's real nice................Methadone clinic?

A best friend of mine for over 20+ years is a college graduate, a family fanatic and considers herself a great American Democrat. She works as some kind of manager for our local super-W which employs almost 1000 people.

Methadone clinic?

How progressive of you. I guess I'll have to tell my friend she will either have to become a junkie or............. ashamed of her career.

[Beaker]

11. If she works for walmart (super-W?), she SHOULD be ashamed.

I've never stepped foot inside one of those evil places, and I never intend to.
No self-respecting progreesive, or liberal would put a price tag on their ideals by shopping there.

You say that the local "super-W"(is that a Walmart?) employs almost 1,000 people- but at what pay level, and do they have medical benefits as part of their job? From what I understand, Walmart keeps almost all of their employees at "part-time" (under 35 hrs/week) to avoid giving medical benefits, and routinely force people to work overtime without pay.
People who shop there are saying that Walmarts labour policies are A-ok with them. It's truly disgusting.

[JHB]

12. And that $5000 was equivalent to...

...how many hours normal pay?

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Actors Equity?

n/t

[onebigbadwulf]

9. Um...

The only people I've seen in Wal-Mart commercials are mentally retarded or retired old men... then again I stopped watching TV a while ago. :think:

[Iverson]

10. Screen Actors Guild

That's probably the one time they don't use non-union labor.

[Tansy_Gold]

13. I'm sure there are happy people at Wal-Mart, but. . . .

. . . . not all of them.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=608823


Ehrenreich spent a week or two at a Wal-Mart in Minnesota; I spent over a year at one in another state. Ehrenreich was dead spot on with her reporting.

[Bozita]

15. That's a great thread, Tansy_Gold

Thanks for your informative contributions.

[Tansy_Gold]

17. You're welcome, Bozita!

( taking a modest bow )

[radwriter0555]

14. Actor's Union. People who want their SAG card.

Not that hard to figure out.

[MrPrax]

16. Mexico?

Certainly cheaper than SAG members or even methadone addicts

http://bodyandsoul.typepad.com/blog/2003/10/walmarts_agenda.html
Friday, October 24, 2003
Wal-Mart's agenda

Some of the undocumented workers who were arrested in the raid on Wal-Mart yesterday were making $2 a day. Not an hour -- a day. As my husband said this morning, "Where did they arrest them -- Bangladesh?"

with links to the media stories about wal-mart and 'illegals' being paid 2 bucks a day...
Reason number 87 not to shop at wal-marts...

This is crude and rude...not nearly as elegant has taking out life insurance on their 'managers' and then working them to death to collect the premiums...

Now that is 'Ford Pinto' level debaseness!!

[noonwitch]

18. I was going to say "Not in this country" but you beat me to it

John Stewart was having a lot of fun with the Walmart scandal on Monday's "Daily Show".