Walmart Rally

[ewagner]

I had to pick up donuts for a meeting this morning so I stopped at the WalMart Superstore which was close to the conference site.

I walked into the middle of the morning Walmart Pep Rally for the employees. I've heard about them but this was the first time I had actually seen one taking place.

I truly felt sorry for the employees. It was childish and degrading. Some of the workers seemed actually embarrassed by having the spectable held where the customers could see it.

(btw: on a totally different note: I read the thread about Playboy looking for Walmart ladies to go into a special Playboy issue. From this mornings meeting, I didn't see any likely candidates in our store.)

[el_gato]

1. walmart sucks!

[Japhy_Ryder]

2. you should have handed them some union yes brochures

[ronnykmarshall]

3. Rallys?

:puke:

They used to make us do lame shit like that when I worked at MickyD's when I was in high school.

:puke:

[TlalocW]

4. We did the Fish program at my former work place

It was introduced by one of the asshole-managers who had seen the video tapes before us, and he introduced it by buying himself a Nerf gun and going around shooting employees with it. My fellow wise-ass co-worker and I asked what was going on, and he explained that we would be starting a new program on how to have fun in the workplace, and we would be watching videos. We then proceeded to mock him for needing videotapes to learn how to have fun at work (my friend and I already DID the Fish program naturally). He tried to wiggle out of the implication that he was so dumb he needed videotapes on fun, but we wouldn't let him off the hook. He became pissy and stormed out of our cubicle aisle. We had that effect on him - everyone else was afraid of him except my friend and me, and he hated us for it.

My friend and I then went to Toys R Us during lunch so I could buy the biggest, fastest repeating-shooting Nerf gun they had.

After that we all watched the videos; my friend and I mocked the 4 basic tenets as common sense, and we took part in stupid team building exercises that managers were all ga-ga over as if they were the greatest things since sliced bread.

Then we did the Fish program for a couple of months, and it slowly died out. There were still fish crap up around the cube farms when I was laid off two weeks ago.

TlalocW