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Institute of the Gods- Wal-Mart
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:55 pm
by wes9_Archive
Fancy Pants wrote:Isn't that because on your 14th day they locked you up overnight to polish the floors?
Actually, I believe he was locked up polishing knobs that night, though he doesn't like to talk about it very much so don't press him.
Institute of the Gods- Wal-Mart
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:20 pm
by Angus Jung
Perhaps _Dragon's next avatar could be a re-enactment of him doing the
Wal-Mart cheer.
Institute of the Gods- Wal-Mart
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:31 pm
by Angriest_Dragon_Archive
They never even gave me a vest.
Cheap bastards.
I did keep my name tag because it makes me laugh everytime I think about that horrible job.
Institute of the Gods- Wal-Mart
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:48 am
by alex maiolo_Archive
Screw them. They kill whole towns. They claim they have to treat workers like dogs to keep costs down, so you and I pick up the health tab for those employees, along with all of the tax breaks we foot the bill for.
Costco manages to treat their workers well, so we know it can be done.
If you shop there, you are part of the problem, socially, politically and culturally. Never forget that.
This country is being sold out for convenience's sake, to the lowest bidder, and a bunch of rednecks in Arkansas are making money hand over fist doing it.
Institute of the Gods- Wal-Mart
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:59 am
by Andrew L_Archive
geiginni wrote:I absolutely detest WalMart. I can't understand how anyone whom isn't absolutely destitute and stuck in some godforsaken culturally retarded small town could bring themselves to shop there.
The place reeks and seethes with the utter despair and resignation of those who work and shop at the place. It makes K-Mart, despite their troubles, feel like Marshall Fields, and makes Target into a fucking Neiman Marcus.
It's like a behemoth parasite that attaches itself to, and feeds off its miniscule hosts; its waste providing a barely acceptable sustenance to just keep the hosts going on with life; carrying out the motions that sustain its continued overbearing and dehumanizing existence.
WalMart represents to me all that is wrong with modern consumer values. Everything, and I mean absolutely everything there, is the most bland, cheap-ass, disposable, mass-produced crap. They don't even try to dress it up as stylish, hip, or quality - like Target does. The utter despair of just needing nothing more than temporary, non-durable, crap to eek you through your day-to-day existence with no forethought to actual design, engineering, or permanence.....
WalMart is Satan. WalMart is the Beast. WalMart is the essence of Soviet - it is what we as a society had worked so long to avoid. It is GUM department store ca. 1977 without the pictures of Bhreshnev.
It is Hell.....
Salut geiginni. Beautiful post. I'm curious about this though:
geiginni wrote:You don't tell them what YOU WANT. They tell YOU what YOU NEED. Now, how is that truely capitalistic?
Capitalism and manufactored desire antithetical? News to me.
Institute of the Gods- Wal-Mart
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:43 am
by Cranius_Archive
The termite people welcome Wal-Mart!
geiginni wrote:It's like a behemoth parasite that attaches itself to, and feeds off its miniscule hosts; its waste providing a barely acceptable sustenance to just keep the hosts going on with life; carrying out the motions that sustain its continued overbearing and dehumanizing existence
I can't think of a more perfect symbiosis than that of Wal-Mart and China.
Institute of the Gods- Wal-Mart
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 10:33 am
by hip priest_Archive
Crap or not, you're all gonna have to go there to buy your Garth Brooks CDs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4168952.stm
Institute of the Gods- Wal-Mart
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:09 am
by Bartok_Archive
the ASDA near me is awesome, full of the screams of children as their mothers hit them, big fucking fish in a bed of ice that look at you like "help me, I'm only pretending to be dead", zombies and cheap bourbon. whats not to like?
Institute of the Gods- Wal-Mart
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:01 pm
by Marsupialized_Archive
The only thing I hate about Wal-Mart is the retarded fucking minivan moms and loud dumb annoying kids everywhere.
I actually worked at a Wal Mart a few years ago and it wasn't such a bad place to work, easy to get lost in the shuffle.
I would punch in when I was leaving and punch out when I got there the next day so it looked like I worked like 16 hours a day. I ripped them off that way for a good 6 months and thousands of dollars before they caught on.
Institute of the Gods- Wal-Mart
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 1:50 pm
by Nico Adie_Archive
I work for ASDA.
All the points made about Wal Mart are utterly valid. Here's another reason to hate the fuckers:
THE STUPID FUCKING JARGON THEY USE.
I fucking hate it.
Crap.
