Saturday, May 26, 2007
What's a Little Payola Between Vendor and Buyer?
Former Wal-Mart exec accuses CEO of ethics breach in accepting discounts on yachts, diamonds and personal gifts from vendors.
Not like the guy can't afford to buy himself the moon already.
What is it with rich people wanting more and more free stuff? And doing an ethical Frogger the whole time, that is, hopping from one justification to another, trying to find one that you can live with.
Is any of this really news? Do people, that is, do lay people not already assume that the rich get given crap all day long just because they are rich? I know I do.
Have you ever seen what's in those schwag bags for the Oscars? What was the total value this last time around, more than $100k, I believe. Nothing like given stuff to people who can already well afford it but they're too whatever to buy it for themselves, they like being given things because it validates who wonderfully special they feel they are.
Rich people don't piss me off, rich people who continue to be greedy ass-pappy's piss me off.
That and hundred million dollar golden parachutes for departing CEO's who did nothing but help the company tank, but that's another post for another blog.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Students Learn About Wal-Mart's Business Ethics
Not like the guy can't afford to buy himself the moon already.
What is it with rich people wanting more and more free stuff? And doing an ethical Frogger the whole time, that is, hopping from one justification to another, trying to find one that you can live with.
Is any of this really news? Do people, that is, do lay people not already assume that the rich get given crap all day long just because they are rich? I know I do.
Have you ever seen what's in those schwag bags for the Oscars? What was the total value this last time around, more than $100k, I believe. Nothing like given stuff to people who can already well afford it but they're too whatever to buy it for themselves, they like being given things because it validates who wonderfully special they feel they are.
Rich people don't piss me off, rich people who continue to be greedy ass-pappy's piss me off.
That and hundred million dollar golden parachutes for departing CEO's who did nothing but help the company tank, but that's another post for another blog.
Monday, May 21, 2007
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Wal-Mart catches ire of high school students after they learn about Wal-Mart's long tradition of mistreating employees and abusing supply chains for profits. The students were so moved that they staged a protest on the Wal-Mart site and were even threatened with the police but stood their ground, completed their protest without incident and made their point.
And, before anyone says the sweat shops aren't under Wal-Mart's direct control, don't be fooled. If Wal-Mart wanted them to pay more and treat those workers more fairly, they most certainly could. Hell, they forced Vlasic to sell their pickles at a friggin' loss!WalMart
Hey Smiley, Roanoke Don't Want You Either
Plevy said she was most concerned with the company’s relationships with alleged sweat shops in India, China and Bangladesh. According to her study, suppliers in Bangla Desh pay workers 6-cents an hour; in China, they get 7-cents an hour; in Nicaragua, the pay is $23 cents an hour and in Swaziland, the workers get 53 cents an hour.Which is to say that they may be exploiting neighborhoods here at home but they are also doing more than their part to guarantee the third world stays in the third world by paying such ridiculously low wages.
And, before anyone says the sweat shops aren't under Wal-Mart's direct control, don't be fooled. If Wal-Mart wanted them to pay more and treat those workers more fairly, they most certainly could. Hell, they forced Vlasic to sell their pickles at a friggin' loss!WalMart
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Hey Smiley, Roanoke Don't Want You Either
Resentment surfaces in the Wal-Mart brawl in Blacksburg. Seems the residents don't really want a freakin' huge Super Wal-Mart polluting their neighborhood with the traffic, noise, crime and all the other goodies that the behemoth brings with it, like the assimilation of the local economy.
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