This is the Thanksgiving dinner Walmart served up to workers as "appreciation" for working today

[kpete]

Walmart really? This is what some workers are being appreciated with today?

https://twitter.com/angela4respect/status/670015781929922560
https://twitter.com/fightfor15/status/670115681774473216

[hobbit709]

1. WTF is THAT?

Not a dinner under any circumstance.

[get the red out]

2. Work lunch

Looks like a brown-bagger on the eve of grocery day.

[FrodosPet]

23. It's a hell of a lot more than I got for Thanksgiving

Walmart is terrible, but at least they are hiring.

People can feel free to hate me if they must, but I am putting in an app at Wally World. $9.00 an hour is not a living wage, but $2.70 an hour as an independent contractor IS a dying wage.

[tazkcmo]

25. I agree

Walmart is terrible but not alone. This kind of stuff goes on every major holiday at restaurants and retail outlets across the country.

On a recent Mother's Day, I worked 13 hours waiting tables at a major chain. Waiting list all day. At one point, management bought pizza for us! Yay! They placed it on racks by the dish pit.
Here's how we got to enjoy our free meal: Enter kitchen area at dish pit drop off. Deposit dirty dishes. Grab a piece of pizza. Proceed to chips and salsa station while enjoying a bite of the free meal. Throw the free meal away. Get chips and salsa, beverages, hot food, etc on way out of kitchen. Rinse and repeat.

The only difference between that scenario and a normal business day is the shifts are not as busy and you get no food at all. Go ahead and hate on Walmart but in my opinion the restaurant industry is a lot worse.

[gratuitous]

31. I don't hate anyone who shops or works at Wal-Mart

They're making the best of their situation and Wal-Mart (sad to say) may be as good as they can do for any number of reasons. But I'll still hate on Wal-Mart for their vulture capitalist ways that cause so much suffering just to put some more money into the overstuffed pockets of the greedy Walton family.

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. Bless you for that distinction. Saddens me to see so few share it, from what I read here.

Wal-mart, in small rural towns like mine, offers a LOT of needed meds at 10.00 for a 90 supply, which makes them affordable for people on low income and no prescription insurance.
Many people are not able to shop their politics in many areas.

[merrily]

30. Now, now, with a little photoshopping, it could look nearly edible.

[madokie]

3. I hope this is not true

If this is in fact true we should all boycott walmart starting immediately.

Just how low can that corporation go?

[gademocrat7]

4. Terrible

I never shop at Walmart. No respect for their employees.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Better than the suspicious looking horse sausage and can of "Get your ass back to work" I imagined.

[NorthCarolina]

6. Wow, two kinds of cheese rolled into one.

How extravagant.

[KittyWampus]

8. is that what the yellow disc is?

[elias49]

12. Ah! I thought it was a thin pancake!

I see now that it's cheese.

[Armstead]

37. I think it's the kind of semi-eggy thing that go into Egg McMuffins

[LongTomH]

34. Probably labeled 'cheese product!'

Sorta like cheese, but not quite!

[annabanana]

7. but...but...but.. festive plastic tablecloth!!!. . . . n/t

[KittyWampus]

9. Walmart so cheap their Thanksgiving Dinner doesn't need cutlery!

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[dembotoz]

10. my kid worked target for a few years

he would say mgt put out a nice spread in the break room....
did not go into details but he was pleasantly surprised...

i do not know what the meal was like...i do know he did not love working at target
so a nice spread considering his opinion could have a wide range of situations

[greytdemocrat]

11. Could be total BS.

People hate Wal Mart and always take
cheap shots at them.

[Oilwellian]

14. Cheap shots?

The poor dears.

[Rex]

18. Oh whoas! Those poor Wal-Marts! Leave them alone! Corporate monsters are sweet and cuddly.

Hard to take people seriously, when they post sad commentary like that. Par the course for that poster.

[Rex]

17. Kewl story.

Glad to know which side of the fence you fall on. Bye bye.

[tazkcmo]

27. Too cute.

I'm sure there was a nice buffet lined up for them. After all, Walmart's track record is a shining example of great employee treatment.

[iloveObama12]

13. Walmart full of

Crap!

[bemildred]

15. Yuck. nt

[ladyVet]

16. Not at the store my son works at.

I was half asleep when he came in, but I'll ask him for details later (he's working today as well). I'm pretty sure he said it was a normal turkey dinner, but I might have heard him wrong. I know he was full and didn't eat here until much later.

I know a lot of people like to put down Wal Mart, but we're grateful he has a full-time job with benefits. He's treated well, enjoys the work, and will probably end up being a big manager.

In some places, working at Wal Mart is a blessing, as it's the only big employer in town. I worked at one in a dinky little wide-spot-in-the-road town in Texas in the 80s, and it was much better than working at the Sonic, or the grocery store, or trying to get a job in one of the "family" businesses there.

[TheSarcastinator]

20. "working at wal mart is a blessing"

Wow, what an amazing thing to say. You are aware that the owners of Wal Mart actually work very hard and spend a whole load of cash every year to ensure that working people's lives are so astonishingly shitty that they are able to write and say such things in public with a straight face, don't you?

[Egnever]

32. I don't think you have an understanding of small backwoods towns

There are little towns in America where minimum wage will still let you live a semi decent life. What you can't find in many of them is a job. In those places a wal mart can be the difference between being destitute and having a semblance of a life.

Obviously wal mart sucks but when your other option is sonic as your employer suddenly it doesn't look so bad. In fact it looks downright good . Working for wal mart in a small town can be upwardly mobile. You have a decent chance to actually either move up in the company or even use it to transfer out to someplace with more opportunity.

I spent time in a little town in Arkansas where I knew a guy who bought his house wor!ing the counter at dairy Queen. There are places in America still where you can live on wal mart wages. Not many but they are still out there.

[ladyVet]

36. It is a blessing if you have no other job options.

I know the people who own the company are super rich ass holes. Most owners of big businesses are. I'm not stupid, I know which party they support. But so many times, people curse Wal Mart without any care for the people who basically have to work there, or have no work at all. Believe me, when you can't get a job anywhere else, you'll go to Wal Mart and be happy to be there. I know I did when I worked there in the early 80s, when there were few other options.

So, yes. I can write that with a straight face. I can say it in public without any sense of irony at all, because I've been there. I know many people who are there now. You want to blame someone? Blame the government for letting them screw workers over, but don't stop there. Go all the way and look at every other industry we have. Very few treat their workers as anything other than easily replaceable widgets who aren't even worth the worry, because if they had any sense they'd find a better job. Except when there are no better jobs.

By the way, I met Sam Walton all those years ago, and he was a decent man who was concerned with his workers. His family, not so much, as it turns out, but I know that's how super rich people are. If you think the owners of Target are any different, I don't know what to tell you.

Oh, as to the dinner: I asked my son, and he said it was indeed a full, real turkey dinner with all the fixings. Maybe his store was different. They are all probably run differently, so maybe some stores didn't treat their employees to a nice dinner. Shame on them.

I used to work for one of the largest textile companies in the world. You know what we got for holiday dinners? Cold turkey roll (which is what I think was in that picture above), nasty stale bread, a couple of cold, over-cooked side dishes and some peach cobbler that a pig wouldn't eat. This company could have afforded better, but they didn't care. One year, the entire plant asked that we not get a dinner, but instead get the three or four dollars per person they spent on that slop. We got a better meal that year: they catered in from a local BBQ restaurant, and it was amazing (we got to choose what we wanted).

[Rex]

19. LEAVE THE WAL-MARTS ALONE!

Haven't the billionaires suffered enough I ask you? Come and bootlick with me! My sisters, cousins, brothers uncle worked at Wal-Mart for 3 days a decade ago...so leave em alone!

[LiberalArkie]

21. Everyone tends to forget something about Walmart.

If you are just starting out where can you work?
If you are a intellectually challenged person, where can you work?
If you are a physically challenged person, where can you work?
If you are in a wheelchair where can you work?
If you are old where can you work?

Everyone likes to gripe at Wal-mart for their low wages and benefits. Most of the people I run into at Wal-Mart, yes I treat them as people, are happy to have a job that does not require them to work outside in the rain and bad weather. Or requires them to work over a hot stove all day long.
I have known people at a Wal-mart who have worked at the same store for 20 years. He is in a wheelchair and has cerebral palsy. There are plenty of kids that need extra money while in college. There are a lot of nice people at Wal-mart.

Sure it is a money grubbing company, but so is AT&T, Verizon, Apple, Samsung, Exxon etc.
So if you don't what to shop there, best not fill you car with gas, or use that cell phone, or watch tv, or buy name brand clothes or buy any drugs at the pharmacy. Because they are the same type of corporation.

[Rex]

35. You can work at the local grocery store, the local fastfood places the local retail store.

To pretend there is only Wal Mart is leaving out 95% of the picture imo.

[ladyVet]

38. Sure you can. If there are any available jobs.

Remember, there are lots of people competing for these "better" jobs, which by the way are not actually any better than Wal Mart. Many of them are worse. Do you really believe the folks at McDonald's are treated any better than any other part time, low wage job? If so, I don't think you've ever actually worked at one.

Around here, we went from medium wage textile jobs, full time with benefits, that you could actually support a family on, to part-time, no benefit retail jobs. Very few companies hire directly, and almost no full-time jobs; they go through temp agencies at minimum wage and will drop workers when things get slow (which happens a lot).

[1939]

41. I grew up long befoe Walmarts and other big boxes were common.

One summer, I worked for "mom and pop" in their little feed and garden store. I was paid under the table with no deductions. A lot of time on payday "mom" would clean out the cash register to go shopping. At the end of the day "pop" would look in the cash register and tell me he didn't make enough money that day to pay me and I would have to wait till Monday or Tuesday.

[Armstead]

39. That's the point

They epitomize -- and in many cases created -- what is wrong with the economic values that dominate America today.

Wipe out real jobs and replace them with crap ones. People will be so grateful to have anything that they'll be grateful for the crap jobs, and forget that there are other ways to run a business that do not involve exploiting workers and screwing the rest of us.

[Le Taz Hot]

22. Wow!

Spared no expense I see. Criminee, not a thing on that table ISN'T processed food. Yuck!

[Scuba]

24. Hot tongue and cold shoulder.

[hatrack]

26. Don't forget the Fishy Eye!

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[DonCoquixote]

28. I remeber we had a thanskgiving dinner at my work

which the supervisor kept locked up because he wanted to encourage people to work half lunch. The little bastard hid the keys and lied about the dinner being offered.

[tabasco]

29. They probably put out some bread and cheese and cold cuts, etc., buffet style, for sandwiches

and an employee with an agenda put together this crappy looking plate.

I'm not in the business of defending Walmart but I do prefer truth.

[cherokeeprogressive]

40. I wonder what hospitals and police stations fed their employees.