Wal-Mart encourages employees to post blunt comments about products on blog

[flashl]

Source: International Herald Tribune

Microsoft is one of Wal-Mart's biggest suppliers. But that did not stop the Wal-Mart employee in charge of buying computers from panning Microsoft's newest operating system, Vista.

"Is it really all that and a bag of chips?" he wrote on his blog. "My life has not changed dramatically - well, for that matter, it hasn't changed at all."

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Known for its strict, by-the-books culture - accepting a cup of coffee from a supplier can be a firing offense - Wal-Mart is now encouraging its merchants to speak frankly, even critically, about the products the chain carries.

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"We are real people, and that gets lost in the to and fro of business," said Nick Agarwal, a Wal-Mart communications official who helped develop the blog. "It puts real personality out there in a real conversation."

IHT

Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/03/business/03walmart.php

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More of what Mal-Wart wants is good for America campaign?

Now, Mal-Wart's employees are encouraged to blog and harpoon products management doesn't like as they stock shelves?

This is a notch up/down from rent-a-troll.

[hadrons]

1. Sounds like Mao's "blooming flowers" .....

let them bloom and cut off their heads afterwards

[mtnester]

2. If I were a WalMart employee

I would not touch this with a 10' pole.

Seriously, I do not trust Walmart in any way...this could simply be a way to identify troublemakers too.

Once again, Sam Walton rolls over in his grave.

[pattmarty]

3. Are they allowed to "blog" about their pay, insurance or working conditions?

[Javaman]

4. No soup for you!

Only product beefs allowed!! You don't like your pay? screw you! You don't like your health benefits? screw you! You don't like your working conditions? screw you!

Now be a good little prol and tell us all you can about why you hate our products, so we can compile a nice folder on you and use it against you when you complain about the pay, your health benefits and the working conditions!

wal-mart: trying to make a difference in our product line, one fired employee at a time!

[pattmarty]

5. OK, now I get it, do "testing" of products at home on your........

..... own time is OK, but "blogging" about work abuses and shit pay & insurance EVEN on your OWN time is being a bad American and disgracing/demeaning "Big" Sam's memory. Hey, this is kinda cool, you have your employer controlling your off hours personal life too. Welcome to "America V.2000".

[Parche]

6. This Is As Blunt As You Can Get

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:puke: :puke:

:hi: