Tuesday, December 5, 2006

What if my company acts like Wal-Mart...

Have you read that report on Wal-Mart? Like this one at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/business/04walmart.html?_r=1&oref=slogin about how Wal-Mart thinks it's newsworthy to tell the world that it's "rewarding" its loyal employees' 15 years of service with a T-shirt? What would _YOU_ do if your company treats you like that?

It amazes me that the best that Wal-Mart's HR can come up with for employee rewards is this, and equally amazing to see that their PR folks thinks this is such a big deal that they need to make a news release on it. Even more so is that, its senior management lacks the commonsense to think that this is going to be bad PR. I wonder how many rank-and-file employees (not management) actually stay there for 15 long years. Can anyone tell me?

Well, but let's try not to be cynical about this Behemoth. For a company that promises nothing more than pitches pennies for its customers, we shouldn't be expecting too much from them, should we.

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