Socialites can be male or female, and the one distinctive quality they have is that they are rich people who regularly attend and hold entertaining parties and other functions. Where might you find socialites? There are many answers to that interesting question.
Any sort of a ritzy social function could be a place where socialites congregate. Charity fundraisers are one example of the type of social function that socialites might attend. They typically include a fancy dinner, speakers and often some kind of entertainment such as a charity auction or a dance. Socialites will come to these events to make large donations to their favorite charities, and also to be seen doing so.
Parties are a favorite hangout of socialites. They typically throw lavish parties for their fellow socialites, and attend those thrown by others of their class. Great sums of money are spent on servants, catered foods, live music, and other types of entertainments. These parties are often held at their mansions or at swank restaurants, hotels or country clubs.
Socialites also tend to congregate in large cities that are known to be hubs of entertainment, like New York City and London. Although they often travel around the world attending parties and events, they often make a name for themselves as a regular attender of socialite functions in a particular city.
Socialites tend to not be as well-known to the general public as are entertainers, simply because they lack the media exposure that many entertainers enjoy. Nevertheless, both groups are equally wealthy, yet may or may not party in the same circles.
Socialites often go to great lengths to protect and keep their anonymity by opting to attend exclusive social functions. These are sometimes covered by large newspapers, but typically these people spend a great deal of time letting everyone know that they are attending events that only cater to their own class.
No matter the location, socialites are also known for the luxurious clothing that they wear. Fashion designers such as Oscar de la Renta are known for being a designer to the socialites. Oscar de la Renta specializes in ready to wear clothing, accessories, fragrance, bridal designs, furs and a home collection. Other fashion designers called upon by famous party goers are Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Chanel and Christian Dior. Socialites utilize the services of these famous designers for their party clothing needs, and designers often craft one-of-a-kind designs just for special clients that include socialites.
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Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Friday, 12 February 2016
Walmart and the Media
Almost daily, there is mention of Walmart somewhere in the media.
Walmart finds itself up against more lawsuits then ever before and activists are at top of the list of problems that continue to plague Walmart.
From attempts to block the opening of new Super Centers to the individual and group lawsuits that are filed against the corporation, it will be the people, customers and the company's very own associates who will determine the fate of the aging retailer.
Attempts at redeeming itself publicly and attempts at improving its image are a new way of handling the perception people have of the company. In the past public relations and the media were areas that the company avoided unless there was an extremely negative situation had to answered through the media in some way. Now the corporate offices have decided to defend the company to the extent of taking out full page ads in different areas of the country and designing a web site called Walmartfacts to allow the public access to its' own view of the wonderful world of Walmart.
A corporation, a company, the as big as life retail behemoth whose founder Sam Walton, is looked at and remembered by many in different ways. Sam was a man who is quoted almost continuously by an assortment of different people and associates. Opinions vary and views on the man and his legacy continue.
The book" The Walmart Decade" by Robert Slater looks at not only the Walmart of today but also has many references to Sam Walton and the way it was. The book "Made in America" by Sam Walton and John Huey is a look at a man that seemed to genuinely care about the people that he more than once said "should be treated as partners;" his associates; his company's employees who are no longer protected by the founder and his way of "respecting the individual."
A new book titled The Walmart Way by Don Soderqist. It is supposed to be about the Walmart executives. It talks of the Judeo-Christian culture and although it is from the inside of the corporate and executive offices it is not from inside the stores and I am sure will not deal with the same things I am addressing in this book.
The corporate officers, the directors and the executive officers of the company are business people running a corporation, not Sam Walton.
Anyone attempting to find a company, or a corporation to work for that would appreciate hard work could at one time find it here. A person could take a look at "The Walmart Culture" and that person would be easy to convince that Walmart has it all and will give it all to you if you work hard and treat the customer as number one, according to Sam Walton. It seems, from the inside to be getting further away from that kind of respect and inclusiveness each day.
Today we have "The Walmart Decade "By Robert Slater "How a New Generation of Leaders Turned Sam Walton's Legacy into the World's #1 company"
You really need to read between the lines.
You would need to understand that Mr. Slater received his information as it is listed at the end of the book.
He did not work in the stores and did not really have access to or the ability to really touch the average associate. I did.
The largest retailer in the country and the world is more than just a retailer, employer and a stock on Wall Street. America's most admired company is a large part of day-to-day living for the typical American family. It is a very large part of the day-to-day life of Walmart Associates.
From the outside of the stores, there is more than one opinion of the company, its' suppliers and its' worth.
From inside there is also more than one opinion, and depending on many factors that determine your position in the Walmart order of things an opinion can be valid as far as Walmart is concerned or an opinion can be an expression of possible hostile aggressive behavior the way Walmart is today.
Among the many files, policies and trade secrets of the number one retailer in our nation and in the world are the people. These people work in the stores. The people that greet the customers and the people that keep the shelves stocked. In many cases, this book reflects the very lives of the people that this company will forever be connected to, like it or not.
This is the warehouse, the truck driver and the system that keeps count on all of it. This is the story that includes a factory in a foreign country that produces the clothing that hangs on the racks in the softlines departments.
This book is a written view from the inside of the stores. It takes an in depth look at the associates, individual stores, salaried management and the executive offices of this company that is listed on tickers of the New York Stock Exchange as wmt.
Julie Pierce has worked in the retail sector for more than thirty years. She has been a union member of the UCFW Union and the afl-cio more than once and has worked for more than one large retailer during the course of her career.
She attended Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City Beach, Florida, in the nineties in the pursuit of a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Some of her work has been published during the eighties and nineties in various editorial pages of newspapers in the state of New Jersey and Florida. She also did some work as a community reporter for a weekly newspaper in Panama City Florida.
Other work includes an article in the Gulls Cry, the Gulf Coast Community College newspaper. She is the wife of TSgt William F. Pierce Jr. (retired) USAF and the mother of three children and one grandchild. Her experience with Walmart has taken her into three different regions and six districts within the company.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/30399
Walmart finds itself up against more lawsuits then ever before and activists are at top of the list of problems that continue to plague Walmart.
From attempts to block the opening of new Super Centers to the individual and group lawsuits that are filed against the corporation, it will be the people, customers and the company's very own associates who will determine the fate of the aging retailer.
Attempts at redeeming itself publicly and attempts at improving its image are a new way of handling the perception people have of the company. In the past public relations and the media were areas that the company avoided unless there was an extremely negative situation had to answered through the media in some way. Now the corporate offices have decided to defend the company to the extent of taking out full page ads in different areas of the country and designing a web site called Walmartfacts to allow the public access to its' own view of the wonderful world of Walmart.
A corporation, a company, the as big as life retail behemoth whose founder Sam Walton, is looked at and remembered by many in different ways. Sam was a man who is quoted almost continuously by an assortment of different people and associates. Opinions vary and views on the man and his legacy continue.
The book" The Walmart Decade" by Robert Slater looks at not only the Walmart of today but also has many references to Sam Walton and the way it was. The book "Made in America" by Sam Walton and John Huey is a look at a man that seemed to genuinely care about the people that he more than once said "should be treated as partners;" his associates; his company's employees who are no longer protected by the founder and his way of "respecting the individual."
A new book titled The Walmart Way by Don Soderqist. It is supposed to be about the Walmart executives. It talks of the Judeo-Christian culture and although it is from the inside of the corporate and executive offices it is not from inside the stores and I am sure will not deal with the same things I am addressing in this book.
The corporate officers, the directors and the executive officers of the company are business people running a corporation, not Sam Walton.
Anyone attempting to find a company, or a corporation to work for that would appreciate hard work could at one time find it here. A person could take a look at "The Walmart Culture" and that person would be easy to convince that Walmart has it all and will give it all to you if you work hard and treat the customer as number one, according to Sam Walton. It seems, from the inside to be getting further away from that kind of respect and inclusiveness each day.
Today we have "The Walmart Decade "By Robert Slater "How a New Generation of Leaders Turned Sam Walton's Legacy into the World's #1 company"
You really need to read between the lines.
You would need to understand that Mr. Slater received his information as it is listed at the end of the book.
He did not work in the stores and did not really have access to or the ability to really touch the average associate. I did.
The largest retailer in the country and the world is more than just a retailer, employer and a stock on Wall Street. America's most admired company is a large part of day-to-day living for the typical American family. It is a very large part of the day-to-day life of Walmart Associates.
From the outside of the stores, there is more than one opinion of the company, its' suppliers and its' worth.
From inside there is also more than one opinion, and depending on many factors that determine your position in the Walmart order of things an opinion can be valid as far as Walmart is concerned or an opinion can be an expression of possible hostile aggressive behavior the way Walmart is today.
Among the many files, policies and trade secrets of the number one retailer in our nation and in the world are the people. These people work in the stores. The people that greet the customers and the people that keep the shelves stocked. In many cases, this book reflects the very lives of the people that this company will forever be connected to, like it or not.
This is the warehouse, the truck driver and the system that keeps count on all of it. This is the story that includes a factory in a foreign country that produces the clothing that hangs on the racks in the softlines departments.
This book is a written view from the inside of the stores. It takes an in depth look at the associates, individual stores, salaried management and the executive offices of this company that is listed on tickers of the New York Stock Exchange as wmt.
Julie Pierce has worked in the retail sector for more than thirty years. She has been a union member of the UCFW Union and the afl-cio more than once and has worked for more than one large retailer during the course of her career.
She attended Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City Beach, Florida, in the nineties in the pursuit of a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Some of her work has been published during the eighties and nineties in various editorial pages of newspapers in the state of New Jersey and Florida. She also did some work as a community reporter for a weekly newspaper in Panama City Florida.
Other work includes an article in the Gulls Cry, the Gulf Coast Community College newspaper. She is the wife of TSgt William F. Pierce Jr. (retired) USAF and the mother of three children and one grandchild. Her experience with Walmart has taken her into three different regions and six districts within the company.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/30399
14 Major Mobsters Caught By FBI
Fourteen major mobsters have been arrested by the Chicago FBI. All are considered devout Catholics and had been extremely active in the Catholic Church. Some believe that the huge amounts of money they had donated in their lifetimes helped them go without prosecution or arrest for most of their lives. The group arrested in many states has alleged to have killed 18 people, but had also been pillars to the community and church donating millions to the Catholic causes. Of those arrested were; Joey "the Clown" Lombardo, Frank "the German" Schweihs, Frank "Gumba" Saladino. Many of the 18 mob murders that stretch back over four decades; had gone unsolved almost forgotten.
The Chicago Cardinal of the Catholic Church Francis George was not picked up as part of the investigation and arrests. He returned to Chicago after visiting the new Pope, but was not arrested. There are many FBI agents in Chicago who are in the Catholic Church and some feel this may have been the reason that once again the Catholic Church squeaked by without arrests of the Cardinal. If you will recall, Cardinal Law of Boston, fled prosecution and went to Vatican as a fugitive and was re-assigned similar to how he re-assigned Child Molesting Priests from parish to parish so they could repeat their molesting of parishioners children.
The mobsters were careful to align themselves with the Catholic Church and many mobsters although quite corrupt in their business dealings helped contribute to the Catholic Church through custom and culture. Many of these families were have roots all the way back to Sicily and have rich Italian backgrounds. The Catholic Church allowed for anonymity and offered forgiveness in exchange for the dirty cash donations to run the expensive costs of the church.
Many are quick to point out that even though much of the Catholic Church's mob money donations came from the exploitation of people, black mail, drugs and protection extortion monies that were there by laundered into a more legitimate stream ended up doing good for the communities and downtrodden. Others believe the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church in taking mob monies is typical and similar to their blind eye and turning a their heads to the known child molestation of two-thousand plus years. As for the victims, well many are dead, murdered or paid to shut up. This includes police, politicians and businessmen.
Did the Catholic Church help the FBI and turn in the old mobsters, many of whom are now over 60 years old? Some may not even be able to stand trial or live to serve their sentences, if in fact they are actually convicted. Can the mobsters trust the Catholic Church after all these years of accepting blood money for silence? Will the new mob families go after these Priests, Clergy and Cardinals for their help with the FBI? Will the FBI keep their testimonies in secrecy? Does this mean the Catholic Church is turning a new leaf over their acceptance of dirty money, which has caused so much hardship and pain for the City of Chicago? If the Catholic Church is ridding themselves of their dirty deeds and crime links? Does this mean they will now oust the child molesters, which are still in their ranks, pulling down the pants of our children and having their way with them?
We shall see if in fact the help of the Catholic Church and secret tips to the FBI are a new pattern of truth and leadership under the new Pope Benedict who is now in charge of the a Church which has betrayed their parishioners trust. Obviously at this point we cannot elaborate more on the links between the Catholic Church and the old time mobsters caught this week by the FBI or participation and helpful information given by the church leading to the arrests. The case is still going and interference in a Federal Investigation is illegal. We ask you; should the Cardinal in Chicago be forced to resign or arrested for his ongoing association with the Mob in the windy city? Think about it.
"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.
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The Chicago Cardinal of the Catholic Church Francis George was not picked up as part of the investigation and arrests. He returned to Chicago after visiting the new Pope, but was not arrested. There are many FBI agents in Chicago who are in the Catholic Church and some feel this may have been the reason that once again the Catholic Church squeaked by without arrests of the Cardinal. If you will recall, Cardinal Law of Boston, fled prosecution and went to Vatican as a fugitive and was re-assigned similar to how he re-assigned Child Molesting Priests from parish to parish so they could repeat their molesting of parishioners children.
The mobsters were careful to align themselves with the Catholic Church and many mobsters although quite corrupt in their business dealings helped contribute to the Catholic Church through custom and culture. Many of these families were have roots all the way back to Sicily and have rich Italian backgrounds. The Catholic Church allowed for anonymity and offered forgiveness in exchange for the dirty cash donations to run the expensive costs of the church.
Many are quick to point out that even though much of the Catholic Church's mob money donations came from the exploitation of people, black mail, drugs and protection extortion monies that were there by laundered into a more legitimate stream ended up doing good for the communities and downtrodden. Others believe the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church in taking mob monies is typical and similar to their blind eye and turning a their heads to the known child molestation of two-thousand plus years. As for the victims, well many are dead, murdered or paid to shut up. This includes police, politicians and businessmen.
Did the Catholic Church help the FBI and turn in the old mobsters, many of whom are now over 60 years old? Some may not even be able to stand trial or live to serve their sentences, if in fact they are actually convicted. Can the mobsters trust the Catholic Church after all these years of accepting blood money for silence? Will the new mob families go after these Priests, Clergy and Cardinals for their help with the FBI? Will the FBI keep their testimonies in secrecy? Does this mean the Catholic Church is turning a new leaf over their acceptance of dirty money, which has caused so much hardship and pain for the City of Chicago? If the Catholic Church is ridding themselves of their dirty deeds and crime links? Does this mean they will now oust the child molesters, which are still in their ranks, pulling down the pants of our children and having their way with them?
We shall see if in fact the help of the Catholic Church and secret tips to the FBI are a new pattern of truth and leadership under the new Pope Benedict who is now in charge of the a Church which has betrayed their parishioners trust. Obviously at this point we cannot elaborate more on the links between the Catholic Church and the old time mobsters caught this week by the FBI or participation and helpful information given by the church leading to the arrests. The case is still going and interference in a Federal Investigation is illegal. We ask you; should the Cardinal in Chicago be forced to resign or arrested for his ongoing association with the Mob in the windy city? Think about it.
"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/30875
Working "The Walmart Way" In the Stores
I imagine it is the size of the corporation. So many different people in so many different places and one store is different from the other. It is difficult if not almost impossible to know what to expect when you go into a new store when you work for Walmart.
Although all of the stores I have worked in have seemed the same, there are many things in each that are different.
I have worked for store managers that seem real.
I have worked for store managers that are biased and distant.
I have worked for liars and for very honest and ethical store managers.
In the world of retail there are few store manager positions that give incentive bonuses as big as Walmart.
Surely once a manager gets to that salary range they become very secretive and they are almost devious in some things, of course always with a reason to be that way. Fluff is fluff and it makes no difference where you use it.
Confidentiality seems to be a large part of what happens behind closed doors if the management is at fault.
Of course there are a number of things that during my almost seven years with the company I ignored because I knew that some of the simplest things would be used against me.
The company is sexist in that the stores are controlled by males for the most part and even when there is a female store manager she is usually directly below a male in the Walmart order of things.
I have ignored many sexist remarks and have ignored many things some women would consider sexual harassment.
In the store that I have just left or was terminated from there is a mouse pad in the assistant's office that could be looked at as sexual. I said nothing about it because I knew that it would only be another reason for them to find a way to get rid of me.
It has a picture of a scantly clothed woman on top of a car on it. The store's management is divided in that out of fourteen managers only three were female.
I also have in my possession a joke that was passed around the office during the Christmas holidays that is quite dirty.
I have seen other female assistant managers make sexual advances to other members of management and it did not seem to hurt their promotable opportunities. As a matter of fact it seems acting sexy can help your career. Sorry, I am older than they would be interested in.
I have been present when a female assistant held another manager's head upon her breast petting the top of his head and indicating that she would take care of him.
I have heard numerous times of managers being transferred and promoted after relationships with higher management went wrong or resulted in a pregnancy. I have also been told that some associates after being involved with upper management have been promoted after the affair.
Of course most of the more pronounced situations consist of what is considered to be hearsay but Walmart contributes to it by not explaining why things are being done.
Many of the stores that I have been assigned to have associates in them that have been there for a long period of time and many of the associates bring the same information with them as a concern when they do not understand something that is happening in the store.
Integrity on the store, district or regional level is at times virtually nonexistent.
Although I was originally told that I had nothing to worry about if I followed Walmart Policy I do believe that the things I brought to the attention of the corporate offices was a large part of my eventual termination.
Not only is Walmart dead set against Unions, it is dead set against the hourly associates knowing anything that is in the least off color.
They want the management to look pure at all cost. They overly protect managers that have no respect for the associates on an individual or group basis. Hourly associates are kept in the dark on a number of issues. The basic talk in the back office has no line of respect or dignity for associates. The management says what it wants to whoever it wants to it hides the rest. Okay possible it was just the stores I worked in?
Julie Pierce has worked in the retail sector for more than thirty years. She has been a union member of the UCFW Union and the afl-cio more than once and has worked for more than one large retailer during the course of her career. She attended Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City Beach, Florida, in the nineties in the pursuit of a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. Some of her work has been published during the eighties and nineties in various editorial pages of newspapers in the state of New Jersey and Florida. She also did some work as a community reporter for a weekly newspaper in Panama City Florida. Other work includes an article in the Gulls Cry, the Gulf Coast Community College newspaper.
She is the wife of TSgt William F. Pierce Jr. (retired) USAF and the mother of three children and one grandchild.
Her experience with Walmart has taken her into three different regions and six districts within the company. In over a six-year period has worked in ten Walmart stores for twelve Walmart Store Managers.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/30415
Although all of the stores I have worked in have seemed the same, there are many things in each that are different.
I have worked for store managers that seem real.
I have worked for store managers that are biased and distant.
I have worked for liars and for very honest and ethical store managers.
In the world of retail there are few store manager positions that give incentive bonuses as big as Walmart.
Surely once a manager gets to that salary range they become very secretive and they are almost devious in some things, of course always with a reason to be that way. Fluff is fluff and it makes no difference where you use it.
Confidentiality seems to be a large part of what happens behind closed doors if the management is at fault.
Of course there are a number of things that during my almost seven years with the company I ignored because I knew that some of the simplest things would be used against me.
The company is sexist in that the stores are controlled by males for the most part and even when there is a female store manager she is usually directly below a male in the Walmart order of things.
I have ignored many sexist remarks and have ignored many things some women would consider sexual harassment.
In the store that I have just left or was terminated from there is a mouse pad in the assistant's office that could be looked at as sexual. I said nothing about it because I knew that it would only be another reason for them to find a way to get rid of me.
It has a picture of a scantly clothed woman on top of a car on it. The store's management is divided in that out of fourteen managers only three were female.
I also have in my possession a joke that was passed around the office during the Christmas holidays that is quite dirty.
I have seen other female assistant managers make sexual advances to other members of management and it did not seem to hurt their promotable opportunities. As a matter of fact it seems acting sexy can help your career. Sorry, I am older than they would be interested in.
I have been present when a female assistant held another manager's head upon her breast petting the top of his head and indicating that she would take care of him.
I have heard numerous times of managers being transferred and promoted after relationships with higher management went wrong or resulted in a pregnancy. I have also been told that some associates after being involved with upper management have been promoted after the affair.
Of course most of the more pronounced situations consist of what is considered to be hearsay but Walmart contributes to it by not explaining why things are being done.
Many of the stores that I have been assigned to have associates in them that have been there for a long period of time and many of the associates bring the same information with them as a concern when they do not understand something that is happening in the store.
Integrity on the store, district or regional level is at times virtually nonexistent.
Although I was originally told that I had nothing to worry about if I followed Walmart Policy I do believe that the things I brought to the attention of the corporate offices was a large part of my eventual termination.
Not only is Walmart dead set against Unions, it is dead set against the hourly associates knowing anything that is in the least off color.
They want the management to look pure at all cost. They overly protect managers that have no respect for the associates on an individual or group basis. Hourly associates are kept in the dark on a number of issues. The basic talk in the back office has no line of respect or dignity for associates. The management says what it wants to whoever it wants to it hides the rest. Okay possible it was just the stores I worked in?
Julie Pierce has worked in the retail sector for more than thirty years. She has been a union member of the UCFW Union and the afl-cio more than once and has worked for more than one large retailer during the course of her career. She attended Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City Beach, Florida, in the nineties in the pursuit of a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. Some of her work has been published during the eighties and nineties in various editorial pages of newspapers in the state of New Jersey and Florida. She also did some work as a community reporter for a weekly newspaper in Panama City Florida. Other work includes an article in the Gulls Cry, the Gulf Coast Community College newspaper.
She is the wife of TSgt William F. Pierce Jr. (retired) USAF and the mother of three children and one grandchild.
Her experience with Walmart has taken her into three different regions and six districts within the company. In over a six-year period has worked in ten Walmart stores for twelve Walmart Store Managers.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/30415
Is Big Brother Watching At Walmart?
Big Brother Is Watching You
How many miles away from your store, is safe?
"Big Brother" may be watching you.
If someone just does not like another associate and can find someone to back up an allegation true or not it can cause an associate to be terminated.
Termination due to Gross Misconduct is something that can be used to rid a store of anyone for any reason as long as someone backs the allegation.
You can say a bad word in California, or not, if you work in Jersey and if someone knows you work for Walmart and turns you in you can be terminated.
You can be terminated for any negative comment about any thing.
You can be terminated for foul language even if it is not used in association with the company. It only has to be heard by an associate or person who wants to make you crawl.
You can be coached or terminated for not standing up for a salaried member of management. If you hear any kind of negative remarks about one you have to tell that person immediately that it has to stop. You have to remove yourself from the area.
Your personal feelings about a coworker or manager have to be held silent if you value your job. You can know they are lying. It makes no difference.
Surveillance tapes that are fed through any number of cameras to tapes in the security office in each store are sometimes used to document not only the customers and possible shoplifters but are also used in some of the stores to find associates that in that store's opinion are not being productive enough or to trace their steps.
I have seen supercenters with as many as twenty-eight recorders in the security office. Usually these are not manned, but changed daily by management staff and saved for at least a month or longer. Any day that is questioned is put aside and saved to be reviewed. A newer system is currently being sent into new stores and stores being remodeled and will consist of dvd disks that do not have to be changed as often these will be able to be accessed and used for documentation.
I have seen stores where a monitor would be in the store manager's office purely for watching a specific area of the store to see what the associates may or may not be doing.
Being off the clock means nothing as far as your personal Big Brother is concerned. You are considered guilty until you can prove you are innocent for anything a store manager or salaried member of management may think is inappropriate.
I have witnessed what would be considered to be inappropriate behavior by a co manager and it was not dealt with as gross misconduct. I don't think Big Brother was watching him. The report associates and I gave seemed to accomplish nothing.
I am quite sure if I showed any part of my undergarments to associates male or female on the sales floor I would be terminated.
When you are given too much work to do within a specific time frame how do you handle it?
In reality some hourly associates wonder if it is better to say yes I will, even when they know the assignment cannot possibly be completed within the timeframe given to them.
It is usually at a time like this, an associate may take it upon themselves, to punch out and complete an assignment. Many fear they might be coached for poor work performance when they are doing more work than most.
Where is Big Brother when you need him?
Julie Pierce has worked in the retail sector for more than thirty years. She has been a union member of the UCFW Union and the afl-cio more than once and has worked for more than one large retailer during the course of her career. She attended Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City Beach, Florida, in the nineties in the pursuit of a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Some of her work has been published during the eighties and nineties in various editorial pages of newspapers in the state of New Jersey and Florida. She also did some work as a community reporter for a weekly newspaper in Panama City Florida. Other work includes an article in the Gulls Cry, the Gulf Coast Community College newspaper. She is the wife of TSgt William F. Pierce Jr. (retired) USAF and the mother of three children and one grandchild. Her experience with Walmart has taken her into three different regions and six districts within the company. In over a six-year period has worked in ten Walmart stores for twelve Walmart Store Managers.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/30416
How many miles away from your store, is safe?
"Big Brother" may be watching you.
If someone just does not like another associate and can find someone to back up an allegation true or not it can cause an associate to be terminated.
Termination due to Gross Misconduct is something that can be used to rid a store of anyone for any reason as long as someone backs the allegation.
You can say a bad word in California, or not, if you work in Jersey and if someone knows you work for Walmart and turns you in you can be terminated.
You can be terminated for any negative comment about any thing.
You can be terminated for foul language even if it is not used in association with the company. It only has to be heard by an associate or person who wants to make you crawl.
You can be coached or terminated for not standing up for a salaried member of management. If you hear any kind of negative remarks about one you have to tell that person immediately that it has to stop. You have to remove yourself from the area.
Your personal feelings about a coworker or manager have to be held silent if you value your job. You can know they are lying. It makes no difference.
Surveillance tapes that are fed through any number of cameras to tapes in the security office in each store are sometimes used to document not only the customers and possible shoplifters but are also used in some of the stores to find associates that in that store's opinion are not being productive enough or to trace their steps.
I have seen supercenters with as many as twenty-eight recorders in the security office. Usually these are not manned, but changed daily by management staff and saved for at least a month or longer. Any day that is questioned is put aside and saved to be reviewed. A newer system is currently being sent into new stores and stores being remodeled and will consist of dvd disks that do not have to be changed as often these will be able to be accessed and used for documentation.
I have seen stores where a monitor would be in the store manager's office purely for watching a specific area of the store to see what the associates may or may not be doing.
Being off the clock means nothing as far as your personal Big Brother is concerned. You are considered guilty until you can prove you are innocent for anything a store manager or salaried member of management may think is inappropriate.
I have witnessed what would be considered to be inappropriate behavior by a co manager and it was not dealt with as gross misconduct. I don't think Big Brother was watching him. The report associates and I gave seemed to accomplish nothing.
I am quite sure if I showed any part of my undergarments to associates male or female on the sales floor I would be terminated.
When you are given too much work to do within a specific time frame how do you handle it?
In reality some hourly associates wonder if it is better to say yes I will, even when they know the assignment cannot possibly be completed within the timeframe given to them.
It is usually at a time like this, an associate may take it upon themselves, to punch out and complete an assignment. Many fear they might be coached for poor work performance when they are doing more work than most.
Where is Big Brother when you need him?
Julie Pierce has worked in the retail sector for more than thirty years. She has been a union member of the UCFW Union and the afl-cio more than once and has worked for more than one large retailer during the course of her career. She attended Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City Beach, Florida, in the nineties in the pursuit of a degree in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Some of her work has been published during the eighties and nineties in various editorial pages of newspapers in the state of New Jersey and Florida. She also did some work as a community reporter for a weekly newspaper in Panama City Florida. Other work includes an article in the Gulls Cry, the Gulf Coast Community College newspaper. She is the wife of TSgt William F. Pierce Jr. (retired) USAF and the mother of three children and one grandchild. Her experience with Walmart has taken her into three different regions and six districts within the company. In over a six-year period has worked in ten Walmart stores for twelve Walmart Store Managers.
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Real Women Love Martha
Martha Stewart will make sugar cookies and a whopping pitcher of lemonade out of lemons after she takes off that ankle bracelet. I love the Fox News commentary that we can't keep track of sex offenders in Florida, but Martha has to wear an ankle bracelet and can't garden or ride horses. All right, Martha, back away from the tomatoes!
Her stock may go through growing pains, but her Sirius radio show will lure an audience like bees to honey glazed ham.
Why?
Let's look beyond the "she said/she didn't say" particulars.
Savemartha.com, Marthatalks.com, and other Web sites indicate
that Ms. Stewart is not the most hated woman in America. Even Jay Leno, previously bombarded by Savemartha.com for his jibes at Martha, made some humorous jabs on her behalf. "Keep track of her? We can't get rid of her!...Martha can't ride a horse on her farm. What, are the police afraid of a 60-year-old woman on horseback? They couldn't even catch O.J. in the Ford Bronco!"
Meanwhile, feminists, who conveniently remained silent while a largely male conspiracy degraded a strong, independent, successful woman, often derided Martha as setting an impossible and unrealistic standard of perfection.
You want to talk unrealistic? The media portrays the ideal
woman as size 2 with breast implants. And the marketing machine
pretends Britney Spears can sing and Jessica Simpson actually
has something to say worth listening to.
But aren't we supposed to be beyond those traditional feminine
roles?
Hey, weren't the feminists saying that Woman is all-nurturing
and any labor that comes from Womyn's hands is superior to
(cough) males of any race but especially white males? Methinks the ladies do
protest too much. Maybe feeling awkward about their own
domestic skills? Guilty over a standard they themselves
repudiate? Afraid of their own feminine urges to make crepe
paper decorations and make a cake?
Real women bake pies. Or choose not to--that's fine. Real
women decorate for Christmas. Real women garden. Real women
can be difficult to work with, the same as the real men. People
just notice it more when the refusal to compromise comes from a
pair of size seven high heels. But hey, even Dennis Rodman and
RuPaul got away with that.
And speaking of athletes, real women know that it's not okay for
people who dribble a ball all day to get billions of dollars a
year while people like Martha who embody the American Dream, who
give us products that actually enrich our lives instead of hours
of mindless television and sports talk, get a prison sentence.
The entire NBA has been in prison. I don't see anyone
threatening to stop buying Nikes and Air Jordans.
Real women bake cookies. It's a no-brainer: Chocolate chips!
As in, chocolate chip cookies! Which, by the way, the male of
the species has also been known to eat. It's interesting to
note that half the messages and letters on Savemartha.com are
from men.
Real women bake. We know you're out there. So show your support and buy Martha, bake with Martha, and tune in to Martha Stewart Living Radio when it launches.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/31066
Her stock may go through growing pains, but her Sirius radio show will lure an audience like bees to honey glazed ham.
Why?
Let's look beyond the "she said/she didn't say" particulars.
Savemartha.com, Marthatalks.com, and other Web sites indicate
that Ms. Stewart is not the most hated woman in America. Even Jay Leno, previously bombarded by Savemartha.com for his jibes at Martha, made some humorous jabs on her behalf. "Keep track of her? We can't get rid of her!...Martha can't ride a horse on her farm. What, are the police afraid of a 60-year-old woman on horseback? They couldn't even catch O.J. in the Ford Bronco!"
Meanwhile, feminists, who conveniently remained silent while a largely male conspiracy degraded a strong, independent, successful woman, often derided Martha as setting an impossible and unrealistic standard of perfection.
You want to talk unrealistic? The media portrays the ideal
woman as size 2 with breast implants. And the marketing machine
pretends Britney Spears can sing and Jessica Simpson actually
has something to say worth listening to.
But aren't we supposed to be beyond those traditional feminine
roles?
Hey, weren't the feminists saying that Woman is all-nurturing
and any labor that comes from Womyn's hands is superior to
(cough) males of any race but especially white males? Methinks the ladies do
protest too much. Maybe feeling awkward about their own
domestic skills? Guilty over a standard they themselves
repudiate? Afraid of their own feminine urges to make crepe
paper decorations and make a cake?
Real women bake pies. Or choose not to--that's fine. Real
women decorate for Christmas. Real women garden. Real women
can be difficult to work with, the same as the real men. People
just notice it more when the refusal to compromise comes from a
pair of size seven high heels. But hey, even Dennis Rodman and
RuPaul got away with that.
And speaking of athletes, real women know that it's not okay for
people who dribble a ball all day to get billions of dollars a
year while people like Martha who embody the American Dream, who
give us products that actually enrich our lives instead of hours
of mindless television and sports talk, get a prison sentence.
The entire NBA has been in prison. I don't see anyone
threatening to stop buying Nikes and Air Jordans.
Real women bake cookies. It's a no-brainer: Chocolate chips!
As in, chocolate chip cookies! Which, by the way, the male of
the species has also been known to eat. It's interesting to
note that half the messages and letters on Savemartha.com are
from men.
Real women bake. We know you're out there. So show your support and buy Martha, bake with Martha, and tune in to Martha Stewart Living Radio when it launches.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/31066
The Sixties - The New Generation
The Sixties. All you have to do is say it out loud, and people of a certain age immediately smile. Kids today are wearing Sixties fashions - bell bottoms, peasant tops, faux fur trimmed jackets - largely in tribute to this great decade. When the Sixties happened, the Western world came of age. It was a ten-year renaissance; music changed, art changed, computers came into widespread use, and the television changed the way people perceived their relationship with the Establishment forever.
Shouts Heard Round The World: Sixties History
For a decade that claimed to be all about peace, the Sixties were remarkably violent. In America, President Kennedy was assassinated, followed by his brother. Reverent Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. War erupted in Southeast Asia - again. In Britain, troops went to Northern Ireland in a "limited operation," where they remain to this day. Violence begat violence on campuses all around the world. And the youth started making their voices heard.
But there was much more to Sixties history than violence. In fact, the refrain "Make Love, Not War," was the true chant of the younger generation, led by emerging rock bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who. And with these rock bands, Britain re-invaded and conquered its former colonies; there were times that American rock bands couldn't even make it onto the charts.
But if the British conquered America's music scene, America slipped in and conquered the British television and movie scene - at least for a while. Star Trek and cartoons like the Flintstones became wildly popular in Britain, just as they were in the States. And Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne stalked the big screens, both mesmerizingly attractive in their own ways.
With the invention of the birth control pill, free love became another mantra (and "mantra" is another word made popular by the Sixties). Young men and women were freer to have relationships with one another, and they did. With this one change, the entire relation between men and women was undermined; no longer did "good girls" have to stay celibate to remain out of trouble. And now both young men and women were free to explore their sexuality. It made a more profound impact in Western society than most of us want to admit, even today.
All You Need Is Love: Sixties Events
Renaissance. From the bottom to the top, the Sixties were a time of change on every level. And you could tell. The most remarkable change was in the transformation from the socially-conservative fifties to the anything-goes seventies. This volcanic change was brought about by huge changes beneath the surface.
Probably the most important change was in how people saw one another. Women and men suddenly had a different, and more complex, relationship than ever before. Ethnic groups, too, were making their voices known in more and more places around the world. In the US particularly, Blacks and Native Americans participated in radical movements to change the discriminatory habits of their homeland. This enormous social and cultural movement spilled over into Europe and Africa, and was watched with great interest by the rest of the world. Would America be destabilized or changed forever?
Art and music, influenced by the changing social attitudes, the influx of drugs, and a more free, independent spirit born in the Beatniks of the fifties, underwent a transformation. Pop art, both paying tribute to and casting scorn upon the modern world, became influential. Rock music and concerts became a primary mover of society; rock artists were not only performers, but political activists.
You Say You Want A Revolution: Sixties Music
What can be said? Everything changed. Everything. Radio and music created the first rock superstars during the Sixties, and bands from Britain's rock underground erupted with real force, moving throughout the world with their new musical messages about love and freedom and real issues. Like the Romantics of the early 19th century, rock musicians turned the world upside down to find out what was on the bottom.
In Britain, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and other rock bands took over the music scene. The Americans weren't far behind; Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Aretha Franklin emerged as major talents in the second half of the decade. These bands are still played regularly on the radio today, and those who are still alive still perform today.
Have It Your Way: Sixties Food
Yet again, the Sixties contradicts itself; at the same time fast food restaurants started to develop the patterns they still hold today, health food and vegetarianism were gaining steadily in the eating habits of ordinary people. Hippies and other socially-conscious groups chose to eat no meat because they didn't believe in killing animals, and they grew food organically because they believed in harmonizing with their environment.
But the Sixties is where McDonalds started growing strongly, challenged by Burger King and Burger Chef, and when a 65-year-old loser named Harlan Sanders opened a restaurant he called Kentucky Fried Chicken. While some were eating healthier food than people had ever eaten before, others were eating food that would lead to obesity and many other serious health problems that still exist today.
Fun For A Girl And A Boy: Sixties Toys
The golden couple of the Sixties was undoubtedly Barbie and Ken (although Sindy and Paul were pretty close). These lifelike, though not anatomically correct, dolls and their armies of friends and accessories fulfilled many little girls' dreams, and shaped how they thought about becoming a woman. Barbie was the first career woman many girls came in contact with, and she was very unlike their mothers! The boys weren't left out, though; Matchbox cars were introduced for them, and vintage Sixties Matchbox cars are still collectors items today.
For older kids, Twister was invented in the Sixties; it's still popular today both as the old game and as more adult versions.
They Had A Dream: Sixties Celebrities
The Sixties were a time of excitement, and there's no denying that this was because of the people of the Sixties. From cultural icons like Marilyn and the Beatles, to politicians and leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK, to group movements like hippies and Black Panthers, the unique energy of the people of the Sixties gave shape to the decade.
Do You Remember When We. . . : Sixties Memorabilia
Today, you can get a little taste of the Sixties again by collecting memorabilia. There are people who decorate entire rooms in a Sixties theme. If you don't have the money to pick up authentic Sixties collectibles, you can always buy some of the newer Sixties-inspired products.
For instance, lava lamps are back with a vengeance, as are psychedelic colors and designs. There are entire stores based around selling Sixties movie and concert posters. Beatles memorabilia, authentic memorabilia, is not as expensive as you might think; the Beatles were the first celebrities with their faces stamped on practically everything, and as a result you can find coffee cups, coasters, plates, clothes, and lunchboxes generously decorated with the Fab Four's faces. Inflatable furniture is back too, just like bell bottoms and miniskirts.
The Sixties may be gone. But they'll never be forgotten.
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Shouts Heard Round The World: Sixties History
For a decade that claimed to be all about peace, the Sixties were remarkably violent. In America, President Kennedy was assassinated, followed by his brother. Reverent Martin Luther King Jr. was shot. War erupted in Southeast Asia - again. In Britain, troops went to Northern Ireland in a "limited operation," where they remain to this day. Violence begat violence on campuses all around the world. And the youth started making their voices heard.
But there was much more to Sixties history than violence. In fact, the refrain "Make Love, Not War," was the true chant of the younger generation, led by emerging rock bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who. And with these rock bands, Britain re-invaded and conquered its former colonies; there were times that American rock bands couldn't even make it onto the charts.
But if the British conquered America's music scene, America slipped in and conquered the British television and movie scene - at least for a while. Star Trek and cartoons like the Flintstones became wildly popular in Britain, just as they were in the States. And Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne stalked the big screens, both mesmerizingly attractive in their own ways.
With the invention of the birth control pill, free love became another mantra (and "mantra" is another word made popular by the Sixties). Young men and women were freer to have relationships with one another, and they did. With this one change, the entire relation between men and women was undermined; no longer did "good girls" have to stay celibate to remain out of trouble. And now both young men and women were free to explore their sexuality. It made a more profound impact in Western society than most of us want to admit, even today.
All You Need Is Love: Sixties Events
Renaissance. From the bottom to the top, the Sixties were a time of change on every level. And you could tell. The most remarkable change was in the transformation from the socially-conservative fifties to the anything-goes seventies. This volcanic change was brought about by huge changes beneath the surface.
Probably the most important change was in how people saw one another. Women and men suddenly had a different, and more complex, relationship than ever before. Ethnic groups, too, were making their voices known in more and more places around the world. In the US particularly, Blacks and Native Americans participated in radical movements to change the discriminatory habits of their homeland. This enormous social and cultural movement spilled over into Europe and Africa, and was watched with great interest by the rest of the world. Would America be destabilized or changed forever?
Art and music, influenced by the changing social attitudes, the influx of drugs, and a more free, independent spirit born in the Beatniks of the fifties, underwent a transformation. Pop art, both paying tribute to and casting scorn upon the modern world, became influential. Rock music and concerts became a primary mover of society; rock artists were not only performers, but political activists.
You Say You Want A Revolution: Sixties Music
What can be said? Everything changed. Everything. Radio and music created the first rock superstars during the Sixties, and bands from Britain's rock underground erupted with real force, moving throughout the world with their new musical messages about love and freedom and real issues. Like the Romantics of the early 19th century, rock musicians turned the world upside down to find out what was on the bottom.
In Britain, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and other rock bands took over the music scene. The Americans weren't far behind; Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Aretha Franklin emerged as major talents in the second half of the decade. These bands are still played regularly on the radio today, and those who are still alive still perform today.
Have It Your Way: Sixties Food
Yet again, the Sixties contradicts itself; at the same time fast food restaurants started to develop the patterns they still hold today, health food and vegetarianism were gaining steadily in the eating habits of ordinary people. Hippies and other socially-conscious groups chose to eat no meat because they didn't believe in killing animals, and they grew food organically because they believed in harmonizing with their environment.
But the Sixties is where McDonalds started growing strongly, challenged by Burger King and Burger Chef, and when a 65-year-old loser named Harlan Sanders opened a restaurant he called Kentucky Fried Chicken. While some were eating healthier food than people had ever eaten before, others were eating food that would lead to obesity and many other serious health problems that still exist today.
Fun For A Girl And A Boy: Sixties Toys
The golden couple of the Sixties was undoubtedly Barbie and Ken (although Sindy and Paul were pretty close). These lifelike, though not anatomically correct, dolls and their armies of friends and accessories fulfilled many little girls' dreams, and shaped how they thought about becoming a woman. Barbie was the first career woman many girls came in contact with, and she was very unlike their mothers! The boys weren't left out, though; Matchbox cars were introduced for them, and vintage Sixties Matchbox cars are still collectors items today.
For older kids, Twister was invented in the Sixties; it's still popular today both as the old game and as more adult versions.
They Had A Dream: Sixties Celebrities
The Sixties were a time of excitement, and there's no denying that this was because of the people of the Sixties. From cultural icons like Marilyn and the Beatles, to politicians and leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK, to group movements like hippies and Black Panthers, the unique energy of the people of the Sixties gave shape to the decade.
Do You Remember When We. . . : Sixties Memorabilia
Today, you can get a little taste of the Sixties again by collecting memorabilia. There are people who decorate entire rooms in a Sixties theme. If you don't have the money to pick up authentic Sixties collectibles, you can always buy some of the newer Sixties-inspired products.
For instance, lava lamps are back with a vengeance, as are psychedelic colors and designs. There are entire stores based around selling Sixties movie and concert posters. Beatles memorabilia, authentic memorabilia, is not as expensive as you might think; the Beatles were the first celebrities with their faces stamped on practically everything, and as a result you can find coffee cups, coasters, plates, clothes, and lunchboxes generously decorated with the Fab Four's faces. Inflatable furniture is back too, just like bell bottoms and miniskirts.
The Sixties may be gone. But they'll never be forgotten.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/25832
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