walmart is the best driving job i've ever had

Exactly how much should Walmart pay unskilled labor? They already start at above minimum wage, which they don't HAVE to do. Does anyone ever bother to do any math before playing the 'evil Walmart card'? There are 1.5 million store employees (associates). If you added just ONE dollar per hour to their (unskilled) pay, that would increase Walmarts operating costs by 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS PER ASSOCIATE HOUR! It's unsustainable! Everyone thinks the billions that Walmart makes is pure profit. It's not. They have a 4% profitmmargin! That's it. 4%. Walmart knows what it's doing, and increasing costs to their customers to pay more to cashiers and stockers isn't in their business plan. Now if you have a business degree and you manage to get on the board of directors at Walmart, then maybe you can change things...but you'd probably just manage to get thrown out the front door.

 

As a trucker,you are unskilled labor.Why would they be so favorable to you,yet let govt. pay for everyone else?
Personally,I am sick and tired of paying so much in taxes to subsidize people such as your employer.
As should you.

 

You do realize more and more companies are turning to the wallyworld business model by paying crap wages and letting Uncle Sugar take care of them.Even people with good jobs haven't had a raise in 6 or 8 years. Your employer is dragging this whole country down,so don't bother telling me how good you have it. Ride through in town in America and you see real quick which have wallyworlds and which don't.

 

Think about what you're saying man. You don't like subsidizing people now? Nobody bothers to consider the consequences of Walmart paying more to their associates then they already do. The more money you take from Walmart profits, the more they will have to raise prices, the less people they will employ, and you will be paying even more for people who are now out of work. Its basic economics, and nobody ever bothers to consider that. Its so easy for someone to tell a company what they should do, how much they should pay, what benefits they should provide. Who is providing the jobs for these people? Who initially took the risk to start this company? Who owns the company? The answer to all the above is not you. So unless you start your own company or take over Walmart, you have no say. And I am proud of the company I work for and don't need anyone to tell me when I should be. As far as being unskilled... have to disagree with you there buddy. We may not have degrees in engineering, but most of us drivers possess a great deal of skills that do not come over night. Walmart will never hire an unskilled driver.

 

Obviously Wal-Mart has standards when hiring drivers but, as the other poster said trucking is an unskilled labor... Look at the standards the majority of the industry has with the fly by night CDL schools and the countless bottom feeder companies that are out there... Just look when your at a truck stop or driving down the road its unreal... Its not skill that's for sure...

 

Walmart could pay them 15/hr. and it wouldn't effect me in the least.I haven't darkened their door in over 6 years. You see,I remember when wallyworld came to town and turned our little city into a ghost town.As they have to towns all over our once great nation.Notice all the industrial parks are all half empty also.Your employer can take the blame for that as well.You see,they told these once american made companies how,how much,and where to build there products.And most were sent to 3rd world countries.I still find it hard you could be proud of them.LOL

 

Your spot on my friend... I don't have to even open my mouth your doing it all for me. Wal-Mart is what 90% or more made in China? That's helping the USA? LOL

 

You math is off. It's 1.5 million dollars per paid hour. I'm sure they can afford it.

 

Man...ignorance is bliss. Who owns and runs the companies that ship THEIR operations to China? That's WALMARTS fault? Walmart sells (for less...) what the people want! What American company make (IN AMERICA) TVs? Coffee makers? Clothes? Electronics? Pens? Blenders? Blankets? Lamps? Hats? Socks? Belts? Who? Huh? Who? If Walmart sold ONLY made in the USA products, their stores would be one aisle in a gas station. Wake up. Walmart is not to blame. It's the economy. Driven by the American consumer. But by all means feel free to bash Walmart to your hearts content. You guys are in the minority.

 

It is hard to comprehend those wallyworld type numbers.Some aren't capable.Just saying.No offense.