Creating New Jobs - the Wal-Mart Way :)

Hey Folks,

Good news! Wal-Mart is creating NEW jobs - hand-over-fist!!! The nation’s largest employer is dedicated to increasing Americans' opportunity to work!! Yes sir!!

They are determined to replace 20% of their present full-time employees with part-time employees to reach their goal of a full 40% part-time workforce!! It was just 20% last year, and they are almost there already!!

If the new part-timers are half-time, that will create 200,000 NEW JOBS !!! Damn!!! I bet folks are dancing in the street !!! All 200,000 former full-timers STILL have a job AND 200,000 NEW people can also work and cheer for Wal-Mart!!!

What's more, management is also working to eliminate those lonely weekends and empty evenings their employees so often face. In the future, workers will be invited to spend a cheery Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night with friendly co-workers and managers who love them.

Finally, if only everyone running Wal-Mart would joined Sam Walton for an endless party at his place, all would be right with the world.

- Uke Man

Wal-Mart to use more part-timers, wage caps: NYT


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is pushing to create a cheaper, more flexible work force by capping wages, using more part-time workers and scheduling more staff on nights and weekends, The New York Times reported on Monday.

Wal-Mart executives say they embraced the new policies for a large number of their 1.3 million workers to better serve customers, the newspaper said.

But some Wal-Mart workers say the changes are further reducing their modest incomes and putting a strain on personal lives, the newspaper reported.

Investment analysts and store managers say Wal-Mart executives have told them the company wants to transform its work force to 40 percent part-time from 20 percent, the Times reported.

Wal-Mart denies it has a goal of 40 percent part-time workers, although company officials said part-timers now comprise 25 percent to 30 percent of its workers, up from 20 percent last October, according to the newspaper.

Wal-Mart spokeswoman Sarah Clark told Reuters the company had no specific target for part-timers as a percentage of its work force.

Clark added that it is important that Wal-Mart staff are working at times when customers want to shop.