Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I'm so sick and tired of these "the world will end if Barak Obama is elected president" hysterics.

Yeah, true - and I'm sick of all those who say the same thing about McCain.

No matter who is elected, the world isn't going to end. People on BOTH sides who say that type of stuff need to take a breather.

[OneTimeSBX]

if the world hasnt ended with war-happy Bush in office, then Obama will be ok...

[KatieKate1244]

This is just now coming out? I had heard about this over a month ago from a friend's dad whose works at Wal-Mart.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by KatieKate1244

This is just now coming out? I had heard about this over a month ago from a friend's dad whose works at Wal-Mart.

The article is dated August 1st, I guess people are just now getting wind of the story.

[Kevin]

I heard that Wal Mart employees put gel in their hair and wear jorts.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Kevin

I heard that Wal Mart employees put gel in their hair and wear jorts.

Well if that's the case, then I retract my earlier statement...judge away!

[agzg]

The one thing I don't really understand is that Wal-Mart employees are always ridiculously rude to shoppers (or maybe it's just the ones I've been to).

I get it, the whole oppressed worker thing. I worked at Target. Granted, I was treated *a little, and I stress A LITTLE* better than people that work at Wal-Mart, but I don't understand why you would push that off on someone else and make their day worse. But maybe that's just because I'm a nice person.

I will say, however, that my new Target does not display the best customer service. In fact, for a city where people on the whole are incredibly nice, the people that work at Target are incredibly rude.

In the same sense, I don't get why customers are rude to workers, either. I'm not always a nice person - I just don't understand making a random person's day worse. I guess I just enforce targeted rudeness for myself.

[agzg]

Well China has a huge national interest in keeping the dollar strong, too. Most of their reserves are in dollars, and the Yuan is pegged to the dollar as well, although that's a significant lowball on what the Yuan is actually worth.

Here's what I think is going to happen - they're going help to "bail us out" by giving us some of their reserves, then they're going to slowly but surely change their reserves into a different currency (most likely the Euro), and allow the Yuan to appreciate.

But that's all going to take at least 10 years unless they want to toss their own economy into crisis.