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So much has changed

2009-02-23T10:38:00.000-06:00

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"THE WALMART WAY" NOT SAM'S WAY

2005-10-09T11:48:00.000-05:00

THE BOOK IS BEING POSTED AT WWW.WALMARTASSOCIATESCENTRAL.COM
THE PROLOGUE, CHAPTER LISTINGS AND FIRST TWO CHAPTERS ARE AVAILABLE BY CLICKING THE LINK PROVIDED.

LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.

Please Stop Posting Spam

2005-10-01T13:39:00.000-05:00

Please stop posting spam, it is a waste of time as I will only delete it.

Many comments removed...

2005-10-01T13:37:00.000-05:00

Many comments are removed because they are nothing more than spam.

Hospital Visits Can Kill You

2005-10-01T13:34:00.000-05:00

Take a look at this one...

http://www.newsmaxstore.com/newsletters/blaylock/6.cfm

I really wish I could lose it.

2005-09-30T16:41:00.000-05:00

I really wish I could lose it.
It is getting real old and there are times when I wish I could just shut off the instinct to continue on.
I have repeatedly told myself that I cannot possibly know or see something that no one at Walmart knows. I have repeatedly told myself it will get better on its own.
I have often wanted to run away from what is driving me to find a way to get all of it somewhere that it will do some good.
I imagine it is a sense of failure that makes me want to quit and yet it makes me want to continue at the same time.
One day at a time and at least I know that I am clear of the imminent failure that will occur in the future if all of it continues as it is.
I feel really bad for Lee Scott and the rest of the corporate officers. They may have money at the end of it all but they will also have to live with the outcome and maybe someday explain how they could let money rule. I have no idea of how or when it will all come out, I do know that without change from what it is today that eventually even if the things that are really wrong never are brought out the company will suffer and eventually it will go the same way Kmart did only bigger and worse.
At least I know I have tried. At least I know that the original concept was a good one and that Sam Walton was a good person.
How I wish I could hate the company and all it stands for. I can’t. Even with all of the injustices and all the lies I know it was meant to be a good thing.
There is so much good and it is blocked out by the inability of the corporate officers to accept any responsibility for the problems.
The problems are of course varied, some are real, some are imagined, some, are rumors.
I just know that when you are doing what you believe is right you have to do your best to let it be known.
It is more than seven months since they terminated me, or told me I was terminated. Months later someone said that wasn’t the case I walked off the job. It didn’t happen that way.
It makes no difference now anyway, not to Walmart, not to any of the corporate officers.
It is a lie like all the rest and can be covered up.
Oh how I want to give up, wish I could.

Regards,
Julie

Yes,

2005-09-17T11:17:00.000-05:00

Yes,

I had given up hope and had it renewed when Mr. Jackson called.
I knew, I was told not to expect him or anyone else to come through.

I imagine it is my inability to believe that although the stock has dropped a good sixteen dollars in just over six months that Walmart corporate would not want help reviving the stores, the associates and trust within the walls of the stores.

There are only so many times that trust can be lost before it is gone for good.

I thought Walmart Corporate was filled with well educated and hard working individuals that would look at the failures of the past and present and work to make them right. To change things for the better.

I thought any number of times I might be able to help and each time someone took a minute or two and contacted me with a response I thought was genuine it wasn't long before I was back to square one and looking at the entire situation alone.

Okay, I put myself into a position where Walmart associates directly contact me for advice on how to handle situations that they are living through at work. I really don't mind. I am glad when I can help them hold on to what they have and look at and live through it in a better way.

I guess it is an ego thing or it may be one of those situations where no one wants to admit that they failed.

I very well may fail because there are over six hundred concerns on my list, most of which I have already taken care of. Most of which validate what I have known for a long time.

Simple things and it shouldn't be that way I tell every one of the associates that I can only help in some ways. I can advise them on what they may try that won't result in termination.

I had such faith in Walmart that I was wrong and following company policy is not a guarantee they won't find a way to terminate you if someone wants you gone.
I know there is no real open door.

That is not bad if you know it. I did something wrong when I use to tell people the open door worked. It wasn't the open door. It was the people behind it at any given point and if they didn't like you the door would slam shut and it would result in termination.

At least in a few cases I know that I prevented some really great associates and salaried members of management from leaving the company and have done what I can to dispel the inaccuracies that are out there about the company.

I do know that corporate is fine on it's own. After all I am sure that if Walmart goes into bankruptcy once the stock falls further, and it will, the people who made enough while it was doing well will be okay. As far as the others. Oh well.

I have a very difficult time lying and a difficult time accepting propaganda on both sides.

Once again I see others are willing to invest time in helping the associates and they are not Walmart people.

Someday.

I will advise associates to contact their dm regional or corporate if I cannot find a way to resolve issues they bring to me until I find a better way.

JULIE PIERCE WARW 225-273-4354

Email to Corporate

2005-09-11T09:56:00.000-05:00

Yesterday, Saturday, and this morning Sunday, has made me realize that I may have to re arrange my meetings with others in order to show you some of the problems in the Baton Rouge area. Much of the upcoming week is broken between interviews and confirming travel plans.

Understand that associates are contacting me with information on any number of issues at many of the stores here in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas. There is actually so much that I find I have had to put some other things aside in order to calm some of them down and tell many it will get better.

This is being written after a meeting with an associate coming off the night shift at one of the stores.

Yes, I open my door to local associates. Yes, I try to show them a plan that will help.

I do not know why I am doing it aside from the fact that you did contact me and I see a glimmer of hope. I also just cannot see myself putting anyone in the position I am in. No work at all, thank goodness I have a family that supports me.

I am being asked for communication information and advice on who may be able to help in some situations. Even salaried management does not want to take a chance of direct contact with anyone higher up. I am on the verge of contacting the district managers in the area. I no longer trust the Regional myself, I am fearful I could cause some wonderful people to lose their positions too soon, before they are ready to leave.

The "Fear Factor" still lives and not many are willing to ask for help, they would rather take a chance and look for jobs elsewhere.

I am concerned because I have been informed of CO managers and assistant managers who are looking at retirement and at quitting soon.

Associates and management are getting stretched to the limit and the stress levels are where most would rather be temporarily unemployed instead of finding work before leaving the company.

Some have already attempted to quit and were talked into staying at least for a while.
Dedicated assistant managers are looking at everything short term.

Pallets of freight from the GM side are being mixed and are being pushed to the floor with no organization whatsoever. They are not separating freight, just taking all of it off the truck as is and to the floor.

It has become chaotic and most of the middle management at the stores really is thinking of walking out.

I have heard of even management with over twenty years going into retirement earlier than they had intended. They would rather be paid less and be treated better.

Lawrence, this is not a joke and although I am happy that people trust me with situations that concern their livelihood I feel compelled to see if I can help them through this unrest.

Please do not forget me. The news is not good. This is serious and I don't even know that the convention will be able to help in a timely way. Although at this point anything is better than nothing.

HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF LINKS ON BOTTOM OF UNION FORUM.

2005-09-05T16:37:00.000-05:00

HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF LINKS ON BOTTOM OF UNION FORUM.YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A UNION MEMBER.GO TO WWW.UNIONS.ORG OR WWW.WALMARTASSOCIATESCENTRAL.COM FOR LINKS

HURRICANE KATRINA THE AFTERMATH

2005-09-02T20:42:00.000-05:00

WWW.WALMARTASSOCIATESCENTRAL.COM

WWW.UNIONS.ORG

KATRINA LINKS

2005-09-02T20:18:00.001-05:00

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20050902065409990026&_ccc=6&cid=403

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20050901223609990005&_ccc=1&cid=403

http://news.channel.aol.com/

http://news.channel.aol.com/blogs

KATRINA LINKS

2005-09-02T20:18:00.000-05:00

Hurricane Katrina the best and worst

2005-09-02T10:45:00.000-05:00

Hurricane Katrina the best and worst
This hurricane has started something not new but something that is a part of everyone and hidden somewhere in the back of our heads.Media frenzy on the people that are dead and dying. A new sensationalizm has turned into what again is something that Americans now see as entertainment.Watch the loss, watch the misery. Talk about the pain and agony of those who can not do what others can.Promote the story anyway you can and allow the media the ability to go on and on with a story as dark as death and a tragedy turned into a real time movie.911/Katrina/Iraq anything that this desensitised country can watch.Okay so I am unrealistic.Send in more buses, vans, boats. Yes more. More copters and find a way to get a C5 to the airport and the people to the C5.No time to waste for this continuing soap opera.The City of Baton Rouge was a fairly quite city at night. It no longer is as the influx of people has crowded it and turned it into a city that is not sleeping easy.There are people walking the streets and traveling the highway at 1am in a quantity that is now noticeable.There are more people outside and more people doing things and of course with that, even if the law will not admit it an increase in unlawful activities.More later....

A new organization is forming. WARW is presently organizing workers across the United States.

2005-09-01T10:05:00.000-05:00

A new organization is forming. WARW is presently organizing workers across the United States.
Presently.
No Dues just Solidarity.

JULIE PIERCE WARW 225-273-4354

Due to the unresponsive way that labor unions and Walmart treat and communicate with workers. I will do everything to explain and attempt to do good b

2005-08-26T09:57:00.000-05:00

Due to the unresponsive way that labor unions and Walmart treat and communicate with workers. I will do everything to explain and attempt to do good by all workers. I will communicate, answer phone calls and questions and provide a pre publication copy of my book to anyone who is interested in making Walmart a better place for all associates. I will answer all communications from all who have an interest in making the workplace a better place. I will answer all correspondence from anyone including other union members, members and non members of any union. I will answer any media or corporate inqueries and I am Julie Pierce, searching for a name for the union that Walmart Associates need. I am Julie Pierce and will answer any question to the best of my ability to any member or non member of any labor organization, any political organization or any corporate officer. Thank you, Julie Pierce 225-273-4354

Walmart

2005-08-15T10:09:00.000-05:00

Walmart

Over 100 million consumers shop at the retailer daily.

Some how the retailer manages to elude the real story (not a corporate account or book) in all forms of media.

Anti Walmart organizations, only increase Walmart’s PR campaign (at low price media coverage for the company) it allows the corporate offices to use the media to fabricate more of the good and deny the bad, free.

Deep inside the stores a turnover rate of at least 44% nationwide causes Walmart to hire new associates at the rate of 600,000 a year and somehow at the same time manages to instill a mind set that no one can touch its illusion of clean.

Mosquito bites annoy Walmart but it has never been bitten by the associates that keep the stores running at a profit. Not yet.

News organizations…all of them in some form avoid reporting on Walmart.

They will not report, so you decide why.

Only a very small fraction of lawsuits make their way into news coverage. When it is too big to ignore, a tactic Walmart uses in its own public relations.

Attorneys who will take on the giant are few. The people that want to or need to sue usually can’t because of the cost.

They get away with so much because it is cheaper to walk away. They get away with it because it is so big and David hasn’t shown up yet.

This story is written from inside the Walmart stores and dedicated to Walmart Associates across the United States that inspired it.

2005-08-12T10:32:00.000-05:00

This story is written from inside the Walmart stores and dedicated to Walmart Associates across the United States that inspired it.
Walmart, an opportunity, an experience, a lifestyle that can only truly be accessed from the store level and has not been covered by the media in this way.
Walmart associates across the United States have a view of what Walmart really is and in this book, written from the inside, the experiences of the associates are revealed and documented.
Walmart associates from the east to west coasts have read this in its original form and agree with its contents. (Comments supplied upon request)
Communication with more than thirty-five Walmart executive and corporate officers including CEO; Lee Scott tell of conversations, situations, and meetings that show what the company really is like to work for and how the corporate offices will twist the truth to its advantage.
The people behind the success of this retailer are the associates, dedicated at times to the point of living “The Walmart Way” and being part of a cult.
Through the Public Relations Department the media coverage of the company promotes the illusion of clean while the associates continue to work for a company that is no longer what its founder intended it to be.
The book shows what it is like to live life today, “The Walmart Way” Not Sam’s Way.
My Walmart Career was seven years long in four states, three regions, six, districts within ten stores for twelve store managers.
While working for Walmart as a field manager in New Hampshire, all adults in our family worked for Walmart in different stores and locations with thousands of Walmart associates.
My total retail and food service experience includes thirty years in numerous positions both in union and non union shops for retail chains and restaurants, proprietor of a restaurant and banquet facility in Oklahoma and as a franchise owner in three locations in the Florida Gulf Coast.
The book is fifteen chapters the last of which is being written and titled “Withdrawal and Recovery”.
It includes information that will be of interest to Walmart associates, their families and to stockholders and retailers everywhere.

Tis True

2005-08-08T13:33:00.001-05:00

Take a look at the link.

Tis true.http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4916&t=career_effectiveness

Tis True

2005-08-08T13:33:00.000-05:00

Take a look at the link.

Tis true.http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4916&t=career_effectiveness

I hate to be this way

2005-08-07T12:22:00.000-05:00

Maybe her son went to Iraq to get away from her.

Putting the Blame in the Wrong Place...

2005-08-07T12:06:00.000-05:00

I feel terrible for the woman but calling our President a killer, acting like a fool and whining over a situation that her son decided on is plain wrong.
One way or another. No one was forced into service. There was no draft. She needs to calm down and go find some help and not other demonstrators looking for attention.
She is wrong. I will not extend this writing. It could be a book.

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050806162909990004&ncid=NWS00010000000001

Walmart Financials...you need to know

2005-08-02T14:13:00.000-05:00

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/104169/000119312505077391/ddef14a.htm#tx20316_22

Lies, Deceit and the Thesaurus

2005-08-02T13:55:00.000-05:00

Lies, Deceit and the Thesaurus

Day after day, the news, the media, and the entire world have become more deceitful than ever.
How many lies are broadcast in one day?
How much of “the no spin zone” is spin?
How many lies are told to stockholders, workers, citizens, and our children by the media, the government and what once was thought to be honest people in general?
Where did the real truth end and the lies begin?

Our language has turned into a thesaurus of words that change their meaning and as each day passes and lies become the norm. Use of the English Language is becoming filled with a new form of deceit.

The democrats take words and change them into their own form of reality along with the republicans and our government officials.

Extremists use the word “Jihad” as if it were some new word they didn’t think of until now. Holy war isn’t good enough as the entertainment value is not there when using the words as we knew them. As we knew the words used today, they would have never been used that way in the past.

How can they expect our children will ever know the difference between right and wrong let alone right and left wing politics if they cannot tell what the truth really is?

Daily, corporations, businesses, government officials and others use the words of our language to form their opinions in the most deceitful ways possible. Stock holders are consistently lied to because to do otherwise would open up a can of worms that could never be closed. The stock market would crash and all of the liars would lose all of their money and with it businesses would close and the “war of the worlds” could become a reality.

It isn’t the United States, China or North Korea that is causing this. It is humanity.

How do you make yourself trust a liar? By accepting the lie as truth and refusing to stand up and see that person for what he or she is.
Why do you force yourself to act as if you trust a liar? Because your livelihood depends on being able to do so and you, your family has to survive and you don’t want them to eat dirt.

Are you, is everyone a part of it in some way? Yes.

If you accept a lie when you know it is a lie you are a part of it.
If you continue on and allow the lie to live without standing up for the truth you are as responsible for it as the person who created it.

Take any word and run it through a thesaurus and see for yourself.

Our language has become even more complex than the Bible was. Our language is subject to interpretation and the spin is forever changing, erasing and adding a new meaning to everything that is said.

It is often the easy way out to ignore lies. To excuse lies. You can make an excuse for almost anything if you try hard enough.

Religion, ethics, integrity and the truth, where did it all go and is it anywhere I can go to?

Is success dependent on your ability to discount the lies that a corporation tells?
Is success dependent on the ability to deceive and spin the truth into a web of lies that cannot be detected easily?

Is it a fictional story that has come true?

“It Takes a Village” “It Takes a Family” It takes the truth to learn what is right and what is wrong. The right is not always right. The left is not always wrong.

Christian, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Atheist or Pagan, do you know what your child is thinking, accepting as real?

Liberal, Conservative, Extremist and Radical, do you know where you belong.

Your boss is a liar. Do you tell him that you know he is? Your company spins the truth into a web of deceit. Do you question it or hide from it?

Taking the bad with the good is fine, but make sure you know which is which.

A simpler time, a time when a lie was not the norm and words meant what they were meant to mean.

Intelligent Design...

2005-08-02T12:27:00.000-05:00

What is wrong with teaching different views.
No one is trying to teach or give Bible studies.
There is really not a reason to disallow this.

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050801231009990004&_ccc=2&cid=842

Check This...What do you think?

2005-08-01T10:00:00.000-05:00

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-walmart1aug01,0,3105527.story?coll=la-home-business

So I am short on patience.

2005-07-25T12:02:00.000-05:00

So I am short on patience.I admit it. At this time, after more than seven years of playing the games that Walmart likes to play I find that they are basically really unconcerned or they don't ... in many ways...practice what they preach.A sence of urgency is so very important at the stores. So I either have to believe there is no sence of urgency at corporate or they are so involved in covering up problems that they just do not have the time.Could be they don't know what they are doing although I still do not believe that.An email recieved on 7/22 an email sent out in response immediately and nothing.I seriously don't expect that Jared will ever call and when I get to the point where I call him he will not have any answers unless they are letting him in on all of it in advance.

Terror Comes In Many Forms

2005-07-22T13:19:00.000-05:00

It isn't getting any better and it is scary.
Sexual predators and the world continues to do their thing and it isn't good and many have no idea.
Terror comes in many forms.
http://www.nydailynews.com/

Ex Employee Sues Walmart

2005-07-22T10:23:00.000-05:00

He is probably telling the truth.

http://www.nwanews.com/story_print.php?paper=bcdr&News=section&storyid=23031

Walmart...kmart...Home Depot...Ace Hardware

2005-07-21T11:44:00.000-05:00

Any one of these stores could be a security concern.

I am not trying to say only Walmart, but why didn't they let the associates know that further bomb threats were issued?

I would think that my stores were not the only ones. I have to wonder could it happen?

Why not? There are times when there are thousands of people walking through a Walmart Supercenter and a couple hundred associates too.

An easy target and let's not forget that eventually the terrorists will attempt anything.

It is one of those things where as reported later the loss of sales is not as important as the lives of customers and associates.

They were so upset over the sales that were lost when we had to evacuate the buildings.

Huge...I guess insurance or corporate tax laws would have covered Walmart but what about the loss of life if....

Don't Feel Bad About It...it's a debate...

2005-07-21T11:41:00.000-05:00

Don't feel bad about any of it.
I have always said that when all else fails agree to disagree.
There is nothing wrong with your views if you believe them.

A debate is a debate.

It is a good thing.

As long as it isn't a judicial filabuster. };>

Links...

2005-07-21T09:51:00.000-05:00

www.walmartassociatescentral.com
www.thewalmartwaynotsamsway.com
www.walmartnews.com
www.unitedstatesdailynews.com
www.foxnews.com
www.abcnews.com
www.alfranken.com
www.hannity.com
www.walmart.com
www.whateveryouwant.com
www.ebay.com
www.whitehouse.gov
www.areyoudepressed.com

Bye...Liberals depress me at times

2005-07-21T09:50:00.000-05:00

Bye.

Terror At Your Local Walmart Supercenter

2005-07-21T09:11:00.000-05:00

There were a number of bomb scares in a couple of stores, actually in one district it was happening more than once a day and when it became a daily occurrence they stopped telling us about the calls. It was an un-needed interruption for the associates and ruined the shopping experience for the customers. I am sure glad that a real bomb didn’t eventually make its way into the store.

Some stores have no loss prevention. Some don’t even have a rent-a-cop.

When it gets to the point of not telling anyone that a bomb scare is being called into the store it is bad. Okay, I know that some dope might want to cause a problem and make a fake call, but I cannot see why the store would chance any of it.

I also have no idea of why I was never called back when I called the corporate office to find out how they could allow something like that to happen. Okay I was stupid. I stayed in the store and didn’t let it bother me.

Okay the stores didn’t blow up, but if it did, boy, what a mess.

Packages go into the stores all the time. At the customer service desk and in customer carts because many of the people greeters do not stop the people bringing them in or do not see them, I’ve stopped some, I am sure not all of them.

Back packs are carried in by associates and by customers every day in some stores.

I wonder if they have a no hire list for terrorists, one like they put me on because I asked too many questions about company policy and ethics.

It is as easy as can be to bring anything into a Walmart and leave it behind.

In most stores you can walk right into the back stockrooms and maybe, and that is a big maybe, someone will ask about it.

Seriously, it is a terrorist’s heaven. After all who is going to find out?

I worry. Not all of the time. I forgot about it for a while until I started to hear about the bombings again.

Considering Lee Scott will not answer my questions about this why doesn’t someone else ask him? Possibly he has an answer?

Links ... I wasn't looking for someone

2005-07-21T09:06:00.000-05:00

If it has no link I thought of it myself or I experienced it.

Life experience does mean something to some.

Sign your name if you know so much

2005-07-21T09:01:00.000-05:00

Can't devulge who you are?
Just started this blog. I really didn't expect even this much.
Actually I didn't expect anything at all.
At least I sign my name to what I write and it isn't Coultier it's Pierce.

As far as attacks, Liberals are great at it.
All I did was ask you to read. Sheeesh!

Go ahead think of something else.

The liberal left wing....did I say it right...?

They will get you help if you need it. Are you depressed? Are you worried about the right wing flying solo without the left wing?

Please do read the entire post.

2005-07-21T08:51:00.000-05:00

HI,
Will you read all of it?

Terror At Your Local Walmart?

2005-07-21T07:35:00.000-05:00

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00A1EFA39550C728CDDAE0894DD404482

Take a look and know that it has to be true.

Out of ten stores that I personally worked in this is the kind of thing that happened all of the time.

Blocked fire exits, inside the store and outside and a variety of sensors and alarms that would not work properly were an everyday thing. There was one alarm that went off in one store at exactly eight pm every evening. I had to be in at eight and had to shut it off just after coming into the office every night.
Some of the time the freight was so bad you couldn’t walk down a back hall if there had been a fire at least a few associates would have been toast.

As far as icy parking lots, most lots out front were okay most of the time but I remember ice skating without skates at one store when I had to go to a trailer to look for an item a customer wanted.

There were a number of bomb scares in a couple of stores, actually in one district it was happening more than once a day and when it became a daily occurrence they stopped telling us about the calls. It was an un-needed interruption for the associates and ruined the shopping experience for the customers. I am sure glad that a real bomb didn’t eventually make its way into the store.

Some stores have no loss prevention. Some don’t even have a rent-a-cop.

When it gets to the point of not telling anyone that a bomb scare is being called into the store it is bad. Okay, I know that some dope might want to cause a problem and make a fake call, but I cannot see why the store would chance any of it.

I also have no idea of why I was never called back when I called the corporate office to find out how they could allow something like that to happen. Okay I was stupid. I stayed in the store and didn’t let it bother me.

Okay the stores didn’t blow up, but if it did, boy, what a mess.

Packages go into the stores all the time. At the customer service desk and in customer carts because many of the people greeters do not stop the people bringing them in or do not see them, I’ve stopped some, I am sure not all of them.

Back packs are carrie

Terroists At Your Local Walmart?

2005-07-21T07:34:00.000-05:00

Jeeves........oh Jeeves where did Anonymous go:? Jeeves....oh Jeeeves....

2005-07-21T07:00:00.000-05:00

Where did he/she/it go?

Supreme Court...Take a Look

2005-07-20T20:50:00.000-05:00

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +S P E C I A L A L E R TC E N T E R F O R R E C L A I M I N G A M E R I C A+ + Your Immediate Action Requested + +(See details below)7/20/2005Julie,The President's nomination of Judge John G. Roberts signalsthe beginning of what may be a difficult confirmation processwhich could ultimately center around Roberts' stance onabortion.Even prior to the announcement of Sandra Day O'Connor'simpending retirement, we were center-stage on this issue.The Center has been very vocal in urging the President tohonor his campaign pledge to nominate a person with soundcredentials, a person who will uphold the Constitutionand defend public faith and the unborn.It seems that the President is a man of his word--that hehas kept his promise to us. While introducing Judge Robertsto the nation, he even stated that Roberts is a jurist whowill "strictly apply the Constitution in laws--not legislatefrom the bench."However, it is early in the process...That is why we are urging Christians to do two very importantthings over these next days and weeks, as the confirmationprocess unfolds: + + Action Item #1--PrayAs the President said in his introductory speech, this is avery important decision that affects all Americans. He is right.The next Supreme Court justice will be instrumental in thedirection of our nation for the next twenty-five or so years--affecting our children and grandchildren.That is why I am asking everyone on our team to be in earnestprayer over Judge Roberts throughout this entire process.I would ask that you pray specifically that the heart ofJudge Roberts be revealed early in the confirmation hearings,so that people of faith can determine their level of support. + + Action Item #2--Help us Rally 300,000 petitions!Julie, as this confirmation process begins, I reallybelieve the grassroots voice of America needs to be mobilizedand ready to respond to our senators' actions!That is why I am calling on all who have signed our JudicialVacancy petition to take immediate action to help us reach300,000 citizen petitions as soon as possible! FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO 25-30 OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY, URGE THEM TO HAVE A VOICE IN THIS PROCESS BY CLICKING HERE: http://www.cfra.info/73.asp?PID=9027852Again, here at the Center, we are trusting that the Presidenthas made the right choice for our nation and our judiciary,and are relying on the Lord to reveal whether or not he isthe right man to sit on the High Court.And throughout the process, I am encouraging our team tokeep the grassroots voice of America strong by rallying friends,family, and members of your church to join with us by clickinghere: http://www.cfra.info/73.asp?PID=9027852Thank you in advance for standing with us!Dr. Gary CassExecutive DirectorCenter for Reclaiming America for Christ+ + To sign our Judicial Vacancy petition: http://www.cfra.info/73.asp?PID=9027852+ + To join our National Prayer Force:

Jeeves ... to the patio Jeeves... next to the pool please...

2005-07-20T18:42:00.000-05:00

Jeeves, where have you been?

YOU TELL ME TO READ, do you know Liberal tactics; track, target, character assasinate.

2005-07-20T18:40:00.000-05:00

YOU TELL ME TO READ, do you know Liberal tactics; track, target, character assasinate.

Thanks for the line.

How Many do you know?

2005-07-20T14:47:00.000-05:00

How many judges are on the Supreme Court?

Who retired?

Who has been nominated?

Who is Joe Wilson?

Sorry about any spelling errors...

2005-07-20T13:35:00.000-05:00

Sorry about any spelling errors...I wouldn't what to depress anyone.

Actually I am not Depressed...sorry if you are...

2005-07-20T13:27:00.000-05:00

Have you ever stopped for a nanosecond to question “maybe this is why I’m depressed and lost in life,” I haven’t the capacity to truly understand the complexities of the systems we live in. Things are not black and white – grey dominates. Yes, not everything pitched by C-SPAN or FOX is entirely truth, however I would argue most often the story’s nucleus is true but the outer shell is spun out of control, for partisan control purposes.

I am not depressed. I really do not think I am lost in life. I didn't think that I didn't have the capacity to truly understand the coplexities of the systems we live in.

I am a conservative so am I to expect that liberals will excuse me this way.
If so thanks,

Are you depressed?

2005-07-20T13:26:00.000-05:00

I Wanted It Out Front...Take a Look...READ IT

2005-07-20T13:07:00.000-05:00

Sorry if I Burst in with a request.
Reading is fundamental.
The law states that he did nothing wrong.
Anyway the spin is about the Supreme Court Now.
I suppose that you have something unlawful about the President's choice...Go for it.

It is fine that you are who you are and you believe what you believe.

I could care less if Plame were stopped from being sent any where because if she leaked her own connection to the CIA before anyone else did who knows what she would tell someone if she were sent out as a covert agent.

I still believe there is a book. Joe Wilson Plame will be publishing a book soon. It has to be a publicity thing.

Anyone who dislikes Bush will do anything they can to undermine the government right now.

It really is a shame...it use to be selective hearing now it will be selective reading.

More credit to you for sticking to your guns if Liberals are allowed to have any.

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Julie, you ostensibly claim politicians are all morons and everything to do with the Rove controversy is hogwash. Have you ever stopped for a nanosecond to question “maybe this is why I’m depressed and lost in life,” I haven’t the capacity to truly understand the complexities of the systems we live in. Things are not black and white – grey dominates. Yes, not everything pitched by C-SPAN or FOX is entirely truth, however I would argue most often the story’s nucleus is true but the outer shell is spun out of control, for partisan control purposes. Yet, to disregard them and point fingers at everything that moves under the sun is outrageous. I find you allegations baseless and unsubstantiated. If you want to make an impact with your thoughts, back them up with evidence. What Rove supposedly did is a major felony, period. He revealed an operational CIA agent’s name – don’t give two shits if you think she was known in her own neighborhood.
July 19, 2005 8:58 AM
JuliePierce said...
Learn how to read.It is amazing what you can learn or understand when you keep it simple.Wilson's wife had to be covert for there to be a law broken.She wasn't and there isn't. Joe Wilson will have a book out soon I am sure it has to be a all for the publicity.Why do people have a problem accepting that they are so pompus and so outraged over something that they do not realize that it isn't even real.
July 19, 2005 12:54 PM
Anonymous said...
Thanks for the reply - not critically thought out though. Now that Plame's wife's name is revealed and in the open, what, if ANY, are the chances of her being deployed again as a covert agent. This is not a entertainment plug to redirect prying eyes from negotiating whether or not major policy issues pursued by Bush Inc. was in fact ethically, morally, and strategically right or wrong. This is important, this is the law; the constitution's integrity. I am a proud liberal, progressive, democrat,whatever you want to label me. I do not support this administration and it's objectives, primarily the administrations belief it needs to flex its military muscle to secure global dominance for the new century in light of a rising China. Please go to www.newamericancentury.org/ and go to letter/statements and statement of principles and then letter to President Clinton on Iraq 1998. Take note of the names pushing for this policy, fairly important names today I'd say. I am against all of this, not supportive admin actions. YOU TELL ME TO READ, do you know Rove tactics; track, target, character assasinate. He put two men in jail in Texas in his early years. He ruined their lives. Why is it so difficult to believe he may have attempted to protect political capital by using these tactics again. His way of saying don't step on my toes, or else. You seem so intent on linking this to money and publicity that I gather you miss the SIMPLE reality
July 20, 2005 1:04 PM
The frustration is all around. It make no difference and I have to accept that our elected officials are what they are and that isn’t good.I thought I would take a short trip to the land of cspan and it is no different than fox.The same politicians and others saying the same things that mean nothing. They still can’t read. They still do little more than nothing to make this country worth anything anymore.Back to fox and there I find they are still talking about Rove.Joe, no one outted your wife.She was a known CIA Employee and I want to see what covert assignments she had in the past.Be real people and stop wasting time on her.Did he publish a book? Is this a publicity stunt?Really, there are a few things that are more important and if they fire anyone it should be the politicians that can not read.I am tired. I am worried. What is this? It has to be a conspiracy to confuse or to leave everything else undone to delay all work that would actually accomplish something.Even voting doesn’t help. How can it when they…the politicians have no idea of what it is that affects the average American daily.I think I’ll sit on the patio and have a spot of tea….Jeeves…bring the tea….
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Jeeves ohhhhhhhhh Jeeves!!!

2005-07-18T13:57:00.000-05:00

The frustration is all around. It make no difference and I have to accept that our elected officials are what they are and that isn’t good.

I thought I would take a short trip to the land of cspan and it is no different than fox.

The same politicians and others saying the same things that mean nothing. They still can’t read. They still do little more than nothing to make this country worth anything anymore.

Back to fox and there I find they are still talking about Rove.
Joe, no one outted your wife.

She was a known CIA Employee and I want to see what covert assignments she had in the past.

Be real people and stop wasting time on her.

Did he publish a book? Is this a publicity stunt?

Really, there are a few things that are more important and if they fire anyone it should be the politicians that can not read.

I am tired. I am worried. What is this? It has to be a conspiracy to confuse or to leave everything else undone to delay all work that would actually accomplish something.

Even voting doesn’t help. How can it when they…the politicians have no idea of what it is that affects the average American daily.

I think I’ll sit on the patio and have a spot of tea….Jeeves…bring the tea….

This Is The Kind Of Action We Need

2005-07-18T12:36:00.000-05:00

This is the kind of action we need.
http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/showstory.jsp?sk=4760

This Thread Has Been Pulled

2005-07-18T12:21:00.000-05:00

This thread has been pulled.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/my/comments?more=86104788

Censorship on blogs.

Fox news, abc, cbs, nbc, cnn, all of them cable and not.

Not censorship but indifference.

Just hit the spot and you are censored on blogs that cater to the rich.

You are not elite so you can not have an opinion of someone who is.

If I were able to I would say it all again and that is the reason they will not allow me to post.

If I were to say it to the media, there might be a response but the elite would not like it or possibly the people that would listen are too busy working.

Entertainment value.

Advertise, use money, have money, retire, Mister Bigstuff…whodoyouthinkyouare…Mister Bigstuff…

Terroism Is

2005-07-18T11:49:00.000-05:00

Our President Thank God is Strong and putting up a good fight for our country and against the terrorists that exist in this world. Against the explosives and the suicidal maniacs out there who many seem to think would be better served by therapists offering up reasoning and love.

The frustration continues and many years later I have no choice but to open my eyes to the reality that our country is not what it should be. It is not much different than it was in the seventies and eighties except the actual working poor have gathered resources and our family is no different.

Sure over the years we could have split up and went out there on our own and I have serious doubts that we would be as well off as we are, even though there are still problems.

Our government, the politicians dabble in things like health care, labor, laws and actually not much of anything changes.

In my lifetime I have seen things and I have ignored what did not hit home. Can any of our elected officials see more or attempt to do more with situations that they have not lived through?

In my lifetime I have been in situations that only by the grace of God I was allowed to take care of.

In my lifetime I have been able to take care of the most important things that our family had to deal with but did nothing to make it better for anyone else and it is now coming back, oh so quietly and reminding me that nothing has changed.

I tire of seeing the world look at the US as something it really isn’t. I tire of the old fashioned red tape that allows some to cut it and others to be strangled by it.

I tire of the waste of time, energy and see that the priorities that our government should look at are being ignored while our politicians argue over cover operatives that were not covert.

I sincerely feel down because there is no one to do the research and work and as tired as I am have no idea of what the answer is.

Terrorism lives everywhere. It is down the street. It is in other countries. It is a Muslim extremist and it is a sexual predator.

Terrorism is not being able to find health care, and watching your children make the attempt to find it without getting government assistance.

Terrorism is allowing your grandchild to walk down the street unattended.

Terrorism is getting no answer to any relevant question you have.

Terrorism is the politicians wasting their time and spending the money that could have paid the doctor.

Terrorism is the media and the repeated issue of all of it with no one actually seeing what is going on.

Terrorism is the email auto response that only means that no one will see the message.
If the message is read it will be answered by someone who is only doing so to justify a pay check.

No one cares.

Fighting anything is a timely matter that the average wage earner hasn’t the time or energy to continue fighting.

The losses are the children and their children continuing to survive through all of it only when someone somewhere takes pity on their plight.

Seriously, if you can’t get it into the media forget it and if you do you had better stay with it, pound on it, and not let up or they will forget it.

Our politicians have become media entertainment for the privileged few who have the time and money to watch.

It is all one big joke.

I just didn’t realize it was going on for all this time. It really hasn’t changed a bit.

For some reason as your income grows in the smallest way, you tend to forget the way it was. It hasn’t changed. I changed and even though it was a small change it was enough to allow me to forget.

I can only hope that it doesn’t happen to me again.

The Walmart Sham...union friendly

2005-07-18T09:23:00.000-05:00

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conews&tkr=WMT:US

Seriously what I see as a problem with the media and with the government as far as reading comprehension and the ability to actually understand anythi

2005-07-18T08:44:00.000-05:00

Seriously what I see as a problem with the media and with the government as far as reading comprehension and the ability to actually understand anything in print or for that any kind of communication.
Joe Wilson should work for the Walmart Corporate Officers…maybe he is a covert Walmart Director?
Covert…doesn’t that mean something like secret or undercover?
His wife was known by neighbors to work for the CIA so who is telling what to who?

A waste of time and taxpayers money to go on and on with an investigation that means absolutely nothing.

Where did they find this prosecutor?

Why are they paying anyone?

Why don’t they grow up and learn how to read?

So I am reporting on the reporters reporting on the reporters.

2005-07-15T13:42:00.000-05:00

Reporters Report on Reporters

2005-07-15T13:41:00.000-05:00

That's it.
Take a look around.
Reporters report on reporters a lot.
Guess they need to promote themselves.

Our Children's Safety...Sexual Preditors

2005-07-13T18:12:00.000-05:00

Our Children's Safety...Sexual Preditors
Someone has to start it.Someone has to do it.Please help me.I am putting some of the other things aside and have started to contact the State Senators and Federal Senate on the reform of all laws pertaining to Sexual Preditors.We have to take care of our children before it touches any more homes.Call...fight...I have promised to lobby in Louisiana and am doing everything I can to get Cathline Blanco to push this quickly but it should be a national effort and a federal law to put these people away as long as they live.Please call every politician you know.I will post the phone numbers for all of them or a link to them as soon as possible.please...this is for the children.

Mister Bigstuff

2005-07-13T12:26:00.000-05:00

The time that is needed to do any job eats away so much time that for some it is not likely that they can tell you what current news is.
Sensationalism is the only thing that seems to bring any news to the fore front and it isn’t really new most of the time..
Many lower to middle class families do not have time to watch the news and react to the news as one wound hope they could.

Politics becomes a blur or does not exist for many. I know I’ve been there. I can remember a small bit of time where the news was an important part of my life and then…my life would take a turn and I didn’t have the time to listen or care much what was going on. Priorities take over and the time spent at work, one or two jobs can turn into a cycle where you put sleep before anything as inconsequential as news.

Basic needs make the top of the list and the country is run by those who have the time and money to invest in themselves in a way that will produce what they want.

Years can pass and the world can turn any number of times and at the same time, stand still while doing it.

Like Rip Van Winkle waking, when the opportunity presents itself there seems to be a rush of information that never ends. Possibly it is better for most to be in that void where the world continues to turn without them.

My life I am sure is not much different than others and yet I wonder why I am drawn to the controversies that go on daily, when like others I seriously feel I will not be able to break through to make more than one person understand.

Frustration is high and it is evident on a daily basis when you make every attempt to communicate a thought that you know is relevant but ignored because it is not important to those that run the media, the news, and the world.

Communication is what it is. The thought process is hard to explain at times.
Our country listens to news, reads news, blogs news and posts numerous stories everywhere. I do it all the time and except the occasional answer to a post or the occasional inquiry about a comment or article I have written the world continues to go on and on as it has but with more methods of writing articles that the news media will ignore and possibly for the better.

All My Children…and why am I here? Why, am I where I am at this time and this place? Is it by choice, or because that is the way it is supposed to be?

Pre determined and I am not sure I like it. Pre determined and can I actually change the outcome? Do I want to change the outcome?

My family is not, I would think, not much different from others. Still I can not help but wonder why it is what it is. I tend to feel as if for some reason I have been the driving force in a number of lives that those lives may have been better off without me.

I am not wealthy in a monetary sense. It is not my money that keeps us together. Still as the years pass and I look around me, us, I wonder if we are the average family making every attempt to be more or if we are an unusual family wanting more than we can ever have.

Fifty two years and my life revolved around family, always. Mom and Dad, were Mom and Dad until Dad decided that after twenty-two years he wanted something different than spending his remaining years with Mom.

A struggle to understand, a struggle to find a lifestyle and a path that would not destroy the small amount of dignity, not money, my mother had left. There wasn’t much she could do and I can remember her battle to hold herself up and to regain the confidence she once seemed to present in an unbending and unending fashion.
The stories she told were of the Great Depression and her family. The stories he told…he really didn’t tell much. There was the Navy, there was a story behind that…what a story! Not a hero and more of a coward and I still wonder about all of it at times why tell a story of cowardice at all?

My life has taken a number of turns and I imagine is not much different than the lives of others. I see no unique situation or experience that makes me different from others and sure there are others, who like my self are looking for the something that is missing.

A series of set backs and a series of moves forward all along with a sincere feeling that there would be, there could be something more important ahead.

Looking back at a life that seems at times not to be my own and wondering if the shadows of the past will continue to haunt today, tomorrow and the years to come. Looking, seeking and seriously wondering if my today’s, are the yesterdays of someone else who started living in a different time and place.

The relation of being a mom and a wife the way it should have been as to what it turned out to be. Was it mom’s words, or the words of others that allowed me to justify the things I did that I now see as mistakes.

So many prayers answered in so many different ways. So many prayers that I wish were not answered the way that they were.

Childhood, religion, family, work, and a long line of dreams that I gave up on repeatedly and that I eventually accepted were not to be mine to live.

Recent television ads for financial services are aired in song. Mr. Bigstuff…whodoyouthinkyouare…Mr. Bigstuff…retirement? It is a laugh. I see no end and can only hope my children can find enough of a small life insurance policy to bury me.

All a part of the past and yes, almost everyone does change through the years but when does it end? My mother’s dreams and the dreams of others cut short and not realized, why?

Writing, politics, the working poor, any series of subjects that have been a part of me when I had the time to think about it and the never ending wish that it would all go away at the same time.

Survivor.

Really, who is a survivor?

A TV show is more interesting than a real life? I didn’t watch it so I wouldn’t know.

The Apprentice.

A TV show that only shows me that all of the work, all of the experience, all of the time invested in everything I’ve worked for can be over shadowed by some kid that has entertainment value.

CEOs corruption and corporations that could care less about the people that allow them to be what they are.

CEOs that lie to stockholders and workers every day hide atrocities and all of it happening because of the stock that they sell daily and a lie to one is a method or a strategy to others.

Retail stocks, they sell more than merchandise, they sell their strategy and it isn’t always the truth they sell.

Communications, health care and the list goes on and on.

Overload of opinion that means nothing.

An overload of thoughts that go no where because it is not entertainment, it is not newsworthy and is not something many have time for.

Working, physically working, physically going to a building every day in order to occupy a mind that is forever searching for an answer that cannot be pulled up on Google or Yahoo and that is bigger than the internet is scary.

Dreams that are connected to life at times taking the form of nightmares that no one would care to watch or know about. Nightmares that make no real sense even when dissected but that at times are better than being awake.

Walmart's Working Poor

2005-07-13T11:51:00.000-05:00

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/13/115127/625

link to my article on walmart's working poor.

Preditors and Our Government

2005-07-12T17:09:00.000-05:00

Preditors and Our Government
I was mortified again watching The O'Rielly Factor when the state of Louisiana almost made the friendly list for sexual preditors.I wrote to Blanco's Office this morning.Across the United States we all need to do something to have the law changed to put these preditors behind bars and keep them there.Registered pedifiles slip through the cracks. Children are molested and killed and the only way to change it is to put up one heck of a fight.If you don't vote, if you don't watch the news, if you care about nothing else, care about our children.Call, email, write, fight the good fight for our kids.

2005-07-11T20:19:00.000-05:00

Take a look. I emailed him. I called him. I wrote to the Walton Family. No answer and the letters were not returned as undeliverable.

http://investor.walmartstores.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=112761&p=irol-govhighlights

Alot of lies or possibly he dosen't know? Care?

Pay your way...to be part of the news

2005-07-11T10:52:00.000-05:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32198-2003Oct15

Pay your way to the news media.

Dennis and Walmart

2005-07-10T14:46:00.000-05:00

I am sure that as always Walmart will help where it can.
Water, ice, immediate needs for people and after seeing what anything good means to the corporate officers I cannot help but feel the only real reason for any of it is a tax write off and good press.
It makes no difference it will still be good where they help and the associates that help are doing it for the right reasons, not the corporate reasons.
To be real, Lee Scott and family are safe. Arkansas is not withing a real danger and if Lee feels like staying home no one will tell him he can't.
I am sure all management is expected to be there to pull as many pallets of water, batteries etc to action alley and to inflict guilt and threats apon any associate having a problem getting into work or wanting to go home early.
Walmart is no longer family friendly.
I hope there are no terminations connected to this disaster.
Ten months ago when Ivan came close to Louisiana I waited hours in order to get to work in Gonzales and they made the attempt to coach me (write me up) for the delays.
I fought it.
I am glad I have no resposibility to Walmart now.
Best to All

Digging Up Some Dirt

2005-07-09T15:56:00.000-05:00

There was always some kind of dirt, but after so many years in retail it was not a shock especially in stores so big.

Gender discrimination is something that I imagine many women my age put up with because it was always there in some form and you either would except it or not work.

So when Walmart said I couldn’t have the lead position in the meat department in 1998 I took what they would let me have and discounted it as a situation where if I wanted to stay with the company I had to take it.

I should have known that if a store that wonderful to work in could be that way it would continue on and it did.

Gender Discrimination
By job, pay and promotion
Retaliation
Especially for using the open door
Sexual Harassment
The old fashion kind, the kind that you try to ignore because you see it but are not part of it so you avoid the people that do or promote it, to say something, explain how it affects anyone means trouble for you later.
Seeing promotions not based on what you know but who they know or slept with.
Not all associates can be wrong about the same thing, the same instance and how it was hidden or taken care of.
Ethics
Misappropriation of Trust Funds that the associates donate to explained away as bad judgment by Lee Scott.
Interrogations, not interviews, look up the meaning if you have to. I was not a part of any criminal activity but was treated like a criminal.
Plain old terminations produced by individuals that obviously thought lying was better. Why? Because if they didn’t lie they had no excusable reason for terminating someone they just didn’t like.

How can you look at someone and lie to their face? It seems to be a requirement for Walmart management.

So I made a mistake by causing them to work. I reported unethical behavior. I reported lies. I did not except bogus accusations and I requested an attorney be present during the interrogations.

Add it to the book and or write a new one.

I will be glad to send to all Walmart Associates that request one a copy of the book pre publication.

I will as in the past hold all contact confidential. I don’t want them to do to you what I allowed them to do to me.

Regards to all email me at juliejpjersey@aol.com or call me at 225-273-4354.

The book will be sent either via email or snail mail.

Seriously why don't they accept the fact . It is only entertainment and you wouldn't know a real American news story if it bit you.

2005-07-08T12:14:00.000-05:00

Seriously why don't they accept the fact . It is only entertainment and you wouldn't know a real American news story if it bit you.

Entertainment quality is what the news looks for on every level.

If they were reporting the news they would report the things that are important to the average American and not only the sensationalized instances.

The afl-cio and Walmart are the same and the unions are basically in it only for profit.

As any business would they work on their bottom line and do not seem to care about the average American worker any more than Walmart does.

There is sensationalism in chasing after Walmart on a big or large level and even this is discounted much like the items that line the clearance aisles in a Walmart Supercenter.

Was: An important issue. Now: not worrying about it.

The president of the afl-cio could care less about the real way to take them on. Gaining the kind of solidarity that could do it. At the same time, Walmart just fires anyone who says anything negative about it and the culture that kept it able to avoid union problems is evaporating at a rapid pace.

Maybe, just maybe this is their way of making it all stall. They know that the average American is to busy working, too busy doing what has to be done to survive to fight one or the other.

Sensationalize.

Walmart associates across our country have told me I should add more dirt.

I tried not to. I made every attempt to keep it straight down the middle and the media ignores it all.

Misappropriation of funds, using an associate trust fund to reimburse management for extensive management relocation expenses and taking the donations given in belief they would be used only for crisis situations.

Doing it so quickly I would think it must have been done before.

Lying about it on paper and the phone and getting away with it. The source of the initial reports, who, when, why.

Executive and corporate officers justifying the use of donations for corporate expenses but it is okay because after all it is Walmart doing it and they seem to be above the law.

A downward trend for every Wal-Mart associate working at a career with the company.

I could have been unethical, it would have been accepted.

I could have been a liar, it would have been accepted.

I could have been disrespectful of the associates working to provide for their families and helping the company by working twice as hard to do a job that is usually not appreciated or treated with any form of respect.

When do I give up? I’m not sure yet. Destroy me, yes they did in a way but I was not surprised by it, I was just too deep, it was turn into one of them or fight it.

I fought them and lost.

Julie Doering Pierce..."The Walmart Way" Not Sam's Way...Walmart XIII AD

Illegals can get a mortgage how about you?

2005-07-08T10:30:00.000-05:00

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20050708024409990001

Take a look.

Terror, living, life, family the same

2005-07-08T10:06:00.000-05:00

The UK and the same kind of feeling that it had to be a bad movie. Unreal in it's reality and everything is unreal in it's own way.
So it goes. During a lifetime the wars and the illusion of peace. Opinions go everyway. Terrorism, politics and are they playing games with us because our attention wanes and all seems unimportant after a splash?

How long does it take to give up?

How long before trying seems fruitless?

The Illusion of clean once again

2005-07-07T13:31:00.000-05:00

http://www.thegreatseparation.com/newsfront/2003/08/walmartcom_sell.html

take a look.

AFL-CIO and Walmart

2005-07-07T09:58:00.000-05:00

And the unions wonder why they are having trouble getting Walmart associates to unionize?

They are not much different from the corporate officers at Walmart.

They are not concerned with the facts and especially the individuals that may or may not be interested.

Contact, communications for years have provided me with only reasons as to why they do not have the time or do not have a place for me to even attempt to help.

Obviously the AFL-CIO is as many have said running nothing other than a business. At least that is the way I see it as years go by with all of them being virtually unresponsive to the kind of information that could help them.

If attempted contacts overall are handled this way I am not surprised that they are going to be laying off any number of their associates. You don't need that amount of people to do the job when there is no real concern for the possible future union members.

Thanks for showing me where the unions stand.

Fox the media advertising from Walmart

2005-07-06T18:32:00.000-05:00

Julie Doering Pierce..."The Walmart Way" Not Sam's Way...Walmart XIII AD

Conservative, yes. Unbiased I am not so sure.

No one...yes that includes the rest will do anything that is remotely truthful about Walmart.

Since Feb. I have been trying to get our story out.
I am sorry I can't pay my way like Walmart

Tom Coughlin

2005-07-06T17:01:00.000-05:00

They are still using Tom Coughlin Training Videos. Amazing....

Category changes...my opinion is they are making ready for big...BIG Changes.

2005-07-05T23:50:00.000-05:00

Category changes...my opinion is they are making ready for big...BIG Changes.

What once was a zone manager is now an area manager or an area supervisor. They are hourly. The life of the average Walmart Department manager is changing.
The new manager schedules look like the assistant manager schedules and are not the typical seven to four with weekends off.

If you can take it, they will give it to you.

New Department Managers are only hopeful that associates working in their areas of responsibility will do a good job in their absence.

Now it is a matter of if you are able to withstand the lies and the death of the culture as an assistant you may make a promotion or you exit.

The hourly associates will be doing the work that was once given to the assistant managers.

It was a perk. The great hours were considered a perk. A reason to be a department manager and now it is gone.

I will post a copy of the new area managers schedule as it has been written by the corporate offices.

It is obviously being followed in a number of the newer stores and will more than likely give the new area managers a feeling of accomplishment a step up or a distinct feeling that the company once again is attempting to do something that is going to cause a contreversy throughout the stores.

It is one thing for a region or division to do something new that is this different, but when the Walmart Department Manager down the road has a great schedule and one department to run it makes the other wonder why at the same or less pay they have up to four departments and a rotten schedule to do it in.

More to come...

It Seems Like Yesterday

2005-07-05T11:27:00.000-05:00

It seems like yesterday that I sat on top of the roof watching the fireworks go off at Roosevelt Stadium.
The heat would evaporate and a cool summer breeze would come down upon the house late in the day as the sun went down.
Years later a firework display would go off at Seaside Hieghts and I would think that it was becoming too average and they should save all of it for the fourth.

When I was a kid I had no interest in history.

I grew up in a United States that we all took for granted with the exception of the few that scared the daylights out of us at school.

I remember the nuns drilling us on what we should do if the communists came into our school with machine guns and threatened to kill all of us if we did not deny our faith.

It would be scary for a while and later forgotten.

Politics was a blurr. I can remember very little except Mom saying we were Democrats and as time went on I can remember less as I went into the work force and attempted to compensate for what was missing at home.

Now what seems like a lifetime has passed and every years I am more pround than ever of our country.

It's a long story and today it came back as I told my grandson just a piece of our country's history when he asked about the birth of our nation any how old it was.

A Legacy of freedom....

2005-07-03T23:30:00.000-05:00

A small town of 22. A small town, a part of American History.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/national/03town.html?ex=1121054400&en=3ded1ab07695a21e&ei=5059&partner=AOL

Mr. Bigstuff...who do you think you are?

2005-07-03T22:44:00.000-05:00

Strange but true link

2005-07-03T09:56:00.000-05:00

There are some unbelievable things that happen on a daily basis.

Looking for regular columists and researcher...on a voluntary basis.

To add to this blog on a steay basis.

Add your story.

Add your life.

Comment let us know what you think and want to read about.

Continue to pray...God can do anything

2005-07-02T13:52:00.000-05:00

The terror is here in the United States even now. Our own, is this not a form of terroist?
Dylan, where is he? Is he in heaven?
My thoughts are so fearful. My grandson went to his friends house down the block at 1pm and I had to go down there to make sure his bike was there and know he made it down the block.
The fear is real and the terroists that lurk in the neighborhoods of our country are not always forgien.
I can remember as a child, not more than nine, hearing news reports on the radio in the morning before school about police looking for a rape suspect. Probably one of the reasons that for the longest time Mom walked me to school.
I am fifty-two and the fear that gripped my mom then continues to grow worse now.
It could be the way media coverage is at our fingertips or it could be our world is disintergrating quickly into a culture of terror on all fronts.
A mad man, a preditor, a serial killer anywhere, anytime.
A country that needs not only to make sure another 911 is prevented but needs to find a way to cleanse itself from the preditors that are amongst us.
I pray that this little girl did not live through even the death of her favorite brother. I pray that there is some form of victory in all of it for her.
Across the nation, we the people, have to do something to insure our childrens safety.

Dylan has not been found...pray

2005-07-02T11:06:00.000-05:00

Dylan has not been found...pray...

The investigation is on going...

Dylan and Shasta Groene found alive....

2005-07-02T10:39:00.000-05:00

I just had to post this.
It would mean something to anyone that has children and is wonderful.

Live 8 Information and more

2005-07-02T08:49:00.000-05:00

http://www.live8live.com/news/index.shtml

Take a look at this.

Even if you feel that you have little...they have far less.

Live 8

2005-07-02T08:39:00.000-05:00

Today it is everywhere...
Have you had time to find out more?

live8

weblogUpdates.ping

http://www.unitedstatesdailynews.com

http://www.unitedstatesdailynews.blogspot.com/

Market Watch Top Ten Link

2005-07-01T15:39:00.000-05:00

Market Watch...top ten stories...news and analysis...what does it mean to you if anything?

Let's see how important the news that is brought to us is.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?column=Top+Ten&dist=nwtwk&siteid=mktw

Washington Post article...interesting

2005-07-01T13:26:00.000-05:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/06/23/DI2005062301438.html

Interesting in that most of the so called news is usually about this...

Sandra Day O'Conner...Does it matter to you?

2005-07-01T12:34:00.000-05:00

The first woman on the Supreme Court Retires.

Are you politically active?

Democrat? Republican? Does it make a differnce to you or are you too busy working, trying to live to care?

Daily New The Media Ignores

2005-07-01T08:15:00.000-05:00

Go ahead and post.
The News that means something to you and your family.
News that matters and is not censored by the elite.
News that means something to many but may not be EXTREME ENOUGH to make it into the regular news at say abc, nbc, cbs, msnbc, cnn, fox news or any news organization as they proceed to follow news that is actually a form of entertainment and nothing more.

Walmart, retail, politics, right wing, left wing, liberal, conservative, you name it and if it is no where to be found it just may be found here.

Up dated daily.

Julie Pierce...."The Walmart Way" Not Sam's Way...Walmart 13 AD plus more