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My most Walmart experience at Walmart was probably about eight years back, the time when me and a few buddies were trying to get one of their moms to buy alcohol for us. We gathered up the funds for a handle and gave her the money, then mingled toward the exit as, we assumed, she would head toward the register. Instead, she jogged ahead of us and just walked out the door, setting off the alarm, and just kept going. A cashier saw her and yelled out, then asked us if we noticed her with any merchandise, at which point we of course shrugged our shoulders and the cashier thought "gently caress it" and gave up. We spent about another ten minutes in the parking lot trying to get our goddamn money back if she just planned to steal it from the start, but no one came out or anything. That we weren't caught can only be explained by understaffing and intense apathy.
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thewireguy posted:My best friend from high school has reached his pay limit in the warehouse and I feel bad for him. I'm gonna need more info on this
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Jul 14, 2015 18:13
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Volume posted:I'm gonna need more info on this Walmart has a system for raises. It's based on your evaluation and the raises aren't very good. There is a base pay rate and then it goes up every year unless you get a lovely review (take a wild guess how often managers deliberately give people terrible reviews to not give them raises). However there is a hard maximum on how much you can earn hourly. It goes up by the position's level of course but low levels cap at like $14 or $16 an hour or so. Last I heard none of these things are adjusted for inflation and Walmart actively avoids keeping people that they have to actually pay that much.
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Jul 14, 2015 18:17
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Zaphod42 posted:I had to buy something from behind a glass wall in electronics so I was like waving my hands around going "HELLOOOOO" and nobody came, so I went and stood behind the register in electronics where customers aren't supposed to be shouting "Hello, I'm doing something I'm not supposed to, somebody please come here and stop me" and still nothing. For the most part my local Walmart doesn't seem too bad for staffing, or at least they're keeping registers well-staffed - but I have had similar headaches at the electronics section, the annoyance is amplified because they have 3rd party dudes selling cellphone plans that can't help me because they aren't actually walmart employees. I get that, but one time there was loving three of these guys yucking it up and not a single actual Walmart employee to be found.
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Jul 14, 2015 18:24
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Pop quiz: what's wrong with this promo image for Trump that was deleted? Here's the exciting answer!
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Jul 14, 2015 22:18
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f#a# posted:Pop quiz: what's wrong with this promo image for Trump that was deleted? Somebody at the Trump campaign knows what they did and is smirking like a motherfucker right now. Trump needs to slow it down. I want him to fail, I expect him to fail, I know he'll fail, and I'm eating the popcorn. But drat dude, if you gently caress up too much too fast people will just stop listening! You've gotta survive long enough to make it to the primary so I can see you say something truly stupid on live television!
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Jul 14, 2015 22:49
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Zaphod42 posted:Somebody at the Trump campaign knows what they did and is smirking like a motherfucker right now. As if "all Mexican immigrants are rapists" and "we should invade Mexico" aren't stupid enough for you?
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Jul 14, 2015 23:03
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ToxicSlurpee posted:As if "all Mexican immigrants are rapists" and "we should invade Mexico" aren't stupid enough for you? Good job completely failing to parse what I was saying 
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Jul 14, 2015 23:05
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Zaphod42 posted:Somebody at the Trump campaign knows what they did and is smirking like a motherfucker right now. Good news! A recent poll has him leading the current GOP candidates!
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Jul 14, 2015 23:07
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Volume posted:I'm gonna need more info on this Glass ceiling? He has been there for years. I guess he has been promoted as far as he can go. Peter principle maybe?
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Jul 14, 2015 23:14
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The best part of Trump's current ego trip is that it is actually costing him. Trump has no intention of becoming president and is basically just doing this for the publicity he constantly craves, but his own little ego boost is causing such great backlash that it is pretty much glorious.
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Jul 14, 2015 23:53
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Madkal posted:The best part of Trump's current ego trip is that it is actually costing him. Trump has no intention of becoming president and is basically just doing this for the publicity he constantly craves, but his own little ego boost is causing such great backlash that it is pretty much glorious. The guy's a real estate billionaire with nearly all of his income coming from property investments. He makes more in one week from New York realty than all of his media and retail branding combined. I mean sure he's reprehensible, but let's not pretend righteous boycotting is going to beggar the dude.
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Jul 15, 2015 00:03
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I wish Doonesbury wasn't off for the summer, the strips he did picking on Trump way back when were hilarious. And Trump got so mad about them too, reacting basically how he does to "haters" on twitter.
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Jul 15, 2015 04:20
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ElwoodCuse posted:I wish Doonesbury wasn't off for the summer, the strips he did picking on Trump way back when were hilarious. And Trump got so mad about them too, reacting basically how he does to "haters" on twitter. Bloom County's back, though, so Trump might make an appearance yet.
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Jul 15, 2015 04:26
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Danger Mahoney posted:The guy's a real estate billionaire with nearly all of his income coming from property investments. He makes more in one week from New York realty than all of his media and retail branding combined. Would it matter? Hasn't he declared bankruptcy a bunch of times? How does that even work?
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Jul 15, 2015 04:37
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Trump the successful billionaire is a fictional character that exists only on paper, and Donald J. Trump the human being has spent decades trying to convince everybody that he's real. He's like the anti-freeman on the land.
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Jul 15, 2015 04:58
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Someone on here said that he's a terrible businessman, but an amazing marketer, and he's been marketing himself successfully for decades. I'm not sure what the hell he's doing now, unless he is very, very cynical about what the people of the US want from a candidate.
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Jul 15, 2015 05:10
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Someone on here said that he's a terrible businessman, but an amazing marketer, and he's been marketing himself successfully for decades. I'm not sure what the hell he's doing now, unless he is very, very cynical about what the people of the US want from a candidate. I've been saying that for a while and I think either his ego consumed his entire brain and took over or he figures since he's old and already a billionaire he might as well take one last stab at something really huge. I.e, the presidency. I think he either just decided he deserves it or set his sights on the one thing he doesn't have. And really the only thing he has that makes him rich is his brand. That's it. People will pay extra just because the thing says "Trump" on it. He's a lovely businessman because he managed to bankrupt a casino. That should be practically impossible unless you're actively trying to bankrupt it.
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Jul 15, 2015 05:15
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Dr_Amazing posted:Would it matter? Hasn't he declared bankruptcy a bunch of times? How does that even work? He's had his real estate holdings company declare bankruptcy several times to restructure debt. It's not like he was flat broke.
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Jul 15, 2015 06:04
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Well no, it doesn't count when you bankrupt your LLC, it's not like it's your own name you're dragging through the mud. Trump being the GOP frontrunner despite his track record is amazing.
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Jul 15, 2015 16:27
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Madkal posted:The best part of Trump's current ego trip is that it is actually costing him. Trump has no intention of becoming president and is basically just doing this for the publicity he constantly craves, but his own little ego boost is causing such great backlash that it is pretty much glorious. So if he's just doing this for funsies what happens if he actually gets voted in?
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Jul 15, 2015 19:27
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Again, to anyone who thinks Trump is capable in any way: The man lost money on running a casino. You, goon reading this post, could probably make money with a casino.
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Jul 15, 2015 19:41
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MindlessHavok posted:So if he's just doing this for funsies what happens if he actually gets voted in? Pretty much this, just replace "Jesse Jackson" with "Donald Trump" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Est8nKEpJI8&t=3248s
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Jul 15, 2015 19:44
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Again, to anyone who thinks Trump is capable in any way: The man lost money on running a casino. I'm pretty sure you could run a casino profitably by making decisions using a dart board. Like you just write down all the possibilities, throw a dart at it, then go home to your vast supplies of hookers and blow.
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Jul 15, 2015 19:47
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I'm pretty sure you could run a casino profitably by making decisions using a dart board. Like you just write down all the possibilities, throw a dart at it, then go home to your vast supplies of hookers and blow. Dartboard? Just use the roulette table.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I'm pretty sure you could run a casino profitably by making decisions using a dart board. Like you just write down all the possibilities, throw a dart at it, then go home to your vast supplies of hookers and blow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u40mJ_ls5VE
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Jul 15, 2015 22:27
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Again, to anyone who thinks Trump is capable in any way: The man lost money on running a casino. Or to put it another way, in a business where the house, by definition, ALWAYS WINS, he somehow managed to lose.
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Jul 15, 2015 22:34
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Again, to anyone who thinks Trump is capable in any way: The man lost money on running a casino. I keep hearing about this, but I'm curious about the details. Like...how did this happen? Anyone have a good article (or can provide a summary) about this?
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Jul 15, 2015 22:42
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MindlessHavok posted:So if he's just doing this for funsies what happens if he actually gets voted in? I doubt Trump even expects to make it to the primaries. The same poo poo happened before the last American election when there were a whole bunch of jokers and idiots who the news would not shut up about but the Republican party will just let them run their mouths off and do stupid poo poo to make the more appealing candidates seem sane. Trump will fade away feeling like he accomplished what he set out to do. At least he doesn't have an NBC show anymore, nor a Ms. World by the looks of it. Also, Donald Trump pinatas are brilliant moves in marketing.
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Phanatic posted:Bloom County's back, though, so Trump might make an appearance yet. Wait, WHAT? When did this happen? And why the hell wasn't I informed?!
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http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/sto...ll-hall-of-fame Former MLB pitcher Randy Johnson is being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He pitched for the Arizona Diamondbacks when they won the World Series. The Diamondbacks organization is really excited about this upcoming Hall of Fame induction, and came up with the idea to temporarily rename State Route 51 in Phoenix after Randy Johnson (who wore 51 on his jersey when he played). Problem is, State Route 51 is already permanently named for Lori Piestewa, a Hopi Indian Arizona soldier who was KIA in Iraq in 2003 (the first Native American US Military servicewoman killed in combat in US history). After more than a few people said WTF, the organization and governor have backed out and apologized.
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Jul 16, 2015 00:10
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Wait, WHAT? When did this happen? And why the hell wasn't I informed?!  You didn't miss much.
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Jul 16, 2015 00:13
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GrandpaPants posted:I keep hearing about this, but I'm curious about the details. Like...how did this happen? Anyone have a good article (or can provide a summary) about this? The short end of it is that when another casino comes to town it doesn't really generate any new revenue, it just takes the money that's already being spent at other casinos and spreads it around. Trump decided spend a needlessly high amount of money to build his stuff in Atlantic City, an area that's inundated with casinos, so it didn't go too well for him.
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Jul 16, 2015 00:25
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canyoneer posted:http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/sto...ll-hall-of-fame The funny thing is that no one, loving NO ONE calls is the Piestewa Highway. It used to be called Squaw Peak, then was renamed, and people kept calling it Squaw Peak. Now everyone just calls it the 51. So how did Amazon work out today with their Prime Black Friday? All I heard was how lovely the sales and actual items were.
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Jul 16, 2015 00:35
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Cowslips Warren posted:So how did Amazon work out today with their Prime Black Friday? All I heard was how lovely the sales and actual items were. Twitter seemed to have fun: http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/15/news/amazon-walmart-prime-day-customers/ I don't know if I'd call it bad marketing since there was a lot of hype to it, so it did its job. It just kinda failed to live up to its own expectations bolstered by the Internet consumer's sense of entitlement.
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So, the TL:DR version is that none of the stuff that people look for sales on at amazon like electronics or media or toys were actually part of the sale or were insulting (I heard one person complain that Final Fantasy Type-0, the newest in the franchise had a whopping five cents off for today) but even the high sales for dumb things like sharpie pens or whatever sold out in seconds.
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Jul 16, 2015 01:46
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They had the bluray Lord of the Rings box set at $2 below the all-time Black Friday low, so that was cool.
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canyoneer posted:They had the bluray Lord of the Rings box set at $2 below the all-time Black Friday low, so that was cool. Except that I forgot if I already owned LOTR on blu-ray or not and waited until I got home to check and now its sold out 
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Choco1980 posted:So, the TL:DR version is that none of the stuff that people look for sales on at amazon like electronics or media or toys were actually part of the sale or were insulting (I heard one person complain that Final Fantasy Type-0, the newest in the franchise had a whopping five cents off for today) but even the high sales for dumb things like sharpie pens or whatever sold out in seconds. Sounds like it went off like clockwork - they clear the older poo poo out of all their warehouses, make a buck off idiots jumping on five cent discounts, and get to test their infrastructure with a fast-moving mega order. It still amazes me that people think sales are for the customers.
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