http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/04/1390551/-In-concession-to-workers-Walmart-will-be-adjusting-thermostats-music-and-pants?detail=email
Good news, Walmart employees: The head office has heard your complaints. No, not about being paid horribly (some employees got a boost in pay earlier this week, but it's still not what any rational person would consider a living wage), or being forced to work sporadic and unpredictable hours, or having to bring your own backroom supplies. But in response to the complaints over it being uncomfortably warm or cold in the stores, they will be overhauling Big Thermostat.
According to the New York Times, temperatures at stores in the East and central regions will rise to 75 degrees from 74. (In stores in the West, average temperatures will fall from 76 to 75.)
Note that the temperatures of all Walmart stores are controlled from Skynet the Walmart home office, because you don't want to leave that sort of the thing in the hands of mere managers. But the good news doesn't end there; in response to complaints about repetitive music being played on endless loops in some stores, Skynet the home office will also be consolidating music choices.
Wal-Mart is also changing the music in its stores and will have a DJ based in its corporate marketing department that will pick the music piped to all the stores.
I suspect this is less about placating workers complaining about "Celine Dion's greatest hits on loop" and more about a realization that subjecting workers to 24/7 Celine Dion on loop when your store also sells guns and ammunition is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Also, there will be some poor sap in the world whose resume will soon read DJ, Walmart corporate marketing. They will never, ever live that down.
Other changes: You will soon be able to wear black pants in a variety of materials, but you will continue to pay for them yourselves. Walmart isn't made of pants, you know.
this is a prime example why we should stop electing the rich to govern us this isn't the 12th century they will never create legislation that threatens their wealth i must take exception to some who though rich have always fought for and supported a liberal agenda that looks out for we the people in contrast to those on the other side of the street who just want to keep it in the family party.
these changes only make the Walton clan look even more scrooge like. making employees pay for their own supplies they need while working for them in their stores that have those very same items on the shelf and in the back. as to music and some person picking what a mixture of cultures wants to hear that my friends comes down to who they careless about offending and that is not rocket science.
not trusting your managers to control store temperature but opt to pay for a system that controls nationwide when the turning of the knob up or down takes one second and can be done on a pass by the money saved could go to the workers or their uniforms that they have to supply themselves. ultra rich make you ultra despicable. their image lost even more points than when they asked their employees to kick in a few bucks so their other employees could enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner i thought they could go no lower boy i'm batting 0 on that one.
