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WAL-MART USING JAPANESE HONDA LABOR PRACTICES??

After doing a little research, I have discovered that Wal-Mart Corporate fellows are telling the workforce they should conduct themselves on a schedule to a system used by Honda. Honda, by the way, is a Japanese product and Sam Walton made Wal-Mart famous for the Made in America slogan.

They tell me when Sam was alive, the workers could interact with their home community, school schedules and easily accommodate unplanned events such as illness and the need for a personal day. Well, now, the employees have to call Bentonville in ARKANSAS if they are sick. Need a personal day, well, you can schedule three weeks in advance. You are required to clock-in within a ten minute window and clock-out within a ten minute window. Of course, you should be on time, but should you be penalized if a customer's needs keep you a few minutes beyond clock-out time.

Very rigid, very oriented toward the Japanese manner of treating workers as nameless, faceless cogs. Not exactly small town America. So when you hear the name Wal-Mart, don't think of Walton's Mountain.

Oh, did I mention bathroom breaks are strictly regulated?

posted by Jody @ 11:27 AM