Six Walmart stores closing due to plumbing problems? Really?

So far this year has had some whopper sized, “give me a break” lies.  Take for instance, Hillary Clinton and that personal email server.  Or Creflo Dollar and his 64 million dollar luxury jet.  Now it’s Walmart suddenly closing six super center stores due to plumbing problems.

Each  of the aforementioned cases would be laughable if they were just a casual April fool’s joke or something.  But they are not.  In Hillary’s case, she lied about giving over the contents of the server to the government.  Instead Hillary wiped the hard drives of the server so that no one can have access to the data therein.  Some are saying this is just an innocent mistake – but others are saying it’s all an effort to do CYA.

In  Creflo’s case, he lied about wanting a new luxury jet for ministry – err – private use.  This is because when the fires of social media backlash came licking at Creflo’s door, he lied about the plane being for private use.  The plane, a Gulf Stream 650, was to be used to carry tons (100,000 pounds or so) of food to impoverished areas of the world.  The only problem is that a Gulf Stream 650 can’t carry that amount of cargo – cause it wouldn’t be able to take off.

Now we come to Walmart which suddenly closed six stores yesterday evening, 04/14/15, due to  plumbing problems.  Even worse is that the affected stores will be closed for about six months due to the issues.  Really?  Forgive me if I call bravo sierra on this.  I mean really?  You mean to tell me that a multi billion dollar corporation is going to allow six stores to close down for six months due to plumbing issues?  Really?  Nope, not buying that for one moment.  I have worked for companies ranging from small stores to multi billion dollar corporations.  None of the aforementioned closed stores or facilities when they had to repair or install infrastructure of any type.  They just kept on going, business as usual, until the work was completed. Any employees or customers who complained were told to just suck up.

This all leads me to the question – what else is going on at Walmart?  Put it this way,  in the two other cases I cited before Walmart, it’s pretty clear as to the reason why the lie happened.  In Hillary’s case, it’s obvious that she doesn’t want the truth about issues like Benghazi to come out.  In Creflo’s case, he wants members of his church to keep him in high flying luxury.  But Walmart, it’s not so obvious as to what’s going on.  It could be anything from deep financial trouble at Wally World to the ultra high, ultra  black conspiracy theories floating around the Net lately.  One can only speculate at this point.  However, one thing is for sure – Walmart is lying about what is truly going on.

Do you think Walmart is lying about what is truly going on?  Leave a comment.

News source: Prisonplanet.com.

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Do you have a look like I work here but actually don’t look?

Back in my IT manager days I would regularly get that “do you work here” question whenever I was out shopping. Wherever I went, without fail, some customer would run up to me asking for help with whatever item they were having a problem with. In one case, I actually had a man get angry with me because he could not believe that I was not OfficeMax store manager.

OfficeMax is not the only retailer that this has happened. So far my “look like I work here” repertoire also includes Circuit City (RIP), CompUSA (RIP), DSW Shoes, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Lowes, Sears, Office Depot and now Sam’s Club.

This month alone I have had three such incidents, once at a Sam’s Club and twice today at a Lowes. In all three instances, I was just minding my business and trying to get what I needed from the store. As well, in all three instances, the customers were highly shocked to learn that I could not answer their questions because I wasn’t an employee of the store.

So do you have that look like I work here but actually don’t look? If so, what’s your “look like I work here” repertoire?

Be Civil On Black Friday

Last year an employee (Jdimytai Damour) at a Long Island Walmart was trampled to death in a black Friday stampede. Mr. Damour’s death was tragic and needless. Tragic in the fact that the crowd of over 2000 impatient customers became like animals. Needless because Mr. Damour died for nothing.

Having worked in retail before, I have seen how the holiday season brings out the worst in people. It always seemed to me that the shoppers let their anger and rage build up over the year – and then let it release on on black Friday. As this year has been a bad one economically, most likely there will be a ton of angry shoppers ready and willing to fight over something like a laptop computer.

Which gets me back to Mr. Damour’s death last year. Mr. Damour died because the people in that crowd lost sight of who they were as human beings. More so, the value of whatever that crowd was attempting to get was placed over the value of Mr. Damour’s life.

Mr. Damour’s death was shocking, outrageous and again needless. There is no item, no matter what it is, that has a value greater than a human being’s life.