Merry Christmas-You are Fired

When you take a seasonal job during the Christmas Holidays, you know at some point the job will be over. I think you make plans for that, and if you still need a job, then you keep looking for something else, right? But how are you supposed to plan when Walmart hires you for seasonal Holiday help, brags about being $100,000 higher in sales than they were last year, then calls all of the seasonal and part time help into the back offices and terminates them? It seems to be a lose lose situation. The people expecting to have a job are out of luck. The people who are left behind to work with a skeleton crew are out of luck. The real losers would seem to be the customers, who now have long, long lines and no customer service to look forward to if they are foolish enough to step into a Walmart store in the next few days. How do these people look at themselves in the morning? I understand making a profit, I am very fond of the capitalist system. But at what point does your conscience come in to play? I remember when Walmart hired seasonal help in October so that they could get them prepared for the Holiday rush that was coming. The seasonal people had a job until the first of the year, at the very least. Then they kept the best of the seasonal help by offering them a full time job after the Holidays. I guess the way that they do it now probably saves them millions in payroll. But how much does it cost them in integrity? It really seems like a crappy thing to do. Mr. Sam would be so proud. I guess it's one more example of Walmart's true colors showing. Ignore the warm fuzzy commercials that Walmart spends millions on and remember this when you think of Walmart. You'll thank me later.