On Monday, somebody found a link to a Wal-Mart orientation video on the web site of Paul French and Company, a production company that films these videos for Wal-Mart. To say there was interest in would be a tremendous understatement. By the time I found it two days later, it had 631 Diggs. If you read Barbara Ehrenreich's classic Nickeled and Dimed you know why. As she explains:
"For sheer grandeur, scale, and intimidation value, I doubt if any corporate orientation exceeds that of Wal-Mart. I have been told that the process will take eight hours, which will include two fifteen minute breaks and one half-hour break for a meal, and will be paid for like a regular shift."
Perhaps the most important part of this process, is Wal-Mart's anti-union indoctrination. At the end of her attempted brainwashing, Ehrenreich concluded:
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