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CNN: Wal-Mart: Brain-damaged former employee can keep money

Wal-Mart: Brain-damaged former employee can keep money

From Randi Kaye

(CNN) -- A former Wal-Mart employee who suffered severe brain damage in a traffic accident won't have to pay back the company for the cost of her medical care, Wal-Mart told the family Tuesday.

"Occasionally, others help us step back and look at a situation in a different way. This is one of those times," Wal-Mart Executive Vice President Pat Curran said in a letter. "We have all been moved by Ms. Shank's extraordinary situation."

[...]

On Tuesday, Wal-Mart said in a letter to Jim Shank that it is modifying its health care plan to allow "more discretion" in individual cases.

"We wanted you to know that Wal-Mart will not seek any reimbursement for the money already spent on Ms. Shank's care, and we will work with you to ensure the remaining amounts in the trust can be used for her ongoing care," Curran said.

"We are sorry for any additional stress this uncertainty has placed on you and your family."

Wal-Mart's reversal came as shock to Shank.

"I thought it was an April Fool's joke," he told CNN.

"I (would) just like to let them know that they did the right thing. I just wish it hadn't taken so long," Shank said. "But I thank them and I hope they come through with all that they said they're going to do.
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Jake;1127076; said:
No one has ever been forced to work at Wal Mart or shop at Wal Mart. If you want a better paying job, go find one. If you don't want to shop there, go someplace else.

Quit fucking whining about it...
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Wal-Mart is one of the top 5 employers in the State of Ohio... for a reason. There are no other jobs.
 
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OH10;1130763; said:
Wal-Mart is one of the top 5 employers in the State of Ohio... for a reason. There are no other jobs.
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Then it's a good thing they're here.

I find it disturbing that successful companies are villianized by some segments of our society - Wal Mart, Microsoft, "Big Oil", I hear it all the time.

I prefer to save my criticism for the major airlines, "big three" automakers, government, and the unions who represent their employees. All of those entities have become giant sinkholes pissing away billions of dollars every year because they're models of abject failure, we all end up paying for it, yet they tend to be held in higher regard by the public. :crazy:
 
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jimotis4heisman;1130981; said:
that link doesnt work.

i meant that really to no other jobs in the state...
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The Columbus Dispatch : Ohio State hospitals grew most in region

That link should work.

On the other jobs issue... Ohio has one of the highest unemployment rates in the United States. If they're not working at Wal-Mart, where are those people going to work? You cannot tell me that you can find that many available jobs in the State of Ohio for that many people. Quite simply, if Wal-Mart is the sixth-highest employer in the state, it's out of necessity rather than choice.
 
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Mother's Day is this Sunday. Don't forget to pick up something at Walmart for your mother; and nothing says "I love you Mom" like a package of condoms:

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OH10;1131021; said:
If they're not working at Wal-Mart, where are those people going to work?
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Well, they could have gotten jobs at any of the 20 other stores that were previously open before the WalMart was built and put those companies out of business. A WalMart opening doesn't magically "create" 600 jobs. It creates 400 jobs for 6 months while it's being built, and then creates 200 jobs for the new employees. What is lost in the figure is the 1000 people that will be permanently unemployed from all the other area businesses having to close following the WalMarts grand opening.

And no, I don't buy the "but look at all the other businesses that WalMart brings," argument either. A community that can support 40 restaurants can only support 40 restaurants, so if 10 more are built, that means 10 old ones will eventually close.

I don't hate "Big Box Marts" on the principle of what these chain stores buy/sell or who they cater to. I hate Big Box Marts and shopping malls and so on for their adverse affect on the surrounding communities and business properties which quickly wind up abandoned and unused. Visit any town in America you'll find rows upon rows of outdoor strip malls that are mostly abandoned because because an indoor mall was built nearby in the 70s or 80s. And if you go inside that indoor mall you'll find half the rental units inside are empty and two of the anchor stores have probably left town because there was a Meijer and a WalMart built nearby in the 90s and 00s.

Big Box Marts and Shopping Malls are right up there on my shit list with the hordes of home building companies that build projects of 10,000 houses with no parks, schools, churches, or traffic signals, off a one-lane feeder street.

These companies get all sorts of zoning exemptions and breaks on their new construction in a short sighted attempt to create jobs or beautify communities or increase access to businesses by moving them nearer the highways, with no consideration of the long term impact on all the schools and businesses that will wind up having to close, or the transit implications, or the financial repercussions on the family of four that eschews living in a 60-year old post-war three or four bedroom house (that they could have had for $90,000) to instead buy a brand new cookie cutter two bedroom Dominion or MI Home for $180,000 that's closer to the WalMart and the highway.

The fact of the matter is that nothing can be "created" out of thin air. You have to level a forest to build a new row of houses. You have to pave over a once fertile tract of farmland to build a new shopping center. If the population of the city remains static, all they're doing is moving from one side of town to the other leaving old streets and buildings uninhabited to spend more money they don't have on newer stuff they don't need. If the population of the town is growing than the population of a neighboring town in probably shrinking.

It's just a fucking shell game.
 
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Dryden;1158119; said:
Well, they could have gotten jobs at any of the 20 other stores that were previously open before the WalMart was built and put those companies out of business. A WalMart opening doesn't magically "create" 600 jobs. It creates 400 jobs for 6 months while it's being built, and then creates 200 jobs for the new employees. What is lost in the figure is the 1000 people that will be permanently unemployed from all the other area businesses having to close following the WalMarts grand opening.

And no, I don't buy the "but look at all the other businesses that WalMart brings," argument either. A community that can support 40 restaurants can only support 40 restaurants, so if 10 more are built, that means 10 old ones will eventually close.

I don't hate "Big Box Marts" on the principle of what these chain stores buy/sell or who they cater to. I hate Big Box Marts and shopping malls and so on for their adverse affect on the surrounding communities and business properties which quickly wind up abandoned and unused. Visit any town in America you'll find rows upon rows of outdoor strip malls that are mostly abandoned because because an indoor mall was built nearby in the 70s or 80s. And if you go inside that indoor mall you'll find half the rental units inside are empty and two of the anchor stores have probably left town because there was a Meijer and a WalMart built nearby in the 90s and 00s.

Big Box Marts and Shopping Malls are right up there on my shit list with the hordes of home building companies that build projects of 10,000 houses with no parks, schools, churches, or traffic signals, off a one-lane feeder street.

These companies get all sorts of zoning exemptions and breaks on their new construction in a short sighted attempt to create jobs or beautify communities or increase access to businesses by moving them nearer the highways, with no consideration of the long term impact on all the schools and businesses that will wind up having to close, or the transit implications, or the financial repercussions on the family of four that eschews living in a 60-year old post-war three or four bedroom house (that they could have had for $90,000) to instead buy a brand new cookie cutter two bedroom Dominion or MI Home for $180,000 that's closer to the WalMart and the highway.

The fact of the matter is that nothing can be "created" out of thin air. You have to level a forest to build a new row of houses. You have to pave over a once fertile tract of farmland to build a new shopping center. If the population of the city remains static, all they're doing is moving from one side of town to the other leaving old streets and buildings uninhabited to spend more money they don't have on newer stuff they don't need. If the population of the town is growing than the population of a neighboring town in probably shrinking.

It's just a fucking shell game.
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Well, I assume that you won't be shopping at Lancaster's new Walmart. :biggrin:

Interesting analogy by the Lancaster Economic Development Director:

"Wal-Mart is like a cheap pair of underwear. They keep creeping up on you."

Sprawl-Busters ~ Newsflash Database



Go Golden Gales!!! Class of '66
 
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Dryden;1158119; said:
Well, they could have gotten jobs at any of the 20 other stores that were previously open before the WalMart was built and put those companies out of business. A WalMart opening doesn't magically "create" 600 jobs. It creates 400 jobs for 6 months while it's being built, and then creates 200 jobs for the new employees. What is lost in the figure is the 1000 people that will be permanently unemployed from all the other area businesses having to close following the WalMarts grand opening.

And no, I don't buy the "but look at all the other businesses that WalMart brings," argument either. A community that can support 40 restaurants can only support 40 restaurants, so if 10 more are built, that means 10 old ones will eventually close.

I don't hate "Big Box Marts" on the principle of what these chain stores buy/sell or who they cater to. I hate Big Box Marts and shopping malls and so on for their adverse affect on the surrounding communities and business properties which quickly wind up abandoned and unused. Visit any town in America you'll find rows upon rows of outdoor strip malls that are mostly abandoned because because an indoor mall was built nearby in the 70s or 80s. And if you go inside that indoor mall you'll find half the rental units inside are empty and two of the anchor stores have probably left town because there was a Meijer and a WalMart built nearby in the 90s and 00s.

Big Box Marts and Shopping Malls are right up there on my shit list with the hordes of home building companies that build projects of 10,000 houses with no parks, schools, churches, or traffic signals, off a one-lane feeder street.

These companies get all sorts of zoning exemptions and breaks on their new construction in a short sighted attempt to create jobs or beautify communities or increase access to businesses by moving them nearer the highways, with no consideration of the long term impact on all the schools and businesses that will wind up having to close, or the transit implications, or the financial repercussions on the family of four that eschews living in a 60-year old post-war three or four bedroom house (that they could have had for $90,000) to instead buy a brand new cookie cutter two bedroom Dominion or MI Home for $180,000 that's closer to the WalMart and the highway.

The fact of the matter is that nothing can be "created" out of thin air. You have to level a forest to build a new row of houses. You have to pave over a once fertile tract of farmland to build a new shopping center. If the population of the city remains static, all they're doing is moving from one side of town to the other leaving old streets and buildings uninhabited to spend more money they don't have on newer stuff they don't need. If the population of the town is growing than the population of a neighboring town in probably shrinking.

It's just a fucking shell game.
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So what businesses have been closed as a result of the new Walmart in your area?
 
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Jimmy Carter;1158141; said:
So what businesses have been closed as a result of the new Walmart in your area?
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The WalMart just opened last month, so we'll see, but just within the past year we've lost one of our malls anchor stores, about 10% of the malls tenants, a couple of the surrounding restaurants, and several furniture stores nearer the downtown area. Many of the strip malls just turn over tenants and start ups year after year. Hell, in the past 25 years Lowes has been in three different buildings, each one larger than the one built before it, and the previous one left abandoned for about five years.

Lancaster is just moving mile-by-mile up 33 to eventually becoming a suburb of Columbus. They may as well rename it now to Pickeringcaster-Carrollsburg.

Build a Kroger, close a Big Bear.

Build a Red Lobster, close a Maugers.

One area to look at closer to Columbus is the old Brice Park. There's virtually nothing there worth visiting other than 'The Thirsty Turtle' since everything moved to the new developments in Pickerington around the WalMart.
 
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