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Thursday, March 22, 2018

New Walmart Laws Ideas: (Unedited): 22 March 2018:

1). Walmart Corporate Living Wage Taxation. 
These law ideas should be run through each city, state and federal agencies legal departments. In order to recoup lost funds due to Walmart practices in the Post Sam Walton era. All claims I make here must be researched and verified. My interest is in the protection and safety of my city. My interest is a mutual benefit of both Walmart and my city and what is equally fair for both entities.
It is apparent that when Sam Walton was running Walmart the associates were making and building wealth. To the point that many Walmart general associates, department managers were becoming millionaires. Today can Walmart say by percentage that they have a near equal or greater percentage of millionaires who are employed at the store level or truck drivers? If this answer is no. Then the Walmart corporation has assumed all of the wealth for themselves and it is their corporate legal right to do so. But, when the number of employees working for any store is receiving all manor of state and federally funded aid just to survive. Then it is the corporation who is profiting off of slave labor practices. It is the common American citizen who actually pays taxes to assist the poor and needy. It is the corporations who are taking unfair advantage of this process. Then that corporation no matter who it is should pay the government back at the city, state and federal level in extra taxes. So for instance if Walmart employees/associates collected more than $6 billion dollars in food, housing, health benefits. Simply because of low wages. Then Walmart corporation or any other corporation should pay back in full through heavy taxes to the city, state and federal government. Certain exclusions should apply such as those who are permanently disabled or have become temporarily disabled to some degree.
Another exclusion can be applied for in the future. Such as a corporate lifting up program. So if a corporation like Walmart has a dutiful, promising and successful employee. Then what ever heavy taxes applied to that formerly low wage employee can be recouped to some degree. But, that degree cannot be such a number as to cause the corporation not to decide to lift up a promising employee.
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When any corporation has removed so much benefits to their basic employees to such a degree like every corporation has. The best evidence is the wage comparison between the CEO or corporate officers and base employees. If this percentage is above lets say the 100%. Then the heavy taxation would apply in full. Especially when employees are receiving government subsides for only low wages.
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2). Walmart Corporate Law Enforcement Percentage Use Laws.
In many cities throughout the United States. The local law enforcement agencies are becoming stressed from excessive calls to Walmart stores. New Port Richey, Florida police department is one where there is not enough man power to cover Walmart and the rest of the city. Thus creating a very real unsafe living standard for the rest of the local people. Walmart as typical fails to pay their fair share or to even do their fair part in protecting the store, the employees or even the customers. Yes, the news recently in regards to Walmart corporate has been doing better at doing their part in security matters has improved. The lessons learned from city governments is simple. If any corporation uses a certain to be defined percentage of law enforcement resources. Then a taxation program/Law should begin for that city. So if a Walmart or any other corporate entity is utilizing more than 10% of law enforcement resources. Then a tax per call would apply until that law enforcement utilization percentage achieves a level of about 30% at which point that corporate entity would be taxed 100% of all law enforcement utilization. This would include all costs associated with every prosecution.  This would also include all other emergency services. 
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3). New Legal Definition of a Discount Store.
Sam Walton created the true discount stores. Sam Walton had a maximum sales percentage of about 40% markup. Assuming if I'm remembering correctly that 40% was his mark up limit. Then that percentage should be used to define legally what a discount store should be. This is to stop deceptive advertising as well as identifying which corporate club stores are actually discounters or not. 
A discount store and a pay to shop club store should have established mark up percentage legal limits. For instance, if Walmart is a true discount store than from the time Walmart purchases a product to the point that product reaches the store shelves. The mark up percentage should not be higher than 40% for every individual product. The cost of transportation and warehousing of products for discount stores should not be added to the cost of the product as Walmart stores is known for inflating costs at their own distribution centers in order to prove profitability of those very distribution centers. What Walmart does is seen by other corporations and they all do likewise. Thus driving up prices just as what Sam Walton had claimed that retailers do when he began Walmart. So the question is can Walmart corporation profit each time a product enters into each type of Walmart distribution center thus adding ghost costs to each product without the the prior knowledge of the customer? is it right? is it fair? Is it legal?
A pay to shop discount club store should not have any items for sale which exceed a percentage which should be some number lower than 40%. But, this does not seem to be the case as Sam's Clubs in New Port Richey, Fl.  appears to be selling goods at higher prices per ounce, per pound and per unit than many dollar stores and other actual retailers in this area. Who sell comparably packaged goods. 
I believe this is deceptive advertising which has become an accepted practice as it appears that discount store corporations should not be trusted with doing business. 
Because of the mark up practices of Walmart and the hugeness of Walmart stores. Can Walmart stores create artificial inflation throughout an entire nation or can the effect be localized once Walmart has obliterated any local competition?  
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The bottom line is this. All citizens should attain a level of wages so that every citizen can begin to pay taxes. Of course this is an impossibility as people are disabled and many become disabled through some kind of tragedy. But, when corporations are using the government to pay for their employees. This is wrong. If Walmart employees received more than $6 billion dollars in government aid. Then Walmart saved or took more than $6 billion dollars in wages from every American tax payer. This could be a yearly number. Add up the years.
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More research needs to be done. You legal eagle persons need to begin to write laws which will benefit your cities safety. Even if Walmart chooses to close up and if they do. You will know that they never really cared for your little city. That which will replace Walmart will be the smaller mom and pop stores. Who will be happy to pay city taxes and to keep profits in town. Those bad persons who only want to conduct all manor of shenanigans will become convinced to move other places. Which is beyond your city or county borders. In the short term a closed up Walmart may be hard on the city. In the long term. The cities economy should become stronger and more diversified. 
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Do not become threatened by Walmart corporate or any other corporation's claims that they will fire all low wage employees. This is currently an impossibility as low end retail is typically for low skilled and low educated people. Or for person who have endured a hardship but will leave when a better job is found. Also, Walmart is automating as many job positions as possible. So your city is already losing jobs. How many self serve cash registers does your Walmart have? Walmart used to hire one employee for every cash register and now it is one employee to every ten self serve cash registers. More and more automation is occurring every year in every job category and by 2030 it is estimated that 2 billion low skilled and low education jobs will be lost world wide. Research how many employees did Walmart have per store size in 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, 2000's, 2010's, and today. Then plot those numbers out and then question if Walmart stores is still beneficial to your area as they suck all of the wealth out of your city. Because, if Walmart has a very low number of employees per store and in distribution centers. Then how does your city profit when few employees are actually employed. Guess what Robots are already filling up transportation warehouses. Which means loss of jobs and loss of taxation for your city or town. Research robot use by AB Beer and Pepsi. How many jobs lost?
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Added on 21 Feb 2019: Walmart's corporate law of productivity is ramping up. With fewer and fewer employees. Walmarts bottom line drops and profits rise. In The Walmart environment. The corporation itself is purely self serving and has no compassion for anything which holds it back or slows it down. Such as the current issue of Adam catlin a 30 year old man who has an amazing record with Walmart and now Walmart makes demands on him to be more productive. By the way Mr. Catlin has cerebral Palsy and was hired as a door greeter. Walmart has redefined the duties and changed the name from door greeter to customer hosts. Name change and duty change is all just legal protections for the Walmart Corporation. It is all about streamlining all corporate functions. In which every corporation has a right to do. But, Walmart corporation may become its own evil enemy as customers begin to realize that this one corporation no longer serves the people, community or is even a benefit to this nation. Walmart customers will disappear with every Adam Catlin story that comes along.
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NOT JUST IN YOUR COMMUNITY DOES WALMART ABUSE THEIR OWN CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES BUT ALSO OTHER COMMUNITIES THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO SERVE.
WALMART CORPORATION HAS BECOME SUCH A HUGE ENTITY THAT IT IS THE COMMUNITIES THAT MUST SERVE THEM AND THEIR INTERESTS. OFTEN TIMES YOUR OWN COMMUNITY LEADERS AND CHIEF LAW OFFICIALS. REMAIN SILENT AS WHAT THE TRUE COSTS TO THEIR ORGANIZATIONS ARE. If Walmart decides to leave because there isn't enough profit and too much drama. They will abandon that community after having destroyed the established small businesses. Leaving your community worse off than before. 
Search terms of this viral story: "Adam Catlin Walmart". For more on how Walmart continues to abuse their own employees and the communities they have stores in "Walmart News complaints then insert your city or state name" Do not forget to use the Tools button and then the down select for the Anytime button.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Perpetuated Dumb ideas: (Unedited): 08 July 2014:

The perpetuation of incredibly dumb ideas comes from those corporate managers who refuse to reasonably think for themselves or for those whom they are responsible for.
 C.J.MacKechnie
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Any corporate entity who makes policy changes which negatively has an impact on their employees rights and freedoms, especially when it affects their own personal time is absolutely wrong.
 Any corporate entity who sees wrongful actions from other corporate managers within similar corporate businesses take actions against their own employees and then sees it as a good idea. They are wholly ignorant and stupid. Unworthy of the college degrees they have seemed to earn.

In this day and age where the development and the maintaining of a team work environment is crucial to the success and safety of everyone involved. It is just very difficult to understand how an entire management team and an entire non-profit industry can pass new policy which forbids any employee from doing business with their employer. Especially, while said employee is on their own time. These kinds of policies prove of the mistrust and the lack of faith that the entire corporate structure has towards any of it's employees outside of the corporate offices. These corporate personnel have become demigods within their own little fiefdom.

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One would think that a non profit organization who portrays themselves as the helper of people who are in need are essentially creating their own payroll and maintaining their own personal lifestyles. With base corporate wages, corporate perks, corporate benefits, corporate insurance and corporate bonuses. While at the same time keeping their own employees at wages which are below a living wage. The minimum wage is far below the living wage.

Yet, inside of these nonprofit retail stores where goods are given freely to the nonprofit corporate organization. Those employees are forbidding to do business with their own employer. 


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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Corporate Slaves: (Unedited): 12 July 2014:

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Any corporate entity which creates policies to control what employees do on their own free time. Thinks of those employees as corporate slaves and not free persons. 
C.J.MacKechnie
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Any corporation should not at any time create policies which effect any controls on what a person does on their own free time and with the income the employee has rightfully earned from the corporation. Yet, today in the USA corporations are creating policies which impede on a persons freedom to do as they will when off duty from the corporation.
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Goodwill
Salvation army
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The act of enslavement occurs when an employee with any corporation is unable to take any necessary for fear of not being able to obtain gainful employment once an offending corporate policy is put into place.
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Within your corporation if you have employees who do not want to be there because of the hostile work environment created by the corporate officers. Your corporation has some serious problems. It will not matter what management is put into place or team building training programs created to build pride and unity within all departments within the corporation. Fundamental and possibly corporate management change needs to be affected. Especially, when the common employees have the us versus them mentality.
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It is the corporate officers and the management teams who create the training and teaching methodologies who raise up a highly professional and qualified  work force. It is this employee who becomes passionate and compassionate about their place within the corporation. Those highly motivated employees will want to be there more than just physically present. When that happens all aspects of the red marker just dries up while the black marker becomes used up. Do you get that? Red is bad and black is good.
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What do you get in and on the sales workforce environment when you have common employees who have become entrapped and enslaved by life. Sales and thefts become inversely proportionate plot lines on any graph. Which means sales falls and thefts rise. All of this will be the absolute fault of the corporate officers who effect corporate policies which hinder employee growth and foster distrust.
When these things are apparent within the entire corporation. It is the corporate officers who need to be replaced with a new corporate team who encompass the realities of effective management, apparent leadership and compassionate teachers. This means all of the old corporate officers fired and replaced. I write this not knowing if that is even possible or even probable. Especially, in this environment of corporate greed and corporate officers becoming demigods over the lesser beings.
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How is it that the work environment becomes so completely hostile to the common employee. That virtually no corporate officer is even aware of their actions. Unless, it is a part of the new corporate standards of employment duration. Meaning since 2008, No corporate is willing to pay out benefits, pay raises or rising insurance fees. So, how the corporations combat this is by creating a hostile work environment in order to rid themselves of any long term employee. Which may mean any employee who is employed longer than 3-6 years as defined each individual corporate entity.
On the front side of hiring any new employee. The corporation can offer all of the wage promises, outstanding benefits and good insurance it wants to proclaim. All with a sliding scale. Which means no one really obtains anything until after 6 or so plus years of continuous employment. But, by that time the employees will just move on to other employment opportunities and thus there will be no increase in wages, benefits or rising insurance fees.
Take for instance medical, vision and dental insurance. The longer you are in a dental and vision insurance program the more benefits the employee receives. So, to prevent this. Corporations can re-negotiate all of their insurance programs at regular intervals. Thus, causing all employees to start back at zero days. The bottom line is corporate savings while offering less insurance values to every employee.
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As a manager at any level or even a corporate officer. How is it that you want to have any employee who is only with your company or corporation only because of the insurance or they are waiting to retire? Or worse they are dead enders and don't really care to go else where because then they will actually have to work.

If you have any employees who are only their only as a physical body. Then you the corporate officers are doing something wrong. Especially, if you are a NON-PROFIT doing great works within the community. That alone should raise the excitement with all of your employees. People doing good works tend to feel good about what they are doing. But, That is unless of course you have re-created the nonprofit into a profit machine only for us (Corporate officers) and everyone knows it. But, no one can really prove it because of corporate secrets.   

A dead ender is someone who does not care about anything except for their breaks and socializing while doing as little as possible with questionable quality. A dead ender is someone who is not actually in promoting the company or corporation in any way. A dead ender is someone who already is satisfied with not ever receiving any promotions and is actually not doing anything to receive a promotion. The dead ender will actually ridicule the employer for bypassing their promotions to other employees. Thus, demoralizing your entire work force. The dead ender only speaks with a negative forked tongue. Ridiculing everything including your positive team building exercises.
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Have you ever noticed how Some corporate officers or mangers who have become so self centered in what they are doing that when an employee leaves for better employment. They are clearly upset and insulted. Even if that employee is currently making substantially below a living wage.

The good corporate officers and managers should celebrate their low waged employees leaving for better opportunities. Especially, if those corporate officers work for a non-profit corporation like Goodwill or The Salvation Army. As a matter of fact these non-profits should even go a step further by offering interview skills, business suits for men and professional attire for women when those sizes come in from donations. They should also offer additional skills training in a variety of areas. Free of charge because when your employees are making a little more than the minimum wage and have families. those employees are unable to financially afford to pay for formal educational training.
Some of your employees may even be learning disabled or must endure other forms of disability. It is essentially important that these non-profits do not have a certain percentage low wage employees working for them more than a few years. While other employees will not be able to ever work in the real business world and should be maintained. Though continuously trained and managed in a nurturing environment. Free of corporate accusations and corporate policy creation based from a fearful heart. Such as forbidding any employee from purchasing any products within any store at any time, or on any donated product greater than three days on the shelf.

The reason why it is important for these non-profits to move employees through established in house training programs is to clear a path for new persons to come into the non-profits, thus continuing the cycle of helping people.
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For the corporate officers. You must maintain that the sense that your fundamental duties is to lift people up and to empower them to greater horizons. Your areas of focus should not be how to obtain more corporate bonuses for yourselves. Yes, you should grow the non-profit corporation in your area in order to help more people.
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This is a type of policy based on fear and accusation. These types of policies below is more slave and discriminatory in nature than anything else. Because a slave cannot be seen or heard from. Remember those signs for coloreds coming off of those WW2 ships pointing them away from the dock side celebrations? How about those separate  water fountains for coloreds and whites? Coloreds must get their food from the back door.
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THESE ARE CURRENT DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES OF NON-PROFITS.

Forbidding any store employee from purchasing any product from your non-profit thrift store(s). Even while off duty and with the rightfully earned monies from your non-profit corporation.

Forbidding any store employee from purchasing any product from your non-profit store(s) that is less than 3 days out on the sale floor. Even while off duty and with their rightfully earned monies from your non-profit corporation. 

It doesn't matter your rationale for creating and ordering these kinds of policies. IT IS WRONG. To just outright accuse all of your employees of theft without any real evidence is wrong.  If your employees are stealing. You fire them and then hire new ones. If your Corporate human resource persons are always hiring thieves then fire that person first before you fire anyone else.
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You don't hear about this from those Walmart slave associates. They get a store discount on many products. The same with any other discount store.
McDonald's slave staff can eat food from their restaurants. The same with any other fast food chain.

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http://consumerist.com/2010/07/31/goodwill-fires-down-syndrome-worker-whose-mother-violated-policy-by-buying-him-a-3-shirt/

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Here on page 11. the purchasing policy is mentioned but not listed. If the employee wants to know more about the purchasing policy. They must go through the Human Resources department to gain the information.  The purchasing policy is classified and Goodwill doesn't want anyone to know what it is who are outside of the corporation. If this is so innocent why is it keep from the public domain? Goodwill corporate officers know they are in the wrong in this matter and are protecting their primary customer at the expense of their low waged employees.

http://www.goodwillswpa.org/UserFiles/File/Misc%20Files/Tab%2004-Code%20of%20Conduct%20Revised%2010-11.pdf
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Added on 19 July 2014:
Are Nonprofits really going to fire their low waged employees for Attempting to purchase work clothes from their own stores. Such as shoes, shirts and pants. When those items have been donated for use by those individuals who are in genuine need of those donated items. Isn't that the primary reason why any person donates item into any nonprofit. So, that their items can and will be used by those needy persons who need them. How much more needy can you get than an employee who is making the Minimum wage plus a few percentage points. An employee who may or may not have eaten anything while at work. An employee with holes in their work pants or tape on their shoes.
Where has the mercy and compassion gone from these nonprofits? Especially, those nonprofits who were originated from Christian moral beliefs. Apparently those Christian beliefs are disappearing.

Guess who those very same nonprofits are favoring in the name of business? It is not their employees or even those who donate goods. There is an active deception being committed by some non profits.

Would you be surprised if I revealed this information. You probably already know who the non profits favorite customer is? Do you know just how offensive and profitable these people are to these non-profits?
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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Classified Corporate Changes: 02 July 2014:

Classified in house corporate policy changes which infringe on the basic freedoms of employees, associates, team members. Is already known to be wrong as agreed upon by the demigods.  
C.J.MacKechnie
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This is a simple form of reasoning when you know your corporate hierarchy has become a group of self diluting demigods. When your corporate structure can enact policy change which governs all of the actions and finances of all of those persons who are in the corporates payroll. Even to the point of what each person chooses to do on their own time and with the monies each person has earned from that very same corporate structure.
This has nothing to do with morality or sin. Immorality and sin can bring disease into the physical business. Drinking, drugs (legal and illegal) and smoking can bring in health, productivity, safety and legal hazards into the business.
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The simple act of a retailer forbidding it's own employees from shopping in any of their stores on their off time with the monies they have earned from that retail corporate entity. Then that very same corporate entity threatening their cashiers with absolute dismissal over not checking to inquire if the employee is allowed to buy that product. This would be heinous and gross actions impeding of simple freedoms of people. Where and how you can spend your monies on your own free time. That is just wrong.
The lawyers who would be in the authority of agreeing with the creation of this policy change should be accused of just being stupid and recommended to seek employment in a field that is free from reason and common sense. 
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Can you imagine the unemployment claims or law suit opportunities or news media coverage of a fired employee.Especially, if the corporate structure is a non-profit. Where the corporate demigods are making huge incomes and bonuses while the employees make the standard minimum wage or less. Especially, when the cost of a living wage has been highlight in the news by various news media outlets over McDonalds and Walmart.
"Yes, I was fired for shopping in the store on my own free time and with the monies I have earned from that store."
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Uncommitted Decline: (Unedited): 28 Aug 2013:

The uncommitted on your team will demoralize your team leaders as you can only watch your teams overall performance decline. 
C.J.MacKechnie
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Actively choosing quality members for your "A Team", "B Team" and  all other teams is critical. Picking a team member who is only their to get a pay check, to socialize or to even just watch. Will eventually cause you to lose your star players or star employees. If you the overall leader fail to take the necessary action and coach/manager your team. As the team coach it is your responsibility to be the lead cheer leader, psychologist and disciplinarian. Sometimes even taxi driver if need be. 
In the professional environment the decline you can only watch, will be tied to your profit/loss sheet immediately. There is nothing you can do. Unless you take immediate action right now. But, typically you the coach/manager will need to be transferred or just let go. Your bosses will need to hire a temporary strong person to weed out the dead weight. While you will need to have that secret conversation with your stars so that they themselves don't walk freely out your door to profit your competition. The head hunters will be circling just like those great black birds just waiting for that right kind of dead smell to emanate from your place.
The worse kind of loss is when your stars become so demoralized that you just have to let them go. You can thank your former coach/manager for that great loss. Then blame yourself for not acting objectively on the facts at hand and for not listening to your stars while favoring the coach/manager.
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