In concession to workers, Walmart will be adjusting thermostats, music and pants
In concession to workers, Walmart will be adjusting thermostats, music and pants
by Hunter at Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/04/1390551/-In-concession-to-workers-Walmart-will-be-adjusting-thermostats-music-and-pants#
"SNIP..............
Note that the temperatures of all Walmart stores are controlled from Skynet the Walmart home office, because you don't want to leave that sort of the thing in the hands of mere managers. But the good news doesn't end there; in response to complaints about repetitive music being played on endless loops in some stores, Skynet the home office will also be consolidating music choices.
Wal-Mart is also changing the music in its stores and will have a DJ based in its corporate marketing department that will pick the music piped to all the stores.
I suspect this is less about placating workers complaining about "Celine Dion's greatest hits on loop" and more about a realization that subjecting workers to 24/7 Celine Dion on loop when your store also sells guns and ammunition is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Also, there will be some poor sap in the world whose resume will soon read DJ, Walmart corporate marketing. They will never, ever live that down.
Other changes: You will soon be able to wear black pants in a variety of materials, but you will continue to pay for them yourselves. Walmart isn't made of pants, you know.
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