Originally Posted by Robbie

My daughter has a boyfriend whose mom works at Wal-Mart. She's not on "public assistance".

What are the numbers on that? I've known a lot of people who worked at WalMart over the years who would come out on weekends and see me playing in my band at bars.
They weren't on "public assistance".

Doesn't WalMart have to at least pay minimum wage?

Jesus, people get a job and STILL want to be coddled? I don't get it. I played in bands (never had a "real" job) and we traveled all over the country from 1978 to the mid 1990's.

A GREAT week would be $400 for each player. But an average week was a hundred bucks. We had a 5 piece band and 3 man road crew. We stayed 4 to a motel room and unless you found a girl to feed you, we ate bologna sandwiches.

But we made it. And never ONCE asked for any "public assistance". I'd say the people working at Walmart have it made compared to what we did. And we didn't get days off...we played (and drove from town to town) 7 days a week, every week.

Anyway...do you have a link to the statistics on Walmart employees needing "public assistance"??? I was unaware that folks who had jobs could even do that.