Amazing how corporations pull together and pitch in to help the relief effort and their employees.

My hat is off to their generosity on both sides of the effort.

Wait a minute. I read that Wal Mart had donated 15 million, and offered to not lay a single person off. I read that any NO Wal Mart employee can work at other Wal Marts in different cities. I am in no way involved with Wal Mart, but I do remember reading that recently.

And out of curiosity, how do employers make payroll when their NO revenues are zero? (Probably less than zero actually). I own a small business, and if a major earthquake or some other natural dissaster hit my area and I had no customers and no way to keep my stores open (and with no utilities that wouldn't take long), I would have no revenues to make payroll with. I feel bad for both side of that equation, but it is not a complicated problem.

Wal Mart has been more than generous.

3 days off with pay.

$250 in emergency funds to cover immediate necessities.

A special fund that gives each employee up to $1,000 for home repair or rebuilding.

A guaranteed job for displaced workers anywhere where they relocate. I saw in the news a lady from New Orleans who was at work in a Houston Wal-Mart 4 days after the hurricane.

I didn't say that these companies (especially WalMart) weren't doing anything for disaster relief in the large. What I did find striking is that WalMart is doing so little "in the small", especially compared to other large employers (Northrup Grumman ensured that all those employees with direct deposit immediately got their next paycheck, covering two weeks). I can't imagine that going to other cities to work will be of much benefit. That'd mean picking up everything (or whatever is left), and somehow managing to get yourself to a different part of the state or country, and setting up residence. All on a WalMart salary.

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There's nothing left for these people in New Orleans and surrounding states.

Paying them while sitting still leaves them unemployed at the end.

Rebuilding the Wal-Mart's in their home locations will take months.

It's the forward thinking people at Wal-Mart who are helping their employees in the long term.

[reply]Wal Mart has been more than generous.

3 days off with pay.

$250 in emergency funds to cover immediate necessities.

A special fund that gives each employee up to $1,000 for home repair or rebuilding.

I would think the above three would be a bit of a joke. 3 days off with pay? People aren't going to be able to even go back for about a month and $1000 for your totally destroyed house? But then again, it is better than nothing at all.

A guaranteed job for displaced workers anywhere where they relocate. I saw in the news a lady from New Orleans who was at work in a Houston Wal-Mart 4 days after the hurricane.[/reply]

That would be a bonus that is for sure.

walmart.com mentions 20 stores closed and 15,000 workers "displaced" from their workplaces. The average salary at wal-mart is $8.50/hr. Three days pay for those people is $204. Add a $250 benefit and you are up to $454. I guess if you can own a house on wal-mart pay you could add another $1000 to get to $1454. That's about $22 million bucks they could be shelling out for those 15,000 workers, though I'll assume it's quite a bit less because many of those folks probably don't have a house. I can't tell if that's generous or not, for a company that posted $10 billion in profit last year.

I would think the above three would be a bit of a joke. 3 days off with pay?

Would you prefer none?

People aren't going to be able to even go back for about a month and $1000 for your totally destroyed house?

Officials don't know when these people will be able to go back. So working elsewhere and continuing an income stream is the most logical course of action.

[reply][b]I would think the above three would be a bit of a joke. 3 days off with pay?[/b]

Would you prefer none?

Well like I said:
"But then again, it is better than nothing at all."

At $8.50/hr, you're almost better off panhandling anyway.

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At $8.50/hr, you're almost better off panhandling anyway.

Why don't they do it then?

I'm guessing it's for the cool uniforms.

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