Wal-Mart Employees Forced To Search For BombFollow

I would have told them to **** off and that it's not in my job description.

I wonder what employee complaint they could file in Canada for this?

On the other hand, how often do you get to say "Someone set us up the bomb!" and mean it?

Well being from Quebec, and unfotunatly having worked at a Wal-mart before. I'd have to say that sounds about right for their store policy. '***** the employees. Then ***** them again'.

On a related note, the training that the security people get at Wal-mart goes about as far as detecting counterfeit money and how to use the vcr to record the cameras. If anything, i'd be more afraid of what they would do if they actually found a bomb. (visions of a guy with a mullet trying to decide whether he should snip the red or the green wire come to mind...)

Was that the wal-mart in Quebec that tried to get a union in there?

Edited, Jul 11th 2006 at 11:41pm EDT by Nizdaar

That alone is pretty funny. They'd rather shut the place down than let them have a union.

You mean this guy?

About the only low paying job in that class who ever managed to get a union was Krogers (don't know if its national or not). BUt its a local grocery store around here. I actually worked there every bit of a month and the only thing the Union was good for was not letting them fire you for nothing.

Anyways back on topic I would have refused and if they fired me I would have walked out and started calling some labor boards. I don't know about Canada but you have the right to a safe and healthful work place in America. Of course that is a very limited statement, obviously people are still exposed to danger every day despite safety equipment and rule applied. Still that does include NOT searching for possible bombs.

I always loved when we would get those bomb threats when I was in highschool. Anybody that knew anybody in school knew that every time they called a bomb threat in they would make us go outside and sit on the bleachers at the football field BEFORE anybody came in to check for the bomb. So if somebody REALLY wanted to bomb us they would just simply have to set the bomb up in the bleachers and take all the students out in 1 swift hit.

Yes, in Canada it is illegal to fire someone who refuses to work in unsafe conditions and/or refusing to do something that is not in their job description.

However, people who don't 'go the extra mile' in the workplace are often passed up for promotions and are often weeded out of the herd. So, unless you can prove it in court, which is very difficult, you're pretty much screwed.

So I place the blame for this event squarely on the management at Wal-Mart.

You read my mind

I doubt WalMart employees even have health insurance. Does Wal-Mart offer worker's compensation if a bomb that you were asked to locate blows off a limb? Workers for the big union grocery stores must be laughing their asses off at this one. People at Wal-Mart can't even go on strike... I remember now why I went to college.

I certainly hope they got hazard pay out of it. Otherwise, each one of those employees have a get rich quick for free card in their back pocket.

This one time, I was sitting in a restaurant wiht some friends having a beer, when one guy says "These jalapeno poppers are the bomb." Then this other guy grabbed the plate of poppers, threw them out the window and threw himself on the floor and shouted "Take cover! Bomb!"

We kicked his *** and made him order more poppers.



True story.