Rolling Back the Discrimination

This is very odd to me. I worked at several walmart stores . most of them not only had gay associates 2 of the stores I worked in there were associates that the only way they could make it more obvious was if they were shouting with a bull horn. one of my friends that still works for walmart is more fem than most women you see. also in 8 years I have never seen a yellow vest in fact all vests were taken from use about 6 years ago. the only colors available to order from walmart when the used them were red, blue, green and for associates over I think it was 20 years was gold not yellow.

John Barrett of Bristol Pa at jbbarrettnc@aol.com I worked at Sams club in Wilmington NC and was brain washed by reguired orientation videos on Sam Walton .. and during my tenure there was no female execs and no way of mentions my sexualality to such a right winged company. use local vendors stay away from all the Walmart imported goods jbb

I'm not surprised. A friend of mine worked for a Las Vegas casino for about a year when one of the employees wrote an anonymous letter to upper mgmt outing four employees. The casino's immediate response was to interrogate all four of the employees, asking them point blank if they were gay. Three of them were fired on the spot, not sure what happened to the fourth. My friend was one of those who was fired. Nobody took legal action because it would basically mean never getting another job in Vegas. I lived in Nevada for 7 years, it's a surprisingly conservative place.

Where did you go with your argument? This is about Wal-mart discrimination and humiliation tactics. While I wholeheartedly agree with you on the SB1070 issue, it has nothing to do with this article.

I too was subject to humiliation as well as constant stress from my former supervisor at Walmart In New Glasgow, Nova Scotia Canada. My supervisor took a pair of womens lace panties and asked me to meet her in the office for a meeting and unknown to me she had them in her possesion she asked me if I was gay and asked me to try these lace panties on for her but that I had to let one testicle hang out each side. This incident occured back in the summer of 2004 I reported it to the store manager and all that ended up happening was me being singled out and terrorized by my fellow associates. I got a layoff notice from Walmart and never got a call back and to this day hate everything Walmart stands for.

There are good and bad people everywhere. To say that AZ is the most discriminatory state in the union is unfair. I've lived in AZ for most of my life, and I find it incredibly diverse and tolerant, rich in culture and community orientated. Unfortunately, policies such as SB1070 are moves on a chess board, all to further an agenda. Immigration is a flag political issue. Only, no one here knows where the impetus came from. Don't believe the polls, they're wrong. No one voted for Brewer, she filled a vacancy. Please don't generalize AZ for the actions of a few. If you want to follow AZ's true conscience, watch Grijalva and how he votes. Now there is an Arizonan who speaks for the majority. It seems that racism and discrimination has come back in fashion, and that's a shame. (It can be traced back to the "your either with us or against us" remark nine years ago.) No one should have to subject themselves to the kind of treatment Walmart has doled out, no one.

TO: Ann Finster in Phoenix!! Why am I not surprised that someone in AZ would disbelieve that Walmart discriminates against gays? AZ is the MOST DISCRIMINATORY STATE IN THE USA. I hope you stay there. It sounds like you are someone who would discriminate against GLBTs, so stay away from the rest of us. WALMART IS A CRUMMY PLACE TO WORK. Just look at its employees. They all look so miserable. And if you really want an eye-opener, just go to Walmartwatch.com to see the tremendous amount of complaints of discrimination. It's a wonder they stay in business. But then they have driver out the mom and pop shops all around the country and are now taking their bloodletting overseas!!!!

stop trivializing the holocaust. if this young man can prove his case he's most likely got federal labor (maybe state?) on his side.

It seems inappropriate to equate wearing a yellow vest to "the Jews wearing a yellow star of David on Hitler's Germany," possibly because the Jews were forced to wear the stars as markers to make them more easily identified for extermination.

Just add this to reasons why I have never set foot in a Walmart store or would even think of buying anything from the richest family in the country. Their demands for low prices from their suppliers so they can make more profits is a primary reason why there are so few manufacturers left in the USA. They have all closed shop and opened in countries that do not pay their help living wages. But Walmart has no problem hiring Americans at minimum wage, because the people cannot find any other work now that the factories have closed.