Re: Wal-Mart telling people to shoot .17 in a .22 magnum gun?


Steve & Leslie Swartz wrote:

# # Note how conveniently a story ostensibly about a single clerk's idiocy
# is
# # being labeled as a "Wal-Mart Sez" story.
# #
# # Be advised that Wal-Mart is embroiled in the middle of a dispute with
# # "Organized Labor" and locals are encouraging their members to spread
# # disinformation about the company . . .
# #
# # . . . not that I doubt the veracity of any story that starts with " . .
# .
# # my cousin's boy . . . "
# #
# # Expect many, many more "friend of a friend" story about Wal-Mart
# practices
# # etc. ove the next few months.
# #
# # After all, my nephew the teamster said his local president sent out
# several
# # emails wiht examples of "Wal Mart" stories they were supposed to forward
# to
# # relatives, friends, co-workers, etc.
# #
# # When I was a machinist our local tried to get us to do stuff liket his
# all
# # the time.
# #

I am very familiar with the "bleach on the meat" and other false smear
campaigns against non-union shops such as Food Lion and Wal-Mart.

They are inexcusable propaganda.

But not all Wal-Mart stories are false.

But this is not "a friend of a friend", but a first hand account of the boy
and the gun. I held the gun and ammo in question myself.

Also, I admit that a tiny bitty part of me wasn't sure that some miracle of
engineering wasn't allowing Savage to make a dual caliber gun and wanted
validation from the group here. (but it was an extremely itty bit piece).

I was interested to see if the issue were more than local or if I was wrong.

I think any reading of my posts in this and other newsgroups would
definitely disqualify me as a trade unionist, a liberal or a Democrat.

In fact, you would find numerous defenses of Wal-Mart and their practices.

I have, in boards of directors and business/technical working groups, worked
directly with a number of Wal-Mart executives and technical leaders since
1998 -- including the senior leadership in Bentonville from Tom Coughlin
(ex-CEO, sadly departed under a cloud) on down. I have the highest respect
for the Wal-Mart leadership - though still find the "cult of personality"
around Sam a bit strange.

I can also assure you that the executives of Wal-Mart, are almost to a man,
serious shooters and hunters. They are not in any way anti-gun and in-fact
walk the walk of shooting sports.





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