Review: OK for a three dollar book. BIG ON WHINE SMALL ON LAUGHS!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
WAL-MART like them or hate them became the world's largest retailer by beating down former institutions in the consumer marketplace. Wal-Mart uses its size and other clout to make everyone knucle under, suppliers, workers, even congress.  Wal-Mart thrives on the old logic "WHATS GOOD FOR WAL-MART IS GOOD FOR THE NATION!  It is an old tired saying redefined for todays new consumer era.Nothing gets BOTH MEGA BIG AND POWERFUL in the United States of America without exploiting things and people Wal-Mart is no different. Wal Mart is a huge money generating machine that churns out profits by meeting the majority of its customers needs in suitable fashion.  Wal-Mart is a engomic engine so big that even if one billion dollars leaks out via waste, stealing and other ills the amount of profit rolling in is hardly affected.  The authors of the book do not seem to realize that what is being lost at WalMart is chump change compared to what is being made in profit.  If a Wal-Mart fails to be profotable after a time it is closed, its associates fired or relocated.Wal-Mart Book of Ethics Abridged Edition could be sum up the Wal-Mart philosophy in two words and be done with it.  The goal of Wal-Mart is to make money.  Working for Wal-Mart is just like working for the government or being in the armed services. Walmart is a huge machine most employees are among many tiny low paid cogs in that big machine.  The closer you get to the heart of the machine the bigger your cog like responsibility and the more you are paid.  So many people whine about low Wal-Mart wages but, the rules of supply and demand determine pay.Much is made of customers who miss huge signs with prices printed on them.  Well speaking as a customer, I don't live in the WalMart 8 to ten hours a day so excuse me if I am not looking 13 feet over my head for signs, plastic batteries and such. Excuse me if when I come to the meat counter I'm confused by all the types of roast beef you have.  excuse me if as a customer I actually ask and or expect you to do your job and help me.  As for TV sets walking out of the door unchallenged thats just plain stupid on WalMart's part.  Look at Costco, try walking out of Costco with a TV and you will more than likely get caught and taken to the pokey.  Good customer services is one thing but, letting criminals ruin the store and raise prices for the law biding customers well that's unacceptable.  Criminals should be proscuted to the full extent of the law.This book is mostly full of whine sellers delight.  Wal-Mart Book of Ethics Abridged Edition  contains a painful few truly funny stories but few.  Wal-Mart Book of Ethics Abridged Edition is stories that are essentially variations on a dumb customer \ dumb management system theme that gets stale by the middle of the book.  I read this book while on an airplane ride from Baltimore to Airzona and back so it held my interest and made me chuckle a few times but it was more something to do while hudling through the skies at 32,000 feet at 560 miles per hour.  The author has a generally good writing style. The author does not impart enough humor in the telling of the stories to make them unique and memorable in their own rights.  By making the sales people seem as if they think all customers are mindless disgusting unwashed neanderthals you alienate your readers because; many of us shop at Wal-Mart.  Many of us like Wal-Mart or need to shop at Wal-Mart because; it offers value for the dollar.I was offended by one story in the Wal-Mart Book of Ethics Abridged Edition book.  The guys that brought the large screen TV who had a van so beat up it barely functioned and refused to start.  The writer was so condescending to those obviously poor folk for buying a TV when the van was in such bad shape.  People act like just because someone is poor they should never enjoy any aspect of life.  People so quickly try to enforce their priorities on those who are dirt poor.  TV is one of life's most simple joys that is within reach of the most destitute if they save their pennies long enough.  TV is a companion in an empty house. TV allows the totally poor to see what a rich life looks like.  TV is an educator that while not perfect is better than nothing.  The high and mighty tone of Wal-Mart Book of Ethics Abridged Edition when beating down the poor family was disgraceful.  Poor peopl, even the poorest people deserve some small measure of dignity and this book tore the dignity of that poor vulnerable family to shreads.I would have been honored to help that poorest of families get their TV in their raggity van because; that TV meant more to them than all the many TV's I have brought and will buy in life.  If I had it in my power I would have brought them a DVD player and a few DVD's of their choice to go with it.  Poor people who brought a TV not stole a TV that by itself would make me honored and blessed to help them not ridicule them.  i took two stars off my rating for how Wal-Mart Book of Ethics Abridged Edition  beat down a good honorable poor family.