Wal-Mart is one of the largest retailers and employers in Orange MA. What's it like to work there? Is it like this?
Charles Platt writes about his life "as a Walmartian":
Everyone at every level was friendly and decent toward me. No one had the slightest clue that I might write about my experiences; no one even knew that I had a former career as a journalist. Still, they behaved like poster children for enlightened capitalism.
His conclusion:
Based on my experience (admittedly, only at one location) I reached a conclusion which is utterly opposed to almost everything ever written about Wal-Mart. I came to regard it as one of the all-time enlightened American employers, right up there with IBM in the 1960s. Wal-Mart is not the enemy. It's the best friend we could ask for.
Then why does Wal-Mart get such bad press? Charles Platt has a theory. Read the article to find out.
Originally posted in the Four Columns Realty Blog.
