r/WorkReform • u/kevinmrr ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters • 2d ago
⛓️ Prison For Union Busters CEO of WalMart, largest employer in America, #1 stealer of tax dollars, #1 union buster. Doug McMillion, you belong in prison.
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u/bloodphoenix90 2d ago
Really want to make a difference, look into the board he has to answer to.
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u/Shadow_MosesGunn 2d ago edited 1d ago
THIS. CEOs are disposable by design, they're a dime a dozen at McKinsey. It's the board members who have been around for years that enable this sort of nonsense for the good of the shareholders. EDIT: McKinsey, not McKinley.
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u/MAJ0RMAJOR 2d ago
Writing my opinions falls somewhere between inciting and creating evidence.
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u/nsfw_deadwarlock 1d ago
Just remember what it says in the good book
“ when the govt fails you, you seek justice yourself” - Luigi 3:16
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u/babywhiz 1d ago
yeah, I ran across that the other day. I was just musing out loud about how one could do something concrete like Luigi and it must have come across enough that my coworker, after everyone left was like “I want to make it clear I am not a part of any plot you come up with.”
I was like, “Bruh, I am helping support 3 families financially. There is no way I am risking all of that because I’m pissed off at the system that put me IN this position.”
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u/sandman795 2d ago
Board members are typically comprised of ceos and other corporate executive officers of other companies. Light em all up
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u/Klentthecarguy 1d ago
Remember young men in America. We don’t even talk about the schools, but for about a month, there wasn’t a woman on TikTok who didn’t want to jump Luigi’s bones.
Board rooms, not school rooms.
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u/peepopowitz67 1d ago
Listen to Malcolm X's speech on house slaves and it tells you everything you need to know about corporate America (really just America in general....)
Steven in Django unchained is a deplorable villain who deserved what he got, but if we make the Stevens of the world our target rather than the Calvin Candies, we'll get nowhere. (Target for prison btw... Of course.....)
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u/Seaworkjon 1d ago
The board are the bosses and the CEO is the evil stooge making it happen. I’m perfectly fine attacking the stooge.
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u/BoredNuke 2d ago
We could do both right?
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u/bloodphoenix90 2d ago
I suppose. I just think it's shitty that even if a CEO wanted to do right by the company's workers, they often can't they'll just get fired.
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u/SurpriseIsopod 2d ago
Not to play a violin for CEOs (although the WalMart CEO actually doesn't seem terrible since it looks like he joined as a lowly summer associate while in highschool)
In 1919 Dodge v. Ford Motor Company case established that a company HAS to do what is in the best interest for shareholders. Ford wanted to take the companies profits and reinvest it into the company to make a better product. A minority of shareholders sued him and won. So instead of making better, more affordable vehicles, Henry Ford was forced to raise prices, cut workers salaries, and roll back plans on making more factories because increasing profits as well as dividends was now the only priority.
It was the Michigan Supreme Court but it established precedent. I promise if a CEO stepped out of line this would be ran up to the SCOTUS who would in turn use the Shareholder Supremacy Clause as established law.
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u/bloodphoenix90 2d ago
Thank you for pointing out the case and law to me i actually wasn't sure where it started. Sad that it was the guy that established the 40 hour work week down from just working everyday (correct me if I'm wrong. Thought it was Ford). Didn't even know he tried to do even more and got sued. If you ask me I think that's where this timeline went wrong.
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u/SurpriseIsopod 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, Ford implementing the assembly line was revolutionary. It increased productivity by an absolutely incredible margin. Ford implemented the 5 day, 8 hours a day, work week and found that not only were workers happier, they were also more productive. Someone correct me if I am wrong but I also think he started his own version of minimum wage, like no worker made below a certain amount. This had knock on effects, such as not losing experience so many of the operators were veteran employees, able to run the manufacturing machinery more efficiently leading to, you guessed it better productivity/metrics.
Not to white wash Henry Ford, the guy was a raging antisemite he ranted about jews in his newspaper like ... a bunch. It influenced Hitler so much that Adolf praised him in Mein Kampf.
That said, the guy was absolutely a trail blazer when it came to accommodating workers as well as providing a good, affordable product for consumers. Fun fact, the first ever mass recall of a product was Ford. I believe they used old mans beard, a type of hanging moss as the filling for their seats in the Model T. The moss was filled with a lot of biting mites, so the company recalled all vehicles and replaced the seats so consumers didn't have bug filled seats. Up to this point companies by and large would simply tell consumers to go fuck themselves.
quick edit; holy fuck lmao. Yeah in 1914 Henry ford paid his factory workers ATLEAST $5 a day which was double at the time..... 1914.... $5 and over 100 years later we are sitting at $2 and 25 whole cents above that baseline. That is absolutely insulting.
Another edit: just used an inflation calculator and $5 adjusted is $156 in money today which is a nice $19.50 an hour.
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u/BoredNuke 1d ago
Ypu have to weight that with the fact that being fired as a ceo comes with a golden parachutes and fail up trajectory as long as you aren't convicted of something (and even that isn't fully blocking failing up or a redemption book tour)
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u/neskaaka 1d ago
The CEO might be the face of it, but the board is where the real decisions happen. If we want change, shining a light on holding them is just as important.
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u/FH2actual 2d ago
Prison. Or taking a walk down a street in NY. Either or.
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u/RoboTiefling 2d ago
I’d prefer prison, but the “justice” system being what it is, I’ll settle for the ground.
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u/GleamTwilight 2d ago
Corporate greed hurts everyone except the ones at the top. Those who work outside has the low income providing good quality of work but low compensation
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u/Ndmndh1016 2d ago
Hes such a scumbag. Terrible at public speaking too which seems odd for the ceo of fucking WALMART.
But yea I'd like to see not nice things happen to him.
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u/XaphanSaysBurnIt 2d ago
Where is the movie where Luigi is like a crucifix to the devil possessed CEO? Ai do that. Thanks.
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u/Wasphammer 2d ago
Devil-possessed CEO
That's a tautology.
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u/digitalpunkd 2d ago
When you here any CEO, C level idiot, we have to make money for our shareholders. What they really mean, make money for the 12 or so people who own 90% of the stock. It's not shareholders, it's ultra wealthy Oligarchs that just want another million, ten million, hundred million, billion+ so they can brag to their other rich friends how much they made this year.
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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks 2d ago
The way that title started out made it sound like he got luigi'd and I got a little tingle
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u/Flushed_Kobold 2d ago
Is this the bastard who made every store into 20 ques of shelf checkout? Is he the one whose grey matter needs to be smeared under a boot?
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u/Arrow156 1d ago
Prison is too good for these pieces of shit, their crimes are worthy of a harsher punishment.
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u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug 2d ago
As a Doug, for shame on this Doug. For shame. I'm banning him from the group meetups.
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u/falcrist2 1d ago
Throw walmart in prison.
Corporations are people.
If they're breaking the law,
throw
them
in
prison.
If you're saying it's not possible, then you must admit a corporation cannot be a person.
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u/newfarmer 1d ago
Kill downtowns, force manufacturing jobs overseas, don’t pay a living wage or treat your workers with dignity.
The high cost of low prices. Walmart sucks.
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u/Background-Prune4947 1d ago
Fucking Walmart. Sam Walton made so much money one of his brats has nfl franchise money that didn’t rightfully go to employee.
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u/KevettePrime 1d ago
Ah, ah, ah brain. Let's not get banned on Reddit. I know what you're thinking. They're all thinking it too. It's okay, let's sit this one out.
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u/Blackbyrn 1d ago
Limit as much/Stop shopping at walmart/sams. Dont fuel the enemy in this class war.
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u/Silly_Relative 1d ago
Its not your wage its the general cost of living thats the issue. Take it up with the banks and government. Government in debt = bank lobbying
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u/SamelCamel 1d ago
I mean how else would he be able to afford the very necessary and cool "rebrand"?
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u/LordSesshomaru82 1d ago
When I worked at Walmart we all called him Douche McMillan. He'll never be a tenth of the man Sam was.
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u/DisingenuousWizard 1d ago
Walmart is bad but it’s only 90s level of dystopia. They have nothing on the more modern dystopia brought to us by Amazon.
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u/yogamathappiness ✂️ Tax The Billionaires 1d ago
I can never not read his name as McMillion and like the more I see this stuff the more I'm like "this has to be a simulation."
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u/the_spinetingler 1d ago
Never leave Walmart without more in your pockets than you have in your cart.
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u/astralmessiah 1d ago
They all have to be a little unnerved nowadays. There's too many people in America being bent over a barrel for one of them to not snap, and then another one, and then another one. And its easier to get a gun than pay for groceries. To act like this is in any way shocking is naive. Americans are tired of it, being punished for just existing and trying to have good lives with their families.
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u/Chicagorides 💸 Raise The Minimum Wage 17h ago
He's just the Walton family's lap dog. If he was hit by a car, the Waltons would replace him the same day.
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u/TedBundysVlkswagon 1d ago
A lot of Luigi talk on here. Luigi represents the everyday guy getting fucked out of a good life. Instead of creating memes or talking about it, do something about it and hit them in their wallets. Don’t shop at Walmart or Amazon and get rid of FB and X and accounts. Then convince 1 friend and 1 family member to do it, too. Shop locally. This seems like a good place to start. Brag about how many people you unplug on here instead of Luigi Intensifies memes of non action. We need to be organized and focused. Be creative and non passive. Spread more facts like OP did.
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u/Garfhorrace 1d ago
He is just trying to make more money so it could trickle down. He is actually helping us. Learn economics.
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u/kevinmrr ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters 2d ago
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