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Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich was first published in 2001 so presumably she worked at Walmart sometime before that. So life at Wal-Mart may have chang
by kqr2 18y ago
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich was first published in 2001 so presumably she worked at Walmart sometime before that.
So life at Wal-Mart may have changed since then. Also, he should have worked at the same Wal-Mart to help control for location.
- wildwood 18y agoAlso, Ehrenreich didn't just work at a Wal-Mart - her focus was on trying to make ends meet on a minumum wage. She tried finding an apartment and a lifestyle that she could afford on a Wal-Mart paycheck. Since this blogger talks about going home from work and looking some things up on his computer, I'm guessing that he didn't try to replicate her experiment faithfully.
- mattmaroon 18y agoI worked for Wal-Mart (via Sam's Club) from 98-2001, and it was certainly like this that entire time. And from what I knew from the friends who worked there from the late '80s, it hadn't changed much. If there was ever a time when Wal-Mart wasn't as good a place to work as it is now, it was before 99% of their current employees started.