this EX-Walmart Employee Thanks you all-and a request for help.

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Friday June 21, 2013 · 8:51 AM PDT

2013/06/21 · 08:51

Dear Dailykos community:

I first started small diaries here about my work at Wal-mart, detailing their horrible pay, terrible scheduling, lousy sick day policy, and my beloved colleagues struggles with living on a Wal-mart salary? Remember my friend and front end supervisor who needed money to buy her prescriptions?, yeah, that infuriated and drove up my blood pressure too. Not to mention how my self-esteem took major hits from being considered "not good enough for any job but Wal-mart, but hey it could be worse, you could work at Macdonald's," from friends and customers?

Well, as I used to say when punching out at Wal-mart, "cue the fat lady chorus, it is over! "

Follow me after the jump, for the good news and the request for informational help.

rowanleigh

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Monday November 19, 2012 · 12:35 PM PST

2012/11/19 · 12:35

As a cashier at wal-mart, I am following with interest the Our Wal-mart and Blitz(Black Friday) protests taking place. I want to state that at my store, as one of our cashiers put it, "we are too much like sheep to do anything like that here". But below the orange squiggly line, here is what life is like for a vast majority of workers at my store.

rowanleigh

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Wednesday June 20, 2012 · 10:47 AM PDT

2012/06/20 · 10:47

Sorry for the short diary, but I am typing this from a friend's house. Yesterday I wrote a diary about wal-mart's Sick day policies. Today, it may be me who is writing about being fired from Wal-mart because of evacuations and flooding.

rowanleigh

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Tuesday June 19, 2012 · 6:13 PM PDT

2012/06/19 · 18:13

Many of you know through lightbulb's diaries, how absolutely abysmal the treatment of retail workers by retail corporations really is. Today, I'd like to explore retail corporation's sick day policy, specifically at Wal-mart, how it impacts not only the workers' health, but the communities they serve.

rowanleigh

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Monday February 13, 2012 · 8:23 AM PST

2012/02/13 · 08:23

This is an ongoing series of the stories and people who work and shop in a small town Wal-Mart.

I am not always kind, or generous in my assessments of situations, but true feelings about outrageous situations don't come cloaked in the socially acceptable.

Read on for more about Wal-mart's time management.

rowanleigh

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Monday February 06, 2012 · 8:57 AM PST

2012/02/06 · 08:57

This is an ongoing series on working at Wal-mart and trying to survive on a retail salary.

rowanleigh

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Thursday November 24, 2011 · 5:50 PM PST

2011/11/24 · 17:50

You all know Lightbulb’s diairies on being a retail worker, and now, it’s time to share what working as a cashier looks like. I work at Wal-Mart as a cashier.

Yes, THE dreaded abysmal, union busting, sexual harassing, low paying steal America's future Wal-Mart. How I got from running my own business to smiling nicely while taking all kinds of abuse, is a story for another time.

rowanleigh

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Monday August 03, 2009 · 7:20 AM PDT

2009/08/03 · 07:20

Three colors adorn the altar, three colors, ancient in meaning, starkly beautiful as I sit in meditation, with my rosary, saying recrafted ancient prayers, prayers as fresh as the new religion I amalgamated, and prayers honoring the most ancient of ancients. Black for life, Red for life, White for Rebirth. Ancient colors standing for the Maiden, the Mother, the Crone, for whoever heard of something so silly as a male giving birth to children through breathing dirt, or building a person from a rib? No, life is difficult, life is breathed in the dirt, the blood, and the returning light, whether it is real or manufactured by our brains to protect us from the pain of a body shutting down.

Three colors, in honor of my mother's birth, life, and rebirth.

rowanleigh

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Wednesday June 03, 2009 · 5:59 AM PDT

2009/06/03 · 05:59

In support of this excellent diary here, I am reposting the third part of my series, "Coming out of the Abortion Closet"
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rowanleigh

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Wednesday December 31, 2008 · 3:55 PM PST

2008/12/31 · 15:55

I have 30 days to get through the crisis of my life. 30 days to decide what to do from here after a brutal domestic abuse situation. 30 days to find a job, find shelter, live on $400 cash, solve my personal and massive financial issues. 30 days to as my sister likes to say, "own your shit" and "get it together."

It's a long story after the fold.

rowanleigh

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Saturday January 12, 2008 · 5:46 PM PST

2008/01/12 · 17:46

NYCeve wrote about her friend who has decided to "go naked", i.e. without health insurance. As someone who went with junk insurance for the self-employed, and who two years ago decided the premiums weren't worth the the nonexsistent coverage, dropped the insurance to "go naked".

The go naked decision affected and still affects me and the choices I make regarding healthcare that should be a right and not a privilege.

In the hopes that the personal is political, I share my story today.

More after the jump.

rowanleigh

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Thursday October 11, 2007 · 7:06 AM PDT

2007/10/11 · 07:06

In support of this excellent diary here, I am reposting the third part of my series, "Coming out of the Abortion Closet"

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Cashier's Rant THE EVENT-Edition

Black, Red, and White (Dedicated to my mother, 9/45-7/09)

Coming out of the Abortion Closet-Part 3 Updated

30 days

The choices made when you go naked

Coming Out of the Abortion Closet Part 3