Wal-Mart has been accommodating

Editor,

I am currently working at Polson Wal-Mart as a cashier and in the snackbar. There is not any mistreatment among the women who work there. Their wages aren't lower or unfair — because I have made more money there than at any other place that I have worked.

For an example, I have worked off and on at McDonald's for about two years and the highest pay that I made being a closing manager was $6.50/hr. Later, coming back to it [McDonald's] I made a lower wage of $6.25. Then I went to Wal-Mart and McDonald's at the same time and made $7.20 at Wal-Mart. I haven't even been there a full year and that is my pay. After my evaluation I am making more still at Wal-Mart than in my past two jobs.

For a time I had three jobs at the same time and Wal-Mart understood my schedule and arranged for me to work there and at McDonald's and at Ninepipes. When I became a full time college student at SKC and had quit the other two jobs, Wal-Mart was there for me and fixed my schedule so that I could stay. It wasn't the pay range that wasn't fair to me, because what I wanted to do was stay busy in the summertime and I kept busy.

I feel that Wal-Mart is not a threat to our community, but better. People wouldn't be so crammed up if Wal-Mart expands. We are a community that is going to change. Those people out there who feel Wal-Mart is a threat need to look around, because this place is changing and they should try to see the good rather than the bad.

Thank you, Wal-Mart, for everything that you have done for me. I haven't found a job that makes me feel happier.

Barbara Finley

Polson