leavingit27 wrote:
I think that they think its a Christian business.    
Ah, yes, because in the gospel of Mammon it says thou shalt cheat thy employees and treat them poorly, and thou shalt not payest out overtime unless caught not paying it and sued by thy employees. Oh, wait, that's not in the Bible (And Jesus said you cannot serve both God and Mammon) but immorality about money seems to be a big part of the whole Pentecostal thing. I worked in a grocery store for a while up north that was unionized (United Food and Commercial Workers) our benefits and service were a lot better than wal-mart's and most of the people who worked there when I worked there seven or eight years ago are still there. We had one Fundamentalist Christian worker who took it upon himself (against the manager's orders, he'd asked if he could and been told no) to remove the Maxim magazines from the magazine rack because "Wal-mart stopped selling them, they're pornographic." The assistant manager, backed by the manager, made him put them back and then wrote him up. Then he made a point of saying to the rest of us "This is not wal-mart, remember that." When the dude attempted to file a grievance, the union steward laughed at him and told him in no uncertain terms what he thought about it. The UFCW and Wal-Mart don't like each other much. 

Wal-mart wasn't a bad place to work and was a lot less "Christian" ten years ago. That still varies from area to area, I've noticed, but if you live somewhere and you can't find the local Pentes (although I'm not sure why you'd wanna find them) go to Wal-mart and you'll find them sooner or later.

I can tell you from my own experience at my own place of work...that when corporate values and Fundamentalist/Pentecostal Christian values mix...the service sucks and the employees get screwed. When the Tribe had a chief who was a Pentecostal that's exactly what happened. When he got voted out, things got better at the Casino in a big hurry.

The last church I went to the pastor told everyone to not shop at target because they refused to sell nativities, and wouldn't let the bell ringers solicit people outside of their store, where as walmart will allow just about any solicitation outside their store (if it's "christian" anyways).  The nativities was a straight out lie, I went into target 2 days later and they had plenty of nativities.  I called the church out on it and was burned at the stake so to speak.  A girl that went there told me that I should know to "humor" him in that.  But he was lying.....and people who don't go there regularly wouldn't know that.  And as far as the bell ringers go, Target always donates to those charities, including the Salvation Army, they just don't want their customers to be harrased upon entering the store. 

That's not the first time I've heard of Conservatives, Fundamentalists, or Pentecostals lying about Target. I wonder what their problem with the company is?

I also worked at walmart, they have a huge following from all fundamentalist churches (at least here they do).
It was the same way when I worked at wal-mart up north, several people from my ex's Pente church (a few of her friends and the worship team leader) actually worked in the wal-mart where I started at. When I transferred to another store my ex got a job in the store I transferred to, and I'd heard that one of the managers there was Pentecostal...but he was low key about it and didn't act like most of the other Pentes I knew at the time, either. The funny thing was the store I started at had a lot of "wear their faith on their sleeve" Christians and the one I transferred to did not.

I wonder...because we don't have them in Michigan...are the Pentes as crazy about supporting Chick-Fil-A as they are about supporting Wal-Mart? (I've never actually eaten at a Chick-Fil-A personally)