Monday, December 13, 2010
Ask a Wal-Mart manager for assistance
(From Raw Story, via BDR.)
Similar messages are going to be going up in malls and hotels and, one presumes, eventually everywhere.
There's obviously a lot that can be said about this, but all I want to do is quickly point out that this message implicitly empowers store managers in a new--and nonspecific--way. I wonder if there's associated training, and, if there is, what it entails.
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Are said managers offered some sort of compensation for passing along complaints about (one presumes) a fellow shopper's frightening muslimosity to their local Department of Homeland Security representative? Or is it just the warm glow of knowing that they probably won't be personally targeted by the State in exchange for their cooperation? The tactics never seem to change, do they?
Hah, compensation! Another excellent question. When I showed her the Raw Story article, the Baronette said it was "more appalling than 1984," and that warm glow you're talking about is just further proof of that.
With some of their clientele, this will keep store managers pretty busy. Also, it felt as if the government had just given WalMart its very own commercial.
I just hope they don't forget to send out the memo to managers to *not* interfere in the annual Black Friday capitalist stampede.
Randal, remember: she's asking people to report suspicious activity. Next Black Friday, it'll only be people who aren't at the stores who get reported.
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