From Summer’s link below comes this quote:
But some welcomed the boycott. Sandra Forner, a teacher at Hillside High School, stopped shopping at Wal-Mart three years ago after reading “Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America.” In the book, the author went undercover as a low-wage worker, putting in a stint at a Wal-Mart store.
“Wal-Mart was the one place that she couldn’t make it,” Forner said.
I’d say that probably had something to do not with Wal-Mart’s Obviously Awful Employment Conditions (That People Somehow Still Voluntarily Place Themselves In) but with Ehrenreich’s attitude on the job ? and her petty larceny, too. As she boasts:
I stole a cup of clam chowder! And I dissed a manager…
A question: Who steals clam chowder? Really …
