My first trip to Suntrust with the fam....

Enscheff said:
Again, not on topic.

I'm talking about folks working at Walmart being unlikely to take advantage of college tuition reimbursement.

You're continuing to defend the brilliant executives at Walmart.

Seems to me your effort in defending them means you know it is nothing more than a talking point attempting to make them look like a great employer.
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While I share your general disdain for Wal Mart, I think your lack of familiarity with the South and Appalachia is coming into play here. There are plenty of high school graduates who are intelligent and hard working enough to go to college who instead enter the workforce for economic reasons. It's morally difficult for a young adult to run off to school while watching their single parent continue to struggle supporting other children. I'm not going to claim that Wal Mart will end up paying for half their staff to go to school, but for the working poor who don't have access to the scholarship opportunities of more affluent areas of the country, this could be a Godsend.
 
Jaw said:
While I share your general disdain for Wal Mart, I think your lack of familiarity with the South and Appalachia is coming into play here. There are plenty of high school graduates who are intelligent and hard working enough to go to college who instead enter the workforce for economic reasons. It's morally difficult for a young adult to run off to school while watching their single parent continue to struggle supporting other children. I'm not going to claim that Wal Mart will end up paying for half their staff to go to school, but for the working poor who don't have access to the scholarship opportunities of more affluent areas of the country, this could be a Godsend.
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You know, you're probably right.

A company with a history of doing everything possible to treat employees like trash is suddenly looking to help them out.

Yeah, probably not.

"The Walmart program is limited to online degree programs offered by three schools — the University of Florida, Brandman University, and Bellevue University — and specifically focused on bachelor’s or associate degrees in either business or supply chain management."

So they are hoping to create a few middle managers that they can then also underpay. What a great bunch of leaders!

Walmart executives (and all executives) are good at one thing...making money for shareholders. Period. Don't lose sight of that fact.
 
Dude a Business Management degree from Florida is good for a lot more than working at Wal Mart. I know a guy running the IT division of a huge company with exactly that degree and only that degree.

I hate shopping at Wal Mart. I hate how crappy they pay their staff, I hate their stores full of Chinese junk that won't last much longer than it took to get here on a freighter, and I hate the empty strip malls they leave behind in every little Appalachian town when they upsize to a mega store. That doesn't mean a cheap degree from UF won't help get some poor kids out of Eastern Kentucky or Southern Mississippi.
 
Jaw said:
Dude a Business Management degree from Florida is good for a lot more than working at Wal Mart. I know a guy running the IT division of a huge company with exactly that degree and only that degree.

I hate shopping at Wal Mart. I hate how crappy they pay their staff, I hate their stores full of Chinese junk that won't last much longer than it took to get here on a freighter, and I hate the empty strip malls they leave behind in every little Appalachian town when they upsize to a mega store. That doesn't mean a cheap degree from UF won't help get some poor kids out of Eastern Kentucky or Southern Mississippi.
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Wal-Mart is offering to reimburse employees for obtaining education that would help Wal-Mart meet its management needs. That's not unusual at all for a company to do.

They are not offering to help pay for anyone's medical tech certificate, or nursing degree, course in HVAC installation and repair, or degree in Comparative Literature.

I wouldn't really call it a good thing or a bad thing. I'd call it an internal program designed to benefit Wal-Mart. Nothing wrong with that, but what's with the public relations spin?

My guess is that those online degree programs have likely collaborated with Wal-Mart in designing their curricula to suit Wal-Mart's needs.
 
Jaw said:
Dude a Business Management degree from Florida is good for a lot more than working at Wal Mart. I know a guy running the IT division of a huge company with exactly that degree and only that degree.

I hate shopping at Wal Mart. I hate how crappy they pay their staff, I hate their stores full of Chinese junk that won't last much longer than it took to get here on a freighter, and I hate the empty strip malls they leave behind in every little Appalachian town when they upsize to a mega store. That doesn't mean a cheap degree from UF won't help get some poor kids out of Eastern Kentucky or Southern Mississippi.
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Not to mention all the local places they put out of business.
 
Southcack77 said:
Wal-Mart is offering to reimburse employees for obtaining education that would help Wal-Mart meet its management needs. That's not unusual at all for a company to do.

They are not offering to help pay for anyone's medical tech certificate, or nursing degree, course in HVAC installation and repair, or degree in Comparative Literature.

I wouldn't really call it a good thing or a bad thing. I'd call it an internal program designed to benefit Wal-Mart. Nothing wrong with that, but what's with the public relations spin?

My guess is that those online degree programs have likely collaborated with Wal-Mart in designing their curricula to suit Wal-Mart's needs.
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Not to mention they have also cut Walmart a bulk discount rate.

The fact it's limited to 3 schools and a handful of "degrees" should be telling...
 
UPS does it for college students that agree to work 3rd shift at their hub in Louisville. When I was going to UofL everyone I knew that tried it flunked out though because they got home from work at like 5am then tried to go to class.

I think Best Buy had some kind of deal for a while but it didn't pay 100%.
 
uh oh

someone is talking trash about a certain posters favorite crappy business and has come to defend it
 
4maddux_cy's said:
UPS does it for college students that agree to work 3rd shift at their hub in Louisville. When I was going to UofL everyone I knew that tried it flunked out though because they got home from work at like 5am then tried to go to class.

I think Best Buy had some kind of deal for a while but it didn't pay 100%.
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So basically nobody.

If it was such good business for the company as enscheff says, you'd think nearly all the fortune 100 companies would do it.

Instead, Walmart is committing to investing in their employees and of course hopes that gives the better employees.

The horror!!!
 
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Hospitals will do it if you commit to work for them. At least some do....

That's about it. Not many for profits will kick in tuition if you want to better yourself.

Not everyone at walmart is a greeter folks.
 
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Tapate50 said:
Hospitals will do it if you commit to work for them. At least some do....

That's about it. Not many for profits will kick in tuition if you want to better yourself.

Not everyone at walmart is a greeter folks.
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A lot of the for profits mega corps I've worked at will do it. Verizon, Dish, etc. but it has to be "relevant"

Edit: Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner did offer that too. I didn't work there but interviewed and got to second interview at each of those jobs. Staples offered something but it was pretty garbage.
 
Freshmaker said:
Verizon's been paying $8k per year for tuition for hourly employees for quite awhile. They paid for my bachelor's and MBA :elefant:
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How long ago did you get those degrees?

$8,000 doesn't cover a third of my niece's education, and she attends a state institution at FAU.
 
zitothebrave said:
A lot of the for profits mega corps I've worked at will do it. Verizon, Dish, etc. but it has to be "relevant"

Edit: Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner did offer that too. I didn't work there but interviewed and got to second interview at each of those jobs. Staples offered something but it was pretty garbage.
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So you mean you have to be willing to work in "middle management" for a term after you finish???
 
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So you mean you have to be willing to work in "middle management" for a term after you finish???
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Verizon didn't require that. Never looked that hard into the others. But basically if I worked at Verizon I couldn't get a degree in microbiology, chemistry etc. But I could do computer science or engineering. My brother for example went and got an MBA on the company dime and had no real ties to the company after completing the degree. They don't really care usually because for them it's a huge writeoff and it attracts certain type of employees who may skip otherwise. Or keep employees around longer instead of leaving.
 
sturg33 said:
And I assume you thought this was terrible and only helpful to Verizon, right?
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It’s not only helpful to the company, but the reason companies offer such programs is because it’s helpful to their bottom-line in some fashion, not because of altruism. The incentives for Verizon were noted by zeets.
 
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