[lbo-talk] occupying retail

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 28 17:43:22 PDT 2011


Someone who reads lbo-talk wrote me offlist:


> I worked at Target for 6 years, and I don't think that most people who work there would have been very receptive to people trying to "Occupy" the store. I think they would regard it as a nuisance and a threat to their meager paychecks. When store revenue goes down, hours are cut immediately in most cases (hours are tied directly to store revenues and managers have to keep it under their budget or they get sacked or demoted). If the Occupiers made any mess, the employees would have to clean it up. Also, it just sounds an additional annoyance to an already stressful job.
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> Do a lot of people on LBO Talk actually deal with working class people? I mean, do they have working class jobs? Sometimes, I don't get the feeling they don't.



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