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Not Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:44 AM
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This is sick!! (Wedding at Wal Mart)
http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/local_state/article.aspx?storyid=63753
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:44 AM
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1. God bless the USA!
:patriot:
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:46 AM
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2. Who are you to judge?
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:46 AM
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3. It's not sick - it's sad. Your boss won't give you the day off for your
wedding? That should be a signal to any current or prospective Wal-Mart employee - this is not a good place for you to work.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:50 AM
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39. Wht did her union steward say about this?
Edited on Fri May-26-06 12:10 PM by Lastlaughin08
Oh, that's right - what union?
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:24 PM
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43. Whats really sad, is that the woman would probably
vote no for a union coming in, even though it would vastly improve working conditions.

:wtf:
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:06 PM
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47. That is very true. And very sad at the same time.
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Minnesota Libra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:47 AM
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4. At a local Wal Mart?? Must be party faithful..........
....neocon/fundies. :puke:
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bluefish Donating Member (166 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:50 AM
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5. This snippet is strange
"The groom had the day off. The bride did not. She asked for a day off. Her boss said no. But the boss wasn't being mean. The management at the Wal-Mart in Eden just wanted their employees treated right."
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:52 AM
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10. So not getting the day off for your wedding
Edited on Fri May-26-06 10:52 AM by proud2Blib
is treating you right??

Huh??
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:15 AM
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22. I think it is poor writing -- Boss said NO! I'm gonna throw you a Wedding!
Edited on Fri May-26-06 11:17 AM by emulatorloo
In other words, boss said no you can't have a day off because I am going to make you a wonderful Wedding Party!

No you can't have the day off, he he he, because you would miss your lovely wedding.
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bluefish Donating Member (166 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:17 AM
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26. But he threw her a wedding in the parking lot?
That's being nice? This article is really bizzare.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:18 AM
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27. in the "beautiful garden center"
Yes it is bizarre, but I can imagine that they could fix up the plant area in the garden center pretty nice if need be.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:45 AM
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38. Yes it is
Sorry folks, but getting married in a parking lot at WalMart (even if it is the friggin garden center) is just too bizarre for words.

My husband and I met at KMart, where we both worked. If he had told me he wanted to get married there, I would have told him to find a new wife.
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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:25 AM
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31. It's very sketchy, but it sure sounds like just a cute story.
If we're to read anything especially EVIL into it, it's that Wal*Mart would like you to think that the corporation's upper management treat its employees like family, when of course they do nothing of the sort.

That said, if this particular story is what I think it is, it sounds like a sweet thing to do. And I doubt very much that the bride was kept in the dark for long.
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Kaylee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:53 AM
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12. As Stephanie Miller would say ..... Whaaaa? n/t
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:55 AM
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17. Found that strange, too. There was no elaboration on it. n/t
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Kaylee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:01 AM
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18. After reading it a couple of times I get it.....
Edited on Fri May-26-06 11:01 AM by Kaylee
Instead of getting married at the local magistrate, Walmart decided to give them a wedding....in the parking lot....by lawn and garden supplies !?!

But my question is, since she didn't get the day off, did she have to go back to the check out counter after the nuptials?

What is even more scary, is the fact that the article states that this is the fourth such wedding at a Walmart in the US.
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bluefish Donating Member (166 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:09 AM
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21. That is what puzzled me too
Did she have to go back to work? And, how is that fair to other employees? The article does not say whether she had time off due...is that what they mean?
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:16 AM
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24. I think it is poor writing -- Boss jokingly said no, because giving them a
wedding party.

as is HA HA NO! Because if I gave you the day off you would miss your Wedding
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:27 AM
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32. "The Onion" had it right.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48743
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:50 AM
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6. What, it wasn't outsourced?
:evilgrin:
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:51 AM
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7. I wonder which one will now lose his/her job, since Walmart
does not like having married couples working the same store (too much opportunity for fraud, theft, other shenanigans).
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:51 AM
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8. Like most of the ca-ca sold
at Walmart, it won't last long...
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:52 AM
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9. Only in America..
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Julius Civitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:53 AM
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11. Wedding reception at McDonalds followed...
:rofl:

Classy...
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:54 AM
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14. i know someone that had their wedding reception at a McDonalds
it was pretty sad.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:21 PM
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41. You want sad?
I had a friend who got married at the JOP's office . . . sent us away so they could "consummate" . . . honeymooned at Kennywood Park . . . had to have his wife back to her parents' house before 10pm . . .

this is not a joke . . . this is reality . . .
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 01:55 PM
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46. Did they consummate at the JOP's office?
You should take it easy on Kennywood - it's the only source of entertainment during the Pirate's season.
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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:54 AM
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15. Close...
I had a friend who was married in a Chick-Fil-A. :P
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Babette Donating Member (810 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:54 AM
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13. Would they give the poor woman the day off to have a baby?
In a hospital and not in the toy section of Wal-Mart? How about a family member's funeral? Or maybe there's space for that in the chips aisle?
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Saturday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:05 AM
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19. ROTFLMAO at your comments. n/t
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 10:55 AM
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16. The church and state can marry you, why not corporations?
Afterall, we work our lives for at least one of those three. They own us all in some way.
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:08 AM
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20. Wtf?
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:15 AM
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23. I call that freeper chic!
:rofl:
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:16 AM
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25. I wonder if they pledged their future offspring to WallyWorld
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:07 PM
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48. There won't be any if they can't get a night off together..........
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:20 AM
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28. Before I read the article, I thought, "What's wrong with that?" There
been several weddings at local grocery stores where both employess worked and met there. They thought it was romantic.

THEN I READ THE ARTICLE.

The boss wouldn't give the woman the day off to get married?!?! And thought he was being a nice guy to let them get married in the parking lot?! During her break, no doubt.

What a pig.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:28 AM
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33. Have you considered that by "not giving her the day off"
It's possible she ends up getting a full day's pay?
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:35 AM
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37. She asked for the day off... I would guess that she figured that she
could do without that day's pay.

And a day's pay at Walmart would have been between $60 and $80. Yes, a bite out of a paycheck, especially a low wage pay check, but some things are worth a sacrifice.

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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:20 AM
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29. We got married in Disneyworld.
Edited on Fri May-26-06 11:23 AM by onehandle
Our friends and family loved the wedding.

I could see possible criticism of our choice.

Getting married at a fucking WorldConquestMart is unforgivably inbred.
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:41 PM
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45. I've been to weddings at DisneyWorld. I actually like those better than
some full-tilt overkill church weddings. But a Wal Mart garden center? Yikes.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:23 AM
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30. How silly. Will they honeymoon in the bedding dept.?
Edited on Fri May-26-06 11:34 AM by Lastlaughin08
"Attention, Attention. An associate needed to clean up a spill in aisle 14."
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:32 AM
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36. Oooh now that's some spicy pillow talk
Almost as good as "customer service needed in sporting goods..." Who wouldn't be aroused by that?
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:30 AM
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34. God DAMN, how some of us love to look down on others.
Aw, what the fuck do I know? My wife and I couldn't afford a "real" wedding either.
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Not Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:16 PM
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49. It's not a matter of affording...
A wedding at a local park, waterfront, Judge's chambers can be beautiful, in good taste and inexpensive.
Pardon me, but being married in a Walmart parking lot is tacky.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:53 PM
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51. Uh, you called it "sick".
I can't imagine that's anything but a poorly-rendered judgment considering you based it on reading one poorly-written news article.

You can't possibly know the whole story. Walk a mile in someone's shoes before criticizing them.

They...decided to officially wed at the magistrate's office beforehand in the presence of only one or two witnesses.

(snip)

Initially, Foster said she was a little apprehensive about the Wal-Mart wedding because she did not know what to expect, but she said she was glad she was able to get married in front of all her friends and associates. Foster said she was impressed by the work that her associates put into the wedding and how fast they planned it.
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137836323749&path=!localnews&s=1037645509099


Making fun of someone else's happiness is nothing but mean-spirited.

If you now want to discuss whether it's tacky, start a different thread.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 11:31 AM
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35. I wonder where the bride was registered? (eom)
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prole_for_peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:02 PM
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40. classy....
maybe i will get married at goodwill.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:22 PM
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42. When Mrs. ZBDent and I tied the knot, my mother explained
that, in the eyes of the Catholic Church (of which I grew up under), we were not truly married, since it wasn't in a Catholic Church . . . hope these two aren't Catholic . . .
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 12:32 PM
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44. ...'They set up an area of the
parking lot near the lawn and garden center to hold the wedding.'...


Hmmmmm, the smell of chemicals in the morning!
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:19 PM
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50. YeeeeeeeeeeeHAAAAA!
***dualling banjos***
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