Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their way home
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#2Nice one, They could also ask them to drive to work on their days off to pick up some deliveries ;-)
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#3Sure, I don't mind running errands during my commute so long as that time's on the clock.
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#4I can easily see how walmart managers would blackmail^Wencourage employees into doing this.
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#5> Workers can opt in to earn extra money by making deliveries using their own cars. They’re assigned packages based on where they live so the route aligns with their commute home
The headline makes it sound coercive but that actually sounds like an efficient use of time and energy (less big trucks on the road, less miles driven, more money for people who want it).
I wouldn't mind dropping a few things off on my way home and earning a few extra bucks as long as it made sense financially. I'm very interested to see what incentive they have for it.
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#7Sure, I don't mind running errands during my commute so long as that time's on the clock.
Well, it's an opt-in program, so presumably.
Re: Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their way home
#8Nice one, They could also ask them to drive to work on their days off to pick up some deliveries ;-)
shrug the natural instinct seems to be to skewer WalMart for oppressing their employees but this seems like a good idea to me.
> Workers can opt in to earn extra money by making deliveries using their own cars. They’re assigned packages based on where they live so the route aligns with their commute home, the company said Thursday in a blog post. Wal-Mart didn’t specify how the employees will be compensated.
It's not uncompensated -- so it could be really symbiotic.
Re: Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their way home
#9> Workers can opt in to earn extra money by making deliveries using their own cars. They’re assigned packages based on where they live so the route aligns with their commute home The headline makes it sound coercive but that actually sounds like an efficient use of time and energy (less big trucks on the road, less miles driven, more money for people who want it). I wouldn't mind dropping a few things off on my way h…
Yeah, huge difference between "deliver this on your way home or your fired" and "if you want some extra money, deliver this on your way home."
Not much difference between this and, say, LaserShip, aside from it being a small part of the overall job.
Re: Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their way home
#10> Workers can opt in to earn extra money by making deliveries using their own cars. They’re assigned packages based on where they live so the route aligns with their commute home The headline makes it sound coercive but that actually sounds like an efficient use of time and energy (less big trucks on the road, less miles driven, more money for people who want it). I wouldn't mind dropping a few things off on my way h…
Environmentally friendly too as the journey is being made anyway.