Reply #8: They also discriminate more that private companies

[DaveJ]

My wife works for a big box hardware store and every person they hired, except one maybe, into the early management trainee program was a white male under 30. Most older women who go to work there quit after a few weeks. The store could care less. They never listen to what their employees think, only customers, but then they don't acknowledge the fact that their employees ARE the community.

My wife is one of the few willing to show up at 5:30 a.m. every single day, and they hire people in their early 20s full time, and let them stumble in at late hours because they were partying the night before... the young ones get treated like royalty. When the young ones stumble in with their hangovers at 10 or 11 in the morning, it's time for my wife to go home. Those with families to support are treated like scum.

But they don't care if they discriminate. They apparently think having younger employees might attract a few more customers. And that's all that matters... making their shareholders a few more dollars. They are literally willing to destroy lives if it will make a shareholder 25 cents more.