Nice. Not that any of the employees know who Michael Duke is anyway.

Odds are that many Walmart employees do know who he is. When I worked at a Walmart we were force fed information about Walmart from it's creation(this was done before I even had the job) to it's current owners and operators. We had pictures of the CEO's that were 'important' similiar to the chain of command that I see now in the military. (Wall listing who is in charge from my current supervisor to the president of the united states)

What happened to Lee Scott? I could never really figure out if those Walmart executives really drank the Kool Aid.

I mean, when you saw the Bentonville offices full of cheap furniture and drab furnishings, Lee Scott's completely pedestrian office, and the fact that when he traveled, he split a room with the CFO in a modest hotel, it was easy to believe that Walmart's goal was brutal frugality and efficiency. Even though they made 100s of millions, their work conditions were downright spartan. But I always wondered if there was an underground bunker with solid gold fixtures, jacuzzis full of Kristal, and plenty of coke and hookers to go around.

Someone should ask him why there are pallets and pallets of brand new Christmas toys to be destroyed behind the Wal-Mart I work at. They didn't sell, they need the room for new merchandise, so they're going to be destroyed. Policy is not to donate them.

@ludwigk

Wal-Mart CEO compensation 871 times as high as U.S.
Wal-Mart worker pay; 50,000 times Chinese workey pay.

For that kind of pay, I could deal with a spartan office setting, and the fact that when he traveled, he split a room with the CFO in a modest hotel, he was just trying not to make the same mistakes that the automaker CEO's did by flying in corporate jets during a crisis.

@Blueskylaw:

Salaries in China are getting better (but aren't good):

[www.worldsalaries.org]

Take a look at the adjusted income for car mechanics ($519/month or about $2/hr on a 60 hour workweek) and compare it to what walmart probably pays its "mechanics" (I'm guessing around $10/hr with a 36 hour workweek, or about $1500 a month). One day the US (and other around the world) will be wondering what the hell happened when China starts to compete with us for pay.

Nobody will believe me on that. But mark my words, China is tomorrow's USA, just a bit dirtier (in many ways). Those that don't realize this will be the companies that China buys out.

Just my 2 cents. :)

he's already been signed up for a lifetime of gay porn by now

@ludwigk: when i first read that, i was trying to figure out why Coca-cola would be considered lavish

@Cowboys_fan: gay porn subscriptions are so 2005... everyone's doing NAMbLA signups now

I could have told you that. My husband's email is similar(he works for the logistics division) as soon as I saw the name, I knew his email.

Wal-mart is in heavy money saving mode...they canceled a very large year beginning meeting for logistics managers they usually hold every other year without fail. Well,that and a ton of other things to make numbers look better...