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Wal-Mart Fires Medical Marijuana Patient

Wal-Mart Answers to No One.

by Joseph Klare [contact]

Mon, Mar 15, 2010 12:18 am

more: activism, drug test, joseph casias

"I was terminated because I failed a drug screening," says former WalMart employee Joseph Casias.

It's not like Wal-Mart doesn't get enough bad press. The big, bad corporation that crushes poor little mom and pop stores into the dust as they roll on to world domination. So they decided that the firing of a state-licensed medical marijuana patient was a great cause to champion.

Maybe they're legally in the right, maybe they aren't. Either way, why cause an uproar by standing by the firing of a man who is, by all accounts, a great and loyal employee?

"In 2008, Casias was the Associate Of The Year at the WalMart store in Battle Creek, despite suffering from sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor."

Wow, dude sounds like a total slacker.

"I gave them everything," he says. "110 percent every day. Anything they asked me to do I did. More than they asked me to do. 12 to 14 hours a day."

I assume that Wal-Mart pulls in so many competent people with their low wages that they can afford to lose an employee of the year...but I wouldn't count on it.

But it gets even better for Wal-Mart:

"...As a direct result, medical marijuana advocates are now organizing a nationwide boycott of the retail giant."

Even a small boycott will hurt Wal-Mart in the profit margin, and cost far more money than it's worth. Are they slow to change, or do they just believe it's better not to back down? Time will tell, but I always thought Wal-Mart was in business to make money, not make some sort of social statement.

And so it begins:

"More than 100 people turned out for the demonstration to support Casias, a five-year employee at the Battle Creek, Michigan WalMart store."

Good call Wal-Mart. You really know how to piss people off. Sounds like a sound business strategy.

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randi of unit-d

Mar 16 2010, 11:39 am

one more reason to despise wal-mart. as if i needed another.
you can feel your soul being sucked away as you stand in line.

this isn't shocking, but certainly makes my blood boil

same boat

Mar 15 2010, 1:49 pm

iv got fired at wal*mart also... about 5 years ago, called the home office and told them, iv got state rights, to have cannabis in my system, i got the, "were going to leave it up to your store manager' ... 2 other people lost their jobs, for something they had the right to have in their system, .. iv took my last checks and got a better union job, so it worked out for me, these other 2 people said they were taking walmat to court, i dont think it went well

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