Wal-Mart's Rules

Applying What I Learned Last Week

Bare-Knuckle Enforcement for Wal-Mart's Rules

I heretofore thought the reasons for the Left's animus toward Wal-Mart were two-pronged. Union pressure, and their natural dislike for profitable American business. Now, after having viewed Evan Sayat's wonderful lecture ''How Liberal's Think," a third, very visceral trigger for their hatred emerges. Wal-Mart has rules, and makes judgments while enforcing them.  The Liberals worst nightmare. “The investigator flew to Guatemala in April 2002 with a delicate mission: trail a Wal-Mart manager around the country to prove he was sleeping with a lower-level employee, a violation of company policy. The apparent smoking gun? “Moans and sighs” heard as the investigator, a Wal-Mart employee, pressed his ear against a hotel room door inside a Holiday Inn, according to legal documents. Soon after, the company fired the manager for what it said was improper fraternization with a subordinate. Wal-Mart, renowned to outsiders for its elbows-out business tactics, is known internally for its bare-knuckled no-expense-spared investigations of employees who break its ironclad ethics rules. Over the last five years, Wal-Mart has assembled a team of former officials from the C.I.A., F.B.I. and Justice Department whose elaborate ... ” [Bare-Knuckle Enforcement for Wal-Mart’s Rules]