They have closed the Maynards close by
Used to be right next door to the Home Despot, but they built a giant huge super mega maynards down the street. It has two levels, a pair of moving sidewalk non escalator escalators, a piano at the top of said escalators with occasional live music, and more groceries than piggly wiggly. I don’t understand why a lumberyard sells groceries, but the woman who sometimes plays the piano wears a skirt and the piano of course does not have a modesty panel. You cannot help but look up her skirt as you ascend the escalator, and I know she has been informed of this fact, so I can only imagine it is her intention. She plays a mean ‘Claire De Lune” though, so I’m not finking her out. Anyway, the store is farging huge.
The old maynards is going to be a Planet Fitness come jan 1. I thought, good lord, no, another expensive fitness place? Turns out it’s only $10 a month. Shit, I thought, that’s actually not that bad, I spend that on asswipe. Except you can’t pay except with a bank routing number (No cash whatsoever) so you have given them your number and it will take an act of congress to get them to stop billing you.
In actuality, I would mostly use the treadmill- walking is about all I can handle these days, though I might have been convinceable to use some weights.
THen I thought, shit, I can just walk around inside the giant new Menards. So I been doing that, just a couple laps around the store and I have a couple miles in, heated, indoors, clean and nice, and no membership. Of course I wouldn’t shop there of I could avoid it, they treat their people like shit. But I’ll use their heat as long as they let me.
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I have exposure to one Menards, in Toledo.
I’d buy cable, or cat5, or a pipe fitting for the plant there, always wondering how they could sell a wireless mouse or LED lighting so cheap.
And dog food!
And snack food.
No piano.
You sure you didn’t wander into van Maurs?
I wondered about the two levels and the piano.
Why is it most of the successful companies treat their employees so bad. Not all do, just some.
Menard’s is a good place to get stuff. I bought a garage from them once. Damn thing is full now, not sure how I would make that complaint.
Do the people working at Menard’s do so involuntarily?
My first full time job sucked swamp scum. I was a page in the Library for the blind earning less than min. wage. I was promised a raise in a month. Three months later I asked the blue haired boss lady what happened to my raise. “Oh gee, I forgot, giggle giggle.” I replied, “Oh gee, I quit, see ya.” She followed me out the door telling me that I couldn’t just quit, I had to give two weeks notice. I told the boss lady she needed to read the US Consititution, and as it’s a library, look up the word “promise” and left. Never heard a word from ’em. Signed up for Boatbuilding School, and began my career. Here we are fifty years later all retired and happier than a pig in a poo pile. I still have no idea where that clueless blue haired bint(Now blessedly dead.)got the idea that I couldn’t walk out of a place where a promise meant less than nothing.
BTW two years of Boatbuilding School meant two years of sucky, short, after school jobs doing some things I’d punch somebody in the face for asking me to do now.
Have ya ever shoveled cow guts into a steam cooker to be made into dog and cat food? That was one of the jobs. On the other hand it paid 10.00/hr in 1964.
I stuck it out for ten weeks. It took another two weeks to get the stench of rotten animal parts off my skin. That’s where I learned about lemon juice baths. Lemon juice stings.
Gerry N. Just call me “Lemon Gerry”
Gerry: few people work at Menards for very long. My point is I try not to support people who are dicks.
I would give that woman playing the piano a tip every time I went up that escalator… :)
A lot of men share that opinion, Timbo.
No Menards out here.
I thought you were speaking of Maynard G. Krebs!
(I know, I’m old!)
gfa
Planet Fitness has a reputation of charging you even after you quit. Seems like theft is part of the business plan.
The thing about boycotting is, eventually I run out of places to go. I’m one of 530,000 people boycotting Home Depot for their pro-gay activism. Same reason for dumping Starbucks. I have a couple of alternate choices for a place to burn down time with the wi-fi and a cuppa coffee, so I’m lucky there. I’m also lucky to have a mom & pop True Value close to home that’s not much different from the hardware store in Home Improvement. They also have the best lumber since the venerable 84 lumber shuttered. I fail to see why people buy Menards’ lumber; I got burned before, and people I’ve gone with who wouldn’t listen to me learned the hard way once they cut the metal bands and saw the knotty or twisted (or obviously still green) stuff in the center of the load.
If Menards is so unfair to labor, a union ought to be able to find enough people to sign union cards, organize, then negotiate fair work rules. If they asked the public to boycott until they won, I could support that, but I’m not boycotting them until I see some motivation from the working men and women to improve their lot there first. I’d first boycott Harbor Freight, selling Chinese tools once made by Americans.
Amazing, how in the 90’s we went to specialized stores, no more general stores, and now we’re going back to the format. Old man Fetla must be turning over in his grave.
What day/time does the lady play piano?
I didn’t say they were unfair, I said they treated their people like shit. Different animal. The people obviously get paid well enough that they have reason to stay.