Support Sears for supporting troops

[techweenie]

This e-mail message from FAIR sounded like it could have been an urban legend, but it turns out to be true:

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Let's all shop at Sears!!!!!!

I assume you have all seen the reports about how Sears is treating
its reservist employees who are called up? By law, they are required to
hold their jobs open and available, but nothing more. Usually, people
take a big pay cut and lose benefits as a result of being called
up...Sears is voluntarily paying the difference in salaries and
maintaining all benefits, including medical insurance and bonus
programs, for all called up reservist employees for up to two years.

I submit that Sears is an exemplary ! corporate citizen and should be
recognized for its contribution.

Suggest we all shop at Sears, and be sure to find a manager to tell
them why we are there so the company gets the positive reinforcement
it well deserves.

Pass it on.

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It's all well and good to put on a bumper sticker -- 'it's the least you can do.'
But a bumper sticker really is the least you can do.

We can really make a difference if we put our money where our mouth is and support companies that really are 'good corporate citizens.'

[legion]

I got a lot of tools from there for Christmas. I always ask for Craftsman. It doesn't hurt that my aunt works at their corporate headquarters and my grandfather retired from there...

I think many of the old-school blue chip companies have very similar policies in place. I'm almost certain my employer does. A lot of companies quietly go above and beyond like this...only to get shredded in the press when they make a mistake (or the press gets a hold of something that they can misrepresent as a mistake).

I'm not saying all companies are saints, just that most of the good they do seems to go unnoticed.

[red ufo]

If this is true, then its real patriotism from the core of business.

Certainly beats the posers with yellow ribbons on the back of their SUV.

[rcecale]

WOW!!! Could this really be that beginning of the End Of The World?????

Today, red ufo and I actually agree on something!
he's actually making sense here...

Randy

[bryanthompson]

Wow, I read the original post looking for at least some kind of back-handed insult, but couldn't find anything.

And, a Sears is just opening up a couple of towns over, so I'm planning on buying buckets of tools from them.

[red ufo]

Originally posted by rcecale
WOW!!! Could this really be that beginning of the End Of The World?????

Today, red ufo and I actually agree on something!
he's actually making sense here...

Randy

Randy that is real support the soldiers need. When they come back it should be to open arms. They need jobs, family and rest and fishing trips. I hope other big business follows this lead. This type of patriotism was around doing WWII.

If the country really gave a crap we could conserve fuel and not buy the oversized SUV, out source, ect....

But the world is going to end some day. Not in our lifetime, but probably our grandkids.

[rcecale]

Originally posted by red ufo
Randy that is real support the soldiers need. When they come back it should be to open arms. They need jobs, family and rest and fishing trips. I hope other big business follows this lead. This type of patriotism was around doing WWII.

I couldn't agree more. It seems the only one's being supported by the "yellow ribbon magnet" crowds are the manufacturers of the magnets.

I believe I may have read somewhere that "proceeds from the sale of these ribbons goes to support...yada, yada, yada, " but it's a safe bet the people who are making them are getting their cut.

What Sears is and has been doing for quite a while is a great example. This is the "America" that Americans can truly stand behind.

Randy

[ronin]

Originally posted by rcecale
WOW!!! Could this really be that beginning of the End Of The World?????

whatchutalkinaboutwillis? the world ended for all good libs when a republican regained the White House, has done so over a thousand times since then, and will continue to do so everyday while GW is in office

the poor bastards

[kach22i]

I would not of thought that they could afford to do this- buying/merging with K-mart and all.

Hats off to Sears, going down with class. Hope they make it.