DETROIT HIGH SCHOOLS TRAIN FOR WALMART

Students enrolled get 11 weeks of job-readiness training during the day and an after school gig at Walmart.

By ALEX DUNBAR

Oh God. Say your prayers for the America of yore; we’re officially a full-fledged corporatocracy. Motherfucking Walmart, the prototypical, chthonic tyrant of the American economic landscape is teaming up with Detroit high schools to train students with job skills they’ll really get to use, like greeting customers, stocking shelves, and sobbing deeply in the break room. Students enrolled in the program get 11 weeks of “job-readiness training” during the day and an after school gig at Walmart.

Granted, Detroits economy is majorly in the shitter, this is no way to fix it. In the words of Donna Stern from the egregiously over-named Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights And Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, “They’re going to train students to be subservient workers. This is not why parents send them to school.”

It’s truly depressing to watch kids in Detroit compete in school for a job once available to any old drop out off the street. Since when do you need any pre-job training to empty trucks or listen to fat old ladies berate you? In no uncertain terms, Walmart’s recruiting a generation of wage slaves without being decent enough to even set them up in a company town.

By ALEX DUNBAR 1 year ago

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