damn the muse

If Walmart's memos were laws, they'd be struck down for being overly broad. In the most recent one, the board has a series of suggestions geared at curtailing healthcare spending:

Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from working at Wal-Mart. In the memorandum, M. Susan Chambers, Wal-Mart's executive vice president for benefits, also recommends reducing 401(k) contributions and wooing younger, and presumably healthier, workers by offering education benefits. The memo voices concern that workers with seven years' seniority earn more than workers with one year's seniority, but are no more productive.

To discourage unhealthy job applicants, Ms. Chambers suggests that Wal-Mart arrange for "all jobs to include some physical activity (e.g., all cashiers do some cart-gathering)."

I wonder where this leaves the disABLED since by "healthier" it can be presumed that many of us might be excluded. We don't look healthy even though we are. It's the wheelchair you see. Sometimes those legs don't work, and well, the rest is history.

I see trouble for Walmart.