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Origin of Walmart

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By Sid Aaron HirjiPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Origin of Walmart
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It started off as a test to further advance Psychology. People would be given starvation wages and poor working conditions. The word "union" was a banned word. Everyday the coordinators of the study would tweak something, while others observed. Some of the people employed would lose motivation at first. Some required an accolade to satisfy them, others would be disciplined, and some would receive a payment. None of these things could be talked about. The repercussions would be severe.

Overtime the study started to plateau with results. They decided to take the workers who pushed limits and were self motivated to take on more tasks with no raise or any reward. These people would be victims of "performance punishment". Good workers would attract more work and as they carried most of the burden of tasks and met deadlines regardless of how much they had to do-lazy people were added.

The introduction of the lazy people who did bare minimum brought out a new observational data called "The Pareto Principle". This principle stated that twenty percent of employees did roughly eighty percent of the work.

This interesting mix brought about resentment and intelligible anger. The high performance people started to break. They at first had empathy with the thought that the lazy individuals would eventually either be fired or they would get better. Then seeing as they still got paid to do less, they started venting. Their complaints were dismissed thus resulting in outrage anger. The high performers broke inside mentally. Their anger would result in their departure or sabotaging the workplace-resulting in termination. However, as nobody would employ the workers other than this experiment, they would without success beg for their job back.

Gradually the Psychological experiment brought out an empire. The coordinators were renamed managers and to this day run these jobs under the pseudonym -Walmart. They are a highly successful company and are now seeking into becoming a monopoly.

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About the Creator

Sid Aaron Hirji

Canadian born man who finds literature and science equally fascinating. Trauma bleeds through generations, words heal the hidden scars.

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  • Babs Iverson2 years ago

    Insightful, LOL!!! Loved it!!!

  • L.C. Schäfer2 years ago

    I can well believe that is how it began...

  • Ashley Lima2 years ago

    Really interesting story. Nice one!

  • Novel Allen2 years ago

    This could or could not be a true story. This has played in my head many times. We work till we fall over and never get anywhere, This explains it completely. Great job on this.

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