>>15638385They also have internal promotion underpinning the corporate culture. You start making shit like your boss did and cycle up into higher positions through their networking activities.
There is no pipeline from walmart stocker to store manager, much less one worth the time even if there was. Anyone who is only a methhead will just get certified to weld aluminum and skip the entire wagie wagie chicken dance "walmart family" level of employment.
There is a reason stores remotely functional are staffed by like 3 types of people
>retirees >empty nest house wives >normal people who cycle out after 3 months of retail hell The people actually economically stuck in being barely competent in a pictogram based PoS/stocking interface are on par with the managerial class over them. Useless people being replaced by automization. When amazon gets robots capable of shuffling boxes like 40% of the population is going to be rioting for gibs and trying to murder the forklift certified costco workers who still have low but commenserately paid jobs.
And people wonder why every secret society trope and real wants to cull the eaters.