Quote: You're assuming the staff wasn't calling all over to various stores and simply couldn't find one at any other store either. However, according to the news, the game's been sold out at all sorts of stores.
Actually all we know is that one Edwards person tried getting a game system for Edwards by calling a Walmart. There isn't any evidence of your assumption that he had his staff calling various stores.
Quote: You're also assuming that an Edwards staff member wouldn't be conversant enough with his or her boss's policies to know that calling WalMart was verboten. That seems a rather unlikely, given that staff volunteers are normally volunteers because they support a candidate's positions on issues. Given that, its more likely that a staffer would only call WalMart on orders from above.
That still doesn't make sense. Edwards would have to know such a request for something so in demand wouldn't end with him getting a game thing from Walmart. Whoever took the call would have to bump that decision higher on up the Walmart food chain.
While I'm sure volunteers support Edwards on the issues but would be very surprised if he didn't have a few that shopped at Walmart. It's more likely a young volunteer, over eager to please his boss overstepped.
Quote: There's also this to consider: Edwards has been attacking Wal-Mart in part upon the theory that it underpays its employees. It only stands to reason that Edwards, believing WalMart employees to be underpaid, would believe them to be unskilled and/or uneducated. Otherwise, why would they work at WalMart?
As such, it stands to reason that Edwards would assume that anyone who answered the phone in the toy department (or wherever) would be an underpaid, unskilled, uneducated, employee. Why wouldn't Edwards figure that a line employee at WalMart, eager to make a sale, wouldn't know of Edwards' anti-WalMart platform and wouldn't know enough to alert management to his apparent hyprocrisy?
When somebody is underpaid it's because the employer isn't paying their workers what their true value is. You may think Walmart employees are worth less but Edwards hasn't said anything to support such reasoning. He's been fighting for those workers to be paid for their value.
It's also unreasonable to suggest that an employee would be happy to sell such a high demand item. Everyone knows that you could turn around an sell one of these for big bucks. More likely these units were watched like a hawk & well acounted for. Such an unusual sale would need to be cleared further on up the Walmart system.
Quote: If anything, its at least as feasible that Edwards would assume a WalMart employee wouldn't know who he was as it is for you to assume that an Edwards staffer wouldn't know his boss didn't want them shopping there.
Since the whole story hinges on Edwards willing to use his name & position to get something, that doesn't make sense.
