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Corporate greed at its worst was recently displayed through the action of Wal-Mart and its heartless execs whose voracious appetite for money never seems to be satiated even if they are rich to a point of literally crapping Benjamins. After hearing their successful effort to squeeze everything to the last penny from a woman who has been physically and mentally debilitated through an accident, my stomach was literally knotted with disgust and outrage at the thought of how these wretched souls of the earth who have no moral or humanity whatsoever can sleep at night vividly realizing of cleanly wiping the funds of a poor woman who has lost her child in Iraq. What’s more disturbing is the fact that the brain injury this woman is suffering from due to the accident has caused a lapse in her memory that she doesn’t recall information told to her more than hour or so ago. So every time she asks about her son in Iraq and people tell her that he has died, It comes as a fresh tragic news for her. Yet these money poachers sitting on a multi billion dollar profit decided to wring every penny from the $400,000 settlement this woman received due to the accident. To add insult to injury, they claimed that their action is justifiable through an inconspicuous clause they make their employees sign which allows Wal-Mart to obtain all the money their employees receive from settlements due to accidents. Had this utter trampling on morality not been revealed through the media, those megalomaniacs would have been gloating in the unnoticeable spike of their yearly profits while basking in fat checks as a bonus for an evil work well done. Fortunately, the media harangued them incessantly especially great journalists like Keith Olbermann who vowed to keep them on his daily “Worst People” list until they atone and take the right action. After about three days of media coverage, they have finally decided to make the right decision and give back the money to the woman who so direly needs it. However, I don’t believe this to be a genuine act of atonement or walmart finding their moral compass but rather a sheer ploy of PR service to save their face and their revenues from the financial debacles that could result from this vast media expose. For them to align themselves on the right side of corporate ethics, they should go further and snuff out that and every other predatory clause in all their forms outlining the agreements between them and their employees. As for me, this would be the final straw that broke the camels back. I have tolerated other conducts of employee mistreatements by Walmart but demurred from taking any actions because I saw it as part of the accepted capitalistic process. But this one transcends the fundamental line of corporate ethics let alone human morality. For that, I have vowed never to set my foot in this store and also raise awareness to everybody in my social circle.