Wired magazine writer Charles Platt takes a job at Wal*Mart to see if it's as bad as people say:
“I read Nickel and Dimed, in which Atlantic contributor Barbara Ehrenreich denounces the exploitation of minimum-wage workers in America. Somehow her book didn’t ring true to me, and I wondered to what extent a preconceived agenda might have biased her reporting. Hence my application for a job at the nearest Wal-Mart. [...]
“The job was as dull as I expected, but I was stunned to discover how benign the workplace turned out to be...”
