Want a Wal-Mart job? Join the crowd

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that 11,000 people applied for Wal-Mart 400 jobs at a new Oakland store.

For all the criticism that Wal-Mart receives for its low wages and minimal health benefits, the retail giant says more than 11,000 people in the Bay Area are clamoring to get a job at its new Oakland store.

The country's largest employer plans to welcome customers into its 148, 000-square-foot store on Edgewater Drive next Wednesday, and it says it already has filled 350 of its 400 openings.

Wal-Mart has accepted more than 11,000 applications from Bay Area job seekers, marking the largest volume of interest it has received at any of its Northern California stores, said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Cynthia Lin.

So,the recent boycott of Wal-Mart(by Teachers Unions) is more authoritarian than is imagined:not only do consumers make Wal-Mart the number one retailer,thousands want to work there.What about the millions of people who don't want to pay onerous property taxes to support bad public schools and teachers unions who represents them?