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so wal*mart corporation and it subsidiaries suck as an employer. they overwork, underpay and generally mistreat their workers. I work for Sam's specifically and it's B.S. I'm on the night crew and they've been jerking us around changing our hours every other week since mid-september. Feel free to post whatever you want to say about the company.. WAL*MART and super center assosciates also welcome. [edited by sinsboldly]
[Standing with projectile in hand to throw at anyone who says anything good about the company(ies)]

yea I work for wal-mart but unfornatly retail always has these problems. In the end though wal-mart is the best paying of retail and really shouldn't be a long term career (I'm just using it while in school). The benefits and pay surpass all other retail stores so if you want to say Wal-mart and Sam's Club underpay and suck as employers then maybe its just retail as a whole you dissagree with.

In Either case you won't find better in retail not that I defend wal-mart cause they make very stupid decisions at times but seeing as I have another retail chain who owe me over $10,000 dollars and probably won't pay it I have to defend wal-mart in that way. If this was CVS Pharmacy we were talking bout I'd have to bad mouth them for hours.

Some calculations to prove my point :

Wage after 8 years at CVS: 8.60

Wage upon joining Wal-mart: 9.20

Responibilities under CVS: Everything was basically a manager without the title.

Responibilities under Wal-Mart: Keeping Inventory correct and giving overstock to its respective departments.

Starting Wage at CVS Pharmacy: 5.75 (8 years ago)

Starting Wage at Wal-mart: 7.75 (8 years ago thats is for a cashier who is one of the lowest paid associates)

Hours working for CVS a week: 40 to 70 hours a week (I could work for both pharmacy and the regular store so both used to schedule me with disregard to the other schedule in other words the only days off I got were 1 or 2 days when I generally refused to come in when I was younger then 18 thats illegal but I'm sure I wouldn't be able to prove it so its a mute point)

Hours working for Wal-Mart a week: 40

Social atmosphere at CVS: a backstabbing group of people who wish they were cool in highschool so they want to make cvs into a high school environment. Managers are included in this.

Social atmosphere at Wal-Mart: I am treated with respect mostly there are a few managers who toe the line with me and I have to be assertive that I will not be taken advantage of.

CVS trying to screw me over: Didn't do my yearly pay increases until years after their due date (25 to 30 cents a year not given to me at the correct time). Did not receive night differential for 3 years of doing overnights

(my store was 24 hours I did not receive the night differential cause at the time I was disliked by management because I told off managers who tried to get disrespectful with me, I received one 50 cent raise when I told them I was quitting. I was offered another when I told them will be working for wal-mart. They were unwilling to pay overtime and changed my hours to reflect that I didn't when I did. After that the store became a closing store (overnight associates didn't pick up the slack, they kept getting robbed and generally just didn't come in. The shrink in that store (I know people still in it) rose by 80% when I left and general productivity went down by 60%)

Wal-Mart trying to screw me: Wal-mart has only tried to screw me once and thats recently. My new job is supposed to be a position pay grade 3 its a new position through a change in the depth of the inventory system the current position I'm considered is a pay grade 2 so I should get .20 cents extra per hour (small but better in my pocket then Wal-Mart's) They insist the WIRE (Wal-Mart internet) is wrong. So I'm currently fighting with them but they have been conceding on my points so we'll see if I get it.

LostinBed, If you are at least employed, consider yourself VERY fortunate. I am unemployed, underskilled, in an area with no prospective available jobs, hubby is also unemployed with no benefits for the past seven weeks, kids need eye exams/glasses but can't afford, contacts of mine are old but can't afford new ones, etc. etc... Count your blessings! I have shed more frustrated tears this week at not finding work, while you are very fortunate to have a job.Dear Young Lady, count your blessings.. I passed an online test for Walmart's application earlier this week , called to ask if they were hiring as I had submitted an application..she acted swarmy, said, "NO, we are not hiring at this time". I asked for an application at our local library and was REFUSED an application! That was humiliating, she stated , "we only give out applications if we are hiring, did you see our website?" Humiliating, spirit-crushing world it is right now. Doors closing on companies, lay-offs everywhere here in Ohio, please realize you are a lucky one to be emplyed. I have not been this sad about the economy in a very long time.

Last edited by rushfanatic on 14 Jan 2009, 10:59 am, edited 2 times in total.

I agree! After all, it's not like this is NEWS or something. People have known about Walmart and Sams Club for decades. sorry if you didn't research these companies (one good Google search would do it) before you applied for the job there.


Merle

yes but what I don't understand all the things wal-mart does all of retail does. Its nothing new I just don't get why wal-mart is the scapegoat for all of them. Ithink if all retail was targeted companies like cvs would be out of business.

I don't think I'm not lucky. I'm just being the voice for my aggrovated co-workers and as I said in anther thread this is the only paying job I've had that I've been able to keep for any length of time beyond a month and that frustrates and upsets me because it makes me feel as though an absolute last wrung place like wal-mart/sam's club is the only place I can succeed and thus I'm pretty much stuck there.


and Abangyarudo no that's not them screwing with you screwing you is a your direct manager(coach) implicitly threatening to fire you if you don't open up full seven day availability to them and yes back when I was on days my coach at the time did that to me because I didn't have tuesdays and thursdays available because of school and he knew that full well and basically told me it wasn't worth it to him/the company to keep me on the payroll if I couldn't/didn't give all seven days availability. That really was screwing with me because there was a ukranian woman that he gave priority scheduling to, eg. never scheduling her tuessday and thursday nights, not scheduling her earlier than 10 or 11 sunday mornings and giving her full(14 or 15 compensated hours) shifts on the weekends while most of the time I was being booked tusdays and thursdays when he knew I couldn't even manage a closing shift and typically giving me no more than 11 compensated hours on a weekend and I told him in february, and gave him a corresponding availability form, that I couldn't do sunday opens any more in februay for financial reasons and I didn't see my first non-open sunday shift until about three months later.

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LostinBed, I hear you dear. I wish there were better opportunities for all of us out there. The 80's were full of good jobs, today,~~there is Walmart. You are worthy of so much, just hang in there. I want to sign up for computer classes soon, hoping that the $90 sessions will get my foot in the door somewhere. I am not a spring chicken, but you will go on to a better source...Did you ever hear of the book, "Nickel and Dimed in America"? She was an author who went under -cover basically as a retail employee at various stores. She spent time as an associate at Walmart and always felt like she was watched by personnel, cameras, etc.. like big brother was ready to write her down for any infraction they could find... Walmart , for me, was like the last resort, besides, Kmart. Retail is not my cup of tea..i would rather do inventory or try factory work, but they won't let you in without experience, and you won't get experience unless they let you in..... I am befuddled.

Last edited by rushfanatic on 14 Jan 2009, 11:23 am, edited 1 time in total.

What are your skills? depending on your job in wal-mart and the job climate of your area ya could get another job. I choose retail cause I have flexability.

not that ya want to return to retail but theres a new focus in wal-mart on inventory. Thats what I do overnights I make about 9:20 an hour usually involving pulling out overstock to be worked. Its agreeable to me because besides the guy I work with (we're supposed to get a 3rd person but I'm not holding my breath) I don't have to really associate with people if I don't feel like it. The critical eye I have for detail and the understanding I have for the system has made me a valuable asset to the point I've been asked alot to be overnight ICS lead.

Abangyarudo I am nightcrew as well and I zone books and the stock/rotate wherever they need me which as of late has been stationary/office supplies, GHB/OTC, restaurant supplies and rotating the endcaps mainly between office supplies and electronics.. and just so you know they were recently nearly six weeks late on my six month eval so I didn't er actually won't see my raise/retropay until either this or the following paycheck. You're not the only one who gets messed out of differential, retro or raise pay. Just for clarification when you say differential do you mean premium?

I mean the extra money for working from 10pm to 7am for wal-mart its a dollar and I received it upon being transferred. I worked days in a ny wal-mart before that and as far as your eval at wal-mart we no longer receive a raise with the eval. I have to wait approx. one year of working there for a raise with my eval. I also do not receive the mysharebonuses until 1 year though it may be different at the store I work at now. It doesn't really matter in this case cause the store I work at underperforms so badly that it never receives the bonus though the other works say its because he puts it towards ordering.

wage at new store for my position: 8:20 + 1.00 (night Differential makes my 9.20/hr wage

im a 2nd shift ims lead at wal-mart and i make routine sheets that really make stuff more efficant. it does seem like they track you with the task master but it is only to get rid of the lazyness that is ooh so common at wal-mart. if you like inventory then you will love the ims team. it is not the best paying job but a job now adays is better than an empty stomach. You bash wal-mart but they are no diffrent then any other company they want to succeed and by LAW they have to try to increase there share values. so if you want to bash someone bash these companies that go over seas and say screw you to america. i love walmart and even if the canned me today i still would. i have been on a d-day and couple of months later rose 4 pay grades so walmart isn't perfect but atleast they try. i think my d-day was bs but you got to realize this is not a each person company. it is a corporation that focuses on the corporation first. and if anyone doesn't like walmart call 1-800-wal-mart adn they will fix what it is becuase they love money if you are customer. and if you are an associate and have problem just call hr manager cuase walmart doesn't like law suit or paying to rehire someone. your store might be diffrent but rember if something makes you mad aobut them go up the latter doen't focus on the bottom rungs of it.

Worked for Wal Mart for 3 months before I quit. They loved me, but I couldn't handle the "state of the art stupid" mentality in how they ran things.

Rotating staff to different departments makes sense when you have plenty of qualified people doing the job. When you're dealing with lazy idiots who can't be trusted to do the job right, you can't be moving people around (I worked seafood, which is a high-contagion product that must be handled properly).

Full-time workers especially deserve a consistent daily schedule they can count on to not change without sufficient advance notice. The scheduling computer (to my knowledge) still does not allow for that.

People who work hard should be rewarded handsomely. People who don't do their job should be fired, not given merit raises. That should be obvious, but Wal Mart doesn't do things that way.

I never liked Sam's Club, Costco is vastly superior.

Anyways, I know someone who's a stocker at Wal-Mart. They work him to the bone for decent(by those standards) pay.