what do you think about walmart?
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I have been only working at walmart for less than a year as a sales associate. I read too many anti-walmart websites, campaigns.. etc.. etc at first i didn’t believe them but now that i am actually in the situation I am trying to have a rational thoughts about how walmart management treats their employee.
*I only get paid 9.30 and i get 32 hours per week. I can’t afford their healthcare. Good thing my covered with my husbands and i barely get sick.
*I got evaluated after my three months and didn’t get any raise. Manager said they used to give raise… not anymore! That i need to wait for a year to get a raise
*Part time employee only gets half of holiday pay… even though they worked as hard as full time employees.
*you need to wait 6months to get holiday pay— so no more holiday pay for you. lol just expect to hear them enjoying their holiday pays.
*1-2 years to even qualified to have health benefits (so lets pray you wont be sick before then)
*strictly no overtime even for one minute! or else you’ll get a write down
*they encourage you to leave early
* they always have a meeting and tell all the employee about their sales increase.
*they are not hiring any more full times in this store.
(all the examples i have given are only at the walmart stores im working at, i will not tell the location coz im afraid i might be fired— and i terribly need a job)
I just want to know your opinion.
Well now you have another viewpoint. I do believe that part of Walmart’s great success is at the expense of the employees. I am not sure what part of the country you are from but I know a couple of employees in the Houston area that get a lot less than your $9.30.
As the previous answerer said the good part is that the consumer usually ends up paying less but at what expense.There was a time when Walmart proudly declared that all their goods were made in the U.S.A. that was then. Many of the clothing items that are marked "Made in the U.S.A." are probably made in the sweat shops of the Mariana Islands. Guam being a U.S. Territory and the Northern Mariana Islands a U.S. Commonwealth so it it perfectly legal to have their clotlhing labeled as "made in the U.S.A." Another example of corporate business becoming succesful at the expense of "slave labor".
neuve1 | Aug 09, 2009
I think walmart is good for buying stuff
Raid | Aug 09, 2009
Everything you said is completely true.
Walmart, just like any other business, is out to make as much money as inhumanly possible. To do that, they’re going to find ways to cut corners.
A job that used to require 3 people and 8 hours is now cut down to 1 person and less time do to everything and if you can’t then obviously you are inadequate and need to go somewhere else. Then they pile more on top of you and cut your hours and then can’t understand why you’re upset. And don’t do super good one day and go really inhumanly fast to get your job done so you could make that doctor’s appointment on time. Because they’ll see you went Wonder Woman that day (even though it nearly gave you a nervous breakdown from the stress and strain of it all) and expect you to do it every day thereafter. So they want you to do a good job and then punish you for doing it.
Hiring only part time allows them to cut major benefits. Those benefits, like health care and vacations, cost the company money and if they only offer it (or are required to provide it) to full time…well then that saves them money. I work part time…no, I can’t afford the insurance they offer. I was full time but I had to switch departments and no matter what job I asked about I was told, "Well, now that’s a part time position. Are you sure you want to do that?" So I’ve either got to go insane in the department I’m stuck in or take a MAJOR paycut. I took the paycut. That other department was THAT bad. And that department has only gotten worse since I left because they haven’t replaced me. Now they expect the girl I left behind to do all of the work that the 2 of us were doing.
You have to get an Exceeds expectations on you evaluation in order to get the big raise (50 cents, I think). Regular raise is…40 cents…maybe. 10 cents on the hour to a poverty level hard working single mother can make all the difference. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get an Exceeds? You have to work really hard, make sure management sees you doing it, kiss some serious management butt until your nose turns a permanent shade of brown and…and then smile lovingly as they stab the knife in your back when they give you a "Meets" for all your hard work.
You are given so many sick day hours to use…for being sick. I have well over 200 hours of sick time. It builds up over time. I don’t use mine very often so I’ve got a lot. That’s over a month’s worth of time I have available in case I get the flu or if I fall down the stairs and nearly kill myself and have to be hospitalized. The kicker is that you can’t use that time unless you’re off for at least 2 days in a row. The second day I can use 8 hours of my 200…but the first day doesn’t count (it’s just a day off). AND you get in trouble for calling off in the first place, and then in trouble for any other days you continue to insist that you must stay in bed vomiting in a bucket with a 102.4 fever. Unless you’re hospitalized. And you’d better have a doctor’s note like your mom had to get for you when you were in elementary school. But nobody really cares about it because with or without a doctor’s note it gets counted against you (for when it comes time for promotions or raises) and if you have "too much" you get written up. If you’re off for more than 4 days you have to file for Leave Of Absence and that’s unpaid time off. So either way you look at it, you’re punished for using your allotted sick time for it’s intended use.
If you work day shift you have to be available from 5 AM to 12 AM. No exceptions. If you can’t work that, then too bad…go find a job somewhere else. So if you have kids you’re out of luck for any baseball games or family game night…or even being there to make sure they get on the school bus okay. And you’d better make sure you’re married so your spouse can watch your kid during your shift or mooch off you parents for babysitting because if you work at Walmart you can’t afford daycare. But like our store manager told me when I said I can’t work a certain shift because of daycare…"Why don’t you just apply for assistance?"
Assistance, I tell you! I work my butt off every day for that company and they WANT me to mooch off the government for assistance so they can KEEP not giving me enough hours and inadaquate benefits.
"Family-oriented store" my ***.
And no, this is not really ME saying this. I’m using a friend’s account to post this because I’m afraid I’ll get fired. How sick is that?
teshepard1112 | Aug 09, 2009
Get an education to get a better job. Walmart and any other retail jobs are there for part time and newbies to the workforce $9.30 for a part time job with no education is not that bad take a look out there as to what is available. If you dislike it, or think it is so bad then find something else, simple and easy. SO what skills, experience and education do you have? That would qualify you for full time at over $15 an hour with full bennys? Problem here in America is we all make decisions in life but when we make bad ones we expect everyone else to pay for it because I deserve it syndrome, and I deserve it because ,,,,,,,well I show up. Sorry worked full time raised a family and went to school full time to earn what I have so can you. You want a better situation, change it yourself instead on whining about what you do not get, but then again have not earned
Pengy | Aug 09, 2009
The sole function of a corporation is to deliver a reasonable rate of return to its shareholders. It isn’t to provide jobs. If people weren’t willing to work for Walmart wages and benefits, Walmart would be forced to pay more to get enough employees to fill its stores. Since there are so many people that are willing to work there, they can pay whatever they want. That’s the market at work, there is no reason at all they sould pay more than they have to to get the job done. As a shareholder, I would be disappointed if they did.
Full disclamer - I am not a shareholder of Walmart, and I don’t shop there because they are not conveniently located (Meijer, FTW!).
ibinubu12 | Aug 10, 2009