Don't Work at Walmart!!

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or other big businesses that sell poor quality junk made from laboring sweat shops that make little than meager wage.

And no matter how hard and long you work, you're still going to make as much as those kids made in them good ole' child labor days.

Anyway, just my opinion. No offense to those who do work at Walmart.

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After meating two employees at Walmart who were brainless butt holes, I hate walmart! I'm really mad at the two of them still. One reason is their idiocy (no.. the two I mentioned), the other is their "I'm the victim" attitudes. Sure, there are good people who try to work there, but the A-holes and lazy people get the same pay check, I'm sure. And yes, I have met A-holes to. I bought pants there recently, and that just did it for me. I got eye rolls, sighs, and what have you.

Don't buy IGLOO products either. IGLOO is indeed a sweat shop. I heard it from an ex employees mouth. They have no air conditioning or heating. Limited bathroom breaks. Poor pay. He said that he did the part where they scrape plastic off the boxes. They hold one tool in each hand, and scoop two boxes at a time. If they aren't fast enough, they get fired. (wow!) They also work for long hours at a time.

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i'm so glad i don't work in retail anymore. i was so bad at listening to what customers said to me, i just tuned out. i walked around in a zombie daze all the time. i think i'm pretty smart but i must have appeared like an idiot to anyone who tried to talk to me during working hours.
has anything in particular prompted the anti-walmart thread, or is it just general righteous indignation?

Both.

Managers are book smart so they come up with brilliant ideas and that is changing things around a bit. This means if you've been working in a department that you're speacialized in, cars for instance, they have this brilliant plan to put you now in the pharmacy department. Just be careful lest someone ask you about something you don't know since your area of expertise were not in pharmacy but tires.

I swear, it's like out of that movie Office Space only without the offices. They do these little things to insure you're not "good enough" at your job.

i take it you've worked in retail then? apparently management is the job with the highest proportion of psychopaths - makes sense to me.

I would never work at a big box store, no matter how bad I needed a job.

I once applied at Wal*Mart for a district manager's position.

"Overqualified."

Their loss.

Mind you, both the good and the lazy get a mere US$6 or 7 per hour...

the missus worked there for 5 years, but eventually wore herself out there. There's good and bad employees, and managers, in any company you go in (or why would Dilbert be so funny?...

She does say it's gone downhill in the last few years...

I was thinking of applying there, just to get some kind of work experience. I'd probably hate it, all those hours on my feet, dealing with people, inhaling that chemically Wal-Mart smell for however long, as the PA system intones the same "Wal-Mart is your friend" messages again and again and again... but then what are the chances I'll find a job I actually like?

Honestly, I'm not really averse to working for an evil corporation. But, I'll take your advice anyway.

My first job, when I was about 14, was at Big W - the Australian equivalent of walmart.
Same sort of thing - only our minimum wage is more than twice that of America.
But, we have this thing called "award wages", don't know if you yanks have the same or equivalent, where the younger you are, under 21, the less you get paid - for the same job!! !
Big business exploit that outragously, firing people - in sneaky fashion - when they get too old!
The system was intended to give inexperienced kids a chance at employment; but it should be scrapped, considering the big business exploitation.

I could have told you not to work at WalMart. I worked there for only 3 months, and it wasn't my first job. No matter what I did, I wasn't doing it right. I wasn't stocking quickly enough, so I'd pick up the pace. Now I was stocking so quick they were sure I wasn't getting dated stuff out of the cooler. *I did dept 97, which is lunch meats and cheese* I went outside one night, and did NOTHING for my whole shift but sleep in the car, and wouldn't you know it, I got congratulated on the job I did in my dept!

Oh, and they are full of it when they say they offer medical coverage. What they offer is a discount on seperate medical coverage, and the monthly cost came to about half my pitiful paycheque. And when I hurt myself at work, they cooked the books so it showed me as being clocked out, so they weren't liable. Bastards... I'm still dealing with those medical bills now!

According to all the longer term employees I talked to, the place used to be ok when the old man, Sam Walton, was still around. But now all he pushes are daisies, and that doesn't do the employees much good.

Did you consult someone on the "clocked out" business? Businesses will lie to you about your legal rights.

I'm against Walmart and other large corporations too, but some people have no choice. I'm about to be homeless if I don't find work in the next few weeks, and I might have to work at Walmart.

God, I really f*****g HATE my life

how does award wages work??? whats the cons??? i had this at my last job

The pro is that you are guaranteed a minimum wage per hour that your employer cannot interfere with. The con is that people under 21 get paid less, the younger they are.
Large corporations, typically supermarkets, only hire young kids as casual workers - who they only have to pay half of what a 21 year old will get. They only hire the teenagers on casual employment, and simply stop giving them work when they get older, or younger teens, therefore cheaper teens, apply for a job.