Who else has been fired or banned from Wal-Mart...

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I have been tempted to just walk out when I get up to the register and there are 50 people in front of me. But I figured out a better way to make my point. My rule is that I will wait 5 minutes or maybe 10 on a busy day. After that, I push my cart aside, full of frozen groceries and other stuff, and then walk out. At the end of the day, they go back and find a cart sitting there with rotted food that they have to throw out. I haven't had to do that in a while so I guess they got the point.

I do hate those psych tests. They discriminate against people with AS. I had a job lined up at a local hospital and everything was great until they wanted me to take the psych test. Then I never heard from them again.

I actually work at Wal-Mart right now.

I don't know if I just ended up with the one good Wal-Mart in all of existence, but things aren't that bad. I was able to BS my way through the application and interview. (They even complimented me on my people skills. The fools!) I'm working in the Pets department, one of the most isolated places in the entire store. Most of my customers are kids that want to look at the fish. I try to be as friendly as possible, asking people if they need assistance, keeping the place cleaned up, helping out in other departments if I have time, and keeping to Wal-Mart's schedule and culture whenever possible. I make STUPID mistakes, of course, but I also make sure I work as hard as I can, improve as much as I can, and generally make myself as useful as possible.

And if I do get fired, at least I lasted more than two-and-a-half months. Considering how much you have to talk to people, I consider that a blessed miracle.

I...guess what I'm trying to say is, Wal-Mart isn't the monstrous place it's made out to be. Most of the problems people have mentioned of this board are true everywhere. We got dealt a bad hand at birth; we just have to deal with it as best we can, try to fit into whatever niche we can find, and not blame everyone else for job woes.

And now, I have to crash.

I was there from December 22nd 2006 to April 23rd 2007, try staying on the salesfloor: it's a lot less stressful and you make less hour-hungry enemies than working in Deli or the like.

i've been kicked out of walmart 3 times. once for no shoes, once for taking pictures (actually, my friend was, and not of the merchandise), and once for dressing oddly (a group of us got into a cache of rich old lady clothes). i was wearing a 10000$ fur coat, no shirt, several fancy crucifixes (crucifi?) of varying lengths, and a skirt made of heavy gold and purple curtains. my friend chris (male) was wearing a ball gown. and the girls were wearing very fancy old dresses, with gloves and pillbox hats.

I don't like to shop there, as it's understaffed and the parking lot has a lot of litter in it. I'd rather work where I like to shop, so I have never wanted to apply for a job there.

Well, I've never worked at Wal-Mart, but I was fired from Target during my training period (all the things I had to keep up with ... bleh!)