I really wish I could lose it.
I really wish I could lose it.
It is getting real old and there are times when I wish I could just shut off the instinct to continue on.
I have repeatedly told myself that I cannot possibly know or see something that no one at Walmart knows. I have repeatedly told myself it will get better on its own.
I have often wanted to run away from what is driving me to find a way to get all of it somewhere that it will do some good.
I imagine it is a sense of failure that makes me want to quit and yet it makes me want to continue at the same time.
One day at a time and at least I know that I am clear of the imminent failure that will occur in the future if all of it continues as it is.
I feel really bad for Lee Scott and the rest of the corporate officers. They may have money at the end of it all but they will also have to live with the outcome and maybe someday explain how they could let money rule. I have no idea of how or when it will all come out, I do know that without change from what it is today that eventually even if the things that are really wrong never are brought out the company will suffer and eventually it will go the same way Kmart did only bigger and worse.
At least I know I have tried. At least I know that the original concept was a good one and that Sam Walton was a good person.
How I wish I could hate the company and all it stands for. I can’t. Even with all of the injustices and all the lies I know it was meant to be a good thing.
There is so much good and it is blocked out by the inability of the corporate officers to accept any responsibility for the problems.
The problems are of course varied, some are real, some are imagined, some, are rumors.
I just know that when you are doing what you believe is right you have to do your best to let it be known.
It is more than seven months since they terminated me, or told me I was terminated. Months later someone said that wasn’t the case I walked off the job. It didn’t happen that way.
It makes no difference now anyway, not to Walmart, not to any of the corporate officers.
It is a lie like all the rest and can be covered up.
Oh how I want to give up, wish I could.
Regards,
Julie
posted by julie pierce @ 2:39 PM
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hi julie, i was actually looking for somrthing else when i stumbled across your website. i have been with wal-mart for 15 years and know exactly what you are writing about. the stories i could tell. i too could write a book on the dealings...i am on loa currently and am thinking about leaving the company. i feel i have had enough. i am not just another worker venting...all my evals have always been exceeds,i have done spt.mgr.,personnel,directs,ics,csm....i was cross-trained in numerous areas. if i can be of assistance to you feel free to e-mail me. thanks patty
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Hello, just visited your blog, I have a website about overcoming many kinds of addictions and it is very informative.
I think that WAL-MART is very addicting and very much like a cult. I worked there over 20 years, I knew Sam Walton and he was a GREAT man! I can understand and totally relate to the way you feel. Once you have spent so much time there and poured your heart and soul into it, it becomes your identity. You may not even realize it at the time but once you have been away for a while and start suffering depression like you never dreamed possiblem you realize that you don't even know who you are anymore. I ate, slept, and breathed Wal-Mart for over 20 years. I absolutely loved it and still love the company that Sam built but it is being torn apart now and is no more than just another big company. It is so sad. People were once valued, now they are disposable. Someone has to stand up and get their attention. I don't know who that someone will be since those with many years with the company have little to no credibility with senior execs.
Why complain, quit.
I want to transfer, and was told I could lose all the pay I have earned over the years, what a crock.
It is easy to say,'why complain, quit.' My family depends on my meager wages to put food in the fridge; thanks to pricematching, coupon-clipping, and a discount. They also depend on my crappy health insurance if, God forbid, little ones get sick. If there is an associate-in-need fundraiser, it is always the "good ole boys" that get chosen for assistance. That's okay, though. It seems like a slap in the face; "You've missed 'x' amount of weeks, so here's $50 to help you out." It seems so ridiculous; our associates make wages that are comparable to our own that thinking that they can afford to help out another associate is assonine. We all know that when an associate needs assistance, Lee Scott or any other higher up will not be opening their wallets. They just hope that we will miss enough time to replace us with cheaper help that they can hire part-time. My store is weeding through associates that are at their cap and are finding ridiculous reasons to terminate them. How many other stores are doing this? I think it is safe to say that all of them are. When all floor associates are called up to help cashier, and their area doesn't get done, they are, of course, expected to cut their overtime. If they complain, they are told that if they don't like it, they can quit. So much for listening to our associates.
Why qiut? You know there will be a lot of problems in your life and not all jobs we have are perfect! You must be strong and never forget that there are people who feel worse than you!
Hi, I am an associate for Wal-Mart ,I have been with them for 7.5 yrs. I am FED-UP with they're crap. The store I come from treat the associates horrible,they discriminate, there is favoritism even with the store manager. I have seen people leave work in tears,overwhelmed by the workload they are given.It's ridiculous,and I used to be scared of being fired or written up for speaking my mind . Well I don't give a damn anymore!!! I gave my notice, I know some can't just give notice, I really can't either ,but I'm not dealing with this money hungry,don't give a shit about the employee, company anymore. I'm moving on ,and It feels GREAT! Good Luck to those who hang on.Your gonna need it.
Wal-Mart is a great place to work. I have worked at my store for 10 years and expect to make a career out of it. My store manager is a "WONDERFUL MAN". The whole store is like a family. The health insurance is Wonderful if you can get approved for it? I have been through head injury & in a coma for days. The health insurance worked great. I love my job, there is nothing wrong with it.
I know that the qualifactions now are tougher, but as long as you keep doing a good job that is where you are noticed & can get more hours to receive it.
Never just "show up" for work and then go home. If you want better things to happen for you then you get to know people while doing your task. Smile say hi to associates, get to know people and find out things about them and the store. Never leave yourself in the dark. Talk work hard do your best.
Associates get the hours when they are not the ones who "call in sick often". Work your full schedule never leave to go home early and then notice that your check in "low" and then go complain that they are not getting paid enough.
I stand up for Wal-Mart 100% it is a great company with lots of opurtunities.
To Mr. Brown noser,
*hands them towelet paper for his face* We can all tell you are a store manager , or a corperate looking to post on here to make others work harder to get even more out of them so you donthave to crap them out for new ppl to soon.Why yes the store can be great and like a family.. but what happens when you lock that family up in a room hang down one check and tell them only one a few of them that work hard enough to "there expect tations" and screw the others around you can get payed... ill tell you what will happen.. i would rip threw fleash and bone cuz i have a baby at home and i wouldnt take it agenst them if they did the same thing to me...you need money to live.. they tell you to get it done no matter what..you do it no matter who gets in your way cuz they pit you agenst each other and the week or the smart get eated up and thrown out.
I standed up for them 100% when sam was around.... he died rest his soul and they torn the company appart for buisness $$$ also in most stores .. not all i can say .. to get noticed.. you got to bump your head on the bottom of the bosses desk or just stalck him around the store talking ot him and jokeing to get him to like you and get him to do things for you like put 3 ppl in your area so you do nothing.
Or you could be just some guy jokeing with us to get s laughing or mad.
(4yr associate)I had become a DM over grocery and after a spending few months of me fixing a whole slew of issues and getting things in order(catching up on tons of old mods the prev DM dumped on me) I recieved a compliment from my assistant mgr that the grocery dept "looked 100 times better" since I became dm. A couple months later my eval came up and the same asst mgr did my eval and guess what... I was only an average worker? I knew this was the status quo I my store... they never give exceed to anyone anymore. I had expected this, tho still greatly disheartened by it. Several months later inventory took place, and I was very satisfied when I saw that between the 2 depts I ran showed an increase of aprox 1mil in sales for the year. No one noticed this but me of course. I was only viewed as an average worker. Also during that time we got a new CO mgr, who was a ballbuster, and every other day I was in the office getting reprimanded or "talked at". I was even coached once, for doing my job.... In my dpts, I only had 1 associate that actually helped me like they were spose to, and of course it was a 20yr associate. All the other associates in my area were totally worthless and mangement refuse to do anything about them, just would tell me.... 'just do your job'. I was already pushed to the limits of my ability(or anyones ability for that matter) when the new CO mgr called me to office yet again to tell me I have more tasks he wants me to perform everyday. That is when I said, I cant do it anymore and stepped down from DM. That is one rant, here is the next...
From there I went to oevrnight dairy stocking. There were 2 FT and 1 PT associates covering the job inclusing me. A few weeks later the FT and PT'ers quit. Leaving me alone... for the next 7 months with no help. The overnight mgr has the nerve to call me in the office to tell me I have to be getting all my work done everyday and zone by 7am. I am doing the work of 2.5 ppl!! I had been staying late everyday to get all the frieght worked, and usually I skipped zoning if it was after 8am. I let him have it, and told him he was a poor mgr in so many words. From that day on I left at 7am no matter what. Except one day I decided to finish anyway, and was there at 8am when a daytime assistant told me he wanted to talk to me in office about how I left freight behind and never zoned everyday. I said to him."oh gee look at the time, its after my sched hrs, I gotta go cya!" And I left. Nothing happened of course... what could they do, they knew all along my area was understaffed, and they made no effort to replace anyone for months... Well that is enough for now... I had quit some months later but that again is another story. I can say this though, when I called my mgr after my D day and told him I decided I wasnt coming back, I felt goooooooood to finally be free..... I witnessed just as all of you have, the crumbling foundation of the core principls that walmart was founded on, and unlike some of you, it would please me to see walmart go down in flames, starting with their stock price.
Never heard such wining in all my life. Go to work, do your job do what is expected of you and you won't have any problems. The ones that have problems call out sick all the time and think work is a social club. The associates at my store make bonuses and don't work too hard because we work together as a team and get the job done. Its retail! Its not hard if you are willing to work. I agree that Sam wouldnt like todays walmart. That is a shame. It is what it is. Deal with it or go home. You work, get paid, get medical insurance. What more do you want from a day's work?
I have been with walmart for 10 and have had a dept for 6 years. I was told it was no longer available and to sign up for a new zsm position,so I did and let me remind you I have never had a coaching. I have always came in on days off , nights , mornings,even on christmas.I was told I was not strong enough and not stern enough. The funny thing is that the associates that got the positions had not even been with the company 2 years, or have had their own dept. And as for sucking up to management to get higher in the company, it does not work. A co-manager that was a total asshole to everyone and like to flirt with me and even managed to call me to the office to talk about my Dept. Yeah, he talked about my Dept. all right. I did'nt know what to do,mainly becouse I was a quiet one that just never got botherd. So I called home office, they thought it was so wonderful that I was sexually haressed that they promoted this manager to a store manager the next month later. Maybe that's why I am all the sudden threatened everyday about my job. I know how associates feel so disguisted, and see how its always the bad ones that make it in the world today. I am not trying to make it in the so called walmart hall of fame, I just want to go to work and pay my bills like everybody else even though it has taken me 10 years to make my $13 a hour and it only took that asshole co-manager 9 yrs to become a store manager. I guess that is what kind of people that walmart wants to run its stores today.
My husband has over 100 sick hours so yes he is at work, never late always early. His hours are cut for the ones who call in sick all the time. Each store is different. But, the one he works at is awful. It is management. Corp and disrict don't want to hear the complaints. We are waiting for district to call on an issue for him and me as a customer. Still waiting. This is why people are upset. You do your job, you go to work provide for your family and there is no one helping you. So yes you can say quit but in this economy a bad job is still a good one. Associates just want someone to listen. My husband has a major health problem and has been fired from many jobs because of it. So does Walmart know about it nope, he is scared, burned toooo many times.
So give a positive comment here not "if you don't like it quit". Some people can't get government assistance to live on they have to have the jobs that they can get. I just wish corp. would read these post they may realize that these managers is not getting them sales it is the associates that is making their stocks go up.
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This blog is awsome! I am a 5 year employee of and I HATE it, I wouldn't advise anyone to work here it's nothing but lies and stress, hard work for a little pay. Why is it that people think we associates work at walmart make a lot of money that's a fuckin joke MANAGEMENT makes all the money and get the big bonuses WE ASSOCIATES bust our ass working in this hot ass hell hole. Unless you a on parole go to school and dnt work here please!
I have been a wal-mart associate for about six months, I know not a long time. Im also a full time college student in my senior year and walmart ALWAYS works me during times when im in school (outside my availability). They really dont care about associates and the scheduling system has alot of problems. Management is flawed, there is no communication, they show favoritism, and everyone seems to be out for themselves. Ive told 4 managers repeatedly about this scheduling issue and they seem to alway have there own agenda and tell me they are going to fix my problem and never do. Thank god im ready to graduate college with a double major in business management and finance because I am leaving Wal-Mart upon grauation.I really feel bad for associates who feel like they have to stay in such a selfish and unorganized company.
What more do we want than to work, get paid, and receive medical care?
How about to be treated as a person with a NAME? How about to work at a place that keeps its own policies? How about to work for a company which is based on honest morals instead of one whose profits are created by the exploitation of its workers who are too poor to leave their jobs and so they have to go on being treated like human garbage because the only other option is to become homeless.
That is what we want. To be treated with respect. No one here is asking for a handout; no one is asking for special treatment. All we want is for WalMart to find its moral compass and stick to its own rules.
Fuck authority and all of it, just do what you guys want, if walmart treats you like shit so dont take it. An eye for an eye! Cops, government all of them dont like it if you prostitute or sell drugs but at least you can make money that way. Protect yourselves buy some weapons.
I have been at Wal mart for ten miseralble years. although I like certain asspects of the company. You rae subjected to the hitler way of thinking In stead of the Wal mart cheer we can all say yo vo What ever you command oif us Weare subjected to never ending paperwork I never have enough time for the paperwork crap. the speak of being enviormenatly friendly there is morewaste of paper at wal marts then thr entire federal government Lets face it wal mart corp. has us over a barrel we have no rights no communicationand we acknowledge that we are robots in the wal mart corporate world GOD HELP US ALL!!!
Wow I knew that there were a few people who felt the same way that I felt about walmart but never this many. My family has almost always worked with walmart and yes it has been good to us some of the time I've seen the toll it really takes on them. One of my family members is a member of managment and he was talking to me one day about evals... Did you know that if they give out exceeds they have to write a report to the store manager explaining why that person EARNED IT! When he told me that it kind of make me a little sick. YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO THE STORE MANAGER WHY!?!? If that person is working their ass off and they have earned it give it to them hell. If they aren't calling in every day and they do their job its nice to see that we matter somewhere. One store I just transfered from they were "letting go" of their doorgreeters left and right.. wanna here their excuses? So and So didn't say hello welcome to walmart to that one person right there! (mind you that person is on their cell phone, digging threw her purse and is trying to take care of her crying baby) I understand its a business ok but who in the hell makes your business run??? If you treat your help horrible they aren't going to be helping your company in any way what so ever! Friends of mine had asked me if I liked working there and this is my answer... (Mind you I work in the Pharmacy) I love working where I work and I love working for my direct boss. If you are working in any other department I'm sorry because store managment will screw you over in anyway they can... Now there is something wrong when you have someone telling another person that who is looking for employment... I dont know why they pretend to care... Just straight up tell us then there will be a mutual understamding
Wow I knew that there were a few people who felt the same way that I felt about walmart but never this many. My family has almost always worked with walmart and yes it has been good to us some of the time I've seen the toll it really takes on them. One of my family members is a member of managment and he was talking to me one day about evals... Did you know that if they give out exceeds they have to write a report to the store manager explaining why that person EARNED IT! When he told me that it kind of make me a little sick. YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO THE STORE MANAGER WHY!?!? If that person is working their ass off and they have earned it give it to them hell. If they aren't calling in every day and they do their job its nice to see that we matter somewhere. One store I just transfered from they were "letting go" of their doorgreeters left and right.. wanna here their excuses? So and So didn't say hello welcome to walmart to that one person right there! (mind you that person is on their cell phone, digging threw her purse and is trying to take care of her crying baby) I understand its a business ok but who in the hell makes your business run??? If you treat your help horrible they aren't going to be helping your company in any way what so ever! Friends of mine had asked me if I liked working there and this is my answer... (Mind you I work in the Pharmacy) I love working where I work and I love working for my direct boss. If you are working in any other department I'm sorry because store managment will screw you over in anyway they can... Now there is something wrong when you have someone telling another person that who is looking for employment... I dont know why they pretend to care... Just straight up tell us then there will be a mutual understamding
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