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• The last couple of years have been an increasing struggle…

  I have worked for Wal-mart for almost 5 years now. I work at store 5260 and at one point in time I could say that with pride. The last couple years have been an increasing struggle just to survive with Wal-mart. | Read More

• Walmart’s dirty little secrets

  I am a zone manager in a Walmart in Laredo Texas and I know every little dirty secret that they hide from the workers and the customers, this is an evil company and I am actively looking for another job. | Read More

• Things have gotten really bad

  I have been with Walmart for almost three years and since I've been there things have gotten really bad. I have been skipped over for a higher position and I have had to be multi-coded for everything up front except maintenance. The store manager has threatened peoples jobs for family emergencies. | Read More

• Hand filling bags of fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, etc

  I work in Logistics at a Wal-Mart Distribution Center. New this year: we are being asked to hand fill bags of fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, etc. We are handling anywhere from 100 to 2000+ of these bags. The chemical dust and exposure made one man violently ill today, and another went home with symptoms. Management refuses to do anything about this as they say wal-mart lost too much money doing it the old way (the safe way of transporting full, wrapped pallets directly to stores.) No one should be exposed to these checmicals indoors on a daily basis. | Read More

• It’s not just hourly employees being mistreated…

  It's not just hourly's that suffer the wage/hour abuse. Salaried managers because of there exempt status are often required to work not 10 or 15 minutes over their schedule but 12-14 hour DAYS over their schedule half the hourlys made more per hour than I did in my last store and I'd been with the company 18 years 16 of it salaried. Try not getting a vacation for 9 months and then having to take 4 in 3 months all because of "Store" needs and if you say no its insubordination and your gone. Hell as an overnight manager I didn't get a lunch for 15 years hows that for management abuse. | Read More

• A laid off Sam’s Club employee speaks out

  WHERE IS THE SEVERANCE PAY??? IN THE MAIL???I was part of the Sam's Club lay-offs, I worked the demo department. There are so many things i want to report, mainly the way these lay-offs have affected our lives. I personally have been reduced to standing in a food line to be able to eat.(STILL HAVE NOT RECEIVED MY PROMISED SEVERANCE PAY & it's been, well, six weeks this Sunday) WHERE IS THE SEVERANCE PAY"????? | Read More

• Walmart’s inflexible scheduling strikes again

  I applied at Wal-Mart in early 2009. I got a call in April to start working, but due to a death in my family I couldn't start until May. I started on the remodel crew as part of the chain-wide remodel project.I worked with the remodel crew until late June when the store was finished but Wal-Mart wanted to keep me around for the big inventory count which was coming soon. Throughout this time I never worked weekends. August 8th was my official hire date at which time I started working as a cashier. I worked approximately 30 hours per week as a cashier until January 2010. In January 2010 Wal-Mart reduced my scheduled hours to less than 20 per week. Because of this I was forced to find a second job. | Read More

• Walmart shows no “respect for individuality” with new scheduling

  Been with Walmart for 15 years; watched a lot of changes come down the pike, and the latest crop of changes are appalling! How can a company that espouses "respect for the individual" completely disregard the individual by computerized scheduling and work-function micro-management? | Read More

• “This is an interesting web site. I visit daily and read the associate letters.”

  This is an interesting web site. I visit daily and read the associate letters. One reason I do is so I can find out if the rules/hours/pay... whatever... changes are really coming from home office or they are just our Management making changes. I am a LONG term assoc. and have had this game played on me a lot in the last 20+ years. | Read More

• Scheduling games and forced part time hours hurt the wallet…

  I worked for Walmart for 2 1/2 years. I thought it would be a place where I could move up. I was a cashier for five months, working part time. When people would want to be off, I offered to cover their shifts since I wanted more hours. Apparently, that is not allowed. | Read More

• After 2 years of service I was fired because of lunch meat…

  Today I was dismissed from my position as a full-time Deli employee. After working my but off for two years, I was pulled into the office and told I was fired for cutting myself two slices of lunch meat one minute before my lunch break. | Read More

• Second thoughts after second day at Wal-Mart

  Today was my 2nd day at Walmart. I spent eight hours watching the computer training videos. They were the most redundant, condescending, and rambling things I have ever seen. Is it really necessary for the hourly employees to know the difference between which three types of rats normally infest the store? | Read More

• Wal-Mart redecorates while employee suffers…

  They have recently remodeled the Wal-Mart I work for. They added a new foods section to the original building and other additions, yet that's not the problem. They seem to find money for expansions like this, but when it comes to hiring new help to aid the overworked employees, their pleas fall on deaf ears. | Read More

• Workers thinks Wal-Mart’s anti-union message is undemocratic

  "I am disgusted with myself and the way in which my life has turned out since I have been employed with Wal-Mart for five years. I recently became a salaried manager because I needed the money. After four years at Wal-Mart, I had not yet worked my way up to what I had made at my previous job - a fast food franchise." | Read More

• Employee quits to avoid lack of air conditioning, low wages

  "I have worked at the Wal-Mart in Texas for six months. I had to quit because of the heat in the store. They hired me to work in the cosmetics section but I ended up working at the paint counter or as a cashier – whatever they wanted me to do. The air conditioner is set at around 80 degrees and everyone has complained about it." | Read More

• No matter what happens, managers get a bonus and we don’t

  "Our store is undergoing a huge remodel, and we were informed yesterday that we did not make enough to receive a bonus. Many of our customers and employees have said that the store did not even need a remodel. So Wal-Mart has done this huge overhaul that was unnecessary." | Read More

• I have never worked for a place as horrible as Wal-Mart

  "I started working for Wal-Mart in February 2009. I stayed with the company until May 2009. When I was hired, personnel spoke of how teamwork, dedication, and hard work pay off in the company. That was completely untrue." | Read More

• Wal-Mart uses lame excuse to fire an employee

  "I'm not an employee, but my daughter was. She didn't make enough to purchase a computer so I'm writing for her. She worked for seven years and was a very hard worker under the conditions she was provided." | Read More

• There is no such thing as an excused absence at Wal-Mart

  I was hurt at work because I was not given the proper equipment. Per company policy, I reported the accident and resulting injury. Two days ago, I was written-up for the injury because I did not follow procedure. I was unable to follow procedure because I did not have working equipment. | Read More

• If Sam Walton was alive, he would be disappointed.

  Since I was a Wal-Mart for almost 14 years, I have so much to say about them I don’t even know where to start. I worked very hard at my store and sadly, I never felt accepted. | Read More

• Wal-Mart is an abusive place to work

  I am an educated person with working experience in the law field. Once my contract was over in that field, I thought a change would be nice and I figured that I could work my way up to a fabulous career with the biggest and most impressive company in the world. BOY I WAS SO WRONG! | Read More

• I got screwed by Wal-Mart, Again!

  "I had an unemployment hearing today after Wal-Mart let me go from their Clovis, CA store. I got hurt on the job pushing carts into the store because no one else wanted to do it. This was not even my job." | Read More

• Wal-Mart denies employees their basic human rights

  I never believed the horror stories about Wal-Mart's treatment of their employees until I was hired - with no other job options available - as a cake decorator in 2008. Since my hire date, I have witnessed people fired for making overtime, threatened for speaking about unions, and denied the ability to miss work because of medical disabilities.... | Read More

• Wal-Mart uses public assistance to drive down labor costs

  When I first started working at Wal-Mart, I was amazed at how they flaunted paying their employees below subsistence wages by placing a sheet with food stamp eligibility information by both time clocks. | Read More

• Short on staff, unloading dock becomes a dangerous place

  I am an unloader at Wal-Mart store in Ontario. This store is way too small to support our freight flow. We have a third of the required associates to handle the work, and my crew is really hurting lately. In a safety conscious atmosphere, tell me, does two people unloading a trailer of any size sound safe to you? How many strokes and fainting episodes do we have to have before the head office realizes that we need more staff? | Read More

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