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• 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

• Walmart sent me to the Emergency room

  I have been a cake decorator at Walmart for a total of 3 years. On November 24, 2009 I had major back surgery and have been on leave of absence for 3 months. The weeks prior to my surgery, I was assured by my managers that I would have my job when I returned to work. When I was released for work by my surgeon, on limited duty, my job and shift was gone. I was offered a 4 hour shift in the evening, which would be a hardship on me due to my disability. Walmart's solution was to put me in the garden center as a sales associate, which meant I went from a level 4 to a level 3 and lost .20 cents an hour. | Read More

• Walmart’s “Sick Day Policy” in action

  I worked at Walmart for 1 1/2 years. I came down with the swine flu and started running a temperature at work. I asked to go home and was told by the manager on duty, that they couldn't force me to stay but if I went home my job was in jeopardy, and to suck it up and get back to work. | Read More

• So much for the American dream…

  For my entire life, I've held to the belief that the big-name stores are what's destroying the Main Streets around the country. As a teen, I swore that even if Wal*Mart offered me the best wages available, I'd never work there. After graduating junior college with a transfer degree, however, the only place to work in this rural buttcrack of a town was Wal*Mart. | Read More

• Wal-Mart employee discuss health plan and wages

  "In our store you only have a chance at a promotion if you kiss up to the managers. Moreover, the variance in the pay rates for the same job codes ranges about three dollars. Tell me how this is fair!" | Read More

• Support Employee Free Choice!

  I want to urge all Wal-Mart associates to contact their congressional representative and tell them to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. You and you alone know how we are treated by Wal-Mart. | Read More

• Wal-Mart Treats Employees Like Low Class Citizens

  "I am a part-time Wal-Mart employee. It takes so long to get insurance, which I cannot afford anyway. I got hurt two weeks ago at Wal-Mart and management treated me like crap. They thought I was faking my injury." | Read More

• A department manager describes the sorry conditions in her store

  "I am a department manager at a NJ store and in every single morning meeting (which are held on the sales floor in front of customers), we are yelled at for whatever the "catch of the day" is. We have a skeleton staff because they are firing and cutting hours. We are now being verbally abused each morning. Also, during the day, managers are screaming at us to go unload trucks, get carts from the parking or run registers over the walkies." | Read More

• Doctor’s note

  "When I was sick, I went to the doctor to make sure everything was ok. The doctor gave me medication and told me to take at least four days off to recover." | Read More

• Thank God for charity programs

  "I have diabetes, a pre-existing condition that requires regular doctor’s appointments. Wal-Mart suggests that I take its insurance and wait the two years until I become eligible. This means that I would pay about $2,000 or more and still not be covered for two years." | Read More

• Wal-Mart’s health insurance is a sham

  "I worked for Wal-Mart from 9/2000 to 10/2002 and paid for their health benefits. When I needed surgery for a torn rotator cuff, Wal-Mart's insurance left me with a $25,000.00 bill to pay out of my own pocket." | Read More

• My 2-year-old is on state medical insurance

  "I have insurance through Wal-Mart. It’s not expensive - about $20.00 a month - but it has a high deductible and I can only afford to use it for emergencies." | Read More

• What health care?

  "My health care experience at Wal-mart? Umm... I have absolutely NO health care working at Wal-Mart." | Read More

• Health care is unaffordable at Wal-Mart

  "I have worked for Wal-Mart for close to a year. I read the different choices they offer. To a person who makes a lot more than the average Wal-Mart employee, it might seem affordable." | Read More

• Wal-Mart insurance plan failed my husband

  "My husband, a pharmacist who is now deceased, and I had health insurance through Wal-Mart. After his leave of absence was up, we were switched to COBRA and the insurance supposedly remained the same; however, we had to pay the premiums on both of us. It was $776.00 per month for just medical, and now that he is dead my premium is $364.00 per month, which I have to pay." | Read More

• Pay More, Get Less

  "The heath care that we pay for is a bad joke. You pay more and get less." | Read More

• At my store, hardly anyone could afford to get the insurance

  "I am a former 7-1/2 year Wal-Mart worker. I quit in November of 2008. I got the Wal-Mart health insurance/HMO as soon as I was eligible but after a few years, the price kept going UP UP UP and I had to trade down to the lower level insurance with the high deductible. Wal-Mart lies about it's employees being insured." | Read More

• I must rely on the emergency room

  "I do not receive Wal-Mart's health care plan because it is too expensive. In addition to subtracting $63 dollars from my paycheck once a month, I must pay a $350.00 deductible to the doctor." | Read More

• I just wish Wal-Mart would be morally right and take care of its employees

  "I worked for Wal-Mart for seven years. I started in a small hometown store, which was great. Then we went to a supercenter. I was the department manager of dry groceries and worked long hours. I worked 53 hours in 3 days, which is crazy. I hurt my back while setting up the new supercenter on May 5, 2003." | Read More

• Young Man Worked To The Point Of A Heart Attack

  I have worked for Wal-Mart almost 3 years. It has only gotten worse, the timelines to get things done, and being asked to stay longer but then they cut your hours so they don't have to give you over time. | Read More

• ‘Too Many Chiefs And Not Enough Indians’ At Wal-Mart

  I was not an employee of Wal-Mart. My husband was a pharmacist for Wal-Mart who got sick 5 years ago and was told he needed a liver transplant. He had bladder cancer, heart problems, and diabetes. Basically, you name it he had it. He took a leave of absence in May 2007 and was on disability. His District Manager demanded we put a return date on the LOA form or he could not accept it. | Read More

• Wal-Mart ‘Lost’ A Report For Employee’s Health Benefits Claim

  I transferred to Gas City, Indiana from Coldwater, Mi DC 6843. I worked in the Fleet Maintenance as a truck mechanic. I fell from the top of a truck due to a defective ladder that had been dug out of the trash for use. | Read More

• Wal-Mart Tried To ‘Lowball’ Him On Worker’s Comp Settlement

  New hires are part time. Older hands with 10 years or more of time in service are being fired for nitpicky reasons. | Read More

• Open door policy DOES NOT work

  "I have been employed by Wal-Mart for 10 years now. I am too young to retire and too old to rehire. I was a Stock/Cart Associate for the most part. I am now a Daylight Maintenance Associate. We cannot work over 40 hours. If we go over our 40 hours..." | Read More

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