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• The difference between two stores can be drastic

  I just changed stores in August. The store I came from was a 'by the book' store. If you wanted to know what rules you operated under, all you had to do was read the policy. Policies were followed. Period. My new store makes up the rules as it goes along. You never know what's expected because it changes daily. | Read More

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Using Scheduling as punishment

  At our store in Kansas, if you do not open your availability up to all shifts, you are punished with hours being cut week to week, and less and less help in your department. We are expected to do the job it takes 4 people to do and they do nothing but complain about the way it looks. If you all are getting bonuses above 98 dollars your doing great. We maxmize our quarter and always see under a $100 but management sees $1500. | Read More

• Terminated for working overtime

  I was recently terminated for an hour and a half in overtime, that one assistant manager stated the store had been approved for 8 hours. I was told the hour and a half could be approved this time but I need to start watching my hours from now on. I said oh ok, sorry and most definitely I will watch my hours from now on. This conversation occurred on a Sunday, the overtime I worked occurred Friday 2 days prior to Sunday. I went and worked my full shift on Monday had off on Tuesday showed up for work Wednesday for half an hour only to be terminated. | 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

• Walmart’s New Scheduling Scheme

  After 6 years as a full-time associate and putting up with disrespect from management, being demoted from a customer service manager position with no reason or viable proof, and busting my tail to get my job done daily because I take pride in my work I was on the chopping block. | Read More

• Wal-Mart makes new stores while workers get fewer hours and less pay. We need a union!

  I work at a Nashville Arkansas Wal-Mart. First of all, I like my job, but hate the way Wal-Mart is working our butts off and not giving us hours. I was a 40 hour a week full time worker....now they have widdled that down to 34 hours and less if you even ask for more hours. | Read More

• Employees are being neglected, Wal-Mart needs a union!

  I've been at Wal-Mart for 7 months, I'm having problems with my department manager. She tells her manager that I'm not doing my job, she does this with all of us except one, because we don't kiss up. Then they are cutting my hours, I was getting 32hr wk and now one wk I'll get 26 then 32 then 21. | 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

• No air conditioning, no breaks, no sympathy

  My spouse and I work at a Walmart in Kentucky, and we have recently discovered the extreme lengths Walmart will go to to save a little money. We both work third shift (I prefer not to say even what position we are in) and first of all I would like to say that we do not get air conditioning, and it definitely gets hot and humid here in Kentucky. | 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

• Full-time promise is a big time let down…

  I was hired in July 2008 and was told I was hired as full time, which is what I told them I wanted. I was also told I would receive a raise after my probation period was over. Two other employees that were hired within a month of me were also told the same thing. Well, when our probation periods were up we did not receive a raise AND we were all told that we were permanent part-time. | Read More

• Sick of cut hours, tired of unreasonable tasks, fed up with low wages

  I have been reading some of the stories posted here today and it seems like the same things are happening at most all of the stores. | Read More

• Low wages force Wal-Mart employee to apply for food stamps

  I was hired as a part-time cashier for $7.80 an hour. On our work schedule it shows what time breaks are supposed to be taken and I have worked past the time of my scheduled breaks and even worked through a couple. | Read More

• Cutting Corners, Cutting Costs, and Cutting Hours

  Just in the past week, all of us who work at a store in Mississippi were told that as of now, only day and peak time shifts were going to be cutting hours. That was no surprise they have been doing that for a couple of years now. | Read More

• 22,000 new jobs? Yea right…

  I was reading the article about Wal-Mart creating 22,000 jobs. I can’t believe the nerve they have. | Read More

• “In all my years of working, I have NEVER seen a more anti-employee business.”

  I am an older worker employed as an overnight Wal-Mart People Greeter. Wal-Mart may be creating 22,000 jobs in 2009, but (as a young worker) I would be VERY CAUTIOUS. | Read More

• Different stores-Same old tricks

  I have been reading some of the stories posted here today and it seems like the same things are happening at most of the stores. At the store I work at, well over half the overnight associates were called one Friday night and told not to come in until midnight because of us having overtime. | Read More

• Treated like dirt after 10 years of loyal employment…

  What I don't understand is how Wal-Mart is able to cut their employees to part-time hours if you were hired into a full-time position...is that even legal? They are getting ready to drop the new mandatory schedules and I dont even know if I will get enough hours. | Read More

• “Timing employees is BS. A 60 year old cannot run freight as fast as a 20 year old.”

  In all of my 40 years of employment at various places I have never worked at a place that has so much capital but treats associates (the little people) like slaves. A company that if China and Bangladesh stop making cheap crap for them to sell, would go out of business in a second. | Read More

• Management Matters

  I was told by a Mgr. That Wal-Mart is not (anti-union) but rather, PRO-ASSOCIATE! What a joke. | 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

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