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Listen as Wal-Mart employees ask why their wages are so low when the retail giant is making so much profit.
• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• ” I feel that Wal-Mart is in desperate need of a union…”

  Three years ago I worked at a Wal-Mart on day shift as a cashier. I was there for 8 months and NEVER had any problems. I quit for other reasons than the job itself. | 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

• Summer Heat Strains Southern Worker

  "In the spring and summer time I have to load heavy bags of soil, brick, bark, and mulch sometimes by myself into the customer’s vehicles." | Read More

• I can’t pay my bills and buy food…

  "I am a full-time employee at a Wal-Mart store in Arkansas. The new scorecard SUCKS! Also, they have hire NEW people who are taking up our hours. While we beg our managers for more hours, they refuse because the store manager orders them not to give us any." | Read More

• Pay cut presents new challenges for mother of two

  I have been employed at a South Carolina Wal-Mart since August 2008. As a registered pharmacy tech, my experience with this company has been completely stressful and just awful. When I began working in the pharmacy, I noticed that there was a good deal of favoritism going on. If your lips are not firmly planted on the pharmacy manager's behind, you will get screwed over in every possible way. | 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

• 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

• Veteran retail worker thinks Wal-Mart is the worst

  I’m 62 years old with 18 years of produce experience and over 30 years experience in retail. I wanted a part-time job to help pay for the extras my wife and I love. I took a job at hell-mart. In all my years of working in retail, I have never witnessed a company as heartless as Wal-Mart. | Read More

• The more you do, the less you make

  "I work unloading trucks at my store, and we are definitely at the bottom of the barrel. We are severely understaffed, and find ourselves - at least once a week - unloading a large truck with just a few people. Normally, it would take six people a few hours to unload this truck." | Read More

• Another worker says bonuses are a joke

  "The quarterly bonus we get is based upon the store's sales performance. It would be great if they actually gave you something. The bonus equates to a pay advance for the extra hard days work you will have to put in when they cut you an hour a day for the next two weeks." | Read More

• A temp worker’s bad experience at Wal-Mart

  "I was a temporary night shift worker at Wal-Mart during the holiday season and my experience was utterly horrible. The pay sucked." | Read More

• Wal-Mart Cheats Workers Out of Pay

  I was part of a night shift remodel crew at Wal-Mart and five of us (out of 16) did not receive our .50 cent shift bonus. After they distributed each check, we would walk into the office and ask what was being done about our pay. Management assured us that they would fix it. | 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

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