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• Managers Messed With The Time Clock, Allowed Dust Problem In Store To Continue

  I am a former Wal-Mart employee. I worked for Wal-Mart for 7 ½ years as an overnight stocker with a final hourly wage of $12.32. My 40 cent/hour yearly raise didn't even come close to covering the increases in cost of living and health insurance and gasoline and heating oil. Every year it seemed they wanted us to work harder and harder and more shorthanded all the time for less money. | Read More

• Intimidated for ‘Doing The Right Thing’ About Harassment

  I am a former Wal-Mart employee.I worked at the Wal-Mart home office in 1998. A security guard was harrassing me. He would constantly follow me around the building and disturb me by blocking my path, to try to get me to talk to him at length. I started trying to take alternate routes out of the building to avoid him, but he would still follow me (maybe the security cameras everywhere alerted him to my whereabouts?) | Read More

• “Black Friday” + crazy crowd + Wal-Mart’s lack of preparation = disaster waiting to happen

  "The trampling death is Walmart's fault. Walmart encourages bad customer behavior by not monitoring or controlling crazy crowds. Loitering outside stores is not permitted any other time of the year, however on Black Friday mobs of shoppers are allowed to 'camp out' on the front sidewalks of the store..." | Read More

• Open Door Policy is not the Answer

  "As a former hourly supervisor at Walmart, I can attest that Walmart is entirely against unionization and does its best to discourage any attempt to unionize..." | Read More

• Why can’t Wal-Mart pay a fair wage?

  Is it not the right of the American worker to be entitled to a decent job with fair and just benefits? I work part time up to 30 hrs a week, and I am enrolled in 15 hours of college. On top of that, I’m a member of the Marine Corp. Reserves, and although I work so many hours I can barely keep up with the limited amount of bills I have, if Wal-Mart makes up to 30 billion dollars a year, why can't they afford to at least pay its workers a wage in which they can actually live on??? | Read More

• Alfred Miranto on Unsafe Work Conditions and Discrimination

  "... I frequently had to take ibuprofen just to get out of bed because weight belts were never available nor was another employee there to help." | Read More

• William Zanders on Good Customer Service

  "I was fired because I was doing my job; providing great customer service." | Read More

• Deaf Employee’s Request: Ignored

  "I tried to apply for a promotion and they required me to do an interview over the phone, which was difficult considering there was no accommodation made for my disability." | Read More

• Unsafe Working Conditions

  "No one should ever assume there is a career to be had at Wal-Mart. No matter how desperate you become, take my advice and don't work there." | Read More

• No Slack for the Disabled

  "I was amazed at all he could do despite his disability, Wal-Mart would cut him no slack." | Read More

• S.P. and the Leave of Absence Trick

  "I had a back injury, which was caused by the conditions of my job at Wal-Mart. They pulled the leave of absence trick on me. They said that I had been off work for too long, and that they could fill my position with a new associate." | Read More

• An employee discusses how Wal-Mart treats pregnant woman

  "My heart goes out to AH at the loss of her baby. Shame on Wal-Mart." | Read More

• Scare tactics don’t work on me

  "Hi there fellow associates. I am currently working for Wal-Mart in New Jersey. I am not afraid of them, not afraid of their cheesy scare tactics. My dad was a union member for 45 years as a teamster truck driver." | Read More

• Change is not always good

  "I worked for Wal-Mart for about 7 years doing a variety of jobs. When I started, I was in a regular store and the management was great, then as talks of a supercenter came, I witnessed more management changes and more rules." | Read More

• Workplace stress leads to tragedy for pregnant worker

  "I was a manager in the housewares department. I just got my separation notice from them for not returning to work from my leave of absence. There is a reason I didn't return; I feel they are responsible for the death of my baby." | Read More

• Anthony Gritz, Locked in a Wal-Mart

  "The company used to lock us in the store at night and wouldn't let us out until all the work was done." | Read More

• Anthony Gritz on Unionization and Discrimination

  "If we tried to talk about unionization, we would get coached. Wal-Mart would find ways to get rid of us if we even talked about it-they did this with me." | Read More

• Dana R. on Lock-Ins and Mis-management

  "The store was closed and we are locked in the store at night." | Read More

• Lies multiply like rabbits…

  "I work the overnight shift at my local supercenter and I have done so for the past three years. In that time, I have seen belts tighten, rights abused, and lies multiply like rabbits. I consider myself a very honest person and being around the deception and outright lies is starting to sicken me." | Read More

• An Expensive Message

  "This expensive request was to send a message to each store: "this pallet came from a store that organized a union and now it is closed."" | Read More

• Out with the Old, In with the Cheap

  "The management in our store is trying to get all of the older employees out of the store. They do this so that they have room to hire part-timers with no benefits and cut the pay roll." | Read More

• Aubretia Edick, New York

  "People should be made aware of Wal-Mart's mistreatment of its employees, the environment, and now its lack of regard for its customers." | Read More

• M.L. in Illinois

  "They only hire part-time workers at this store anymore because they don't have to pay any benefits and they can work them seven days a week and still be part time and a lot cheaper labor." | Read More

• Anonymous on How Not to Vote

  "We were told that if a Democrat president is voted in, that the first bill to be reviewed is the union bill and if it passes we will loose benefits, pay, etc." | Read More

• Anonymous on the Open Door Policy and Talking to Management

  "We are all caught between a rock and a hard place. Wal-Mart pays just enough to keep us there, but not enough to survive. And raises? That’s a joke!" | Read More

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