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• Little concern for the health and safety of their workers

  I work in the dairy department and I stock up to three pallets of milk a day - totaling 2016 pounds per pallet. In addition to the milk pallets, I stock the rest of the diary items as well. I rarely have any help from other associates. Even though the in-stock crew is decreasing in size, our job requirements are still growing exponentially. | Read More

• Written up for being sick

  I have been at Wal-Mart for one year...rather I have persevered at Wal-Mart for one year. In my whole life, I have never been written up for missing work or any other reason until I started working at Wal-Mart. | Read More

• More Anti-Union Meetings

  Today I was told of the anti-union meetings they are having at our Walmart in Illinois. In my opinion, if Walmart treated their employees better, they wouldn't need those meetings...From what I hear, they are having a hard time hiring people because nobody wants to work for this store. | Read More

• A Despicable Business

  My experiences at Wal-Mart --- (1) Bad treatment, lots of harassment in many forms....Written-up for manager’s decisions that I was TOLD to execute. (2) Told to falsify reports, made to sign them at the cost of my job (3) Humiliating treatment on a daily basis, especially in front of customers (4) I was blamed for shoplifters in OTHER departments. (5) They threatened me when I needed time off for medical appointments. | Read More

• Doctor’s note = punishment for insubordination

  Over my wife’s five year career at Wal-Mart, she has never received a write-up or any disciplinary action. When she suddenly came down with a severe allergy / sinus attack, she followed procedure and called her boss as well as the required 800 number. She returned to work after missing only two days. According to her boss, Wal-Mart doesn’t have a policy for when employees get sick. | Read More

• Playing Games With A Paycheck

  I was fired recently for being "too curious about unionization." While my co-workers were allowed to come in up to fifteen minutes late, I was fired for clocking in three minutes late. I called and asked when I could get my last paycheck and they told me I would have to come in to pick it up. | 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

• When Sam Was Alive…

  Not a week goes by, when we don't hear, read, or see something negative about Wal-Mart (in the newspapers, on television, or word of mouth). It seems to me that while Sam Walton was alive, none of this mass negativity existed. | Read More

• This is Called Slavery

  I don't know how Wal-Mart executives live their lives knowing that they are importing consumer goods from China, Pakistan and Central America - where slave labor is rampant. I would like to see these people try to work in these factories where the workers are beat, paid 18 cents per hour and work up to 20 hours per day, 7 days a week. This is called slavery. | Read More

• Employees Mean Nothing to Managers

  For 15 years, I was a Wal-Mart assistant manager. I can personally tell you that managers with no qualifications are running stores. Wal-Mart changed when Sam passed away... | Read More

• Doctor’s note = better be at work tomorrow

  "I've been with hellmart for over a year. I recently found out that I have an infection in my colon. I was given the option to risk my health and come back to work against doctor's orders or face disciplinary action." | Read More

• Money, Money, Money…

  "There is discrimination, disrespect for employees, theft by management, dishonesty, and favoritism at my store. You were a target from the beginning if you came to work with a happy attitude." | Read More

• Most agree that Wal-Mart is unfair to its employees and a horrible place to work

  I am not a Wal-Mart employee, nor will I ever be, but I have seen the discrimination their employees endure. My elderly mother wanted a part-time job in order to have more social interaction, so she applied for a door greeter position. She was hired as a cashier and told she could make a lateral move when a door greeter position became available. Long and short, as a cashier she was on her feet for hours at a time because they were too busy to let her go for a break or the CSMs just "forgot." | 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

• They gave us an anti-union speech on Labor Day…

  When I was hired to do overnight stock work, I was told that overtime was available. What I wasn't told was that you were expected to work until it was done no matter how many hours. If you couldn't finish the task, you were not a "team player." | Read More

• Limited raises

  "I worked at Sam’s Club for almost five years. My starting wage was $7.00 per hour and when I left, it was $8.90. In 5 years, I only made $1.90 in raises." | Read More

• The schedules make it impossible for a family to function properly

  "I worked for Wal-Mart in 2007 & 2008. In 2008, I was not given a break twice within a one-week period. The first time I was told it wouldn't happen again, but one week later it did." | Read More

• Working hard is not enough for the managers

  "I was a stocker with Wal-Mart for almost four years, and what I saw there was the worst working atmosphere I had ever been in. To begin with, the managers are terrible. If you were friends with management, you ended up getting special treatment." | Read More

• Turnover and poor customer service

  "I have worked at our store for 9 years and at this point, we have ½ the workforce as when I started." | Read More

• FUBAR

  "I work at the XXXX Wal-Mart and I'd have to say I am disgusted at the way we are treated as employees. The assistant managers attempt to become your friend so that they can see just how loyal to the "team" you are by ratting out your fellow co-workers." | Read More

• They treat you like a workhorse on a farm

  "Wal-Mart is the epitome of why the United States cannot seem to function developmentally, because the Walton's run everything in Congress and Washington - period. It is a completely mundane and downright demeaning place to work." | Read More

• Wal-Mart culture creates low morale in its stores

  "My mother worked for store #### back when it first opened. She helped set up the store and worked at it for quite some time. She ended up walking out on her job because she grew tired of the nonsense management kept putting her through. Working her past her shift was one thing, but having her pick up after her fellow co-workers was another." | Read More

• Management does not care at all

  "I worked for Wal-Mart almost seven years and they treat associates like dirt. You have to do every job in the store and yet you are not paid for it. God forbid you mention a union. If you do, you will be fired for it. They expect you to rat out other associates who talk about rights in the workplace." | Read More

• Store Managers Harass Female Associates…We Are All Very Afraid For Our Jobs

  I have recently complained to the Wal-Mart ethics line about the outright sexual harassment that the young female associates receive on a daily basis from members of management. | Read More

• Stuck As A People Greeter

  I want to know if there is a way to overturn a D-day decision? A year is too strict. | Read More

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