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• Big Corporations Aren’t Worried About Workers’ Voice

  I have a friend that works for Wal-Mart and when she tells me how they treat her, I get so mad that I wish there was something I could do. Like so many people whose stories I have read here, my friend works for Wal-Mart because there is nothing much to choose from in her small town. | Read More

• Wal-Mart “Using Hard Times Against American Workers”

  I do not work directly for Wal-Mart; I work for a company who supplies goods for them, an American factory. | Read More

• Pharmacist Comes To Wal-Mart, Discovers High Cost Of Low Prices

  I have been a registered pharmacist for 30 years. The majority of that career has been in operations as a Supervisor and Director in various pharmacy practice settings. | Read More

• Who is living better?

  "Wal-Mart is a greedy, cheap, and shameful corporation that exploits its employees. I worked there as a temporary employee during 2008. Most of the employees are receiving government assistance (food stamps, etc). They are on public assistance because it is difficult to live on Wal-Mart’s low wages. WAL-MART. SAVE MONEY. LIVE BETTER. Who is living better?" | Read More

• Management Doesn’t Get It

  "My father fell very ill in Fall 2007. He was hospitalized and eventually transferred to the university hospital in Denver. My mother does not work and for the most part, stayed down there and kept me updated. I drove down there nearly every evening after work in order to visit him. Sometimes she would call me in the morning before work and say, "I think this is it, you need to come down here." And I would, because my father was the most important person in my life." | Read More

• SHOCKING…..Wal-Mart’s Open Door Fails Again

  "I have been writing in with everything that has gone on and what is still going on at the Woodstock Wal-Mart. We were the associates who wrote a letter, which most of the supervisors signed, and sent it to the higher ups. Five of us were fired and they didn't even hide the fact that they went right down the line of names. It was pure retaliation for using the elusive open door policy." | Read More

• I have never been treated as badly in a job as I was at Wal-Mart

  "I worked in the Deli. I was told several times in orientation that I would get a 90 cent raise in 90 days if I had at least a satisfactory review. When that time rolled around, I was told that the policy had changed. Every co-manager I spoke to told me the policy had changed a month after I began working. None of them addressed the fact that it was the policy when I started the job...but somehow I still didn't qualify now." | Read More

• A lot of people are getting sick and tired of fearing for their jobs…

  I work for a distribution center in Ohio. I have been employed for five years. When I first started this was a decent job. Over the years, it has gotten really bad. It’s to the point where I am now afraid to go into work for fear of being fired. During the economic downturn, Wal-Mart is looking for any petty reason to fire employees so they do not have to pay unemployment. | Read More

• A Double Standard: Managers Get Everything, Employees Nothing

  I work for Wal-Mart for almost a year now and have seen a lot of unjust things. What’s good for a manager is not good for a employee. | 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 needs to treat its employees like humans again

  "I have worked for Wal-Mart almost 3 years and I’m sorry to say, it has only gotten worse. Impossible time lines to get things done and being asked to stay longer without overtime are two examples of how Wal-Mart is going downhill. Some of us are worked too hard and they get on our case if we do not lift heavy objects fast enough." | Read More

• You can’t use the open door policy in our store because of retaliation

  "At least three members of our market team (district managers) have been fired in my district in less than a month. Our store did not have a grassroots meeting for over two years. CSM's and assistant managers have told associates not to clock in for meetings..." | Read More

• Wal-Mart preparing for possible unionization

  "Am I the only one who has noticed the timing of Lee Scott's retirement - less than two weeks after the inauguration of President Barack Obama? I work at Wal-Mart and hear things from time to time that concern me, as in, I am, as another associate put it, "too young to retire and too old to rehire." Wal-Mart has been hedging its bets for some time now regarding the possibility of its associates' unionizing..." | Read More

• Scheduling changes rattle single mom

  "I am currently working for Wal-Mart. I am a single mother and for the past 3 years, I have worked a regular schedule. There are two other single mothers in my department that had set schedules. This week, our store manager informed us that we now have to open our schedule and work “whatever the computer generates...” | Read More

• Working at Wal-Mart is like working in a sweatshop

  "When is comes to wages and benefits, working at Wal-Mart is like working in a sweatshop. (1) They work most of there "part-time" employees full-time hours, yet deny them benefits..." | Read More

• Poor Sam, I know he wouldn’t have stood for any of this crap.

  "So I read the horror stories about working at Wal-Mart, and just couldn't believe it. My store was a great place to work. I experienced no horrors, just workin, makin some money, and living. Then I transferred..." | Read More

• “wal-mart” With A Small “w”; They Don’t Deserve A Big One

  Ok. So, I have worked for wal-mart for a year now, and I left the w in wal-mart small for a reason. They do not deserve to be recognized as a proper noun. | Read More

• Lee Scott’s 10,000 New, Disposable Jobs

  I have been full-time with Wal-Mart for 15 yrs this March. It is customary for hours to be cut after the holidays, usually through February. But I was scheduled no more than 35 hours throughout all of 2008. | Read More

• Should We Be Grateful We Work At Wal-Mart?

  So I read the horror stories about working at Wal-Mart, and just couldn't believe it. My store was a great place to work. No horrors, just working, making some money, and living. | 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

• Twice Dept. Manager Of The Year, One Unfortunate Incident, No Job

  Hello, I worked for Wal-Mart for 21 years. During that time I worked in four different stores in two states. I was chosen Department Manager of The Year in 2000 in the chain for my work in the Lawn & Garden Department. | Read More

• Toxic Atmosphere At One Store

  We have an ongoing situation at store___. Ok, this is but one of many ongoing issues but this one is affecting everyone the most. A few weeks ago, all of the department and assistant managers (co- managers) got together and complained to the home office about the bad treatment they were receiving from the store manager, _____. They were being subjected to things like working off the clock, having to work on their days off, not getting their vacation time, manpower shortages, and generally unfair labor practices. | Read More

• Management Turns Blind Eye To Rediculous Things

  Wal-Mart fires people for utilizing the open door policy. One week after writing and sending a letter to one of the Waltons regarding integrity issues at the Woodstock store (managers drinking at company functions, money missing from fundraising) I was fired for integrity issues. | Read More

• Written Up Unfairly For “Altered Checks”

  I worked for 3 1/2 years at customer service. I was frequently told to cash checks from CSS and management; they never initialed on them most of the time. I would still get written up for having “altered checks”. You could argue the policy all you want, but you would get yelled at by CSS or management. | Read More

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