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• 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

• It’s time to abolish modern day slavery…

  "This is my third year working at Wal-Mart. I started out as a cashier, that was all fine and dandy, but now I'm an overnight stocker. They work us to death. We have a 'task manager' that tells us how fast to complete our jobs. This task manager is like the bible." | 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

• 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

• Walmart needs to start thinking about who really runs the company…its workers.

  Just recently, Wal-Mart has really decided to push the new "front end scorecard." This "scorecard" is used to grade cashiers and set up computerized scheduling. I'm still at a loss as to why management needs a computer to create schedules for our cashiers. In my opinion, it should be left to the individual store. They are basically telling our cashiers they must have "open availability." They must be available to work seven days a week - from 6am to 12am. | Read More

• Computerized Scheduling Causes Problems For Employees

  My husband works for Walmart. I am raging mad right now because Walmart has a new scheduling policy that will make up a person's hours randomly. Instead of working his original schedule, my husband is now working at erratic times and can no longer pick up our son from school everyday @ 3:30. | Read More

• I am Ashamed to Work at Wal-Mart

  I have worked at Wal-Mart for the last two and a half years. Our management team seems to care more about the customers and sales numbers than its employees. They let the computers make the schedules. | Read More

• How can they only give us part-time hours when we are full-time employees?

  I have been with the company for five years and a department manager for two years. After transferring to another state, was forced to take a pay cut and accept a sales floor position, which included working as a cashier. | Read More

• I have heard nothing but bad things about Wal-Mart…

  I was an employee for Wal-Mart for a little over a month, that’s all I could handle. When I was hired, they asked me what hours I was available to work. When the first schedule came out, I was surprised because I was scheduled for all the hours I could not work. I was working anywhere from 9-10 hours a day as a cashier and standing for this amount of time was not good for my legs. | 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

• The most horrible job I have ever had

  "For around three months, I have been working as a cart pusher for Wal-Mart and it is the most horrible job I have ever had. I work as hard as humanly possible and what do I get? I get only snarls and complaints in return from management." | 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

• 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

• I’m not proud of working there…in fact, I regret it.

  "I hated working at Wal-Mart. My management team was rude and disrespectful. It was impossible to get a promotion unless you kissed the most a** in the store. The evaluations are worthless...no one ever got a decent review." | Read More

• Full-time work is a thing of the past

  "Wal-Mart sales floor associates, who are now 90% part-time, have experienced a significant reduction in hours! We had used to have 32 hours per week and now we are down to 20-24 hours. We are being sent in 50 directions throughout the store and even the best workers cannot accomplish all the tasks." | 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

• Part-Time, But Worked Full-Time Hours Without Overtime

  When I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico I worked for Wal-Mart for 11 months. | 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

• Wal-Mart Is Not A Good Place For Students

  "I have worked for Wal-Mart for 15 years. A year ago, I decided to go back to school. I was working at a distribution center, which is probably the best place to work, but I found that trying to work there and go to school at the same time was not working. I decided to transfer to one of the stores that was local. Management told me before I transferred to the new store that they would work with me during the transition; however, they lied to me." | Read More

• With a husband overseas, a worker cannot handle scheduling cuts

  "Currently, I am a single mother because my husband has been overseas for 18 months. In addition to his absence, I am in and out of hospital due to serious illness. Despite these issues, I try to work my hardest every time I go into the store." | Read More

• Computerized Scheduling Strikes Again

  "I worked for Wal-Mart from 7/98 -2/06. One day I strained a ligament in my left knee stocking shelves (I was a CSM on the night shift), but it took them almost 36 hours to take me to the company doctor who told me to take one day off and take some Advil. So I go in on Friday and they put me on a stool by the front door and made me a door greeter for the night. | Read More

• We need higher wages and more hours

  "I have worked for Wal-Mart for seven years. In that time, I have seen the steady decline of the company's family values. When I first started, I had a set schedule so that my husband and I could work opposite each other. That way, we did not have to pay for day care. Then that became a problem..." | Read More

• $7.90 is not going to feed our family…

  I started working for Wal-Mart in July 2008. When a department manager first interviewed me, I told them up front that I can only work some weekends. I had a 3-month-old baby girl at that time and my husband had recently been let go after his plant closed down. We needed money, but we have no babysitter or family to watch her. She assured me that it was ok that I could only work some weekends. Well two months went by and I was scheduled every weekend. | Read More

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