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• I don’t like working at Wal-Mart, but it was my only choice

  I do not even know where to start! I worked at a Wal-Mart in Bellefontaine, OH from Oct. 2006 to May 2008. I quit because it was hard to work and work and work and get nothing for it, but I needed a job and Wal-Mart was the only one hiring in our area at the time. | Read More

• Wal-Mart’s number one priority…..MONEY

  I am a current Wal-Mart employee and I see how this company operates every day. It is all about money and seeing how much they can push one person to do multiple jobs. They never have enough employees. They hire new people and give them 40 hours a week. Meanwhile, they cut the hours of veteran employees. They do this to make the new employees think they will always get somewhere around 40 hours. | Read More

• Manager’s Pay For Covering A Manager’s Vacation?

  I have seen many things in my time at Wal-Mart. Of course I've been there many years so where else can you go after you've worked at a job for ten or more years? | Read More

• Cuts In Hours Make It Difficult To Provide…

  I am a ten year associate. I normally average 38 hrs. weekly. | 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

• 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

• 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

• Wal-Mart manager, “We will probably loose a lot of good people because of this.”

  "I have been an employee for about seven months. I chose Wal-Mart as a second job because they had flexible hours and the store is located close to where I live. I have a full-time job during the day and started working at Wal-Mart from 5:00pm to 11:00 pm, five evenings a week. After my 90 days, I received a good review and things were fine. I am working in HBA. Except for the fact that I have to work two jobs, I have been fine with them until the last schedule came out..." | Read More

• My store is using scare tactics to discourage us from speaking out…

  "If you are close enough with management, they pull some strings for their buds. ICS was eliminated, making anyone who was on ICS part-time workers...sometimes working only 17 hours a week! Some people are put into secondary positions to get 30 hours, meaning they have two jobs at Wal-Mart, but get paid the rate of one (most likely the cheaper one)..." | 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

• We went from as much as 39.5 hours down to l0 hours a week!

  "Just like clockwork, each june through august, our hours would be cut drastically. I mean we are all basically considered "part time" at the Sam’s club I worked for. We went from as much as 39.5 hours down to l0 hours a week! Full-time tenured associates, such as the meat cutters, were cut to 25 hours a week..." | 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

• College student discusses unfair scheduling policies

  I worked at Wal-Mart for a little more than 3 months. I am a full time college student and was told that school would always come first and to come talk to personnel if there were any problems... | Read More

• Wrong For Employees, But Not Management, To Have Hours Cut

  It is wrong for employees to cut their hours and not management. | Read More

• Bring Back A True 40 Hour Week

  I would like Wal-Mart to give the associates back their hours and not cut hours when they hire more people, some of us only have one income and we do need our 40 hr week... | Read More

• More Work Experience For Less Pay

  I've been working for Wal-Mart for nearly a year. This March will be my anniversary. | Read More

• Breaking my back just to make ends meet.

  I was hired as a part time door greeter in 2007.That was fine because I am disabled. In early 2008, my husband was laid off at his decent paying job and got on at Wal-Mart part time. Because of his age and the hours and pay from Wal Mart, he had to take early Social Security. Before, he was getting at least 24 hours, but since October Wal-Mart has constantly cut his hours. This week he got 11 hours. It is hardly worth his time for that, but we need it to pay bills. | Read More

• 20 Wal-Mart Hours Per Week, And Yet You Can Only Have One Job

  Wal-Mart is only hiring part time employees; there are no full time positions, period, unless you have held onto yours. | Read More

• Management Cut Cashiers’ Hours Too Deeply

  Our store's customer traffic has slowed down, but even with the economy and the holidays over it is still busy as normal. | Read More

• Sent From One Manager to Another About Reduced Hours

  When I suffered a repetitive stress injury after 3 years working as Wal-Mart cashier, I was warned not to file a workman’s comp claim, and the store began to set me up to be fired. | Read More

• Fired For Helping Teenage Daughter

  I worked for Wal-Mart in Bolingbrook, IL from 1990-2001 and have since left to pursue a new job. | Read More

• No Word From Higher-Ups For Staying On After Christmas

  I was hired as a seasonal employee back in November. We were told we would be employed until at least the middle of January. | Read More

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