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• Wal-Mart Continues to Mislead About Bonuses

  After making two to three times more money during this year’s blitz day, it was a surprise to us how small our bonuses were this time around. Our big bonus in March was $132 - yet, the manager went to Disney World and the Bahamas with his $80,000 bonus. | Read More

• Wal-Mart Bonuses Come Up Short

  I work at Wal-Mart and today we learned that the company is doing away with unpaid time off. | Read More

• Short on staff, unloading dock becomes a dangerous place

  I am an unloader at Wal-Mart store in Ontario. This store is way too small to support our freight flow. We have a third of the required associates to handle the work, and my crew is really hurting lately. In a safety conscious atmosphere, tell me, does two people unloading a trailer of any size sound safe to you? How many strokes and fainting episodes do we have to have before the head office realizes that we need more staff? | Read More

• Female Wage Discrimination

  My experience with Wal-Mart was not a pleasant one. My girlfriend was working at Wal-Mart for about a year and encouraged me to apply for a part-time position to help with some of the bills. I ended up applying for the same job that she is doing. After going through the application process and the three-step interview phase, I was offered the position. | Read More

• Walmart lied about bonuses

  Walmart DID NOT award bonuses to all of its 1.4 million U.S. associates! Anything Walmart said publicly is a bunch of BS! Some associates did get bonuses, but only if their store inventory performance was above a certain level. This is the only way to get a bonus. | 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

• What Bonus?

  I just want the world to know that the so-called billion-dollar bonus Wal-Mart is bragging about is a total lie! Associates are getting NOTHING out of this bonus and I'd like to know who is! | 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Discrimination against women and older workers at a Wisconsin store

  "I have been employed with Sam's Club and Wal-Mart. Sam's Club was ok, but I was definitely discriminated against at Wal-Mart. I started out working at Wal-Mart in Wisconsin in 2002, and within a year I transferred to Sam's Club, where I was a photo manager for four years. Unfortunately, the job position was eliminated and I was forced to take either a demotion or a severance package. Since I needed the job at the time, I took the demotion." | 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

• 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

• ‘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

• 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

• “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

• 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

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