At my store, hardly anyone could afford to get the insurance
“At my store, hardly anyone could afford to get the insurance. Some were on their spouse’s insurance, some did without it at all, and some were on Medicaid/Welfare. When I was making just over $11 an hour my insurance went from $170 every two weeks for a single female, to $240 every two weeks. As a result, I had to go with the lesser insurance, which really would only cover you for a catastrophe. They wonder why so many people at Wal-Mart fake injuries—-it is usually because they don’t have any insurance and no way to get a back or shoulder operation that they have needed.
Let’s face it, you can’t raise a family, let alone pay for health insurance and run a used car on $9 to $15 an hour like Wal-Mart pays its employees. Eventually everyone just gets disgusted and barely does any work and the store goes to hell. People don’t want to bust their butt and then year after year only get a 40 cent an hour raise that doesn’t even cover the cost of living or even the price of gasoline/heating oil going up. At my store, morale was very low and no one cared anymore. Some people got away with doing next to nothing and other people got sick of having to pick up the slack and things deteriorated from there. Why work hard when it just doesn’t matter anymore? Since I quit I’ve gotten a better insurance for about the same rate I was paying for the inferior Wal-Mart insurance.
- KL
