I don’t like working at Wal-Mart, but it was my only choice
I ended up working at a Wal-Mart in Marysville, OH from June 2008 - July 2008 and they changed my schedule from what they hired me in with from 11am - 8pm to 4pm - 1am. As a single mother with three children, 11am - 8pm was hard enough but 4pm- 1am was unthinkable. I quit Wal-Mart again because of this schedule change. I was rehired at the Bellefontaine Wal-Mart in September 2008 for the 3rd shift, same as before, but again I needed a job. They would not allow me to use my experience as credit for higher pay, even though my past experience was with Wal-Mart. Therefore, I started back at Wal-Mart making a lot less then when I left. The company had started a policy that involved counting the number of minutes per hour that a 3rd shift associate is working. We would tell management when we started an area or grocery aisle and then tell them when we were done working that particular area. The elapsed time was supposed to tell them how much work we had done and how long it takes to do that work. That lasted all of about a week. Then the Assistant Managers started making up times and numbers in the computer system. A few of us, four of us to be exact, were good workers and were made to work 3 or 4 times harder then the slow people to make sure that the computer system reported back to the corporate office correctly, keeping management out of trouble. The slow people are still slow and getting away with it and the four of us are made to work extra hard everyday to make management look good to higher management each day. When the four of us started complaining, then the associate managers started making up reasons to write us up for unreal things. I personally fought them three times and won! The 4th time I decided that it was not worth the trouble of being so aggravated everyday and waiting for the management to send me home for a made up excuse trying to fire me because I am complaining about the management not following policy.
- MC
