No air conditioning, no breaks, no sympathy
My spouse and I work at a Walmart in Kentucky, and we have recently discovered the extreme lengths Walmart will go to to save a little money. We both work third shift (I prefer not to say even what position we are in) and first of all I would like to say that we do not get air conditioning, and it definitely gets hot and humid here in Kentucky. However, as we are leaving at 7 am, we hear the air conditioner turn on. Second of all, I would like to say that the turnover rate for our store is between 95% and 98%. This store also keeps people who have been fired or have quit on the schedule so that it appears that we are fully/over staffed, but in fact we are running on a skeleton crew. I know this for a fact, because when I reapplied at this Walmart, they couldn’t pull up my application because I was still in the system as being employed by Walmart. And it had been over a year since I had quit Walmart. Now this store is cutting ours and changing job codes without the permission of the associates. They are putting people who are getting higher levels of pay into lower paying positions and taking away the difference. We are also being told that if we don’t submit to these changes that we will be fired or simply not be scheduled. Management is also trying to force everyone to change their availability so that they can work on any shift at any time. They are giving, for example, third shift cashiers secondary job codes as second shift cashiers. There are many people who are now scheduled 8 to 16 hours per week, and this isn’t even in the position for which they were hired.
Back in January, there was a terrible winter storm here in Kentucky, and there were many many people who did not have electricity for 2 weeks or more. President Obama issued a federal state of emergency for the state of Kentucky. However, almost immediately after this storm occurred, our store manager sent out an email to all the managers saying that he realizes that there was a winter storm but it’s time to “get over it” and get back to work and that he would not accept call-ins because of this storm.
- Anonymous
