Complaint Review: Wal-Mart

I worked at Wal-mart in the toy department. I was hired in June to help stock shelves and put the items back that people look at and then just throw on the shelves instead of hanging back up. I would enter in information for loss prevention and would be called to cashier if we got busy. But my primary duties were to keep the toy department cleaned.

Now in August we were starting to get the rush of back to school shoppers and people starting to do their Christmas shopping. So I would be called to the register almost everyday and would be up there for a good 7 hours out of my 8 hour shift. After that I was ordered to go in the back and clean up the toy department so we could close. I would get in the back and it was like every toy had been pulled off the shelf and just thrown around. Anyone trying to clean that would need at least 3 to 4 hours. I only got one hour.

So I would do the best I could in the small amount of time I had. Then came time for my raise, I handed in my evaluation paper to my manager and was thanked and told he would get back with me in a couple days. A couple days came and went and I was told he lost it and I would need to do another one. Then the same thing happened he said he lost the third evaluation. So now at this point I realize I'm just getting jerked around.

So I continue to do my job and one day while on break I walked out of the store to have a smoke. I was then confronted by the toy dept supervisor that I was caught walking out of the store with my purse. Now I was only 17 at the time, and had never experienced this kind of problem. So I said yes, I was on break and I went out for a smoke. And I was told I was not allowed to go outside with my purse and that they caught me on tape. Now again I did nothing wrong and didn't understand who these people where to tell me I could not take my personal property out on break.

So now after feeling stupid and humiliated and having been treated like a thief I continued to come back to work since I needed this job. And everyday it was the same thing get there, work in my department for an hour if that, be called to do register, and then told go clean the toy department in the half hour of work you have remaining. Then I started to be accused of stealing money from my register. Yet at the end of each shift when I counted out my drawer it always added up.

So after finally having enough people make false accusations I quit. It wasn't worth the aggravation. Then fast forward two weeks and I'm out and run into an employee I used to work there with who told me, that the manager (the one who kept screwing up my evaluation) and the CSM ( the lady in charge of watching everyone on the registers) where caught stealing money from the drawers and that the lady who was my manager in the toy dept. who accussed me of stealing because I took my purse out on break was fired for sexually harrasing the men who would come in at night to stock the shelves. So after being humilated and quitting my job, I find out that these people had been stealing and causing problems the whole time. And here I'm the one everyone is accusing and yet I did nothing wrong. I would never recommend anyone working at Wal-Mart. Not after the problems I had.

Cherie
Willoughby, Ohio
U.S.A.