Wal-Mart ripoff Bowling Green Kentucky
I totally agree that Wal-Mart is too big and gives too little to the employees whose hard work makes the profits. Quit building so many f'ing stores and share the wealth!
I have been with the company five years. I have sacrificed many nights and weekends for the company. They are profit oriented, not family oriented. They don't give a d**n what they have to do to get their precious numbers where they are "supposed to be". They don't care about the single moms or working dads that have to work two jobs to make ends meet.
If they need you at work, you'd better be there. If there payroll number gets 1% too high, you're going home. They are obsessed with no overtime and yet they keep you there long days.
Sure, you have to take an hour lunch (they act like this is a gift to you), but actually you don't make enough money to eat out and it doesn't take an hour to eat leftovers. They just want you there an extra hour longer each day without having to pay you.
Yea, they have benefits, but if you're making $200-250/week and you have a family (or not)....it's hard to pay for the health insurance, much less contribute to 401K. Food and shelter come first.
They cleverly begin their work week on Saturday, so there is no time and a half for your weekend. They do give you that extra $1.00 an hour on Sunday. I would personally rather have the Sunday with my family. Every other employer I know of that works on Sunday pays double time. They can stick that $1.00 up their a*s.
Speaking of travel. You're lucky if you get to fly. They usually rent a Greyhound, eat WM fried chicken from the deli for your "catered meal" and then room with some stranger from another Wal Mart to cut costs (or meet other associates as they put it).
I come to work to make money that I can spend on my family, not to cheer and squiggle for millionaires and certainly not to buddy up with strangers that I probably will never see again. I don't make a habit of spending the night with strangers. I don't think it's right for a corporation to be able to force you to lose your dignity for them. They don't pay me enough for that.
Shelly
Bowling Green, Kentucky
U.S.A.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Thomas
Kinzer,Pennsylvania,
U.S.A.
You should of been made aware of and been able to of used the Family Medical Leave Act.
#3Consumer Suggestion
Mon, December 22, 2003
They are also required by law to post a copy of this act and if it is not posted they are in violation of federal law. You may want to file a complaint with the Department of labor. You may also want to to get in touch with your local congressman and get a copy of this act for your future reference.
Best of luck,
Brian
Wilmore,Kentucky,
U.S.A.
wal mart doesnt care about the families just profit
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Tue, November 25, 2003
I was a support manager here in a ky walmart. I got fired for who the hell knows! I went outside one day to check a car and saw a dirty old toybox sitting outside my area. People dropped crap off there daily to be put in the dumpsters. I have 3 kids,2 are girls. I thought it was trash and was going to fix it up for them so I put it in the back of my car. A female employee told me that it was a womans who would be back for it later. I took it out of my car and put it right back where it was. No harm done right? Wrong! It was on the security tapes, which i knew were taping, but thought i wasnt doing anything wrong. They called me in and fired me. Iam not barred from the store or anything,I chatted with the managers when I went in to get my last check! I was a good employee. I missed a four days in one week because my wife has serious gallbladder problems and is on heavy meds, when she takes them she needs help with the kids. There is no other family around here that can help her,so I am her only one. I still managed to pull 38 hrs that week I missed four days. All I can figure is what I have been told by outsiders, they fired me for missing days that i had doctors papers for. They arent family oriented they are money oriented. While my wife still has her medical problems I have lost a job. I dont recomend anyone work there. I dont even shop there anymore for anything. Im sorry but I dont want a company like that growing any bigger either. All that you said was so true. i wish i had known this before i started there. I busted my a** to get as far as i did in only 17 months.