@@addisonpoindexter188 There wouldn't be a Walmart if communism existed. If Walmart was communist and existed within a capitalist nation, it would be a community-owned cooperative where the customers and workers are the owners. It would be the world's biggest cooperative.
Notice now that some food chains near me were recently hiring for 12 an hour now have signs on window for 15 to start. I got a car wash by me that starts at 15 too. Note George W. Bush was the last President to raise the federal minimum wage🤪 We don't have a representative government for the working class. Inflation today makes 15 bucks a hour look like 12 an hour while the rich made trillions during this pandemic. We need more unions in our workplaces more than ever now.
That's true, but pay isn't the real issue, the high price of living is. If pay goes up and then the cost of living goes up, you just end up right back where you started.
@@gregjohns5235 That’s not true. Pay is supposed to keep up with rising costs but unfortunately it hasn’t. The impact that raising the minimum wage has on inflation is negligible. Around .3-.5%. This debunks the common right wing talking point that you’re currently using. Also pay used to be tied with productivity but has essentially been stagnant over that last 40 years whereas productivity has skyrocketed. You can thank neoliberalism, Ronald Reagan, trickle down economics, and the capitalist organization of our economy for everything wrong with America today. We need change. For the people, common sense policy
@Jim Benson lol how's it supposed to work? stay at 11 bucks an hr while massive corporations rake in record profits? is that not understanding how it works?
@@Wargod6666 What lack of social infrastructure? The US spends thousands of billions of dollars per year on social welfare; food stamps, section 8 housing, medicare and childcare and education programs. People take $11 per hour jobs because that’s what their skill set can get them, if they want more they need to make themselves more valuable.
I was making $19.50 as an overnight associate, but good god the mental health strain was overly surreal… walmart managers have a certain personality that lets their bottom of the barrel power get the best of them
Our Wal-Mart hasn't been open for 24 hours since the end of the pandemic. But 5 years ago I was working 2nd Shift at a factory and would commonly go there either immediately after work, or a couple of hours later to do some grocery shopping. Every time I came in at those hours, I would hear this condescending/annoyed voice over the PA system directing A) employee to assist in B) department. Eventually, while I was at the self-checkout one night, I waited until the PA came on again to record it with my old phone. The next day, I called up the store manager and played the recording for him after a brief description. I never knew if it did any good, but Christ dude...
I worked for Walmart once. I got fired for swearing in public, but I wasn't in public. I was in the stockroom getting pallets ready to go to the floor to be shelved. You'll notice, I'm not denying my colorful choice of language. That's because of how it happened. I had a pallet stacked more than 9 feet high of laundry detergent (liquid). This is how high they told me to stack it. I was taking it out to the floor, when some little schmuck in a white shirt and black tie with a name tag gets in my way. I said excuse me, he didn't move. I was moving at a fairly good clip by this time, and had to swerve to avoid running this guy down. When I did, I hit a half pallet of car batteries, and the entire pallet of liquid laundry detergent landed on me. Turns out, that schmuck with the white shirt and black tie was a district manager of pharmacy, worried about HIS department. I was fired that night, because this guy got in my way. I went from there, to another department store across the street, and was instantly hired for the exact same job, at a better pay rate.
@@iamcosma7065 the point is they have all this money to get to shareholders, and buyback stocks, but when it comes to paying someone a living wage, they say they can’t do it.
I lasted six months working for Walmart. Everything this man said was true at my location as well, except it wasn't considered "time theft" to talk to coworkers. We were just told we weren't allowed to speak at all. So much so they separated every employee to no more than two an aisle. They also didn't tolerate raises, allowing nobody to ask while displaying how much profit the store made that month. What broke me was "supervisors and managers" mishandle and abuse the shift schedules. They changed or added shifts without the employees knowledge so they could add points to your record all while blaming the employee "you should have checked your hours more". I've even seen employees fired for having too many of those points when they did nothing wrong, management illegally added the points themselves I finally put in my two weeks when I overheard a first shift lead and our ONLY HR lady discussing which loophole they could use or find to get a man back to work the next day. That man just lost his mother.
This is hard to understand because companies are starved for employees. Why would they want to force people to be fired when they need people so badly?
@@DJ_Forceit’s like this Walmart can do this do you wanna work at a job where you need no degree’s and I’ll pay you top dollar and make BS problem’s that sounds true but ant You:🤑🤑🤑oh yes oh yes Then come Work For Walmart where to day your a worker tomorrow your a manager remember you need no business knowledge or degree and we won’t encourage you to go get an education in business because we don’t want smart people we want people working and scared to leave and people we can guilt trip so come on down and oh yes too tell us everything tell us at Walmart about all your personal problems and stuff so we can use you to help get you on the right path to not maybe work for this company because Walmart….they suck
because they can afford to lose workers because they make so much profit, it's okay for the =m to wait it out, but people can't afford to be unemplyed for long periods of time without support, and the companies know and depend on this. As long as there are no other options, people will keep working for horrible companies because the alternative is to lose everything. @@DJ_Force
School districts are horrible too. They pay minimum wage to support staff, and take a lot of your pay to have it go to your crappy little retirement fund.
Walmart has the most horrible leads and management. I paint Walmarts, so I work at Walmart, but not for them. I hear the employees get yelled at like they were bad children. Talked to like garbage. Just absolutely disrespected. Then told “tough, find another job “. It’s completely changed my view of them as a company. I don’t even shop there anymore honestly
Ya, I've subcontracted in their stores in Florida and never dealt with so many miserable people in my life. They hate their jobs and are just there for a paycheck!
I think that minimum wage should be $15 no matter where you work, but I don't think Walmart employees deserve $20 an hour. That's an easy job, I've worked at two different Walmart's unloading trucks and stocking. Trust me, it's not that difficult. You could actually come into work and be high and drunk or hungover and still get the job done.
@@UlshaRSThat’s not so much as privilege as it is just common sense. Sure some people are gonna have a harder time doing that than others because of location but most won’t, they’re just like you and are far to complacent for an incredibly easy and simple solution
@@yourunclejohn984 location and also cost. I pay a premium for my groceries to buy as ethical as I can but (Alhumdullah) I can afford to. I know others can't and I won't blame them. I blame Walmart for paying too little.
I’ve shopped at Walmart 3 or 4 times in the past 20 years. I am more than happy to buy less so that I can afford to pay more at locally owned businesses. Where you spend your dollars is a vote! I realize I’m blessed to live in an area with options, I’m so sorry for the millions of people in our country who are victims of corporate greed
Purchasing stuff is not voting for anything . 1 person 1 vote. Voting is picking the best most viable candidate . If I want/need product X that cost 100.00 but I only have 50. You would buy product z of lower quality . Voting with dollars is a stupid concept
@@matthewmolina2706 well, Backwards ever free united states of Murica is a capitalist nation that operates on "one dollar equal one vote" as those with more dollars can "lobby" and support to fund politicians campaigns and tours to other states and provide the lobbiest their policy in favor of them even at cost of the average people. The systems isn't messed up, it is working the way it is supposed to work.
Well, backward ever free United States of Murica operate on this concept of "one dollar per vote" when it has lobbiest funding for backward degradation of child labour laws, minimum wage not adjusted for inflation, tax cuts to billionaires. Why do you think this occurs? Simple, lobby groups fund politicians for implementing these attack on proper(unlike what politcans sell to you) freedom poor Americans and marginalized groups. This is why your voice doesn't matter if you haven't got the dollar for it to matter.
You are lucky to be able to afford to pay more for stuff. People hate on Walmart for paying low wages, but Walmart doesn't get credit for providing affordable goods to the poor.
@@DJ_Forceaffordable goods...you act as though they are doing the poor a service. Walmart off brand products are made very cheaply. Their profit margin on "great value" products is actually HIGHER than if you were to purchase name brand from them...
Maybe consider moving to where😮 the jobs are, 🤔 I lived and grew up in a town like that, and all I could get was jobs at Wal-Mart and other low paying positions around the area, I moved to a big city, all sorts of opportunities and paid well I forgot how much minimum wage was because I have made over minimum wage sense I left that town, if you're not afraid leave
@@FeedMeSalt thanks for insulting my intelligence rather than destructing my point like a true liberal. Without entrepreneurs there would be no jobs the worker just takes the best job that they can thus the business owner creates value by sorting land labour and capital to create the value making everyone richer as he needs to offer value otherwise he will fail. Its easy for a worker to show up and complete his job but its almost impossible for a entrepreneur to succeed.
@@Smooshes786 In 1960 Gore Vidal ran for Congress explaining to the American public that citizens existed in the free market place while corporations existed off of government handouts.
@@Chris-lf4srthe problem is there are no other jobs to take, people have to settle with low paying jobs, the whole “just get another job” is such a bs straw man bc that’s an impossible model for everyone to follow, there are only so many high paying jobs and not everyone can have a higher paying job or everyone would be working in the same felid, it’s ignoring the issue of corporate greed.
@@Chris-lf4sr so wanting something he has not earned equates to wanting a living wage for the hours worked while companies make record breaking profits and take in government subsidies from your tax dollars yet still can’t afford to pay their workers a living wage??? It’s funny you say that because since 1978 the income of companies has gone up 937% while workers pay have only risen by 5.7% yet you have the audacity to say that it’s asking to much to be paid a living wage? If you look at the charts we get paid less for our work by value of the dollar then we have had in our history of our country, with inflation growing day by day, but nah obviously it’s the greedy workers who want to be able to afford basic services fault right?
@MungeParty you know nothing but propaganda. I pay about $100 a month, and I make $56.33 per hour + $800 a month vacation + retirement + annuity + medical + dental + vision. I made way over 100k last year, so I think a lousy 1200 a year is worth it.
@@MungePartyunions are not a separate entity to the workers. Unions are made up of the workers. But keep spouting corporate propaganda about unions. Im sure they're telling you the truth. It makes you sound really smart too.
I love the “if ur 10 minutes late u get a point”. How is that a thing u think shouldn’t be? Duh almost anyone u work for is not gonna b happy u strolling in 10 minutes late
My exact thoughts. Same with the apartment. "I could only stay in the apartment for 3 months." Well no shit smart guy. You only make $11.50/h. Wtf did you think was gonna happen?
@@alexthewrecker4666These guys will laugh at folks who work full time and don't make the money to rent a home, then support criminalizing homelessness. They want cheap goods and profits made by workers, and want them to get prison time too
@@alexthewrecker4666 get a roommate, live with parents, family, get living assistance, ect. My point is, if you're thinking you can get an apartment with less than $15.00/h (and that's fuckin struggling) then you don't have the mental compacity to do simple math, let alone live on your own. Walmart isn't a career. It should be considered a stepping stone until you get a better job. In all honesty though. Both these individuals seem like they have some kinda mental or social issue. I'm sure they qualify for government assistance.
@@schlinks19873so you're content with an underclass of people working at Walmart being continously on government assistance why? Why should my taxes be paying for walmart? They're one of the most profitable companies to ever exist and their employees can't live in an apartment?
Minimum wage in Denmark is $25.00. The United States is a failing nation that is now doing to its own people what it has done to other nations for over 100 years. The first thing we despertely need is a 70% tax on all income (including investment income) over $5 million annually, as well as a corporate tax rate of 30%. If we don't change tax policy, we are sunk.
Imagine asking for a wage that's lower than enough to afford to live with any dignity and STILL being told no. At that point, it's the workers fault for agreeing to work for them.
In my nation a child under the age of 18 is not allowed to make less than $16,8 n' hour. & an uneducated person above 18 is not allowed to earn less than $25,12 n' hour. What kinda nation doesn't adjust for inflation, that's just insane to think about.
And let me guess, a loaf of bread is about 10 bucks where you live, am I right? So that extra pay just adds to inflation cause they gotta pay the low skill employees more.
Facts I worked at Walmart for 11.50 overnight....must consuming job out there frozen freezers, pulling pallets bulk work....not good we should of at least been paid 14.75 at least
Me and my coworkers regularly joke about running eachother over with pick up carts so we can get a medical payout and not have to come to work. All jokes but the feelings behind it are real. Working there is miserable and you're constantly afraid that you're going to get sick because every day missed is 1 point and it's 4.5 points and you're fired. They dont take doctors notes, they don't care if you were sick.
Ah yes, more petty bourgeois is what we need While understanding that under capitalism, these "wholesome" mom and dad stores are at more risk and would most likely exploit employees even more I order to stay competitive. Pretty brain dead take.
NOT FOLLOWING THE LAW IS NOT THE TAKE!! WEALTH IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE IS!! NOT BIG COMPANIES THAT PLAN TO KILL US ANY WAY!! STUPID BRAIN WASHED IDIOT
Quick answer: don't work for Walmart. Longer answer: I worked for Walmart for a brief time. It's not a great place to work. I have never worked at a place that allows their best workers to be mistreated by people who are phoning in their work. Lunches were stolen and management refused to confront the thieves that were on camera, there were incidents of sexual harassment and blatant racism that were ignored by management, their promotion bonus and pay is a bad joke. I found another job that not only paid better but allowed me to promote. Moral of the story: don't work at Walmart. If you are willing to work, get a different job.
When I used to shop at walmart I couldn't imagine how to get everything without going to walmart. I stopped anyway and I haven't had a problem going without Walmart for 8 years. It's not easy here, where they have outcompeted most other businesses but, that's an illusion. Once you have conviction, it's stronger than monopoly.
Just remember this you all did this... Everyone here shops at Walmart your parents shopped there when you were a kid ... That forced smaller stores to close it caused targets and JC Penny to close it forced so many closures bc u could buy cereal tv and pants there that now they have no competition for workers.... My hometown is a good example we only have a Walmart and a Kroger... When we had two Krogers a marsh an Aldi's a target a JC Penny ... They all closed now
I've worked for Walmart before and I know how badly they treat their employees. However, if they have to pay workers more, they're just going to raise their prices to compensate. Then everyone suffers. Instead of trying to get more pay, why not try to do something about the high cost of living? If your pay goes up and then the cost of living goes up, you'll just be in the same predicament all over again.
I think if a business can't benefit its community, it shouldn't exist. They aren't paying a livable wage even after benefitting from many tax subsudies. It's possible we could have a cheap grocery delivery service if it had an economy of scale, or even go back to local independent grocerers. Walmart is stifling innovation at this point
If you have any job even a minimum wage job unless you have children you don't get no food stamps. The state doesn't help anybody that has a job unless you have children.
Im 30 mins outside of chicago in the suburbs the city of Chicago has a minimum wage of 15$ rest of the state is way less but the Walmart i work at is 17$ starting pay up than up to 22$ depending what you do , tomorrow's my orientation, pretty excited, 2pm-11pm 4 days a week
these are a group of grown people. if they are unable to live making the wage they make then they should get another job or a second job. I am sick and tired of hearing middle aged people that didn't strive to improve themselves beyond the minimum wage job they have complaining that they make close to minimum wage... it's a job. you being happy isn't their problem it's yours. if you aren't happy find another job. .. you knew what you would be making before you took the job! you can't accept the wage they offer then complain to everyone that it's not enough!
There are only so many jobs for people to have. Maybe instead we should destroy the monopolies that control everything in our lives. From the things that we buy and the jobs that we have to our government.
I don't understand how people think it's ok to be late to work and not get held accountable...how are you expected to run a business if several people are late doesn't matter if it's 9 minutes late.
If a company can profit billions of dollars….then the worker is worth more than what they’re being paid. So sick of people acting like these folks don’t deserve a living wage cause they don’t work in the oil fields or something like that.
Increase wages increases prices. Setting us right back to where we currently are. Pointless. All you do is devalue the dollar. It hurts more than it helps.
Don't accept this bad pay... And if you have to accept this pay, than don't work hard... Let them fire you or lay you off... 15 dollars an hour is worthless. Not worth me not telling my boss co workers and customers to F off...
I'm glad I got out of that shithole. Walmart could be destroyed tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost, plenty of other businesses could come up from those ashes.
I remember working very breifly at walmart and even trying to coordinate tasks with my co workers so we could be efficient got me a point… i was told that is not something associates should think about….
I WENT FROM MAKING 36.00 AN HR TO 14 WHEN I STARTED AT WALMART. I WAS TOLD YOU HAVE TO BE THERE FOR 6 MONTHS TO A YEAR REGARDLESS IN ORDER TO BE ELGIBLE TO WORK FULL TIME.
Wal-Mart, Kroger, it's all the same. I've been with Kroger for six years and they pay so little, that I'm homeless, more than I'm housed. So sad! These companies make BILLIONS. Keep us poor!
The thing that kills me is the people who want more money come across as those who cant even hold a damn job. This guy in his 40s is complaining about being 9 minutes late?? You shouldn’t ever be late. I get shit happens with personal reason, but you should be early ready to clock in 99% of the time. If you showing up every day seconds before your shift starts YOU are the problem not the company. Also there is no shortage of wear-house jobs nationwide starting at $18+ for picking cases or driving forklift, you will never make money being a cashier so look for something better. All in all these low quality looking humans who demand $15 an hour cant even help themselves by being responsible or diligent. They just want fucking handouts because they lazy. If you keep saying “I cant” you’re not trying hard enough, persistence will get you anywhere in life. Those who make excuses only have themselves to blame its that simple.
I work at a target warehouse you are expect to clock in 5 minutes early, you do not get paid for those 5 minutes. If you are 1 minute late it’s a hit, if you get 5 hits no call no show sick with no sick time no doctors not or i minute late it’s a hit after 5 it’s a corrective action you can now get 2 more corrective actions until your fired. Corrective actions last an entire year while you have a corrective action you cannot switch departments learn new jobs or new equipment. When you quit your vacation time is not paid out. You only get one hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked so good luck getting enuff sick time to cover a day off it will take 3 months of work for one day of sick time. You want it fixed things to be more fair I have one word UNION.
If you are an adult (not an elderly one) and are a greeter/self-checkout support at a Wal-mart, you are wrong. Obviously, your life choices led you to this and you are now paying the price...stop complaining and making everyone else pay it for you.
I usually do any job faithfully, I get a feeling of satisfaction out of doing it well. But when I worked for Wal*Mart, I felt it was important to make the corporation pay, for how terrible they are. I worked night stock and I would toss thousands of dollars in merchandise in the trash. It felt like the appropriate and good thing to do... and it was a fun game that helped to pass the time, at an otherwise terrible job!
Coal miners would have to ride wagon trains to get to the sites in the 1800s they had no money to eat so the company would just deduct their wages from that. When they showed up to work they got paid so little they had to rely on company stores for food and clothing. At that point they would stop being pains in money and paid in company credit. Vicious circle
Working at amazon $23 now, use to work at walmart Years ago and this video is proof of how bad they are. They dont want you to move up or be successful. They want you to be comfortable and complacent so you can never leave.
I know of MANAGEMENT that live on assistance. Hire them young and proud. So that they can brag about making $50k being alot of $$. Some make more than others. But the majority is so low they have no choice But to get assistance. And Wal-Mart makes enough to pay $20 an hour. That would put $$ back into their store and the community. Wal-Mart's first customer is there associates on the floor. By paying $20 an hour to start. Their profits would double in less than a month.
I blame the government. My state goes off of the federal state minimum wage. You could legally be getting paid $7.25/hr. It needs an increase. The last increase was in 2009 after the great recession. Which only had a GDP decline of -5.1%. The covid recession had a -19.2% gdp decline comparatively.
When Walmart is making billions all over the world and the largest user of taxpayer dollar they are the number one user in my state like most and are asking for tax breaks
If your employees need financial assistance, you should have to pay a cheapskate tax that more than covers it. Either pay your employees, or pay the government.
Remember Walmart heiress Alice Walton has a history of drunk driving and after being ticketed w/ a DUI the cop who was set to testify in court was summarily fired over the radio right after parking his cruiser! And if that wasn't bad enough, she then went on to kill a pedestrian and LEAVE THE SCENE OF THE CRIME! Last time I checked hit and runs were felonies but she got probation and then her record was cleared. This was all in the 80s and 90s but as recently as 2011 she was pulled over in Texas driving erratically and failed a breathalyzer test. Mind you at this point she was a MULTI BILLIONAIRE who could literally afford to be driven in a gold plated hummer by a male model made to look like 1980s Harrison Ford but no, she likes risking the lives of us peasants by driving intoxicated. Moreover, there's been rumors (according to my bestie who works as a dispatcher in texas) she has been pulled over many times since but with the mass adoption of cellphones it's easier for her to call her lawyer and then have him call the governor of whatever state she's in to force the cop who pulled her over with immediate termination if he doesn't instantly let her go and pretend the entire incident didn't happen.
Stop it's not about minimum wage every person deserves to have a living wage if they can't pay 120k a yr stop working. When everyone walks out across the country Walmart will fail within 1 month
15 an hour is well below half the national average. which comes out to be 18 an hour , what i want for the working class is 40000 a year for the minimum low wage job and 80000 for a degree in your field of study as the minimum
Here in Italy we have €7/hr average And for young under 25 we have even like 600€/month salary. No future for young men & girls 😠 Gas and food cost more than US
I worked as an in-home caretaker for 11.80 in Honolulu in 2019. It was easy to find the job but I remember being just absolutely stunned at how low the pay was and there was no possibility of a raise.
Reminder: if someone who works full-time at Walmart is getting food stamps, your tax dollars are subsidizing Walmart's wages.
And they probably spend them there which is bonus.
Communism
@@addisonpoindexter188!!!
@@addisonpoindexter188much closer to Italian corporatism circa 1930
@@addisonpoindexter188 There wouldn't be a Walmart if communism existed. If Walmart was communist and existed within a capitalist nation, it would be a community-owned cooperative where the customers and workers are the owners. It would be the world's biggest cooperative.
15 dollars isn’t even enough today
Notice now that some food chains near me were recently hiring for 12 an hour now have signs on window for 15 to start. I got a car wash by me that starts at 15 too. Note George W. Bush was the last President to raise the federal minimum wage🤪 We don't have a representative government for the working class. Inflation today makes 15 bucks a hour look like 12 an hour while the rich made trillions during this pandemic. We need more unions in our workplaces more than ever now.
@@NyetTube Yeah but look at gas prices, rent prices, everything goes up.
@@bullymaguire4457 that the fault of the oil companies and landlords
That's true, but pay isn't the real issue, the high price of living is. If pay goes up and then the cost of living goes up, you just end up right back where you started.
@@gregjohns5235 That’s not true. Pay is supposed to keep up with rising costs but unfortunately it hasn’t. The impact that raising the minimum wage has on inflation is negligible. Around .3-.5%. This debunks the common right wing talking point that you’re currently using. Also pay used to be tied with productivity but has essentially been stagnant over that last 40 years whereas productivity has skyrocketed. You can thank neoliberalism, Ronald Reagan, trickle down economics, and the capitalist organization of our economy for everything wrong with America today. We need change. For the people, common sense policy
Wages should always be adjusted for inflation.
True, the problem is, we still have people who are willing to work the job for that $11/hour rate, so employees are replaceable.
@@Mich-jk2ze because people are desperate due to a lack of social infrastructure
@Jim Benson lol how's it supposed to work? stay at 11 bucks an hr while massive corporations rake in record profits? is that not understanding how it works?
@Jim Benson lol ok jimmy. You keep on that shitty attitude path
@@Wargod6666 What lack of social infrastructure? The US spends thousands of billions of dollars per year on social welfare; food stamps, section 8 housing, medicare and childcare and education programs. People take $11 per hour jobs because that’s what their skill set can get them, if they want more they need to make themselves more valuable.
I was making $19.50 as an overnight associate, but good god the mental health strain was overly surreal… walmart managers have a certain personality that lets their bottom of the barrel power get the best of them
Most middle management is like that. Tiny tyrants.
Textbook psychopaths, incapable of empathy, humility, shame. Only vengeance and exploitation. By design.
All about the power and control little weasels
I've seen it myself and ummm, let's just say that type of behavior will get you hurt, if you try that sh‽- in my house.
Our Wal-Mart hasn't been open for 24 hours since the end of the pandemic. But 5 years ago I was working 2nd Shift at a factory and would commonly go there either immediately after work, or a couple of hours later to do some grocery shopping.
Every time I came in at those hours, I would hear this condescending/annoyed voice over the PA system directing A) employee to assist in B) department. Eventually, while I was at the self-checkout one night, I waited until the PA came on again to record it with my old phone. The next day, I called up the store manager and played the recording for him after a brief description. I never knew if it did any good, but Christ dude...
I worked for Walmart once. I got fired for swearing in public, but I wasn't in public. I was in the stockroom getting pallets ready to go to the floor to be shelved.
You'll notice, I'm not denying my colorful choice of language. That's because of how it happened. I had a pallet stacked more than 9 feet high of laundry detergent (liquid). This is how high they told me to stack it. I was taking it out to the floor, when some little schmuck in a white shirt and black tie with a name tag gets in my way. I said excuse me, he didn't move. I was moving at a fairly good clip by this time, and had to swerve to avoid running this guy down. When I did, I hit a half pallet of car batteries, and the entire pallet of liquid laundry detergent landed on me.
Turns out, that schmuck with the white shirt and black tie was a district manager of pharmacy, worried about HIS department.
I was fired that night, because this guy got in my way. I went from there, to another department store across the street, and was instantly hired for the exact same job, at a better pay rate.
Meanwhile, Walmart gives a few billion in dividends every year to stockholders
What’s your point?
@@iamcosma7065 That you lick boots.
@@iamcosma7065
Average, everyday workers matter MORE than Walmart's criminal friends on Wallstreet.
@@iamcosma7065 are you dense?
@@iamcosma7065 the point is they have all this money to get to shareholders, and buyback stocks, but when it comes to paying someone a living wage, they say they can’t do it.
I lasted six months working for Walmart. Everything this man said was true at my location as well, except it wasn't considered "time theft" to talk to coworkers. We were just told we weren't allowed to speak at all. So much so they separated every employee to no more than two an aisle. They also didn't tolerate raises, allowing nobody to ask while displaying how much profit the store made that month. What broke me was "supervisors and managers" mishandle and abuse the shift schedules. They changed or added shifts without the employees knowledge so they could add points to your record all while blaming the employee "you should have checked your hours more". I've even seen employees fired for having too many of those points when they did nothing wrong, management illegally added the points themselves I finally put in my two weeks when I overheard a first shift lead and our ONLY HR lady discussing which loophole they could use or find to get a man back to work the next day. That man just lost his mother.
This is hard to understand because companies are starved for employees. Why would they want to force people to be fired when they need people so badly?
@@DJ_Forceit’s like this Walmart can do this
do you wanna work at a job where you need no degree’s and I’ll pay you top dollar and make BS problem’s that sounds true but ant
You:🤑🤑🤑oh yes oh yes
Then come Work For Walmart where to day your a worker tomorrow your a manager remember you need no business knowledge or degree and we won’t encourage you to go get an education in business because we don’t want smart people we want people working and scared to leave and people we can guilt trip so come on down and oh yes too tell us everything tell us at Walmart about all your personal problems and stuff so we can use you to help get you on the right path to not maybe work for this company because Walmart….they suck
@@DJ_ForceTurnover is easy
because they can afford to lose workers because they make so much profit, it's okay for the =m to wait it out, but people can't afford to be unemplyed for long periods of time without support, and the companies know and depend on this. As long as there are no other options, people will keep working for horrible companies because the alternative is to lose everything.
@@DJ_Force
they they just keep taking workers in and spitting them out, there will always be more.
School districts are horrible too. They pay minimum wage to support staff, and take a lot of your pay to have it go to your crappy little retirement fund.
Walmart has the most horrible leads and management. I paint Walmarts, so I work at Walmart, but not for them. I hear the employees get yelled at like they were bad children. Talked to like garbage. Just absolutely disrespected. Then told “tough, find another job “. It’s completely changed my view of them as a company. I don’t even shop there anymore honestly
Ya, I've subcontracted in their stores in Florida and never dealt with so many miserable people in my life. They hate their jobs and are just there for a paycheck!
$15? Wal Mart starting wage should be $20. the only way to change this for all those employees to unionize.
The 2 Walmarts near have more employees standing around and avoiding customers than actually working. No one deserves that kind of pay to do nothing.
@@Ben_LorentzYou’re a troll for big business.
@@j.503 LMAO 🤣 so I guess you think being useless should be rewarded? This is what's wrong with the world today.
@@j.503 I work in underground construction...pipe layer/operator/laborer.
I'll be damned if a cashier makes almost 75% of my wage.
I think that minimum wage should be $15 no matter where you work, but I don't think Walmart employees deserve $20 an hour. That's an easy job, I've worked at two different Walmart's unloading trucks and stocking. Trust me, it's not that difficult. You could actually come into work and be high and drunk or hungover and still get the job done.
Buy as much as you can directly from farmers and local stores
Tell us you have no idea of your privilege without telling us your privilege
@@UlshaRSThat’s not so much as privilege as it is just common sense. Sure some people are gonna have a harder time doing that than others because of location but most won’t, they’re just like you and are far to complacent for an incredibly easy and simple solution
@@yourunclejohn984 location and also cost. I pay a premium for my groceries to buy as ethical as I can but (Alhumdullah) I can afford to. I know others can't and I won't blame them. I blame Walmart for paying too little.
I’ve shopped at Walmart 3 or 4 times in the past 20 years. I am more than happy to buy less so that I can afford to pay more at locally owned businesses. Where you spend your dollars is a vote! I realize I’m blessed to live in an area with options, I’m so sorry for the millions of people in our country who are victims of corporate greed
Purchasing stuff is not voting for anything . 1 person 1 vote. Voting is picking the best most viable candidate . If I want/need product X that cost 100.00 but I only have 50. You would buy product z of lower quality . Voting with dollars is a stupid concept
@@matthewmolina2706 well, Backwards ever free united states of Murica is a capitalist nation that operates on "one dollar equal one vote" as those with more dollars can "lobby" and support to fund politicians campaigns and tours to other states and provide the lobbiest their policy in favor of them even at cost of the average people.
The systems isn't messed up, it is working the way it is supposed to work.
Well, backward ever free United States of Murica operate on this concept of "one dollar per vote" when it has lobbiest funding for backward degradation of child labour laws, minimum wage not adjusted for inflation, tax cuts to billionaires. Why do you think this occurs?
Simple, lobby groups fund politicians for implementing these attack on proper(unlike what politcans sell to you) freedom poor Americans and marginalized groups.
This is why your voice doesn't matter if you haven't got the dollar for it to matter.
You are lucky to be able to afford to pay more for stuff. People hate on Walmart for paying low wages, but Walmart doesn't get credit for providing affordable goods to the poor.
@@DJ_Forceaffordable goods...you act as though they are doing the poor a service. Walmart off brand products are made very cheaply. Their profit margin on "great value" products is actually HIGHER than if you were to purchase name brand from them...
They treated me like trash at Walmart. Horrible job
I'm sick of this! Employers must be made to pay a Living Wage (by county). MIT publishes these amounts. Look it up and fight for what's right!
Love how people say these people need to get different jobs when retail or restaurant fast food are the only industries sprouting up in my area.
Maybe consider moving to where😮 the jobs are, 🤔 I lived and grew up in a town like that, and all I could get was jobs at Wal-Mart and other low paying positions around the area, I moved to a big city, all sorts of opportunities and paid well I forgot how much minimum wage was because I have made over minimum wage sense I left that town, if you're not afraid leave
Its really not much to ask for.
A worker creates way more than 30$ worth per hour for the company
Workers create $0 of value entrepreneur create value
How do you call your self a libertarian?
@@peterjohn7045 what the fuck...did you finish your GED lol
@@peterjohn7045 and you call yourself a human being? More like a small tree, or mushroom. With that intelligence
@@FeedMeSalt thanks for insulting my intelligence rather than destructing my point like a true liberal. Without entrepreneurs there would be no jobs the worker just takes the best job that they can thus the business owner creates value by sorting land labour and capital to create the value making everyone richer as he needs to offer value otherwise he will fail. Its easy for a worker to show up and complete his job but its almost impossible for a entrepreneur to succeed.
Government hand outs to corporations.
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Oh, it’s gonna trickle down! They promised that in the 80’s, just wait!
@@Smooshes786
In 1960 Gore Vidal ran for Congress explaining to the American public that citizens existed in the free market place while corporations existed off of government handouts.
@@Chris-lf4srthe problem is there are no other jobs to take, people have to settle with low paying jobs, the whole “just get another job” is such a bs straw man bc that’s an impossible model for everyone to follow, there are only so many high paying jobs and not everyone can have a higher paying job or everyone would be working in the same felid, it’s ignoring the issue of corporate greed.
@@Chris-lf4sr so wanting something he has not earned equates to wanting a living wage for the hours worked while companies make record breaking profits and take in government subsidies from your tax dollars yet still can’t afford to pay their workers a living wage??? It’s funny you say that because since 1978 the income of companies has gone up 937% while workers pay have only risen by 5.7% yet you have the audacity to say that it’s asking to much to be paid a living wage? If you look at the charts we get paid less for our work by value of the dollar then we have had in our history of our country, with inflation growing day by day, but nah obviously it’s the greedy workers who want to be able to afford basic services fault right?
Corporations whose goal it is to make money. Corporations that hire people. If you don’t like that job, then leave.
To think that the owners are billionaires and their employees are struggling to survive on their wages. Smh!
I happily pay more elsewhere to ensure that no dollar of mine goes to this evil ass corperation
End subsidizing the Walton crime family
It's called a Union people. Join a Union and live a better life.
Oh no, a retard.
Unions are like corporations that you pay. Real big brain stuff there.
@MungeParty you know nothing but propaganda. I pay about $100 a month, and I make $56.33 per hour + $800 a month vacation + retirement + annuity + medical + dental + vision. I made way over 100k last year, so I think a lousy 1200 a year is worth it.
@@MungeParty And they fight for rights and benefits for their members. Duh!!!
@@MungePartyunions are not a separate entity to the workers. Unions are made up of the workers. But keep spouting corporate propaganda about unions. Im sure they're telling you the truth. It makes you sound really smart too.
I quit shopping at Walmart about 10 years ago.
I love the “if ur 10 minutes late u get a point”. How is that a thing u think shouldn’t be? Duh almost anyone u work for is not gonna b happy u strolling in 10 minutes late
My exact thoughts. Same with the apartment. "I could only stay in the apartment for 3 months." Well no shit smart guy. You only make $11.50/h. Wtf did you think was gonna happen?
@@schlinks19873so should he have just lived in the void? People need somewhere to stay. Prices are going crazy and wages arent increasing
@@alexthewrecker4666These guys will laugh at folks who work full time and don't make the money to rent a home, then support criminalizing homelessness.
They want cheap goods and profits made by workers, and want them to get prison time too
@@alexthewrecker4666 get a roommate, live with parents, family, get living assistance, ect. My point is, if you're thinking you can get an apartment with less than $15.00/h (and that's fuckin struggling) then you don't have the mental compacity to do simple math, let alone live on your own. Walmart isn't a career. It should be considered a stepping stone until you get a better job. In all honesty though. Both these individuals seem like they have some kinda mental or social issue. I'm sure they qualify for government assistance.
@@schlinks19873so you're content with an underclass of people working at Walmart being continously on government assistance why?
Why should my taxes be paying for walmart? They're one of the most profitable companies to ever exist and their employees can't live in an apartment?
They should get more. That place is a hell hole
This is any corporation and most businesses in a nutshell
Minimum wage in Denmark is $25.00. The United States is a failing nation that is now doing to its own people what it has done to other nations for over 100 years. The first thing we despertely need is a 70% tax on all income (including investment income) over $5 million annually, as well as a corporate tax rate of 30%. If we don't change tax policy, we are sunk.
Imagine asking for a wage that's lower than enough to afford to live with any dignity and STILL being told no. At that point, it's the workers fault for agreeing to work for them.
In my nation a child under the age of 18 is not allowed to make less than $16,8 n' hour.
& an uneducated person above 18 is not allowed to earn less than $25,12 n' hour.
What kinda nation doesn't adjust for inflation, that's just insane to think about.
And let me guess, a loaf of bread is about 10 bucks where you live, am I right? So that extra pay just adds to inflation cause they gotta pay the low skill employees more.
Facts I worked at Walmart for 11.50 overnight....must consuming job out there frozen freezers, pulling pallets bulk work....not good we should of at least been paid 14.75 at least
What state cuz y’all getting scammed
Me and my coworkers regularly joke about running eachother over with pick up carts so we can get a medical payout and not have to come to work. All jokes but the feelings behind it are real. Working there is miserable and you're constantly afraid that you're going to get sick because every day missed is 1 point and it's 4.5 points and you're fired. They dont take doctors notes, they don't care if you were sick.
Any corporation having ITS workers on PUBLIC ASSISTANCE NEEDS TO FINED AT TRIPLE what is being stolen from the public purse !
MOM AND DAD STORES ARE WHAT WE NEED!!
it really isn't.
@@MC-bd5ub ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD SAY THAT!!
Ah yes, more petty bourgeois is what we need
While understanding that under capitalism, these "wholesome" mom and dad stores are at more risk and would most likely exploit employees even more I order to stay competitive.
Pretty brain dead take.
NOT FOLLOWING THE LAW IS NOT THE TAKE!! WEALTH IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE IS!! NOT BIG COMPANIES THAT PLAN TO KILL US ANY WAY!! STUPID BRAIN WASHED IDIOT
@@zeyadsaeed9580 I wouldn't say even more. about the same, just different.
WHEN I WAS ASKING FOR $15 MY RENT WAS $750, NOW IT'S $2,400 AND I NEED SEVERAL ROOM MATES
INFLATION IS A TAX ON YOUR FUTURE
The family that owns walmart is one of the richest in the world and refuses to pay their employees a living wage.
Look at how they get the products you buy? It's slavery and child slavery at that and yet we still shop there.
Walmart employees in my area are the laziest humans I've ever seen. They sit on their phone scrolling through social media with headphones in
All this time I thought Wal-Mart employees were getting $15 dollars an hour.
I thought like 18 plus.
Oh hell no!!!
@@tommybiggers8496 Get real.
Imagine what these people would be capable of if they got jobs from anyplace besides Walmart.
given walmarts nature of coming in and running local busninesses out, in many smaller towns there's not options.
Where do they live that $15 an hour is a liveable wage?? I want to move there yesterday 😂
Walmart was hell. Im glad i left i was constantly not doing enough for the am's and managers. It sucked
Quick answer: don't work for Walmart.
Longer answer: I worked for Walmart for a brief time. It's not a great place to work. I have never worked at a place that allows their best workers to be mistreated by people who are phoning in their work. Lunches were stolen and management refused to confront the thieves that were on camera, there were incidents of sexual harassment and blatant racism that were ignored by management, their promotion bonus and pay is a bad joke. I found another job that not only paid better but allowed me to promote.
Moral of the story: don't work at Walmart. If you are willing to work, get a different job.
Lol I've been there almost two years making $13.
That’s so cap
When I used to shop at walmart I couldn't imagine how to get everything without going to walmart. I stopped anyway and I haven't had a problem going without Walmart for 8 years. It's not easy here, where they have outcompeted most other businesses but, that's an illusion.
Once you have conviction, it's stronger than monopoly.
Just remember this you all did this... Everyone here shops at Walmart your parents shopped there when you were a kid ... That forced smaller stores to close it caused targets and JC Penny to close it forced so many closures bc u could buy cereal tv and pants there that now they have no competition for workers.... My hometown is a good example we only have a Walmart and a Kroger... When we had two Krogers a marsh an Aldi's a target a JC Penny ... They all closed now
I've worked for Walmart before and I know how badly they treat their employees.
However, if they have to pay workers more, they're just going to raise their prices to compensate. Then everyone suffers.
Instead of trying to get more pay, why not try to do something about the high cost of living? If your pay goes up and then the cost of living goes up, you'll just be in the same predicament all over again.
They can afford to increase their employees pay without raising prices.
I think if a business can't benefit its community, it shouldn't exist. They aren't paying a livable wage even after benefitting from many tax subsudies.
It's possible we could have a cheap grocery delivery service if it had an economy of scale, or even go back to local independent grocerers. Walmart is stifling innovation at this point
If you have any job even a minimum wage job unless you have children you don't get no food stamps. The state doesn't help anybody that has a job unless you have children.
Some states do provide "food stamps" to adults without children.
Im 30 mins outside of chicago in the suburbs the city of Chicago has a minimum wage of 15$ rest of the state is way less but the Walmart i work at is 17$ starting pay up than up to 22$ depending what you do , tomorrow's my orientation, pretty excited, 2pm-11pm 4 days a week
That's why I don't buy anything from them or step in their stores
Workers unite!
these are a group of grown people. if they are unable to live making the wage they make then they should get another job or a second job. I am sick and tired of hearing middle aged people that didn't strive to improve themselves beyond the minimum wage job they have complaining that they make close to minimum wage... it's a job. you being happy isn't their problem it's yours. if you aren't happy find another job. .. you knew what you would be making before you took the job! you can't accept the wage they offer then complain to everyone that it's not enough!
There are only so many jobs for people to have. Maybe instead we should destroy the monopolies that control everything in our lives. From the things that we buy and the jobs that we have to our government.
I don't understand how people think it's ok to be late to work and not get held accountable...how are you expected to run a business if several people are late doesn't matter if it's 9 minutes late.
If a company can profit billions of dollars….then the worker is worth more than what they’re being paid. So sick of people acting like these folks don’t deserve a living wage cause they don’t work in the oil fields or something like that.
Increase wages increases prices. Setting us right back to where we currently are. Pointless. All you do is devalue the dollar. It hurts more than it helps.
I've been laughed at for asking my manager for a raise!
"minimum wage" is literally supposed to be the MINIMUM standard of living.
Don't accept this bad pay... And if you have to accept this pay, than don't work hard... Let them fire you or lay you off... 15 dollars an hour is worthless. Not worth me not telling my boss co workers and customers to F off...
They raised the wages to $14 an hour but then cut everyone's hours.
Walmart is corrupt. Massive corporate welfare. Sick.
Corporate welfare. The tax payer is funding Wal-Marts shareholders.
I'm glad I got out of that shithole. Walmart could be destroyed tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost, plenty of other businesses could come up from those ashes.
"i hear they put ankle bracelets on their employees"
Get a trade man. If you can fix or build anythi g with your own hands you wont ever be hungry
I remember working very breifly at walmart and even trying to coordinate tasks with my co workers so we could be efficient got me a point… i was told that is not something associates should think about….
Abject Poverty: $27/Hour and under
Poverty Wage: $27/Hour to $35/Hour
Livable Wage: $35/Hour to $50/Hour
Extremely Wealthy: $50/Hour and up
When people that work for big corporations and have to get food stamps, we the taxpayers are basically subsidizing Walmart 😡. UNION!!
I don't think that raising the minimum wage is a solution, I think a universal basic income makes more sense
How did we become a society of people aspiring to be cashiers?
You win! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Forced by elite by being pushed down
I WENT FROM MAKING 36.00 AN HR TO 14 WHEN I STARTED AT WALMART. I WAS TOLD YOU HAVE TO BE THERE FOR 6 MONTHS TO A YEAR REGARDLESS IN ORDER TO BE ELGIBLE TO WORK FULL TIME.
Wal-Mart, Kroger, it's all the same. I've been with Kroger for six years and they pay so little, that I'm homeless, more than I'm housed. So sad! These companies make BILLIONS. Keep us poor!
$20/hr isn't enough nowadays 😕
The thing that kills me is the people who want more money come across as those who cant even hold a damn job. This guy in his 40s is complaining about being 9 minutes late?? You shouldn’t ever be late. I get shit happens with personal reason, but you should be early ready to clock in 99% of the time. If you showing up every day seconds before your shift starts YOU are the problem not the company.
Also there is no shortage of wear-house jobs nationwide starting at $18+ for picking cases or driving forklift, you will never make money being a cashier so look for something better.
All in all these low quality looking humans who demand $15 an hour cant even help themselves by being responsible or diligent. They just want fucking handouts because they lazy. If you keep saying “I cant” you’re not trying hard enough, persistence will get you anywhere in life. Those who make excuses only have themselves to blame its that simple.
Don't forget Walmart sells counterfeit goods too😂 still have my Fake SanDisk 🎉
What? $15 is NOTHING. That's why Walmart employees live in cars in the parking lot. True in Texas.😊
Walmart u r off my list of places to shop !
$11 is a disposable job
Oh and don’t forget the most important part….. the Billionaire owners were born into ownership…. They literally did nothing to earn it
I work at a target warehouse you are expect to clock in 5 minutes early, you do not get paid for those 5 minutes. If you are 1 minute late it’s a hit, if you get 5 hits no call no show sick with no sick time no doctors not or i minute late it’s a hit after 5 it’s a corrective action you can now get 2 more corrective actions until your fired.
Corrective actions last an entire year while you have a corrective action you cannot switch departments learn new jobs or new equipment.
When you quit your vacation time is not paid out.
You only get one hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked so good luck getting enuff sick time to cover a day off it will take 3 months of work for one day of sick time.
You want it fixed things to be more fair I have one word UNION.
If you are an adult (not an elderly one) and are a greeter/self-checkout support at a Wal-mart, you are wrong. Obviously, your life choices led you to this and you are now paying the price...stop complaining and making everyone else pay it for you.
Sounds like corporate welfar.
What if ‘ every Walmart employee just quit. Start a Reddit post and plan a day . Everyone walk out .
It wouldn't do much in the long run cause Walmart would just re hire. What they need to do is organize
I usually do any job faithfully, I get a feeling of satisfaction out of doing it well. But when I worked for Wal*Mart, I felt it was important to make the corporation pay, for how terrible they are. I worked night stock and I would toss thousands of dollars in merchandise in the trash. It felt like the appropriate and good thing to do... and it was a fun game that helped to pass the time, at an otherwise terrible job!
Coal miners would have to ride wagon trains to get to the sites in the 1800s they had no money to eat so the company would just deduct their wages from that. When they showed up to work they got paid so little they had to rely on company stores for food and clothing. At that point they would stop being pains in money and paid in company credit. Vicious circle
Working at amazon $23 now, use to work at walmart Years ago and this video is proof of how bad they are. They dont want you to move up or be successful. They want you to be comfortable and complacent so you can never leave.
No. Fighting for 15 isn't right. We need a walmart union demanding the countries average, that is updated YEARLY.
I know of MANAGEMENT that live on assistance. Hire them young and proud. So that they can brag about making $50k being alot of $$. Some make more than others. But the majority is so low they have no choice But to get assistance. And Wal-Mart makes enough to pay $20 an hour. That would put $$ back into their store and the community.
Wal-Mart's first customer is there associates on the floor. By paying $20 an hour to start. Their profits would double in less than a month.
I blame the government. My state goes off of the federal state minimum wage. You could legally be getting paid $7.25/hr.
It needs an increase. The last increase was in 2009 after the great recession. Which only had a GDP decline of -5.1%. The covid recession had a -19.2% gdp decline comparatively.
Horrible job exposed!!!
When Walmart is making billions all over the world and the largest user of taxpayer dollar they are the number one user in my state like most and are asking for tax breaks
California is 15hr.. but rents like 4k a month... How do they expect anyone to live without going hungry most days
If your employees need financial assistance, you should have to pay a cheapskate tax that more than covers it.
Either pay your employees, or pay the government.
$15?! Walmart can afford more than that. $30+ The people(employees) that make it possible, EARNED IT.
Walmart is for high schoolers not for your career…
Remember Walmart heiress Alice Walton has a history of drunk driving and after being ticketed w/ a DUI the cop who was set to testify in court was summarily fired over the radio right after parking his cruiser! And if that wasn't bad enough, she then went on to kill a pedestrian and LEAVE THE SCENE OF THE CRIME! Last time I checked hit and runs were felonies but she got probation and then her record was cleared. This was all in the 80s and 90s but as recently as 2011 she was pulled over in Texas driving erratically and failed a breathalyzer test. Mind you at this point she was a MULTI BILLIONAIRE who could literally afford to be driven in a gold plated hummer by a male model made to look like 1980s Harrison Ford but no, she likes risking the lives of us peasants by driving intoxicated. Moreover, there's been rumors (according to my bestie who works as a dispatcher in texas) she has been pulled over many times since but with the mass adoption of cellphones it's easier for her to call her lawyer and then have him call the governor of whatever state she's in to force the cop who pulled her over with immediate termination if he doesn't instantly let her go and pretend the entire incident didn't happen.
I make the same at Kroger, I got to work three jobs to provide.
Stop it's not about minimum wage every person deserves to have a living wage if they can't pay 120k a yr stop working. When everyone walks out across the country Walmart will fail within 1 month
I hate that job, with a bright burning brilliant passion, with every fiber of my being, forever and in perpetuity throughout the Universe
15 an hour is well below half the national average. which comes out to be 18 an hour , what i want for the working class is 40000 a year for the minimum low wage job and 80000 for a degree in your field of study as the minimum
Here in Italy we have €7/hr average
And for young under 25 we have even like 600€/month salary. No future for young men & girls 😠
Gas and food cost more than US
Meanwhile Amazon workers are demanding $24/HR. Make it make sense.
Minimum wage=minimum effort
$18-$20 isn’t even enough I don’t know how in the world you’re expected to live off $12 an hour. What a joke.
I worked as an in-home caretaker for 11.80 in Honolulu in 2019. It was easy to find the job but I remember being just absolutely stunned at how low the pay was and there was no possibility of a raise.