Walmart workers speak out about abusive working conditions
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- On February 17, New York's City Council held a hearing to examine Walmart's notoriously bad labor practices in response to the company's plans to open stores throughout the city. Several Walmart workers were on hand to tell their stories. These are two of them.
The day i left Wal-Mart as a employee was the best day of my life!
I worked at Walmart for 12 years and trust me, what they are saying in this video is 100% true. It takes forever to move up. When I left Walmart I was a support manager making $15 an hour when that position at the time "caps out" at $27 an hour. I started out as a cashier making $7.70 an hour. At the rate I was going it probably would have taken me at least 20 more years to make it to my maximum pay scale. I make a lot more money now as a contractor working in the skilled construction trades.
Can’t believe you stayed with them for over a decade, must’ve been depressing to put their vast on almost everyday such demonic people
I worked for walmart for 5 yrs & i believe everything said in this video
@@ajfarah8696 I got fired from Walmart 8 years ago over a price match. The department manager approved it. The co-manager fired me because I didn't stop the department manager from doing it. The department manager was the one that should have got fired. I learned after working there for a few years if they see that you are not working your way up to management, they will just fire you over anyting! There's a lot of favoritism also!
everything they said is true. I work at walmart and its a hell hole
Admonisher80 Is it me or the managers go up to and say let's make it happen, it's a hot mess over here, or what are you working on? I hate when it when they see one out and it's the end of the world for walmart.
I agree with you and all I wanna see each bad manger get dragged into the deepest part of hell.
Target isn’t much better. I got fired over a dispute for an 80 cent item.
@Deadpool in the comments section I must hold the company record for most write-ups.
From to nice to customers, another i quickly showed a customer the product the wanted, my boss walked by, the next morning was written up for roaming and wandering.
Sure is I don't recommend it it less your desperate.
My older bro was fired because he broke up with the manager...... then she banned him from Walmart for 3 years....... wtf is wrong with people??!!?!!?!?
why didn't he sue?
Umm...perhaps they shouldn't have been dating in the first place?
Ch3rrybomb boom was she hot?
Never shit where you eat.
he should have sued her for sex discrimination and harassment.
I can agree the favoritism is sickening. The store I was at was such a toxic environment that my mental health was going downhill to a point i was about to check myself in a mental health hospital. I would rather work at McDonalds than Walmart.
I am a college student and working with Walmart for a year now and trust me its hell , they torture their employees to death
1.Manager dont do their job and ask employees to do their job for them.
2. Supervisor are not present espically at cash register when you need them most.
3.I saw one of my friend get harrassed by a customer, instead of kicking customer out superviser sugar coated and give customer gift card and coached that employee and she was literally crying.
3.They keep messing up your schedule and wont fix it aka you will get tardiness
4. I am student and I need less then 30 hours, Walmart think 39 hours are part time and 50 hours is full time. They keep increasing my work hours and work load.
5. They make you to do stuff which is not under your job description. One I was feeling sick I tried talking to my manager I caint push carts and pushing carts is not under my job description she said "WHY YOU NO CO OPERATING" she make me push carts for three hours and mule was broke and instead of helping me ahe was smoking outside.
To all the people please do not work in Walmart especially if your a student. Trust me they Walmart will squeeze every bit of INSANITY from your soul
It to late for now
What you said I also went through. This lady told me to push carts all by myself in 5 minutes. I told on her and she got in trouble lol but true about management and customers. I was sexually harassed verbally by a customer and the store manager didn’t do nothing to him. Instead he just stood there and watched him instead of kicking him out.
This is true they kept putting me at 36-39 hours even though I’m part time
5 days on 1 day off lmao I’m in there for 9 hours 1 is unpaid like wtf
As a Walmart associate they are absolutely right. I went through all of this
As a ex Walmart employee they do treat you like crap after I wanted to get my job back they said we don't need you. Your expendable we have plenty of other people just like you. I never felt so used in my life and that was back in 2012.
Same! I got a new job and the department manager told me he couldn’t sign my availability cuz it didn’t work for him and I can go ahead and put my 2 weeks notice in. I felt bad and used but I already quit and when I was still there after I came back I saw 2 new girls cuz I close my availability. You’re are replaceable!! They want someone who wants to work and they don’t care about you as long as you can work for them.
It's true, Mangers follow and watch associates during their breaks and lunches. Also they have police officers drive by you to intimidate you. When an associate stand up for what is right, they consider the employee a "troublemaker"
janet wilson Yeah. Walmart needs to be shut down. Somebody should make a petition.
janet wilson - I work at Wal Mart in the produce dept (cap2 ) and I can honestly say that you are so full of it.
@@tweachiemercer1589
I work at Walmart as well and I can attest to having personally seen that.
Yep!!! I can relate
I was watched plenty of times during my breaks and lunches, heck I was even watched while doing my job.
The Walton family is getting richer and the employees of the Walton family are getting poorer, it's a shame
The Walton's sold their shares several years ago. It is a publicly held company now.
Ya can't survive on their insulting wages, and horrid treatment to their employees.
@@87Wayne I got fired from Walmart 8 years ago over a price match. The department manager approved it. The co-manager fired me because I didn't stop the department manager from doing it. The department manager was the one that should have got fired. I learned after working there for a few years if they see that you are not working your way up to management, they will just fire you over anyting! There's a lot of favoritism also!
I only worked at walmart because I was promised 40 hours a week...yeah didn't know it came with managers trying to get more than what they could get out of a human being to the point of lossing their shit all the time over a man not being able to do a 8 hour task in 4 hours. Also that spying shit is no joke I have this woman who basicly hides around a corner every time I talk and makes it sound like I don't do a damn thing. My work moral has fallen so low that I can't even bring myself to work hard anymore. Not to mention I have only been there for just 4 months!!!
darkmind1212 I had this happen to me several times. One lady thinks she is the AP while the real one harasses people rather than catch thieves.
Oh, I know this all too well.
There have been a number of times I have come to a head with management feeling as they wanted me to kill myself without being able to have a break. Even though they say I'm allowed breaks it seems to me someone is always on my ass to keep doing shit. I told one of them once after having enough shit that it had come to the point of me not giving a flying fuck if shit got done or not
@@Ukraine2011 I’m in a similar situation. My coworker is clearly a favorite and is in charge when the team lead isn’t around. She constantly singles me out and nitpicks me alone. I don’t know what to do cause I used to love work and now it’s a huge headache when she’s in the room.
I think this makes sense now. The asset protection man came to check on me a few times. I just thought he was trying to be nice. Maybe it is his job to spy on workers and thieves
Somewhere sam walton is rolling over in his grave.
Lol ikr
No he's not, he was a big shot that used to build Pow camps. List of his & families history ......... endless. Walmart has fooled many Americans back in the day, in today's world, more like brainwashing , not to much , working there is like working in a consentration camp. Very sad, used to be a great company to work for. Now they focus on their greed,. And feed off your fear.
@@belindaspechtenhauser6621 Sam Walton was a stud when he passed his family took the company over and that's where things went downhill
I doubt it. It's not like he gave his employees much better. At one point he stopped them from unionizing by threatening to take away their company stock program.
😆 Sam Walton constantly spied on the competition like Kmart and Target. Thst's why he crashed his truck so many times!
I hope wal-mart goes out of business evil cooperation. I really want to protest against wal-mart.
2 managers threated to fire a friend of mine if he didnt show up for his shift (overnight shift) BUT he couldnt cause he was selected for jury duty on a MURDER TRIAL. He got their ultimatum in writing, he took it to the judge.
The judge was furious called the store demanded to talk to the store manager. Told him what they threatened to do. And told him if he didnt take action the judge would take legal action.
They were fired that morning😅.
@@jasonleslie203 I got fired from Walmart 8 years ago over a price match. The department manager approved it. The co-manager fired me because I didn't stop the department manager from doing it. The department manager was the one that should have got fired. I learned after working there for a few years if they see that you are not working your way up to management, they will just fire you over anyting! There's a lot of favoritism also!
@@Angry.General1461 oh yeah.
Lots of that.
@@jasonleslie203 there's people that works there old enough to be our parents, they're behaving like high school children gossiping and spreading rumors. I've already moved on to a job that I like better that pays a lot more. The people that are left that I used to work with are still trying to spread rumors to the new people about me. Im thinking they seriously need to get a life. I don't even work there anymore! They are extremely miserable and will live the rest of their lives miserable!
@@Angry.General1461 one of the individuals that was responsible For my friend being fired tried to convince him to come back to Walmart after he'd already moved on.
He told her "hell no"
I'm a cartpusher at Walmart, last day is next Tuesday, everything said is true, it's a hell hole.
There was a drive by on the cart pusher in AZ Walmart some pusher die .
Oh yes! The highly-skilled career of the cart pusher.
I worked at Walmart in CA, and it is the worst experience ever! They over work you! I was working a part time yet they wanted me to carry so much in less than 6 hours and have the aisles in good/perfect conditions. Coaches there are very non-carrying and don’t care if you have an emergency or are feeling bad! I went to work one day with a fever and the supervisor said, you can go home but you are getting a point, i said what if I bring a doctors note, he said Walmart don’t accept letters from doctor, you’ll still get a point. At this point I realize that Walmart abuses every employees right and they only look after themselves.
I spent a good three years working at Walmart for my very first job. I have absolutely no arguments with anything that was said here. Working at Walmart was awful. Oppressive atmosphere, horrid customers, incompetent management. You name it, it was there.
I got fired from Walmart 8 years ago over a price match. The department manager approved it. The co-manager fired me because I didn't stop the department manager from doing it. The department manager was the one that should have got fired. I learned after working there for a few years if they see that you are not working your way up to management, they will just fire you over anyting! There's a lot of favoritism also!
After 8 years I can attest that everything they say is true!
Lord Libby, I sure hope they paid for your therapist, medications to keep you there that long! I worked for them also, 2 1/2 yrs. Walmart is abusive. Bunch of moronic ass whipes!!!
luv's myself sum shade 🤣🤣
Why would you stay at an entry-level job for 8 years?
Walmart has no ethics system. I went from being a worker valued for my hard work on third shift to a completely hated target because I didnt want to work a day I was scheduled off. My manager called me a cancer and pretty much told me to quit. And THAT was only the beginning.
I worked for walmart for almost 5 years. I was uploading videos to youtube. I had a series called "shit that pisses me off" where I would rant once a week about something. Nobody on youtube or anywhere in social media knew where I worked. I did a video where I ranted about third shift frozen not doing their jobs, and that day and second shift were tired of doing all the work. Even though I never said where I worked or any names, and even though one of the managers told me that the only way to violate social media policy was to say those things, I was fired. They fired me and said it was because "enough people knew I worked at walmart and it could hurt sales" and it was a violation of social media policy. They put the information into the system the day after I was fired and said I was fired for "gross misconduct, harassment, and discrimination". The real reason I was fired was because a support manager on third shift, who didn't have the balls to turn me in himself, had his wife, who was a cashier, turn it in. He had it out for me because I, and the other people on first and second, were running circles around his crew. There were also certain members of management that would harass me on a daily basis about my hair. I had long hair and I was constantly threatened to be fired for my hair being long. They had a cashier dye her hair because the didn't "like it" and "it isn't professional". They also made another associate quit because he had a mohawk. They are a horrible place to work for if you aren't willing to be a mindless robot.
Walmart treats their customers like shit and their employees even worse, to them every employee is expendable, so why would you invest your future with them?
Well said, I wish more people would think like that. But they get away with it, because thousands and thousands of stupid Americans still buy shit in that store. I don't mind pay a bit more (as long as it's reasonable) and go somewhere where business practice is better.
I hate it when someone states "if you don't like the way you are being treated by your employer then quit." There's a difference between company policy and abuse. If an individual is employed--whoever the employer is then the worker should be granted a livable wage and not be bully and bombarded by upper management because they fear the loss of their jobs as well. It's a horrific cycle with the workers at Walmart.
Livable wage? Based on what? You don't like the employment agreement. FUCK OFF and find better. You can't expect anyone to pay a guy who is mopping floors the same wage as a guy managing a whole store or a district. Or a guy who's in charge of the company finances, etc. Your wage comes from what you're worth and productivity you bring. Just like anything else. Supply and demand. Anyone can mop floors with no training and get the job done. So, that job is less valuable. But, if you're in charge of a big company's marketing strategy and you bring in billions more in the company's coffers, your salary will reflect that value.
Joe mariconadas You are so damn insensitive! I bet you drove someone into a suicide! These days, people get arrested for that! In fact why do you watch these videos and harass people if you don't like what it says. You hate your life so much you want to make someone miserable? Bullying is serious, especially when it involves a suicide.
Wtf is wrong with you man?
She really meant equal pay. Women and minorities are still being underpaid.
Millennial Mogwai no they aren't
I agree with your statement. Same happened to me. We all need to stand up and do the right thing and change laws to make emotional abuse illegal by corporations.
That is very true. I walked out of my job there. I was an overnight stock person. The manager kept yelling at me and the other associates that we were not working fast enough. I could not work any faster.
I kinda see it too. Just in a couple days there was one woman who works stalking who had something or someone do something to her where she was yelling in frustration and one of the lower level supervisors was having to run to catch up with her to find out what was going on. She was walking but she was also scooting out really fast. And she isn't one I've ever seen crying before. Times I get so pissed anymore I just have to hit something to take out my frustration
Got a 50cent raise to work in the bakery AsACake Decorater With NO training Nor did anyone train me to learn the skills The emence pressure of working at Walmart gave me a nervous breakdown my blood pressure off the charts My doctor aware of their practices towards employees He told me to quit! Therefore I did happy 😊 now Yet my 3 yrs at Walmart has scarred me mentally
That part about managers telling you you're not doing good enough to subvert the shortcomings on their end hits home hard
Try working overnight stock they abuse the piss out of you. The AM tells you one thing then the supervisor tells you another then you get chewed up by both cause they want you to do 20 things at once.
Walmart overnight stock managers are abusive, and often times they create such a hostile work environment that they get employees bullying each other like cannibals.
Tell me about it... I was an overnight stocker for about two months and it was still one of my worst experiences. From day one management treated me like a piece of shit. As well as some of the people who have even worked there for years. There was a lot of favoritism going on.
i feel that struggle man!! i got soo lucky.. i fell on hard times and took a night stocking job as a last resort.. and now i landed a state job with a full workers union... great pay etc... but the last night at wal-mart i showed up 30 mins late.. and just started shopping... lol when approached by a manager i simply stated " is that any way to talk to a customer?"
I work at Walmart at the moment. I'm overnight mod crew. Though management leaves me alone to do my work, I've seen how they treat the stockers. Treated like shit. Nothing is ever good enough for them.
Daniel Bunner I worked as an overnight stocker for 2 years straight.. some managers were really kool, some were horrible.. I had obtained an injury in my arm through weight lifting and I wore an obvious cast and told the manager, the manager would always ask me how is your arm doing, and one day when she asked I told her, "it hurts, it's in pain." She just nodded. Then, near the end of my shift, she comes around, her cylindrical, over-weight body walking peacefully up to me at 80k a year, while I sweat my ass off for less than 20, and even knowing I had told her my arm was in pain and injured, tells me to go around the store, from GM to Grocery and pick up all the empty wooden palettes off the floor, stack them up and pull them to the back with the jack.. unreal, and she was directly told by me earlier that my arm hurt and was in pain, those wooden palettes are cumbersome and weight a good 40 pounds each..why the hell would you ask me about my physical condition if you're going to induce strenuous lifting on me regardless? And your co-workers, at least mine in my area, are completely out there too.. Most in their 40s-60s, and miles away from adults psychologically. They were all so immature and vindictive. One maintenance guy acted like a child and would drive around the store on his ass on the scrubber all day while I sweat my ass off all night getting ridiculous amounts of merchandise stocked on the shelves. Then when he would see a piece of plastic on the floor or something he'd start his bitching for the night about the mess on the floor, all pissed off because he had to hop up off his high horse scrubber and actually get up for a second to pick something up..that's if he did, most of the time he would get up, walk all the way over to me and yell at me and point at a tiny piece of plastic like I was a dog and tell me to pick it up. Mind you I'm sweating my ass off and he's up on his feet for the first time in 2 hours.. Walmart is a terrible place to work in all aspects..rant over.
"No Respect" is definitely the norm there. My body is starting to fall apart after being there for 3 years. I work in the warehouse, "DC" and the physical demands are horrific. Too many people there have social issues and everyone is miserable. The environment stinks, and I feel anxious whenever I'm about to enter the building.
I worked for Walmart about 2 yrs and it is basically intimidation and fear. There were people that had worked there for 10 plus years and were constantly scared of losing their jobs, were given undoable tasks every night, shift managers would walk around and basically do nothing but intimidate employees. I felt so bad for these employees that is all they knew and that was there lively hood. I only worked there when the unemployment rate was so high and I had been laid off of my normal profession. One night this little dweeb shift manager got right in my face and started yelling at me, spital flying, I told the little twerp he needed to get out of my face and back off, I did not fit in very well there. Lol. Was so happy the last day I clocked out, but still think about some of my co-workers and hope they are doing ok and that place has not worked them to death.
I worked at Walmart for 1 year and a half and it was fucking terrible..the managers do not get a shit about their workers… you speak out to what’s the problem and what can be improved and nothing ever changes .. terrible job and workplace.
Walmart is the worst job I've ever had. They are BEYOND unprofessional.
Why just NYC? How about keep every city Walmart-free!
I hardly ever go to Walmart.
Just quit today after three years. A migrant worker makes $11.30 an hour I made $10.20.
not surprised
It depends on your position and their experience
When I started there (Maine) I was making $5.45 an hour after 10 years I was making $9.08, I had held every job except HR, Accounts receivable , and cash office, work all 3 shifts, traveled to any store that needed help... that's the thanks people get for going above and beyond
@@Firegirl483
No, it doesn't. I've been at this shit hole for three years. I've busted ass and I'm making as much as people that have worked their for 20 years! And those people are making just as much as the lazy new people who get fired during the early and late parts of the year when Walmart purposefully "cycles through workers".
This lady spoke very well all they care about is profit !
I work at Wendy's and its almost the same thing as they both explained here in this video. When I was going to get promoted to crew leader one of the managers wanted me to delegate tasks and such to my peers. So I delegated and delegated and delegated all the task that she told me to delegate. Keep in mind, before I was going to get promoted to crew leader I was the one who was basically doing everything in the store. If I could somehow avoid doing something, I would , because otherwise I would be selling my soul this hell hole. The managers train you to be assholes. So when I declined the promotion, they got super pissed at me because they told me everything about everybody. Who they hate, who they like and who is a "slow" worker and whatnot. They basically spilled the beans about who they liked and who they didn't like. I am basically a guy who was supposed to be promoted, but denied and now I know too much information they are out to get me. Today was my first day back at work after having "the talk" about why I was declining the promotion and all the managers were giving me cold shoulders and are sort of starting to create a paper trail on me. This place never writes anyone up. If I get written up it will probably mean they are trying to get me fired. They have been ignoring me the whole day and giving my job to other people. They didn't talk to me. They don't want to talk to me. I asked them if I have to do anything and then all of a sudden I have to do tasks enough for 4 people in less than about an hour. Plus, today was shipment day too. So on top of doing 4 things at once, I also had to put shipment away. Bs. Passive aggressive runs this whole place. Its horrible. They just don't know what to do. They seem so focused on me They forget they actually have a job to do
This is my current situation with Walmart and God must have lead me to this video.
my son worked there and had a total breakdown and ended up disabled, my daughter-in-law was driven like a slave trying to make a living for her family,
You guys says it all. I'm with you. This company need to go.
They need to go like Kmart did. They need to go the same way. Where is fast Eddy who shut down Sears and Kmart.
If you can say: If you don't like your job then quit. You don't understand the nation's economy and the Times we live in.
Those idiots don't understand ANYTHING. They whine with their mouth full. Slavery is over in America for over a century. So, how are they abused? Does Walmart whip them or force them to work against their will?? Americans have turned into a bunch of spoiled brats and need to be shipped to North Korea to see what abuse means.
one thing I know... the world DOES NOT owe me a living.
Joe mariconadas You’re complaining about others, but with this mentality it’s clear you’re entitled.
You guys are stupid. I used to work at walmart and it was my choice and no one elses. Nobody owes you shit and thats what people think. Get yourself an education and be productive instead of working teenagers job. I am 23 right now and I got myself a better paying job then when I was working at walmart which was 11.69 an hr compare to now I make atleast 60k. I wasn't brought up or entitled but I grew up in a rough family with no dad and mom had been working whole life to bring us up. I got my education, I looked around and though I had no chance in this world but guess what, I made myself better so stop being an idiot and make something of yourself and stop expecting hand outs.
iseeu2002 There’s no age limit when it comes to any job. People do what they can handle.
Thank you. I have a problem with Walmart in Roebuck, Alabama.
I was in a Walmart in Douglasville GA early one morning. I could smell engine exhaust. I looked up and here comes a gasoline engine powered floor buffer. I asked employees if they did that all the time and they said yes. That's all you need to know about Walmart employment.
I shop at Walmart but I always thankful to the workers. Always show them my gratitude
Have yet to talk to a Walmart employee who enjoyed their work experience. The ones that do say so do it out of fear of losing job or are honestly just terrible people that use their power to hurt people.
Everything that was said is the truth, management is trained to keep your foot off your neck. When they find an associate that can potentially outshine them, they do whatever they can to destroy that person's confidence. They will intentionally gaslight their employees that they don't like.
I've heard from many friends and customers tell me the Walmart was/is an absolutely horrible place to work
I'm almost 70, I've worked my whole life and I have not encountered anything like Wal-Mart before, my first retail job. I work in the fresh area[meat department and I have never encountered the pressure like I do [I'm still working in the fresh area of Wal-Mart and they don't let up on the pressure . They are pretty mean to you too. However Iwouldn't put up with the work load or the treatment the department managers do.They work us b eyond belief and its all for the sake of money. We bring in many times over in money over all the other fresh areas. Yet they dislike the meat department don't give us enough hours to work our job, sometimes we bring in maybe up to 34%.Thats a lot of sales andThey also have an unrealistic restrictions on us. we reallly work too.I'm thankful for my job, but no one should be allowed to work the life out of people.Now Walmart has targeted its venders, instead of Pepsi and coke haveing their own whole wall, they've knocked then down to 1 small section of wall.We have to date most of our packages in the meat cooler and it's so cold meat ices up and freezes. We're not the only ones other jobs too, I've heard some horror stories. I know GOD won't put more on me than I can bear, and GOD is how I make it.
These two are very smart and articulate. I worked for Walmart recently and it was awful. I was trying to zone which means straighten the clothes. They wanted me in six different areas of soft lines, dressing rooms, phones, and on top of that crazy returns. It was my second full day working in my dept and this manager screams in my face cause of returns left in the cart. My goodness it was so ridiculous. She said you have thirty minutes to put two carts away or else. I be like lol I’m out. I didn’t tell her that I finished my shift and called in this morning. The only reason I left the carts was because team lead A told me to do so. It didn’t matter I saw the writing on the wall. Day 4 and peace. I feel a bit bad but after watching this video I know for the best.
I now work at their competition and they are super nice. I learned my lesson and asked to work front end. So much better and they treat me so nice
@@melissacheri57 Who? Walmart has lots of competition.
Walmart came into our small town and 3 out of 4 of our grocery stores had to shut down. Walmart comes in and lowers prices to an insanely los amount, then when the competition is gone they raise the prices back so they can make a huge profit. They told my girlfriend she was needed in another department for a week and that she would work less hours. When she came to work the department told her they didn't need her and that she could return to her usual department. But, since she was scheduled for less hours that week, she worked her normal job. at less hours. Walmart basically found a way to cut her hours without making it seem like they were.
Walmart is a DUMP. They are the filthiest store ever. I have never seen such dirty, unkempt, and unstocked stores full of the rudest employees (not all of them) ever. I would rather pay a little more to go to Target or Kmart where it's a lot cleaner and the employees are not all walking around looking like zombies or with scowls on their faces. Every time I walk into a Walmart I feel like I'm going to catch some nasty disease. It's a shame that their employees have to suffer like that while Mr. Walton's heirs, the CEOs, and the upper executives and corporate big shots line their pockets with the money obtained through the blood, sweat, and tears of the store workers.
***** I worked for Target also and they were always considerate that people had a life, had to do laundry, cook, have a family life, a day off, clean the house, well you get it. Never 8 or 9 days in a row and weird schedules that Wal Mart managers laugh about.
Exactly.
I hate corporations.
I worked for WALMART for nearly 30 years, I had varied work days for the first year or 2 but after that I had the same days off every week. No matter what job you have in life there will be bosses or managers who are a pain in the ass, just pray for them and learn to deal with it,
Sorry for the rude employees. But if you had to deal with the Management issues there. You would know why we are not always so friendly.
All this shit is still going on at walmart.
I worked for the worst managed criminal company in the United States. Then years later I worked for Wal-Mart. Let me tell you Wal-Mart is number 2 on that list. They're horrible but they are not the worst.
The reason hours are cut is due to higher up people's quarterly bonuses are directly tied to the hours.
Its true… i worked there for 2 years and i quit…
I just let my points for occurrences run out. I was a cashier, it was pretty bad. They would have me close and then open the next day with only six or seven hours apart. They didn't pay any overtime. They have an associate working there for EIGHT DAYS STRAIGHT dude no days off whatsoever because she was scared of risking her hours. They told me I didn't qualify for health care because minimum 30hours are required. I did 69 to 70 every two weeks. So how I didn't qualify will always be a mystery to me.
As a former associate I had them pull the same crap at a Walmart location in MN. I also saw them doing the same to other associates as well. The associates they did this to were also there for about 15 months. At the store where I was the average length of stay on an associate was about 16 months. I had to close at midnight, and come back at 6:00 AM the next day. Another associate I knew slept in her van in the parking lot when they pulled this.
Kenneth James is a Great man!
This is why I decided to work for myself. I am currently renting tables, chairs, tents, linen, props, setting up dessert tables for all occasions, and more to afford a venue next year. I have been documenting it on my RUclips channel. It's hard work, but I know it will pay off in the end.
i once lived in nyc. i loved living there riding the trains, central park on Saturday morning.
wal mart is not a good fit, they have no business being there.
Every single thing she said is true I worked there for 15 years and they believe me on the way out and then they try to get me to work myself to death I even had a tore my shoulder and had a heart attack a week later and I was back standing at the door like a people greeter instead of being at home relaxing with my hurt shoulder
Again, another Walmart employee complaining about how they were treated at an entry-level job, after being there 15 years. Why would you stay at a minimum wage job where you are treated like s*** for such a long period of time? It was never meant to be a career. Go to a vocational school and learn a trade. If your work habits are good, you will excel.
My general philosophy is the higher up the ladder someone is in a company, organization, or chain of command, the more of an asshole that person turns out to be. It's ironic but the people on the bottom are often the best, smartest, and hardest working people, and the people at the top are the dumbest, laziest, and most selfish assholes. Yet, they get paid better than anyone else.
I have heard so much terrible stories about Wal Mart I would never work for them
Nothing has changed. 10 years later.
I worked for Sam's Club which is under the Wal-Mart flag. Everything they're saying is true. Wal Mart or retail isn't a career. You can work their for years and never get promoted. You must have an exit plan. Wal Mart has a high turn over ratio for a reason.
I have a family member that worked at a Walmart for over 20 years. She finally made it to being a store manager. She loved the job for a while, but it became very stressful. Then she got a new boss who made things even worse for her so she retired from that store. The stress and abuse was causing her health to go down the drain. She has another job and is much happier although she had to take a cut in pay.
All the managers care about is their bonuses, & moving into higher positions
I remember going to orientation and. One of the managers was like “ we laugh at people that try to take more than 3 days off to go on vacation “ I was like wtf people have lives outside of work . I work there now but I’m definitely looking for something else .
The woman at approx 2.10 explains things very well.
I work for Walmart as a AP host. We have no choice but to preform a receipt check. We have to stand at those doors for 8 to 9 hours everyday. Its a mentally and emotionally draining position. Often times we are mistreated by management or ignored by managment completely and for the majority the rest of our coworkers look down on us because they believe its "easy money" because its not a physical position (exept for standing all day with out any pad to stand on)((our management actually took our ruber cushion pads away)) . My Walmart has a particularly bad theft problem because we are in a bad neighborhood. Our hosts have gotten guns, tazers and knives pulled on us for asking for receipts. But we arent properly compensated for these occurances. A coworker was still penalized for leaving work ealry after a shoplifter threatened him with a gun. I can only speak for my own Walmart, but our hosts honestly do not give a shit what your doing unless we have seen something with our own eyes. We only want to keep our jobs, because if somewhere else was hiring dont you think we would leave these shitty jobs?. My store manager will nitpick at every little thing we are doing wrong instead of helping making the position a little easier. What everyone says is true, you can refuse receipt checks at the door. But if you do please dont do it with attitude, hosts at the door have to listen to that attitude all day as people are annoyed that we are only doing what we are told. We are basically threatend with our jobs and our way of supporting our families if we dont check these reciepts. So the next time you go to walmart amd are asked to show reciepts if you really feel you must refuse to prove a point, dont take it out on us. Take it to management, take it to corporate. Force walmart to stop reciept checks and rethink their security to make it more effective for those actually shoplifting and not the regular customers. If we are annoyed at the door its only because we've heard everyone tell us that our job is illegal all day, everyday we step into that corporate hellhole. We are humans, as much as you hate a receipt check, we have having to preform them and then listen to you complain because everyone says the same thing. "i understand but,........ -"and then you continue to complain. I can only speak for the AP hosts that i work with and the walmart i work in, but for the majority we just want to work with out being demeaned and threatened. The AP host position is the most come and go position of the whole store, yes more than maintenance. Because either we get fed up with dealing with these things and quit or we are lucky and get to transfer to a different position. But at my walmart we are constantly low on hosts so management will use what ever they can to block our transfers. So please, next time take it easy on your hosts, take it straight to corporate and refuse the checks there, and not with the people that have to put up with the mind numbing tourture walmart forces on us.
I work for wal-mart, I work with the unloading crew and today my over night manager had us a little meeting. There is supposed to be seven or more to do the Job done right, we have four people. So instead of hiring a "temp" are manager told us we need to be two people, and to tell that other guy that had the day off, if he does not move his legs faster he will find someone else that will. So if im two people do I get two paychecks?
This video is old but I can tell you it’s still the same. Worked there for six months. The favoritism is sickening. You have to kiss a** in order to move up and keep your job, which I refused to do. They don’t communicate with employees and assume you should know everything about everything. Please avoid working there at all costs.
This is still a problem at Walmart today I work there and I’m going to quit soon do not work there.
How can this be legal to have a big Corporation treat their Employees like this. #BoycottWalmart #ProsecuteWalmart
When my dog was dying Walmart felt that it wasn't important enough to take time off and put points against me. A separate time wherein I went to the Emergency Room they said that isn't enough to waive leaving early either.
I worked in a hostile environment where I was psychological emotionally abused. They used me as bait for entrapment against abuser. When the deed was done they forced me to sign a disclosure form or be terminated all in just minutes. I suffer from ptsd with hives food allergies (corn),atopic dermatitis on top of hives. I'm going to be homeless soon. Spent my 401k to get these answers but will never be cured. Can't win lawsuit because they silenced my witnesses with job if they testified.
So sorry Heidi, only death can save you from the demons of this world
I worked for WALMART for nearly 30 years, one of the best things I ever did was go to work for WALMART, Yes some managers favor some people, you will not find a work place who does not do this. Yes you start out a minimumm wage, do your job and work your way up. If you work overtime you get overtime pay, of course I worked mainly in Ks. but worked in Louisiana, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. Do your job.
I worked at Walmart’s sister store “Sam’s Club” and they treated me like shit. Management along with some of the other associates didn’t like me at all. I was threatened to be terminated twice. Most folks around me were getting raises and I never received one. I was always on time and did my work as told. They had a problem with me and I don’t know why.
I used worked for two Walmart stores for 10 years ago. Since then, I have to go on disability before my health and mental health took a toll on me because Walmart. Walmart management doesn't care for their own associates. They treated their own associates very badly. I have been having badly social anxiety because the treatment from both management from those two stores. I had one manager tried to denial me of not using the bathroom. I was very closed of having an accident on myself. However, I was very lucky of using the bathroom after two customers complained on him. Since then, I don't want to work for this company ever again.
Two words: Bad Management . It all starts from the top. They are telling the truth in this video
Worked there for 9 years. Got fired for going out on a protected, approved covid leave.
I'm glad walmart is falling also I used to work at Wal-Mart
It's no wonder that every time I go into Walmart, on a month to month basis, you always see new employees! Anytime you see something like that ( always hiring) that means there's something wrong there. You would think that the gov't would do something about this since whatever benefits that walmart doesn't pay, the taxpayers have to pick up! A multibillion dollar company, yet they have many workers on food stamps and medicaid! And that makes sense to our politicians?!
I used to work for them I know for a fact they will favor the customer over you 100% of the time. Sit you down in a room and talk to you like your fucking five
+EONARCHY Gordon Yea that's how business works, its always customer over you, why would it ever not be?
+Joey Hall that should be really obvious. Customers are constantly trying to take advantage of stores/workers.
Maxwell hanson Your job is to serve customers, that's why you have to be their bitch or get fired.
+Joey Hall lol theres a lot more to it then that. I dont work at walmart but I constantly hear stories about crazy customers.
@@joey1599 they don't treat customers that great either
Since Covid started Walmart prices have skyrocketed. Their shelves can sit near empty for days. I feel like I'm being assaulted by cashiers bc they shove their credit card schpiel down my throat 'till I'm so close to telling them to 'F' the hell off!!! It's a horrible place to shop so I can only imagine how abusive it has to be for employees.
I worked there for 2 years and I almost got robbed at customer service not to mention the schedules 9 days in a row and split shifts. I would have a 9-1 am shift come back to a 7 -11pm shift that's why i quit. Every job has its cons. Not just Walmart.
I offer my support to the workers who've been struggling for years against Walmart! What a disgusting company they are! I've been hearing things like this for years now! Stay strong people - Australian workers support you!
I believe everything these people saying. Walmart is something else. I've worked there before.
Very true
Well said! I couldn't agree more! I had the same type of experience at a Walmart in LaPlata, MD. I was in the military and didn't get treated as badly in BOOT CAMP as I was at Walmart!
We have two sexual harassment cases going on in my store. One has been going on for about a month and the other has been going on for several months. Neither of those geezers have been terminated even though one of them harassed an ASM. Walmart is trash and management is trashier.
when I worked for Walmart, we would be told we had to get xyz done before you can leave, but you can't have overtime or work off the clock.
This is so true
I had a friend that worked a walmart in PA..she was always comparing how men were paid better...I felt bad for her ..she was a professional baker..and could feel the differences..she quit & went to another supermarket & could not believe the difference in treatment...maybe that's why walmart is so cheap...they cut cost with staff too..
Every job promises growth and advancement but then when you offer up good advice or ideas the manager look down on you and cuts your hours or they put you in awkward predicaments or things you can’t control
When I worked at Walmart, and applied for the management training program, they responded by having a bullshit associate coaching session. The session was based entirely on what some other associate said I said. All of it was a made up story, and management did not hear any of it themselves. The problem with that is management had no proof or evidence to properly proceed with a write-up. They did it anyway. They did it so they could have an excuse to use to refuse me a position in their management training program. They were only trying to hold me back, and keep me working as an associate. At Walmart there is no opportunity for advancement or growth into a higher level position. The company, and it's management team suck.
I'm honestly thinking about quitting and finding a new job soon. I've been with the company for over a year now and I feel like the moral of it keeps on degenerating overtime.
i love that one voice in the end that sticks out, the guy who says "NYC"
I work there at the moment it’s Corrupt
So what did Walmart do? Install self check outs at 98% if it’s registers and fire 98% of its staff.
They are the W in Wicked
Seniors are abused at Walmart
There is a scarcity of jobs currently. Your comment means that you are quite out of touch with reality.
Wal-Mart did get a new CEO so there are some positive changes happening as far as wages and labor. But sometimes management/HR will give u raises/bonuses and then turn around and cut your hours. And this video really changed my perspective because a manager will say you need to work faster for a specific reason but its a different reason every time.
IT'S TRUE. THEY LOVE TO PUSH US TO DEATH.
Worked at Walmart for 2.5 years and it was hell. I worked in receiving unloaded trucks and the manager always pushed too much work on us. They wouldn’t hire enough people to get the jobs done quickly the pay was nothing really they payed you just enough so they couldn’t be sued and never gave any raises or holiday pay. And if you were one minute late from break they turned it into a big ordeal because I’m sure they were bored and just wanted to cause drama.