Hi, my name is Vivian. When I was in high school I was real unpopular and no one would talk to me. Now, I work at Walsmart, and when I say hi to people, they say hi back! LOLOLOL
You mean that there are actual employees visible right, not just the help. Sometimes I feel like I'm playing hide and seek, but I'm the seeker and the employees all left.
"Hi I'm looking for my mother, she came here 3 days ago and I haven't seen her since." THen "Hello new customer!" etc etc. LMFAO this is definately a classic mad tv skit
I was at a Walmart recently and a staffer had a complete meltdown. It was disturbing and awesome at the same time. You can only push employees so far, as it sounded like she was sticking up for other employees.
@@yellowblanka6058Its a mixed bag. Some retail jobs can be really laid back and as a result, work is just running on autopilot; others everyone is up your ass to push credit apps and loyalty programs, make conversation, compliment or engage customers, etc etc to the point you genuinely live for your breaks. I like the autopilot job because it means I can genuinely engage with customers who come through the line; its a voluntary decision and I actually enjoy talking to them about their day or their purchase. High volume, high strung settings make engagement a job requirement to be juggled on top of things you'll legit get your performance dinged on if you don't include.
Yes! Complaining about Walls-Mart shutting down his business, then becoming employed by Walls-Mart, and tying it all together with a Zombie motif. Pure comedy.
So true at any retail store these days! That’s why I don’t try to get to know my coworkers outside of work. That would really bring to light just how much we’re all code-switching to our fake corporate-defined personas.
No different than these times today.they are robots and zombies.this world is ending in slow torture!and we all suffer!personally i don't mind new technology.but new technology partially ruins us psychotically.like we're not humans.slave for money and technology.the future is now they.we are better off decomposed to our origins.which is the rich soil of earth.
So happy they failed establishing here in Germany. I actually shopped there for a year when it was the only thing nearby on the edge to an industrial area but it was always a chilling experience.
I remember this skit, and don't know how Phil Lamarr (greeter) and Bryan Callen (customer) did the "zombie" bit without laughing so hard. Nicole Sullivan was excellent (as always) as "Vivian". What talents.
Luke Pettis ... I've worked all the big box stores... they're all a fucking mess... strictly a 6 month gig, a year at the most ... stay any longer and one loses his mind...no intelligent person can last in that environment.
Now Walmart has been joined by Target, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and now Amazon, just a few of many big companies that zombify and assimilate both customers and employees and even executives. This comedy skit is both hilariously funny and uncannily accurate even after 20 years.
You'd think they'd take a cue from corporations like "Cost Co" who apparently treat their employees very well, and consequently the service etc. in the stores is well rated. Hmm...treat your employees like human beings, pay them a fair wage with decent benefits, they are happier and more productive, who knew?
@@DrJ-hx7wv I grew up in the 80's and 90's, and people joked about this all time. They didn't get attacked. Overall those were pretty good times, you could make fun of anything, people could tease each other good naturedly without that much fear. That's not to say they were perfect times bullying was a major problem back then. It still is as long as you don't bully someone who woke crowd perceives as one of the good guys. And you can still joke about things, but it gets more and more risky every day as govt gets more tyrannical.
My Wal-Mart employment experience included incompetent management, idiotic lazy co-workers who plugged the shelves, and a department manager who took the day off when the OSHA guy showed up at the store.
The management team is awful I’ll never ever forget how I was treated I’ll never work for them again even if they beg me I left on good terms etc but worst ever company to work for.
+Joe Smalley I must be the exception to the rule. I loved it and was very happy. I worked from 6am-2pm and I wasn't a morning person at all. I had to work Sundays and was mocked and condescended to by my manager if I didn't want to. I was sexually harassed by the same big black mean female manager. I had to do 10 different important tasks at one time, plus help out all the female employees who took FULL advantage of the fact they were "too short to reach this" every single time I had to walk anywhere outside of my dept. I barely made enough to eat, pay rent or wear any decent clothes, even though I shared a cramped 2 bedroom home with 4 horrible roommates. I was actually treated like a suspected shop lifter every time I left as the policy was if we had any bags, even personal baggage, they were to be searched for the store's products because we as the "associates" weren't even to be trusted with on shop lifting. I was told not to stock things in certain places or certain orders and then my manager (the same mean one) would do it in my dept behind my back and I'd get in trouble for it. When I explained it was her who did it, I was "off the hook" but nothing was ever done to HER. During my performance evaluation (done by same two faced pervert back stabbing lying bitch whore mean manager), my main "issue" was I didn't pay attention to detail. Well that's funny. I was later diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and one of the main criteria I met was I paid TOO MUCH attention to the details. Yup. I was REAL happy working for Wal Mart.
David McClelland sorry to hear about that experience. I can't blame anyone for being miserable under those conditions. You may be interested in this article: www.vice.com/read/i-tried-to-spend-24-hours-in-24-hour-walmart-242
I actually worked at a super center across from the WM home office in Bentonville, AR. There you didn’t just have to deal with the usual WM crap, but the home office jerks who thought they had the authority to come over to the store and tell store employees how to do our jobs just because they scrub the toilets at the Home Office.
When they were opening a new fancy Walmart in our Town I got a job there and can you believe that every day they made us dance to some silly song and then the manager said here at Walmart we dont bleed red we bleed blue!!!??? True story!! Around 2004
I worked at Wal-Mart in 2003. They pay you absolute SHIT. They do everything they can to NOT give you overtime. They should be paying you DOUBLE just for having to deal with the customers that shop there. I had never wanted to willingly physically hurt a child, until I worked in the electronics department at Walmart during the 03 X-mas season.
This is exactly how I felt when I had a job there 20 yrs ago. Back then it wasn't a 24 hour super center. I got a night stocking job to get away from the corrupt manager who intentionally gave me bad reviews and the other employees taking advantage of my helpful attitude. There were literally only 5 of us who had to unload two 18 wheelers stuffed full of stock within 1-2 hours while literally being barked at by this little blonde who was convinced she was an army sargeant. We then had to unload all that stock within the next 6 hrs throughout the whole store, and I had to confront our sargeant, er, manager about how our state law requires AT LEAST a 10 min break every 2 hours on a job. At end of shift before we left, we had to get by a militant assistant manager at the front who treated us like thieves who couldn't be trusted (this was policy) and our actual bags and belongings were checked for stolen merchandise. All this for $6/hr.
Couple of things glancing at what you wrote (and in no particular order). 1: 20 years ago 6$ was pretty damn good. First job was Wal-Mart and as a cashier back in 2011 I started at 8$/hr...so 20 years ago at 6$ an hour was a hell of a wage. 2. Five people to unload 1-2 trucks per night is normal-ish depending on the size of your trucks *item count* *grocery or GM* - it sucks and is a lot of physical labor to be sure, but normal for Wal-Mart CURRENTLY - and the demand for everything was lower back in the 90's/early 2000's so its doubtful the trucks were the size they are now/frequency. I know policies can vary from state to state, region to region, however...given the time frame you spoke of I highly doubt you were treated the way you were in the sense they were deliberately defying labor laws and being treated like thieves. As you should know the world was very different back then....just find your claims hard to believe. Year old post but....its the internet, here you go!
@@asun1419 In 1998 $6 was NOT good money for all the manual labor described here. I was an Admin Asst in 1998 and made $8. I did no manual labor. These companies need to pay those who work hard accordingly. $6 to unload a truck is a sure sign of corporate greed (even in 1998).
@@UncleDuTheWatchman This - OP is acting like he was talking about the 70's or 80's - in the late 90's, early to mid 2000's, $6 an hour was not "good money" - sounds like somebody who is/was a Wal-Mart manager and trying to hand-wave their penny pinching. I worked there briefly in the mid-aughts and they were grossly understaffed for the stocking quotas they expected, frequently pulled people out of their designated departments to stock other areas, made a poor older gentleman with a family take a drug test after he fell off a ladder because he had to stock a high shelf and was rushing to meet their unreasonable quotas etc. - meanwhile they had way more managers than they needed, standing around doing little/nothing (well, most of them, there were a few decent ones that actually pitched in and did work). They were constantly trying to squeeze as much labor as possible out of the minimum wage they were paying.
Greeters now double as asset protection/receipt checkers. 50% of stock is locked up and requires an employee to unlock, most of the time the keyholder capable of unlocking the section just never shows up.
As a former Wal Mart slave..I mean employee /team member, this video rings so damn true! If people really knew how insidious this corporation is at its core, no one would shop there any more. I don't!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep, worked there briefly in the mid-aughts and they absolutely treated employees like cattle, hired too few employees for each section and wrung them dry. Then there was the obligatory "Wal-Mart Cheer" etc. - uggh, some of the associates I worked with were decent, but the managers were mostly dicks and it was entirely unpleasant. I've rarely gone into a Wal-Mart since working there.
I always wonder why people work at Wal-Mart??? It sucks. I worked at Target for a year, and it was actually a good company to work for. They treated us decently.
+Thatoneguy Torts exactly, i worked there for 3 years, never enjoyed 1 second of it. i took the job while i was going to school. in fact i had to put off school for a couple of semesters to focus on my shitty job there to make money to have my own place to live for a while. and you know what really chapped my ass about working there? that everywhere you went to, they always said "we're here for you, we're here to ensure our employees are ok." horseshit, no one there nor the company themselves give a damn about you. you are just a number to them, being told to do what they say and defend them from angry customers who had a beef with wal-mart. it was never corporate's fault or manager's fault, apparently "it was the employee's fault." and that lead to them being more strict and dictator-ish to us about everything; shorter breaks, longer shifts, being sent to to things we knew nothing about. it's so ironic that wal-mart is falling apart more and more everyday yet at the same time, everyday they make more and more profit, so the more money they gain, the more they can screw up and screw over customers and employees.
I worked at Target for 3 years. I've worked at Walmart for 1 year now, and I can't complain. I actually think Walmart in our area treats it's associates far better than Target does. Also, Target doesn't give it's associates quarterly profit bonuses (or at least it didn't while I worked there). Walmart does. In terms of pay level, available benefits, and quarterly bonuses I have to give the edge to Walmart over Target as a great place to work if you must work retail.
@@sexhaie Because they aggressively price out local businesses until Wal-Mart is the cheapest/only place to get things in many towns, or at the very least the most convenient since they're everywhere. I worked there very briefly and it was just as hellish as you describe. Ever since working there I've only gone into Wal-Mart a handful of times. Treated employees like absolute garbage.
Foreign tourist here. Once I asked those lovely wallmart ladies if they knew any taxi phone numbers. Right after the question there was some sort of a glitch. Ladies kept smiling and didn't say anything.
Walls mart or Sprawl mart. They ate up competitors, small businesses and statewide chains, they were the by-word for price dumping as well as pressuring suppliers for heavy discounts that were not feasible, only to be gradually replaced by e-commerce. Yeah, they have an e-store themselves but with ever growing competition, their marketshare is declining and these huge ugly box stores will no longer be built.
Corporations are oligopolies. Look at the major shareholders of all big box stores and you'll see similar names popping up. Those people control the board of directors. We're quickly advancing towards a new world order. Those who tell the truth will be starved out.
Never met someone who had anything good to say about working at Walmart. From what I hear they treat their employees like shit and are constantly cycling through managers because none of them are worth shit. When you have a large corporation that brags about all of the benefits you can get, it's naturally going to attract the lowest common denominator.
Jack Torrance yep. Managers at the one I worked at were crappy. The rules were dumb. I got a flat tire on my way to work once and I had called in to say I'd be late. And at Walmart they have a point system for not showing up. Well I got a point for a flat tire, even though I called in and had the proof. Basically people get punished for stupid things, and get 4 hour shifts constantly. It's a mess.
Yeah, I only worked there briefly ages ago, but they treated employees like cattle, had way too many managers and far too few associates, unreasonable stocking quotas to the point where you'd frequently get pulled into other sections to help because of course they're not going to hire enough people to do the job, just wring fewer people dry of as much work as possible for that minimum wage. They also made this poor nice, older gentleman take a drug test after he fell off a ladder he was using to stock a high shelf (he was relatively short), he was rushing because of their insane quotas and so didn't secure it correctly. This guy had never seen a non-prescription drug in his life, I can tell you. Awful place to work, I've rarely gone into Wal-Mart since. I also remember the mandatory training videos with the strong anti-union rhetoric, and the compulsory "Wal-Mart Cheer" each shift....uggh.
I just wanted to say, the man in these sketches is Phil LaMarr, who voiced Samurai Jack, Green Lantern (John Stewart), Jazz (in TFA) and so many others.
I'm a zombie wal mart associate and I found this funny it depends on many factors the person what there feeling etc and there is more running in the background then some think
I worked at Walmart and the people were literally the meanest trashiest people ever. my manager would get merchandise thrown back at him and would get called a loser. few customers were ever nice to me in a single day. oh Jesus...
@@yellowblanka6058By location. Southwest: The managers and the customers are equal levels of shitty. I mean that in the least respectful way possible - screw walmart and the people who frequent it.
For the most expensive oil change in town--go to your local Wal-Mart. And as time goes on, they will have the most expensive EVERYTHING in your town, because they will eventually be the only retail place there is in your town.
I was a wal-mart slave. Endured some verbal abuse from multiple people. That place does something to you man.... I swear. And there was this guy who worked there and at first he was really cheery and stuff, then a few months later, he was truly devoid of life.
It's awesome how MadTV was onto Walmart way back in the 90's. Most of the serious criticism didn't seriously start until the 2000s.
That’s a lie
Hi, my name is Vivian. When I was in high school I was real unpopular and no one would talk to me. Now, I work at Walsmart, and when I say hi to people, they say hi back! LOLOLOL
Hi
@@mattlimburry8582 hi
It actually makes me really sad..
@@valsmith7585 same it makes me really upset for some reason??
okay? we all heard it in the video, there was no need to comment it in the comment section down below...
Nicole Sullivan is so funny with her facial expressions alone , LOL,LOL
Yes, especially her winning Walls-Mart smile
She is uncannily similar to Gilda Radner in this sketch. Not that that’s a bad thing.
Kristen Wiig basically copied her and Mo Collins.
"I"m so glad wal-mart was there when all the shops and buisnesses UNEXPECTEDLY shut down." lol
Cheery Voice-over:
"Walls-Mart: Resistance is Futile"
LOL!
Wanna know how you can tell this is just a sketch? The wal mart employees actually seem to help customers.
NoClassPranking I know right!!!!!
You mean that there are actual employees visible right, not just the help. Sometimes I feel like I'm playing hide and seek, but I'm the seeker and the employees all left.
You can't expect personalized service at a discount store. You're buying shit from China, not a new Bentley.
Some customers also are assholes or get annoyed when you ask THEM first if they need help, not the other way.
That Guy
“It’s the customers that give it a bad name...”
Not really. Employees are from the same pool.
The worst part is this is what the training videos there were like
the saddest part is that you had to work at Walmart
That's the worst part of getting a job.
Emma Anderson That's what you think. Try working for Wal-Mart
Isn't Walmart living the American Dream? Capitalism?
Greed isn't a bad word.
Emma Anderson it is a joke mam calm down
That is the creepiest store commercial that I have ever seen, but I like it. :D
Kevin Ceniceros very scary
"Hi I'm looking for my mother, she came here 3 days ago and I haven't seen her since." THen "Hello new customer!" etc etc. LMFAO this is definately a classic mad tv skit
I was at a Walmart recently and a staffer had a complete meltdown. It was disturbing and awesome at the same time. You can only push employees so far, as it sounded like she was sticking up for other employees.
That's retail work for you, the only people who enjoy it aren't quite right in the head.
@@yellowblanka6058Who said they enjoy it?
@@yellowblanka6058Its a mixed bag.
Some retail jobs can be really laid back and as a result, work is just running on autopilot; others everyone is up your ass to push credit apps and loyalty programs, make conversation, compliment or engage customers, etc etc to the point you genuinely live for your breaks.
I like the autopilot job because it means I can genuinely engage with customers who come through the line; its a voluntary decision and I actually enjoy talking to them about their day or their purchase. High volume, high strung settings make engagement a job requirement to be juggled on top of things you'll legit get your performance dinged on if you don't include.
Pretty much what it's like to work at Wal-Mart
Welcome to Walls-Mart, you WILL be assimilated
It's the Borg, they're the workers in Wal-Mart
lightheart5
If you notice, it’s the customers too.
I love how the shopper in the first skit is now a Walls Mart employee in the second skit.. hahahaha
Yes! Complaining about Walls-Mart shutting down his business, then becoming employed by Walls-Mart, and tying it all together with a Zombie motif. Pure comedy.
Now I work at Walsmart, and when I say hi to people, they say hi back.
"Hi."
"Hi."
*They give me this real important job.*
I work at Walmart (unfortunately). This skit is so true. We're mindless zombies who aren't allowed to have an opinion.
So true at any retail store these days! That’s why I don’t try to get to know my coworkers outside of work. That would really bring to light just how much we’re all code-switching to our fake corporate-defined personas.
No different than these times today.they are robots and zombies.this world is ending in slow torture!and we all suffer!personally i don't mind new technology.but new technology partially ruins us psychotically.like we're not humans.slave for money and technology.the future is now they.we are better off decomposed to our origins.which is the rich soil of earth.
Government employees are expected to be robots with the mindset of abused spouses, so I sympathize with you.
Please don't hurt me, i have a family
If you're mindless zombies, you don't have any opinions of your own.
So happy they failed establishing here in Germany. I actually shopped there for a year when it was the only thing nearby on the edge to an industrial area but it was always a chilling experience.
I remember this skit, and don't know how Phil Lamarr (greeter)
and Bryan Callen (customer) did the "zombie" bit without laughing
so hard. Nicole Sullivan was excellent (as always) as "Vivian".
What talents.
I work over at Lowes and I find it to be just as soul crushing as this
Luke Pettis ... I've worked all the big box stores... they're all a fucking mess... strictly a 6 month gig, a year at the most ... stay any longer and one loses his mind...no intelligent person can last in that environment.
Now Walmart has been joined by Target, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and now Amazon, just a few of many big companies that zombify and assimilate both customers and employees and even executives. This comedy skit is both hilariously funny and uncannily accurate even after 20 years.
You'd think they'd take a cue from corporations like "Cost Co" who apparently treat their employees very well, and consequently the service etc. in the stores is well rated. Hmm...treat your employees like human beings, pay them a fair wage with decent benefits, they are happier and more productive, who knew?
mind controlled slaves prediction
Just a funny take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
They are all androids, sent here from another planet.🛸🧿🧿
In the 90's we could joke about this. In 2021 its getting to close to the truth.
Wait until digital currency is fully implemented and cash is outlawed "for our safety". You'll need a QR code just to enter a big box store.
We didn't joke about it. We were attacked for even mentioning this possibility.
@@DrJ-hx7wv I grew up in the 80's and 90's, and people joked about this all time. They didn't get attacked. Overall those were pretty good times, you could make fun of anything, people could tease each other good naturedly without that much fear. That's not to say they were perfect times bullying was a major problem back then. It still is as long as you don't bully someone who woke crowd perceives as one of the good guys. And you can still joke about things, but it gets more and more risky every day as govt gets more tyrannical.
OMG, when the camera pans over to Nicole's face and she says "Helloooo, my name is Vivian." I totally lost it.
My Wal-Mart employment experience included incompetent management, idiotic lazy co-workers who plugged the shelves, and a department manager who took the day off when the OSHA guy showed up at the store.
I agree
that treated me like a bitch
but I always talk back
Well I can't really blame them for the OSHA thing, I'd hide from them too.
Not all employees. I’ve known several coworkers I had that worked hard even I did but we all got treated like trash.
The management team is awful I’ll never ever forget how I was treated I’ll never work for them again even if they beg me I left on good terms etc but worst ever company to work for.
@@jenniferbassfirstchannelGood managers are able to keep employees through the bad times, bad managers lose good employees all the time.
One of my favorites from the early days of Mad TV. Great stuff.
The vintage quality of this video makes it super creepy
I feel terrible for Wal-Mart employees. They never seem happy at all. Any Wal-Mart employees out there that can confirm or say i'm wrong?
+Joe Smalley I must be the exception to the rule. I loved it and was very happy. I worked from 6am-2pm and I wasn't a morning person at all. I had to work Sundays and was mocked and condescended to by my manager if I didn't want to. I was sexually harassed by the same big black mean female manager. I had to do 10 different important tasks at one time, plus help out all the female employees who took FULL advantage of the fact they were "too short to reach this" every single time I had to walk anywhere outside of my dept.
I barely made enough to eat, pay rent or wear any decent clothes, even though I shared a cramped 2 bedroom home with 4 horrible roommates. I was actually treated like a suspected shop lifter every time I left as the policy was if we had any bags, even personal baggage, they were to be searched for the store's products because we as the "associates" weren't even to be trusted with on shop lifting.
I was told not to stock things in certain places or certain orders and then my manager (the same mean one) would do it in my dept behind my back and I'd get in trouble for it. When I explained it was her who did it, I was "off the hook" but nothing was ever done to HER.
During my performance evaluation (done by same two faced pervert back stabbing lying bitch whore mean manager), my main "issue" was I didn't pay attention to detail.
Well that's funny. I was later diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and one of the main criteria I met was I paid TOO MUCH attention to the details.
Yup. I was REAL happy working for Wal Mart.
David McClelland sorry to hear about that experience. I can't blame anyone for being miserable under those conditions. You may be interested in this article: www.vice.com/read/i-tried-to-spend-24-hours-in-24-hour-walmart-242
ok, now I am happy with my job.
not wrong
I actually worked at a super center across from the WM home office in Bentonville, AR. There you didn’t just have to deal with the usual WM crap, but the home office jerks who thought they had the authority to come over to the store and tell store employees how to do our jobs just because they scrub the toilets at the Home Office.
This is way better than the real place called Walmart.
"My winning Wals-Mart smile"
Awesome.
I love how each customer ends up being part of the staff in the next scene
The Borg.
When they were opening a new fancy Walmart in our Town I got a job there and can you believe that every day they made us dance to some silly song and then the manager said here at Walmart we dont bleed red we bleed blue!!!??? True story!! Around 2004
Amazon is worse the Walmart when it comes to destroying small business
I worked at Wal-Mart in 2003. They pay you absolute SHIT. They do everything they can to NOT give you overtime. They should be paying you DOUBLE just for having to deal with the customers that shop there. I had never wanted to willingly physically hurt a child, until I worked in the electronics department at Walmart during the 03 X-mas season.
This is exactly how I felt when I had a job there 20 yrs ago. Back then it wasn't a 24 hour super center. I got a night stocking job to get away from the corrupt manager who intentionally gave me bad reviews and the other employees taking advantage of my helpful attitude.
There were literally only 5 of us who had to unload two 18 wheelers stuffed full of stock within 1-2 hours while literally being barked at by this little blonde who was convinced she was an army sargeant. We then had to unload all that stock within the next 6 hrs throughout the whole store, and I had to confront our sargeant, er, manager about how our state law requires AT LEAST a 10 min break every 2 hours on a job.
At end of shift before we left, we had to get by a militant assistant manager at the front who treated us like thieves who couldn't be trusted (this was policy) and our actual bags and belongings were checked for stolen merchandise.
All this for $6/hr.
Couple of things glancing at what you wrote (and in no particular order). 1: 20 years ago 6$ was pretty damn good. First job was Wal-Mart and as a cashier back in 2011 I started at 8$/hr...so 20 years ago at 6$ an hour was a hell of a wage. 2. Five people to unload 1-2 trucks per night is normal-ish depending on the size of your trucks *item count* *grocery or GM* - it sucks and is a lot of physical labor to be sure, but normal for Wal-Mart CURRENTLY - and the demand for everything was lower back in the 90's/early 2000's so its doubtful the trucks were the size they are now/frequency.
I know policies can vary from state to state, region to region, however...given the time frame you spoke of I highly doubt you were treated the way you were in the sense they were deliberately defying labor laws and being treated like thieves. As you should know the world was very different back then....just find your claims hard to believe.
Year old post but....its the internet, here you go!
Twenty years ago I worked at a Walmart I made $5.15 an hour.
@@asun1419 In 1998 $6 was NOT good money for all the manual labor described here. I was an Admin Asst in 1998 and made $8. I did no manual labor. These companies need to pay those who work hard accordingly. $6 to unload a truck is a sure sign of corporate greed (even in 1998).
@@UncleDuTheWatchman This - OP is acting like he was talking about the 70's or 80's - in the late 90's, early to mid 2000's, $6 an hour was not "good money" - sounds like somebody who is/was a Wal-Mart manager and trying to hand-wave their penny pinching. I worked there briefly in the mid-aughts and they were grossly understaffed for the stocking quotas they expected, frequently pulled people out of their designated departments to stock other areas, made a poor older gentleman with a family take a drug test after he fell off a ladder because he had to stock a high shelf and was rushing to meet their unreasonable quotas etc. - meanwhile they had way more managers than they needed, standing around doing little/nothing (well, most of them, there were a few decent ones that actually pitched in and did work). They were constantly trying to squeeze as much labor as possible out of the minimum wage they were paying.
@@yellowblanka6058Minimum wage is pro corporation.
And that,my friends,is why you should NEVER shop at Walmart...
but its soo cheap
AChickenSalad Sandwich that's what they want you to think...
Uh oh! Guess where I was today!
Walls-Mart*
Bro, it's cheap who gives a shit
The hills have eyes!
Wal mart did away with their greeters and nobody who works there ever comes up to u asking to help you out lol
I did lol
oh lol
No they didn't, the greeters are still there.
unless your black
Greeters now double as asset protection/receipt checkers. 50% of stock is locked up and requires an employee to unlock, most of the time the keyholder capable of unlocking the section just never shows up.
Nicole Sullivan, what a beautiful woman. Those eyes...
OMG this is sooo true!
Its scary how revelant this still is
I miss this show so much :"(
As a former Wal Mart slave..I mean employee /team member, this video rings so damn true! If people really knew how insidious this corporation is at its core, no one would shop there any more. I don't!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep, worked there briefly in the mid-aughts and they absolutely treated employees like cattle, hired too few employees for each section and wrung them dry. Then there was the obligatory "Wal-Mart Cheer" etc. - uggh, some of the associates I worked with were decent, but the managers were mostly dicks and it was entirely unpleasant. I've rarely gone into a Wal-Mart since working there.
"there's no where else to go"
I always wonder why people work at Wal-Mart??? It sucks. I worked at Target for a year, and it was actually a good company to work for. They treated us decently.
+Joshua Leonardo Times are tough. You take what you get till you find something better.
+Thatoneguy Torts exactly, i worked there for 3 years, never enjoyed 1 second of it. i took the job while i was going to school. in fact i had to put off school for a couple of semesters to focus on my shitty job there to make money to have my own place to live for a while.
and you know what really chapped my ass about working there? that everywhere you went to, they always said "we're here for you, we're here to ensure our employees are ok." horseshit, no one there nor the company themselves give a damn about you. you are just a number to them, being told to do what they say and defend them from angry customers who had a beef with wal-mart. it was never corporate's fault or manager's fault, apparently "it was the employee's fault." and that lead to them being more strict and dictator-ish to us about everything; shorter breaks, longer shifts, being sent to to things we knew nothing about.
it's so ironic that wal-mart is falling apart more and more everyday yet at the same time, everyday they make more and more profit, so the more money they gain, the more they can screw up and screw over customers and employees.
I worked at Target for 3 years. I've worked at Walmart for 1 year now, and I can't complain. I actually think Walmart in our area treats it's associates far better than Target does. Also, Target doesn't give it's associates quarterly profit bonuses (or at least it didn't while I worked there). Walmart does. In terms of pay level, available benefits, and quarterly bonuses I have to give the edge to Walmart over Target as a great place to work if you must work retail.
I worked there and it was crappy. I don't even shop there anymore either.
@@sexhaie Because they aggressively price out local businesses until Wal-Mart is the cheapest/only place to get things in many towns, or at the very least the most convenient since they're everywhere. I worked there very briefly and it was just as hellish as you describe. Ever since working there I've only gone into Wal-Mart a handful of times. Treated employees like absolute garbage.
Foreign tourist here. Once I asked those lovely wallmart ladies if they knew any taxi phone numbers. Right after the question there was some sort of a glitch. Ladies kept smiling and didn't say anything.
Most Walmart employees in the USA aren't multilingual.
They should put this in a museum -such was the early resistance..
Walls-Mart: There’s nowhere else to go. LOL!!!!
Vivian stares into your soul
I love Walls Mart! Im going there to shop today!
I remember this skit from years back. Classic. I wish they still made good t.v. like this.
As a former Wal Mart Slave..I mean employee/ team member as well, I totally agree with you!
Haha...pretty sure the guy looking for his mother is the guy that played as Michael Bolton in Office Space.
MuRpHy no
Yes it is -- his name is David Herman.
I hung this sign on my door that says if I'm not hear try wals mart. "HELP ME"! Funny stuff.
2:16 ohhhh the irony.
Walls mart or Sprawl mart. They ate up competitors, small businesses and statewide chains, they were the by-word for price dumping as well as pressuring suppliers for heavy discounts that were not feasible, only to be gradually replaced by e-commerce. Yeah, they have an e-store themselves but with ever growing competition, their marketshare is declining and these huge ugly box stores will no longer be built.
Corporations are oligopolies. Look at the major shareholders of all big box stores and you'll see similar names popping up. Those people control the board of directors. We're quickly advancing towards a new world order. Those who tell the truth will be starved out.
'Resistance is Futile'
Never met someone who had anything good to say about working at Walmart. From what I hear they treat their employees like shit and are constantly cycling through managers because none of them are worth shit. When you have a large corporation that brags about all of the benefits you can get, it's naturally going to attract the lowest common denominator.
Jack Torrance yep. Managers at the one I worked at were crappy. The rules were dumb. I got a flat tire on my way to work once and I had called in to say I'd be late. And at Walmart they have a point system for not showing up. Well I got a point for a flat tire, even though I called in and had the proof. Basically people get punished for stupid things, and get 4 hour shifts constantly. It's a mess.
The shitty managers have shittier managers themselves. Seeing as I WAS one of those managers, I should know. Blame corporate america, folks.
Yeah, I only worked there briefly ages ago, but they treated employees like cattle, had way too many managers and far too few associates, unreasonable stocking quotas to the point where you'd frequently get pulled into other sections to help because of course they're not going to hire enough people to do the job, just wring fewer people dry of as much work as possible for that minimum wage. They also made this poor nice, older gentleman take a drug test after he fell off a ladder he was using to stock a high shelf (he was relatively short), he was rushing because of their insane quotas and so didn't secure it correctly. This guy had never seen a non-prescription drug in his life, I can tell you. Awful place to work, I've rarely gone into Wal-Mart since. I also remember the mandatory training videos with the strong anti-union rhetoric, and the compulsory "Wal-Mart Cheer" each shift....uggh.
no matter how many times i watch this, screams truth and brings a smile to my face...and we dont even have walmart here!
I remember when this came out. Sticks to my mind like glue even to this very day.
We have a complany like them in Australia, called Woolworths. I used to work for them, but got out after an extended tour of duty in that hell-hole.
This must've been so fun to make!
I wouldn't doubt this for a moment!!!!!
Wals-Mart!
Resistance is futile!
I love their slogans.
"Wals-Mart. Resistance is Futile!"
I work at walmart and this is so true!!
The last time I stepped into Wal-Mart was when I got my taxes done with an H&R rep, which was forever ago. I almost never shop there.
I worked at Walmart for 6 years. THIS PARODY IS ACCURATE!
I just wanted to say, the man in these sketches is Phil LaMarr, who voiced Samurai Jack, Green Lantern (John Stewart), Jazz (in TFA) and so many others.
eerily prophetic.
"Walmart: Resistance is futile!"
Saw these skits when they first aired...have gone to "Walls mart" only twice since then. SCARY!
when i was in high school i was real unpopular, now i work at wals mart and when i say hi to people they say hi back!
This is sadly accurate. Never worked at Walmart, never will. But I know people who have and I’ve shopped there before.
They predicted this is what's scary🤣😂😂. We're all one us them...one of them.
Oh my God it’s like a drone shop
The woman who greets at this Walmart looks and acts just like the one on this parody, hilarious!
yea and I muss that drive-in good child memories.
Most people don't realize that this wasn't even a comedy sketch... This was a PSA.
"My winning wals mart smile" Are you related to Lurch? LOL.
Somebody needs to update the quality of this and preserve it because this is historic , it must be seen by all into the future.
Mrs.benson from icariy is the lady with the help sign at the beginning LOL
Vivian : And when i say hi to people they say hi beeake
LMAO
I only shop there unless I really have to,but over all I stay away!
Never disappoints ol' Mad TV - I've only been to WAL-Mart once in the states... man that was depressing. Big W and Target aren't far behind though
there are 2 walmarts in my area.
and theres a restaruant right next to one of them.
that restaruant is closing down (for the 3rd time)
I'm a zombie wal mart associate and I found this funny it depends on many factors the person what there feeling etc and there is more running in the background then some think
lol, exactly why I refuse to work at walmart, this is accurate xD
this reminds of the dollars for gold commercial lol
That was really funny. 😄
I worked at Walmart and the people were literally the meanest trashiest people ever. my manager would get merchandise thrown back at him and would get called a loser. few customers were ever nice to me in a single day. oh Jesus...
Ah, in my experience the customers were fine, the managers were trashy.
@@yellowblanka6058By location.
Southwest: The managers and the customers are equal levels of shitty. I mean that in the least respectful way possible - screw walmart and the people who frequent it.
David Herman, cast member that left in Season 3. :)
Looks in closet and under bed for giant seed pod...
"What's Wal-mart? Do they sell walls there?!? - Paris Hilton'
I remember that! Paris played a Dumb Bimbo so well! :D
You can replace this with apple as well. Excellent sketch ahead of it's time
i live in a small town with nothing to do. so when people asks "what do you wanna do?", the first answer is "how about walmart?"
For the most expensive oil change in town--go to your local Wal-Mart. And as time goes on, they will have the most expensive EVERYTHING in your town, because they will eventually be the only retail place there is in your town.
I LOVE MAD TV !!!!!!
I was a wal-mart slave. Endured some verbal abuse from multiple people. That place does something to you man.... I swear.
And there was this guy who worked there and at first he was really cheery and stuff, then a few months later, he was truly devoid of life.
Wow they shur nailed it
This is so funny.
I have never stepped one foot into walmart and I never will