Ok, I'd like you all to relate what you're going through down in the trenches—the chopped hours, lost benefits, the constant fear and anxiety permeating these stores like a rotten gas leak from the vents.... just anything and everything you've been dealing with and experiencing, needlessly, for far too long.
Annnnd...........GO:
I work at the Veterans _Kenner store The hours that have been chopped from our salaries is not enough to live on. It surely doesn't pay for the hospitalization coverage that Walmart offers and once you get it they find a way for you to lose the coverage you have. The name Walmart doesn't mean much to people anymore now that they have our money in their pockets.
phil and ron i'm sorry that happend to you they are cutting to drive profits trying to drain the onion and sell their company stock at top dollar before the upcoming financial downturn low and mid-level supervisors as well as long-term employees are targets right now because thex have to raise the wage for starting employees that's the fact and they will have a bunch of employees(when they show up)have little or nothing to offer sad to say but it's the truth again best of luck to you and all that are going through this bs process
I am a displaced Co Manager who was part of the corporate sacrifice. I, too, was with Walmart for twenty-plus years; I devoted and gave up everything for that company. Family time, holidays, I missed both my kids' first days at school, etc., etc. People not on the inside of this don't know what really goes on behind those closed doors. If you could have been a fly on the wall, witnessing some of the things my S.M. and M.M. were directing us to do to our Associates, it would make you mentally unbalanced, I think.
I was given TWENTY MINUTES notice of being cut loose. I'm still fighting to get all my severance package, to the extent of getting lawyers involved—and they're dragging their feet ridiculously because I'm not a minority or any s-xually protected class, and because of that they're all terrified of Walmart. Enough b–ching from me about my problems, I'm doing ok, I'm working in the insurance field now ( ho HO, they're FAR more crooked than Walmart!).
But I want to close by saying this: DO NOT seek long term hourly employment or professional advancement in retail. The current belief making the rounds is that the E commerce / instead of brick and mortar stores eschelon will be fine, but don't you believe it. This whole industry is seeking to make part time/minimum wage slaves of everybody. Find your career goals elsewhere, is my best advice.
so it's true target isn't the only retailer doing this