With Walmart being sued over the deaths of two associate's from one store I would like to know when this happened because I feel Walmart put in place this emergency leave after that happened along with let's hire all these temporary people because they knew what was going to happen in the stores with call outs because hey we have a emergency leave in place so Sue if you want you won't get a dime we told you you could stay home and oh yes no points it's all about money for them and don't get me started on on line grocery work those people into the ground to make up for the rest of the store sales and not enough people to pick so let's pull the whole store over there and not get the rest of the stocked and yes raise the cap so you have even more orders than you ever had. Oh and half your staff has called out and now the temporary people are calling out. What an injustice to the customers. Wake up people essential workers lives matter also.
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@1czo+14MmRvZP I was working at Walmart 3 months ago and you are definitely underpaid. The store I worked was one of the most well selling stores. You get hired part time (to not get full time benefits) and get overworked big time. I was making $13.50 (because I was a night stocker got that extra .50 and the wage was $13 because of the state if not I be making less).
It is so sad that as soon as holiday season was over my hours got slashed 0 a week. The only reason I still got hours was because the supervisors at night told me to come.
I suggest people for a different job I got no regrets here. I have a career now full time benefits, health benefits, retirement, holiday pay basically a real job with real benefits. The funny thing is I do way less now than I ever did at Walmart and make way more money now. I am making pretty much double of what Walmart paid me per hour. If you think you can advance at Walmart than stick to Walmart, but if not leave the place if your looking for long term!
Not all stores are like that ours require everyone to wear masks. Also we gave cleaning tasks management walks off daily fresh gets 2 days for the cleaning since it's so detailed. The GM has to sign off on their cleaning schedule as well. Also we keep the social distance in order. Dont get me wrong we still have ignorant customers coming in the store as well because we are a complex store but it actually is working for us.
DISCLAIMER 1: Retail s—s especially at Walmart. You guys deserve $15 an hour. (But converting that to a yearly wage, it is only $31k a year which is still poverty wages IF you could get 40 hours a week.)
DISCLAIMER 2: I am no way defending Walmart and it's business practices. It is in the top 3 of the worst jobs I ever had.
To @1tdk point, in which he/she could've been more tactful about it, yes the Home Office does make more money but it's comparing apples to oranges.
The Home Office consists of 90% (give or take) white collar college educated people, so yes, they will make more. They are also salary. A lot of the teams depending on the projects they are working on, are working 50-60+ hours a week w/o extra pay. There is no overtime. They may get some comp time but it never equals what you actually worked.
This is coming from someone who worked there (HO) for 10 years, I recall one project working 4 months at 60+ hours a week plus weekends. They allowed us 3 days comp time. That didn't even come close to the hours we actually put in. We were all mentally exhausted and burned-out.
Walmart severely underpays ALL associates. If you compared Walmart salaries to industry average we were underpaid buy at least $15k a year. Yet, Walmart would lie and say we were paid fairly. That is because they calculated their ' fair' salaries only on retail industry salaries.
“essential workers lives matter also.”
Maybe so, but look how fast they hired 200,000 extra. You can easily be replaced.
I would suggest to quit your complaining
Clearly you don’t know how much home office employees made. Because if you did it would be all you would talk about.
Our lives as a employee of Wal-Mart matters also. We have not been given adequate means to protect ourselves while working. To start with we were told not to wear masks or gloves because the customer would not think it was safe to shop there. Cleaning is not being done in some areas of the store and what is being done is not enough. Customers are not social distancing , staying in the stores for hours at a time, having reunions with family and neighbors with no consideration to the employees at all. Customers are rude and hateful to us. Management will not try to enforce social distancing except in the lounge. Now we are told to wear a mask but customers are not. Aisles are packed, children are running wild and the store is a total wreck. Something needs to be done to make the store safer. We do not want the virus either. We just want to work in a safe place and feel safe.
Oh didn't they tell you, we are not essential workers. We are EXPENDABLE WORKERS! Welcome to Walmart! HUH!