Walmart Health and Wellness departments are severely under staffed. Market managers and regional managers are pulling in six figure incomes while customers stand in line waiting at the pharmacy and vision centers for the Disney Land experience of short handed staff trying their best to provide service. Sam Walton would roll over in his grave if he had any idea the monster that Walmart has turned into. Corporate greed. No respect for the customer. No respect for the associate.
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I'm hating this place. I only took the job because my own business tanked during the pandemic, I'm going through a divorce, and now that I am out on my own, I have rent and bills and need to eat. I only took the job because I have 18 years of retail experience and knew I could get a job at Walmart fast. In my mind, this is only temporary. Yet hobs are so scarce right now. Still looking.
Since starting there in June, I have had to quarantine twice ( 1st time, my daughter & son in law go COVID, and as a result, I had to test & quarantine– negative for me. Second time, because I was exposed to at least three fellow associates who tested positive, and by WM's own rules, I had to quarantine. Negative that time too, fortunately.
Sedgwick is a joke. I had to spend my second quarantine holding the phone 2 hours just to get paid for the first one. Not sure I got all my pay for the second, but got most of it. I know of associates in my own store who still didn't get paid for theirs– and they were positives who got sick.
The "Covid Screening" is a joke. Some associates lie on the screening; some come in asymptomatic and end up going home after spiking a fever halfway thru shift, or they don't know they're positive at all. Customers are rude and inconsiderate with regard to masking up. So we're exposed DAILY to the virus, I'm sure, thru customer and associate exposure.
I was hired on at no more than 30 hours a week– as I am still working my own business and besides, I have a life outside of Walmart. That is all I wanted, and I can survive on that. But as Covid-19 has spread more rampantly, and people are also quitting a week after hire, ghosting the store, after they realize the sh–show it is, we are seriously understaffed– as ll the stores in our region are.
Walmart's solution? Pull associates from one understaffed store to go help out at another understaffed store– thereby making the store even LESS staffed. Management is getting pissy with us. Rules and processes literally change EVERY OTHER DAY. You just never know what to expect. I've also had my schedule adjusted up to THREE times in one day: once before my shift, then I arrived and it changed again, and a third time while I was at work.
Oh, and that 30 hours I was promised? Yeah, it turned into 40 hours, and many days were not the time slot I requested and was given when hired. Can't complain about the money, but I am 57 years old. I am TIRED, physically and mentally. I am STRESSED OUT with the divorce, with Covid, with the sh– show that is Walmart. I have never ever worked in a more dysfunctional company with so much disrespect and disregard for its employees.
If I could find a way to be let go that would still leave me eligible for unemployment, I would. I completely understand why other associates bail on this place, and why no one wants to work during a pandemic. Our store is next up for the Reset/remodel in January. I've heard rumour that they will temp layoff all but Reset Associates during the process. I hope they do. I need OUT of that place. My sanity is crumbling. The stress, physically and mentally, is not worth $11 an hour.
For years I’ve watched vision center associates sit on their rear ends and watch us work. Now they are whining because they have to work. It’s about time they earn that $25 plus an hour.
Our market manager has never worked a day in his life in the vision center. I would love to see him roll up his sleeves and work 1 day to see what its really like on the front line.
I have to wonder how many years it will be before the brick and mortar vision centers will go away?? CVS is now offering on line RX renewals for contacts. Telemedicine is the way some states are going for exams, the downside to that is no actual health check on the eyes. I’m coming up on 30 years as an optician/VCM, all with WM, and this isn’t the same company I hired in with. I’ve accepted a job with a private doctor because I’m tired....tired of trying to get 60 or 70 hours worth of work crammed into less than 40. Right now they’re approving some OT because every store in our area is so short staffed but I know as soon as they start really watching the P&L’s again that will go away and then we’re all screwed. It’s beyond frustrating because they (HO) just don’t seem to care anymore. Covid numbers in our area are out of control (as in many areas) and what does WM do? Opens us back up on Sundays to sit and twiddle our thumbs, continues to have us open on holidays while pissing and moaning about payroll. Just makes no sense at all. I try to start every day with a positive attitude and then something else is tossed at us that makes zero sense. I wish they would listen to their associates for once, not all ideas that come from associates are stupid.
Middle management s—s in H&W. They don't care about anything but cutting staff and kissing their supervisor's @$$.
Always waiting on the next round of hours cuts or lay offs at any minute. We’re already running on bare minimum, I bet they’ll leave our hours as is for now. Wouldn’t be a good idea to make cuts untill they see how these covid shots are gonna go.
The pharmacy has always had cutbacks. It will get worse.
Walmart is full of chaos and drama.
I have been an optician for 31 years 23 of those with walmart. The market manager I had disposed of 11 optical/pharmacist because she cant seperate personal from professional. I personally walked away from a career that I love and patients that I love because I no longer wanted to be disrespected by a superior with no respect for the individual. Wont be long before optical for walmart is on line only would save tons of salaries.
Disney land experience....lol. Stand in line forever!
I used to work there. It was terrible. No breaks. Poor pay. Stay away from this place