Wal-Mart shake-up??

[MandyH]

OK, sorry RoPo, that comment wasn't a dig for people to lose their jobs. As Debi stated, Wal-Mart has come into our small areas and wiped everybody out but them. I absolutley despise Wal-Mart but that's my opinion, not a derrogatory comment meant towards anyone that shops or works there. I guess I should have said, "I wish they would go away from here". Sorry if I stepped on any toes or made you mad. Now back to regualarly scheduled programming.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

A little spirited debate never hurt anyone!

I just hate that Wal-Mart has involuntarily been given a bad face as unfair, poor employers. The truth is, they offer much more than other employers I have worked for. If Wal-Mart had not grown to the size it has today, it's possible it would still operate like the smaller companies and overwork employees, cutting breaks in half, not allowing lunches, asking/telling employees to do things that are against the rules if not downright illegal.

I have been in those jobs, and it is not fun. Enlightening, but not fun. I would prefer to work for a large chain, than a small single store that is able to fly under red tape because it's simply not large enough to worry about.

I DO think some of the CEOs could take a pay cut to help out the rest of the people that make Wal-Mart possible, but that's not going to happen.


You know I don't mean any harm, I'm just trying to give an alternate view on the situation.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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Oh, you didn't make me mad dear. I just get tired of hearing similar statements (meant in a derogative way) in the newspaper on other forums and news sites. It was not you in particular, it's just frustrating when you know that you work for a company that embraces their employees, that everyone outside of the company cannot see how great that company is to work for.

It's true, they could change some of their policies to help their associates, but what company can claim they are perfect?

 

[debilorrah]

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I completely understand your position. Trust me. I work in public transit!!!!! Do you think everyone loves me??? I enforce the rules. I am hated.

 

[Tala]

Our WM hired "seasonal help" in the fall, as they usually do....and laid them off before Christmas! They said sales were THAT bad!

I don't want to see WM firing people, because DH works there!
I'm in the same boat as 19Dawn76 because my MIL, FIL, SIL and DH all work there! It might suck, but it pays the bills. I don't think it sucks any more than any other similar-type job.

Me, I worked 9.45hours tonight, without a lunch break. It's "legal" because we're a "fast food" place.....

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Same thing happened here Tala. But, the seasonal people KNEW they were seasonal people. The sales just weren't cutting it and they had to be let go. Most of them said they would never work in retail again (LOL...work at Wal-Mart for one Christmas and you'll realize what I'm talking about).

Most seasonal employees do not want to stay around any longer than 3 months, those that do are often given the opportunity to stay. It's a shame that they had to be let go before Christmas, but there's not much else they could do other than cut the original employees hours.

Not much to do between a rock and a hard place ya know?

 

[Tala]

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oh yes I know. DH got hired on for "seasonal" help with a remodel I think it was, almost 6 years ago, then he got transferred out to the garden center and made a "permanent" employee. You are right that most of the temporary/seasonal help doesn't stick around very long. I think from DH's original remodel crew only 3 stayed with the store.

 

[Mahonri]

We only go to Wal-mart when we can go no where else.

It has a bad rap here because, riff raff go there. Even though it's only a little over half mile away, I would never go there past 9PM. They have 'security' go up and down the parking lot rows, but cars still get broken into, tires and stereos stolen etc...

The produce department there is horrid. We never buy produce there, it's always old and ready to spoil.

In electronics, EVERYTHING is locked up. If you want something there, you have to have someone unlock it out of the display case and then you immediately pay for it at a register right there.

We had great neighbors who moved because a Wal-Mart was built so close to us.

Things need to be 'shook' up at our Wal-Mart or they will continue with riff-raff and crime.

 

[ozark hen]

I just googled the 300 lay offs from corporate office. Here is the link, please do not argue on here so we can keep it open for discussion, PLEASE?
http://www.4029tv.com/money/22425452/detail.html

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I guess each Wal-Mart has it's own genre of customers. There are two in Fayetteville. One is on 62. I will not shop there after dark. EVER.

The wal-mart I work for is one of the flag-ship Wal-marts. It's set up as a spectacle and a guide for other Wal-Marts to follow. The Wal-Mart I worked at before that was ALWAYS in Claremore. I remember Sam Walton greeting us at the door when I was younger. He gave me a balloon!

I wish I had saved that balloon, but how was I to know? To me, Wal-Mart was as regular as Stillwater Milling feed store in the middle of town? I guess I just take it for granted and assume that most Wal-Marts are like the one I work at.