New Jersey Wal-Mart Manager Speaks Out!

My store in Conway, SC, is almost as bad.

Understaffing, poor scheduling, associates being sent to
other departments all over the store, 40 cent a year pay
raises, 40 % turnover rate per year (higher among
cashiers).

Is this the same at every store in the country?

Rob,

Understaffing - This is the perception of an employee who wants his work load lessoned and give them more ‘free’ time!!

Poor Scheduling - This is the perception of an employee who would rather work ‘different’ hours, that they get to choose, instead of when they are ‘needed’!!

Associates being sent to other departments all over the store - This is the perception of employees who want to ‘choose’ where they work, if you are at work, what difference does it make WHERE you work?  Does it make sense, that an employee in one department, is standing around, doing nothing, while another department needs help?

40 cent a year pay raises - For an employee making $8.00/hr., that is a 5% raise or $10.00/hr., it is a 4% raise, both above the inflation rate!!  Therefore, to those employees, they are gaining more every year!!

40% turnover rate per year (higher among
cashiers) - How many of those turnover people are high school or college students who are moving on to better jobs or higher education?  How many of them are part-timers moving to a full-time job elsewhere?

These are ALL perceptions based on employee wants, not good business sense!!  An employee is hired to do a job, and, they should be expected to DO that job while they are at work!!

This story doesn’t surprise me at all. In fact it is becoming common reading if you visit the Wal-Mart speak out web site. And a 40 to 60 cent an hour raise every year IS A JOKE from a company that can well afford to do more, but CHOOSES NOT TO.
Wal-Mart has become the height of cheap. They are so cheap they squeek! Of course when it comes to the Walton family now that’s another story. Lets see any Walton family member try to live on what a typical employee makes at one of their stores. I can imagine how they would cry “unfair.”

only idiots like you jane believe all the garbage fed to you on this site.never hear any complaining from you jane on your favorite other retailers and fast food joints expoiting workers and paying poor wages and benefits.hey jane we shop where we can afford to shop and sorry we cant afford to pay more at your favorite high cost costco store for the same items made in china because thats stupid and foolish to pay higher prices because you are not getting a better quality product.hey jane newsflash walmart actually pays better and has better benefits than your favorite k-mart and target stores and treats workers much better.only fools like you jane believe all this crap on this site as factual.

Jane,

“And a 40 to 60 cent an hour raise every year IS A JOKE from a company that can well afford to do more, but CHOOSES NOT TO.”

Sorry, but that is not the way it works in America, you get paid by the job, ot by how much the company can afford!!  Show me ONE retailer that pays based on company profits!!  Companies use the Bonus system to distribute profit sharing, not wages, why you may ask?  For one simple reason, in years like now, where there is a recession, higher wages end up in layoffs!!  Also, if Wal-Mart raised wages, they would be at a disadvantage to other retailers, who paid lower wages and they would slowly lose business to retailers who could charge lower prices, because their wage cost was lower!!

“Lets see any Walton family member try to live on what a typical employee makes at one of their stores.”

The fact is, they DON’T have to!!  Why?  Because their father had enough courage, ingenuity, intelligence and perseverence to build a business, from a small 5-10 cent store to the #1 retailer in the U.S.!!  If your father had done that, I don’t think you would have to worry either, but, I guess your dad didn’t do that, he did something else, that put you into the catagory of those who ‘bitch’ about the rich!!  Want to not have to worry about your finances anymore?  Start a business of your own and grow it and if you are NOT willing to do that, TOO BAD for you, accept the fact that you will always be working for someone else and will have to accept what they are willing to pay you!!

“I can imagine how they would cry “unfair.””

You mean, like YOU are doing about THEM?

Remember, they would have to LOSE their wealth, to live like you do, but you would have to be GIVEN wealth, to live like they do!!  I would think someone might ‘cry’ about having their wealth TAKEN away from them, but they would ‘Jump for Joy’, if they were GIVEN wealth!!

Instead of finding ways to TEAR DOWN the Waltons, why don’t you spend your time trying to BUILD UP yourself!!

To the people who are defending Wal-Mart:  Do you people actually believe what you’re writing? Or did Wal-Mart pay you to write those responses?

Acually Matt...I really wish I could say the crap on this site is really factual...but the actuality is it’s much WORSE.

How do I know? I work at Walmart and have for the past 8 yrs and everything you have been reading on this site is TRUE and that is only the tip of the iceburg.

In fact after working there for this long,I only make a little over $10.00 an hr for 8 YRS OF DEDICATION.

I don’t even have health insurence because it would cost me half of my pay that I get per pay period.

At our store too,they are cutting hrs from the full timers and giving all the hrs to the part timers.I know some part timers that are acually getting more hrs then me.

I can’t even get another job because jobs are scarse right now everywhere and lets just say that I am getting up there in age and Walmart knows this.

We have had people at our store that have been here over 15 yrs, getting fired for having 5 mins overtime.When this happens,they will acually have a store meeting and tell everyone to not say anything to anyone and to just drop it.Anyone heard talking about will get coached.

The only thing I can saw Matt is..only a fool like yourself puts his head up his *** and believes all the hype and “Fairy Tales” that Walmart is trying to pass off as the facts.

It looks like Walmart (and Matt)wouldn’t know a fact if it jumped up and bit them on the ***.

Sign me…
Trapped at Walmart

Walmart Worker,

“I work at Walmart and have for the past 8 yrs and everything you have been reading on this site is TRUE and that is only the tip of the iceburg.”

So, are you saying that YOU have been ‘dumb’ enough to stay at a ‘terrible job, working for a ‘terrible’ employer, for 8 years?  Could you NOT have found something ‘better’ in 8 years?  It makes me sad to know that there are people in this country, who are NOT willing to take ‘responsibility’ for their lives and would rather ‘blame’ their shortcomings on others!!

“I don’t even have health insurence because it would cost me half of my pay that I get per pay period.”

I assume you get paid every two weeks, right?  Are you saying that it would cost you 1 weeks pay for insurance (roughly $320.00 every two weeks or $640.00 a month), at 32 hours per week?  Give us a break, you talk FACT and then give us B.S., I have NEVER heard anybody who works at Wal-Mart say they have to pay $640.00 a month for insurance, thats $7,680.00 a year!!

“I can’t even get another job because jobs are scarse right now everywhere”

They may be scarce right now, but, they haven’t been scarce for the last 8 years!!  And, as you claim to be “getting up there in age”, where did you work before, that makes you ‘unskilled’ now? 

“We have had people at our store that have been here over 15 yrs, getting fired for having 5 mins overtime.”

So, you have even had ‘dummies’ working there for 15 years too, right?

Have you ever heard the saying: You reap what you sow?  Guess you haven’t sown very many ‘good’ seeds in your life, if you are reduced to working at Wal-Mart for 8 years!!

It is good to see that some things do not change in a World
that changes ever day I see RDS is still a know nothing and still posting like he does.

If it was not for Helen Waltons family Money and her Fathers guidance there would never have been a Wal-Mart give credit were credit is due.

Health Insurance and giving back to the Employe’s in way of bonus was her idea not Sam’s

I can not find the post or do I want to take the time ,after Helen died last year I told you that Scott would not be with
Wal-Mart much longer .

You claim to be such a busniess man do you know what is going on at Wal-Mart think about it

Here are some clues:

Payroll begin cut in Stores and Home Office
Inventory Reduced
Wal-Mart buying back massive amount of Stock I think they have until May, dividends raised

Figured it out yet?????????

Now remeber I am not for or against Wal-Mart never shopped there ,never worked there or knew any one that does, so I am not saying any thing for or against

hey wm worker if you are so unhappy in your job at wm then why are you still there/it speaks volumes about you personally to stay in a job you are so unhappy in.i have no sympathy for people like you.guess what i have worked for k-mart and they treat workers a lot worse and pay les than walmart does.i believe what i post because i have worked retail before and in the ufcw labor union that provides you all the bullcrap on this site.gues what the ufcw is cutting hrs in its grocery stores across america now and the union is telling its members sorry there is nothing we can do for you about that.goes to show you that this site is full of crap.the same union wont stand up for members to get full time work and living wages for all grocery workers but has the gall to bitch about walmart and how they run their busines and pay workers.

DOES AMERICA STILL NEED UNIONS?

http://www.parade.com/export/sites/default/news/intelligence-report/archive/does-america-still-need-labor-unions.html

VOTE IN THE POLL AND SEE WHERE YOU STAND WITH PUBLIC OPINION!

WallStreet,

“Payroll begin cut in Stores and Home Office
Inventory Reduced”

Almost ALL retailers are doing that right now, because of the economy!!

“Wal-Mart buying back massive amount of Stock I think they have until May, dividends raised”

Buying back stock, makes the price rise and lots of companies do that!!  Raising dividends is NORMAL, when sales and profits are rising, which they are at Wal-Mart, nothing WRONG with that!!

So, are you buying Wal-Mart?

Wal Street:  Indeed,your position that were it not for Sam Walton’s marital ties to Helen, it is unlikely there would ever have been a WalMart…

Nor would the original employees have been provided with stock options.

These were Helen’s ideas,not Sam’s according to the Book ,"In Sam We Trust”,by Bob Ortega,former WSJ reporter.

ddrb,

Explain to us how much WORK Helen’s family put into making Wal-Mart the success it is today?  Remember, at one point, Sam was over $2 million in debt and almost everyone thought Sam’s idea was ‘crazy’ and he would lose his shirt!!

“Nor would the original employees have been provided with stock options.”

You are right, it was Helen’s idea to give employees stock options, to make up for the ‘low wages’ and many of those early employees who believed in Sam, became millionaires!!

But, wait, isn’t it the contention here by SDV, that NONE of Sam’s family contributed anything to deserve their inheritance?  I guess, working in the store and being now on the Board of Directors doesn’t count as a contribution!!

It must be nice, to use a book that seems to paint a ‘bad’ picture of Sam, to make your points!!  The book, “Sam Walton - Made In America”, is a more accurate account of how Wal-Mart evolved!!

RDS: “In Sam We Trust” received RAVE rewiews from the business community,as well as the general public,at large,upon its original publication.

Review after review point ot the throughness of Ortega reporting and attention to detail.Indeed, when this book was originally written,having worked for the WSJ actually meant you were REQUIRED to do your investigative homework.

Unlike now that the WSJ has been Murdoched.

P.S.: “Sam Walton-Made in America” is an AUTObiography written by Sam Walton,himself ,along with writer John Huey.
Most autobiographies are subject to “revisionist” history,to say the least.

Perhaps subsequent reprints of the book should be entitled,"SamWalton-Made in America; but” Sell Out” to China”.

RDS:
I have never read more ignorant comments than the ones you write. As i have said before, you are on walmart’s payroll to stick up for them on his website. Known fact.And it is a--holes like you who have no clue what goes on at companies that consistently violate not only their own policies but also the law.There is nothing you can say to anyone that either has or does work at walmart that will change what is going on.You are probably scratching your head wondering how I know who you are.So anyone that post a message on here and gets an idiotic response from RDS, please ignore it and don’t resond,walmart is paying for those responses.RDS:yo have a nice day!

sm in nj,

“You are probably scratching your head wondering how I know who you are.”

If you really KNEW who I was, you wouldn’t be saying STUPID things like “walmart is paying for those responses”, as I don’t now or have ever worked or gotten paid from Wal-Mart!!

Fact:  If Wal-Mart were to be unionized, all these complaints would STOP, even if the conditions continued the way they are!!  Why?, because that is what this is ALL about, getting a union in, so they can get more dues money, those 1.5 million dues payers is very enticing!!  Just think, even if the union got $10/mo. from each employee, that would amount to $10.5 million a month or $126 million a year!!  Pretty well worth trashing Wal-Mart now!!

Like I have said MANY times before, if all that is said here is the truth, WHY would people KEEP shopping and working there for YEARS on end?

I don’t know about YOU, but if I was looking for a job, and heard ALL the ‘horror’ stories told here, I surely wouldn’t go to work for Wal-Mart and if I did, I wouldn’t be ‘stupid’ enough to stay there 5 to 15 years, like many have stated here, if those stories were ACTUALLY TRUE!!

Correction:

Before I hear about my bad math, the line that said ‘that would amount to $10.5 million a month or $126 million a year’, should have read ‘that would amount to $15 million a month or $180 million a year’!!

RDS:
This has NOTHING to do with unions. Get your facts straight again. It is about the current situation.I am leaving as are all the dedicated old timers that Walmart has screwed. We are all leaving rigt at inventory time when they need us the most.and RDS: you need to get a life as if you are living off of “SSI” b can spend ALL day on the computer, then you can work. Stop sucking off the system and contribute to society instead of just e-mail this website bashing everyone. You can get a job at your favorite walmart store as a door greeter and as you say have a great job. We have tons of disabled employees and that is the crime here, they take advantage of the disadvantaged and disabled and also the minorities so they can fill their quoatas. Go ahead and apply if you are so walmart.See what appens to your ass.

SM,

“This has NOTHING to do with unions.”

This site has EVERYTHING to do with unions, because it is run by the SEIU!!

“you need to get a life as if you are living off of “SSI” b can spend ALL day on the computer, then you can work.”

First, I HAVE a life and I don’t spend ALL day on the computer!!  And, Yes I could work for someone, if I wanted to, but I don’t have too, as I have set myself up so that I could retire at 59 1/2 and that’s what I did!!  But, in fact, I do work, for myself around the house and at my duplexes!!

“Stop sucking off the system and contribute to society”

Sorry that you think that working for 42 years and paying into the Social Security System for my retirement, is SUCKING off the system, I paid in every week, so that I could get along when I retired, just like YOU are doing NOW!!  And, I do contribute to society, by providing housing for people!!  I bet that when YOU get OLD, you won’t feel that collecting back the money you put into the system for 40+ years, is SUCKING off the system!!

“bashing everyone”

I don’t ‘bash’ people unless they ‘bash’ me first!!

“You can get a job at your favorite walmart store as a door greeter and as you say have a great job.”

You don’t get it, I DON’T NEED a job!!  I’ll leave those types of jobs for you ‘unskilled’ guys!!

“We have tons of disabled employees”

You are right, and those disabled employees wouldn’t HAVE a job if Wal-Mart didn’t hire them!!  How many ‘disabled’ people do you see at Target or most other businesses?

“Go ahead and apply if you are so walmart.”

First, I wouldn’t need to go to a ‘low income’ job, if I needed one!!  Second, I am NOT ‘so Wal-Mart’, I am just NOT ANTI Wal-Mart!!  I just believe that ANY business should be allowed to succeed or fail on it’s own merit, and should not be ‘trashed’ by some union and others who don’t like it, but, from all indications, Wal-Mart seems to be succeeding, despite what you and the unions say!!

RDS-

“Sorry that you think that working for 42 years and paying into the Social Security System for my retirement, is SUCKING off the system, I paid in every week, so that I could get along when I retired, just like YOU are doing NOW!!”

RDS Social Security retirement benefits and SSI are two totally different things.  If you are retired and collecting Social Security benefits good for you.  If you are collecting SSI you are a thief.

SSI is Suplemental Security Income
The Social Security Administration manages the SSI program. Even though Social Security manages the program, SSI is not paid for by Social Security taxes. SSI is paid for by U.S. Treasury general funds, not the Social Security trust funds.

It is reserved for the very poor, disabled, or institutionalized.

hey sm why dont you tell your lazy ufcw unions to get off their lazy asses and put a real effort into getting full time work and living wages for all grocery workers instead of whining about wm,s wages.you are the ignorant one sm because you buy into all the ufcw union bullcrap fed to you on this site.real people with half a brain unlike you can see through all the b.s. on this site and take it with a grain of salt.all this site is about is lies by the ufcw union and a blatant attempt to unionize wm.

Wal-Mart start paying,

“If you are retired and collecting Social Security benefits good for you.  If you are collecting SSI you are a thief.”

I would have thought that saying I was ‘retired’, would have been a ‘clue’, I get Social Security benefits, I am NOT on SSI, that is what some here have claimed, to make me look bad, when ‘they’ said I was ‘disabled’!!  I have noted many times, that I am NOT ‘disabled’!!  I ‘retired’ from a job at age 59 1/2, because I was finacially able to do so!!  People here like to twist things and then claim them to be fact, ddrb, is the ‘best’ at that, she had me driving a semi at age 9, instead of 19!!

FYI:  My wife did become ‘disabled’ at age 60, but said “Pass” on SSI and waited until she was eligible for her regular Social Security benefits at age 62!!

RDS: Speaking of twisting facts,RDS,weren’t you referred to as Mister Twister for your ability to twist the truth like a pretzel?(Also,for your many,many sockpuppet identities on this blog?)

I have already established that my post about you driving a semi at 9 was “tongue in cheek’-derived from the data YOU gave in our OWN ,illogical post.I just used the math you provided to arrive at the figure of 9.

Hey Ken,you still selling the sarcasm detectors?

RDS needs one---bad---and PRONTO!

ddrb,

“derived from the data YOU gave in our OWN ,illogical post.I just used the math you provided to arrive at the figure of 9.”

So, I guess when I said I drove truck for 10 years, and started at 19, you used your math to subtract 10 years from the time I started!!  And, you claim that my post was illogical!!  You twist my words and then claim I am wrong about my own life!!

RDS:You said you collected SSI benefits, not us. So maybe you need to take some of your meds and get it straight. Tell ONE story not twist it to fit your answer. And you have no clue what this website is about. It is not union driven. Hate to break it to you. And the upper management at Walmart is completely unraveling and scrambling to get good press. Inside info.They are going to be taking a big hit in the very near future and it is not going to be pretty. Trust me, it is going to happen.

Matt is like your neighbor’s unchained dog that comes over and takes a shit in your front yard and pretends it was a honest story or rational opinion. RDS of course approves of whatever and wherever his dog craps, it is the Walmart internet way.

sm,

“RDS:You said you collected SSI benefits, not us.”

You SHOW me, where I said that?  I have always maintained that I was ‘retired’ and not ‘disabled’!!

RDS: You are beyond disabled. Quite out of touch with reality. Sit home with your “disabled” wife who also did not take SSI since you are both such good people and knit mittens for the homeless. Because by you sticking up for walmart most of the employees are losing their homes, apts, cars, etc because of the cut in pay and hours.Stop doing what you are doing. If you are for or against walmart than STAY THE HELL OUT OF IT. GOT IT ASSHOLE.