Posted on 11/13/2011 11:06:23 AM PST by eccentric
Around the country, night workers at Walmart stores are being told to come in five hours early ON Thanksgiving. After having work until 7am that morning, they must get whatever sleep they can and then reutrn to work at 5pm for a 12 hour shift. How much time does this leave for them to spend the holiday with their family?
Walmart wants to call their employees associates. No, they are just workers.
That’s my point.
By being open Sunday, I can trade shifts with somebody who wants Sunday off. They can have their Sunday and I can have my Saturday.
If Sunday laws ever came into enforcement, I could no longer trade shifts and the employer would unlikely give me any consideration for my situation, because he’s already giving everybody a day off.
It would really be forcing me into a situation of either eating or not eating.
>>You seem to be an angry older person<<
That is called a long time FReeper. One who has been around the block here and seen a whole lot.
You’re new. You joined in March. Here is a bit of a hint, what you say is open to debate. It’s not imposing opinion, by putting it up in a forum you are asking for people’s opinion. They are giving it to you.
Now, you seem to think that by posting how hard you work, you’ll be getting cheers. Honestly, it looks like you don’t care for your job and want them to change. Conservatives change ourselves.
I mentioned nada about any mandate. ;-)
Of course I did. At that store they changed managers every year - and nothing changed. I talked with a couple of transferees who said the hours/OT policy was the same at any store they worked at and that, where there were other employment opportunities, even at the same wage, turnover was just as great.
Perhaps you live in an area so economically depressed that people HAVE to stay there.
For those naive people who blithely say "Go ahead an quit, there's plenty of people waiting for your job", I will tell you that during the Depression of '29 and well into the '30s, that was a common retort whenever the workers complained of unsafe working conditions or another cut in pay. That day is not far off for them.
[sidebar I] One 1930s-era worker told me he could pinpoint when the Depression ended. It was in September 1939 when his supervisor told him to do something and he said "please". (Industry was ramping up for WWII and the job market tightened.)
[sidebar II] I used to be a programmer and talked with a lot of Indian H1Bs. Those that worked at the Benton, AR headquarters got all walleyed when they talked about that "veddy bad place". Programmers, instead of having cubicles, were lined up at a conference-length table cheek-by-jowl and monitored by cameras. If you went to the bathroom "too often" (as determined by management), you were terminated.
One Anglo who worked there said he was leaving there at 5 p.m. when some foul-mouthed female manager asked him where the F did he think he was going and to get the F back to work. He told her he was a contractor and she could go to Hell. For some odd reason, he wasn't fired.
W-M might be great for low prices on cheap Chinese goods (debatable) but they sure treat their employees like crap, despite the "you're not an employee, you're an associate" B/S. My stories as a night stocker would match those of mardi59.
IOW all your posts on this thread are exercises in self-justification and not useful lessons for others. You ate shyte so others must do the same. I met loads of dufuses like you. One note Johnnies.
Hooray for you and your life! You are the star and the hero in the movie you made about it.
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. I spent an entire Thanksgiving day verifying signatures on an election referendum petition with a tight deadline. Wasn’t fun. I lived, as will they.
THAT'S what you came way with?
I would have thought my pounding the 'You should quit the job you're complaining about' drum over and over and over would have gotten through.
Let me hit it one more time; QUIT THAT JOB YOU ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT AND APPLY FOR ONE YOU LIKE.
Your post is whining and complaining the same way Narses was whining and complaining about other posters.
I know you did and I thank you. :)
Couldn’t you get the non-believers, jews, etc.. to work Christmas? I seem to be able to find some quicky mart open on Christmas run by Indians. Hell, in Christmas story they went to a chinese restaurant because they were the only place open and the neighbor dogs ate their turkey.
I like Walmart.
But, in a general sense, isn’t opening on Thanksgiving night a little silly? Do we really need to get up from a decent family day to go shopping?
I guess I answered my own question—there are fewer families anyway.
“Nobody on their deathbed ever says, “I wish I put more hours in at the office.” “
I wonder how many wish they’d provided better for their families?
“Clown, what other jobs?”
Then you concede that Walmart is the BEST job you can find right now? Be glad you have a decent job then and stop whining.
The group of top end restaurants in Tucson are all open on Thanksgiving, including my favorite Old Pueblo Grill, I plan to tip well. Lots of people work on holidays, and not all of them are emergency personnel, if you don’t like it get a better job.
Jerks post about other people without courtesy.
Don’t feed the paleo trolls.
I just don’t see the problem. If someone doesn’t like their requirements for their job...quit. If you feel you can’t quit, then get a better attitude. Slavery was abolished years ago.
That is true, but work is work and as i said,in this day and age, there aren’t too many places to look for new jobs!
No one is compelled to work twelve hours seven days a week.
>>Perhaps you live in an area so economically depressed that people HAVE to stay there. <<
Nope, sure don’t. Look up Shelby Township, Sterling Heights or Rochester, MI.
>>W-M might be great for low prices on cheap Chinese goods (debatable) but they sure treat their employees like crap, despite the “you’re not an employee, you’re an associate” B/S. My stories as a night stocker would match those of mardi59.<<
Sorry, my niece worked there for 5 years while in college. She loved it and her Walmart was in Ohio.
Not that I don’t believe you, I just know too many people who LOVE working there. I also know people who say that those who don’t really want to be a team player, don’t make it there. If one does not want to do anything out of the ordinary or “it’s not my job” comes out of a mouth, that is not a person who will be happy at Walmart.
Maybe that’s you and Mardi59.
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