>>Three years later, there is not ONE employee I recognize from the night or day shifts still working. <<
Did you ever think it’s the management, not the corporation?
Cause let me tell you, at my Walmart, I NEVER see the faces change. They know me, I know them.
People are begging to work at ours.
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.