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.
Not quite. My area as a night stocker encompassed Housewares, Stationery, Furniture, Candles and Photos. Ask your niece what kind of effort that entailed. By the end of my third week there, because of my initiative, my younger supervisors (two over three years) told me "I don't have to worry about you, just do your thing - and left me alone for the rest of the shift. That lasted the three years I was there. On those occasional nights my workload was light, I'd go help the Mexican guy in Pets hump those 40-pound bags of dog food. (The damned stuff flew out the door. Evidently a lot of hungry dogs in that area.)
After six months, management was after me to become a supervisor. I told them this was a beer money job and not a career path. I earned four "exceeds expectations" and the highest pay raise allowed during the time I was there. I must have been "out of the ordinary" and considered "a team player" for I was offered a supervisor's position after each performance review.
Maybe that’s you and Mardi59.
I can't vouch for mardi59, but I suspect he didn't get to where he was by being a slacker. Go back and read some of the shady deals W-M used to deprive its workers of the bonus. In three years I was there, there was one bonus - and none for the six years after. When I was there one manager brought up people from the Las Vegas store to help with inventory. She put them up at the local casino and charged our employee injury fund for the lodging, which drove us negative and cancelled the bonus.
Says Tammy8: “NO ONE is forced to work or shop at Walmart. That is the bottom line.”
Tammy8 speaks sooth.