Posted on 11/30/2019 7:50:04 AM PST by bgill
Walmart shoppers are threatening to boycott the store after discovering employees aren't paid extra to work on Thanksgiving.
Instead, Walmart offers them 10% and 15% discounts to shop in its store. The 15% discount is only available Dec. 5 and Dec. 6.
Walmart said the policy has been in place for three years.
"We simplified our paid time-off policies in 2016 to combine vacation, holiday, sick and personal time into one bucket," Walmart said in a statement. "As part of that change, we no longer offer holiday pay. We did this to give our associates greater flexibility and more choice to use their time off when and how they want to. Also as part of that change, associates can now roll over and cash out unused time off at the end of the fiscal year."
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Yeah...I guess so.
(eyes rolling)
I take a friend of mine to work several days a week. She’s been employed by Walmart for a few years. Part-time (3 or 4 days a week, mostly 8 hr shifts).
She likes it. Flexible hours, a discount card (10 percent on most everything but food, good every day of the year). Quarterly bonus — which in a year equals about 2 weeks’ pay. (Yearly net, maybe $20k...not bad for a single person and better than owing it to a college every year.) She racks up time off on some basis, I’m not sure how it works, but with notice she can take a few days off with pay. There are insurance and health benefits. There is one day when the associate discount is higher and good for anything in the store.
Some people are happy to work for Walmart. It suits their needs and asks little more than punctuality, respect, and honesty.
Amen, been there, done that. I couldn't take a **** in peace, without being beeped. In fact I carried a second one in case I did not respond to first one. After I retired, the mere sight of a beeper unnerved me.
In the twilight years of career, I switched to a cell phone that took a message and responded with a get back to you message. Since my geological coordinates were not trackable on the early models, I could play hide and seek.
But not be outdone, executives sent runners to the those of us trapped in the men's room to announce and inform us "The Boss is having a meeting in 15 minutes - Get your *** in gear".
Finally I'd like to get my hands on the guy who invented posted notes. Upon to returning my cubicle space I found a multitude of them stuck to everything in sight.
You have to watch out for Amazon drivers. They leave and return to the van at a dead run and drive like they’re in a full bore, linear panic.
So?
Thanks for some sanity.
Every Walmart location is different. Every building is run by a different manager. The store takes on the personality of the manager, to a point. If they are bad at the job, the store is likely run poorly and there are personnel issues. If they are unprofessional, you will see problems proliferate throughout the store. This happens in most all businesses.
Not everyone who works at Walmart is a degenerate victim of the man. When you are dealing in low margin retail, you also do not attract the “cream of the crop” for applicants. It is very easy to say all Walmart employees are slugs. My how we judge people we have never met. Of course there are bad employees in every organization, just as there are good employees too.
But this goes back the the manager of the store. They have to “cull” the bad people who drag down the others. This does not always happen for a variety of reasons. So it affects the morale and attitude of other employees.
The fact that they do not get rid of under performers is a vicious downward spiral. Now there are different reasons for this. Such as law suits and not being able to hire new competent people. Making bad short term decisions to pad your bonus, like not hiring enough people. But this in in the managers domain. This is why there is much variation from store to store.
That being said, there are many good employees who are thankful for the opportunity.It’s a job. Sometimes a temporary bridge to retirement. Decent healthcare coverage is available. Much more reasonable than the obamacare market.
That’s why my wife went there to work after I was forced to retire by a wonderful high tech company with highly educated employees. They stunk just like the lowly Walmart people, and acted much more “entitled”.
We now have a bridge to retirement that is not eating away at our retirement funds. Everyone makes their own way, and I will not belittle anyone working at making their own way.
Walmart is like most places. You make what you want out of it. Some people make nothing but trouble.They complain because they have to actually work. Others go in and do a good job and see it as a “tool” to get somewhere else. Good people will move on, and work bums will try to hide and do as little as possible.
I don’t like when someone says “conservatives are terrible people”, and I will try my best to do the same for Groups of people. There is always some good for the most part.
Boycott to begin December 25.
I worked at a major bakery when I was in my early 20’s and had to work Christmas and New Year’s. Don’t remember if I worked Thanksgiving. I don’t understand why the Walmart shoppers are upset. They are the ones that caused Walmart to open on Thursday. They should have stayed their asses at home and celebrated Thanksgiving.
Three card monte.
Walmart is just cheap. You would think their public relations people would say how bad it looks.
“Shoppers threaten boycott”....
That’ll help those they think they’re trying to back with some equitable downsizing if said boycott has a real effect....idiots are what idiots do.
Great post.
yeah before I worked in IT, I worked as a clerk for a gov’t housing authority doing fair market rent calculations. I would keep up on policy but because my sub-prime co-workers were jealous of my accuracy, if I took a day off, my cubicle would be covered in post it notes. Turns out my co-workers would scheme to “get” me while I was gone (ala Adam Schitt). I would go into the manager’s office and explain each.and.every postit note “why did you calc it THIS way??!!” armed with the most recent policy changes.
I eventually left due to the fraud and being told by my manager to “keep the checks rolling and look the other way.” They also decided to black ball me long after I resigned. I can so sympathize with President Trump! Took 21 years for karma to catch up. They are now being indicted on over 50 counts of fraud, lying to the gov’t. you name it! (Rochester NY Housing Authority)
I had to change my career to IT after that experience.
yeah before I worked in IT, I worked as a clerk for a gov’t housing authority doing fair market rent calculations. I would keep up on policy but because my sub-prime co-workers were jealous of my accuracy, if I took a day off, my cubicle would be covered in post it notes. Turns out my co-workers would scheme to “get” me while I was gone (ala Adam Schitt). I would go into the manager’s office and explain each.and.every postit note “why did you calc it THIS way??!!” armed with the most recent policy changes.
I eventually left due to the fraud and being told by my manager to “keep the checks rolling and look the other way.” They also decided to black ball me long after I resigned. I can so sympathize with President Trump! Took 21 years for karma to catch up. They are now being indicted on over 50 counts of fraud, lying to the gov’t. you name it! (Rochester NY Housing Authority)
I had to change my career to IT after that experience.
As a nurse, I always got holiday pay. (NOT a union hospital).
My nephew worked at a Wal-Mart distribution center. No holiday pay, though the pay is much better than the stores. Also, believe it or not, there is no heat and no air conditioning in those places.
What was your daughter’s position, if I may ask?
This is true in any business that was a full service (24/7) business. Your scheduled work day was a holiday, you worked. At least that’s the way it was when I worked at hospitals.
Your “holiday” was another 8 hours in your “paid time off” bin.
I’m sorry but LEO and highly trained are not part of the same sentence. Most LEO are nothing but revenue collectors/enforcers. Most not all! Thanks to the LEO who protect and serve. If your a JBT then I don’t care one bit for them.
I am not sure her last “rank” at Walmart was... I remember her stories of being the customer service person that people without receipts had to talk to. She left after she got her accounting degree. Strangely enough it was her experience working at Walmart that has been more important to her than the accounting degree in her job as a personnel manager at a large hospital.
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