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.
Great post.