I can't help but laugh. A serf for management? Sorry, this sounds like spoiled rotten whine. Forced overtime? No one can force you to do anything. Don't like it, quit.
Did Wal-Mart come to your home and put a gun to your head? No. But, more importantly, I think you exaggerate. Outlandish request? Like what? Demanding people show up on time? I've seen for decades the descruction of the work ethic and what you consider verbal abuse or serfdom is probably not getting time off on Friday night to attend a keg party.
If the local management sucks, bring it up to corporate. I know enough about Wal-Mart to know they take this stuff serious. If local managers that are incompetent can't handle their jobs and threaten workers and "force" them to work off the clock (a charge made and proved wrong), then that is a manager that will be removed. I loved the guys getting fired when they said, "but they impose these standards on us" lie. Lie I say? Yes, Lie. How do I know?
I've seen this BS for decades. Bad managers make bad decisions to cover their own butts to get bonuses. Wal-Mart didn't become the largest corporation ON THE PLANET overwhelmingly disregarding labor laws like the left wing media like to present. Those managers get fired.
If you had valid labor law abuses to complain about when you worked for them (and your job description also showed you aren't a rocket scientist and maybe their ridgid structure might have done you some good), then you should have gotten a lawyer and sued them or went to the labor board in your state.
I can't help but laugh. A serf for management? Sorry, this sounds like spoiled rotten whine. Forced overtime? No one can force you to do anything. Don't like it, quit. I did.
Did Wal-Mart come to your home and put a gun to your head? No. But, more importantly, I think you exaggerate. Outlandish request? Like what? Demanding people show up on time? I've seen for decades the descruction of the work ethic and what you consider verbal abuse or serfdom is probably not getting time off on Friday night to attend a keg party.
No, what I saw was multiple managers dating associates against company rules and covering for each other so they could get away with it. I also saw people getting yelled for things completely beyond their control, such as the school supply aisle being a mess during the end of August due to heavy traffic.
If you had valid labor law abuses to complain about when you worked for them (and your job description also showed you aren't a rocket scientist and maybe their ridgid structure might have done you some good),
So that's why I'm in graduate school.
then you should have gotten a lawyer and sued them or went to the labor board in your state.
Listen, I worked for them during the summer to make some extra cash. Had I intended to stay there, that would have been something to consider, but as it was, it wasn't worth my time.
The particular Wal-Mart I worked at a few summers ago was awful compared to the other retail jobs I have worked. It wouldn't surprise me if others were better run.