Walmart blues
Now, keep in mind that I'm not entirely against the company I work for. I really am not. I'm working on my 8th year there and I've had nothing but great evaluations from my managers. Plus, my hours are still at the full 40 and I probably have more job security than most people these days, but since the economy has crashed, work has gotten worse quite quickly. Until just this month, they haven't replaced ANY associates we've lost throughout the year. We are so short handed that our normal 8 hour shift has become 10 hour shifts. I've gotten accustomed to getting off at 8 in the morning instead of 7 almost every day of the week, until we've got so much overtime that we have no other choice but to cut it. One week, I actually worked so much that I earned an extra day off.
They've also taken our original managers and swapped them with new ones. Granted, these managers aren't really *new* at the job, but new to us. They weren't trained for third shift either, so the overall stress level of the associates and managers increased during the change. Despite all of this, the expectations of the day-shift crew/management continues to increase. We are still expected to work harder, get MORE done with less time and people. I'm posting this because out of boredom, I've been reading up on this site: http://walmartspeakout.com/speak-out/main
It's basically a website where associates or ex-associates write stories of how they were treated at Wal-mart. In a way, it's a relief to read that what's going on in my store, isn't just happening at my store. That the problems are company-wide, not just local. At the same time though, it's discouraging to think that these problems will get solved. It does not make sense to me for a company to refuse to hire new people for a poorly-staffed store but at the same time, still open new stores throughout the country.
It was this quote, that prompted this entry: "the Walton family is worth 79,400,000,000. That’s 79.4 billion folks. "
Individual stores cannot raise wages for it's associates or hire new associates to be fully-staffed, for the sake of the Waltons ability to bath in diamonds. It's small facts like these that make a person wonder why the put up with the crap they do, for what little pay they get? Another moment of why life is not fair. *sigh*
They've also taken our original managers and swapped them with new ones. Granted, these managers aren't really *new* at the job, but new to us. They weren't trained for third shift either, so the overall stress level of the associates and managers increased during the change. Despite all of this, the expectations of the day-shift crew/management continues to increase. We are still expected to work harder, get MORE done with less time and people. I'm posting this because out of boredom, I've been reading up on this site: http://walmartspeakout.com/speak-out/main
It's basically a website where associates or ex-associates write stories of how they were treated at Wal-mart. In a way, it's a relief to read that what's going on in my store, isn't just happening at my store. That the problems are company-wide, not just local. At the same time though, it's discouraging to think that these problems will get solved. It does not make sense to me for a company to refuse to hire new people for a poorly-staffed store but at the same time, still open new stores throughout the country.
It was this quote, that prompted this entry: "the Walton family is worth 79,400,000,000. That’s 79.4 billion folks. "
Individual stores cannot raise wages for it's associates or hire new associates to be fully-staffed, for the sake of the Waltons ability to bath in diamonds. It's small facts like these that make a person wonder why the put up with the crap they do, for what little pay they get? Another moment of why life is not fair. *sigh*