After 20 years I finally said goodbye to the company I once loved. I would have done anything for Walmart. Bled blue - every holiday away from my family - encouraged my people to stick with it amidst all the changes because we were fed a lie that the company cared about its people. I was wrong - biggest regret I have is not walking away sooner. I pray leadership at Walmart rots in hell for the way it treats associates. All they want to do is make money while Executives play golf with their fat bonuses and cut Associates from the payrolls come January. It is not a company that cares about anything but profit - stop being brainwashed by Executives who are just trying to make a name for themselves or big Financial gains while your family struggles not being able to afford Healthcare and most living below the poverty line. Mr. Sam has rolled over so many times in his grave by now that he is nothing but a pile of dust.
12 replies (most recent on top)
WalmartLabs has to import all those engineers because it refuses to compete on pay and benefits, and it would have to compete hard to overcome the stigma of working for Walmart. Don't let the positive spin in press releases and business articles fool you. Walmart (and Labs and Jet and other subsidiaries) is NOT considered a premier/innovative employer. Honestly, it's a joke. People at Jet and other Walmart acquisitions are unhappy about the degradation of their companies' culture, quality, and reputation post-acquisition. It's a mess.
I was with Walmart for about 8 years. I got a really undeserved bad review after two years of exceeding expectations. So no bonus or stock. Made up my mind right then and there, I had to get out of this sweat shop.
Now I work for a small company that respects my work with management that I know I can trust. Well I trusted Walmart management. I trusted them to say one thing and turn around and blame me for other. I trust them to use anything I say to them against me on my evals.
WalmartLabs also has imported more than 70% of their engineers.
The company is a big joke and embarrassing! It's all about the bottom dollar and in no way care about the employees!!
To the person who posted they were not surprised there have not been workplace shootings. More guns are sold during Christmas than any other time of year. It's frightening to think that our work places could be invaded by gunmen seeking revenge against a corporate monster that hides it's face among employees with families and children. If there were to be a mass shooting the machine just keeps running. You may get a 25 dollar basket of flowers for your loved ones and some scripted sympathy but honestly walmart will continue moving on. They don't care. No big company does or ever will. The only thing that matters is how quickly business returns to normal and the negative publicity swept under the rug. They will say that trained associates and recognize a few who either gave their lives to protect someone or who tried to help people escape but that's it. The corporate machine will always keep moving and they will have jobs posted to fill the victim's shoes just as quickly as they scatter media stories to protect their brand image. This is the world we live in. Wal-Mart leadership will walk away unscathed and the machine just keeps going.
This is to everyone who keeps sticking in snarky, judgemental responses: Because you apparently are insensitive or un intelligent, I'm going to learn you up on why people are complaining and crying and venting on here---Walmart has been their jobs and careers and l i v e s for many, many years in some cases. Dealing with the stresses of what's been coming down; feeling more powerless and out of control than ever before in their lives, that's enough to make any one literally crazy.
Expressing these emotions on this anonymous, impotent forum is maybe the only way folks can regain some sense of ballance. Wanna keep lecturing and scolding them for it? Go soak your heads.
its retail. We just do it better than anyone is all. you are a # and that is it. No it didn't used to be that way but those people and former leaders are all gone now. This is the future of Wal-Mart unfortunately and it only is gonna get worse. its only a job and if its effecting your health you need to go elsewhere for you and your family, no job is worth that. I am and have been looking for another job and so is everyone I work with but after 25 years I'm still here lol, 5 more and its goodbye Wal-Mart. Happy Holidays all.
I used to work in Home Office. One of the ladies in our group used to go to the ladies room every day and cry. There are boxes of tissues everywhere. It is a toxic soup of politics. I am surprised there have not been workplace shootings.
Do as little as possible at work. It is the best way to f--- them over. Leave piles of merchandise all over the store and leave full shopping carts in the middle of the aisles. Walk away with a big smile and your middle finger in the air. F--- walmart la-ta-di-da f---ing da.
I have many friends who are former assistants and co's; some were cut in the last rounds, others left voluntarily. All are happier now. Here are some of the horrific effects these people were suffering during their tenure:
One guy's resting blood pressure had been 180/110 and his hypoglycemia was inching into full scale diabetes.
A woman knew she had to go when she exploded and screamed at her three year old son and sent him ino hours-long hysterics that he needed a sedative to quell.
A close friend was so vehemently harrassed by the market manager he stepped down from assistant to dept. manager; after two years of that gigantic pay cut and his wife threatening divorce, he found a new salaried management job for another company.
I put in 15 years at that company, have been gone for closing in on three, have done nothing but persevere and continue to better myself, and my family, friends and I am all the happier and content for it. There IS life after Walmart.
Man, it's a retail job at Walmart. People drink way too much koolaid.
...there will be "talking points" about this one tomorrow LOL!
Good luck. I saw the writing on the wall myself and left voluntarily last year after 10 years. I got a job with better pay and less stress.