Posted on 11/13/2011 11:06:23 AM PST by eccentric
Please explain what “My Share” is, and what you mean by them withholding “price match loss”. I’m sorry, I don’t know what you mean by these terms.
Oh, calm down. I never said anything in favor of government deciding the issue. If you read my other post, I said people should have more respect for family life and close their own stores on Thanksgiving...for the employee’s sake, not the customer.
Buddy, I worked for Walmart for 12 years. Don’t know what to tell you but that’s how they roll. It sucks but that’s the way it is.
If they are looking for sympathy it’s easy to find, it’s between sh!t and syphilis in the dictionary.
In todays horrible job market, they should consider themselves lucky/fortunate to even have a job.
I know that all sounds cold hearted, but it is todays reality and as long as Obama and his democrats remain in power, it is not only the reality of today—it is also the reality of the future.
Just another opportunity for the OWS scum to bash CAPITALISM’S POSTER CHILD, WALMART. Why do people always want to slam something or someone who is the BIGGEST AND THE BEST at what they do? Why not use the same criteria when speaking of the Chicago Bulls of the 1990s. They MONOPOLIZED the NBA finals. They were the BIGGEST AND THE BEST at what they did and I don’t hear or see anyone slamming them!!
You don’t get it—OPEN YOUR EYES! Thanksgiving is a non-holiday. Its all about CHRISTMAS (or the Holiday season—or the Gift Giving Season) They were putting up the Christmas decorations before Halloween was over. In the future Thanksgiving may not be celebrated at all—even today people call it “Turkey Day” -— The need for Greed has transformed Christmas into a gigantic Potlatch —an orgy of spending. New Years is a relief of drinking to lessen the spending at Christmas. Thanksgiving has been hyjacked by Santa.
Proof positive that unemployment is way more than what it was intended to be.
I've been unemployed twice and still have yet to file for it. (preparedness is protection)
Oh hell, I have long lost count of the double shifts I have pulled. I even recall a major breakdown on offshore oil platform where we mechanics worked 36 hours with two three hour sleep breaks.
When you gotta do, you do what ya gotta do.
I do my job and I do it well.
27 registers and only 8 covered by cashiers with long lines full of angry impatient customers. I greet all with a smile and get angry retorts and cursed at because they’ve had to wait because so few registers are open. Floor associates get the same because there are so few associates to cover the floor of a Superstore. Walmart knows one cashier will do the job of four because they know noone else is hiring so whatever abuse they need to heap upon people will be accepted because we have nowhere else to go.
I have had people walk-up to me and say they feel sorry for us because they see what we are going thru. I tell them its my job and the only one I have at the moment.
I have anywhere from 180 to 460 customers a day on my egister. I take abuse from customers and continue to do my job. I have never complained when my shift is changed and I am never late to my job. Its a shame that when the truth is told all some can do is attack and call names. I just bet you would be one of the snotty ones I would smile at and tell to have a good day.
SO, HAVE A GOOD DAY!!
Quit your bitching, quit your job and find something more suitable.
You’re whining like a Wall Street Occupier, as though your employer owes you a solution to all your problems.
Those are YOUR problems, not your employers responsibility
That was for Christmas, which Walmart hasn’t taken away -— yet. Scrooge never pretended to me Cratchet’s associate, either. P.S. Scrooge paid Cratchet for Christmas even before he changed.
If only Wal-Mart unionized, then everything would be fair.
/eyeroll
--worst part of it was having to listen to the occasional complaining of guys half my age about it---
Walmart pays extra on holidays - even if there is no over time. Might only be a dollar per hour but it’s something.
You’re obviously carrying a grudge towards Walmart, or you wouldn’t be sending people to a site about something that happened more than a decade ago.
You need to beging searching for something else.
I know it sucks having to work like that, but I assume you knew when you signed up?
My share is a small part ownership in walmart stock. Every three months we are supposed to recieve a share of that stock from sales. They have found a way to reduce our share by taking the loss from price matching other store from our sahre. So basically the employees are paying the difference between what one store sells a gallon of milk for and what walmart charges and matches. If Wiseway is selling a gallon for 2.99 and walmarts is 3.99. we lose one dollar.
Now that I’ve had several decades to reconsider. Maybe the blue laws forcing businesses to close on all Sundays and holidays weren’t so bad after all. Go home... raise your children and make some memories... play with them... go fishing, hiking, bike riding.
I am a nurse.
Who do you think works the holidays non stop?
Nurses, police , fire.
If you dont like it, find another job.
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