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I work in the back room of a super wal mart, and I have to spread the word about something that happened to a fellow worker the other day.

This fellow worker, I will call him Charles, got a phone call that something had happened to his son, and that he had to get to the hospital right away, because his son may not make it thru the day. As Charles ran past the office, he stopped to tell a manager what had happened, and that he had to drive over 2 hours to get to where his son was, and was told that his son may not live, and he had to leave right away.

The manager informed Charles he could not leave until he went inti the office, sat down, explained again the reason he was leaving to the co manager, then fill out a form on the computer stating the reason again. WHAT??!!

Keep in mind, this mans son was laying perhaps on his death bed, and Charles had to drive over 2 hours to go see him, but had to fill out some paper work first.

I havent heard anything yet, but lets hope for the best.

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Looking For a Lawyer to Sue Wal-mart #21: Assaulted by Wal-Mart Security

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My kids and I (8 y/o boy & 5 y/o girl) went to Walmart to grab some
stuff about 12:30 pm 6/21/08. I needed to get some weights and what not,
and I promised my kids a toy each for really helping me out this week.
Any way, we got the stuff we needed and they saw McDonald's. We decided
to grab some burgers. This was directly across the way from the
check-stand where I purchased my stuff. Pushed the cart up to McD's and
walked up to the register. Bought our stuff, ate lunch, and went to
leave. (Approx 1:30 PM)

I grabbed the cart and headed for the door. Walked through the little 
security sensors (No, they did not go off) and was almost to the door.
A guy (50's-60's, gray hair, possibly glasses) asked for my receipt. I
told him "No thank you" and kept walking. I attempted to walk out the
door.  He then tried to pull the cart out of my hands, and said you need 
to come with me to the security office. I told him I would be doing no
such thing and asked him if I was free to go. He said no. I then asked
if he was detaining me. He said no. So I went to push the cart out of
the door. He grabbed the cart again. I asked him if he would physically
grab me. He said no.

I told him to get a manager.  He yelled at another
gentleman (coincidentally, the gentleman in question was standing in
line directly in front of me at McDonald's.  His total was $4.02. I
remember seeing it ring up on the register)  This gentleman (not wearing
a name tag) was late 40's - early 50's.  He went and banged on a door
right near the entrance that had a piece of paper taped on it saying
"Employees Only" or something to that effect.

I said to the first gentleman "Look, I've paid for every item in this
cart. It is my property.  I'm getting my items and I'm leaving." At this
time time, a younger guy (Mid 20's, short cropped light brown or blond
hair, possible earring, 200-225 lbs, 5'10" or so, no nametag) came out
from the earlier mentioned door.  At that point I reached in, picked up
my items (1 40lb dumbell set, 2 sunshades for a car, toy puppy, super
soaker, lifting gloves, and exercise mat) handed the kids their toys and
went to walk out the door. At that point the employee (I think, he
wasn't wearing any kind of name tag) that came out of the side door
grabbed me by the biceps and tried to restrain me. I asked him to get
his hands off me and please call the police.

At this point, I was surrounded by about 10 employees (Again, I'm not 100%
they were employees, since most had no WalMart badges on). My daughter (5)
started bawling. I again asked if I was free to go. I walked just outside the
entrance doors, and 4-5 employees circled me and prevented me from
leaving. "no name tag" (the younger) again put his hands on my arms and
prevented me from advancing. (I'm not clear if all were employees or
not.  There were several males of varying ages and one female,
30's-hispanic or native american.  All wearing street clothes.

"No nametag" (the younger) got out his cellphone and dialed 911. I was
about 6 inches from his face. He got the dispatcher and advised them
that he had an uncooperative customer and needed the police. I leaned in
and said something to the effect "Ask the dispatcher if it is legal for 
you to physically detain me." I repeated this several times. He tells
the dispatcher that NO ONE ever touched me. At this point an Asst.
Manager (Mikki - 40's African American) walked up and asked what the
problem was. I told her what was happening. "No nametag" says "I never
touched him." I ignored him and asked the Mgr if there were video
cameras at the entrance. She said yes, so I told her that I wasn't going
to argue the point, we could just watch the video.

At this point another employee went up to my daughter and grabbed the 
toy from her arms. This guy was probably mid 20's: crew cut style
haircut, dark brown, or black hair. Athletic build, a little over 6ft
tall. She was really crying by then. He said he was taking it to look up
the transaction. 10 minutes went by, me surrounded by employees. Nobody
really saying anything. I tried to take a picture of the guy who grabbed
my arms, but he kept turning around in circles so I couldn't get it. I
have one photo of the back of his head. The police still hadn't shown
up.

The employee who took my daughter's toy then returned with a receipt
printout and handed it to Mikki. She looked at my stuff, said here's
your receipt. See you later. No apologies, nothing.

Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-Mart # 20: Neck, Head and Back Injury

Lawyers in the Bridgeport, Ohio area,
please contact Robin:
robinshunk (at) comcast (dot) net

On December 4, 2005 while I was at work for Walmart, a box weighing around 30 pounds fell and hit me on the head.

I know have neck, head and back injury. I have been fighting Walmart for almost 3 years. But of course Walmart has more money then me and it is very hard to fight someone like that.

But I am not done fighting yet and top it all off they fired me on 4-18-2008 while I am still off for this injury that was there fault.

So there is more if you need more ifo please email me back. I am also trying to get this story to cnn or fox news. Thank you, Robin

Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-Mart #19: Slip at Wal-mart Almost Kills Baby

Lawyers in the California area,
please contact: Jenna M.

jennamcquesten (at) hotmail (dot) com

In late august 2007, 31 wks pregnant, I was walking in the walmart towards the baby section and fell in a puddle of water against my cart.

I filled out an incident report, sat for a bit, I felt weird, and went home...2 weeks later, I went into labor, and delivered my 3lbs 3oz little baby girl.

My doctor told me that my placenta was almost completely ripped off my body. 2 weeks before I fell I had an ultrasound that shows my placenta was fine at that time, I have that report. My daughter was in the hospital for 1 and half months.

She is a miracle to have survived with the placenta almost not attached, but she wasn't getting nourishment, therefore my body went into premature labor at 33 weeks. This happened in my home state of California.

Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-mart #18: Fired For What?

Lawyers in the Florida area
please contact: John
Cachon (at) aol (dot) com

Back in September, Walmart dc 7023 in Arcadia florida where I worked since it began, in 2005, fired me for falsifying documents,gross misconduct..I of course argued but as many of your know an argument with walmart HAS to be in court.

My job was changing batteries in the battery room and I allegedly entered in a number of a battery that was sposed to be watered but wasn't. A Practice that we were told to do if there was a line of peoppe needing batteries changed and production was slowing due to having to wait in line with their equipment( forklifts etc) to have their batery changed, this procatice is STILL going on and has been since the dc opened in 2005.

I collected unemployment and a few months ago Walmart filed suit against my appealing my unemployment. In FLorida if you are fired for gross misconduct you cannot get unemployment. well I got it and at the appeal hearing( by phone) their witness said he didn't know why I was terminated,stating that there was nothing on his paper as to the reason. My case here is that since I wasn't fired for gross misconduct, then WHAT was I fired for? nothing on papers that I received and since the practice is STILL going on then why single out me? that answer is my age and medical conditions,( advanced prostate cancer).

I am looking for a lawyer that wants to handle this case, I have all the paper work and the notes and copy of the phone hearing. I feel very strongly that I was discriminate against because of my age and medical conditions. any help? thanks

Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-Mart #17: Father Loses Battle With Cancer, Wal-Mart Wouldn't Provide Medical Insurance

Lawyers in the Ohio area,
please contact: Joshua
spyke_03 (at) yahoo (dot) com


My father worked for the walmart DC in Washington Courthouse, Ohio for almost a year when he was diagnosed with cancer.

He had to go on medical leave, the doctors told him that he would die if he didn't get a treatment with radical chemotherapy and stem cells.

He tried to get his insurance to pay for it through walmart but they said because the treatment was considered a transplant the insurance didn't cover it until you've worked for the company for a full year.

You can guess the end of the story, my father lost his battle with cancer in August of 2007 all because the multibillion dollar giant walmart couldn't spare a drop in the bucket to save one of their own worker's life.

Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-mart #16, Fired Because of Surgery

Lawyers in the NC area,
please contact: Allynsam(at) aol (dot) com

I have worked for Sam's club in NC for 13 years. I was one of the highest paid associates in the club and reminded of that often by management.

I had been out of work for a week, the first part of November. When I returned I informed my manager that I was going to need surgery , she asked when and reminded me that this was the worst possible time of year for me to be out.

I was informed by doctors that surgery need to be scheduled fast. DEC 12 was the date and would have an eight week recovery. Management was not happy.

I was terminated November 28,2007 for falsifying company documents!! (one week after giving my surgury date)

The company documents were time adjustments for missed lunches.

I was told the times I put on my adjustments didn't match the video tapes.

I know for a fact others guess at the time or put their lunch wrong to stay within company guide lines of taking a lunch after 6 hours!

One time adjustment was done to stay under 40 hours , at the request of my manager because she would get in trouble for having overtime.

I just think its unfair to pick and choose who's time adjustments they allow and who's they don't.

I was 13 year associate making more then some management. they wanted me gone

Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-mart #15, Hit From Behind and Knocked to the Ground by Wal-mart Staff

Lawyers in the Lincoln, NE area,
please contact Dave davekohles (at) msn (dot) com

I was exiting Wal-Mart after checking out. I was approached by two individuals wearing regular close and no identification. The one individual starts to accuse me of shoplifting. I ask them who they are but they do not tell me they just keep shouting accusations at me and i continue to ask who they are and that I have done nothing and don't know what they are talking about.

At this point one of the individuals starts reaching into my shopping cart and going though my stuff. He claims to have found evidence of some sort. This entire time I am holding my 1 yr old daughter and my wife is standing beside me. The two individuals whom would not identify themselves start to grab my arm and tell me to go back in the store. I insisted I had done nothing wrong and decided to hand my daughter to my wife and told her to take the baby and go to the car.

When I turned from them I was hit from behind and knocked to the ground. The two individuals continued to hold me on the concrete with my coat pulled over my head. I remember hearing a woman shout "help him, someone help." The next thing I know I am free and I stand up a little dazed and wondering what just happened.

I look around and see my wife and baby at the car and two men struggling with the two men who assaulted me. I turned and went to my wife . My first priority seemed to be making sure I was cleared of any wrong doing, figuring I would more than likely soon be visited by an police officer. One month went by, and I was talking with my wife about that night and how I felt about what happened.

We decided that the way we were treated was very wrong and that if I was ever approached by or the accusations they made ever brought up that I would pursuer action against them. I guess I felt I probably would not here any more about it and than I was ticketed and arrested at my home.

The officer mentioned the incident and said that when the two loss prevention guys were detaining me that they were removed from my back by two men that thought they were assaulting me witch they were. I told the officer I was innocent and that I felt that I was assaulted. He ticketed me and I was never formally charged. I would now like to pursue action against them or whom ever.

I strongly believe that my rights were violated and that the situation was handled very poorly. I think about how even thought my daughter was very young if it will be something she will remember, I don't know. I do know that these men should have been wearing Identification of some sort and before detaining someone in such an excessive manor they should be darn certain they are guilty, and even then they should not be aloud to attack an individual who is not resisting. Please contact me if you can offer your services.

Dave Kohles davekohles (at) msn (dor) comLincoln, NE

Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-mart #14, Pharmacist Fired for Supposedly Stealing $4 Pills

Lawyers in the Illinois area,
please contact Cheryle
imin61071 (at) hotmail (dot) com.


I worked at the Dixon Illinois Wal-Mart. I noticed that one of your other posts also had a complaint needing a lawyer from this town. I have never done an illegal thing in my life, not even a parking ticket.

Yesterday I was fired for stealing. I was handcuffed and led to the police car in front of co-workers who were all too happy to gossip about this today (I've been told).

Wal-Mart would not let me see the tape of what I supposedly had done. They said that I stole some prescription drugs. The drug that was mentioned is on the Wal-Mart $4 generic plan. I could well have afforded that drug if I had wanted it. I even have a prescription for that drug ( a different dose) so there was no need to steal anything. My prescription information was discussed in the security office without my permission. I thought that this was a HIPPA violation.

This drug has no street value and was not even the dose I am on. It's a narrow-therapeutic drug, therefore dosing is crucial and is monitored with twice-yearly blood work. I get my medications through mail order because I never wanted to give anyone any cause to suspect me of anything.

I loved my job and had planned on retiring from Wal-Mart one day. When I was called into the office yesterday I had no idea what was about to occur. Being in a management position, I assumed that it was about another employee. Obviously I was wrong.

This event has the potential to destroy my life. I am a pharmacist. My professional license may be placed on probation or suspended, I may be unable to work because of this, lose my home, etc. My reputation has already begun to suffer. What about my kids? My husband? Living in a small town, everyone will know about this soon enough. I already suffer from stress, anxiety and migraines. Now I have to deal with this as well.

I kept being asked to "just admit to what I had done". I refused because I have done nothing. I stole nothing. Again, the management that was present said that I had and that they saw it on the tape and "tapes don't lie".

Again, I asked to see the tape. I kept telling them that there had to be some mistake, some explanation. I was refused. The arresting police officer was allowed to see it and asked me to admit to it. Obviously something is on that tape to make him say that. I was told that a fellow employee saw me take this item and had reported it, thereby causing loss prevention to get involved. This is a new employee who has tried to cause trouble for others.

Even though I had not stolen anything, I would have gladly paid for whatever they accused me of stealing just to keep my job.

Again, this is a $4 medication we're talking about. I would have voluntarily quit if they had asked in order to keep my professional license in good standing. I was willing to do what it took to keep my job. I was panicking inside. I kept thinking "Are they right? Did I forget something? How did this happen?".

I tore through everything when I got home looking for this mysterious bottle. Yes, they actually had me doubting myself and my memory. They said "Maybe you don't remember because of all the medication you're on". Again, this was in front of 3 people, then 4 when the police officer arrived. Not only was I being accused of theft, but my medical condition, prescriptions, were being discussed in open without my permission.

I wanted to die inside. I kept shaking my head and telling them that there had to be some mistake.

I was arrested, handcuffed, fingerprinted and humiliated without ever seeing what I had supposedly done. Yesterday I had a career and a future. Today I have nothing. Yes, I need an attorney. One that isn't afraid to go up against Wal-Mart. If anyone can help, please contact me at imin61071 (at) hotmail (dot) com

Thank you for reading this.
Cheryle

Wal-mart's Plans: 80% Part Time and 20% Full Time Staff, Wal-Mart Letting go 25% of Staff

let me start off with I am a 4 year veteran of wal-mart, worked at 4 different stores in the district, not by choice. I have had a great record of employment in those 4 years. I am dedicated to my job, not the companies cause, for most of them are bogus. I was 4 months ago employed at the wal-mart in Ohio.

Bentonville decided to close Trootwood do to the economic features of the area, and the flop of the new Englewood super center store (1504). I feel the company had the right to do as they see fit in this situation, regarding lying to the public and the local city and its employees about why. In the closing all employees we given the chance to take lesser jobs at local stores. The employees that had time in were given a pay check for each year of service after 2 years of full time employment.

Most of us got screwed. I had a job, but it was 60 miles further away at the franklin store. I had a friend that worked at the huber Heights (1495) store and she got me in there. I thought I was still on the path for bettering my self up to Asst. management. After a few weeks, she was fired for working with a competitor. I then had a manager that did not know a thing other than to relay orders from the store manager.

After he got sent to third shift a month later I got ,what I thought, and old friend from my old store. Well he is a relayer of info not a manager in the since he is still new to the Wal-Mart way. I have a few contacts in higher places that can't keep there mouths shut.

I had just learned that Wal-Mart is letting go (in the stores) 25% in each store in the district. Now The store that I am at there was no seasonal (for christmas) help hired. As of today I know how they are going to do this. Today after senceless arguing with the Co Manger Kenny, I was wrote up today for supposedly what the store manager scanned in my department Saturday.

As my asst. manger prepared the write up He said "If I get wrote up so do you". I am now currently looking for a Job, do to, I now will never have a future for this company nor will I have a job after the first of the year, cause I know that I will be one of the 25% let go do to the volume of my Department.

I thought that when I read an email from an asistant about the future of Wal-mart it was crazy.

It said that wal-mart stores would like to be at 80% part time and 20% full time. As time has pasted I have seen this slowly starting to take place with department managers being forced to deal with more than one department, doubling the work load. They are also forcing the older employees to look else where for new jobs.

Here is a interesting fact: Wal-mart does not want any Employee to work for them over five years anymore if they are not going to move up. This is straight from the big boys mouth. So I guess my chances have just ended on this day for a future in the Wal-Mart Co.

Later I will write you more on there bogus green awareness ploy to the public.

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Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-Mart #13, Customer stuck with used hypodermic needle while trying on shorts

Lawyers in the Phoenix area,
please contact Jon
jutley01(at)qwest(dot)net

I need an lawyer willing to take on walmart store # 2512 in Phoenix ,AZ where I was stuck with a used hypodermic needle (as in IV drug user) .

While shopping on 11/05/2007 I tried on some shorts and felt something rubbing on my leg from the pocket.When I reached into that pocket I was stuck in the hand..

The manger and his assistant were called over I was told that they usual find these ( used syringes) in the bathroom,not only that but they refused to call police saying that it would take hours for them to respond and even thought I was complaining of chest pain and shaking and sweating they offered no assistance at all and said I should get to the doctor ASAP...

I am a 52 year old married family man with no history of any drug use and now I am going the embarrassment of HIV and hep C testing,as well as vaccinations for Hep A and B.Worse yet is I have Bi Polar disorder which has gone totally out of wack after over 2 years of very good control with all the stress this is causing. Walmarts claims people said they had no responsibility even for the doctor bills.

Jon Utley
jutley01 (at) qwest (dot) net

Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-mart #12, Sexual Harassment and Threatening Seem Not to Concern Wal-mart

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Looking for a lawyer to sue Wal-mart #11, Wal-mart's Supposed Contempt for Jews

Lawyers in the Kingman, Arizona area
please contact:

hboyer (at) frontiernet (dot) net

Hello,
I was an employee of the Hallmark card company until 11/17/07. Hallmark which is a privately held corporation located in Kansas City, Mo. leases space in Wal-Mart stores to display and sell their greeting card products. Hallmark does not hire Wal-Mart employees to retail their product. We Hallmark employees are jobbers at the Wal-Mart stores.

Today I came in to work Saturday 11/17/07 after assessing the products I would need to have to stock the shelves, I proceeded to the storeroom to load a shopping cart and do the job as I had been instructed by my supervisor from Hallmark card company.

I was immediately stopped by a older woman and a younger man they said they were supervisors the woman a store manager the guy a security person from the warehouse dept.

I was told I could not use a shopping cart to move product to the sales floor. I tried to explain that the shipping cart they said I must use would not work since we have unboxed product and do not stock case loads of greeting cards at a time on shelves.

And I said I would do the job as I was taught until I am told by my boss differently.The security guy pointed at my Star of David and said " You People always push things" I took that as a discriminatory insult to my Jewish Race and Religion.

He then said you will do the job the Wal-Mart way or not at all. I said ok not at all he said " You are fired get out of the ware house this minute now!

I walked out off the job.

Can a employee of a jobber that leases space for their company actually be fired by the other company management?

Lets say you rent shelf space for your company from Wal-Mart and you stock it and hire your own employees that have no relation to Wal-Mart then one day Wal-Mart wants to change how you do your job and they start to bully your employees and then actually fires one of your employees. Can they do that?Can they ban your employee from access to the spaces were your employee works? And then discharge that employee.

That is what happened to me.

I urge all of you parents out there to tell your children that Santa had a heart attack this year and can not make it to your house. But MOMMY & DADDY love you and will get you a present that does not come from Wal-Mart. And if you are a Christian believer then think of my experience and that the Wal-Mart Corporate culture is one of contempt for Jews and remember Jesus was Jewish so they hate him too.

Please can there be a Attorney out there to take my case.

Looking For A Lawyer To Sue Wal-mart #10, Store Manager Pulls Sticker Off Unit

Lawyers in the Orange, CA area
please contact: Ayda Waldez

ayda(at) clscatalog (dot) com

Hello

My name is Ayda Valdez

Just recently I had went into a Wal-Mart store to return a xbox360 that my husband had bought just the night before.. When he took the game cube home it would not work... So the next morning I went to return the item with the recite ..

after being at the return counter while the looked over the box.. then Wal-Mart assoc turned to me and said that I was not returning the unit that was bought the night before.. he said that the unit clearly looked older then 8hrs..

He went on to show me were the serial number is ,It is on a sticker he said that it clearly looks as if the sticker had been pilled and replaced ..I was in shock ..not only did I not know that the serial number was but that even it was a stinker.. Never owning another xbox.. I could not believe what I was be accused of...

I ask that he please pull a new unit and show me because the unit to me looked new and I could still not even tell that it was a sticker... the sales associate left to my belief he was going to pull a new box to show me.. after a bit a different woman walks up to me and says that I can not return the item.. I then asked to speak to a store manager...

after a bit the store manager comes up and starts to look at the unit... then the first assto comes back and he looks at the store manager with out saying anything the store manager looks at me and says sorry you can not return the unit...

I asked why he said that the unit is clearly older then what the recite says the serial number matches but they said I had swapped the unit.. straight out accused me I was so surprised... I asked if they can just check to see if maybe it had been return...The store manager refused... I asked if they can show me a new unit again..Store manager said no he did not have to.. I asked him well at this time what can I do.. I am stuck with this unit that I had just bought with you guys that does not work... He said let me explain to you what you did... He (the store manager) then pulled the sticker completely off my unit and said see this is the sticker and this is what you did...

I was so unset I asked Oh My God.. What are you telling me know what can I do... Then he put all my stuff with the unit back in the box and said you can leave my store.. And dont try to take it any were else I will notify all the Wal-Mart's in the surrounding area.. I am still blown away at what I have been accused of.. I then called x-box and explained what had happen.. and when telling them the store.. They tell me because the sticker was removed that it voids all warranty so they now also refuses to repair it with out a fee..

I fell that Wal-Mart just passed judgment and accused me of something that had never happened.. I believe that if someone who knows can see that the unit is NEW and someone clearly passed judgment....I want to see if I can take legal action... Please help


Ayda Valdez
Orange,Ca

Wal-mart Manager Asks Employee if His Girlfriend is Getting Fat

I work at store #1160 there is a manager on my shift named ? (name removed) .My gf who also works there and I have both ahd nothing but trouble out of this man. We arent the only ones.

The other day my GF was bent over zoning up some merchindise in her area when he approached her. He told her she needed to pick up the pace. Her area wasnt zoned yet and it was the end of the shift.

She told him they had her on aregister for 6 hours covering a call in.

He put his finger in her face and yelled at her.

Then today he tells me she is getting fat and asked if shes eating more or if she forgot the pill...I cannot belive the man had the guts to say such a thing.

Other females have complained he sexually harrasses them. He makes fun of employees to thier faces. Upper management just brushes it off if we talk to them. So much for an open door.

Wal-mart Makes Him Lose His Disability

i have worked for walmart for 7and half ;years i have been tle shop manager 2 times and was support manager until a few days ago i started with wm and told them iwanted part time as i was getting disability and could not afford to lose it after a bout a month they talked me in to going full time i ended up loosing my disability and having to pay most of it back last year i was asked to sign a job description that i had already signed the manager that asked me to sign saidif i did i would be required to lift and pull pallets climb letter's of what ever they asked of me i told him i had already signed one and he said if i did notsign it again i would loose my position or possibly beasked to resign from my current job if i did sign it iwould have to do as he asks with no argument did not sign it i said i had already signed one and i had medical papers in my file that said i had restrictions on lifting or climbing i have a medal rod in my leg and did not want to mess it up then a few weeks laterthe oil tank ran over and i was called into the officeand told i was getting a written coaching as i had already had a verbal on the paper i did not sign wehave been short handed since i started to work i havepaper work that is supported to be done by me or shopmanager i was told by the dept/manager not to worryabout it until we got enough help to cover the shop as some nights i was the only in the shop to do the work and the customers came first and she would handle it until we got enough help they finally got a new shopmanager and more help and i got called into the officeand was told to step down from my manager job and tomove into the shop and work under the new manager thathasn't worked for but a few weeks and he informed methat i was his underling and was to do as he said ihave since fell and got hurt and they are making me a greeter in the same dept and their Dr said that icould stand or lean for my shift i can not stand very long or sit in one position for any length of time ori hurt very bad i feel like they are doing this to force me to quit i have been treated bad since theychanged managers and gave us a market manager i wastold when i got the job i was over the shop manager but he came i and told me that he was boss and i wasunderling to him and all managers when they called meinto the office i was told i had to do as he says or else is the Way i take it and he will make it or else when they make me change jobs i was forced in my opinion to sign a change of job paper today to go andbe greater for the same dept it seems like yourappreciated until they think they have used you enoughthen they try to get rid of you we have lost most ofour longtime people to bad management story is allotlonger but have said enough right now thank you for your time ND

Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-Mart #9: Faulty Chairs Collapsing Out From Under You

Lawyers in the Moberly, Missouri
area please contact Gary at:
gdmulni (at) hotmail (dot) com

I am writing to see if anyone would be interested in representing in my case against Wal-Mart

It all began on Sept 12th when I went to take my afternoon break I made my way to the Break room I grabbed a chair to bring over to the table to sit with the normal group I held the bottom of the chair with my right hand and proceeded to sit down and when I did the chairs legs on the left side bent inward and the chair went to the right and I went to the floor and of course I then sprang up quickly as an embarssment factor always tell you to get up I then made sure it was reported to mgmnt as they then had me fill out a incident report of course I hurt on thurs and fri following .I told the store mgr let me go the weekend see how I feel .

The following tues I was still hurting Mgr ask me if I needed to get it checked They sent me to the mediquick .They said it was a back sprain Cmi then calls me the next week to inquire about accident .He said he would have liked to have the chair .Well I had to tell him that it was thrown away he informed me that

They had had other incidents of the chairs breaking <> I have continued to hurt so they sent me back to mediquick again i seen nurse practioner again I told him the pain starts in my lower spine not my muscles he did a little more of checking on me than the first time I now am going to Md on tues on Mediquick as np said I needed to do,they are also sending me to physical therapyon Mon . I was just wondering is there any product liablity as well since they know the chairs are prone to breaking but yet they have still left them in the lounges or I am just going to have workmans comp case I hope I have provided you with enough info I will be at work 7-4 all week .

Thanks in advance for your help

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Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-Mart #8, Wal-Mart is Suing Me

Lawyers in the Florida area
please contact Randon at:

randontrowbridge (at)yahoo (dot) com


I have recently been convicted of petite theft for items I admittedly stole from wal-mart. My reasoning is unimportant, but I admit I was in the wrong. I went to criminal court and was fined 6 months probation, 30 hours of community service, I had to take a class and pay $305 dollars is fines and restitution.

Then 2 days ago I, I received a letter form a law firm representing wal-mart, stating that I had to pay them $475 in 10 days or I will be taken to trial. The Statute they quote is Section 772.11 of Florida Law. I researched this and found that it is a legitimate Statute, however, it states that they can sue for no more than 3 times the amount taken, I stole $70 worth of merchandise, times three is only $210.

If i didn't have the money to pay for $70 worth of items, how can I pay $475.

I need help and fast,
Randon in Lakeland FL

Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-Mart #7, Working Off The Clock---Willful Violation of Law

Lawyers in Virginia please contact
ChristinesHeart (at) aol (dot) com


In the seven years I worked for Walmart #1841 in Chesapeake, Virginia I have heard assistants, co’s and store manager tell people they couldn’t have a break or go to lunch, unless they finished certain things, if they didn’t get it done on time then it was just to bad for them.

It’s easy enough to fix the time adjustments in the system so Walmart won’t be fined for allowing late lunches and they do it all the time.

Associates work thru their lunch or past the state law guide line hours because they were asked to complete certain things, then management or personal will just go in the system and make it look like the lunch was taken or taken on time, which ever the case needs to be.......most cases have written time adjustment backup signed by you, to cover them also, but there are also plenty of adjustments that are made up by management or personal, just keyed in.

Truck unloaders were told they had to forfeit their break because they didn’t get a truck done fast enough. They were also told they couldn’t go to lunch until they got X amount of trucks unloaded.

Department Managers and associates have been told they couldn’t leave until they got everything done on a list that management handed them about an hour before it’s time to go home.Assistants have been told the same thing, yes I know they are on salary but that doesn’t mean they are to be used for 70 hours a week.

I have been told by my assistant that he is to protect people working off the clock (which is called will full violation) and he was told by a Co-Manager to do so.I can name several people who have been threatened for their DM status or job that they keep working after they punch out because they know the work has to be done or they won’t have a job.

Don’t give me the bull crap Walmart doesn’t allow it, they allow, in fact they encourage it and turn a blind eye to those who do....free hands for Walmart........no need to hire more help, we have them so scared for their job they are willing to do it for free.

They will let you do it, until they want to get rid of you, then they will use it against you, just like they allow breaking of other policies and laws, until it’s your turn to hit the road....then they turn it around and use it against you.

That’s the bottom line.

It is documented from 2005, yet nothing ever done about it, but coverup.

Any lawyers wanting to file this suit, please contact me.

Christine in Chesapeake, Virginia

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Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-Mart #6, "Very Crude and Unnecessary Comments About My Mother"

LAWYERS in Dixon, Illinois
please contact Sarah at:
MaskScarah (at) aol (dot) com


Hello my name is Sarah Farmer, I feel I have a story for you. We live in Dixon, Illinois.

On July 3, 2007 my mother and I went to Wal-Mart to do a money transfer (like a western union) we were sending $550.00 to my brother in NJ. I was standing next to my mother at the counter while she was filling out the form for the transfer. After finishing the form my mother put 6 $100.00 bills on the counter. The total came to $585.34.

During the transaction the Sales clerk was helping 4 people while helping us. She kept picking up the money and then putting it down and then back on the counter in the interim the clerk had set the money down under the phone cord. Then handed the phone to the clerk next to her.

I then noticed that the money was about to fall off the counter so I reached over to stop it from falling off the counter. I then counted it to make sure it was all there. I was about to set the money back on the counter, but my mother took it out of my hand. The clerk handed her the change she then signed the receipt and then she placed the 6 $100.00 bills on the counter in front of the clerk and to my knowledge and my mothers the clerk had taken it and put it in the drawer.

My mother had another transaction. She needed a money order. She gave her another one hundred dollar bill. My mother was filling out the money order and the clerk looked at her and said " YOU NEED TO MOVE I NEED TO HELP OTHER CUSTOMERS!!" my mother who was not in the way looked up and said "Well excuse me, but what am I?" The clerk then proceeded to swipe all of my mothers papers over into a pile on the other end of the counter. My mother a little ticked off at how this Clerk was working picked up all her things put them in her purse and my mother and I left.

The next day my father had received a call from the Dixon police department. Wal-Mart had filed a complaint for theft. They were stating my mother had taken the money.

My father then called my mother at work and told her what was going on. She said that she didn't know what he was talking about. But would check her purse.

After checking the paperwork, she found the money mixed in with all the receipts. She told him to call the police and tell them she was on her way down. She then left work and came to get me. We both went down to the police department to return the money, but we were told that the police officer handling the case wasn't there, to come back tomorrow. We returned on July 5th and spoke to the officer.

The officer first brought me upstairs and read me my rights and told me I was being charged with a class 3 felony for theft of over 300 dollars. He then went down to get my mother. She then asked them why are we being arrested. We didn't do anything wrong. He said she took the money. My mother replied "I didn't know I had the money."

The police officer said he had the surveillance tape showing her putting the money in her purse. My mother denied this. After finishing all the paperwork he told us we were going over to talk to the judge and leave. That it looks like a mistake on the clerks part. But instead, he brought us to the Lee County Sheriffs Department. Where they continued to book us and put us in jail. We were incarcerated for over 8 hours. No food or water, nothing. We were strip searched and put in black and white striped suits.

The sheriffs department made very crude and unnecessary comments about my mother and I.

Like “Did I guess her bra size right??“ “Right on the dot! Replied the other officer. “WhooHoo!! WhooHoo!!” This comment was made in front of my mother while they were putting the striped suit on me.

After talking to my father around 4:00pm the police officer came out and told us that he had never seen this before that we were going to speak to the judge. This officer took us through the jail and put a belt around our waist and cuffed us. We were walked through a parade of rooms and then we were handed off to another Police officer. This officer then took us out the front door of the court house and down the street in front of god and everyone back to the county jail.

We were put back in the jail cell. After some time we then were released on our own recognizance. After all this, we then lost our jobs, our house. EVERYTHING including our dignity.

This went on for almost 3 months.

All because Wal-Mart had an incompetent clerk who doesn't know her job and we were the fall guys. Through previously working there, I know the procedure and protocol for dealing with transactions with large sums on money. The sales clerk did not follow any of that. They had the surveillance tape and told us that I picked up the money thumbed through it handed it to my mother and she thumbed through it and then put it in her purse. After about a month and a half we finally received a copy of the police report and the probable cause affidavit. These reports were filed by the arresting officer.

These reports were filled with lies. And no one has seen the tape showing this crime. The only one that had seen the tape were the Wal-Mart managers and the police officer.

2 months of waiting we finally saw the tape. We were the first to see it and it showed my mother placing the money back on the counter. Proving that the police officer had lied.

We went to court 3 times before the charges were dismissed on September 27, 2007. The State Attorney stated it was a mistake.

So far all we have heard is that if you go to Wal-Mart and the clerk makes a mistake you are responsible for it. Please, if there is any lawyer that is interested in helping us file a civil suit against Wal-Mart and all involved please contact me at MaskScarah (at) aol (dot) com . There is so much more to the story that we have left out to shorten it.

DON'T SHOP AT WALMART your responsible for their mistakes!

Wal-Mart Ripping off American Taxpayers

Wal-Mart's failure to provide healthcare to their employees is costing American taxpayers over 1.5 billion dollars every year and leaves an estimated 46% of the children of Wal-Mart employees on publicly-funded healthcare programs.

You get cheap goods, but you pay in countless other ways.

Wal-Mart Bullies Disabled Greeters

I have just hired into Wal-mart as a greeter myself sadly and just asking to have a stool to get off my feet for a few minutes seems to be a deadly sin to them.

Let me start at the beginning. About seven years ago I had a series of accidents that left me partially disabled. Since then I cannot walk without the aid of a cane, continue to have problems standing for long periods and, weakness/pain on the right side of my body.

First I applied to a variety of departments including gardening, electronic, cashier, etc. After the standard interview process one of the assistant managers had approved the job offer for a sales associate in the electronics department because I had worked at a Best Buy beforehand (which I left for only getting scheduled for 4 hrs total in a week by the end, but at least I could get off my feet when needed).

Just before clicking on the computer to accept the job offer and get my drug test packet I requested the American with Disability act sheet so I could get reasonable accommodation for my condition. After a whole mess of them not knowing where the form is and me trying to find an appointment to get it filled out I was finally called back by Wal-Mart.

They explained that they were now only able to offer me the people greeter position for considerably less money than I was offered for in the electronics dept. Angry, but desperate for cash, I took the job.

On my ADA form it exclaims that I NEED to get off my feet every 2 hours for a break and within my first 4 days on the floor 3 of the days I was forgotten for 30min to a hour at a time come break time, it has since gotten better but ONLY if I yell at them on the radio for someone to remember to give it to me (did not even have a radio until I kept complaining). I was in so much pain that I had to call a family member to drive me home. A few days later I receive the second ADA form that I sent to my surgeon.

On this form he wants me to have sit down work, use of a wheelchair, and a short moving break every hour. Now I do not really need the wheelchair unless I plan on covering a large area all day (state fair, amusement park, etc) but I DO need to be able to get off my feet often.

I was told that Wal-Mart will submit the form but was "unlikely to be able to accommodate me" by the cashier manager and personnel manager. What part of people greeter cannot be accomplished by having a stool there that I can sit on when I am hurting to the point that I can barely move? What part of me sitting had anything to do with causing significant difficulties for the company? I EVEN HAVE MY OWN STOOL!!

I have begged them to put me somewhere more comfortable but they explain how there is no such place and even reminded them that I have seen cashiers there on stools. According to them that is for "pregnant and recent surgery" employees. Even just being able to lean forward on the register was better.

But the worst part of all is today I was sent to be a greeter at the lawn and garden door and for the whole hour and a half there were less than 10 customers and EVERY second there was not someone checking out the cashier was sitting down on the register. With all the cameras and managers doing nothing but cruising the store with clipboards you cannot tell me that they did not know that they were sitting and if a perfectly able person is able why in the world would they not be able to offer me a job at the same place......and the cashier girl so nicely explained that the garden center cashier spot was year round and that she was moving to bakery next week.

I am not the only one having problems at this store and probably many other stores.

There is an older woman that requires a cart just to walk back to the time clock and all of them are constantly forgotten about on breaks. It was only after I came and complained about not having radios at the door that we got one to be able to yell at the CSM's to give breaks on time.

Walmart continues to bully and intimidate its mostly disabled greeters so they dont complain and let the company walk all over them. There IS a video about ADA AFTER you are hired that explains that you have the right to a form but little else. But, during the hiring process only a few small sentences ever mention it and when someone like me that actually reads and requests it the management has NO CLUE what it is or where it can be found until they call you into the store 3 times to finally get it placed in my hands, then have to wait nearly a week to see if its accepted to even get the job.

I am stuck at this point. I do not have a desire to quit so soon since I have quit so many other places before hand and finding a now job where I live is a near impossibility (employers see a cane it is like I have a communicable disease).

But at the current rate I will not last long with the extreme amount of pain I am feeling standing still on bare concrete for 8hrs a day. So any suggestions or help would be appreciated.Though they will no doubt be able to figure out who is writing this message and will retaliate against me despite my rights and their own policies

I have choosen to make a fake email address and at this time do not wish to identify myself. I would like to keep a job at least until i can find a good job that does not treat its employees like trash and criminals.

Looking for a Lawyer to Sue Wal-Mart #5, Wal-Mart Lies To Injured 80-Year-Old Mother

Lawyers please contact
horror (at) walmartsucks (dot) org
for Randy's contact info

I need an attorney in the Rogers arkansas area to represent my 80yr old mother.

She fell in the walMart in Rogers over a 4 wheel flat cart while shopping when some idiot employee left (on a Sat) behind her without warning her it was behind her. She turned around a fell over it.

She went to the hospital and was told Walmart would pay the bill, then went to her private doctor and again was told by that office that walmart would pay the bill.

Today sept 21, 2007 some woman from their legal dept. called my mother and told her the fall was her fault and they would be paying anything and she should turn the bills over to medicare.

Please this is crazy, somebody help me.

Looking For a Lawyer to Sue Wal-Mart #4, Herniations Miraculously Disappeared

LAWYERS PLEASE CONTACT:

Lorne L. Fox, Livingston, TX.
llfoxman (at) sbcglobal (dot) net


My wife has 2 herniated discs, a crushed bursa @left hip, carpal tunnel left wrist, and a her pelvis is all jacked up from a slip and fall two F-ing years ago!! She is in such pain daily that she is only good for a few hours in the morning.

They refuse to fix her and…get this shit…her herniations miraculously disappeared on last MRI…is it a coincidence that it was THEIR doctor?

I need my wife back…the active, fun, charismatic woman she used to be…not this despondent, bitter shell of who she once was.

My kids need their mother back as well…we can’t really do things as a family anymore because there is nothing she can do. I am terrified for her. The amount of pain she is in 24/7 is more than anyone should ever have to bear. It makes me feel so worthless knowing that I can do absolutely nothing to help her. Please help.

For the longest time all we wanted was for her to be indemnified…this is no longer the case. I want a bad-ass, bloodthirsty, wicked son-of-a-bitch…someone not scared or intimidated.

My wife is a wonderful lady…she deserves SO much better. She busted her ass for them and this is what she gets?

I was recovering from brain cancer when she went to work as a “greeter in the oil/lube shop in Livingston, TX. Shortly thereafter she was changing oil. Your wife, you say? Yessir, my wife. She was willing to bust ass to make ends meet. I was disabled at the time and that doesn’t pay jack. They used her up and dropped her like a lead balloon. People are supposed to be more than just an expendable commodity…We really need help if she is ever to get better.

At Wal-Mart, Satan's Rules Rule

I worked at the walmart in my home town of Greenwood, indiana in 2001. When I started there, they made all the new employees sign a section in the employee hand book saying that they would follow the rules.

Following instructions, I signed and turned it in to the personell office. I should have known that my new job was run by satan himself. On the day of my orientation, I went to have lunch at the cafe that is now a mainstream restaurant. The food was nasty. The burger was half cooked, the fries were dry and crispy, it it was over priced. My real stay in hell was just begining.

I worked in the toy department until december fourteenth of that year. During my first week, I asked the store manager if I could keep my expensive sued jacket in the personell office so it wouldn't get stolen. He looked at me and said "Well if I let you do it, then I'll have to let every associate do it now won't I." in a really rude tone. I could tell he didn't like me. then there were these computer tests that we had to take. every time I would sit down to take one, I would get in trouble for not doing my job. I was always left to work the entire department by myself and was poorly trained.

On my last day, the department manager along with the store manager and afew others who found me "Unacceptable" started doing things to get me in trouble. the time came when a customer needed me to get one of the bikes off of the top rack and bring it up to the register. I followed procedure and fuond one of the managers on duty so I could tell her where I was going. She said " No. hu uh. We're going to have a talk about your performance. you're never where you're supposed to be and you never do what you're told." This was coming from the manager who told me I had excellant customer service skills. I told her I was tired of being mistreated and left. I never said that I quit.

On the way home, I was in a major car accident in which my car was totaled and I almost died. I went back shortly after that to get my last pay check. I was given a piece of paper to sign and noticed it said I was terminated for insubordination. I asked the manager who had repremanded me why it said that and she ignored me and locked herself in the cash office.

Needless to say, if sam walton was alive today, he would be giving managers like that the pimp hand for being so stupid.

Rotten Dairy at Florida Wal-Marts

I am a Wal-Mart employee of about 8 months now.

I have worked in 2 different stores, in 2 different states.In my first store, I was an overnight stocker for the Dairy Department (milk, eggs, cheese, yogurt, butter, etc.)

I came to my 2nd store in Florida and started my first night as a O/N Dairy Stocker but immediately quit the department and asked for a new position when I realized that the people who work in the Dairy Department, bring ALL the fresh freight for the night to the floor at the same time, starting roughly around 10pm, and leave it on the floor until whenever its packed out onto the shelves.

The last of the freight could be sitting on the floor at room temperature until as late as 8am or 9am, depending on when the associates finish packing it onto the shelves.

This blatantly ignores the 20 minute rule set by Wal-Mart to avoid spoilage of cold foods.

I believe that even the law only permits cold food to be on the floor for 30 minutes...

As an employee, I emplore you all to NOT shop for Dairy products in central florida Wal-Marts...

The Ignorance and Stupidity of Wal-Mart Shoppers Who Drive 20 Miles to Save a Cent

To set the record straight, I no longer shop at Walmart. The reasons being that they are bad for our economy and are attempting to create a monopoly.

In January of 2004, I am ashamed to say, I was shopping at Walmart (aka, the Evil Empire). I left the store with a heavy bag in each hand. I walked out into the dark parking lot, and was attacked and assaulted by a drug-crazed maniac (who I quickly identified as a person I went to high school with). This person had a personal vendetta against me for quite some time, so I was not really surprised to discover she was following me around the store and the dark parking lot. The attacker took off into the store, and I followed.

I immediately went to the "security personnell" (if they can be called that) and reported the incident. The guy just said, "Okay, so what do you want me to do about it?" I asked him to call the police and search the store for the attacker. I described the attacker in great detail, gave the person's name and address, and even told where that person lived (like I said, the attacker was a former schoolmate). The security guy just told me it wouldn't do any good to look for the person, but they went ahead and called the police, who arrived 45 minutes later. The really sick thing is, several Walmart shoppers witnessed the attack, and just kept driving by or walking, and didn't even offer to call for help. That gives you an idea of the sick bastards that frequent Walmart!!

In 2006, my husband and I opened a pet shop in a small town in south Alabama. The nearest Walmart was over 20 miles away, and there were no pet shops in the area. Just for example, we sold small goldfish for 30 cents each, and the Walmart in the next town sold the same (but slightly less healthy) goldfish for 29 cents each. We had several good, loyal patrons (God bless them!), but the majority of the people in that town LOVED Walmart and wanted one in their town so bad they couldn't stand it. They would drive 20 miles (even with sky-high gas prices) to Walmart to save one penny on a stupid goldfish. We had several other products that were similarly priced, and people would even TELL US that they would just go to Walmart and get it for a few cents cheaper.

The ignorance and stupidity of these people make me gag. So now, in September 2007, we are closing up shop for good, thanks to the majority of stupid people that live in that little town in buttcrack of Alabama.

Looking for a Lawyer #3, Wrongful Dismissal After 9 Years Devoted to Wal-Mart

LAWYERS PLEASE CONTACT:

Mdreamer (at) aol (dot) com
Millsboro De is where i live and The store is 2791 Georgetown De

My story i have worked with walmart from May 1998 to August 3 2007.....Things started with a new Assistant Manger who they now call the terminater......She came in got freindly with everyone and keep saying she was there to help us get our front end together.... I was a customer Service Manger . Yes we did have a lot of people who were coming to work when they wanted to workrd the shifts they wanted to and called out every other day .....We wanted those people to shape up .........I was dedicated to Walmart i worked sick just so i wouldnt cause anyone to be put out or cause problems ......Prior to August 3rd i had worked 2 days so sick i all but passed out on That wednesday it was so bad everyone keep telling me to leave before i actually passed out . I worked as long as i possable could .Went to the assistant Mgr asked her could i leave and go to the Dr...She said yes and i told her that i would return when i was done ...Well i went My Dr said i had a very bad infection virus and said i could not work for at least a week . I went back to Walmart so sick i could barely drive but i kept my word about returning . I went to my supervisor which they always said follow chain of command .And told her and showed her my Dr note and said i was going to pick up the leave of absence packet to have filled out when i went back to the Dr ......She said ok and she went to the assistant manager in guestion and told her ....

When i left the HR office i peeked into the office they both were in conversation and looking at schedules to rearrange for coverage while i was out . I stood there they knew i was there . By then i was feeling so bad i walked away . I had done what i was suppose to .Well i was out for a week went back August 1 2007 and work 2:30-11:30 i worked the same shift the next day August 2 2007 and on the third day i worked 10:30 to &:30 ...i had worked more than half a day when i was called into the office and told i was being terminated for missing seven days . which was the seven days i was on leave of absence . I couldnt belive it ....

They tried to say i didnt turn in paper work and i said yes i did i did what we always do . Bring it back to the HR associate she takes it and has it signed by management . I was then informed that they couldnt go back in and change it in the computer once it is in it was done and there was nothing they could do .i asked why was it put in as unexcused in the first place ......I waited almost a month for unemployment because they said i left early from work on August 1 2007 without permisson . Not so . They gentleman at Uemployment said that was what they told him . He said he had to investigate more ....A few days later a recieved a letter from them granting my unemployment . In other words you cant unexcuse someone on Leave of Absence .

Looking for a Lawyer #2, Fired By Humourless Wal-Mart, Cleared by the Sensible Employment Commission

Interested Lawyers please contact Christine:

ChristinesHeart (at) aol (dot) com

To: WalmartSucks.org, Lee Scott, Patricia Curran, Michael Moore,
Virginia Employment Commission,

From:

Christine L. K.
X-Department Manager of Toys

Employment:
Walmart Super Center # 1841
Chesapeake, Virginia 23320
Phone 1 (757) 436-6055
Store Manager: (name removed)

Lee Scott,

Va. Employment Commission,

I Christine L. Knowels faxed in two sets of 12 page documents today, to the Home Office at number (1-479-204-9798) that I wish to be considered for my Unfair Termination.

I was told by Management that I would be treated unfairly unless I spoke to someone out of our Region, because I had complained about discrimination a little over two years ago and they have never wanted to give me a fair chance since and several of my co-workers had warned me that "they were out to get me."

I was hired at Walmart Super Center on August 31, 2000. I have worked in that same store since my hire date.

The pictures in question were made to boost the moral of the store, make people laugh and have a good time, because several associates have been saying we are not allowed to have any fun anymore and the moral is GONE.
Let me just say that I have been making these type of pictures of Store managers, Co-Managers, Assistants and Associates for as long as I have been working for Walmart and NO ONE told me I couldn't do it or that it was harassment, nor did I think it to be as such.

I have been asked to make these type of picture by other managers and associates because they said it was "good for the moral." I have had several people ask me to make their pictures or their kids picture, which I have done also. If I felt it would of hurt anyone's feelings or was even considered harassment I never would of made the pictures. I would of taken the pictures down if anyone told me to, and I would have apologized.

The green sheet states that I took the pictures without permission, which isn't true. I know I signed it but the moment Mr. E said I was fired my stomach turned and I felt I was going to regurgitate any minute and I just scribbled my name and got out of the office to get to the bathroom.

I had asked for a copy of the green sheet which I never received until September 1, 2007. I had a hard time getting it because every time I called or went up to Walmart they couldn't find my sheet in their files, they didn't know where it was, they couldn't fax one to me because of personal information contained on the sheet. The Store Manager wasn't in today, store manager not in again. T went in J's office couldn't' find it.

Finally I spoke with a Personal lady, who messaged Mr. ? he responded back by saying El has it. I called that store, asked their Personal lady for a copy, she couldn't figure out why El would have it, but checked into it anyway, found out she did have it and then sent me a copy on August 31, 2007.

I then read the information (for the first time) and couldn't believe what it said. I started making calls to District Manager J, Merchandise Manger W, PM El, Regional Manager G and the Home Office.

I have done pictures of a associate S L, who works in as ICS Lead and Truck Unload Leader.

I have put lime green, bright yellow, hot pink, blue and purple different styled wigs on him in the pictures, they hung in grocery receiving for a few weeks. I also made him into Shrek by turning his skin all green, bulging out his eyes and elongating his ears. This picture hung at the time clock for at least a week. He wanted to take the pictures home for his kids.

As far as the unfair termination:

When I was called into the office by Co-B S-D she said she needed to talk to me.

I went in the office, Mr. ? was sitting there, he had already had the green sheet filled out and a copy of the surveillance cd, which was placed on top of his computer.

I want to add that even after speaking with me about the pictures Mr. ? just took the green sheet down off his computer top and asked me to sign it.

He did not add any information I told him or change anything to what I told him. He didn't correct what he wrote either.
He had me fired before I got in the office.

Mr. ? asked me to tell him about the pictures. I said they are pictures I did for fun. He said did you have permission to take them? I said yes, when R. who works in personal was taking down the 8 x 10 pictures in order to replace them for the 5 x 7 pictures for the RM visit, I asked her what she was going to do with those pictures. She shrugged her shoulders and said I don't know. Then I asked R "Can I have them" she again shrugged her shoulders and said "I don't care, I want the frames though, you can have the pictures." I said ok, I'll leave the frames and later that evening when I got off work I went and got the pictures out of the frames.

I went home, stretched the pictures out and printed them. The day I brought the pictures in I showed assistant manager W H the pictures (before I was on the clock) and he was laughing and then said to me: "What are you going to do with the pictures, hang them on the bulletin board? "

I said yes. He said "Oh, Please Do".

So therefor I was given permission to hang the pictures.

At that time I punched in on the time clock and I started hanging the pictures up. (I rarely feel like taking my fifteen minute breaks because I would rather work, so I didn't think two minutes to hang pictures would be a probably.)
I ran out of tacks and had to go into the UPC office to get more. I then came back out, started hanging the rest of them and Co-Manger B came out of her office, walked beside me and I said, Oh don't say nothing, it's just for fun. She just looked and laughed and stood there a few minutes then walked on.
So, the Co didn't have a problem with me hanging them either.

Several associates and Assistant came by and they were laughing and joking and saying that's what we need around here, some laughter and we don't have any fun around here anymore. And that's what we needed for a Monday morning.

I was asked to do pictures of others and also their kids.

NOT ONE person told me they found it offensive, had they told me it was I would of taken the pictures down and apologized.

I have a picture I did of the last Store Manager W C, I made him a mouse with big green eyes like his. I also put a t-shirt on him with a Walmart smiley face on it and his name on the jacket. I had this hung in the Hardware department for months, while I was Department manager of Hardware.

Co-Manager T seen it asked me about it. I told her it was W, she thought is was cute and wanted a copy, so I took the picture down and gave it to her. I then brought another one from home and placed it back on the board the next day.

It hang was hanging when the new store manager ? came and the only reason I took it down was because I removed the entire 8' section.

Like I stated before I have been making these picture without any negative comments for years and it was always fine.

I had permission to take the pictures. I had permission by an assistant to hang them on the bulletin board.
I put them up right in front of my Co-Manager and nothing was said, other then laughs.

My store manager wrote false statements on my exit interview.

He was already upset that morning because the other Co Manager (who truly ran the store) was to leave the store for good in order to run another Walmart.

The Regional Manger was suppose to come back any day.

And we had a fire in the meat department walls that we couldn't get to, so we had to call the Fire Department and close down the store for a short while.

I believe all these things complied made the situation even worse for me, as the store manager was upset by everything he had on his plate.

So many associates have called me and emailed me saying how they thought it was wrong to fire me because they know I was just trying to raise the moral and have a good time.

To loose the Health Insurance on my husband and myself, my Accidental Death Insurance, Dental Insurance, Part of my 401k & Profit sharing (as I had 3 weeks to go before being fully invested) Life Insurance and Stock options, over something I have been doing for years and always got great response is just horrible.

I wanted my job back. I would like the green sheet corrected, the lies removed and the status fixed.

Sincerely, Christine L.K.

__________________________________________________________

The Exit Interview reads as follows:
Associate Name Christine K.

Detailed Statement of Termination. This Section Needs to Be Completed By the Associate for Voluntary Termination of By the manager/Supervisor for Involuntary Termination. (Please be specific.)

(Statement was filled out by store manager stated:

Christine displayed 13 potentially offensive pictures of the management team in the backhallway while on the clock. Christine used/took company resources (digital media/or photo copies off of company propery without permission. (that is a lie)

Results:
Involuntary Termination, Mandatory No Rehire
Gross Misconduct-Other (GMO)

Explain general Comments- Review Wm policy PD-19 section Harrasment Prevention.

Turned in Badge, Discount Card
Signed: Christine K.
Salaried Member of management: B S.D.
Facility manager: ?

P.S. I have never signed a PD-19 policy.

I had twenty five more days to go and I would have been fully invested.

_________________________________________________________________

Employment Commission Report


Yesterday I received the Employment Comission Notice of Deputy's Determination and it reads as follows;

You are hereby notified that based on the facts ovtained in the connection with your claim for unemployment compensation filed on 8-19-07 the undersigned deputy pursuant to section 60.2-618(2) of the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Act Renders the Following Determination:

Claimant Qualified Effective 8-19-07

Christine was discharged from her position with Walmart for displaying photos of the management team taht were considered to be potentially offensive.

Christine reported that she had been told by the employee who was taking down the photos that she could have them. Christine used a program on her computer to make funny pictures and brought the altered pictures back to work the following day. Christine said she had done such pictures in the past and co-workers thought it was good for morale.

Christine said no one had complained about them in the past and while she was putting up the pictures on the board a co-manager saw them and laughed. When Christine was let go she was asked if she had permission to take the pictures and told ? that (R) who was removing the pictures had told her it was ok to do with them what she wanted. Christine did not feel the pictures we offensive and did not mean for them to be taken that way. Christine said she signed off on Walmarts separation form as she was very upset and needed to get out of the office as she was sick when she heard the news of her discharge.

WALMART- has said that Christine was discharged for putting up potentially offensive pictures of the management team on company time and for taking company property without permission. Walmart HAS NOT PROVIDED ANY COPY OF THE POLICY THE CLAIMANT ALLEGEDLY VIOLATED OR GIVEN ANY EXLANATION ON HOW THE PICTURES WERE THOUGHT TO BE OFFENSIVE. In claims of Christine taking the pictures without permission she states that she had permission.

THE BURDEN OF PROOF LIES WITH THE EMPLOYER TO SHOW EVIDENCE OF MISCONDUCT;

IN THIS CASE: Walmart has provided only a statement of why Christine was dischared. However, there is no documentation to show her actions were willful or deliberate OR AMOUNTED TO THE LEVEL OF MISCONDUCT.

The Charge of misconduct in connection with employment is a matter to be taken very seriously "in the instant case."
While Christine may have shown poor judgment in what she did.........SUCH ACTION CANNOT IN THE OPINION OF THE DEPUTY, BE DEEMED MISCONDUCT. Accordinly the claimant is Qualified for Benefits.

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I was a co-manager for Wal-Mart for 5 years. I was fired on Tues the 28, 2007. They are falsely accusing me of stealing $2000.00. It was just a coincidence that I was on a LOA for 3 months. They told me I had to go back to work or loose my job.

My Dr. finally signed a note saying I could go back 1/2 days, they would not accept that it had to be a full day. I showed up to work Tues morning and they fired me.

On June ?, 2007 I G... (name removed) was working the closing shift at the Wal-Mart on Grayson Rd in Harrisburg. That shift was from 5pm-10pm. Sometime that evening I was called to the service desk to handle an upset customer about a return she wanted to do a return on, (this is something I do on a daily basis).

To the best of my knowledge the items she wanted to return were DVD movies 5 or 6 of them I believe. I asked the customer when she purchased them I think she gave me a date and I wrote down the upc codes from the movies and went into the accounting office, which is divided into 2 rooms. I sat down and tried to log in and I was on another terminal some where else in the building and it would not let me log in.

I checked next door and ? (name removed) was working in the accounting office counting out deposits. I asked her if she would mind pulling up the electronic journal to see if this customer had purchased these items on that date. She pulled the screen up and this process can take up to 10 mins to pull up a trans action.

I had just came back from having surgery on my elbow. While we were waiting for the transaction to pull up I leaned up against the back wall behind ? I went to open the safe because I thought I might have a check stub in there from being on my LOA. I opened the safe and picked up the chesks that were in the bottom half of the safe.

The only checks that were in there were for Assistant manager ? and ?. I then look at a pouch on the safe door. It was full of cards. I pulled all the cards out to see what they were and if there was any numbers on them to call those customers and let them know we have there card.

This is something that the account office associates, managers and CSM can do for the customer. I was not out of line by checking the safe. I shut the safe shortly after that and then the transaction had pulled on the terminal. These items had not been purchased. I went out to tell the customer I would not due her return unless she had a receipt. She got mad and left.

I then went walking around the store checking on how everyone was doing. I heard a page for management to talk a call on one of the lines. When I picked up the call it was a customers very upset about her experience with Wal-Mart that evening.

She explained to me that she was on register 13 and the cashier on 14 were discussing very loudly and ignoring the customer. They were saying that , that a certain associate should not be doing that they need to claim workman’s comp. The customer was very offended by this. I had asked the CSM;s to try and find out who was on those 2 register, I went down to the loss prevention office to try and look up the camera shot on those 2 registers.

I am not very good at looking things up on the older VCR recorders. I wrote my self a note to have ? (name removed) look it up for me. When I left the office I headed up front to see if they needed any help. I did not see any CSM’s. I then looked into the podium to see if they needed any change, (also something that I do often to help them out up front) at that time they looked ok but I went ahead and took 3 $100.00 bills to get them more ones and quarters, something that they use a lot of.

As I headed into the account office the service desk told me there was a customer how had a bunch of clothing she wanted to return had no pink sticker and no receipt. I asked her when she purchased them and she gave me a date. I took the clothing into the office along with my change order.

I pulled up the electronic journal, which again takes time to access, I then started to process my change order. When I walked into the office ? was not present, she was on break or lunch, but she had left the safe door open.

She has been warned about leaving the safe open when she is not in the room. I then went and started getting ones, and every pack I was picking up and not been broken down into stacks of twenties yet. When they come in from the armored car that are that way. We have to break them down into bundles of twenties and then make them a bundle of one hundreds.

I got my ones and put them in the change order bag and then I turned around and got quarters off of the wall behind me. This is where we get change that is broken down from the boxes that come from the armored car.

By this time the electronic journal had pulled up and it did not show that any of the customers clothing was bought on that day. I had too many ones so what I had pulled out extra I put in the cash drawer where we keep change for cft’s and travel money and thing of that nature. I took my change order and the clothing out to the service desk and explained to the customer that she did not purchase them on that day. She changed her story and said someone else had bought them. All she wanted to do was to exchange for a different size. I told her I would do that.

Then I proceeded to the podium and put my change order away. I then had left the front end and I believe I went to unload a truck that had come in. My overnight management had come in and I started to walk with them. ? was concerned that his schedule had been changed and he was not notified of this.

He had no one to watch his son Friday night. I was going on vacation starting when I got off work on Friday at noon. I told ? that if he could not find anyone to work it that I would come in and close that evening for him.

I had left around 10pm and told him to call me at anytime and let me know if I had to work for him or not. He finally called around 2 or 3am and said that co-manager ? (name removed) was going to work for him. I got up that morning and came into work around 8am. At that time assistant manager told me that the accounting office is missing $2000.00 dollars.

The first thing he did was recount the room several times. I asked him when was the room last balanced, he said that ? had balanced the room around 10:30pm right as the o/n shift was coming in. She said and wrote down that the room was balanced when she counted it.

The o/n shift counted it at 6:30am and that is when they noticed that they were short the $2000.00 dollars. I then called ? who is our Market asset protection manager and then call store manager ? ,and finally ? who is our Asset protect for in the store.

She came in and I discussed with her about how the evening went last night, and that I had found the safe left open again by ?.

?started doing research. At noon I was leaving for the day. Later that evening I had remembered that I did not give ? the information about the registers 13 and 14. I called her up at work and stated that in my office in my box is the time that the customers was here and what register she was on, and asked her if she would not mind looking that up for me and I would deal with it when I came back from vacation.

I then asked her about the $2000.00 dollars and if they had any new information on it. She stated no not at this time. Were are going to see if it turns up the next business day. And that was the last time I spoke with her until just a few weeks ago.

I had asked if she could make a copy of a tape onto a dvd for me from an accident that had happen Dec 2 2006 at which time a customer had hit me in the head with a scooter and we are waiting on a court date for Sept 10 2007. She said she would try but wasn’t sure if she could, and that was the end of our conversation.

I was called by ? on Mon the 27th of Aug. She had stated to me that I had been out of work for over 90 days and that if I was not able to come back to work full time I would loose my position as co-manager and that when I was able to come back if there was a co-manager position I could apply for that.

I went to my Dr. and asked to write me a note saying I could go back to work so that I would not loose my job. I went into work on Tuesday the 28th and was there for around 45 mins and was called into the loss prevention office and was accused of steeling the $2000.00 on June ? 2007. ? and ? were present. ? did all of the talking. She accused me of lying to her and that she knows I took the money.

She refused to let me look at the tape. She then stepped out of the office with ?. Came back in about 10 mins later. She asked me one more time if I wanted to admit to anything and if I would write a statement of what I told her and then they fired me do to an integrity issue they called it.

I have worked for this company for over 5 years and have never been accused or treated by anyone the way I was treated that day.

G.
(email address removed by request)

At Wal-Mart, We're More Important Than Your Dying Father

HI my name is not important.... I worked for Store 1906 in Massachusetts. I worked there for 11 months and 1 week.... The store Management team has known for my entire emplyment ther that my father was terminally Ill with Cancer....

2 months ago my store manager got fired completely randomly.... we got a new store manager shortly after that..... I spoke with our DM about my fathers illness and he said "if anyhting was to happen you wont get fired" About 2 months later...

3 weeks ago my fathers illness became so severe my mother and I took LOAs from work....I live with my Mother being that im only 18... I orginally begged my store manager to Allow me to stay at home for 1 week to take care of my dying father to be with him.. SHe said ok to Take medical LOA and that i had 15 days to bring in the paperwork......

during that week my father was hospitalized twice and we were told he had less then 1 month to live..... i returned to work that following wensday handing in my Loa papers that a doctor and social worker signed... approving an loa till june 20th 2007...

I gave it to my personal manager then she said she couldn't do anything... i gave it to our Store manager... she then told me she couldnt approve it and theres nothing she could do... so i asked if i was fired she said yes... i told her i was goin to speak to the DM she said open door it if u please... i was devastated in tears call the Dm.......

i loved working for this company i was completely brainwashed into it....

the Dm was supposedly at the sharholders meeting.. and wouldnt get my message till the following wensday ..it was thursday 4th of june i believe... i called the next monday he asked what happened said he would call back tuesday...its friday and i still didnt get a call...

My dad probably wont make it through this weekend.... I guess wal-mart doesnt really care about your family... im only 18 and im losing my Father i guesss they expected me to pick Wal-mart over my Daddy...

Sincerly Cashier from store 1906 Fairhaven MAssachusetts

P.S. i was loved at this wal-mart... i never did anyhting wrong being a young female.. i never complain about pulling carriages, throwing trucks, pulling pallets.. shelves assiting customers anything they asked i gladly did..

sorry for the horrible typing its a hard story to tell.. since its going on right now..

Wal-Mart Training Manual: Clean Up Poop 15 Minutes After Notice is Given

recently my wife and i were in the newton iowa walmart and while i had two small purchases i still use a checker instead of the self checkout. my wife said she had to use the restroom while i was in line and since it was not far away from the checkstand i was at , i saw her talking to one of wal marts elite to let her be aware that someone had defecated on the floor in the womans bathroom and had to explain to the young lady that meant poop on the floor two to be exact.

the young girls reply to my wife was oh no ,no one will be in to clean it up for another 15 minutes.

did i miss something or is it quite possible the girl did not understand what she had been told. i work for hyvee and if someone told me about this it would be cleaned up right away.

my wife told me lucky she didnt slip on it and i said if she had we would sue wal mart. come on wal mart trian your employees to d the right thing ,get in there and clean that poopie up.

Wal-mart Says: You're All Better. Pain? What Pain? We Don't Feel a Thing.

On March 26, I was stocking overnight and the merchandise I was stocking fell from a shelf striking me across my chest and right shoulder.

I have done everything Wal-mart has asked. I have seen the doctors they have sent me to etc..... they have now decided that I am at maximum recovery. They evidently paid Dr. P in Wichita, Kansas completely off.

After my visit with him when he did a range of motion that he caused so much pain that it caused me to cry out. His report also claimed that I have carpal tunnel in my right hand 3%. It doesn't bother me to sit and type or plays games on the computer for hours. (? I thought that was one of the things that carpal tunnel affected. He decided that it was psychological, then when my attorney asked that the courts send me for testing, Dr. P made an addendum report stating that my emotional state was preexisting.

I can't stand to have my small children sit on my right side because my arm goes numb and it hurts too much. Sure Wal-mart has sent me to Physical therapy, but the therapist felt that there was something else more serious going on.

I couldn't work with the medicine ball without excruiating pain. I also have lumps the size of golf balls that occasionally roll up and down my arm. My family and friends have witnessed some of them.

The good Dr. says that is gandluer cysts. So at 44 does this mean that I have to live the rest of my life being a predominatly right handed person who can't do many of the activities with my family because of an accident that took place at Wal-mart? Apparently they are big enough to decide who gets the needed treatment and who has to suffer.

I thought Wal-mart stood for something, I just didn't know it was to screw its people at every opportunity. I am not willing to live only half a life because Wal-mart has decided. I am just not sure how to heal myself, if this is supposed to be psychological. Is there any Dr's. in Wichita who are not paid off that are willing to stand up to this corporate monster?

"Gee, You Didn't Even Cry Once After I Humiliated You. Good For You!"

Hi I work for a Walmart Super center in Tx, but seeing how they are currently out to fire me I am reluctant to say which one.

I have slaved for this company as an overnight stocker for almost 3 years now, and like most people when I hired on I thought it was the greatest job ever. Back then we had an assistant that actually cared. (Try to find one of those now. ha) After 6 months he gave me a merit raise for being one of the hardest workers overnight. I thought I was in heaven, but all that changed when he got promoted to co-manager at a different store. As the years went by the managers got worse and worse. Now we have (name withheld).

His main priority is to clean up the overnight crew. He does this by harrasing anyone who doesnt kiss his a--. Now for many months now my husband & I have worked paper goods together as a very well oiled machien. Nobody will denie that we are the best in our departmant.

Plus we had just received great news. I am currently 3 and a half months pregnent with our first child. Well apperently to Clint this is a crime punishable by death. After I informed management of our joy I've been taken out of paper and had to work departments like Chemicals, Housewares, and even Furniture.

My job has also been treatened time and time again, so I finally got up the courage to talk to the store manager. Sence I have a small problem with being over emotional I wrote him a letter detailing the problems that I've been haveing wiht this manager. After he saw that I wasn't planning on leaveing the store manager reluctantly read my letter. After so many minutes of waiting for him to finish he finally looked up and the first words out of his mouth was. "You've been working with your husband. Oh we cant have that I'll move you to days."

I tried to explain that that is not the reason I had come to see him, but the more I tried to make him understand the more dumbfounded he seemed. Finally I got up to leave my face red with anger, and as I turned to leave he said the greatest thing to me. "Now see you didnt cry once, Im so proud of you. You are really starting to grow up." I was so sicked and belittled by that statment I couldnt even squeeze out a reply.

Principles Not Tolerated at Wal-Mart

At the morning meeting just this morning, the store manager tried to
present me with a 10-year certificate and pin. I respectfully declined.

(I have dealt with numerous unjust write-ups, days of decision, and
even had to have a wrongful termination reversed by the Regional
Vice-President. In view of the terrible way the manager and comanager
in my store have treated me on various occasions, I declined to accept
the certificate from his hand as a matter of principle.)

The result? I was terminated.

Terminated for not accepting a certificate of achievement.

Now I am an unemployed single parent.

Chemical Burns Courtesy of Wal-Mart

I used to work at Walmart but quit, before I quit though I did buy a pair of cheepie flip flops to wear over a weekend trip to the beach,

well, after wearing them a few times I developed what I thought to be a rash from the straps, then it took on the appearance of chemical burns, I have now had this for 10 days, I really thought it would just go away on it's own.

I tried to alert Walmart to a possible problem so that no little kids might end up with this (it hurts after all!) I couldn't believe how rude and mean the manager was to me, he acted like I was making it all up, I tried to show him & he turned his head away so that he could say he never saw it.

I never used to think so but now I really feel like Walmart is a horrible company. You would have to been there but it was almost as if since I was a former employee, he was going out of his way to be mean to me.

All I wanted to do was let them know that there might be a problem with some Chinese made shoes since I am not allergic to latex or rubber. I am not a sue happy type person but automatically he was defensive and basically acted like a complete jerk to me.

So now I have decided to let every single person who will listen know exactly what happened and how a representative of Walmart acted toward me.

Thanks for your time, and yea...I really do agree, Walmart is terrible, not matter what I will never set foot in one again. Kerry

Inside Scoop From a Store Manager: "Humans are nothing more than a wet napkin for Wal-Mart to use and toss."

I was a salaried manager for Wal-Mart for seven years. I sacrificed time, my life, my safety and my health for this sacrilege. Wal-Mart cares NOTHING about the human lives that stock their shelves and ring the sales. I worked as many as 80 hours a week plus driving 1 hour either way to and from work never working less than 50 hours a week.

I saw hourly's who cared about their work and their job get railroaded by store managers or co-managers because they spoke up about wrongs that were being committed. The "open door policy" they preach is a joke. They use that to make the average assoc. think there's no need for a union.

It's the "OUT THE DOOR" policy.

I wrote an open door letter to the Regional Vice President of my area with the words specifically in bold that said "Not to be read by anyone other than the person to whom this is addressed" . I get a phone call from the Regional Personnel director.. not the person it was addressed to. .

Then I had a meeting with the Market Personnel Manager, and she had a copy of the letter I sent, all pages including the back page with the statement on it. I knew at that point that even though everything that I spoke about in the letter was a true problem with in the store I worked at and that my concern was for the hourly assoc. in that store, none of it mattered and I had signed my own termination papers by writing the letter. I spoke of ethics issues (known theft by employees and store manager doing NOTHING about it, doctoring #'s to make profits look better ect. )

Unethical treatment of hourly assoc. by salaried managers (verbal abuse,railroading ect.) Poor store management as a whole. (some managers like myself that had 99 of 230 hourly assoc. with 10 other managers who had little or nothing) I had the following areas to run by myself, Cashiers, Customer Service Managers, People Greeters, Stock Man, Accounting, Personnel, Customer Service Desk, GM ICS, Grocery ICS, Unloaders, Women's Wear, Men's Wear, Girls Wear, Lingerie, Boys Wear, Accessories, Jewelry, Fitting Room, Shoes, Claims, UPC, Invoicing, DSD and Directs. That is more than half of the store on ONE manager.

I wrote my letter in Jan. and they continued to pile more and more on me. I was working 80+ hours a week doing everything I could to make things work well and to do the best that I could at my job for my hourly assoc.

They fired the store manager in June (or rather they gave her the option to quit) I knew that my time was limited from there on out.. They waited for me to get them through 4th of July weekend and on the 7th of July they fired me. No real reason given, No previous coaching, above standard evals, they didn't have to give a reason I'm in a right to work state, I didn't sign my green sheet and I left peacefully. I knew from the moment that I was called by the Reg. Personnel Mgr. my time was limited.

I was a loud mouth that was willing to speak about their "secrets" but I was strong and knowledgeable so they would use me until they got a new store manager in there.(myself and another asst. ran the store for two weeks while the Co was on vacation )

I know that it was a blessing (my blood pressure went down and I'm much healthier not working and driving so much) I wish the average person would understand that what happened to me and the others that post on here is not "the one in a million" it's the NORM.

Humans are nothing more than a wet napkin for Wal-Mart to use and toss. When you show them you are unwilling to take things lying down and use your voice and morals they push you hoping you'll break and go away. Wal-Mart is like all other corporations with one thing different.

They have sold the general public on the LIE that they actually give a crap about the people that work for them. No one else has used that as a claim to fame, Wal-Mart has banked on this lie and made much money from it.

I know that there are good stores out there but far and above the Home Office direction to always DO MORE WITH LESS and working understaffed all the times is what is normal. The public in general can't see things for what they are every story like mine needs to be taken as a whole and seen for the big picture that it paints. I worthless greedy underhanded disrespecting sweatshop corporation.

Thank you for letting me say my piece. Be Blessed and Be safe...

What Wal-Mart Is Made Of

LETTER SENT TO WAL-MART:

"I just had an absolutely disgusting experience at your Northampton, MA store. Due to construction the men's bathroom is unavailable and been temporarily replaced by a portable toilet in front of the store.

Apparently your company is too incompetent and/or cheap to make sure this toilet is kept clean and emptied regularly, as the toilet was overflowing into the parking lot, with a continuous stream of effluent running across the path of customers coming and going on a hot sunny day.

People were actively tracking this mess into your store.

I had to load my family back into the car and move to a different parking spot just to be able to enter the store for an important purchase, so my 3 young children would not have to walk through urine and feces just to shop Walmart.

Comments made to employees, including one manager, were met with responses like "that's the kind of company this is." I tended to agree already, as you are clearly unwilling to invest $ in such basic upkeep as repairing broken carts (virtually every shopping one there squeaks, clunks or rattles in some way, and are ALWAYS put away without the slightest effort to clean out any junk left behind by previous customers).

Also, how hard is it to replace the checkout belt dividers when they are lost, so my order is not confused with other customers'--which has happened to me more than once?

At any rate, I have called the Board of Health about your nauseating toilet situation and encouraged them to shut down your cesspool of a store and fine you heavily for your negligence.

I will never patronize any of your locations again (Target is a far better corporate citizen and a much more pleasant shopping experience--for prices at most 1% higher), and I plan to tell everyone I think will hear just how apathetic you obviously are about the conditions your customers face in your store."

I, hereby tender my resignation from Wal-Mart

I, XXXX XXXXX, hereby tender my resignation from Wal-Mart.

Some parting thoughts:

I started working at Wal-Mart in the mid-80s because I thought it was a respectable, value-based company that would provide stable long-term employment. Over the course of eight years—and seven different stores—it became clear that the company’s focus was not, in fact, on customer service and respect for its employees.

In a capitalist, consumer-based society, any for-profit business’s main objective is to achieve a marginal financial gain each year. I believe Sam Walton was achieving this goal, as well as maintaining a high level of respect for his customers and employees. It has become increasingly clear, since Sam Walton’s death, that Wal-Mart is solely focused on high profit margins and market domination.

Many companies tend to practice this approach—both eyes on the bottom line, and neither on the very people who are making those successes happen. This practice, which inevitably oppresses employees, will ultimately result in the demise of these companies.

This lack of respect also results in the hiring and promoting of unqualified, inadequate managers.

Any associate with good values and a conscience can see that this practice has become more prevalent in recent years, obviously for the sake of company growth and profitability. This fact creates animosity within lower-level associates toward both management teams and the company as a whole.

On several occasions, I was encouraged by managers to pursue entry into the management training program. A reasonable individual would not pursue such a career for a company that has such little respect for its employees. Managers are trained to manage product, not individuals, thus creating an inadequate and ineffective business atmosphere. Because of this practice, customer service at Wal-Mart has become deplorable.

Society in general is seeing this because such a great number of people have worked and shopped at Wal-Mart. A prime example of this truth is in the number of times the company has been sued in recent years; the lawsuits haven’t piled up because of the company’s sheer size but because of its neglect of its own employees, and thus, its customers.

The benefits that a company offers should reflect the degree of success it has had. In Wal-Mart’s case, they do not and never have. It’s obvious that the company is shifting its profits toward expansion—particularly in areas where markets are already saturated by Wal-Mart stores—rather than to the development of employees and customer relations.

Appointed CEO Lee Scott has repeatedly stated that the reason for this expansion is to keep Wal-Mart’s stock price rising—to benefit its investors. I know for a fact that’s just one way to provide revenue for investors. This can be accomplished in other ways: Reinvest a greater portion of profits into improvements in training programs, equipment, and employee benefits packages. These changes would result in more satisfied employees, happier customers, and a global perception of Wal-Mart as a respectable company.

I believe that Sam Walton’s values were more geared toward the employee; since his passing, the company’s direction has shifted more toward higher profit at any cost. I believe this approach does produce great profits—though they’ll be brief—because it strays from Sam’s original business directive: to provide lower-income families with good products at a reasonable price, while providing a satisfying, rewarding work experience for his employees.

The Walton company’s current regime is building a fragile success upon this fact: Wal-Mart sells, at a low price, disposable products to a throwaway society. I believe Sam would be impressed with the company’s sheer size and growth over the years, but would be disgusted by the company’s ignorance of its own founding principles.

Wal-Mart was founded on good business values and a focus on customer service. Now success is measured by a pure profit-to-growth ratio, without valuing its customers’—or its employees’—role in the modern business environment.

Upon request, I can provide numerous examples of the negligence and ignorance of Wal-Mart management. Each year I hoped that this trend would turn around, but it only grew worse.

During my tenure at Wal-Mart, I’ve met two assistant managers—neither in this store—that were worthy of the title Assistant Manager. These two individuals had both people and product management skills which were not, I know for fact, derived from the Wal-Mart training curriculum. They possessed these skills naturally, as very few people do.

The thing that I’m most upset about is that I’ve wasted eight years working for this horrible company.

My employment with Wal-Mart gave me a negative mindset and resulted in lower self-worth, a lack of respect for individuals, and depression. That’s why I’m greatly pleased with myself for ending this horrible chapter of my life.

My prediction and hope is that, within the next decade, Wal-Mart will begin to lose stock value and investors will realize that the company is on a steady decline from its once high level of greatness and respect, much like the inevitable fall of Rome.

Although I feel this way, I’d like to offer an opportunity to Wal-Mart’s board of directors: For the price of my travel and lodging expenses, which I know they can afford, I’d deliver a few lectures at the Arkansas office—at no additional cost—on how the company can maintain its profitability while being respectful of its employees. However, I know this offer will not be accepted, because closed, greed-focused minds would never appreciate positive, progressive thoughts on modern business techniques.

Sincerely,


XXXX XXXXX
Former Wal-Mart employee
XXX-XXX-XXXX

Walmart Makes Employee Fill Out Forms While Squirting Out Blood

Here are some of the issues I have had in the 2 years I worked for wallyworld:

Was not trained in any of the positions I worked, then punished for not doing them correctly. I begged and pleaded with managers that told me they would help to actually do so, and they turned me away.

I have been cussed at, called names, been talking down to, degraded, and had produce tables knocked over in the floor by a co manager having some sort of mental episode, and nothing was ever done to him, despite me going through all the steps of the open door policy.

The open door policy is a joke, which I have tried to use in the past. I have since just given up on it, as the managers involved just seem to turn the issue around on you, and get you in trouble for being harassed by someone else.

One manager tells you to do something, then another writes you up for what the other manager said to do.

I was told by management that as department manager, I was required to work 7 days a week, 18 hours a day if necessary. I actually did this for awhile, until I felt that I was going to go crazy. Then I did for a while longer. I would literally go home crying every day from stress. It got to the point of me wanting to commit suicide before I stepped down.

An assistant manager gave me his password and username because he was incapable of using them himself. I was forced to do orders, finalize them, and do his paper work, because he threatened to fire me if I didn’t. when I went to him for help, he told me if he had to answer my questions, he didn’t need me.

I had a small accident at work involving a knife. Once I had my finger SEWED BACK ON I was made to come back and work the rest of the shift, with my finger barely hanging together. But that’s not all. When I first had the accident (where I severed my finger) they made me sit down and fill out paperwork for over an hour about taking drug tests, the whole thing was my fault, blah blah blah. I was squirting blood all over myself and they had me filling out paperwork!!!!!

Out of 17 managers or so, I can only think of about…..2 that have not flat out assaulted me either verbablly or other. I’m seriously thinking about sueing the living crap out of either the company or the specific managers who are in offense. Peace!!!!

The Last of the Unloaders

Hello My name is M. T (changed), and I have a horror, perhaps epic, about Wal Mart. I work at a Wal-mart in Texas.

I guess my work history and a bit about me. I am legally blind, my left eye's visual aquity is 20 over 200 and the right one is 20 over 300-400 depending. I graduated from college with a degree in computer science, being that I cannot drive and work outside my job opportunities are very limited.

By the way I am an albino and have sensitive skin, and my eyes are sensitive to light and it is true, my hearing is very acute. I am 26yrs old, I worked for my mom, when we had a restaurant, from age 14-18, I didnt work while in college from age 18-23, once graduation I held few jobs. First I continued working from my internship at a computer shop (inside wal mart by the way) for about a year.

I next worked at home for about 3yrs taking calls, I grew tired of it, being that I never saw people nor interacted with people. I live in a smalltown where jobs are very limited, I refuse to move to a big city, where I know I could get a good computer job because of fear of safety due to pending economic callapse. Reason being, where is it safer when the economy callapses and water and food are scarse? Small town.

I work as an Unloader! Thats right, I wanted to work in electronics being that I know a thing or two about TVs, computers etc. I informed them of my visual handicap, they didnt care. Now, I can work laborwise, it is limited being that extreme heat and the sun will hurt me big time.

From what I have been told we are supposed to have 8-10 unloaders working, we are now down to 2! When I first arrive, 2 months ago, we had 5. There is an african american navy personel, who just came back from knee surgery, he works only 3 days a week, and doesnt move fast.

We HAD 2, 18yrolds, they quit just recently. One had a bad wrist and the other started to have back problems, he never reported them, nor did wal mart care when he complained. We had a very slow older gentlemen, he is 50yrs old and an unloader! The conditions are VERY unsafe, I reported a possible broken finger when I hit on the rail inside the truck.

When I first arrived I wanted a back brace, they never gave me one for 2 weeks until I started to complain about my lower back hurting. They said "why didnt you ask for one to begin with"?

They moved the slow 50yr old to overnight maitenance, and the two 18yr olds quit and so now its down to me. I am the only one.

I will continue this email if you wish, my stomach is hurting, sorry.

Walmart Shops at Kmart

at my store there buying products from other stores like kmart to fill up outs or products that we dont have in stock i dont know if theres something wrong about that picture but im tryin to figure out where the money comes from them doin that stuff because there spendin over 3 grand on stuff in the health and beauty

It Must Have Been A Very Very Very Small Child

Walmart near Austin Texas.

I was looking for a product in a walmart, when I could not find it and could not find a competent clerk to help me I decided to leave. As I approached the door, the security guard told me that I could not leave because it was a code whatever. Apparently someone had lost their child.

As a parent I can understand how scary this can be. Never the less, I became infuriated. As someone wearing shorts and a t-shirt, I obviously was not concealing a child on my person.

I told the guy to get the f--k out of my way and exited through the fire exit door. Of course setting off the fire alarm and alerting police. The cops showed up and stopped me as I left the parking lot. I was taken to the station, printed and processed, held for 6 hours and released with a citation.

I think I'm going to sue somebody, probably walmart and the cops.

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No Experience Needed to Fix Your Car at Wal-Mart

Did you know that not only does Walmart hire people off the street with no auto experience to change oil and tires on most people's vehicles, they also hire people with no DRIVER'S LICENSE to drive your car in and out of the bays, pretty impressive.

If you don't believe me then check out the Walmart in Bristol, TN. You'll see the clueless girl that works there, that would be the proof.

Walmart Turns the Great USA into the Next Third World Country

I regret bashing my employer like this but I have never envisioned our great USA resorting to goods made in china to prosper an American owned company as is currently happening. I am a member of tire lube express in a new england walmart with prior car shop experience prior to working at walmart and have never seen such disorganization or lack of common sense before in my life except extreme cases of greed by fly by night trucking companies.

To begin this bashing, I"ll start with how 90 % or more of merchandise sold is made in china or some third world country at inflated American prices. I know for a fact that tariff or taxes on imported goods are way down and it is cheaper to import goods into the country and still make a profit than it would be to buy off American manufactures because we as Americans have to meet all kinds of crazy EPA and government requirements whereas communist countries do not.

How long is it before all American manufactures shut down because they cannot compete with slave labor wages w/ no benefits and child labor as exists in those overseas companies. When these American companies either shut down or join the pack by outsourcing American jobs to children and desperate poor people in third world countries, where are these out of work Americans going to work, walmart, and for what wages, hours or lack of benefits.

America wake up and smell the coffee, we are being sold out by corporate interests that would rather sell out Americas soul to make millions of dollars per day than while our own country.

The USA gets turned into the next third world country where Americans cannot even afford the products being sold by these same companies because their jobs got outsourced overseas to child labor and poor uneducated peoples in third world countries for a fraction of our wages.

Wal-Mart Employees Worth More To Wal-Mart Dead

I STARTED WAL-MART STORE # 1767 IN SHALLOTTE N. C. IN 1993. WORKED THERE 10 YEARS AND WAS DISMISSED WITH 1 OTHER TOP PAYING ASSOCIATE, AND OF COURSE A FEW LOWER PAYING ASSOCIATES, STATING THE CAUSE WAS WE WERE NOT LIVING UP TO COMPANY STANDARDS.

I WON MY UNEMPLOYMENT, SAW A LAWYER, BUT I LIVE IN A "RIGHT TO WORK STATE" WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A REASON TO FIRE YOU. THEY NOT ONLY FIRED US, THEY MADE IT WHERE WE COULD NEVER WORK AT WALMART AGAIN,

BUT THEY CAN STILL COLLECT 350.000 DOLLARS AT THE TIME ME OR ANY EMPLOYEE DIES. IF WE DIE IN A ACCIDENT, SOMETHING OTHER THAN NATURAL CAUSES THEY COLLECT 700.000 DOLLARS. I JUST WONDER ON AN AVERAGE DAY HOW MANY WORKERS AND EX WORKERS DIE, FOR WHAT EVER REASON AND HOW MUCH WAL- MART COLLECTS.

WITH THAT KIND OF MONEY COMING IN THEY WILL NEVER SHUT THEIR DOORS. I WAS MAKING 22.00 AN HOUR AND BECAUSE I WOULDN'T GO ON SALARY I WAS FIRED.

EVERYONE PLEASE WARN YOUR LOVED ONES, WHAT WOULD ANYONE, MUCH LESS A LARGE COMPANY DO FOR THAT KIND OF INSURANCE...

ALSO STAY CLEAR OF THE SHALLOTTE STORE, 3 PEOPLE IN PERFECT HEALTH, MY FRIENDS, DIED OF SPINAL MINENJIDUS, AN AIR BORN DEASE, BUT THEY COVERED AND HUSH IT UP, AND STATED NATURAL CAUSES...I HOPE THE B*TCH (NAME REMOVED) OF THAT STORE IS FINALLY FOUND OUT ABOUT HER ACTIONS, AND THE WAY SHE TREATS HER ASSOCIATES....THANK YOU

Geez, I Wonder Why Walmart Needs a Union?

I was put into a department manager position, after receiving none of the training I was promised.

Every time I approached a manager with an issue, they either told me not to worry about it, told me they were busy, or even turned the issue back onto me and got me in trouble for it.

One manager gave me his password and made me do his job and my own. I soon stepped down, and went to third shift. Well, first I was told to do nothing but clean.

Then, I got screamed, yelled and cussed at for doing so. THEN I started stocking, as per all the yelling and cussing. I got yelled at for that. Then a co manager walks up to me while I’m OFF THE CLOCK and starts cussing me out.

I called home office, regional team, district team, tried talking to the store manager. Even after all that, nobody did a thing to him.

He has since cussed me out several times while I was in there shopping, and I reported it, and it was once again ignored. So I send an email to all the regional guys, etc. and told them I simply wasn’t ever working and/or shopping for such a nasty place ever again. And I left.

Walmart Junked His Car. But, Hey, The Good News Is: Sales Are Up

I took my car in to the Wal-Mart automotive center in Lawrence, KS. The incorrect oil filter was installed on my car, which led to a massive oil leak, and ultimately to my engine blowing.

Wal-Mart admitted fault and referred me to their claims division, CMI, which offered me NADA value for the car, a 1982 Toyota Celica. The cost of replacing the vehicle with a comparable one far exceeded the offered amount, but I was told by CMI that it would be wrong of them to pay me any more than what the car was worth according to NADA standards.

My point is that the NADA value is based upon an actuarial table that relies primarily on what I would get if I junked the vehicle, not what the vehicle was worth at a fair market price in this area. I cannot replace the vehicle for the settlement I am being offered.

Unfortunately, legal precedent supports Wal-Mart, as it is commonly accepted that NADA or Blue Book values are appropriate for such claims. So Wal-Mart not only destroys my car and refuses to reimburse me with an operational vehicle of comparable value, or offer an amount that would allow me to do so, but they managed to do so as smugly and condescendingly as possible.

Wal-Mart Buys Off & Subsequently Silences Walmartsucks.com (Remember, we are .org)

I know what happened with the walmartsucks.com.

I am a student in the IB program and it is all explained quite nicely in our textbook. I will however, summarize for you.

The guy who started up walmartsucks.com was some guy who was a harley fanatic but he also collected beanie babies. He filed about twelve million complaints that the employees were buying up all the best collectible toys before they hit the shelves and long story short, nothing was done about it.

He got so p-ssed off that he started walmartsucks.com. Wal-Mart tried to sue him for bashing the company but he would have won because he's not using their logo and crap.

Eventually, they settled for him handing the website over to them. And that's what happened.

"What's a Woman Know About Tire & Lube, Anyways?" asked the boys at Wal-Mart, while they simultaneously sang: "Diamonds are a girl's best friend..."

i worked for walmart for years, I applied for a district manager position, and was told to wait they had big plans for me. I took a store with a 14% shrinkage and turned it into a .07% shrinkage.

Was I promoted. Someone else was promoted.

Finally I took a position in another city and was promoted to DM of an area I was not familar with. I then hated my job so I quit before they could fire me for not being familar with that aspect of my job. You may have guessed by now I am a woman and a man was promoted to DM over tire and Lube which I trained.

They stuck me in Jewelry. The figured a man knew more about Tire and Lube and a women knew more about Jewelry. The tire and lube DM is a higher paying position, I got stuck with taking a decrease in paying, with the promise of a raise that never happened.

Masochism Rules at Wal-Mart

ok thair is alot of bad sh-t about wal-mart but i work at store #2074 in Alaska and even with all the construcshon (we are going super center) the manegment try to make time for all the people that need them now i am a people greeter and i love my job i have only been thair for almost 1 year it will be a year in may i will say one bad thang about them management dose not comunacate with echuther i push carts alot and some members of managment let me push more then the 10 cart limit others yell at me when i push 11 right after one seen me push 27 by my self and dont get me started on the risk control team thay are so full of them selfs that i can not stand it now ianuther thang i have come to relize the open door suck's i rote a letter 2 the store manager and she poned it off on a co manager that did nothen but call me a lier by the way we have 3 co manegers but even with all the BULL i love my job soooooooooooooo much

No Honeymoons at Walmart. That's right, zipper up and slowly back away from the marriage bed.

I've worked at Wal mart #706 for 3 years. Through the years things have just gotten worse.

I had to change my availability around just for them because they didn't want to work with me on my college!! They don't care. The want a lifer to work for them like some stupid zombie.

The deli at this store had an outbreak of lysteria. I and a few other..almost all of the fresh area side got sick from lysteria. Wal Mart denied it being the cause of us being sick. And now if we miss more than three days we have to take a leave of absence what the hell is that??

Soon as bonus time comes..if we get one!!! I'm gone. They won't even give me my honeymoon off because it doesn't fall within their time frame of what they want!!

I am one person not twelve!! Nobody will miss me for two weeks! Promise.

Welcome to Worthless & Small

What is Wal-Marts 3 Basic Beliefs:
1. Respect For the Individual
2. Strive for Excellence
3. Strive for Customer Service

Yeah okay whatever. If their respect for the individual is the respect themselfs and make their "associates" feel worthless and small. They got that one.

Strive for Excellence. Strive for being excellent is insults and abuse of staff. Yup that is definately there.

Strive for Customer Service. Well overwork your employees so much that they can't even notice the customers.

Our store has had 100% on the secret shopper until our new store manager came in. It is our first female store manager and what a b-tch. She pushes and pushes so hard on the associates that we don't take time to notice our customers. We now average a score of 50% on our secret shopper.

Since the new manager has been in our store for 3 months we have had 4 people step down. One assistant pushed out. The rest stepped down cause they were fed up of the BS!!! Our own regional highass said this lady was "good for our store". Yup good if you want everyone to quit and than shut the store down. That wouldn't be a good thing for a small town of 30000 (including outlining towns).

How the hell does walmart get the best employer of the month? Someone please let me know.

"Sorry, We're Closed." "But I'm here, So You're Open." "No, We're Closed."

After shopping and spending $102.00 at this store I leave and start packing the car. I get in the car and try to start it and find that the battery is dead. Well at least I’m at Wal-Mart right? I go in to buy a battery. No problem right?

Well, I still have to deal with getting home so I can change it. I ask the guy behind the auto counter if he has some jumper cables or a wrench so I can jump the car off or change the battery. "We are closed and I have a guy in the pit." Can I borrow it for a second? "Sorry. We can't do that" No Problem I say. Do you have a jump starter box? "Yes but I can't leave" OK. Is there a manager or some one that can walk me out and watch as I jump off my car? "I'm sure there is someone up front" Can you make a call up front? "Sorry we are closed and there’s a guy in the pit"

Great!!!

So now I have to buy a $68.00 battery AND a $40.00 jump starter box and do this myself. Great!! My total spent at Wal-Mart is now $223.00.

Now, as if anybody cares, I have at home a newborn, a 7 year old and a wife that has not seen me all day and they can't leave to come help me out of this jam.

All I wanted was a little help, compassion or something other than "Sorry we are closed". It was only 9:30 and I know that I saw at least 4 people pushing buggies and countless people putting up stock in various locations in the store.

I don't think that is too much to ask for from a company of their size and stature. The customer service at many of your stores is unbelievable.

More Walmart Slave Stories, So Swing Low, Sweet Chariot...

I've been working at a Wal*Mart In Indiana for 10 years now and I'm a Department Manager. I've seen a lot and have done a lot.

When you do what they want you to do you will be alright and no matter how you act or what you say is alright. But once you start voicing your own opinion and doing what's really right then you become a liability.

I've cussed people threatened people thrown things but all that was over looked as long as I did my job and preached what they preach. But once I stopped that and started having my own opinion all that stopped.

I have been demoted twice and fired twice but the only reason I'm still there is because the way I work and because Wal*Mart has hired and fired people more than once. Wal*Mart is a great place to work if you are thick skinned and really good at playing the BS game, but it's nothing like the TV ads show because the people do make the difference but they sure pay the price.

And the people who work at Wal*Mart do live pay check to pay check. So if your looking for a job and don't mind being cussed at, treated like you can't think for yourself, and like to have your ass treated like a number and not a person who can think then we welcome you always.......................just don't back talk for your promotion. It's a lot of Do what I say....................not as I do because I'm better than you.

Cracked in the Head by a 75lb. Digging Iron. Walmart's Machine is Faulty, But Walmart is Not Responsible

I am a department manager for wal-mart and i was injured on the job. I have been with wal-mart since 2002. Before this injury i though the world of wal-mart and i would have done anything to get promoted. that was until i was injured!

First let me tell you how i was hurt. All wal-mart stores have a cardboard Baylor and ours was not operating correctly.(All management was aware of this) So one morning it st oped working and a manager asked me and another associate if we would remove the bail of cardboard. As we were doing this a large 75lb. digging iron cracked me in the middle of the head. I was knocked unconscious and flown to the hospital.

I went back to work two-weeks later. They told me that i was not going to be paid for the time i was off. They also told me that if i wanted to use my vacation, sick, or paid time off i could. Well i knew better then this. So i then got looked at by another doctor and i have been off work for over 4 months.

Lets just say that wal-marts workers comp. did not make my life any easy er that's for sure.

Since i have been off i have lost two apartments, and was sleeping in my car for a few days. All of my bills went to collections. And really made my life so darn depressing.

This was all because they would not pay me for 6-9 weeks at a time. So why wold i want to work for a company that does this to a loyal employee?

No Cameras in the Photo Centre, Happy Snoozing

I have been working for walmart for 2 years now and i love my job. i work overnights. there is another emlpoye that all she does is sleep. and take 2 hour luches.

but managers dont want to listen to me. been to upper management and they just laugh and say she would not do that. well she hides in the photo center in the front of the store. there are no cameras there. so how do i expose this. cause i am the one getting in trouble if something is not done.

what do i do.

i am not the only one seeing this and the other people are scared to say anything. management just tells us to deal with it.well i am tired of doing that.it just sucks there is no open door at this store. we have a new store manager that does not know what he is doing. and this store is going down the tubes.

Wal-Mart Math, The Equation Always Equals 'Employees Lose'

I have been employed for Sam's Club since 1999 and been there almost 7 years and I am a teamleader. When I became a Teamleader I received .50 more an hour to do this job which I am currently still in this position. They changed their pay scale from levels 1-7 (way after the fact) I am a level 6.

When they changes to the pay scale things I did not receive any pay raise, they said that I was making what I was supposed to but if I was to step down to being a cashier which is a level 3 I will lose .90, remember, I only got .50 to be a teamleader which I would be losing one of my raises to step down.

So not only am I being treated like crap in this Club I will lose one of my yearly evaluations. Which I think should be illegal stealing from their employees. They say that there is nothing we can do about this issue.

Emperor Wal-Mart

I heard this about the walmart at store #(removed) where the manager
was making out with the cart boys. It was like a thing they
had going where it was like a gay disco or someghing in the
manager's office. they all had their shirts off and were dancng. This manager
hated all the women and gave them a hard time, but not as hard a
time as the cart boys.

My brother worked there and he said it reminded
him of Rome. Cause my brother was over there two years ago on
a gay conference paid for by some senator whose not a senator anymore.

Rest in Peace RB

I have to tell the story of one of my fellow associates. I will tell anyone who will listen.

About five years ago before Christmas, there were a bunch of shopping carts in the parking lots and they called for all the associates to go out and collect them.

One of our older associates who was retired and just working for the insurance, was ordered to go out and push carts even though there were much younger and stronger guys to do the job.

Well after pushing the carts for about an hour in the cold, the associate went to the breakroom to sit down to rest and catch his breath, mind you he's in his 60s; he slumped over on the table. The other associates thought he was playing but one noticed he was still and turned him over, checked him and started aministering CPR.

Well, good ol' Walmart got the EMTs on the scene and the next day announced that the associated died ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL when in fact he died in the breakroom.

In true Walmart form, they will do anything to keep a lawsuit off of their butts than to hone up to their responsibility.

I never found out if his family believed that lame story but i do know everyone that worked that day knew the truth.

If Any one thinks this is a made up story, talk to any of the lifers at store 9 and they will tell you.

Rest in Peace RB.

Sam's Blind Eyes

No security at store 4804

In case you were wondering about those cameras at Sam's, Only 1 in 75 work. And they do not record ANYTHING

That's Right, at Walmart, We Fire Our Employees for Catching Crooks Because We Know Who the Real Crooks are... Don't We?

They canned me the loyal manager for trying to save them $14

Dear whoever,
Just letting people know my story. I had been employed by Wal-Mart for close to 12 years including starting at the bottom as a cashier, moving up as high as a Store Manager.

And because the company believes so anti-union that they have brought in all the bad aspects of a union job with out the positives.

Wal-Mart became so legallistic that me a Store Manager with 12 years breaks a policy, that was barely covered in a 20 minute meeting a year go, got fired, just because they fired a 1 year loss prevention associate, who actually went through training on the policy, for the same thing. They didn't take in regard either that I just changed states, and the way Wal-Mart runs in Arkansas, Missouri, isn't the way it runs in other parts of the US.

I was a loyal Wal-Mart associate, manager who believed all the garbage, and even though I didn't aggree with a lot they did I would of worked another 10 or 15 years and retired, never enjoying the work I did, because I am loyal.

They fired me because I accidently press charges on a meth head theif when we were not suppose to press charges over a certain dollar amount, I didn't know I had even pressed charges until a week later(cops in different parts of the country do things differently) and that I didn't have the right to trespass him for what he did

He and his partner were changing labels off cheap items and putting them on more expensive items and then buying them at the cheap price. The man was a fraud and stealling from Wal-Mart.

So loyal me I stop him for the $14 and in the mix-up in being in a new place I get fired.

Sounds like a company that really cares for their people huh. The more and more I think about it the more their propaganda and garbarage they spewed at all the meetins I had been to was just to please media, politicians, and the politcally correct crowd.

Nothing about the stock holders, and the employees.

Great to be away. Aunt is a lawyer and thinking about sueing but they would try to offer me my job back and I know I don't want that.

Let me know if there are any good jobs out there that 12 years of management wal-mart experience can get me. HA

Walmart with its green face and little scrawny dog

I work for a Walmart in Ohio. All customers had until the 8th of December to get thier Layaways out and the employees were given until the 15th to get thiers out.

Well after the 8th mangers went in and just started cancellling layaways and not paying attention to which layaway was a customer and which was an employee.

If your layaway was in a box it was supposed to be marked with an A. Well several employees including myself layaway's got canceled and put back on the shelf. I went to get it out on the 15th it was gone. I had items that I had placed in 2 months prior and we no longer sold the item.

I was very upset this was christmas presents that I could not get back. So I went to the manager that was supposedly the one who did the canceling and of course the blame was put on someone else. Then I went to that person and they said they didn't do it. So the buck got passed around which is not unusual for management. Of course being employees you would think that they would try to do something for us.............not on your life.. all you got was a sorry.

They didn't offer us another solution or anything. Yeah and we are supposed to be a walmart family and show team work....HA! What a Joke.

SMILE, SNAP, FLASH: Walmart Violates Federal Copyright Law

I don't know if you know this but in our photo center you can make copies of pictures as long as they are not professional pictures. However, if you get a copyright release from the studio then you can. Well a customer came in the other day and wanted to make copies of professional pictures and the associate explained to the women that if you do not have the copyright release we can not do it.

Welll the customer had a fit and was yelling at the associate saying she wanted her pictures and she will get them. The associate calmly kept telling her that we can not do it if she did not have her release. Well the women wanted a manager. Management knows this.

Well the manager came out and as always made the associate look stupid and told the customer they can do it this one time.

The women looked at the associate and said "See I told you". According to the associate she reminded the manager that they were breaking a federal copyright law.

Well a few months back an associate's sister had passed away and had asked if she could make copies of her sister which was a professional picture too and was told no. So see because we work for walmart management holds that against us because we know better ,but when it's a customer it's ok. So how is that fair? Management will do anything to please a customer but won't take care of their own.

So if you want a copy of a professional picture and you are told no then just yell and ask for a manager. You can do this at store # 2726 in Ohio.

Feel Free to Steal Anything under $25 at Walmart. No charges will be laid. Merry Christmas!

I work for Walmart in Columbus OH.....I know why the store did not pursue the person pick pocketing the customer. As of about 6 months ago Walmart got rid of the Loss Prevention Dept(Store Security).

Walmart said they were wasting to much money on pressing charges against people who would steal anything under $25.00 then the person would just have to pay a fine and that is it. They will have to have been cught 3 times stealing before charges will get pressed against them. They would no longer be allowed in the store.

So because of this and it was done in Walmart....Walmart would have to file the charges on behalf of the customer since it was done in the store and according to Walmart that just takes to much time and money. That is probably why they would not help the customer.

You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two

My wife and I were Christmas Shopping at the Wal-Mart at I-45 and Luetta in Spring,TX. on Sunday evening Dec 10,2006.

While Shopping in the store my wife's wallet was picked and the money removed. I understand the absentminded mistake is our fault for not keeping a better eye on the wallet in the first place, BUT what upsets me the most, is that when Store Management was involved they did nothing to prevent this from happening to another customer ever again.

When I offered to Identify the individual on the security camera, they would not let me do so.

By this action they allow crime to happen in their stores and do nothing to prevent or offer a plausible solution to fix this problem. By these actions to do nothing about it they put their customers at risk of Robbery in broad daylight in the Toy Section at the Local Wal-Mart.

I am forever appalled and shall this day forth boycott anything to do with Wal-Mart until they resolve this critical issues in their security dilemmas and their blatant disregards for customer SAFETY.

Thank-you and Happy Holidays

Psst, Hey Wanna Buy Some Bum Software for Christmas

hi; I just got off the phone,and I am with you on a lot of the walmart issues I have bought two junk computers from them and have learned from the experience, NOW I recently had a nice argument with a person that works there, over software they sold me, it seems I can't use the licence i.d. and password thats on the back of the jewel case that it came in and can't get through to the co. that makes it and my computer tells me that it is not ligit, how can they sell someone this junk and not stand behind it, they tell me BRING IT IN AND WE WILL EXCHANGE IT, IF YOU HAVE THE RECIEPT,well I hunted through the trash and found it, so guess I will go over to mt. pleasant and get another peice of junk and I will learn to down load from the sites that are ligit.am still not through w/walmart they think they can get away with anything I am one person that is going to let everyone know about their bum soft ware if I save one person from getting screwed to the wall that will pay for my money lost. so beit. good luck in your quest to nail the sobs.they care only about their bottom line...

Murder at Wal-Mart

One of our CSM's got murdered / shot in the head in the store on a busy Sat afternoon.(Many familes and children were present). Management knew she was being stalked and her ex boyfriend had threatened to kill her several times.

They were informed each and every time he came in the store. Brilliant management moved the money podium, BECAUSE OF A MEMO, away from the front of the store, where she could see 180 DEGREEES around her, with her back to the wall, to the middle of the friggin candy /softline main aisle , exposing her 360 , so she was looking at back end of the customers and checkouts.

Her stalker was hiding amoung all the clothing racks.

Walmart has the murder on video. Walmart cares more about their stupid memo's than about employees safety. She died within a 10 day period of this brilliant move. Walmart management and Corp policies don't give a damn about people they care about money and whatever dumb new ideas they can think up. (What's this crap about "flights").

They knowlingly put her in an exposed area.

One of the managers of the store, who leans heavily on her help, and can't deal with a crisis alone, called in the HR mgr, who lives 2 hours away, had to help her deal with everything. He came in and helped everyone, management, the victims family, set up a memorial book, tables, helped with the funeral etc. was there for the assoc. p.s. no one saw that manager for weeks. he was the veritable backbone that kept that store going.

OBVIOUSLY THE STORE CLOSED THAT SATURDAY, SINCE IT WAS A CRIME SCENE AND THERE WAS BRAINS AND BLOOD ON THE FLOOR, ETC. SO MANGEMENT SENT EVERYONE HOME. TOLD THEM YOU WILL BE PAID FOR THE DAY. duh!!! WE KNOW ITS NOT YOUR FAULT YOU CAN'T WORK YOUR HOURS. THERE WAS A MURDER!!!!

CORP WALMART DID AN AUDIT THIS YEAR AND FIRED THE HR MANAGER, BECAUSE THE EMPLOYEES WERE PAID FOR THE HOURS MANAGEMENT PROMISED ON THE DAY THE CSM WAS MURDERED.

WHEN CORP DEMANDED TO KNOW WHO AUTHORIZED THE DAYS WAGES. ONE OF THE STORE MANAGERS LIED/ BAILED, AND LEFT THE PERSONNEL MANAGER HANGING IN THE BREEZE. BECAUSE THAT MANAGER DIDN'T BACK UP HER PERSONNEL MANAGER , WALMART FIRED HIM. TOLD HIM HE COULD QUIT OR BE FIRED AFTER 16 YEARS WORKING FOR WALMART. IT WAS HIS ONNNNLLLY JOB REFERENCE.

DON'T TELL ME WALMART CARES ABOUT IT'S EMPLOYEES. IT CARES ABOUT ITS LAST NICKEL IT CAN DRAG OUT OF YOUR DYING HAND.

No Family Or Friends? The Cult of Wal-Mart Wants You!

I used to be a manager at a Walmart store and its not all that’s its cracked up to be! Most Walmart managers don’t care about the associates and the ones that do get fired!

I worked for Walmart for 5 years and was forced into management or I would lose my job! You have to go through 17 weeks of training by yourself and they expect you to master the ins and outs of Walmart!

After your training they throw you in a store and expect you to improve everyone and everything. All the store manager cares about is money! I consistently heard if this store doesn’t have a good inventory I will not get my 45,000-dollar bonus and mind you the associates are lucky to get a bonus and most of the time it’s a few hundred dollars.

They start everyone out at the lowest pay possible and inform him or her about all the incentives they offer, just to get people in the door. They expect you to be there 80-100 hours a week and you are on salary so they work you to the bone!

I guess all in all Walmart is a good place to work if you have no family or friends, but if you do I suggest looking elsewhere for a job, unless you like to be screwed over by big corporate companies!

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Canadian Coins: If you prick us, do we not bleed... and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge...

Port Huron, Michigan is on the Canadian border and a lot of people cross over from Sarnia, Ontario to shop.

The local Wal Mart refuses to accept Canadian coins. (Coins that are just rolled up and deposited with the Irest anyway.) If Canadian nickels, dimes, or quarters are found in a cashier's drawer, the total value is deducted from the cashier's pay. In other words, the store managers look at every coin while they're cashing out a drawer.

Since Canadian and US coins now look almost exactly alike, they're even harder to spot. The company apparently thinks that time spent on the clock by managers examining every coin is worth it!

not martin luther king jr.

i had a dream once that i worked for walmart but it wasnt a dream was real. screaming is only a joke. that was after i was a hooker in a slauterhouse.

of managers and the creeps they avoid

Let me tell you how bad Walmart sucks and how much they truely value thier assoiciates and customers. I worked at walmart for 6 years, They dont value thier people.Walmart values profit.

Ha Ha HA

Ya know all thoose commercials where people are So happy to work at Walmart? Thoose are paid actors!!!

Ya know how much Walmart Cares? I had a customer who was making me extremely uncomfterable, he was saying some pretty innappropriatye things to me, and at the same time He wanted to see a manger for some stupid reason So I Eagerly called my manger since I wanted to get rid of the creep anyways. So I paged Bob the manager on duty.

My voice was trembling, over the P.A and when I answerd the phone. "bob I said as i answere the ring "I need you over here now this gentleman request a manager and hes rather upset." the basterd manager had the nerve to say " I am busy unloading trucks it will have to wait. Mind you this customer is known for ripping us off by distracting cahiers ( I was in Electronics and I was waiting on him at the register.)

I finally got rid of the creep on my own. When Bob heard of it he made it sound as if he was way to busy for customers and assoictaes I guess getiing that merchindise out to the floor to sell and make all kinds of money is way to supieror to the saftey,integerty,a general needs of the shoppers and assoictaes.

A manger at this same store made an employee work off the clock!!!

Walmart likes to give holiday pay?? yea they cut ur hours to amke up for it..

Do i sound a wee bitter maybe so..

Equality at Wal-Mart: Everyone Gets to Clean the Toilets

I guess after slaving for Wal-Mart for 7 years they think that my $10.05 an hour is too steep to pay. So they cut over 20 hours out of my schedule the past six weeks with no explanation.

Hmm. Sales must be down.

We have no janitor anymore so they are sending everyone in to clean the toilets.

The cashiers have not been trained how to use the different cleaner chemicals. They basically just grab a bottle that looks right and spray the toilet-then wait until it dries so it wont burn anyone's rear end.

When I refused to clean the bathrooms I was sent to the deli to work the rest of the day as some sort of juvenile punishment. Scrubbing greasy chicken cookers.

That'll teach her to disobey!! If you want to teach WalMart a lesson you have to speak their language. DO NOT spend another dime there.

The End of Lay-Away, The End of Hope

The Macomb Illinois Wal-mart Juwst keeps treating the employees worse everyday. Will they be fireng all full timers and replace with only part time help to get out of Benifits Like our loacal K mart did???
I can tell you personally that the Wal-mart here is as dirty to thier emplyes as can be. Cutting hrs, yelling at employees on the floor trying to do the job of 10 people Because Wal_mart isnt makeing enough money Which is ridiculouse with Macomb being a college town. How stupid do they think people are???
As for customers They are stopping Lay-away??? How are people like me gonna be able to even get Christmas Presents for family and friends??? Its time people put Wal-mart in its place!!! This company need to learn however they have to that people will NOT put up with them!!!

POST OF THE YEAR: Wal-Mart Witches, Union Local 1555

I was always into magic and stuff. I went to work at wal-,mart and the manager there showed me a book about witches he had. I thought it was cool. the book had witches burning on the front. And there were pictures insuide. I never saw pictures like that bvefore. They had naked women and old drawings and stuff.

He lent it to me. I read it. It was weird. But I likked it. I gave it back to him. He asked if I was interested. I didn't know what he was talking about. He never said nothing else for a while.

After a whie he asked me if I wanted to meet his friends. I said sure becausew I didn't want to get fired. He told me where to meet them. It was at his house. They were all looking at me all the trime when I was there.

Another time I went over there and he took me to the basement. There was a woman on a table there. She was naked And others had hoods. I just watched them do things to her. I couldn't believe how much I liked it.Anyway a few weeks later the manager wanted me to be on the table. I said I would. He was happy when he heard.

They all did things to me. And I let them. But then I git prrgnat and had an abortion. The doctor was one from the manager's basement. I knew it was him.the next time I saw him he was in the bsement and he had a bunch of blood and stuuff that they used. He said it was from his job. He said it was from me.

And I never went back again. I was so sick for weeks after that. It make me sick now wroiting this.

I still work at walmart. And when I see the manager. He licks his lips at me. That's just sick.

Salem_666@hotmail.com

Odor Clean-up in Aisle 3

This guy is a dept mngr. hes a bit retarded, and his teeth are all yellow and broken,he talks out his nose,but the worst of it he smells like goat pee pee!

i swear one day he was working and he had shaveing cream hanging off both sides of his face!he wears pants that are hi-waters and dollar store shoes,when hes eating in the break room he licks his fingers with smuckin nosies!us ladys were told he sleeps in his clothes and wakes up and comes to work,the maintance man says someone has been wipin poo in the mans bathroom on the walls and he giggles,we know its him.i was told a lady tryed to cut his hair in the store and he had scabs and goo on his scalp!

to top it off he makes more than his pay scale, when a grown man in his 40s can sit in a chair and fart in meetings and is the only one laughing theres something wrong at our store,why dont mngt talk to him?He was on a latter one day and i saw shopers laughing i went to see and he had rubber bands around his socks to hold them up and the socks were stained,

i give up,he was shopin last weekend with his nasty wife{the worlds biggest midget}shes 300 pounds 5 feet 3 and has a hairy lip,he had shorts on with razer burn marks! and pimples! and his leggs were snow white with crud!

MAY THE LORD PLEASE bring us a sinus cold to clogg up our nose

Simple Math: Less For You, More For Wal-mart

The company that i work for has been doing bisness for with walmart 24 yrs.

On 10-15-06 the company said that we was audited by walmart and we have to to go to a 5 day shift because walmart didn't like it.The shift i've worked for 24 yrs, is a 7 day shift that is the same every month .

The only normalicy i got on shift work. We lost our 'long weekend' once a month and the 5 day changes so much that you can't get used to a shift.

Let me add that i've worked this shift for 24 yrs. they said we have to change or loose their bisness. I say f--- walmart we can get by without them. I would like to see them work that shift. WALMART SUCKS

car wreck? sick kids? who cares? just show up at work and cheer joyfully

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!all the stuff they said to us in our meeting today about we get caned if we miss 6 days ,even if your kidd is sick!!! or you are in the hospital!! and also if your late so many times your out the door even if your in a car wreck!! are u kidding me!! then we get up the door the dorky cheer and i couldnt believe the retards that were jumping around yellin the ol cheer!!

one old guy was floppin around like he won a million bucks!! geeze i guess that guy live with his mom,iam steve ive worked for walmart since 1982,ive met sam 3 times,ive worked at 4 stores, ive seen when walmart loved its workers!!

we all were family,in the past 3 years i have seen walmart go mean to its workers now ive seen the meanest thing in the past 3 months!! walmart trying to get rid of the long time worker,mothers that cant take care of the kidds now!!!

but lets all do the freakin walmart cheer!!! steve from arkansas

First, They Wear You Down and Bust You Up, Then They Make You a Doorgreeter

I worked for walfart for 7.5 years and now getting the shaft. I started on maintence and work for 5 years and got my knee messed up for walking too much and pushing the scubber all of the store and the buffer so it got my knee and I can't walk that far any more or bend down on the floor.

The best part is they will not pay for it. And my back is bad now and the same there. And I'm am a doorgreeter now and they want me to stock shelves and do what ever they want me to do. I'm allso making $11.70 and they don't like me getting that, but I will say what store it is. In Mesa az ... Now they are finding a way to get rid of me and others.

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why you should wear latex gloves when shopping at wal-mart

where should i begin ive been with wal-mart for over a year now and the job sucks and in our store we had 2 skids of grocery with human blood and broken glass on like a good bit of those 2 skids of grocery the reson i know is cause i was helping break down the truck

Said in One Long Breath

To whomever controls the airconditioning of stores most especially store 592 in Derby Kansas, it would be wise to begin actually cooling the store off for the benefits of the actual workers. As the managerial staff seems to think percentages earned are a response to queries about the air conditioning issue I've taken it upon myself to seek attention elsewhere to a matter of gravest severity. With the overabundance of unwarranted freight arriving nightly, lack of employees more than likely designed to keep expenses down work has more than doubled for the staff that even bother to show up. Working as such in a limited time frame as given more exertion is needed to finish. Exertion in a store left uncooled in the summer air is a definite health risk for those who actually physically participate in stocking the shelves, as managers seemed to have abadoned the idea of assisting in the mess they incur with their inactivity. If this continues and leads to a accident or death caused by the inevitable heat stroke, rest assured that the resulting lawsuit could have been averted simply by cooling the store down for your associates. Its all we ask if you can do nothing else in your pathetic attempts at managing a disaster.

Hey, Buddy, can you spare some khaki pants?

Wow....can you believe it! Now we're going to have to wear uniforms, and Wal-Mart is only paying for 2 of the polo shirts!!

We have to buy the rest, to include the mandatory Khaki pants!!!!!

Do the they not realize the majority of us working there live pay check to pay check, and can't afford to just go out and buy new cloths.

Yet one more thing to add to the list of Wal-Marts wonderful undertakings! (Total sarcasm)

When Wal-Mart Owes You Money, It's The Same As If You Bounced a Check

I'll admit to shopping at WalMart to buy school supplies for a charity drive. I paid by check. BIG MISTAKE.

WalMart presented the check to my bank the regular way AND electronically, so the same check was taken out twice. It takes the bank 10 days to put the money back, and I had to provide my bank statement as proof. Meanwhile, WalMart had the use of my money for all that time.

I wrote to the company via website about the problem, and received the following response.

I told them it was so crazy, I'd post it on this site so the whole world
could laugh at them. The point was, WalMart took my money twice, but the
company responded as if I'd bounced a check:

-----Original Message-----
From: CUSTOMER REPLIES: WM Stores & Sam's Clubs
[mailto:cstreply@wal-mart.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:51 PM
To: [redacted]
Subject: Response from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Ref #000000013502618)


Thank you for your message.

We are unable to assist you with your check issue from this web site. However,
we hope the following information is helpful in resolving your check issue.

If you received notification from a Wal-Mart store that you have a returned/NSF
check:
Call the individual store and ask for the Cash Office

Call Wal-Mart Check Verification at 800-866-0828 if:
1. Your checks are being denied in a Wal-Mart store
2. You have called Telecheck (800-697-9255) or SCAN (800- 262-7771)
and they told you to call Wal-Mart
3. You have called Telecheck or SCAN and you disagree with their
information
4. Your driver's license was keyed incorrectly at a store

Thank you,
Customer Relations

Wal-Mart Anti-American, Santa Doesn't Exist There, Medicated Just to Go to Work, Oh, and Learn to Speak Chinese

How do you go from loving a 6 yr. long job to hating it in less than one year?

We have been told how to speak to customers like "don't tell anyone Merry Christmas" because of our muslim employees, Hello, this is America.

We were told how they wanted us to eat, only healthy, well I'm an American and I have the right to choose what I want to eat. If it kills me oh well, walmart will benefit from my death.

We are forced to work hours they want or forget having a job there. Does this sound like a family corporation or more like overseas workers? We have to wear uniforms now because we have writing on our T-shirts.

Well, I support the USA with every T-shirt I wear, does this sound like an American tradition?

If your sick now you take the chance of getting everyone sick or get fired if you miss three days in 1 year, what about the sick days we earn? Who benefits from us not being able to use them? I can tell you it is not the employees.Now they tell us we can only make so much money unless we move up in the company.

Who can afford to move up when they can send you anywhere they want. I have family who depends on me and I can't just up and leave to get a raise. Another family tradition.

I apologize to any shopper I might not be very friendly to because in the last year I have had to be put on 2 meds and possibly a third just to have a job. customers are the ones I feel sorry for because who knows maybe next week we have to learn to talk chinese and as an employee that will just be to much stress and I don't think as an AMERICAN I will take it with a smile.

Bare with us customers, we are trying real hard to smile for you but they make it harder for us everyday!

Wal-Mart Memo to Employees: Tell the Media How Good We Are to You

I am an employee with this lovely company and have been for over 6 years. The store where I work has went downhill in the last year.

Recently management was passing out a corporate memo about some government officials in the state where we are located, which is Iowa. In the memo it talked about how these officials were going on a rampage about Wal-Mart and its corporate ethics, which they have none, in this memo the Mothership as I like to call homeoffice, stated they didn't want to influence us on how we should think, but these people were bashing Wal-Mart and therefore they were bashing us because we, the associates, were Wal-Mart and we should rally behing the mothership and tell the media how wonderful they are.

HA HA!

I can't even say that with a straight face. How can a company think we think their wonderful with all these lovely new "flights" and what the hell kind of mothership dumbass came up with "flights". In our store morale is so low there isn't any.

When these flights started coming out I half way agreed with the cash office decision, but the pay caps? Then the company tries to say its doing it for the benefit of us employees?

Who are they kidding! We dept. managers have been waiting for the day we get told our hours we work will change. This company doesn't care if you have children or not all they say is your availabilty is open so work it or quit. Well, six years ago my availability was open, but since then I've had a 2nd child and my husband works a swing shift job instead of owning his own business.

If they hours go they can kiss my ass goodbye I wasn't staying for the big pay!! Seeings how I don't even make poverty level. I could keep rambling but it seems every employee knows just how wonderful the mothership is!

Who is Letting Wal-Mart Away With This Greedy Nonsense? The Employees, of course.

I work for a Wal*mart in CT. I'm currently working in the accounting office, and it is pure hell.

On June 18th our office (which housed 7 associates) was told about Flight 1. We soon called it the day our office died. My Lead Cash office assoicate lost a paygrade, and she was going to lose 4 of her girls. We were told that if you still wanted this job, you had to be able to work from 5am to 2pm, and only three people will be in the room.

I was one of the "lucky" ones.

Soon we found out that half of our stuff had to be taken out of the office, we lost a calculator, a filing cabnit, and a chair. There is always two people in the room, yet one always has to stand. Then we were told that we had to process a whole days worth of money by 9am!! We've been doing this for about a month and we still can't do it.

It has gotten to a point where our managers are coaching us for "not adapting to change" and "not following policies". It's not that we aren't trying it's just that you can't process 30 to 40 thousand dollars in 4 hours AND balance.

It got to a point where we were asked to be taken out of the room, because we can't take the stress, nor stand the constant bullying we recieve.... but we were denied.

Our store manager came in to talk to us, and told us that the stress that we go through in this office will be nothing compared to what's going to happen with the next set of "Flights."

We were told that we will no longer have loss prevention, there will only be 4 department managers, and ALL associates MUST HAVE an open availablity. If you don't, then you have 1 month to decide if you're going to stay, or quit.

This company is forcing most of their long term employees to quit, not to mention a lot of single parents, just because they don't want to pay for overtime, and insurance. Something needs to be done!!

Signed, S.E. in CT

Mr. SAM's Casket Probably Too Thickly Upholstered To Allow Spinning

I was a 11 year associate at wal mart and decided I have had enough. I would have never thought 1 year ago I would be one of the people on this web site.

I just cannot believe the despicable changes they have made! pay caps at walmart? WE BUILT THEIR FORTUNE and then our thanks is pay caps and scheduling changes some of us cannot abide by.

Respect for the individual not since Mr SAM passed he is probably spinning in his grave to know what they have done to his once wonderful company .

Moment of Reflection #1: Would Sam Spit in His Own Family's Faces?

I just watched the movie Wal-Mart is it good for America? I was shocked to see how little this mega giant has been given subsidies by our governments and they not only intentionally put the small business out of business by illicit and foul import and immigrant worker practices but how little they pay and the violations of public health crimes they have committed.

I will never buy a product at Wal-Mart again.

To the Walton Family, Sam would be turning over in his grave if he knew how stingy his children have become. If alive today he would spit in his own families face for how they have treated fellow human beings.

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Wal-Mart Fails in Germany, Loses $1 Billion

Is this the end of Wal-Mart:

(click Globe & Mail story below)

Wal-Mart Fails in Germany

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No More Merit Raises Plus Wage Caps, Wal-Mart is Going Down

I'm so glad that there's sites like this to get the word out about how awful of a company Wal-Mart actually is.

I'm a 10 year associate, who was the biggest advocate for Wal-Mart up until about 1 1/2 years ago, then everything went down hill and fast. We lost the best manager any person could every ask for. Of course he had his wrong doings but everyone does and no one is perfect. He treated each and everyone of us like we belonged there and were part of a family. Since his firing, our store has lost everything, the moral is at an all time low, and I'm sure now it'll get even lower.

We got told today, that there are no more merit raises, and also a wage cap on all levels. So now, a long time associate, at the top of their pay scale will not get a raise. We are the ones that helped build this company and once again we are getting the shaft.

Wal-mart recently (at our store) made all hourly full-time associates open up there availability to include nights and weekends, but yet most part-time associates get to pick and choose their hours.

We had people working 15-16 years, that were level 7's, but because their hours didn't fit with what Wal-Mart thought they should be working, they got demoted to cashiers and had to take $1.30 pay decrease, or they re-aligned jobs, or eliminated certain positions. I cannot believe Wal-Mart isn't seeing what they are doing! Have they not studied K-Mart, do they not realize that it's happening all over again! Lee Scott needs to wake up and take a look at his long time associates and see we are not happy. Wal-Mart is going down and it's going down fast.

Less and less people are shopping at Wal-Mart, yet they keep popping stores up all over the world, but employing less and less full-time employees.

Wait and see, next it'll be our discount cards gone, or the stock-ownership program ended. It's going to happen wait and see!

Hail to the Spineless Wal-Mart Employees Who Let Wal-Mart Violate Them

I once was a loyal Walmart shopper. They had everything I needed, at great prices.

Then the monster grew and became typical of GIANT CORPORATE AMERICA.

I work for Bridgestone/Firestone and can also see the downside of working for one of the "giants".

My biggest recommendation to WalMart employees is to do everything in your power to UNIONIZE!!!!

If everyone agrees and sticks together, the union CAN and WILL step in and make work BEARABLE for you all.

Cheap Goods & Poor Employees

I have been shopping at Wal-Mart on a regular basis for the last 10 years basically because of the isolated country living and there isn’t much competition in the area for them. In the past I have purchased larger items like a Homelite Weed Eater and within about 2 years or so Wal-Mart stop selling any replacement parts for it, the only thing I could buy was the string!

In another instance I had purchased a water sprinkler with a built in timer. One day in the fall of the same summer that I purchased the water sprinkler it fell and broke. Because it was fall I knew Wal-Mart would be changing there stock to winter items and they probably wouldn’t have any summer garden items left on the shelves. So I contacted the manufacture of the water sprinkler and came to find out that the water sprinkler was no longer made and hadn’t been made in the last 2 years! Personally that led me to believe that Wal-Mart was going to warehouses and buying old and outdated stock at more than likely a cheap price and throwing it out on there shelves and could care less if they had a replacement if it broke!

Also I have noticed in the recent past years there selection of a lot of there products has been cut way back! In the store I shop at I can no longer buy the largest jar of Maxwell House Coffee, now they only sell the small and medium size jars. I also noticed the size roll of Viva Paper Towels I like to buy has been reduced to a medium sized roll and I can no longer purchase the largest size made. They also stop selling a local brand of barbecue sauce that I used to purchase at this store! I thought they were supposed to be like a warehouse store where one could purchase bulk items?

Just yesterday I had to take back a cheap $36.00 office chair I had purchased just a few months ago because it was recalled, Model #VCR1022. The backs were breaking and the chairs were unsafe and tipped over easily! I fell over in the chair a few times leaning over for something and the back of the chair broke a while ago! Buy the way the replacement chair cost me an extra $20.00 because they didn't have a replacement chair at the same price. So they made more money on the recall!

Yesterday I also returned a $70.00 DVD, VCR player because it stopped functioning properly. When you put a tape or CD in it would play a few seconds then turn off! They replaced it!

The truth of the matter is I am sick and tired of buying cheap low quality junk! I am sick of having to take there broken crap back to the store which is by the way is a 50 mile round trip for me! I personally feel they could care less what the consumer needs or wants and that they only sell what they can get there hands cheap or what has been sitting in a warehouse for a long time that is so old it isn’t even being manufactured any longer! I personally feel that Wal-Mart doesn’t care one bit about quality products or customer satisfaction. I wrote a letter about 2 years ago to the main corporate office in Bentonville, Arkansas complaining about the situation at the store I shop at and never received a reply! Apparently they didn't care!

Wal-Mart has an I could care less attitude and according to the news reports they blatantly breaks the U.S Department of Labor laws plus they don’t give employees a 40 hour work week so they can have some kind of health benefits or something! Just remember this they employ nearly 1.2 million people and one-third are part-time employees - limited to less than 28 hours of work per week which results to a life of poverty! No wonder our great country is sliding downhill! Nothing like having the fox watch the henhouse!

ddolin@centurytel.net

Memo to Employees: Don't Mind the Gunshots, Just Duck

I am a Wal-mart employee, and I have been with the company for eight years. Several times gunshots have been fired in our parking lot. Associates tell management the next day that they are scared to walk in the parking lot alone at night.

Management is telling the associates in meetings that they are mistaken, that teenagers are shooting fireworks off in the parking lot. One of my co-workers and a customer were walking out of the garden center doors when shots were fired, and they both dropped to the ground for safety. She told me the next day, and I told her that they were just fireworks. She laughed, and told me I have been shooting guns my whole life, and know the difference between a firework and a gunshot.

Management is lying to us to avoid the bad press for the company, and do not care about our safety.

Tdwwebb@aol.com

Essay Winner: Why I think Wal-Mart is the Devil

I think walmart is the devil because its trying to take over the whole world with stores that has stuff in them made by children slaves. It don't pay much so its getting its money easy off the swet of its workers backs and like the devil its always suposed to be smiling like those greeters at the doors who don't feel like smiling you can tell, but satan says that they should so they smile with evil in their heart and they mark you with a sticker. Should be 666 on that sticker not a smily face.

you get paid by who you are

I worked for Wal-Mart here in Windsor Ontario in the Garage as an automotive tech. I ended up doing thigs that was not normally done at Wal_Mart as I one was an apprentice mechanic.

After a bit fellow employees seemed to slack in their work and I was expected to pickup the slack. I went to management on this as there was to be an open
door policy that you could talk to management with any problems. Well I talked to a store manager and told him my story of other employees slacking, fooling around and also danger to others with their horseplaying.

Well I was told if I didnt like it that there was the door that I could leave. Well I told my department manager about this and as soon as I found another job that I was leaving. Well he called me into his office asked me not to leave and offered me a raise.

Well things went fine for about 2 months and this started to happen again. I asked another employee to sign my workorder as is policy and was told no that they were busy, ya busy fooling around. I went to management about this and I was wrote up.... and then told again if I dont like it that there was the door.

Well within a couple of weeks I found another job and gave my notice but quit earlier due to unsafe horseplay that someone was going to get hurt and I was not going to be involved in it any way and quit earlier. They have a hard time holding on to employees as well.

Did you know that you get paid by who you are, male or female, married or single. Males and married males are paid more the single males and females also. They are very predijust to employees. They treat them like crap and you are only a number and a robot to do as they want you to do and sat yes sir and no sir.

brain-dead customers, thieves, and idiotic commandments

I have worked for Wal-Mart for 9 years. Personally, I have been fortunate to have a good manager (most of the time). It is obvious that the company has grown too large to sustain itself.

Morale is abysmal, the associates are bitter, sick, and at best, going through the motions. I assume all retail jobs share the same complaints about brain-dead customers, thieves, and idiotic commandments handed down from on high. We have no "LP" in our store, so we basically wave merchandise good-bye as any degenerate takes a walk with it.

Recently, our management team had a meeting with our geriatric door greeters to let them know that they were responsible for everything that went out of the store. Being in the state of mind commonly known as WTFE (what the f**k ever), the door greeters decided that meant they couldn't give incoming customers the time of day.

Like most of the Eastern Sea Board, we recently had flooding rains. Every nitwit in the county decided it was Wal-Mart time, and were greeted by people telling them to get their own shopping cart, and drying it themselves (in some cases, sending them to the parking lot to retrieve a cart for themselves).

This would only happen when the employees just don't give a damn. I've heard that the company used to be a great place to work, but I feel the bigger it gets, the worse it gets. Wal-Mart will begin to collapse under it's own weight, just give it time. Remember, though, that not every associate is an ass. Some of us are reluctant Church of Sam cult members witht nowhere else to go.

Wal-mart's exploding tires lead to old, disabled gentleman's dehydration

I am 50 years old, disabled gentleman who lives in Roswell, NM. I am unable to write or type on a computer (don't even own one) and I have had a very big problem with some tires that were purchased at my local Walmart.

Two of the tires failed (exploded) on a trip from Roswell to the Carlsbad Caverns. This resulted in my son and I being stranded in the desert for over five hours while we waited for Walmat road service to handle the problem. I suffered severe heat exhaustion and dehydration which resulted in medical treatments over $11,000. I am still having problems and medical expenses because of it.

I have been told that posting this type story on your web site gets the attention of Walmat and they may do something about taking responsibility for my medical expenses. To date they have not.

Since I can not write, (my sister in Tennessee is sending this e-mail for me) is it possible for me to dictate my story over the phone so it can be put on your web site. I could also send a video tape explaining the entire situation, if I had an address. If you give me a phone number I would happy to call. You can send this information to me via phone, mail or by e-mailing it to my sister.

Bernie DeGruchy
technographics@tgphoto.com

Norway dumps Wal-Mart stock for "systematic violations of human rights and labour rights"

"Norwegian Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen's finance ministry officials cited "serious" and "systematic violations of human rights and labour rights" as its reason for pulling out of its Wal-Mart investments."

click link (below) for full story:

Norway Dumps Wal-Mart Stock (click here)

Scraping Employees Off the Floor

At the walmart two towns over in Auburn, the floor crew that the store hired mixed bleach and ammonia to strip the wax on the floors. They don't speak English very much and I guess this wasn't coverered in their don't do lists.

We all had to be evacuated from the building in the middle of winter, and they scraped some employee off the floor who had been knocked out for god knows how long from the fumes.

Thejimms@wmconnect.com

Hello GSD&M

Hello to GSD&M, Wal-Mart's advertising/marketing agency, who visited our site today.

We'd be extremely pleased to be a part of any future advertising plans that might involve Wal-Mart.

Please count us in.

Walmart Pledge

Recently we at store 5466 had a meeting where a pledge to the customer was revealed. My coworkers and I had to stifle our laughing the entire time because it was so ridiculous and FAKE. I've included my version of the rank-and-file's pledge to the customer. Read and enjoy.

Wal-Mart employee’s pledge to the customer:

1. I will keep the shelves stocked with a never-ending array of erroneous product.

2. I will have knowledge of only my area and will lie to you when given half the chance.

3. I will ignore you and avoid you until you force me to help your lazy ass.

4. I will pass you off on another department at every opportunity so that I may get my menial and repetitivework done.

5. I will send you to the opposite end of the store if you are too stupid to read the signs or to first try andlocate the product yourself.

6. I will keep you on perma-hold when you call, and when I return to the phone will give you a responsecontaining the word "no".

7. I will, with you standing at the counter in front of me, pretend to talk to a manager on the phone when infact I've called my own department's extension and am speaking to the busy signal. My response will alwaysinclude some form of "I'm sorry, but..."

8. I will, when faced with a situation I can neither avoid nor control, tell you "I don't know", smile sweetly andemploy any combination of the above in getting away from your stupid ass.

Walmartsucks.COM in Walmart's Hands

Unfortunately, as of last week, walmartsucks.COM has changed ownership.

It is now in the hands of the Wal-mart empire. Prior to being owned by Wal-mart, it was a freeedom-of-expression gripe site.

If anyone knows how this came about (if the domain name expired or was sold) please email us with the information.

Thank you:

TheManager@WalmartSucks.org

Rats and what comes out of them

You wouldn't beleve how many rats we got at walmart. Ever since we started stocking food. I've been there almost twenty years. I never saw rats like since we got food. Rat crap everywhere. Take a sniff of the boxes of cereal some time. Whats it smell like.

I guess rats like food and some of them walk on two legs. Crazy like it is there's our manager who squeeks like a rat too. I know because i drove a cart over his foot this one time.

"life sucks...then you die... then you work at walmart

I do work at walmart... and it SUCKS , I like your site a lot, but I think you could use a better slogan, at my store (the hell hole where I work) the employees (myself included) often toss around the fraise "Every Day Low Standards"..."Always walmart".

A lady I work with once said "life sucks...then you die...then you work at walmart" my response to this was "life sucks...then you work at walmart...then life sucks more...then you kill your self" my appendage to this is "then you go to hell and work for Satan ( aka Sam Walton)...but your still glad your not working for walmart".

Thanks for a kick ass site anonymous

P.S. I'll have a boat load of sh-t to say about walmart, once I'm out'a there, and working at my new job. Sure my new job isn't as close by, but it pays WAY better and has benefits so good, it's like I died and went to Canada.

How am I supposed to sell ammo while mixing paint?

I work at a reasonably new (one and a half year old) store, and it's already crumbled and become disgusting. Even the people who liked working when the store opened hate it passionately now. Let me start with management. We have 3 assistants and the store manager right now, down from 5 assistants at the beginning. One quit to go to back to school (good choice!) and one got transferred because he broke the "No socializing with lowly hourly associates" rule by abandoning his wife and children on Christmas when he ran away with a department manager to have an affair.

Gotta love the WalMart drama. Two of the remaining managers are ok and I actually like one because she's rude right back to rude customers, but the other one is the hugest jackass I've ever met. He was my SWAS leader for almost a year after I transferred to the floor from cash, and I can't stand him. He has a terrible combover and greasy hair, and he's just plain creepy. He likes sneaking up behind workers and shouting things like "Boo!" Plus, he's just an ass. Once I handed him a time-off sheet for ONE DAY and he just stared at me. Didn't say a word, just stood there and stared at me for a full minute before I said "...it's only one day." Then he frowned and walked away, still without a word.

When people do manage to finally get days off, he goes into the computer and overrides the day off to give you a shift anyways, or writes it in on the schedule! I'm graduating this year, and so are many others in the store, so we all booked graduation weekend off around February. But what do we see when we check out the schedule? Shifts written in under "N/A: OT"!! Then management has the nerve to tell us that we need to show up for the shifts since we've already been scheduled!!! How about NO?!?

One of my managers actually told me that overriding days off is common, if they think they the reason we booked it off for is "not important". One said that she'll book people on random off days and will only take the shift away if she deems their reason to be acceptable. Obviously it is if the day was given off in the first place! Oh, and once I asked for my availibility to be changed (I was taking one evening out) so that I could have more time for my schoolwork, and my manager said "Isn't Walmart more important than school?" And once when I asked for a weekend off, he said "Don't you want to work for Walmart?" like he was threatening to fire me because I wanted time off.
Another bit of sleazy management: when I switched from cashier to floor, my manager didn't tell me about the 30 cent pay cut until AFTER I had been hired and had accepted the job. Then he refused to talk to me about my wage for about a week. I asked him if he was allowed to just cut my pay without informing me it would happen, and the next day I get called to the manager's office and get a "merit raise" to bring me back to what I was making before. Sounds like I caught him doing something wrong and he was trying to stop me from asking questions.

My store is yet another Walmart that is horribly understaffed. I'm sick of covering 6 departments all at once. Managers get mad at you if you don't answer a call for sports desk, but how exactly am I supposed to sell ammo if 1) I'm mixing paint, 2) There's a lineup at the fish tanks I have to attend to already, 3) 9 customers are asking me questions and wanting carryouts, and 4) I'm too young to sell ammo! Here's a thought, why not schedule more than 2 associates for the floor during the week's busiest day! The one day there was lots of coverage, they pulled out 3 floor associates to cook burgers at the safety bbq, so that I was all by myself again, swamped by customers. They need to hire new people really badly, but refuse to hire new people so associates just shift positions and cause a new shortage in a different department.

In addition, my department manager is a fool. He doesn't do ANYTHING, so I'm supposed to do his crap for him during the weekend. The flags in my department were 6 MONTHS OLD before I finally got sick of looking at them and took them down, and then my SWAS manager got mad at me for it, because apparently having ancient flags with wrong prices because the rollback ended 4 months ago is better than having no flags at all. Then the new flags I made sat there for 3 months before I ripped them down again, and now my department has no flags.

I work in Pets, and the tanks are so filthy and diseased that I'm afraid to touch the water. I clean them as well as I can on the weekend, but there's always at least 2 days of dead fish buildup when I come back. He doesn't scoop the deads, and if he does he lets them sit in the sink and rot and stink. We have an incredibly high fish death rate, because all he does to "help" the diseased fish is sprinkle in aquarium salt until you can smell salt 10 feet away from the tanks, and he'll put the new healthy fish in the same tank as diseased fish without medicating them and then be confused when the new ones all die. I do tests like leave a particular dead fish in a tank it doesn't belong in to see if he'll scoop it, and it will still be there when I come back 5 days later. I've made many complaints about this to the store manager, but nothing has come of it because in my store, department managers are perfect and favoured no matter how crappy they are.

To add to this, associates are encouraged to not take their breaks so that they can keep working, one manager threatened to fire an employee if she made a complaint to the district manager about her UNFAIR d-day (they claim she did something she didn't), and management doesn't give a crap about associates because they won't let you go home even if you're throwing up. I'm counting down the days until I can quit this hellhole.

I need this job for the next two months because Walmart has already squashed most other employment in my town, so I'll pass on giving my name and store number.

ziggystardust013@hotmail.com

Hit in the head by falling gerbil houses

I have sadly been employed in a Wal-Mart store locally in Kansas for nearly eight years now. I know its my own fault taking the punishment managerial charlatans and frauds can heap while maintaining their innocence.

But still for every time they manage to destroy your morale there are those very few times everything comes together to be a simple paying minimum wage crap job. Those are very few and far between though now.

Where can I begin to criticize. Maybe start with the fact that We recieve way too much freight than a twenty-four hour store should. Every store recieves large amounts of freight, but this one loves to get large amounts of merchandise that has no where to go.

The shelves are overfilled by earlier shift to the point they can't be stocked and probably cause problems for the shoppers who in managers own words "always gotta bitch about something" like freight stacked so high its toppling onto the floors. I've been told there is no space in back for my freight so supposedly I have to put it above the soda aisles.

I have a limited amount of time sadly and no help since again in managers words I have to ask for help to do what is most obviously a two man job so this turns into a feverish escapade every day. Now we even get so much unusable freight its become impossible to put stuff above the aisle and they've started cramming it up there. This makes pulling freight from the shelf a chore of constantly shifting the merchandise, but supposedly this Okay since there is none of my merchandise in the back.

Speaking of the top shelves or Risers, there are rules that are mainly tossed out when they need to get rid of merchandise. Unfortunately the shelves are rickety. Sure they look solid but one good shove to put some merchandise on the shelf and these things shake like grass in the wind.

One day these things shook so much I was hit in the head by falling Gerbil Houses to which I stupidly didn't report to management but the first time I was hurt on the job the situation was turned around in their favor to the fact that I shouldn't have been pulling a thousand pounds of water softner salt down an incline and straight into a pallet of magazines.

Speaking of the recieving crew with the overages in freight this causes them to work too fast and there is no real safety in the six foot tall pallets. When you pull these onto a floor filled with browsing slow customers this could cause a problem with freight falling on customers. Management again "They shouldn't have been so close to the pallet" like a customer knows how to shop properly.

This is from a company that prides itself on safety as well.

I heard recently as well that the company is trying to crack down on unwanted clutter. Hope it happens soon because in order to get rid of my freight earlier shifts are piling boxes on top of other merchandise. Theres so much of it they're piling it in small corners of the floor of the aisles that are so small two customers can't fit down the aisle without causing cramping in the aisles.

One last thing favortism which is rampant. There isn't supposed to be such a thing in Wal-Marts little society but it happens. Every night there are a few select associates (employees to people who don't want to feel special) who stand around talking and slowly working because they know they'll always get help. This is painful when I'm a few aisles down trying to dodge customers on my aisles (two aisles for one man) to stock the shelves and at the end of the night when I'm beaten and battered I have to help them clean up their work whether I want to or not.

This is also painful because I've seen managers just standing around with them talking all chatty at the begining of the night. When I stop for a short chat with my department manager this one manager is on me like its the most heinous act I could possibly do.

Theres just so much nonsense in this store I can't believe they sit around just building more in order to make more money. The company says they want to corner the market, but look at it my way.

Six stores in a twenty mile area, this cuts down on a stores earning. A store not earning cuts its employees cutting wages for the company. So they're really getting more money for the company while keeping stores overstocked with needless freight and under valued employees that are kept in order by two managers whose job seems to be to defend the managers and keep employees working. If there was a god Wal-Mart would be wiped off the face of the earth by some major event. Just get rid of Bentonville to beautify Arkansas a little bit too.

Single Dad Leaking

On Friday May 5th I brought my 1996 Chevy Blazer in to Kennewick Wa superstore to have my oil changed and now my oil pan leaks ,one half quart overnight! This vehicle sat for one week prior to the weekend that I made the mistake of taking my vehicle there for the oil change (with no leaks).This is a $700 repair .Their solution was to give me five quarts of oil until their so called third party claims dept could deny ever having done anything to my vehicle .Thanks Walmart I`m a single dad going through a divorce and living with my mom.hope you`re happy.

patrick.lonigan@pnl.gov

The Cookie Monster at Wal-Mart

when i used to work there i used to open a bag of cookies and take a bite out of one and put it back so if you got a bag like that it was me.

Walmart Likes Elbowing Boobs, Likes It Alot

Two recent hires. One of which is my girlfriend, the
other - another female; Alice.
Alice was being trained by this dude, Joe. Alice was experiencing Joe
elbowing her Boobs. Noticing that he continued to do it after dismissing the
first couple of times may have been by accident, she ask him to stop putting
his elbow in her boobs. He didn't stop like she asked and continued to elbow
her. She complained to the Walmart personnel in charge. They told her that
nothing can be done unless he is caught on their monitors. Word has it that
other female workers there have had experienced this problem with this dude.
He's still working there as my girl friend pointed him out to me.
The following day He tried to approach my girlfriend at the CSM podium and
he had alcohol on his breath.

In a month's time of my girlfriend working at walmart, she was
approached by walmart management after a robbery was committed. She was part
of their investigation suspicions. She just started working at walmart and
already she's in the lime light. She was unemployed and had no desire to go
to jail just because she started working there.

I wonder if walmart does
this to all their new hires? They should closely scrutinize their own long
timers who know the layout. She got herself cleared from suspicion yet didn't get an apology.

bobert@inbox.com

When you Hear the Siren, Proceed To The Bomb Shelter

I THINK YOUR DISCUSTING STUPID SITE. WALMART IS ALWAYS SHOUTED AT BECAUSE OF AMERICA. WE IN AMERICA EVERYONE IS JELLAS BECAUSE WER THE BEST. I'D PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE IF I WAS THERE WE WILL PROABALY BOMB YOUR SITE THAT"S HOW WE DEAL WITH YOU PEOPLE. OUR GOOD TROOPPS IN IRAQ THEY SHOULD BE FIGHTING YOU INSTED

generpatn@earthlink.net

Soon, We'll All Be Speaking Wal-Mart

I work at a Wal-Mart store in Canada. I can't say where exactly for obvious reasons. They'd probably have me killed if they knew who I was because of what I know. There is a plan that I know about.

I heard the manager talking one day. He was in his office and the door was open a bit. There was a man in a uniform with him. He was whispering about an invasion. They said they almost had the whole world done. He said it was only a matter of time because everyone would be one of them and the weak and unpure would be destroyed.

Yes, he kept saying, you are the leader. I understand. We will have them all soon. Yes, Mein Furor. I understand. Of course, Mein Furor.

I watched through the crack while they stood and saluted. Their arms shot up into the air. Then the manager opened a hatch in the floorboards and man in the uniform went down into it.

BillThe67@yahoo.ca

"I Hope God is Watching Walmart"

I WORKED FOR SAMS CLUB FOR THREE YEARS AND EVERY TIME I CAME CLOSE TO GETING MY BEIFITS THEY WOULD MOVE ME OR CHANGE MY HOURS SO I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO RECEIVE ANY!

THE MANAGERS IF YOU COULD CALL THEM THAT WERE A BUNCH OF THUGS WITH THE IQ OF A FLEA. I ONLY STAY THERE BECAUSE IT WAS LOCAL WHILE I WAS IN SCHOOL.

WILL LIKE SO MANY OTHER EX EMPLOES I WAS FIRED FOR SOME MADE UP SH-T ",NOT TAKING A 50LB BOX OF POTATOES OUT OF SOMEONES CART.

"I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY I HOPE GOD IS WATCHING WHAT SCAMS CLUB AND WALMART ARE DOING TO THERE WORKERS. I KNOW THIS MASSAGE JUST SOUNDS LIKE A DISGUSTED EX EMPLOYEE WELL YOUR RIGHT BUT BY NO MEANS AM I ALONE!.

avtx1300@verizon.net

Walmart Undermines Economy With Frivilous $6.87 Worthless Plastic Junk

It is one thing to compete, and it is another thing to play dirty.

Our company imports products from china, sells them to all independently owned stores, and last year we really got the shaft from Wal Mart. On a single day last fall during the peak shipping season we had containers coming out of china. Our shipping rep called us and told us the bad news.

Wal Mart held back a lot of their containers secretly, and then released 54,000 ocean containers in one day. Thats FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND! There is no reason in the world you would hold up your own shipments and let them all go at the last minute... Ok If you play like wal mart there is. They jammed up the shipping lines and tens of thousands of containers did not arrive by the Thanksgiving weekend to its competitors.

I had to pay and Extra $3700.00 to re-route our shipping from LA Port to Seattle, and go with the fastest ship there was to get our freight into the states prior to walmats D-Day landing of the ports. That is purely below the belt. They try to hurt their competitors.... Thousands of businesses did not get thier x-mas inventory from many vendors until mid december.

You think that was an accident? OK... lets back it up another year.

Walmart in the slow shipping season rents all the container axles they can find on the west coast. It's the slow season so all the shipping companies agreed to rent out their axles so walmart could do what ever it was they need to do with them. In the contract they had to be back by a certain date, or pay a penalty for each week they were not returned (of course there is much more to the contract but you get the idea). About November if you went our in the arizona desert you would have foudn thousands of container axles parked.

They paid the fees, and there were not near enough wheels to get shipments delivered out of ports. Once again... is this business or is this criminal? Just because it is legal does not make it right. Besides Each and every one of them have to answer to their maker, because the american people or so short term thinking that they cant see past the end of their nose.

Every ignorant wal mart shopper is casting a vote for lower standards for themself in America ultimately when they chose to set a standard of labor, price, and quality of life with each dollar they spend at wal mart.

Each dollar is a vote to lower the standard in America... the same wal martians will be screaming at the republicans when the economy colapses as but they undermined it themselves with a shopping cart. Get a Clue America. You are destroying the economy with your frivilous $6.87 worthless plastic junk from wal mart. I dont care if I have to spend ten times the price to shop at a company owned by americans....

Wal mart is NOT american. It is the 6th largest country in the world run like a medievil tryrancy of select nobility and 99.9% pesants!

WAKE UP AMERICA Dont feed the hand that bites you!!!!

Signed, Jason

Inside Information

We stole a box of blue vests and put them on mannequins. It was at last year's Christmas party. We dressed up the mannequins and got them drunk and we spit on them and bet them up.

A bunch of us at head office did this.

"That's what we think of you," said one of us. And the rest of us laughed and gave each other raises.

The one who smashed the most mannequins got the biggest promotion.

It was the most fun we had in ages. Then we all went to Church.

HelterSkelter@waltarts.com

Salvador Dali Clock

WAL-MART'S TIME PUNCH CLOCK RUNS SEPERARTLY FROM THEIR COMPUTER SYSTEM.

IT CAN BE AS MUCH AS 5MIN OFF AND MANAGEMENT IS TOLD NOT TO ADJUST IT.

WHEN AN EMPLOYEE PUNCHES IN THE CLOCK MAY SLOW DOWN SAY 4MIN DURING YOUR SHIFT. WHEN YOU PUNCH OUT AT THE END OF THE SHIFT YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE WORKED 8HRS.

IN THIS CASE YOU WORKED 8HRSAND 4MIN. YOUR PUNCHES SHOW 8HRS AND THATS WHAT YOU GET PAID.

YOU CAN BUY A $20 WATCH THAT WON'TLOSE 5MIN IN A YEAR. HOW MANY WAL-MART EMPLOYEES GET RIPPED-OFF EVERY WEEK?

Watshnout4u@aol.com

Sergeant Produce-- Typical Walmart Lifer

WE JUST RECIEVED FINE ASS MANAGER WHOM SPENT 20 YEARS IN THE MILITARY AND RUNS THE PRODUCE DEPT. WHERE I WORK LIKE HIS PLATOON.NOW WE HAVE TO DO ALL ASSIGNED DUTIES EVEN WAXING THE BACK ROOM FLOOR CONSTANTLY, WE HAD IT DIVIDED UP AMONGST ALL OF US AND IT WORKED FINE TIL HE SHOWED UP...

HE'S CONSTANTLY GIVING ONE"WORKER" ANY DAY HE WANTS OFF BUT NOBODY ELSE CAN HAVE A DAY OFF WHEN THEY NEED IT I HAVE NOT HAD A DAY OFF WITH MY WIFE IN 2 1/2 YEARS..THIS PLACE SUCKS THERE IS NO MORALE BUT WE MUST BE HAPPY,WHEN HE ARRIVED HE WORKED 2 WEEKS STRAIGHT WITHOUT A DAY OFF TYPICAL WALMART LIFER.

I HATE THIS PLACE WE KEEP VOICING ABOUT GOING UNION.

POMS55CHEVY@aol.com

"We don't usually put pretty girls on the parking lot."

Wal Mart is a company that severely mistreats its employees by denying them proper equipment, low pay, denial of benefits or working hours, and while they may be the world's biggest retailer, they are also the world's biggest liars!

When Wal Mart hired me, I had asked for a sales floor position and naturally, I was denied this. They made me a cashier instead and I was told in orientation that after 3 months I would be allowed to transfer to another department. There is the first lie. Once you are placed in that store, you have to fight tooth and nail to get out again. Especially if you're on the front end (cashiers, door greeters, cart pusher).

So I was a cashier for three months and it was the worst experience of my life! One night, my back started hurting me at work. I've popped a disc out before in my back, so I went and told the CSM's that my back was bothering me and I couldn't get anyone to come up and help me lift some really heavy stuff people were bringing through the line. I asked for a brace. I was told that cashiers didn't need back braces. I argued that I did because my back was going to go out.

They went to get me a brace. They never came back. My back went out and I could barely walk and I couldn't stand up straight at all. I began having panic attacks while working at Wal Mart as well. While I was on the registers, everyday before my shift began, I would get sick and throw up. I stayed nervous up there and I finally got to the point where I was starting to dislike people. I wanted to scream at them just because they came through my checkout line.

I had been a cashier for around 10 years before working there and NEVER have I felt that way.

Anyway, I finally snapped one day and started just flat out bawling in the store. I ran outside and sat against the building, trying to calm down. One of the girls that worked in seafood came out and sat with me and sort of talked me down. She has panic attacks too and apparently, so do half the people in the store. Management rolled their eyes at me when I asked to leave to go to the doctor. They said that I had no reason to have panic attacks and they can't understand why I would. They sent me home and said that even if I had a doctor's excuse, then it was an unexcused absence.

I finally got them to let me change jobs. I had to tell them that I would quit if they didn't let me change jobs. I told them that I would walk out right then. They told me that midnights is open and cart pusher. I have a child, I can't work midnights. I am a single mother. I told them that I would be a cart pusher.

They tried talking me out of this by saying, "We don't usually put pretty girls on the parking lot." This set me off. I told them that if they deny me that job because I am a woman then I would bring them to court and that I was sure that there were a lot of lawyers out there that would love to bring Wal Mart down for sexual discrimination. They let me go outside on the parking lot really fast.

Wal Mart hired me in under part time status, yet I worked 40 hours a week the whole time I was there. They would never give me full time.

My son began having trouble in school and at home, I think because his father and I were divorcing, so I needed to work dayshift so I could be home with my son in the evenings. I had also asked Wal Mart if I could have Sundays and Mondays off too, so I could go to church on Sunday and then Monday so I could run my errands. I really wanted Saturday, needed it for a church class, but they laughed at me when I asked.

So very suddenly, my hours dropped from 40 a week to 20 a week. Now, I suppose I was willing to deal with this for a little while, but I had a problem. I don't have a car. I rely on public bus to get to where I am going. Wal Mart scheduled me to work a couple hours a day, 5 days a week. It costs me 2 bucks one way to get to work, plus, I have bills I have to try to pay and food to buy... it just wasn't going to work. So I go to talk to management about it. I asked them if they could schedule me longer shifts during the week and just give me the extra day off. I told them why. They refused. They said home office doesn't allow them to do their scheduling this way.

I called home office and found out that I was being lied to. I began looking for another job in the tiny bit of free time that Wal Mart allowed me. Wal Mart, well my store, had a meeting a few months back that everyone was required to attend. In this meeting, we were told, by the store manager, that if we did not open our availability completely and let them schedule us to work whatever shifts and whatever days they wanted then we would be fired. This caused several people to walk out right there on the spot.

Someone called the newspaper about it and there was a huge write up about it. It was on the news as well. Customers began coming into the store to yell at management over this, especially after it was revealed that this rule did not come down from home office. None of the other stores had even heard of it. This new rule had come down from only the management in our store. Our store started to lose business and employees really fast then and they eventually had to change the rule back.

However, they will still punish you if you close your availability. You'll lose almost all of your hours and with the little crumbs they give you on your paycheck, it's impossible to live.

kaethe@verizon.net

Photos of Manager's Wife Training Associates

I work at Walmart store in Arkansas. the wife of the manager comes around here when he's not here and looks for him pretending she doesn't know he's not there. Well he isn't.

We all laugh about it because she always making hints about it. The yoiung ones she goes after most. She's always asking whose new there. There's a place where she takes them in the stockoom. She thinks no one is there but i got video of it on my cell phone.

I bet you want to know who it is, but I woint say a word more. I won't say which one. no way. HAHA

pornoking_53@hotmail.com

Promises, Promises: Needy Children Left Cold Because of Walmart

I had to close my t shirt business because they monopolized the Hanes T-shirts I was ordering and Hanes went and started selling exclusively to walmart... up to present day.

BUT most recently they have crossed the line with me.

They are closing our 'normal' Walmart store and moving 1 mile up the road to a "super center" I went in walmart during the final days before the move to purchase cotton fabric.

I sew blankets and give them to children in need though a non profit group, The store had a sign posted that they were no longer cutting fabric since the store was in transition.

The ONLY fabrics left in the store were their infamous 1.00/yard fabrics thrown in a large bin in the center of the fabric department. I went up front and asked "T" the store manager what would become of the fabric in the back. He said, "We are not moving that fabric to our new store it will be thrown away"

So I ask him to donate it to our non profit group, he agrees and says to call him in 2-3 days. I call as instructed to find out that "T" has mysteriously sprained his back and is on a medical leave for an undetermined amount of time.... So, I thought about this over night and decided to call the store again this morning, Spoke to another woman who said "Sorry 'T' is not in the store he is giving blood today"

So... I say "Well isnt that funny how if he is on pain meds for a back injury that he would be out giving blood", she transfered me to another manager who said... "Sorry we have no fabric left... I dont know what you THINK you saw but there are no fabrics left in the old store"...

Called back another time and the same manager "F" says... "Ohhh... sorry it was a misunderstanding... one of our nearby Walmarts came and picked up all of the 1.00/yard fabric and took it to their walmart store... SO. I say "bulls--t". They would rather throw fabric in a landfill than donate it to a 501(c) nonprofit and take a tax deduction, they prefer to leave empty vacant buildings in a town they sh-t on and left us with no other shopping choices.

We have no other fabric stores... they closed, Zayres, Hills, Ames, Tresaure Island, and on and on... No where left to shop and Wal mart would rather give someone in their community the run around than donate some crappy fabric... They can kiss my ass. I will pay 10 times what I have to for my products from now on . I will not set hand or foot near another walmart again.

CandiCaresORG@aol.com

Afro-americans or Caucasians Free To Steal at Walmart

I work in a 24/7 Walmart..Anyways...One night I was doing my work like usually(Stocking),and I see these 2 guys stealing and they knew I was watching them but still went ahead and shoved merchendise in their pockets and rushed for the door.I cut them off right after they go out the doors and told them not to to it again,

they left and cameback 10-20 mins later wanting to speak to the manager.So the manager came up to me ON THE SALESFLOOR and told me who was I to tell people what to do,specially afro-american people.I wasnt being a racist I was doing the right thing(At least I think so).I think he was the one who descriminated because he told me that because I'm Puertorican I can't tell Afro-american or caucasian or any race but prican not to steal.If I didn't see them it would be different because I would be acusing them but I actually saw them.

But Anyways I think Walmart needs to stop focusing so much on the costumer and care a little bit more for their "Assossiates" because we are the people that run walmart not some d-ckface in the main offices.We are employees and costumers.
WALTMART SUCKS

josuese@gmail.com

"Everytime some moron trips" How Walmart Works (Lesson #1)

Lets be specific. This letter is regarding the bangor maine wal-mart store.

I am an employee who has been with the company for several years. My gender isnt really relevant since were not seen as people most of the time anyway here. Dont get me wrong most of the staff are good friendly people and not all of our management is bad at all. However semi recently there was a company wide change to the system that produces our yearly bonuses.

For example we have our profit sharing bonus AND we have our safety expense bonus. Basicly if we sell enough goods or enough idiots manage to not fall down in our store and make us pay for it we actually get a bonus. However even the safety bonus is moreso based on bottom line profit than actual safety. And the safety team is just laughable.

Well.....when it was nearly time for our bonuses to arrive the company must have decided that they were too large and they could put that money elsewhere. So all of a sudden it changed just in time to nix both of our bonuses so therefore we got niether. At the store meetings the excuse we recieved was detailed in how the new system works etc and the store manager co manager and one assistant have all mentoned that it upsets them and that they would have liked to get bonuses themselves. So they went from there to make it sound like our fault for so many customer accidents and so many back injuries on the recieving team. Now on the subject of those back injuries.

There are very few members, usually 3-4 SOMETIMES 5 unloaders per night. And if everything isnt done specificly on time on many occasions every unloader gets written up. Many have been written up over 5 times and gotten d days over it. Its just corporate pressure to try to get them to quit to hire newbies for lower wages.

But the injuries come from being told to go faster and often carry several boxes at a time or you wont be done in time. To do team lift items themselves etc. And then when someone gets hurt the safety team has an orgasm and runs out to say how foolish they were to work that way. And managment nods behind them the whole time.

So that helped butcher the safety bonus due to this wonderful new system. Also we have 4 or possibly more workers in positions that by company standard are full time positions and these associates are working 40 hours per week and have been flat out told they will never be made full time. By state law after a certain amount of time passes working full time hours you HAVE TO be made full time and they are aware of this. At the week that that point is reached that associate will be scheduled for part time hours for that one week to break the cycle then restart it the following week. Anyways back to what i was saying before.

Everytime some moron trips on their own feet or doesnt watch their kid and it falls out of a cart or some kid throws a ball and hits another kid WE pay for it.

Now here is the bangor store specific part. Remember how i said managment was whining about how they wish they could have gotten a bonus?

A store manager at this location often would get a bonus of at LEAST $80,000 annually! Usually 100k or more from their own mouth this is confirmed. Well we found out where the bonus money REALLY went to. A couple of us were on our way to speak to managment and heard them talking and waited outside and listened to their meeting for a couple minutes.

The store manager still got an $80,000 bonus and each assistant manager who normally makes 25,000 a year salary was just upped to $50,000 in this area because of undesirable living conditions which basicly translates to the same winter that they lived through in this state their whole lives anyway. Most of the whole store knows now that we were lied to in the meetings and its not been mentioned by anyone in managment at all nor will it be im sure.
We cant talk about it in store because they will find a way to get rid of us if they hear it.

When that anti wal mart movie was released an unloader told me that they were told that if they talk about that movie they will be terminated on the spot. Several people have put in notice several more are going to shortly, and the company still wins because they will put some pimple faced kid in there for starting wage to work 25 hours a week. If you work in a wal-mart store sometime listen in on a managment meeting or two, you might be surprised what you learn.

There are much shadier things going on in this company, hell in this store, but as long as you remember to smile managment will never care enough to think you might know something.

Quick, Call Stephen King

This is totally creepy. There's a Wal-Mart just behind my house. One night a week ago I woke up and saw this red light on my ceiling. It was coming from the window. I went over there and looked out and the Walmart was on fire. All the windows red.

I woke my mom and we called the fire department. We watched out the window but when the fire department came they didn't do nothing. They went away again.

The red was still there in the windows. Me and my mom went out on the back yard. Maybe the sky was red my mom said and it was in the windows. It was almost MIDNIGHT. The sky wasn't red at all.

We had to go over because it was so weird. We got in the car in our pajamas and went up to the windows. There was red in there. Fire burning. But there was no smoke.

We were totally freaked out!!!! We went home and couldn't sleep. The next day we went over. It was Saturday and nothing was burnt. We just stood there looking around like we couldn't move.

The next night same thing happened again. We went over and looked in the windows. There were defanately flames everywhere but nothing burning up. But we saw something else. I did anyway. Mom says she never. There were little things floating around. They had faces that changed but they looked like babies. And they were screaming and crying.

I can't sleep now with that store glowing red all night.

PollyH56@Hotmail.com

Tearing Down That Sexy Smoke Shack

OK, IM SICK TO DEATH OF PEOPLE AGAINST SMOKEING. AT OUR STORE,WE THE EMPLOYEES THAT SMOKE,BUILT A (SMOKE SHACK) OUT OF OUR OWN POCKETS, AND IT WASNT CHEAP, WE HAD ELECTRIC, LIGHTS, HEATERS, AND A AIRCONDITIONER....

NOW...BECAUSE SOMEONE HAD SEX, IN A SMOKE SHACK ...AT ANOTHER STORE...,IN A DIFFERENT STATE..., WE WERE MADE TO TEAR DOWN OUR BUILDING! CRAP! THIS ISN'T FAIR. NOW WE ARE BACK TO TAKEING OUR BREAKS OUT IN THE WEATHER IE;RAIN,SNOW,AND ECT. AND ALL THE MONEY WE SPENT BUILDING THIS IS GONE, WASTED. ITS A DARN SHAME. WHY COULDN'T THEY JUST PUNISH THE THE PEOPLE THAT GOT CAUGHT.....

NOW WE HEAR THAT OUR SCHEDULES ARE GOING TO BE MESSED UP. FROM THE HOME OFFICE, WE WILL NOW HAVE COMPUTER GENERATED SCHEDULES. THIS WILL BE BAD FOR SOME AND GOOD FOR OTHERS. SOME WILL BE BOOTED OUT OF THE DEPARTMENTS THEY HAVE WORKED FOR YEARS. POOR SAM WALTON , WALMART USE TO BE A GOOD PLACE TO WORK WHEN HE WAS ALIVE. NOW ALMOST EVERYONE HATES WORKING THERE. IT IS NO LONGER A FAMILY . YOU CAN GET FIRED FOR ALMOST ANYTHING NOW. THERE IS NO RESPECT. THERE IS NO FUN. THERE IS NO CAREING...JUST GREED.

IM NOT LEAVEING MY STORE NUMBER OR NAME BECAUSE I CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE MY JOB. THANK YOU

DROSE1CM@aol.com

Wal-Mart Profits From Employee Death

My husband of 27 years was a Wal-Mart assistant mgr. for 10 years. The last 4 years of his life he was working 75-80 hr weeks not the 52hrs he was hired at. Wal-Mart had started seriously short staffing their stores and the workload became horrible.

The last 3 days of Mike's life I didn't see him as he had worked close to 48 hrs .

On Sept. 1999 Mike called 3 times for assistance with a large tv for a lady customer, no one was available to help. Mike took the tv out and loaded it by himself. He got 20 feet back inside the store where he had a massive heart attack from over exertion.

Mike was only 48 and had passed a physical and stress test just 5 months earlier. I took Wal-Mart to court under NH workman's comp laws and won showing his death was work related.

Last spring my attorneys told me that WAl-Mart had a secret life insurance policy on my husband with Hartford Ins. in the amount of $300,000 which they had collected on shortly after my husband died. In l993-94 Wal-Mart took out 350,000 secret life insurance policies on low level employees who also had their health insurance with them. They called these policies dead peasant policies or dead janitor policies.

When an employee died WAL-Mart collected, not the families. I was shocked and outraged.

My husband never knew Wal-Mart had a large insurance policy on him. If he had known he would have been so scared. He would have said they hope to kill a few of us off and profit from it. This is immoral and wrong. The # l Fortune 500 company had to help get there by profiting from the deaths of some of their employees. Sam Walton would be so ashamed of what happened to his company.

My husband was a wonderful man, a king, not a peasant. Just the words dead peasant and dead janitor tells you what Wal-Mart thinks of their low level employees.

The American public is becoming aware that Wal-Mart has a dark side, a very dark side, which is fueled by their greed and wanting control of the retail world. If you know of WAl-mart employees who died from l993-Jan. 2000 their families should contact the union to see if there is a classaction suit in their state on the dead peasant insurance policies.

There are families out there who lost loved ones and Wal-Mart made money on it. I am now the lead plantiff in a NH classaction suit against WAl-Mart and the life insurance companies involved. My sons and I are upset and feel betrayed by WALmart.

Please let Wal-Mart know that it is wrong to put secret life insurance policies on employees and profit from deaths.

Thank you

vrice@gwi.net

what females they wanted to get rid of

Hi, for the last ten years I have been working for Walmart. I started in south Florida, where the customers are scary. Looking at someone the wrong way can get you cut, shot or sued.

A little over a year ago we decided to move to north Florida. The people here are great, I can't tell you how many times I've had some one hold out their hand when I'm standing up or grab for something I dropped while on the ladder. It's too bad that the managers at this store are the worst I've every seen. Morning after morning I come in to my department to find freight in bugies and break packs all over my department.

Management says such wonderful things like "guess you better get busy then." or when my endcaps had been filled with another departments merchandise. "yeah and guess whose gonna fix it"

Yes we have some real funny managers at my store. The men managers that is. After inventory they were so proud of themselves that the store manager, the male co-manager, as well as three of the male assistant managers went to the bar and drank while the female co and female assistant worked at the store. This is also the same "meeting" that they decided what females they wanted to get rid of out of the store. Yes we are all having a great time at Wally World

hemingwaykitty57@yahoo.com

American Bank of Walmart Issues Non-Negotiable Currency

from a former costomer. i went to wal-mart and purchased a money order for $259.39 for a car payment.

the buy-here-pay-here place would not take it cause it was from walmart, no local bank would take it or check cashing place would take it, so i tried to take it back to wal-mart and to my surprise they would not take back there own sh--t. yes i have a reciet and i did not write on it

joe2214020@yahoo.com

This just in: Walmart Rewrites Bible-- The New Ten Commandments

I am a vendor for an outside company.

I go to several Wal-Mart stores, 3 to 4 times a week. And as many of you may know, you can't get anywhere near some of these stores without a "Vendor Badge", I hate wearing these things, mainly because the mindless idiots who shop there can't read, or realize my name isn't "Vendor", and continually ask me where the tampons or dog food is.

So Today, go into the backroom to get my product (they let us keep the backstock in the backroom), and the Receiving Manager calls me by my product's name, and asks me to "look-over and sign" Wal-Mart's Ten Commandments.

For starters, this woman is a bundle of words that I probably shouldn't use. I looked over the document and signed it, and have done nothing but kick myself since. Not only do I not really have any authority to sign ANYTHING, but it makes a total mockery of "The Ten Commandments". It was a load of crap about keeping the shelves my product sits in clean, and keeping work space neat. And let's not forget number 10, Keep Energy Levels High. Eeech. First off, I didn't get hired by my boss to clean Wal-Mart shelves, and I don't get paid to be a jackass like Wal-Mar workers.

To top off the afternoon, as I was returning my product to the backroom, I took of my "Vendor Badge", the receiving manager asked where it was, after she watched me take it off. I showed it to her, and asks if it's broken or not working, I told her, no I just took it off, and she told me I needed to wear it at all times, I ignored her and left.

You may think I have a bad attitude, but let me tell you, this kind of thing happens all the time, it gets old. I can't stand looking at these people who have worked there for over 10 years, wearing their silver badges, so proudly, like they are soemthing special. What can you be proud of?

If I worked at Wal-Mart for one year, much less 10, I would eat a bullet.

--I prefer to keep my name and E-mail off this message for obvious reasons.

Walmart Special Olympics for Employees

hahaha this isnt exactly a horror story, more like something to laugh at b/c its so f-ing stupid.

well, i work at this walmart in westminster, md, and ive been there for about 3 months and so far everything is going pretty smoothly (from the stories ive been reading on your website, it looks like things could possibly get worse at my walmart), and about two months ago we had this new assistant manager start working at walmart. apparently he was about to be fired from the hampstead walmart for his incompetence, but instead he was just transferred to ours (thanks hampstead).

but anyways, there are a couple retarded moments for me to speak of. for example, around the time he started working there, he was working on a register behind mine (i was on 7, he was on 5), and while i was working and doing my cashier thing, he comes up behind me with a check in his hand and asked "which way does it go in?" he of course was referring to the autocheck. now excuse me for choice of words, but why the f--k should a lowly cashier as myself be needing to school an assistant manager on how autocheck works?

hell, even like 5 minutes later he needed me to guide him through the debit process. i was only there for about a month at that time and i picked up the whole cashiering thing fairly quickly considering they hired me with no cashiering and customer service experience, and i showed him how it was done like it was nothing. now im no genuis or anything, but shouldnt an assistant manager pretty much know the store inside out?

he also has a temper that he needs to learn to control, b/c from what ive been told, he's actually yelled at associates for being late for their breaks, when the situation at hand was way beyond their control. associates dont always get their breaks on time, and when things get really busy, sometimes they dont get their breaks for a good while.

i dont mind this b/c the later i get my breaks, the sooner i get the hell outta there. its not the associates fault that they got their break late, b/c if they just decided to get up and take their break instead of having the break given to them, they could get written up for stealing company time. and last but not least, what kind of sorry excuse for an assistant manager cant even lock the front doors of the store? oh yeah, i forgot to mention, the hampstead walmart that he worked at wasnt half as busy as the westminster walmart is.

thats almost like moving a special olympics contestant to the real olympics.

iamfuctup@hotmail.com