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2012-01-07T21:00:00.001-03:30

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Walmart Violates Prescription Privacy Policy

2012-01-06T21:50:00.000-03:30

The clerk handed my prescriptions to the pharmacist in the consultation area, where the pharmacist proceeded to discuss each of my medication with me.

I told him to stop. I told him that other people were standing behind me and my rights to privacy were being violated.

I demanded that he stop and said that I did not want this, and he only continued.

He (the pharmacist) then said that this was the Wal-Mart policy and that he was following his instructions and that he was being videotaped to insure that he complied.

I then ask to speak to the manager, her name was Carla, and again explained the utter embarrassment that I had just been put through. I explained that I did not want this public disclosure of my private health information, and she said I had no choice.

So now Wal-Mart disrespects the dignity of a person.

At this point I am looking into contacting my insurance company and HIPPA to determine what can be done to stop Wal-Mart from any further publicly disclosing my medical and prescription information.

Walmart Helping with Terrorist Money Laundering while Firing the Wrong Guy

2011-12-03T18:00:00.000-03:30

I worked at Walmart as a Customer Service Manager. I was giving an associate at the service desk her lunch break. A customer came in to send a money gram to Canada in the amount of $5000.

When attempting to send the money gram,Money Gram, would only allow her to send $1999.99. So I asked another CSM that previously worked full time at the service desk why it was telling me that. She said if she broke it down into separate transactions then she would be able to send the full amount.

So she decided to send 3 different amounts. I asked who she was sending the money to and she said she was sending it to her family. So I sent the transactions for the customer, filled out the back of each of the money gram papers like I was supposed to do, and the customer left.

When the associate I was giving lunch break to, came back, I asked if there was anything else I needed to fill out, and she said no, I did everything the way I should have. This associate was a full time associate that has worked at the service desk for 5-6 years.

Two weeks later I was called to our Asset Protection Office. When in the office the Asset Protection Manager, my Assistant Manager, and my Zone Manager, were there. I was asked if I remembered about the transactions that I had sent two weeks earlier. I told them that I had sent a few different ones that day. So I was shown the ones for this specific customer and I told them yes,I remember. He asked if I filled out and faxed a specific form, which I had never seen before,and I told them that Iwas unaware of any forms other than filling out both sides of the money gram as I had been trained. I also informed them that I had asked the full time associate at the service desk, and she said that there wasn't anything that I needed to fill out except the back of the money gram paper.

I was then informed that the customer had been under investigation for money laundering and they had no choice but to let me go,and informed me that they weren't going to charge me, for a felony offense. In my opinion filling out a money gram for a customer is a simple service that Walmart offers and we do every day, and there is nothing felony about taking care of a customer as we were trained.It seems to me that if a customer was being investigated, that Walmart employees should not be put in the middle of such an ongoing circumstance and the employees job should not be put on the line.

Walmart should have banned the lady from sending money and not put me in the middle of it. By not informing us of the investigation, it seems to me that Walmart is a part of the problem and not the solution, Walmart and this lady are laundering money, and I am terminated in the process. I was startled when being informed by my employers that Walmart knew this lady was laundering money to terrorists activities and allowed her to do it. Not only that, they are compromising their employees.

I should not have been terminated and the service desk employee that misinformed me, was a part of the investigation, and should have been terminated instead of me, for lying. In a normal working environment, I would have been taken into the office and updated on any moneygram procedures, and not even a reprimand of any sort, my supervisors should have been (terminated) for being involved in this, and Walmart should be closed down for money laundering. I have been informed that this lady is still actively sending money to Canada in large amounts.

Walmart Secretly Stealing from Employees

2011-11-23T15:35:00.000-03:30

I've been working with Walmart for around three years in asset protection. In that time; I've had some great success in the execution of any duties requested, I've received a number of awards in recognition thereof, and fostered a good relationship with the staff of my district. So to say my degree of professional anguish is founded is like saying Santa Claus has a pointy red hat...

This tale of woe begins approximately one year ago, I executed an arrest on a subject that became violent, so I opted to place the accused into hand restraints. Long story short the accused bled all over me. The RCMP advised me that I should go to the hospital for a blood-borne-pathogen test, Canadian health care as it is had me wait for an additional 3 hours for treatment. After my blood was sent to the lab I was released. I then returned to my store and "swiped" out.

The following morning I was greeted by one of the districts "People's" managers, (HR Gestapo) she advised me that she thought it theft to pay me for waiting in a hospital room for injury treatment sustained on the job. I advises her she would pay.

Immediately proceeding this incident, I discovered an associate stealing and conducted a lengthy investigation. This investigations format made it impossible to take a lunch breaks during my observation period, only conclusion was to work through my lunch break, and not work the hours when the subject wasn't working. On payday I was greatly disappointed to discover that the HR Gestapo automatically deducted an hour each day for lunch breaks, forcing me to loose two days pay per week.... After another war, the HR advised me that they would stop the hourly deductions (however failed to back pay the hours deducted).

All was quiet on the Walmart front until 4 months ago when I discovered that they were not paying me for "time adjustment cards" (Manuel method for payment when at a different store). Wage War Two started. At the conclusion I was paid in full what was "misplaced". However I must follow up constantly to insure payment for a days work.

Fast forward to today. I returned from vacation to discover one time adjustment card for 5 hours was not entered, and that I am short two days pay for my vacation.

I am now planing on leaving the company, post haste, as I grow weary of these pay games.

If I ever meet the CEO, I will ask "how do you expect to run a corporation when your staff is burning productive time insuring they get paid".

Walmart Managers Abuse Employee with Militant Tactics

2011-11-01T12:26:00.000-02:30

I worked as a cashier for Wal-mart for just under 3 months when I was called into the back office. A front end manager told me I was to be corrected on my behavior because I left the gated area of the cash register that sold cigarettes in order to tidy the check out lanes that no one else bothers to tidy.

It was a few minutes before closing and there were no customers in the store. I was never told I wasn’t allowed to leave that area.

The manager began screaming at me with the same harsh tone a mother would use with a child who had severely misbehaved. I attempted to speak up but I could not.

Every time I opened my mouth to speak, she would raise her voice and cut me off. I had sat there for about 10 minutes being screamed at and had not been allowed to speak once. The office was the size of a medium sized bathroom and there were 2 other managers in there with us overseeing. I began to get extremely frustrated and upset and began to cry a bit.

At that time I stood up and informed that manager that I had PTSD and have panic attacks when I felt threatened or when I was under extreme stress and that I would like to step out and have a breather, then resume this “meeting”.

She looked at me in shock and said “No you may not leave. You have to stay here until I’m done.”

I said “Just a minute please I won’t leave the store or anything, you can watch me and I’ll come right back”

She said “No you cant” And as I turned towards the door I noticed the large male manager standing in front of it. I immediately went into a panic attack.

After a couple minutes of hyperventilating I began to black out and fell to the floor. The managers stood over top of me discussing what I was doing, whether I was acting or faking it and if any of them was aware that I had a condition.

Twice they asked if I wanted an ambulance, both times I said yes, and then a third time I asked for an ambulance myself. Finally I was reduced to saying “help me I cant breathe” over and over again.

Finally after a few more minutes (About 10 minutes total since the panic attack started) they opened the door and I made a hazy dash for it. I ran out of the store and down the sidewalk, dizzy, lightheaded and blinded since I had lost my glasses in the commotion. I ran for my life.

The store manager chased me down the street for over a mile. I was begging and pleading with her to leave me be, telling her she could clock me out, I was over 18 years old, and past my time to leave at the end of shift. She wouldn’t quit following me.

I had to run through a swamp which she refused to cross in order to escape and I called my friend and spent the night with him. I was afraid to even tell my mother where I was (they called her) because I was so afraid she would tell someone from walmart and they would come looking for me.

During my panic attacks I become afraid for my life and feel like it is being threatened even if it is irrational, while I was running from the manager, I outpaced her enough to start to feel more comfortable and explained this to her when I was begging her to leave me alone. I told her it would help calm me down, she sped up and as she got closer the panic started coming back and that was when I ran for the swamp.

The next day I received a phone call saying I was being fired for gross misconduct and they’d like me to come in for an exit interview. I went with my friend at my side.

They explained to me that I should have told them about my medical condition when I was hired because now they have no proof it actually exists.

Even though it said right on their application that they are not allowed to ask me questions about medical conditions and I do not have to disclose them. It had been over a year since my last one and I never thought working as a cashier would put me in a position to have one.

She told me they would waive the 3 month period I must wait in order to be rehired at walmart because of the special circumstances and I could begin work at another location immediately.

A year later with no job I became desperate and finally applied at another walmart location. That’s when I found out that not only did they not waive the 3 month period but they banned me from ever working at walmart again. I put on my applications now that I have no job experience because I don’t want to have to explain this situation to my future employers.

Getting Even with Walmart, Let the Ice-cream Melt

2011-10-19T12:18:00.000-02:30

Here’s a tip for all you Walmart malcontents and here is what I do. Often I’ll go into the Walmart here in Rocky Mount, NC, for some Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream and a few other snacks.

When I get to the cash and I see there’s only one cashier with a line-up of 50 people, I just leave the stuff on an empty cashier station and calmly walk out of the store and go up the street to Aldis (P.S. There’s never a line-up at the cash at this store.)

I know it’s small satisfaction, but I like to picture the ice cream all melted and dripping and some Walmart employee scratching their head as to what the hell happened. Well, what happened was some of the poorest service in America, that’s what! Seriously, I would recommend you all go and stack up on ice cream, and if they’re too busy to serve you, then just leave it all out in the open. Who knows, maybe somebody someday will get the message.

Wal-mart Pharmacist Doesn't Care If Customer Dies

2011-10-01T08:45:00.002-02:30

Well let me explain my situation. Im a 32 year old male Type 1 Diabetic, and I've not had any kind of health insurance for about a year and a half now so naturally, i can't afford my insulin so I'm forced to take an, "over the counter" insulin for the past year now, and its seems to do ok for me, and gets the job done.

Well, I learned a while back that Walmart actually sells my OTC insulin way cheaper than any other pharmacy around (literally half the price) so I've been going to Walmart pharmacies for my insulin for quite a while now. Well, sunday morning i realized that my vial was almost empty, so naturally, i knew i had to get up to Walmart to get my insulin at some point in the day before 6:00PM because thats when they close on Sundays.

I showed up at Walmart at 5:45 and as i was walking thru the store, nearing the pharmacy, i noticed that the shudders/gates had already been pulled down and the pharmacy was closed early. Well, i walked up the the shudders and could plainly see a pharmacy employee standing inside, well, just standing there doing nothing. So i said "Sir, i don't know why you're closed early today, but i really need my insulin" seeing as I'm a diabetic, there really is no way around it, i HAVE to have it.

He just said "sorry, we're closed" and i said "well sir, i know your business hours, and its not 6PM yet, so please just give me a vial of my insulin, this is basically considered a life or death situation to say the least" and while I'm saying this, he just shuts all the lights out in the back, as if this makes him just disappear, like he thought then i couldn't see him, when i could still see him plain as day standing there, and he just ignored me! So then i say "sir, the insulin i need isn't even a prescription grade insulin, all you have to do is hand it to me, and i can just pay for it up front, which is how I've actually done it many times before." In the past when I've bought my insulin at the pharmacy, and they see i have more shopping to do, they just give me the box and i pay for it up at the front registers with the rest of my items.

Well, he just continued to ignore me. It appeared as if he was just standing back there, watching the clock, waiting for 6 O'clock, on the dot, so he could bounce out of there. Then i seen him going out the door at the back of the pharmacy, so i walked around to him, and it looked like i caught him off guard the way he spun around from trying to lock up, and i continued to beg and plead with him to please just give me a vial, and let me just pay for it up front, and that if he didn't give it to me i'd end up in the emergency room, or worse.

He couldn't care less about me or my insulin, that was obvious, and just said "Go tell the store manager, I'm off now" so i told him ok, thats what we'll do. So as we were walking, basically side by side towards the front of the store, he actually started SPRINTING and cut down an isle, and bolted straight out the front door! I was blown away..i really couldn't believe someone could act in such an unprofessional manner! So, i made it to the service desk and got a manager and explained to her what just happened, and she said she was so sorry, and told me to come with her to talk to the pharmacist.

When i told her he had already left the store, she looked at her watch and even said "how could he already be gone? its just now 6 o'clock." And i told her, yeah, i told you he closed up shop early, and basically told me to "go get screwed" Well, needless to say, the manager could do nothing for me and just apologized for the pharmacists behavior. Well, i went home for the evening, with no insulin, and the nightmare slowly began…Let me tell ya,

Being a diabetic and not taking your insulin for a day and a half is NOT A GOOD IDEA. I was up all night, getting sicker, and sicker. By morning, i was so sick i couldn't even move, and basically Diabetic Ketoacidosis started to set in, and I've never been so sick in my ENTIRE LIFE. I was convulsing and throwing up harder and worse than i ever have in my life. It was horrible. I could barely walk, let alone remain coherent.

My fiancé had to call off work for the day and go straight and get me my insulin that morning. I basically started going into shock. Things got real bad, real quick. I could have went into a coma, or way worse. After she gave me my insulin shot, and got me calmed down, and i quit throwing up, after so many hours i slowly started to come back around, and we avoided calling 911(which everybody i know is giving me hell because i didn't), and i could have died from this completely avoidable incident.

As of right now, my family is going to take me to the local ER tomorrow morning so i can get treated and probably admitted so they can try to get my levels back on track, and have some tests done to check the damage thats been caused.

I just really wanted to share my story with everybody so they know what caliber of people Walmart hires to work in their pharmacies. I can't fathom how someone could possibly be qualified to work in a pharmacy when they have no concept whatsoever of the importance of insulin to a diabetic…Its scary to even think about really.

2011-08-13T23:11:00.000-02:30

Walmart says: "Not Currently Scheduled" Until You Starve to Death

2011-07-12T23:21:00.000-02:30

Worked at Walmart for about a year, my fiance started shortly after. We had just signed a lease on a duplex and contracts for utilities etc and got our first place together. I have worked on my credit for a long time now.

A couple of months ago I injured my back at work causing me to miss quite a bit of time. When I returned for full duty I seemed to return to a passively hostile work environment. My manager began scheduling me for lower and lower hours. Then my schedule began changing late in the evening after I had left without any notice. Luckily I had email alerts on and my phone would chime. Well I was scheduled off on a Monday. Made plans to drive down and visit my parents. After already leaving that day I checked my email on some down time and found an email from 11:45pm telling me my schedule had changed. Well, no big deal it's happened a lot recently. I check my schedule and they had changed my schedule to say I was supposed to be there at 7am that day(Monday) which of course caused me to miss the day.

After this incident my schedule changed again that night. The previously current week and both future posted weeks read "Not Currently Scheduled". I called them and asked if I was fired. They told me no and I left it at that and began searching for a new job. A few weeks went by and no new job, but I still get new schedules saying "Not Currently Scheduled". I called and asked if this was an attempt to let me go. The manager I talked to said he knew nothing of the situation and that I am currently still an employee. A month later and not able to pay our bills and savings gone I file for unemployment. By "coincidence"(I believe retaliation) my fiance's manager approached her the day after the request happened and told her she is getting an involuntary vacation. We checked her schedule and for the foreseeable future she is "Not Currently Scheduled". She tries very hard at work and is very passive and quiet and doesn't backtalk. (I am an ***hole when angered) They have absolutely no reason to dismiss her she is a good employee. They tell her today they can't schedule her because they don't have the hours available, but recently hired 2 new people for her department and gave them the hours that they used to give her.

As a result we are now unable to pay our bills and my credit that I have worked my entire adult life to keep pristine is about to take a HUGE hit. I have contacted a lawyer, and he informed me there is nothing we can do and it is a form of "Constructive Termination". Basically they keep you hired until you either quit or find a new job so that you can't file unemployment against them. As a result my unemployment has just been a giant fight and it doesn't look like it's going to happen. We are going to lose everything we have worked for, because of Walmart and how it cares for it's employees and their well-being.

Walmart, Where We Throw Your Paycheque at You

2011-05-25T07:52:00.000-02:30

I have been working at WalMart for a little over a month now and I just got my paycheck last week. It was half of what I actually earned! They didn't add the 30 hours I worked to my paycheck.

I have been relying on unemployment because of this and now unemployment is on my ass saying that they may have overpaid me! I was quite shocked to get the letter and I hope that they understand my situation but that's only half of the problem with how WalMart has treated me.

I asked my Front End Manager when new people get paid and she said that the checks should be in personnel.

I followed one of the other front end guys to personnel and called Accounting. The guy with me said that Accounting was busy and that they would be here shortly and told me to wait for them. 10 minutes go by and a manager comes in and starts yelling at me saying WHAT ARE YOU DOING BACK HERE DOING NOTHING?! WHY AREN'T YOU UP AT THE FRONT?! HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BACK HERE?

I explained that my manager had sent me back here for my paycheck and that I had been back here 10 minutes. She of course didn't believe me and called Accounting. She talked to the wrong person and had a "Gotcha" look on her face. She practically threw my paycheck at me and said "HERE! NOW GET BACK OUT THERE!"

God forbid I actually get paid what little I did get! She treated me like I was some kind of ingrate and that I should be grateful for having a job! I told my manager and she said don't worry about it. Gee thanks.

You don't know pain and despair until you have worked at WalMart. Their latest commercial of "successful" associates is absolute BS!

Walmart Cuts Employee Hours, Hires New People at Cheaper Wages

2011-05-02T07:41:00.004-02:30

My Wife has worked for walmart for over 13 years . She works10 PM to7 AM 5 nites a week . For the last month about two hrs before she is to go in walmart's manger will call and tell her not to come in.they say they have to cut the stores hours now this is a beach store cut hours( bulls--t)

If the store savr money the mangers get's a bonus .. how here's the catch they hired ten new people at lower pay this came from a manger i talked to at the store one nite..so thanks to walmart we mite have to give up something ,she brings in the only income to our house .

i've been looking for a job for over a year and havent found any thing .even had an interview at walmart but I didn't meet the requirements .. SO THANK YOU WALMART FOR HELPING AMERICAN PEOPLE WHEN THINGS ARE SO HARD FOR PEOPLE HOW.

Walmart Has No Respect For Veterans

2011-03-15T11:17:00.003-02:30

I was a Walmart Associate for about 6 months, and this was the second time i have worked for Walmart. This all started when i first started to work for walmart. I am a disable United States Marine Veteran, who fought for my nation and got injuried in the line of duty.

Well i went to the managers and asked them what type of paper work i needed to bring them to be accomadated for my disability. They told me that i could not be accomadated for the disability because i haven't been with walmart for 90 days. that is complete and utter BS, and i told them about the americans with disability act, and they said that i still needed to be with walmart for 90 days.

Then i asked to be transfered to a different store and thats where everything went down hill.

After arriving at the new store, i asked them what paperwork i needed for my disability and they again told me i have to be with the store for 90 days before i can be accomadated. I got mad and went home early that day. Then about three weeks ago, i went to a manager that happens to be a veteran as well. He told me that he'll put me on self check out, since it was much easier for me to be them then a regular register.

After he went on vacation, all the CSM (customer service managers) refused to go by that and threw me on other registers. I then went to the store manager and told him that i was about to quit. He and i sat down and began talking. After we got done, he changed my availibility to the hours i want effective immediately.

Then he was transfering me to a different department, one where i wouldn't have to deal with the registers anymore.

Well Last night, Tuesday, March 15, 2011, was my first day in the new department, and so i had a lot to learn and not very much time to do it in. The manager over the cashiers told me that i had to be on a register and not in my new department, so i asked how was i suppose to learn my department if i'm on a register. She threw an attitude with me and I am sorry, i don't take attitudes from someone that worked for walmart their entire life very well.

I told her that i was going back to my department and i was going to continue to learn it. This manager then called for another manager to handle the situation, because she couldn't handle it herself. I told them that i was done, i turned in my badge and i left. i am now out of work and i have noticed that with being out of walmart for less then a day, my stress level has dropped tremendously.

Your Baby's Sick! Who Cares. Wal-mart Punishes You Anyway.

2011-01-15T16:28:00.000-03:30

walmart could careless about anything. i went on leave to have a baby yes i was gone 5 months. After i had the baby i had my gall blatter out. Not tosay that three days after the baby came my grandma passed away. When I called to tell them the person that answered the phone could care less thy said aren't you on leave any way. Well when I come back a few weeks ago the manger team tells me they have to cut my pay because i was a supvisor in the deli and they had to replace me. now they only have part time openings. Not to say that my store manger had all ready singed off on my change of hour sheet that they could not give me anyess or any more then 40 hours a week. walmart is only out for themself. the peson who got my job misses work and does nothing i the store. I bust my ass every day i am there. i will get writen up i am sure tomorrow i called in today b/c my baby is sick.

We Don't Care if Our Employees Bleed to Death or are in Pain. Wal-mart's Secret Doctor Gives You The Drug Test First.

2010-09-06T16:31:00.000-02:30

A part of working in the deli is to throw out expired meats and other deli items. This one particular day I had to grab a partner to throw out an entire rack full of prepped raw whole chickens that were meant for the rotisserie. They went a day over their freshness in the fridge and by policy, had to go down the garbage chute to the compactor. My partner and I head back with the rack to the always disgusting garbage chute. This brand new building was outfitted with the worst chute design possible. The angle at which it tilts down into the compactor did absolutely nothing to aid in items sliding down effortlessly. So, we always had a very nasty industrial broom to shove things to the end of the chute. That day, the broom was missing.

My partner grabbed a square-shaped 10ft. long pole discarded from some sort of display to use instead. We had already dumped the mass of chickens in and let them glide down to their usual stopping point. I was a good distance behind my partner, squatting down and pulling the plastic sheet back over the empty rack when he reared back with the pole to get a good "oomph" into the shove down the chute. As he reared back, the pole flexed downward and the end of it cracked me in the top of the head.

Just like in cartoons, my vision went blinding white then white stars speckled my vision for a good five seconds before I staggered to my feet. I was in shock and started doing a zombie-shuffle back to my department, blood oozing from my scalp to my forehead. Some form of management intercepted me and brought me to the back office. I remember being sat down and thinking surely I was going to the hospital right up the road. Literally, the hospital was five minutes away. Instead of calling an ambulance, you know in case I had a concussion or worse, I was loaded into a manager's personal car.

As I clutch a bundle of paper towels to my head, I watch in horror as we pass the hospital. I think I questioned the manager then, asking where we were going. She said I was going to "their" doctor where I had my initial drug test, located an unsettling 15-20 minutes away. In pain, all I could do was sit there and go for the ride.

I get there, fill out a paper, and wait with my manager at my side amongst the other people getting drug tests or other tests required by employers or probation officers. Finally, I get called back to see the doctor. By then the bleeding had stopped but it was still painful. He parted my hair and shined a light on it. I was thinking I'd need stitches because the pole had been squared and the corner hit me. He put an antibacterial gel on it instead, and told me that it was a minor contusion of the scalp. And by the way, he recommended someone to watch me for the rest of the night just in case of concussion.

I received the rest of the day off and another day after that. Then back to work!

A week later, I get sat down in the manager's office once more. This time they had paperwork for me to fill out. Basically I was told to write a brief summary of the accident and then below that, describe how not to do it again.

That's right, I have to explain on paper how to avoid this from happening ever again.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe minding my own business a (supposedly) safe distance away from the other person yet somehow getting cracked in the skull by someone else.. is my fault.

I never heard another word about it from management since the day I had to write those two paragraphs. I worked for Walmart a few more months after that then quit. To this day, I have a small, scarred lump in that spot on my scalp. If pressure is applied to the scar in any way, the nerves ache as if I'd just been whacked in the head. Thanks, Walmart. I have a permanent reminder of my horrible time employed there.

Wal-Mart Couldn't Care Less About Child Abduction

2010-08-30T09:53:00.000-02:30

I was at the front end at the register when a woman came over and pointed out a little girl crying near the entrance who said she'd lost her mom.

I paged for a manager to do a Code Adam and kept an eye on the girl. None of the other cashiers looked like they were paying attention.

While we were waiting on managment, another woman (who wasn't her mother) walked up to the little girl and asked if she was lost, then picked the girl up and started to walk out of the store with her (the girl started crying louder when she was picked up).

Other women ran over to the cashier at self checkout and told him to do something, and he just responded "I'm busy here, you need to wait on the manager".

After this I walked over to the entrance and told the woman to stop (the door greeter hadn't cared either) and just at that moment the girl's mother came up to the entrance relieved to see her.

The other woman who had grabbed the girl looked embarrassed and quickly left the store (yes this literally happened).

The manager paged for the code ADAM didn't get there until after all of this, and when she did the mother started yelling at her about how I was the only one in Walmart who gave a damn about the little girl being carried out of the store by a stranger (sweet) and that she wanted to file a formal complaint with upper management.

The manager she talked to told her she'd "take care of it right away", and as soon as the customer left she just went back to her shift (and didn't thank me for anything BTW). The guy at self checkout then came up to me laughing and told me the woman was an idiot for being so hysterical.

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2010-08-15T23:00:00.000-02:30

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Seeking a Lawyer in Texas to Sue Wal-mart

2010-03-01T09:42:00.000-03:30

I am asked by a friend to pursue help in a personal injury case that occurred on the edge of walmart property in beaumont, tx around december due to improperly designed exit driveways around walmart where cars can injure pedestrians and put people on foot in harms way.

i can provide further police report, medical bill invoices, personal statement upon request.
jon bastian

lawyers contact: jabastian (at) lvprco (dot) com

At Wal-Mart, We Know You'd Rather be With Us Than Your Children on Christmas

2009-12-24T11:17:00.000-03:30

I have worked with WM for 12 years, and this place just never gets any better.

We are considered a training store where they send all this disfunctionals to practice being pushing and obnoxious.

We have just about 200 workers which is not alot compared to SuperCenters, we're just a basic WM. In August I was digusted to celebrate 12 years with them, I only make $11 an hour by the way for 12 years worth.

There is about 30 people that have been at this store since it opened in 1990. Since I have been there, we have went through 6 store managers and numerous assistant managers.

But here recently within the past 2 years we have been hounded and spied on by all of our managers expecially one in particular which is called a support manager.

We smoke and so does this person.

We go to work at 7 am and take a 15 min break at 9 am around 11 am we run back and grab another cigerette and then go to lunch at 12 pm to 1 pm and then take a second break at 2:30 pm and go home at 4 pm.

We see no problem in this as long as we are doing our work and managing our departments.

But they have been spying on us and timing us on our breaks and watching us on cameras. We are people that has worked with this company for ever, I mean 12 and 15 years worth of our lives and we can't even grab an extra small break without being hounded.

By the way, that support manager, she is in there smoking everytime we are and nothing is said to her. This is how you are appreciated at Wally World.

Give them everything and they give you nothing but harassment in return. I have small kids that have been born since I started working there, I have never had a Christmas Eve or the day after Christmas with them, never!

I hate this place and just wish I would have went to college so I would have a choice of where to work.

Thanks for listening.

Injured? It's Always Your Fault at Wal-Mart

2009-12-24T11:03:00.000-03:30

In the state of Ohio Walmart is a "self-insured employer". What this means is that if a employee is injured on the job, that Walmart will pay out of pocket all the medical bills and lost wages.

The Industrial Commission of Ohio overseas the process in their hearings.

I was injured earlier this year when I lifted a box for a customer to put onto a blue cart.

I reported the injury to the assistant manager on duty who took over an hour to "arrange" a member of management to take me to the emergency room of the local hospital.

This manager did not leave my side until I asked him to leave so I could speak privately to the attending doctor.

He returned within two minutes and never left again.

During this visit to the emergency room, the member of management sent with me brought along a drug testing kit which he had the emergency room doctor administer which made her most question the manager.

Now it is almost a year since the accident and I have gone through the hearing process in the Industrial Commission of Ohio and I have lost all appeals.

My attorney tells me that I now have to sue Walmart in regular court and it will be two and a half years until I get into the first hearing. In the mean time I am responsible for all the medical bills incured by this injury or I will be put into collection.

When I applied for employment at Walmart, I was told how "we are team!"

Well, Walmart is not a team player.

In the application, Walmart says that all injuries are taken care of by Walmart. They lied. This is a breach of contract.

Walmart is no better than a robber taking your wallet on the street.

The Lone God of Keys at Wal-Mart

2009-11-24T10:40:00.004-03:30

So, based on positive reviews and discussion, I decided to go out and buy this pinball game. This past weekend, I saw it at wal-mart, but of course the register wouldn't let them sell it to me. (since it was before the street date)

why is the game out on shelves if its not for sale? because somebody was stupid, right?

so they ran off and hid the 4 copies somewhere.

I came back on Wednesday, since it is a hard game to find and no other stores (including Gamestop, lol, what a joke) didn't have it.

The game still wasn't out on the shelves, so i asked somebody if they had any in stock? after humpty dumpty scanned the bar code, sure enough, there are four copies somewhere in the store. he goes in the back to look. after 45 minutes (dude probably took his lunch break and left me waiting) he comes back and says they are probably locked up in some cage, and the person with the keys left at 5... so i would have to come back tomorrow.

so out of this massive, open 24/7 wal-mart, there is only one person with keys? and they leave at 5? stupid, right?

so, i come back the next day, before 5, and the games still has not been put out there. so i ask one of the employees to do a quantity check, sure enough, there are 4... hidden somewhere in the wal-mart maze of missing merchandise, only this time, i came before 5 so surly the mythical gate keeper would have her keys and be able to free the merchandise from their stockroom prison. "Um, the person with the keys is only here on weekdays..."

So, today is a Friday. That's a weekday, right?

"well yes but she's not here today" okay dude, let me talk to your boss, someone around here has the &%^$#ing keys ... "i am the boss"... well then dude, let me talk to the person ABOVE YOU... "uh, okay, ill be right back"

45 minutes later (sigh) homeboy comes back with the four copies

Wal-Mart: All About Greed and Cracking that Whip. Yes, Massa, Yes...

2009-11-23T10:49:00.000-03:30

i work for walmart and now they have a thing called task manager whith u are timed to stock shelfs

and people keep leaving and they dont hire new ones but yet all they care about is making new managers for every thing

how many do you need i think walmat was better off with sam walton and walmart should have went with him becouse its all about greed and not the customers

Wal-Mart Treats Employees Like Slaves

2009-11-22T10:32:00.005-03:30

i work for a walmart in upstate new york. recently i have been going through a lot with my mom being in and out of the hospital this year. she has had conjestive heart failure for 5 years and i fear this will be her last year alive.

i have developed severe stress headaches from it, yet i still report to work when i am supposed to. i have gotten a fmla for her in case i need to be there for her. i had to leave work in a wheelchair one day because i had a haedache come on so quickly and so bad i was walking and talking like i was drunk. i was driven by family to the E.R. to get treatment. this was back in september this year.{2009}.

its now november and i come to work one day and i get pulled into the office, written up, and given a D- Day for misconduct because of that day that i left from work to go to the hospital- it was considered my 4th absence in 6 months. COMPANY POLICY!!!

plus, a week before that i got written up for eating half a cracker on company time! when i was being given my D- Day, an assistant manager was sitting at his computer, doing work, and crunching away on some food!!!!

what the hell are they doing breaking the rules when we get written up for doing so? what kind of an example are they giving us by doing this, then chastising us for doing what they do?!?!?! i really hate it there!

Looking For A Lawyer: Wal-Mart Ruins Yet Another Life

2009-11-12T08:35:00.013-03:30

I had worked for walmart for almost 2 years.  My department
manager in KY started sexually harrassing all
the employees in the photolab and he started to bring his baby
son back there with all the chemicals and help customers
while carrying him around (which I talked to OSHA and its
very illegal) and management didn't do anything about it!
I gave them the dates and the times that he ever did it and
they never cared UNTIL I contacted OSHA!

They tried to coach me for every little thing possible.
They started cutting my hours and things just kept getting
worse!

Management tried to coach me AGAIN. The GM sat there and
yelled at me. I later went to the doctor on my lunch break because
I started having chest pains and severe headaches.

The Doctor would not let me leave because my blood pressure
was reading close to 200 and I was suffering from severe
anxiety. 

I had to have someone come to release me before I could leave!
and guess what...

Walmart yet again tried to get me in trouble because of
attendance!

I later just gave up with walmart! I lost my house and
everything because I was without a job! I couldnt claim
unemployment because they said I abandon my job even
though they were firing me!

Walmart kept my paper work from the doctor and I also
had people in the photolab write statements against the
manager and they kept them also! This all happened from
Feb. 2009 - July 2009 in KY

Wal-Mart Sues Brain-damaged Employee

2009-11-08T07:06:00.002-03:30

Wal-Mart has been dubbed "The Worst Person in the World" by NSNBC for suing a severely brain-damaged Wal-Mart employee.

Debbie Shank, a Missouri Wal-Mart employee, was left severely disabled and brain-damaged after being hit by a semi-trailer truck.

Initially, her Wal-Mart health care plan paid her medical bills.

The Shank family sued the trucking company and won a $417,000 settlement.

Hearing news of the settlement, Wal-Mart then sued the family for $470,000 (to get their medical money back. They even added interest and the cost of their legal fees to make certain they didn't pay a cent)

And they won.

The Shanks appealed, but the Supreme Court refused to hear their case. The Shank family is forced to give Wal-mart $470,000, more than they earned from the settlement.

Debbie lives in a nursing home, and requires 24-hour care. Her husband, Jim Shank, works two jobs, struggling to pay for his wife's nursing home expenses.

According to MSNBC: Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott earns more than $470,000 a week and Wal-Mart earns $470,000 every 38 seconds.

No Holiday at Wal-mart

2009-10-30T07:00:00.000-02:30

hi everyone here's another infraction from wal mart management. every holiday in ga.

wal-mart cuts most employees hrs by 8 hrs inorder to keep from paying us our hoilday pay. it's sad enough that wal-mart has nearly a 1 billion dollar cash reserve that they will not let you have your holiday pay.

i came in to work in place of a dept mgr because he had to be with his young daughter so when i got to work tuesday i clocked in and then realized i needed to check my hrs. because the hr dept was off monday and no one finalized the weekend hrs. upon checking my hrs.

i realized that i had alredy workrd 31.60 hrs. so i went to the store mgr. and told him and he said that no one can work over 32 hrs this week. at that point i replied that i had 31.60 hrs. and i could not punch back out for 30 minutes so he said to get with hr. dept and they will adjust my hrs. hel--lo thank you for the time

your son's dying? big deal. fill out this form before you go

2009-09-01T19:02:00.002-02:30

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.

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

2009-03-04T09:08:00.000-03:30

Lawyers in the Phoenix, Arizona Area,
please contact walmartsucks.org for details


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

2008-07-10T10:48:00.000-02:30

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

2008-05-14T17:36:00.006-02:30

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?

2008-05-05T10:34:00.004-02:30

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

2008-04-15T16:13:00.004-02:30

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

2008-03-28T14:51:00.001-02:30

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

2008-03-18T15:02:00.000-02:30

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

2008-01-19T18:20:00.000-03:30

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

2007-12-20T08:36:00.000-03:30

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.

A Big Hello To...

2007-12-18T08:57:00.000-03:30

A big hello to the thousands of new visitors we have been receiving lately, most notably from overseas.

Also, greetings to our recent (and ever growing) corporate visitors including: The Abernathy MacGregor Group, FedEx, Fleishman-Hillard, Walgreens, Rinker, C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, NBA Events, Ogilvy & Mather Inc, Revlon, Kinkos, ConocoPhillips, Miller Brewing Company, Merck & Co, The Salk Institute, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Sutton Place Hotel, Reuters Information Technology, Office Depot, Constellation Brands, Belk, Radio Shack, True Value, Bain & Company, Atwell-Hicks, Pepsi Cola Company, Textron, Delta Air Lines, Vision Wise Inc, Worthington Industries, Safeco Insurance, International Steel Group, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Washington Pavilion of Arts & Science, Rooms To Go Furniture, Datamaxx Group, Reynolds And Reynolds, Delphi Corporation, E&J Gallo Winery, The Principal Financial Group, Ryerson Tull, McLane Company, Inc, Bell & Howell Company, Holiday Inn, World Wide Technology, Wells Fargo & Company, Ninth House, Northrop Grumman, Honda, Productivity Associates, GlaxoSmithKline, National Republican Congressional Committee, Capaha Bank, Weyerhaeuser, Westat Inc, Computer Sciences Corporation, ConAgra Foods, Caterpillar Inc, ScanSafe, McLeodUSA, LexisNexis, Merck & Co. Inc, General Electric Company, Amgen, Citicorp, Best Buy, Kraft Food, VeriSign, Yahoo, Bank of America, Extended Stay Hotels, Fidelity Investments, Murata Electronics, Club Corp USA, Central Intelligence Agency, PictureVision, Chevron Corporation, Harley-Davidson, Video Professor, The Berry Company, The WorkSource, Hilton Hotel Corporation, Intel Corporation, Alorica, Meijer, Hard Rock Cafe, Milliken & Company, CTV Television, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Kroger, The E.W. Scripps Company, Chicago Tribune, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Compass Bank, The Segal Company, CompUSA, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Tech Space, The US Navy, Perot Systems Corporation, Home Depot, Dollar General, SRA International, Eastman Kodak, Washington Post, Target Corporation, Pier 1 Imports, Blackberry, Progressive Auto Insurance, Corporate Express, Eaton Corporation, Aerovironment, Mars Incorporated, American Psychological Association, International Flavors & Fragrances, Century 21, Network Appliances, Royal Bank of Canada, National City, Dell, Time Warner, Siras, Coleman, IBM, Ford Motor, American Airlines, Lexi-Comp, The Bosch Group, Wells Fargo, Delta Faucet Company, Federal-Mogul Corporation, Classmates, Cerner Corporation, Hughes Electronics, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Netscape Communications, Pera, Simon & Schuster, Clorox, Hewitt Associates, Boeing, Bank of Montreal, Microsoft Corp, and numerous others... oh, and Wal-Mart, of course.

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

2007-12-12T09:45:00.000-03:30

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

2007-12-03T13:20:00.000-03:30

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

2007-11-30T12:17:00.000-03:30

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

2007-11-14T19:19:00.000-03:30

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

2007-11-08T17:41:00.000-03:30

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

2007-11-03T10:00:00.000-02:30

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

2007-10-26T16:46:00.000-02:30

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

Welcome to the Lawyers

2007-10-26T08:47:00.000-02:30

We are excited to be receiving so many new hits
from American law firms interested in representing the people
who have submitted posts seeking a lawyer to sue Wal-Mart.

Our hits from law firms have increased substantially.

2007-10-25T20:40:00.000-02:30

In December 2000, Kenneth J. Harvey, an author/journalist and the owner of WallMartcanadasucks.com, won the right to retain his domain name following a WIPO adjudication which rejected Wal-Mart`s attempts to grab the URL from him and silence a freedom-of-speech gripe site. The decision was a precident-setting case.

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

2007-10-15T08:56:00.001-02:30

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

2007-10-12T18:17:00.000-02:30

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

2007-10-08T20:30:00.000-02:30

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

2007-10-08T15:38:00.000-02:30

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

2007-10-08T14:03:00.000-02:30

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

2007-10-08T13:56:00.000-02:30

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

2007-10-01T16:54:00.000-02:30

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

2007-09-29T19:00:00.000-02:30

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

2007-09-28T10:21:00.000-02:30

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

2007-09-23T11:24:00.000-02:30

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

2007-09-23T09:16:00.001-02:30

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

2007-09-18T17:39:00.000-02:30

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

2007-09-16T07:48:00.000-02:30

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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2007-09-10T12:04:00.000-02:30

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2007-09-01T19:27:00.000-02:30

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

2007-08-28T07:57:00.000-02:30

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

2007-08-17T20:47:00.000-02:30

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.

2007-08-17T20:34:00.000-02:30

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!"

2007-07-22T16:15:00.000-02:30

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

2007-07-20T16:08:00.000-02:30

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

2007-07-17T16:01:00.000-02:30

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."

2007-06-30T17:50:00.000-02:30

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

2007-06-23T20:53:00.000-02:30

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

2007-06-14T14:29:00.000-02:30

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

2007-06-09T13:50:00.000-02:30

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

2007-05-27T09:38:00.000-02:30

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

2007-05-23T15:16:00.000-02:30

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

2007-05-18T14:36:00.000-02:30

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.

Truthful Disclaimer

2007-05-10T04:03:00.000-02:30

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No Experience Needed to Fix Your Car at Wal-Mart

2007-05-08T13:26:00.000-02:30

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

2007-04-30T11:43:00.000-02:30

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

2007-04-29T16:50:00.000-02:30

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?

2007-04-17T11:01:00.000-02:30

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

2007-04-16T11:07:00.000-02:30

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)

2007-04-03T12:20:00.000-02:30

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..."

2007-04-03T12:11:00.000-02:30

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

2007-03-19T15:31:00.000-02:30

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.

2007-02-26T13:42:00.000-03:30

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

2007-02-26T13:33:00.000-03:30

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."

2007-02-16T13:05:00.000-03:30

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.

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

2007-02-09T11:17:00.000-03:30

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

2007-02-06T15:23:00.000-03:30

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'

2007-02-06T15:18:00.000-03:30

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

2007-02-02T16:03:00.000-03:30

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

2007-01-23T12:04:00.000-03:30

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

2007-01-12T16:37:00.000-03:30

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?

2007-01-10T09:12:00.000-03:30

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

2007-01-03T12:42:00.000-03:30

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

2007-01-01T20:53:00.000-03:30

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!

2006-12-24T22:08:00.000-03:30

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

2006-12-19T18:17:00.000-03:30

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

2006-12-17T18:15:00.000-03:30

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

2006-12-06T18:05:00.000-03:30

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!

2006-12-01T10:24:00.000-03:30

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!