I was at Walmart Sunday, grabbing some items for this weekened. I asked my cashier how he was doing. His non-energetic response. "I'm working at Wal-Mart, so... You know" Kind of sums up the worker experience.
If you were in their shoes then you would know. Start off watching them walmart skits from killakaytv or any other youtuber that does walmart skits and the reality sets in for you from their prospective.
This is a common complaint with most big box retailers... and one that is heard less and less while cashiers are getting replaced with automated checkouts. And now the complaint has been "why am I doing all the work myself for no pay?"
My local Walmart is now restaffing the human register lines. Nearly all 20ish of them were actually open when I was there a couple days ago. The wait for a cashier was actually very good. It has made it much more pleasant to shop there, which is sad because it should have just always been this way. On the other hand, I was at a Sam's today which now has no human cashiers. You must use the app or self checkout. It was extremely busy but most people just use the app so there were no lines. Just random people standing around scanning stuff in their own carts.
@@Starcrash6984Most of the self checkouts I encounter don't work. Constantly have to rescan or the sensors think I took something I didn't scan. Always have to wait for the one employee watching multiple lanes get around to me after having to reset others scanners. More trouble than they're worth!
If I had to describe the “vibe” of Walmart (at least ones I’ve been to), is that you get the feeling that literally everyone in the store (both employees and customers) don’t want to be there. It’s also probably the only place where all the stereotypes match up perfectly with reality.
Mostly agree. I buy my groceries from a Walmart Neighborhood Market less than a mile from my home and the shoppers and workers are really kind and friendly. Rarely do I see anyone that is not. (I realize I am very lucky because I’ve been in many 💩 Walmarts)
I used to work for Walmart. You really get a feeling that management and corporate hate the employees for costing them money. It was so bad at one point that our store has a 126% turnover rate
I know the feeling! Bloomington and Eden Prairie, MN were two stores in Minnesota that I worked at. Take my advice - stay as far away from them as possible! They treated me and many other employees like total $hit! I can't believe the managers can even live with themselves! There are Nazi prison guards who treated prisoners better than they treated us as employees!
Worked for them for 16 years. The store i worked at was short handed the entire time i worked there. After 16 years, me and all the other department managers were told to either start over at the bottom with entry level pay or take a check and leave. I took the check and i hate them to this day.
Wow, that's the worst way to get anyone to stay. They seriously bank off people who genuinely have no skills outside of the basic stuff retail asks you to do, and those who live paycheck to paycheck
I've seen less and less Dollar Generals carry clothing on top of that. I was a keyholder for one in the middle of covid and we did away with our clothing section when they renovated our store.
i live in a major city but my mom is from a town with less than 1000 population and we went back for a wedding earlier this year. there was a dollar general every mile and the walmart was always packed
My parents both worked at Kmart for 25+ years each. My dad’s store had a Walmart go in next door in the early 2000s and one of his coworkers left to go work there. She came back the next week and told the Kmart staff that their morning meetings consisted of pep sessions where management claimed their mission was to put the Kmart next door out of business and wanted the employees to cheer for that. Kmart was a big store but they played nice in the community and referred people to other local stores for stuff they didn’t have. Walmart is just plain dirty.
same thing at a wally I worked at in Overland Park 30-some years ago, K-Mart's gone, but that wally is still there. my manager's name was Garth, FFS... before I'd heard of Brooks.
I worked for Kmart also in the 1990s. I was there to witness that company basically commit retail suicide. It killed itself off with bad policies and business practices. Customers just quit going there. Not that anyone really liked Walmart either, but at least at the time they had people working there. Kmart in 1999 looked more like retail stores today look, but in a time back when customer service was actually important.
Use to work at Walmart something I will never do again. My reason behind this. 1. Was told I get a point (3 points = being fired) if I'm more than 5 min over the time I was supposed to clock out ( because they dont want to pay overtime) 2. Would constantly get pulled to other side of store to do things then get yelled at when my section wasn't up to par because the managers were not on the same page this was a daily thing 3. I made 11 an hour working in lawn and garden haveing to both stock and cashier with no a/c ( not a big issue) while the people who were solely cashiers inside made 12 and didn't have to do anything else. where ever I got pulled to help was also made at least a dollar more than I did. 4. My store manager tried to get Me to quit college by telling me that he makes way more money than I will with my degree path ( big whoop I'm becoming a teacher) yet I still made 11 an hour... Personally I put more care and did more there than most of the eympolees did and got nothing but yelled at for not doing enough. It was a tired cycle
As a German it still gives me some small pride that Walmart came to Germany, got their asses handed to them, lost a couple billion dollars and left in shame.
Walmart used to sell LIVE FISH for aquariums. Sadly they were neglected and not cared for properly at all. I remember looking at the fish tanks one time and there were 40 DEAD FISH and it STUNK up the pet section! Thankfully they stopped selling live pet fish.
You mention Walmart moving into small communities which causes less traffic to local businesses and stores, potentially putting them under. No mention however of when Walmart just decides to up and out of that same community, leaving them now with nothing as they killed all other competition. Can really murder a village in the middle of nowhere.
Before Walmart, my community was a food desert. If Walmart leaves, it will once again become a food desert. But it is built on land leased to it by the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, so we *should* get sufficient notice if/when Walmart intends to vacate.
I worked at Walmart for a bit in 2009. A lot of the really bad scandals were pretty fresh at that point, so the store I worked in was extremely strict about certain policies, like making sure to take your lunch breaks. Even so, it was a really demoralizing place to work. It was so clear that the company cared more about avoiding more lawsuits than any of the humans involved.
As someone who worked for Walmart for nearly two years, my experience there was the worst job of my life. When I finally quit I felt like the weight of the world has been lifting off my shoulders. Walmart always finds ways to make up for any type of increase, I.e. playing more hourly but cutting the number of hours an employee works. Almost everyone at my Walmart works a second job because Walmart did not pay enough.
I worked at Walmart for a couple months while I was working on becoming an EMT. Horrible place. No training, close to no useful communication and orders on what I was supposed to be doing, half the equipment just didn't work, and the managers clearly had favorites who could get away with anything (or rather, doing nothing) while randomly yelling at those who were just trying to do their jobs.
I used to be a sales manager for a steak and seafood distribution company and my clients were Walmarts. I can comfortably say that the most depressing place on earth is a Walmart break room. You’d find happier people in a prison death row.
So true. You get to call out for a maximum of 6 days your first 5 years or you start taking points and then get fired. Have a manager that is out for blood against me. Incredibly egotistical, disrespectful, and if you are not a favorite or wage slave, he'll find any reason to write you up. Got written up for using the bathroom after my break time ended, and I'm 90% sure I'm getting another for having a 15 second conversation with someone walking by, and he stared at me the whole time. Didn't say anything to the other person, just me and said he'll get with my team lead to find out what to do with me. Genuinely most stressful job I ever got for a retail job. 100% quitting if I get pulled into the office tomorrow and he writes me up.
I was a security guard for Walmart's, not an employee, they were our client. What a zoo! Customers having fistfights over parking spaces, people who hike literal miles up and down aisles, have to have the closest space to the door! People who won't bother to put on clothing, and wonder why they can't come in! Tailgate parties in the parking lot, with alcohol! Where America's finest come out to be! I felt like a Roman Leigionaire, in the Mideast!
@@markcollins2666 I love how we both felt the need to clarify that we worked at Walmarts but we didn’t work FOR Walmart. 😆 I’m sorry but I couldn’t be a Walmart employee unless I was truly desperate and had zero other options.
I remember having a conversation with an acquaintance who was upset that Walmart was driving out the small businesses, but confessed she hadn't shopped at any of those small businesses in years because they can't match Walmart's prices.
i worked there just under 11 years and i didnt HATE it there. there are some policies i feel are dumb. but i can see why they have it. worst thing is they expect people to work everything in less time and not allow enough time to take care of overstock.
I was in Germany when Walmart bought WertKauf. I spoke to an American executive that was hired to change the chain into Walmart. He said that he told a store manager that they would meet on a Monday morning and complete a full inventory of the store. Monday came and the manager was gone, ON VACATION - FOR 6 WEEKS!!! German labor laws were on the manager's side. I heard that Walmart left Germany a few years later.
Hard to run a company with abusive tactics when a country outlaws abusing your employees. Fun fact Walmart and Amazon are the biggest welfare queens in the US, because they both underpay their workers so drastically many of their employees qualify for food stamps and assisted housing. They are leeches on local economies and government welfare.
We have to stop giving companies credit for “creating jobs” when the wages are not livable in damn near any position and they treat the employee like shit. Fuck walmart.
Question. Why is it a company's job to provide a living for a person? A "living wage" is anti free market commie speak. A free market allows a person to work harder, develop skills and become more valuable in order to get more $. Or just complain and remain at the bottom of the socioeconomic all the while voting for commie free stuff which kills the actual freedom others who are working harder.
They pay their workers low enough to allow them to get government assistance and then take that money when their employees most likely end up doing their grocery shopping there.
My Aunt Joyce was a regional manager for Wal-Mart through the 70s, 80s and into the 90s and she loved it! Shes said several times that if Sam saw the statue of the company today he would be severely disappointed.
One of the biggest reasons I despise Walmart is honestly the customer base. I can feel my blood pressure rising as soon as I turn into the parking lot. There’s definitely a certain stereotype about the “people of Walmart” that rings true for a lot of their stores.
I like going to the People of Walmart website every so often for a good laugh. Though I have yet to see anyone like the people featured when I happen to go to my local Walmart.
yes. i have a theory that the circus is less of a popular attraction because most people you would traditionally find in a circus are at walmart shopping. great for people watching
Working so little that you can't afford food in a time of such opportunity everywhere is a MASSIVEly OVERLOOKED SCANDAL. It's so easy to make 6 figures today that it causes cry baby commies look foolish. Try harder if you want more.
I know that at one time upon hiring a new employee,the HR Manager would provide State and/or Federal documents to new hires to inform and assist them in applying for public assistance because they knew that they weren’t paying the employee enough to survive without government benefits.
Back in 1999 in college I interviewed for an IT job at Corporate Headquarters in Bentonville Arkansas. The recruiter said expect to work 50-55 hours on average with great potential growth... ???? No Thanks.......I got a Federal related job for the same pay.
I like that 9 minutes in you used Publix as a good example to follow. My favorite big chain store here in Florida. Especially their bakery. Unlike Walmart, Publix bakes their own bread right there instead of shipping it in. And they eggwash their loaves.
@@fumanpoo4725 Indeed. And another sad point is save-a-lot. In my youth they were the low budget place to shop, but now their prices are on par with winn dixie.
It's definitely the employee treatment. The amount of times I've had to go to the government for things like being told we can't use the bathroom because it's too busy or skip lunch because there's not enough people. Heck I know people who've been fried for having a heart attack mid shift from the crazy work load and long forced hours. The place has driven every other job in the area out so you kind of have to deal with it. It's either fast food or one of the 2 local Walmarts.
@@kibble-netIt really isn't, and in right-to-work states like mine that is a problem. You have absolutely no job security and can be fired for any reason, and as long as it didn't violate federal laws you can't do anything about it.
Walmart contributed to wiping out Kmart when they expanded across the country into Kmart territory. When Walmart came to town, my local Kmart began losing customers
Yeah, K-Mart put themselves out of business; the worst I ever experienced at a Walmart was actually pleasant compared to the best I ever got at K-Mart.
Kmart killed themselves even if Walmart didn't come but a Target did the same thing would've happened because I remember going to Kmart and it always looked like a tornado went through the store
I always felt sad for KMart...they just could never get it right. The store was uncomfortable to shop in, messy but also not maintained to give you a pleasant experience. And then....K Mart......bought Sears due to a hedge fund type exploitation ownership that couldn't care less about employees and customers.
I was a Walmart stocker for several months. My experience is summed up by managers contradicting each other, prioritization of one part of the store over another (namely, my part was gradually neglected for the grocery side) and impossible requests. It’s always, “by yourself, do this amount of labor with this amount of product you can never stock in time”. It was just impossible, it always is. Leads snapping at me due to being disgruntled, other leads being uncaring about literal store theft or problems I’d approach them with.. basically it’s always about maintaining the status quo and little else.
I worked in asset protection. The team leads would ignore theft. I remember catching a woman stealing makeup. She had over 100 cosmetic items. I called the team lead and the undercover shopper neither picked up the phone. The lady I caught stealing waited 30mins for an Uber. There was another time I caught a middle aged man giving his information to underage girls. He was giving out cards with his address and phone number on it. One the undercover shopper threw it in the trash instead of giving it to the police. Constantly being yelled at and harassed by team leads and coaches.
As a current associate for Walmart, the job is okay. I get benefits like a 401k and health insurance and being on the Spectrum, the job has helped with my social skills. However, the job can be mentally draining, especially when I worked in the service deli. High turnover or understaffed, constantly busy frying food like popcorn chicken or the people I work with just do the bare minimum. The bakery is SO much better because I'm away from most customers and can focus on the task at hand and not have to split my attention between cooking, cleaning and helping customers all at once.
I work at Walmart i make 16.60 after 16 years of employment. Its soul crushing. Now working at the same place for 16 years has made me unemployable anywhere else. I've applied to around 30 different jobs in the past year and haven't had one call back.
Be persistent and call those companies back, you might have made the first move by applying, now it's up to you to bother the shit out of them so they hire you 😉
I don’t think you’re having that problem because of your work history at Walmart. I’m dealing with the same bullshit, and so is nearly everyone I know. It’s just impossible to get a job in general right now.
if it makes you feel any better, I'm in a professional/tech career and job hunting is just as awful. I've sent out 30-40 resumes this past month with only 1 response. And I think I'm very lucky to even have gotten that. Keep at it, I hope better things are ahead for you.
I was walking into work when you posted this, i make right at 17.50, in the state im in, pre covid, it was absolutely a liveable wage, you could also earn a weeks vacation in about 3 months back then too, every February walmart brings down new rules and every 2 to 3 years, they bring down massive company wide changes, it takes 6 to 8 months to earn that week off now, the changes are always in favor of the company or management, it really does feel like the company hates everyone at the store level below management, you might get some favoritism if you work 1st shift, because thats when the majority of management is their usually.
@@grandinosourThats not base pay, i made 11 a hour, then 15 pre covid, i may have worded it poorly but you could of read in-between the lines and understood what i meant, i dont have time for entitled people who have never worked retail and or understand how giants like walmart operate, its not a tech job where you get to negotiate pay.
what are you talking about. Maybe it your part time it'll take you 6-8 months to earn a week off. I earn 1 hour vacation, every 9 hours worked, that is roughly 4.4 hours a week. it takes me 9 weeks to earn a weeks vacation. Yes its based on years of service but the policy is the same as it was pre covid.
@sborwege its not, toward the end of 2020 they had a meeting with my store about it, said they're wasnt enough associates in store to help customers, thats how they hide behind policies that take away from associates, they say its for the benefit of the customers, iv transfered to 5 different stores, all told me the same thing on the topic. Iv been full time the whole time of worked for the company too for the record.
Parts of The Godzilla fandom in particular aren’t big fans of Walmart because they cancelled a number of Products Lines in the 90’s, those figures were one of a kind and now super hard to come by.
They also treat their customers like thieves; checking the receipts as you walk out, refusing returns, security barriers as you walk in.. it truly feels like the ghetto of shopping stores.
You can just walk right by the receipt checkers btw. According to their own rules due to liability they can’t actually stop you unless they confirmed you stole something 3 different ways. They just operate on passive compliance. I just smile, tell them to have a nice day and keep walking. FOH checking receipts
@@SalWare686 You can for sure, but is still feels confrontational and gross. It's why I stopped shopping there. One of the checkers touched me as I walked by as if to try and stop me. I just kept going, but that was the last straw.
I once had my nearby store refuse a return. So I went to another store south of the county and they accepted my return, no further questions. Some locations are being too extra.
I recently got fired from Walmart for “poor performance” after getting verbally harassed by a now former coworker 3 separate times over the course of 7 months; the now former coworker had been there much longer than I had and was much more experienced. That was the real reason they fired me; they wanted to keep him instead. I had not been told anything about my work performance since the first month I was hired. I came in early and clocked in on time and left on time I was scheduled to do so. Went on my breaks when I was supposed to do so as well. Went above and beyond and would make sure to clear out the giant piles of cardboard before I left on my way out dozens of times (that stopped after the second verbal harassment event occurred; yes I did tell a supervisor each and every time. The third time had occurred the day before I was fired. I was walked out the next night just two hours left in my shift. I hadn’t said a single word to them after they told me I was terminated).
DON't buy this one for a second. Everyone who gets fired blames someone else while acting like they were the greatest employee to ever work. Always BS.
We live in a rural town where there were fears that when Walmart came in, the local businesses went out. The first casualty was K-Mart; the second was Albertsons. Local companies actually ramped up their game and are giving Walmart a run for their money. One small grocery store routinely stocks better quality for comparable if not lower prices than Walmart. It can be done if owners are willing to forego sky-high profits for lower but steady profits-say Walmart charges $2.98 for a gallon of milk. Many owners will charge $5.00 a gallon for the same stuff, betting that people won’t want to travel 10 miles to the nearest Walmart. Our little store charges $3.09 for that same gallon, guaranteeing that people won’t drive 10 miles to Walmart.
I used to work at Kmart in the 1990s. My town actually had Walmart first before Kmart, coming in '93 and '95 respectively. Before that we had stuff like Ames, Jamesway, and Hills and other now long defunct discount stores. Our Kmart was actually very competitive with Walmart for several years, up until about 1999, then Kmart basically just killed itself. We had hardly anyone working there and half our sale items were usually out of stock. People quit going there. I was in their management training at the time and saw the writing on the wall, so I quit and went back and completed my education and got the heck out of retail completely.
Former Walmart worker here, the main reason workers hate it there is because they literally make you do everything or add on work for the same pay. I worked as a cashier and I’ve helped out with carts the online department and even being the guy with the keys in the pharmacy section. Hell sometimes they made me watch over the front when I wasn’t even a team lead (their dumb way of calling their people a manager)
I worked at Walmart for 3 years before quitting. It was miserable and I felt a weight lift off my shoulders when I hit the parking lot. 1) They put unbelievable pressure to get things done when you already have a stacked schedule. None of my team leads bothered to help me, but were fine yelling at me to get tasks done all by myself. I worked dairy/meat department. 2) They hire incompetent people as team leads/managers. Seen various people quit because of poor treatment. Store managers always needed my help with some task, yet I got yelled at (when alone on my shift) if the milk/eggs weren’t filled up. Our department got blamed for numerous problems, when it was THEM who were causing the problems. 🤦🏾♂️
yeah man I totally get that, dairy/frozen department is especially stressful, especially keeping up with the egss, milk and creamers being stocked, then vizpick, skids, oh and dont forget claims, the harder working employees dont seem to get enough help at times and it’s just annoying. 😅
I hate how they're convenient. But for reals, i was in college ehen that doc came out and we had to watch it for business class...the tactics they use to stop unionizing and stuff is wild. Probably even woese 20 years later
My favorite part of Walmart is how they used to have the 35 registers up front but only 4 were ever open at a time, but now they have 35 self-checkout station up front and only 6 of those are open at a time. They can't even be bothered to allow us to do it ourselves. The Walmart near me has 2 huge sections of self-checkout and one is ALWAYS roped off and closed and the other ALWAYS has a line of 15+ people
I have been waiting for this video for a while. Ive worked for Walmart over 20 years now, and the company deserves its reputation for sure. I’m lucky in that my store has good management and we have the reputation of being “the good Walmart”, but that isn’t most stores by far.
I work at Target and we use Walmart as the punchline to a joke; plus they have us price match items with Walmart and Amazon to get the lowest prices for our guests (what they want us to call customers). Also, I have a friend that works at Walmart and worked at Target and he agrees that Target treats their employees way better then Walmart. If possible I would like to see a video about Target in the future.
I go to walmart for groceries and I go to target whenever I break something (it's so easy to abuse the no questions asked return policy. Hell, I broke my nintendo switch once cracked screen and all, bought a new one, swapped the backplates (so the serial numbers matched up) brought it back like this doesn't work, and I got a full refund)
Maybe it would be worth shopping at Target if their prices weren't ridiculous. Targets prices are higher on literally everything compared to Walmart. At the end of the day, people don't care about if a company actually treats their employees fairly, they care about prices, and products. No one cares about sustainability, or ethics if you're selling a product for ten dollars more than your competitor, and your trying to save money.
Target is the same price now.. cuz Walmart shoppers are too loyal and scared to step out and price compare at other places. Facts. Y'all getting fleeced.
I might be one of the few with a not so bad experience at Walmart as a worker. My time as an hourly associate was amazing. I was paid decently well, it wasn't a hard job, and I got to leave early to cut overtime. My bad came from becoming a salary manager. Working 15 hour days and even on my days off. Being told ai am not working enough or pulling my weight. I took a big pay cut to take my next job and the stress relief was worth it! I would work for Walmart again but hourly only.
100% Once you've dealt with some of the crazier "Walmart" people for awhile, you learn that everyone is a little insane in their own way. It kind of took the edge off of my social anxiety, and taught me to socially relax a bit.
Same, I don't think I had social anxiety, but I was always pretty shy, compounded with having a softer voice it made communication not my strong suit. But now that I've been working at Walmart for a while I interact with tons of people every day I work and it's not an issue for me anymore. Most people are polite or kind enough and it's very rare that I actually run into anyone that is rude just to be rude. It's just a lot less scary now that I've experienced so much time with strangers I suppose.
The reason why so many employees hate the company is because it's easier to get full time with benefits at Walmart than any other comparable company, but once they get you in that position they know you can't go anywhere and some stores / managers will take advantage of that fact.
I worked at Citibank and I got a promotion and no raise until a full year later (I was promoted in December and they purposely dragged their feet to not officially put me in the new position until after January 1st). When I called HR to say something about it they got snotty with me and told me I should be lucky I have a job. So I trained for my new position, took the free trips to New York City to train and meals and hotels on the company for 12 weeks, came back home, and told them to stick the job where the sun don't shine and to have fun replacing me and paying to train my replacement, and thanks for all the free stuff 😂😂😂
Something else with Walmarts practices is, whenever they move into one of those small towns they kill the local small businesses. Then when they leave they in some cases end up killing the town. They stay just long enough that a generation passes and the descendants of the old store owners want nothing to do with trying to keep the family business going.
I grew up in Bentonville, AR. I worked for them in accounting 20 something years ago. I used to see the invoices from all of their vendors. WM have always been ruthless and crooked as hell.
There was a story not to long ago about Walmart employee being literally cooked alive in a walkin oven. The story is horrible and from what I remember she was only 19. Walmart isn’t changing for the better at all.
Great video! What stands out to me is the fact that Walmart had a discrimination case against someone with Down Syndrome. Glad she was compensated. I hope she’s ok. 😃
Walmart management was so corrupt that they knew I was a former Brosnan, risk, consultants officer, security officer, and what I can’t management doing to my reports as a Walmart asset protection customer service host was appalling. They were putting my miss scanned items report in with asset protection shoplifting reports so instead of me getting recognition for what I did asset protection was getting all of it and when asset protection quit, I shown interest for the job because of the fact is I have experience they went with the less experienced person at one point eventually management fired me then try to lie to the state and I won $14,200 because I proved that the firing was not of just cause now please know not all Walmarts are like this in fact when I was transferred from was one of the best, I unfortunately transferred to one of the worst across state
Many of them don't even know where everything is--a result of that really high turnover rate. They also are given a lot to do in a short amount of time, so helping customers could end up getting them behind and in trouble.
That's so strange to me as a former Kmart employee, we were required to help customers even when not in our own department then we had to page someone else who could. If you purposely dodged customers the way they do all the time at Walmart, you would have been fired pretty quickly.
We’re indirectly discouraged from helping customers. I was written up for being too helpful towards my coworkers because then my area wasn’t looking as good as everyone else. But the expectations were unrealistic and I was simply doing tasks we had to do anyway. Management is extremely picky and forces us to act like we’re a warehouse. Our jobs are at stake regularly no matter how hard working or being a reliable worker who is never late
Where I live (western part of the US) there are Walmart Neighborhood Markets (WNM) along with the Supercenters, where I've noticed that the employees at the WNMs are helpful and pleasant when compared to the Supercenter employees. One aspect I love about the WNM is their low prices for grocery items, many times their everyday low prices are lower than the other supermarket chains when they have sales requiring the use of the loyalty membership cards. The self-checkout at the WNM I don't mind for two reasons: - No waiting in line for checkout; as the there are at lease a dozen or more Point-of-Sale registers that are open. - Many of those Point-of-Sale registers have spacious counter tops, making it easy to bag the grocery items.
@ I was terminated because I took too many sick days without filling an unpaid time off request (I got strep throat, felt horrible). I wasn’t thinking I’d get fired and had a freak out. I didn’t harm any customers nor would I have, and I kicked a trash can on the way out of the store. The managers called the police, but I was let go since I didn’t damage anything. After 2 weeks, I called to apologize and security told me I was banned. It’s total BS since I had it settled with corporate. I still walk into the Walmart I worked at and get looked at funny by employees, I also get yelled at by security sometimes, it’s honestly pretty sad.
I hate Walmart customers. 😂 The sheer lack of give-a-shit is wild. Trashy people in ill-fitting clothes, screaming unruly kids, talking on speaker phone, trash set down wherever... People of Walmart *suck*.
I don't like that Walmart continues to refuse Apple Pay and Google Pay while Target and other competing retailers do. They want customers to use the Walmart App to pay. I've seen posts online that show people want to pay with their phone but can't because Walmart doesn't accept contactless pay
Because in today's society, selling groceries is not as profitable as selling data. By forcing you to use WalMart Pay, they get better data on you to sell.
My experience with Walmart is CONSISTENTLY always horrifically unclean and understaffed stores, where they have 30 checkout lines and only one of them is open. I lived in a very large city with a lot of traffic, and the local Walmart simply kept firing more employees and making the remaining one work three positions’ worth of duties. Not only that, but to address their rampant shoplifting problem, they decided to start locking up a bunch of random products like shaving cream. This means you have to hunt down a store employee to get these items, and half of the store is arbitrarily locked up like this. This means that the poor employees who are already working 3 different positions’ worth of responsibilities are constantly needing to drop what they’re doing and go open a cabinet for someone who needs their spaghetti noodles. Why do they need three people standing in the front of the store checking receipts if there is only one person manning the checkout aisle with 14 people waiting in line?
The 3 gaurds make sure no money is been stolen and that one guy is saving Walmarts from 3 other wages for the price of one, you rather soend 50hr or 16 hr? i say this is efficiency.
Walmart put out a message on social media the other day warning that they’ll have to raise prices if Trump does implement the tariffs he’s proposing. The annoying part is that they put it out AFTER the election, and not before
Ironically Wal-Mart might have the political power to successfully push back on Trump's stupid tariffs. At least 3000 different outlets reported on how tariffs work before the election, so this is on the voters for being ignorant or thinking Trump was going to give them all ponies.
Walmart buys from countries that have slay've labor. The building that houses the people who make the iphones has nets to prevent people from killing themselves by jumping to their dea--ths. I hope we can find a way to stop importing from those countries altogether. If tariffs help in that regard then I'm all for paying more.
2:53 ok so I know this is probably not actually the case that it's the one I work at but it's insane that the walmart I work at has 1:1 exact same layout as this picture, aside from I guess a slightly smaller seafood section, despite the branding clearly being much older
I don't know if Walmart was ever the most wonderful place to shop at, but the stores got a lot worse after they all got turned into Super Walmarts. Less selection of items, and yeah, I wouldn't buy meat, fish, or produce from Walmart. A big pet peeve of mine is when stores get rid of name brands and put their own brands in their place. Walmart did this with their supplements lately, and, you guessed it, they're a product of China. I'm surprised that 2/3 of their products are USA made. Maybe it's mostly the food? And let's not forget the People of Walmart song. 😄
$648 BILLION in annual revenue is insane. They have two million employees, if one year they were to split that with all of them, each person would have $324,000 sitting in their bank accounts. And the next year, their annual revenue would probably top $800 billion 🙃
I live in a small town in the middle of Alaska. I was absolutely not happy when we got a Walmart over 10 years ago. I had a girlfriend who worked there and she was absolutely miserable. Had a strict schedule as to when she needed to go on break, no exceptions. I do my best to stay out of that store even now. And every time I do step in there, it still feels so soul sucking and lifeless.
I have issues with them not reopening 24 hour stores. That along with stocking during business hours. It wasn't long ago retail establishments discouraged that practice
Aa a former walmart associate I can shed some more light on why they're hated from a inside point of view. Starting off with the management and how they test their employees. Many managers develop a god complex and act like they are better than the regular associates, this in turn fuels brown nosing which shuns and even ignores those that are hard working making them feel unwanted. Next is the pay gap which is HUGE! the average associate starts at around $14 depending on the state. Team leads (supervisors) usually get around $21-$24. Coaches (managers) start off with $45k-55k then it jumps up to store lead who gets 95k-100k! The store manager gets around 150k-200k. This gets worse when you take into account the annual raise and bonuses. For the average associate a bonus each year is about $25-$50 with a raise of 2% yes that's right 2% Managers and above get a bonus of 5k-10k and a raise in the thousands. Store mangers get a annual bonus that comes to enough to buy a car. The pay gap is just insane, store leads and managers usually don't do much besides sit on their asses all day and don't do any physical work. I know the pay that they make because the store I worked at most managers would brag about how much they made while the average associate could barely pat bills and rent. Next is points, there's a point system at Walmart, points are bad. You get to 5 points and you're fired. Miss a day and that's a point, miss a event day (holiday) and that's two points, come in early or leave before you're done and that's a half point. Have car trouble, sick child, get sick? Well sucks to be you. Managers? They don't get points, and yes they do brag about that. They can come and go whenever they please. Walmart has many rules, dress codes, work codes, how you talk. Except managers who aren't held accountable to those same codes. It's more of a "do as I say not as I do". Managers can push their own personal work onto associates so they can sit down and chat with people or just leave if they want. What's good is everyday is something new, and the people you work with usually keep you sane. Friendships and even the rare relationships can develop. I get asked if I miss walmart, I always answer the same. I miss the people I worked with but not the managers. It's completely unfair, unjust, and miserable to work under a manger who breaks the very same rules that if you did it, you'd get fired then hear them brag about how much they make. Lastly, managers can fire you any reason they like. Even if it's made up and a obviously lie. They can fire you for any reason and at anytime. I've seen managers fire someone for wearing a red shirt (apparently said manager didn't like the color red) one person got assaulted by a customer and when the cashier tried to defend themselves they were fired on the spot. Walmart is easy to get into and as long as you get your head down and mouth shut and/or brown nose daily you'll be fine. Go even beyond that and you're gone. It's a revolving door job as HR tells people. Would I suggest working there? Only if it's a last resort (Edit) Each store gets a annual budget, if that store is under then the mangers, mainly the store manger gets a big fat bonus. The way that they keep under budget is by firing random employees (usually making up reasons) or by refusing to replace defective machines. And if you're a cashier can never sit down even if you're disabled (fairly new rule). Corporate thinks that customers will dislike seeing associates sitting down. A common saying among mangers is "if you're sitting down you're not doing you job". And if you thought that mangers can break this rule then you guessed right. Mangers can sit whenever they want.
Worst customer service ever! I was returning something and the cashier doesn't even acknowledge me, look up or say hi. Then all the sudden she screams "congratulations". Turns out the customer in the next row just got engaged and she acknowledged her and not me. I only come here for the low prices and that's it.
If you ever walk into Walmart you’ll notice none of the employees are smiling. You can tell they hate it there. Walmart was my first job and I remember looking like they do when I was at work
Facts bro. I was pretty happy to get a higher pay job than my last one and going to college. I never realized how depressed and soul drained I am until this sweet older lady said "Did I do something to you?" I replied"No of course not, you're always pleasant to talk to." And she said "Oh, it's just you used to smile and joke around until lately." Was absolutely a sucker punch realization that this job literally makes you depressed and feel powerless when you clock out.
I don’t go to Walmart simply because it’s never a good experience. I’d rather pay extra and go to target. Brighter colors, less mess, and less ghetto lol
Can you do a video on why Meijer's is loved? At first glance at their stores, they seem similar to Walmart except they only operate around Michigan, but there are quite a few reasons why people here love Meijer's but hate Walmart.
@@Nicholas-f5 You don't but they can ban you from the store as well.. not showing your receipt isn't a legally protected class, so they can ban you for any reason that isn't protected (like race, gender, etc.)
How many remember when Walmart's slogan was "We buy American whenever we can, so you can too"... That, of course, quickly changed and they became more of a Chinamart LOL!
I’m honestly content how I work at my store. Good wage, much time off if needed, benefits and of course double my wage over the decade or so I’ve been working there.
Love Walmart. I started a consumer goods company and Walmart embraced us and eventually brought us into every store in the US when not one other retailer would. They were always professional and treated us well. If you have a unique product with mass appeal that provides a value to Walmart shoppers, you will succeed in your dream of becoming a Walmart vendor.
My mother has worked there for decades. Incredibly nice woman, but the company is absolutely wrecking her happiness. She always has trouble sleeping on her day off because, she knows when she wakes up, she's going to Walmart. I've been desperately trying to get her to quit and work at a Kroger run company. And while Kroger sucks too... it's no Walmart.
I was at Walmart Sunday, grabbing some items for this weekened. I asked my cashier how he was doing. His non-energetic response. "I'm working at Wal-Mart, so... You know" Kind of sums up the worker experience.
If you were in their shoes then you would know. Start off watching them walmart skits from killakaytv or any other youtuber that does walmart skits and the reality sets in for you from their prospective.
Weekend*
That's how i felt in the army, everyone in the army is depressed, some to the point of unaliving themselves in the barracks.
Living the dream eh
@@PhD_Dad 🍆
Thirty plus cashier aisles, four cashiers maximum,even during the Christmas season...enough said.
Ordering online is a great way to avoid any nonsense
@@mrtree1368that’s what my wife and I do anymore. And have the stuff delivered when we don’t want to go inside.
This is a common complaint with most big box retailers... and one that is heard less and less while cashiers are getting replaced with automated checkouts. And now the complaint has been "why am I doing all the work myself for no pay?"
My local Walmart is now restaffing the human register lines. Nearly all 20ish of them were actually open when I was there a couple days ago. The wait for a cashier was actually very good. It has made it much more pleasant to shop there, which is sad because it should have just always been this way. On the other hand, I was at a Sam's today which now has no human cashiers. You must use the app or self checkout. It was extremely busy but most people just use the app so there were no lines. Just random people standing around scanning stuff in their own carts.
@@Starcrash6984Most of the self checkouts I encounter don't work. Constantly have to rescan or the sensors think I took something I didn't scan. Always have to wait for the one employee watching multiple lanes get around to me after having to reset others scanners. More trouble than they're worth!
If I had to describe the “vibe” of Walmart (at least ones I’ve been to), is that you get the feeling that literally everyone in the store (both employees and customers) don’t want to be there. It’s also probably the only place where all the stereotypes match up perfectly with reality.
Mostly agree. I buy my groceries from a Walmart Neighborhood Market less than a mile from my home and the shoppers and workers are really kind and friendly. Rarely do I see anyone that is not. (I realize I am very lucky because I’ve been in many 💩 Walmarts)
They take advantage of illegal immigrants by lying that their prices are cheapest
Oh, there are plenty of places where the stereotypes match up to reality. That's why stereotypes exist in the first place.
I was saying in the comments, it's like going to the DMV.
In all fairness, Aldi has the exact same vibe. No one is happy to be there, but they have to be there because it is what they can afford.
I used to work for Walmart. You really get a feeling that management and corporate hate the employees for costing them money. It was so bad at one point that our store has a 126% turnover rate
Kroger is worse, believe me I work there. Our store turnover was 138% with the average wage of $12 an hour.
I know the feeling! Bloomington and Eden Prairie, MN were two stores in Minnesota that I worked at. Take my advice - stay as far away from them as possible! They treated me and many other employees like total $hit! I can't believe the managers can even live with themselves! There are Nazi prison guards who treated prisoners better than they treated us as employees!
i heard a legend of a store that had 1000% turnover rate. Like no joke people would quit within days of getting hired
Worked for them for 16 years. The store i worked at was short handed the entire time i worked there. After 16 years, me and all the other department managers were told to either start over at the bottom with entry level pay or take a check and leave. I took the check and i hate them to this day.
Wow, that's the worst way to get anyone to stay. They seriously bank off people who genuinely have no skills outside of the basic stuff retail asks you to do, and those who live paycheck to paycheck
In rural America it has become the only choice for clothing and furniture unless you count Dollar General or Amazon.
By design, both are horrible to workers and society
I've seen less and less Dollar Generals carry clothing on top of that. I was a keyholder for one in the middle of covid and we did away with our clothing section when they renovated our store.
And electronics.
That's what the people wanted, so that's what they got.
i live in a major city but my mom is from a town with less than 1000 population and we went back for a wedding earlier this year. there was a dollar general every mile and the walmart was always packed
My parents both worked at Kmart for 25+ years each. My dad’s store had a Walmart go in next door in the early 2000s and one of his coworkers left to go work there. She came back the next week and told the Kmart staff that their morning meetings consisted of pep sessions where management claimed their mission was to put the Kmart next door out of business and wanted the employees to cheer for that.
Kmart was a big store but they played nice in the community and referred people to other local stores for stuff they didn’t have. Walmart is just plain dirty.
same thing at a wally I worked at in Overland Park 30-some years ago, K-Mart's gone, but that wally is still there. my manager's name was Garth, FFS... before I'd heard of Brooks.
Kmart was just as shitty
@ it absolutely wasn’t. Place was a beacon of quality and value in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Once Lampert took over it was junk.
Well Garth Brooks actual first name is Troyal.
I worked for Kmart also in the 1990s. I was there to witness that company basically commit retail suicide. It killed itself off with bad policies and business practices. Customers just quit going there. Not that anyone really liked Walmart either, but at least at the time they had people working there. Kmart in 1999 looked more like retail stores today look, but in a time back when customer service was actually important.
Use to work at Walmart something I will never do again. My reason behind this.
1. Was told I get a point (3 points = being fired) if I'm more than 5 min over the time I was supposed to clock out ( because they dont want to pay overtime)
2. Would constantly get pulled to other side of store to do things then get yelled at when my section wasn't up to par because the managers were not on the same page this was a daily thing
3. I made 11 an hour working in lawn and garden haveing to both stock and cashier with no a/c ( not a big issue) while the people who were solely cashiers inside made 12 and didn't have to do anything else. where ever I got pulled to help was also made at least a dollar more than I did.
4. My store manager tried to get Me to quit college by telling me that he makes way more money than I will with my degree path ( big whoop I'm becoming a teacher) yet I still made 11 an hour...
Personally I put more care and did more there than most of the eympolees did and got nothing but yelled at for not doing enough. It was a tired cycle
Report them to Labor Department
yeah, they love to use their employees up
I got fired for reporting the automotive lifts to OSHA... f that place, it was a hell hole.
Exactly what happened for me working there…..😂🤦🏾♂️
I feel you. I’ve been there, it sucks.
As a German it still gives me some small pride that Walmart came to Germany, got their asses handed to them, lost a couple billion dollars and left in shame.
Danke
You stay in Germany with your small pride, and I'll stay in the USA.
As an American who is tired of these monopolistic companies, I'm prideful that happened, too.
culture shock is real
So based.
Walmart used to sell LIVE FISH for aquariums. Sadly they were neglected and not cared for properly at all. I remember looking at the fish tanks one time and there were 40 DEAD FISH and it STUNK up the pet section! Thankfully they stopped selling live pet fish.
No, no they haven't...
@docreid7268 it takes awhile but yea, on remodels are getting rid of the aquarium. So they are getting away from it thankfully.
Frogs too. I had one long ago.
I remember those days. They sold feeder mice and rats for a while, too.
“This effort is no longer profitable!” - Walmart when it pulls out of a rural town after killing all the small businesses
If it wasn’t them it would be some other retailers (like Dollar Stores).
Better competition isn’t a bad thing
As someone who lives in a rural town wal mart was a lifesaver for the vast majority of us. Having said that i totally get why they're hated so much
Wish there was more viable competition. Biggest issue that any competition they had or that ever pops up suffers from bad management.
If there were any small businesses to destroy in the first place
I can’t think of anyone who “likes” walmart they just go there cause its there.
That and because theres not really much of an alternative in many places.
I like Walmart. They have a bigger selection than any other grocery store, and is cheaper than almost everyone (except maybe some dollar stores).
If I hate something, I'm not going to even come near it much less spend money on it.
The only reason walmart exists in my town is to tell stuff that isnt at other stores.
It’s cos their 🥛 and 🥚 are cheaper than Food4Less.
You mention Walmart moving into small communities which causes less traffic to local businesses and stores, potentially putting them under. No mention however of when Walmart just decides to up and out of that same community, leaving them now with nothing as they killed all other competition. Can really murder a village in the middle of nowhere.
Before Walmart, my community was a food desert. If Walmart leaves, it will once again become a food desert. But it is built on land leased to it by the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, so we *should* get sufficient notice if/when Walmart intends to vacate.
Sounds like they almost become a company town, of sorts - the one thing sustaining the entire local economy of a small place
Theres an entire episode of South Park lampooning why people hate Walmart and it hits every point you mentioned in this video lol
I worked at Walmart for a bit in 2009. A lot of the really bad scandals were pretty fresh at that point, so the store I worked in was extremely strict about certain policies, like making sure to take your lunch breaks. Even so, it was a really demoralizing place to work. It was so clear that the company cared more about avoiding more lawsuits than any of the humans involved.
As someone who worked for Walmart for nearly two years, my experience there was the worst job of my life. When I finally quit I felt like the weight of the world has been lifting off my shoulders. Walmart always finds ways to make up for any type of increase, I.e. playing more hourly but cutting the number of hours an employee works. Almost everyone at my Walmart works a second job because Walmart did not pay enough.
Everyone is depressed there, better to work at a prison
@@Nicholas-f5 Hell, it's better to work at any union job.
@@Nicholas-f5it basically is prison
What are the chances I get this notification as I walk out of a Walmart
Pretty good, all things considered
Praying for you 🙏🏼😁😂
did you hate it?
same here lol
Nasty
I worked at Walmart for a couple months while I was working on becoming an EMT. Horrible place. No training, close to no useful communication and orders on what I was supposed to be doing, half the equipment just didn't work, and the managers clearly had favorites who could get away with anything (or rather, doing nothing) while randomly yelling at those who were just trying to do their jobs.
Absolutely true
I used to be a sales manager for a steak and seafood distribution company and my clients were Walmarts. I can comfortably say that the most depressing place on earth is a Walmart break room. You’d find happier people in a prison death row.
So true. You get to call out for a maximum of 6 days your first 5 years or you start taking points and then get fired. Have a manager that is out for blood against me. Incredibly egotistical, disrespectful, and if you are not a favorite or wage slave, he'll find any reason to write you up. Got written up for using the bathroom after my break time ended, and I'm 90% sure I'm getting another for having a 15 second conversation with someone walking by, and he stared at me the whole time. Didn't say anything to the other person, just me and said he'll get with my team lead to find out what to do with me. Genuinely most stressful job I ever got for a retail job. 100% quitting if I get pulled into the office tomorrow and he writes me up.
I was a security guard for Walmart's, not an employee, they were our client. What a zoo! Customers having fistfights over parking spaces, people who hike literal miles up and down aisles, have to have the closest space to the door! People who won't bother to put on clothing, and wonder why they can't come in! Tailgate parties in the parking lot, with alcohol! Where America's finest come out to be! I felt like a Roman Leigionaire, in the Mideast!
@@markcollins2666 I love how we both felt the need to clarify that we worked at Walmarts but we didn’t work FOR Walmart. 😆 I’m sorry but I couldn’t be a Walmart employee unless I was truly desperate and had zero other options.
Walmart is one of those companies where you never “go to”, but instead “end up at”. No one involved is having a good time expect the Walton family
ok i like my walmart.
@@vaderladyl same here. I like it.
I remember having a conversation with an acquaintance who was upset that Walmart was driving out the small businesses, but confessed she hadn't shopped at any of those small businesses in years because they can't match Walmart's prices.
I've never met anybody who sincerely enjoys working for Walmart.
Same for Amazon.
Ik people who left Walmart and actually liked Amazon
They’re truck driver are pretty happy
In my many years of retail, the people you work with can be fantastic. The actual store is a shitshow.
i worked there just under 11 years and i didnt HATE it there.
there are some policies i feel are dumb. but i can see why they have it.
worst thing is they expect people to work everything in less time and not allow enough time to take care of overstock.
I meant Amazon is massive and is branched out. I’m sure AWS employees are fine.
I was in Germany when Walmart bought WertKauf. I spoke to an American executive that was hired to change the chain into Walmart. He said that he told a store manager that they would meet on a Monday morning and complete a full inventory of the store. Monday came and the manager was gone, ON VACATION - FOR 6 WEEKS!!! German labor laws were on the manager's side. I heard that Walmart left Germany a few years later.
Hard to run a company with abusive tactics when a country outlaws abusing your employees.
Fun fact Walmart and Amazon are the biggest welfare queens in the US, because they both underpay their workers so drastically many of their employees qualify for food stamps and assisted housing.
They are leeches on local economies and government welfare.
We have to stop giving companies credit for “creating jobs” when the wages are not livable in damn near any position and they treat the employee like shit.
Fuck walmart.
Question. Why is it a company's job to provide a living for a person? A "living wage" is anti free market commie speak. A free market allows a person to work harder, develop skills and become more valuable in order to get more $. Or just complain and remain at the bottom of the socioeconomic all the while voting for commie free stuff which kills the actual freedom others who are working harder.
Good point. Big companies exist only to serve themselves and not their employees and customers when it’s should be all three.
They pay their workers low enough to allow them to get government assistance and then take that money when their employees most likely end up doing their grocery shopping there.
I work there and they treat me very well. Who told you they treat employees like shit?
My Aunt Joyce was a regional manager for Wal-Mart through the 70s, 80s and into the 90s and she loved it!
Shes said several times that if Sam saw the statue of the company today he would be severely disappointed.
One of the biggest reasons I despise Walmart is honestly the customer base. I can feel my blood pressure rising as soon as I turn into the parking lot. There’s definitely a certain stereotype about the “people of Walmart” that rings true for a lot of their stores.
I like going to the People of Walmart website every so often for a good laugh. Though I have yet to see anyone like the people featured when I happen to go to my local Walmart.
yes. i have a theory that the circus is less of a popular attraction because most people you would traditionally find in a circus are at walmart shopping. great for people watching
The Costco nation is a serious contender to the Walmart People.
Paying your employees so little that they require food stamps which are then spent at your store is such a massive overlooked scandal
And as a former employee the employee discount doesn’t even cover food.
Working so little that you can't afford food in a time of such opportunity everywhere is a MASSIVEly OVERLOOKED SCANDAL. It's so easy to make 6 figures today that it causes cry baby commies look foolish. Try harder if you want more.
I know that at one time upon hiring a new employee,the HR Manager would provide State and/or Federal documents to new hires to inform and assist them in applying for public assistance because they knew that they weren’t paying the employee enough to survive without government benefits.
It's a type of Corporate Welfare.
Wasn't that what the song "sixteen tons" was about?
Back in 1999 in college I interviewed for an IT job at Corporate Headquarters in Bentonville Arkansas. The recruiter said expect to work 50-55 hours on average with great potential growth...
????
No Thanks.......I got a Federal related job for the same pay.
god damn when even the corportate jobs suck that's a problem. I hear their truckers make good pay though, can someone confirm that?
Company Man is a good example of how school presentations should be
Walmart acts like they don't even need customers anymore.
I like that 9 minutes in you used Publix as a good example to follow. My favorite big chain store here in Florida. Especially their bakery. Unlike Walmart, Publix bakes their own bread right there instead of shipping it in. And they eggwash their loaves.
I know it's high-priced. Same for WinnDixie. I typically go to aldies, dollar general, and dollar tree, before anywhere else.
Publix prices have gotten outlandish. The Winn-Dixie sucks and our closest Aldi is almost 40 miles away.
@@fumanpoo4725 Indeed. And another sad point is save-a-lot. In my youth they were the low budget place to shop, but now their prices are on par with winn dixie.
Another sad point is save-a-lot. In my youth they were the low budget place to shop, but now their prices are on par with winn dixie.
It's definitely the employee treatment. The amount of times I've had to go to the government for things like being told we can't use the bathroom because it's too busy or skip lunch because there's not enough people. Heck I know people who've been fried for having a heart attack mid shift from the crazy work load and long forced hours. The place has driven every other job in the area out so you kind of have to deal with it. It's either fast food or one of the 2 local Walmarts.
WM is evil
Their anti-union behavior isn't helping either.
@@kibble-netIt really isn't, and in right-to-work states like mine that is a problem. You have absolutely no job security and can be fired for any reason, and as long as it didn't violate federal laws you can't do anything about it.
The city that I live in has banned Walmart from opening up any stores in the city.
New York City? 🤔
NEW YORK, NEW YORK!
You live in a shockingly stupid town.
Is it Yorba Linda, California?
Because your city sucks
Walmart contributed to wiping out Kmart when they expanded across the country into Kmart territory. When Walmart came to town, my local Kmart began losing customers
Probably because of KMarts bad management.
Yeah, K-Mart put themselves out of business; the worst I ever experienced at a Walmart was actually pleasant compared to the best I ever got at K-Mart.
Kmart killed themselves even if Walmart didn't come but a Target did the same thing would've happened because I remember going to Kmart and it always looked like a tornado went through the store
I always felt sad for KMart...they just could never get it right.
The store was uncomfortable to shop in, messy but also not maintained to give you a pleasant experience.
And then....K Mart......bought Sears due to a hedge fund type exploitation ownership that couldn't care less about employees and customers.
K mart was carried by little ceasers in the store
I was a Walmart stocker for several months. My experience is summed up by managers contradicting each other, prioritization of one part of the store over another (namely, my part was gradually neglected for the grocery side) and impossible requests.
It’s always, “by yourself, do this amount of labor with this amount of product you can never stock in time”. It was just impossible, it always is. Leads snapping at me due to being disgruntled, other leads being uncaring about literal store theft or problems I’d approach them with.. basically it’s always about maintaining the status quo and little else.
I worked in asset protection. The team leads would ignore theft. I remember catching a woman stealing makeup. She had over 100 cosmetic items. I called the team lead and the undercover shopper neither picked up the phone. The lady I caught stealing waited 30mins for an Uber. There was another time I caught a middle aged man giving his information to underage girls. He was giving out cards with his address and phone number on it. One the undercover shopper threw it in the trash instead of giving it to the police. Constantly being yelled at and harassed by team leads and coaches.
As a current associate for Walmart, the job is okay. I get benefits like a 401k and health insurance and being on the Spectrum, the job has helped with my social skills. However, the job can be mentally draining, especially when I worked in the service deli. High turnover or understaffed, constantly busy frying food like popcorn chicken or the people I work with just do the bare minimum. The bakery is SO much better because I'm away from most customers and can focus on the task at hand and not have to split my attention between cooking, cleaning and helping customers all at once.
Glad your experience is good.😊
I work at Walmart i make 16.60 after 16 years of employment. Its soul crushing. Now working at the same place for 16 years has made me unemployable anywhere else. I've applied to around 30 different jobs in the past year and haven't had one call back.
Be persistent and call those companies back, you might have made the first move by applying, now it's up to you to bother the shit out of them so they hire you 😉
@BleachDemon707
I have
I don’t think you’re having that problem because of your work history at Walmart. I’m dealing with the same bullshit, and so is nearly everyone I know. It’s just impossible to get a job in general right now.
if it makes you feel any better, I'm in a professional/tech career and job hunting is just as awful. I've sent out 30-40 resumes this past month with only 1 response. And I think I'm very lucky to even have gotten that. Keep at it, I hope better things are ahead for you.
@johnchedsey1306
Same👏
Always look forward to the new Company Man video every Wednesday 👍
I was walking into work when you posted this, i make right at 17.50, in the state im in, pre covid, it was absolutely a liveable wage, you could also earn a weeks vacation in about 3 months back then too, every February walmart brings down new rules and every 2 to 3 years, they bring down massive company wide changes, it takes 6 to 8 months to earn that week off now, the changes are always in favor of the company or management, it really does feel like the company hates everyone at the store level below management, you might get some favoritism if you work 1st shift, because thats when the majority of management is their usually.
You still make base pay after working their for all this time....maybe you should have a hard look at yourself?
@grandinosour thats not base pay, i guess i worded that poorly or your just a fuckwit, either way, i made 11 a hour in 2016.
@@grandinosourThats not base pay, i made 11 a hour, then 15 pre covid, i may have worded it poorly but you could of read in-between the lines and understood what i meant, i dont have time for entitled people who have never worked retail and or understand how giants like walmart operate, its not a tech job where you get to negotiate pay.
what are you talking about. Maybe it your part time it'll take you 6-8 months to earn a week off. I earn 1 hour vacation, every 9 hours worked, that is roughly 4.4 hours a week. it takes me 9 weeks to earn a weeks vacation. Yes its based on years of service but the policy is the same as it was pre covid.
@sborwege its not, toward the end of 2020 they had a meeting with my store about it, said they're wasnt enough associates in store to help customers, thats how they hide behind policies that take away from associates, they say its for the benefit of the customers, iv transfered to 5 different stores, all told me the same thing on the topic. Iv been full time the whole time of worked for the company too for the record.
Parts of The Godzilla fandom in particular aren’t big fans of Walmart because they cancelled a number of Products Lines in the 90’s, those figures were one of a kind and now super hard to come by.
They also treat their customers like thieves; checking the receipts as you walk out, refusing returns, security barriers as you walk in.. it truly feels like the ghetto of shopping stores.
Blame the residents of that neighborhood. My store doesn't have barriers
You can just walk right by the receipt checkers btw. According to their own rules due to liability they can’t actually stop you unless they confirmed you stole something 3 different ways. They just operate on passive compliance. I just smile, tell them to have a nice day and keep walking. FOH checking receipts
@@SalWare686 You can for sure, but is still feels confrontational and gross. It's why I stopped shopping there. One of the checkers touched me as I walked by as if to try and stop me. I just kept going, but that was the last straw.
I once had my nearby store refuse a return. So I went to another store south of the county and they accepted my return, no further questions. Some locations are being too extra.
in my area they just had to check. too many just push carts of good out without paying them. I blame the neighborhood, not the store.
I recently got fired from Walmart for “poor performance” after getting verbally harassed by a now former coworker 3 separate times over the course of 7 months; the now former coworker had been there much longer than I had and was much more experienced. That was the real reason they fired me; they wanted to keep him instead. I had not been told anything about my work performance since the first month I was hired. I came in early and clocked in on time and left on time I was scheduled to do so. Went on my breaks when I was supposed to do so as well. Went above and beyond and would make sure to clear out the giant piles of cardboard before I left on my way out dozens of times (that stopped after the second verbal harassment event occurred; yes I did tell a supervisor each and every time. The third time had occurred the day before I was fired. I was walked out the next night just two hours left in my shift. I hadn’t said a single word to them after they told me I was terminated).
Report them to the labor department
that kind of trouble is typical to most work places…
I also got fired for a similar reason. They want to keep the people who have been there, even when those people are horrible at their jobs.
Labor department, and company pays unemployment for abusive termination. Document any paper trails they failed follow ups
DON't buy this one for a second. Everyone who gets fired blames someone else while acting like they were the greatest employee to ever work. Always BS.
We live in a rural town where there were fears that when Walmart came in, the local businesses went out. The first casualty was K-Mart; the second was Albertsons. Local companies actually ramped up their game and are giving Walmart a run for their money. One small grocery store routinely stocks better quality for comparable if not lower prices than Walmart. It can be done if owners are willing to forego sky-high profits for lower but steady profits-say Walmart charges $2.98 for a gallon of milk. Many owners will charge $5.00 a gallon for the same stuff, betting that people won’t want to travel 10 miles to the nearest Walmart. Our little store charges $3.09 for that same gallon, guaranteeing that people won’t drive 10 miles to Walmart.
All owners don’t have the option given that grocers have some of of the thinnest margins of any industry.
I used to work at Kmart in the 1990s. My town actually had Walmart first before Kmart, coming in '93 and '95 respectively. Before that we had stuff like Ames, Jamesway, and Hills and other now long defunct discount stores. Our Kmart was actually very competitive with Walmart for several years, up until about 1999, then Kmart basically just killed itself. We had hardly anyone working there and half our sale items were usually out of stock. People quit going there. I was in their management training at the time and saw the writing on the wall, so I quit and went back and completed my education and got the heck out of retail completely.
I pass a walmart to shop at Aldi and I drive even further for a more complete shopping experience.
Former Walmart worker here, the main reason workers hate it there is because they literally make you do everything or add on work for the same pay. I worked as a cashier and I’ve helped out with carts the online department and even being the guy with the keys in the pharmacy section. Hell sometimes they made me watch over the front when I wasn’t even a team lead (their dumb way of calling their people a manager)
I greatly appreciate you being as objective as possible, about this sensitive topic, Mike.
Your channel rocks and I'm glad to be a long time fan.
I worked at Walmart for 3 years before quitting. It was miserable and I felt a weight lift off my shoulders when I hit the parking lot.
1) They put unbelievable pressure to get things done when you already have a stacked schedule. None of my team leads bothered to help me, but were fine yelling at me to get tasks done all by myself. I worked dairy/meat department.
2) They hire incompetent people as team leads/managers. Seen various people quit because of poor treatment. Store managers always needed my help with some task, yet I got yelled at (when alone on my shift) if the milk/eggs weren’t filled up. Our department got blamed for numerous problems, when it was THEM who were causing the problems. 🤦🏾♂️
yeah man I totally get that, dairy/frozen department is especially stressful, especially keeping up with the egss, milk and creamers being stocked, then vizpick, skids, oh and dont forget claims, the harder working employees dont seem to get enough help at times and it’s just annoying. 😅
I hate how they're convenient. But for reals, i was in college ehen that doc came out and we had to watch it for business class...the tactics they use to stop unionizing and stuff is wild. Probably even woese 20 years later
I highly doubt you were ever in college based on that comment with misspellings and other errors...
Aww.... I miss Woolworth's
I miss eating at their instore cafes back in the days of my youth.
@@fumanpoo4725 Alway used to beg my mom for a soft pretzel and a red slushie... :)
I hadn't remembered that until now! My grandparents used to take me there when I was a kid.
My favorite part of Walmart is how they used to have the 35 registers up front but only 4 were ever open at a time, but now they have 35 self-checkout station up front and only 6 of those are open at a time. They can't even be bothered to allow us to do it ourselves.
The Walmart near me has 2 huge sections of self-checkout and one is ALWAYS roped off and closed and the other ALWAYS has a line of 15+ people
I have been waiting for this video for a while. Ive worked for Walmart over 20 years now, and the company deserves its reputation for sure. I’m lucky in that my store has good management and we have the reputation of being “the good Walmart”, but that isn’t most stores by far.
I work at Target and we use Walmart as the punchline to a joke; plus they have us price match items with Walmart and Amazon to get the lowest prices for our guests (what they want us to call customers). Also, I have a friend that works at Walmart and worked at Target and he agrees that Target treats their employees way better then Walmart. If possible I would like to see a video about Target in the future.
I go to walmart for groceries and I go to target whenever I break something (it's so easy to abuse the no questions asked return policy. Hell, I broke my nintendo switch once cracked screen and all, bought a new one, swapped the backplates (so the serial numbers matched up) brought it back like this doesn't work, and I got a full refund)
Maybe it would be worth shopping at Target if their prices weren't ridiculous. Targets prices are higher on literally everything compared to Walmart. At the end of the day, people don't care about if a company actually treats their employees fairly, they care about prices, and products. No one cares about sustainability, or ethics if you're selling a product for ten dollars more than your competitor, and your trying to save money.
I go to Walmart when I don't want to pay the 'Target tax'.
I don't hate Walmart. I just get in, do my shopping. self check out and leave.
Same here!👍
What is the "Target tax"?
@@sabrinashelton1997 Target is more expensive than Walmart for the same items.
Target is the same price now.. cuz Walmart shoppers are too loyal and scared to step out and price compare at other places. Facts. Y'all getting fleeced.
@@mirzaahmed6589naw.. you just too scared to shop anywhere else ,😂 they lied when they told ya you looked good in Walmart clothes btw..
We have literally ZERO Wal-Mart stores in NYC. They know they're just way too much of a company.
I might be one of the few with a not so bad experience at Walmart as a worker. My time as an hourly associate was amazing. I was paid decently well, it wasn't a hard job, and I got to leave early to cut overtime.
My bad came from becoming a salary manager. Working 15 hour days and even on my days off. Being told ai am not working enough or pulling my weight. I took a big pay cut to take my next job and the stress relief was worth it! I would work for Walmart again but hourly only.
One benefit about Walmart is it helped me with being socially awkward and learn to talk to people when I was working as Customer Service
100% Once you've dealt with some of the crazier "Walmart" people for awhile, you learn that everyone is a little insane in their own way. It kind of took the edge off of my social anxiety, and taught me to socially relax a bit.
Same, I don't think I had social anxiety, but I was always pretty shy, compounded with having a softer voice it made communication not my strong suit. But now that I've been working at Walmart for a while I interact with tons of people every day I work and it's not an issue for me anymore. Most people are polite or kind enough and it's very rare that I actually run into anyone that is rude just to be rude. It's just a lot less scary now that I've experienced so much time with strangers I suppose.
Bro you’re almost at 2 million subs! Congrats!!
The reason why so many employees hate the company is because it's easier to get full time with benefits at Walmart than any other comparable company, but once they get you in that position they know you can't go anywhere and some stores / managers will take advantage of that fact.
Predatory but not surprising. This is America we're talking about, where corporate sabotage is seemingly encouraged.
I worked at Citibank and I got a promotion and no raise until a full year later (I was promoted in December and they purposely dragged their feet to not officially put me in the new position until after January 1st). When I called HR to say something about it they got snotty with me and told me I should be lucky I have a job. So I trained for my new position, took the free trips to New York City to train and meals and hotels on the company for 12 weeks, came back home, and told them to stick the job where the sun don't shine and to have fun replacing me and paying to train my replacement, and thanks for all the free stuff 😂😂😂
I dislike them because no more 24 hour Walfarts
I remember going to Walmart at 3am as a pit stop. Maybe they even had a McDonald's in it. That's a pleasant memory i'll never have again.
@knuclear200x Grabbing your $1 McChicken at the 24 hour Walmart
3am shopping was our jam.
Lol get over it
@@JStorm13
There is a reason why my generation is doing youtube pranks at walmart and it's not even because of no 3 am shopping 🤣🥸
Would be interesting to see something like this with Dollar General...
Something else with Walmarts practices is, whenever they move into one of those small towns they kill the local small businesses. Then when they leave they in some cases end up killing the town. They stay just long enough that a generation passes and the descendants of the old store owners want nothing to do with trying to keep the family business going.
I grew up in Bentonville, AR. I worked for them in accounting 20 something years ago. I used to see the invoices from all of their vendors. WM have always been ruthless and crooked as hell.
I call them 'the killer of everything nice' because of how many retailers have fallen because of them.
Sam Walton began as a small store. He just did it better as stated.
A good amount of them didn’t manage them right. Sam Walton was one of the few who did it right as rain and the long term success shows.
@@mrconroy4672 Tell that to Ann & Hope, Ames, Bradlees, E.J. Korvette's, Venture Stores, Zayre, pre-Eddie Lampert Sears, and Woolworth's.
ya those other people weren't inventive or smart enough to keep their business alive
@@ChrisWehadababyitsaboy Small businesses can’t compete with the economies of scale that some huge conglomerate can. It’s not about lack of skill.
There was a story not to long ago about Walmart employee being literally cooked alive in a walkin oven. The story is horrible and from what I remember she was only 19. Walmart isn’t changing for the better at all.
Things don't add up with that story
Buried that story was.
Yeah in Halifax. I'd actually argue Walmart Canada is even more evil than US walmart. Their hiring practices are another big issue...
Great video! What stands out to me is the fact that Walmart had a discrimination case against someone with Down Syndrome. Glad she was compensated. I hope she’s ok. 😃
Walmart management was so corrupt that they knew I was a former Brosnan, risk, consultants officer, security officer, and what I can’t management doing to my reports as a Walmart asset protection customer service host was appalling. They were putting my miss scanned items report in with asset protection shoplifting reports so instead of me getting recognition for what I did asset protection was getting all of it and when asset protection quit, I shown interest for the job because of the fact is I have experience they went with the less experienced person at one point eventually management fired me then try to lie to the state and I won $14,200 because I proved that the firing was not of just cause now please know not all Walmarts are like this in fact when I was transferred from was one of the best, I unfortunately transferred to one of the worst across state
Their service sucks, their stores are dirty, they are anti-employee and their customers smell bad.
might be yours. Mine is gentrified.
As someone who prefers self checkout, I stopped going to Walmart when they start treating me like a thief.
Have you seen the videos of all the people who used self checkout they have got arrested. It’s kinda scary.
And I'm not stopping for the receipt not-zee.
I don't like that they have no ppl on the floor to help you, and if they do, they run from you.
Many of them don't even know where everything is--a result of that really high turnover rate. They also are given a lot to do in a short amount of time, so helping customers could end up getting them behind and in trouble.
So much hate at Walmart, evil place
That's so strange to me as a former Kmart employee, we were required to help customers even when not in our own department then we had to page someone else who could. If you purposely dodged customers the way they do all the time at Walmart, you would have been fired pretty quickly.
We’re indirectly discouraged from helping customers. I was written up for being too helpful towards my coworkers because then my area wasn’t looking as good as everyone else. But the expectations were unrealistic and I was simply doing tasks we had to do anyway. Management is extremely picky and forces us to act like we’re a warehouse. Our jobs are at stake regularly no matter how hard working or being a reliable worker who is never late
Where I live (western part of the US) there are Walmart Neighborhood Markets (WNM) along with the Supercenters, where I've noticed that the employees at the WNMs are helpful and pleasant when compared to the Supercenter employees.
One aspect I love about the WNM is their low prices for grocery items, many times their everyday low prices are lower than the other supermarket chains when they have sales requiring the use of the loyalty membership cards.
The self-checkout at the WNM I don't mind for two reasons:
- No waiting in line for checkout; as the there are at lease a dozen or more Point-of-Sale registers that are open.
- Many of those Point-of-Sale registers have spacious counter tops, making it easy to bag the grocery items.
Come to Phoenix. It's not that way here at all.
I used to work for Walmart, I hated it. Now I am permanently banned from all Walmarts in the United States, and I still hate them.
You can't just leave a comment like that and not tell us how/why you're banned.
@ I was terminated because I took too many sick days without filling an unpaid time off request (I got strep throat, felt horrible). I wasn’t thinking I’d get fired and had a freak out. I didn’t harm any customers nor would I have, and I kicked a trash can on the way out of the store. The managers called the police, but I was let go since I didn’t damage anything. After 2 weeks, I called to apologize and security told me I was banned. It’s total BS since I had it settled with corporate. I still walk into the Walmart I worked at and get looked at funny by employees, I also get yelled at by security sometimes, it’s honestly pretty sad.
I hate Walmart customers. 😂 The sheer lack of give-a-shit is wild. Trashy people in ill-fitting clothes, screaming unruly kids, talking on speaker phone, trash set down wherever... People of Walmart *suck*.
might be your Walmart. Mine is gentrified.
I don't like that Walmart continues to refuse Apple Pay and Google Pay while Target and other competing retailers do. They want customers to use the Walmart App to pay. I've seen posts online that show people want to pay with their phone but can't because Walmart doesn't accept contactless pay
Because in today's society, selling groceries is not as profitable as selling data. By forcing you to use WalMart Pay, they get better data on you to sell.
I came to say this.
They make money selling your data and don’t want to chop the arm off the save the body.
as a employee it's because of apple pay and google pay being competitors to Walmart pay its the reason why Walmart quit selling Amazon gift cards
My wife shops with her phone directly to a bag and only needs scan a QR code at checkout before walking out.
I use to work for them. They are very dirty.
Do "Why Disney is hated" next.
Woke and vile. Easy.
@@endrankluvsda4loko172 Buying everything to be a monopoly too.
It’s only hated by insecure, middle-aged white guys
Because live action Snow White is an abomination
Bad agenda driven movies that few people want to watch. Disney has lost its magic.
I stopped shopping at Walmart years ago. I only shop at Target or Costco. Totally different vibes compared to Walmart.
My experience with Walmart is CONSISTENTLY always horrifically unclean and understaffed stores, where they have 30 checkout lines and only one of them is open. I lived in a very large city with a lot of traffic, and the local Walmart simply kept firing more employees and making the remaining one work three positions’ worth of duties.
Not only that, but to address their rampant shoplifting problem, they decided to start locking up a bunch of random products like shaving cream. This means you have to hunt down a store employee to get these items, and half of the store is arbitrarily locked up like this.
This means that the poor employees who are already working 3 different positions’ worth of responsibilities are constantly needing to drop what they’re doing and go open a cabinet for someone who needs their spaghetti noodles.
Why do they need three people standing in the front of the store checking receipts if there is only one person manning the checkout aisle with 14 people waiting in line?
The 3 gaurds make sure no money is been stolen and that one guy is saving Walmarts from 3 other wages for the price of one, you rather soend 50hr or 16 hr? i say this is efficiency.
Walmart put out a message on social media the other day warning that they’ll have to raise prices if Trump does implement the tariffs he’s proposing. The annoying part is that they put it out AFTER the election, and not before
Ironically Wal-Mart might have the political power to successfully push back on Trump's stupid tariffs. At least 3000 different outlets reported on how tariffs work before the election, so this is on the voters for being ignorant or thinking Trump was going to give them all ponies.
Walmart buys from countries that have slay've labor. The building that houses the people who make the iphones has nets to prevent people from killing themselves by jumping to their dea--ths. I hope we can find a way to stop importing from those countries altogether. If tariffs help in that regard then I'm all for paying more.
To be fair if they said it before the election they would be accused of election interference
2:53 ok so I know this is probably not actually the case that it's the one I work at but it's insane that the walmart I work at has 1:1 exact same layout as this picture, aside from I guess a slightly smaller seafood section, despite the branding clearly being much older
I think I work at that one too. It’s just way to similar
I don't know if Walmart was ever the most wonderful place to shop at, but the stores got a lot worse after they all got turned into Super Walmarts. Less selection of items, and yeah, I wouldn't buy meat, fish, or produce from Walmart.
A big pet peeve of mine is when stores get rid of name brands and put their own brands in their place. Walmart did this with their supplements lately, and, you guessed it, they're a product of China.
I'm surprised that 2/3 of their products are USA made. Maybe it's mostly the food?
And let's not forget the People of Walmart song. 😄
$648 BILLION in annual revenue is insane. They have two million employees, if one year they were to split that with all of them, each person would have $324,000 sitting in their bank accounts. And the next year, their annual revenue would probably top $800 billion 🙃
I got my wisdom teeth out in 2020. During the recovery, I binged your channel like crazy. Cool to see that you're still around
I live in a small town in the middle of Alaska. I was absolutely not happy when we got a Walmart over 10 years ago. I had a girlfriend who worked there and she was absolutely miserable. Had a strict schedule as to when she needed to go on break, no exceptions.
I do my best to stay out of that store even now. And every time I do step in there, it still feels so soul sucking and lifeless.
I hate them because they never stock up on steam gift cards, yet they somehow always have gift cards of everything else
It's because scammers target steam (also Google obviously) gift cards and get people such as the elderly to buy them all up and give them the codes.
I have issues with them not reopening 24 hour stores. That along with stocking during business hours. It wasn't long ago retail establishments discouraged that practice
That's probably because there's a crap load of people buying those thing's💁♂️
@artixes - You have a low threshold for hate.
@@billschlafly4107 hey I’m a simple man what can I say 😂
11:52 bro sounds exhausted
Aa a former walmart associate I can shed some more light on why they're hated from a inside point of view.
Starting off with the management and how they test their employees. Many managers develop a god complex and act like they are better than the regular associates, this in turn fuels brown nosing which shuns and even ignores those that are hard working making them feel unwanted.
Next is the pay gap which is HUGE!
the average associate starts at around $14 depending on the state. Team leads (supervisors) usually get around $21-$24.
Coaches (managers) start off with $45k-55k then it jumps up to store lead who gets 95k-100k! The store manager gets around 150k-200k.
This gets worse when you take into account the annual raise and bonuses.
For the average associate a bonus each year is about $25-$50 with a raise of 2% yes that's right 2%
Managers and above get a bonus of 5k-10k and a raise in the thousands. Store mangers get a annual bonus that comes to enough to buy a car.
The pay gap is just insane, store leads and managers usually don't do much besides sit on their asses all day and don't do any physical work.
I know the pay that they make because the store I worked at most managers would brag about how much they made while the average associate could barely pat bills and rent.
Next is points, there's a point system at Walmart, points are bad. You get to 5 points and you're fired. Miss a day and that's a point, miss a event day (holiday) and that's two points, come in early or leave before you're done and that's a half point. Have car trouble, sick child, get sick? Well sucks to be you.
Managers? They don't get points, and yes they do brag about that. They can come and go whenever they please.
Walmart has many rules, dress codes, work codes, how you talk. Except managers who aren't held accountable to those same codes.
It's more of a "do as I say not as I do".
Managers can push their own personal work onto associates so they can sit down and chat with people or just leave if they want.
What's good is everyday is something new, and the people you work with usually keep you sane. Friendships and even the rare relationships can develop.
I get asked if I miss walmart, I always answer the same. I miss the people I worked with but not the managers.
It's completely unfair, unjust, and miserable to work under a manger who breaks the very same rules that if you did it, you'd get fired then hear them brag about how much they make. Lastly, managers can fire you any reason they like. Even if it's made up and a obviously lie. They can fire you for any reason and at anytime. I've seen managers fire someone for wearing a red shirt (apparently said manager didn't like the color red) one person got assaulted by a customer and when the cashier tried to defend themselves they were fired on the spot.
Walmart is easy to get into and as long as you get your head down and mouth shut and/or brown nose daily you'll be fine. Go even beyond that and you're gone.
It's a revolving door job as HR tells people. Would I suggest working there? Only if it's a last resort
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Each store gets a annual budget, if that store is under then the mangers, mainly the store manger gets a big fat bonus. The way that they keep under budget is by firing random employees (usually making up reasons) or by refusing to replace defective machines.
And if you're a cashier can never sit down even if you're disabled (fairly new rule). Corporate thinks that customers will dislike seeing associates sitting down. A common saying among mangers is "if you're sitting down you're not doing you job". And if you thought that mangers can break this rule then you guessed right. Mangers can sit whenever they want.
This is 100% correct. However if you find your self in a situation where you have to brown nose 24/7 or at all GET OUT
@@KuursKatI personally REFUSE to brown nose. Some people just like to or feel pressured to do so. But there's always a choice
I don't hate Walmart. I just prefer to shop elsewhere where the shopping experience is a bit more pleasant.
Worst customer service ever! I was returning something and the cashier doesn't even acknowledge me, look up or say hi. Then all the sudden she screams "congratulations". Turns out the customer in the next row just got engaged and she acknowledged her and not me. I only come here for the low prices and that's it.
If you ever walk into Walmart you’ll notice none of the employees are smiling. You can tell they hate it there. Walmart was my first job and I remember looking like they do when I was at work
Facts bro. I was pretty happy to get a higher pay job than my last one and going to college. I never realized how depressed and soul drained I am until this sweet older lady said "Did I do something to you?" I replied"No of course not, you're always pleasant to talk to." And she said "Oh, it's just you used to smile and joke around until lately." Was absolutely a sucker punch realization that this job literally makes you depressed and feel powerless when you clock out.
I don’t go to Walmart simply because it’s never a good experience. I’d rather pay extra and go to target. Brighter colors, less mess, and less ghetto lol
I refuse to shop at tuck-it...I mean target.
Walmart your Ghetto Supermarket
mine are gentrified.
I got an ad for Walmart before watching this video.
Haven’t spent a dime at Walmart in years.
Can you do a video on why Meijer's is loved? At first glance at their stores, they seem similar to Walmart except they only operate around Michigan, but there are quite a few reasons why people here love Meijer's but hate Walmart.
As a Michigander, I grew up loving Meijer. It’s so good and way better than Walmart.
That was also a video I suggested. I love Meijer
Topic aside, I don't know why this channel always bring me so much comfort. I reckon is the reliable format of narration and editing.
Haven't stepped foot into a W.almart in 21 years. I plan on never giving them money for the rest of my life.
i hate walmart because they don’t accept wireless transactions
No more 24hr Walmart and I refuse to show my receipt after the transaction.
Legally you don't have to
@@Nicholas-f5 You don't but they can ban you from the store as well.. not showing your receipt isn't a legally protected class, so they can ban you for any reason that isn't protected (like race, gender, etc.)
They only ask for unbagged items. Why does everyone treat this like the worst thing ever? Costco does it too.
they don't ask to do that at all their stores.
How many remember when Walmart's slogan was "We buy American whenever we can, so you can too"... That, of course, quickly changed and they became more of a Chinamart LOL!
I’m honestly content how I work at my store. Good wage, much time off if needed, benefits and of course double my wage over the decade or so I’ve been working there.
Love Walmart. I started a consumer goods company and Walmart embraced us and eventually brought us into every store in the US when not one other retailer would. They were always professional and treated us well. If you have a unique product with mass appeal that provides a value to Walmart shoppers, you will succeed in your dream of becoming a Walmart vendor.
My mother has worked there for decades. Incredibly nice woman, but the company is absolutely wrecking her happiness. She always has trouble sleeping on her day off because, she knows when she wakes up, she's going to Walmart.
I've been desperately trying to get her to quit and work at a Kroger run company. And while Kroger sucks too... it's no Walmart.
Haven't been to a Walmart since I've seen The High Cost of Low Price documentary. Its been over a decade.