By ruthlessrobin - 25/02/2015 06:31 - United States - Pittsburg
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I went to the store manager who said "what do you expect? You don't make 22 cakes a day." That level is for mass production I am put on specialty orders 90% of the time. He didn't care
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The more hours a Walmart manager schedules and the more raises s/he hands out, the more it lessens their bonus. Look it up. With your talent, you could do so much better.
I ******* hate Walmart. Meanwhile the 6 members of the Walton family are worth $140 billion...worth more than the bottom 40% of the American public combined. Let that sink in people. That's not mentioning the shareholders either. And so their employees, the majority of them, have to fight for decent wages to attempt to fight against being below poverty line. Meanwhile the store managers are making over $100,000 with $20,000 bonuses....yet the majority of Walmart employees are forced to be on food stamps & welfare. Does that at all seem right to you? No I don't work at Walmart, in fact I refused to when I was a teenager because I've always hated this company, the now largest employer in America. How pathetic. They're only the largest employer because they've saturated every town with stores a 20-30 min drive from each other...that's the actual strategy Walmart uses...saturate the area, slash prices so mom & pop stores can't compete, watch mom & pop go out of business & reap the benefits. They even do this with American manufacturing that produces the products that are sold in Walmart...they dictate the price they want to sell it for & if the American company can't meet that wholesale price they immediately go to China to get the product because the Chinese can pay their workers next to nothing & can produce products at whatever price Walmart needs. Now you know why everything in Walmart is from China. Walmart is a blight on America, wake up people. Support those mom & pop shops!! Down with the Waltons, down with Walmart!!!!!!!!
I feel your pain. I work at a Winn Dixie bakery while being full time in college. It's all about production, production, production, but they don't give us enough hours or man-power to produce as much as they want. In the end they just get mad at us. I once worked with a man in the bakery who, after three years of working there, made a three cent raise. My boyfriend works in the produce section at Walmart, and they do the same thing to him too; profits in the department have gone up since he's been there and they tell him he works the hardest, yet he still doesn't get a raise. Its the same story with any corporation...
ydi for working at Wal-Mart.
Walmart treats there employes like shit. My friends 80 year old grandma works there. She's been sick for a few weeks. They are now Threatening to fire her for missing too much work. And they over work her and make her lift 100 pound bags of pet food after they got a note from the doctor clearly saying she can't lift bags above 25 pounds. And they don't follow the "team lift" rule either.
well her fault for not applying for an LOA. also her fault for not asking for help with the pet food-which doesn't weigh 100lbs, I've worked a warehouse pets section. the team lift rule means you go find someone to help you lift things you can't lift on your own. it doesn't mean you sit around and do nothing and wait for a manager to baysit you
I work at walmart and even if you try and find someone to help they are either busy or management yells at you for not doing what you are suppose too be doing. Even when you try and explain. I had to lift a box with a steal bunk bed set in it because it was canceled from a layaway during Christmas time. When I was finally able to drag it out of the back and lay it down out of the way to try and find some help to get it put away my manager came over two seconds later and yelled at me asking why it was there and that I needed to have it put away. I even explained I needed help with it, she just said I could do it by myself.
Local bakeries are usually family owned but I can garauntee with the experience you have that you could get a job at any other store that has a bakery. Ive worked bakery at 2 different places and they both paid decent and treated me decent. Depending on management though of course. Anything is better than Walmart though
Part of the reason I stopped shopping there. If you make that much profit, you shouldn't treat your employees like shit.
This is one of many reasons I don't shop at Wal-mart-they treat their employees like paper towels.
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Walmart does not treat their employees correctly. You should argue with your superior and demand an explanation why you were denied a raise what you did
Don't worry OP, Its just Walmart. You surely deserve something better, like a job at a specialty bakery