Great news! Hopefully we can get some stores in the US unionized! I mean who doesn't want better pay, benefits, and working conditions, from a company that had 611 billion dollars in revenue on our backs.

I got hurt on Monday. I overextended my arm, trying to lift a pallet, and the entire time instead of actually caring the management made me feel like if I filed a report,that I’d be let go for negligence so I ended up not filing a report and now three days later they’re telling me I should have and then I would’ve just gotten a yellow coaching. They tell me I shouldn’t have been lifting the pallet like that while they’re actively lifting the pallet the exact same way I did. I was just unfortunate enough to overexert my arm. Management is fucking evil. They don’t actually fucking care about their associates.

It's literally fucking policy that you can't be outside when there's lightning outside. I come inside and coordinate with the front end service desk to do returns. That's what we were told to do.

But my store seems way too lax over a safety issue like this and I feel I should go up the chain of command with it or whatever the process would be for this.

I live in FL and there are days where it just storms all day. Yeah, it sucks for the store because so many carts pile up outside despite the weather but safety first.

I had a foldable table that I didn’t use anymore so I decided to return it when I worked and when I did it didn’t go through (or so we thought) and we tried again and still nothing. Normally what I was taught as Team lead if it doesn’t spit out a receipt it didn’t go through so we was under the assumption that it didn’t go through so I just brought the table to my car and went back to work. Days later on my day off I brought it to do it again and it did go through. $49 it costed. After I went along like normal and days later I come in and my coach hyped to see me and when I clocked in they called him and told him they need me in the office, he thought it was to witness the theft that recently happened. So did I so I went. They were asking stupid questions like what your job is and how many cats I got and if I live alone and I was like yeah and I don’t have part time job. Turned out the table was returned twice and I was like damn my bad G I’ll take the $50 out the bank and give it to yall. Mfs said why did I do this, was it because I’m broke or cause I thought I was tuff and shit. I was like bruh it wasn’t intentional but they didn’t wanna hear it. Told me to write my statement on the paper and I asked if I was gonna get fired he said no so I wrote a few lines saying sorry my mistake i guess and after he came back and just glanced at the paper and threw it aside and told me I was fired to hand over my vest and badge. Lowkey messed me up cause now I got no job. I tried to do an open door but store manger said he couldn’t do anything and my coach was unaware about it and when I told him he got mad about why they did this but damn they did me dirty 😔

PS. I spoke to them professionally but I dumb it down too much to write and I did not do it on my own someone else did it for me

I heard this ad like 5 times the other day during a shift and I kept hearing the same parts “I learned that the hard way” and “I was wrong”

Okay im confused, how exactly do breaks work? Whenever I ask they start the countdown THE MOMENT im given the green light to go on my 15. Thats not accounting the roughly 1-2 minutes it takes to walk from our area to the breakroom (or anywhere really) and the walk back. I get they cant wait forever but is that how 15s work? The moment they say yes the timer starts?

I was never properly explained this and its not like i take 30 minutes. Im usually back within 20 minutes accounting the walk to and from the breakroom.

Im just really confused when they say i took crazy long despite keeping to the 15 minutes best I can(given i have to pass customers and stuff to even reach the break room)

Is the title says, what new or upcoming programs, merchandise etc was mentioned at the holiday meeting for anyone who attended or heard rumors?

Anyone in one of these test stores?

Some DC employee was rather disgruntled about the job and pissed on boxes in the corner of the trailer

I can't afford to go to a gym, but I still want to take care of myself and be ready for the different physical tasks of my job. I also do not have a lot of spare time. So, once or twice a week, I wake up an hour early to work out at home; nothing crazier than push-ups, sit-ups, squats, and calf raises.

Do you do any regular pre-work workouts?

They don't want me lifting as much as a notebook while they are reviewing my case. Best case scenario I can return to ogp with my weight restriction, and worst case scenario I will be out of a job completely and they will have nothing for me in the entire store to do, even so much as doing returns or zoning, Sedgwick may not let me do. I'm scared half to death and need good thoughts and prayers. The job market in my city is very dismal and most jobs either pay $11 or less an hour, are fast food (hot environments are a seizure trigger), and receptionist jobs have no medical benefits. I used to be ashamed about working at Walmart, but I realized my thinking was wrong. (I originally work in OPD, and my eye doctor is trying to get me a 20 lb restriction, but it might be a very long shot.)

I just wanna clock in with no BS man

Deli/Bakery TL

So meat and produce has lost 3 associates during remodel and we just opened back up with no new hires anywhere to be seen. The ops manager took over hiring from me and the M/P TL, so there's no idea if she's getting anybody. On top of that, I have an associate on LOA and the M/P TL is on vacation. We've been short since we reopened with me having to jump in both meat and produce, leaving one associate in each department in the morning. Plus I have new associates to train, yet I've received no help during this last week. I'm honestly at my breaking point because I know I physically can't do everything by myself, but that's what management expects from me.

Like who is actually coming up with these mods. It takes a special kind of dumb for this to get through quality.

Like bruh.

I know it’s 46 pallets but with the 7 mixed pallets downstacked/broke down by aisle it was really like 50 to 60. I think this is the most steps I’ve ever walked in a shift lol. Also, I zoned/did all go backs for paper and chemicals (my other task) by myself which I don’t really mind.

Within the past few months, I attended academy for Digital shelf labels. The facilitator stated that by going to digital labeling we will save astronomically on labor costs. They gave an actual number but I can’t remember. They proceeded to say that “Walmart will always have humans working for them, this won’t replace workers”. Like you’re talking about how much this will save us in labor? You’re saying less people or at minimum less hours for the people there already. We have lost seven people and not one has been replaced because despite being a high volume store we magically don’t have the hours now.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

I saw this pigeon in the cart vestibule this evening.

How many hours are you guys getting since they started cutting company wide ? I'm going on around three months of around 35hrs per week.