Complaints from Wal-Mart Employees

My father works for Walmart at the age of 77. He is part time but works full time hours. He is afraid of calling in sick or requesting time off. He broke his ankle last year but was afraid to report the incident because he was afraid of losing his job. He is currently throwing up, but goes to work everyday with no complaints to the company. Someone needs to look into the treatment of the associates to ensure equality for all. Young kids do not have an problem calling in sick or bringing their issues forward. Senior citizens have a stronger work ethic, therefore, they do not believe they should bring up issues that need to be resolved.

Garden shop needs some good strong men in it. I am so upset with the Yulee Walmart and this is not the first time. All the time, in the garden shop, they have only sweet old ladies back there and never any men to lift bags of heavy stuff to load in the car, or the customers just load it up. The one older lady says they have to or it's their job and they have no business doing any of that. We know how Walmart takes advantage of the employees and they don't care about them at all. But I do, and I am speaking up for them.

Somebody better do something over that area and keep some men back there to help them out. It is not right and I know you can afford to hire some guys to do all the "heavy lifting" asap. If one of those old folks get hurt, maybe they will sue the heck out of you all to get a piece of that pot you are filling up, thinking and making these people feel their jobs are in jeopardy if they don't do what you tell them. Have some respect and care for those who have been there. Look out for the older ones. This is flat out wrong. Something needs to be done. What do you think we think as customers seeing such stuff as this. It shows how you treat the old folks. It's just simple; get some men in there to help them. That's all. Is that asking too much?

I was on a cash register helping out on the front end and one of the managers came to me and said they were going to have to let me go because of a money order issue. I was not fired properly. It was in front of another employee and the money order was in the draw. I was not taken in the back to sign any papers. I was told to leave. Then, I tried to reapply; I was placed on the non-rehire list which is stranger. This happened in Nov. of 09.

My girlfriend has been working with Walmart for almost six years now. While she does have a disability, it is not severe. She has been in maintenance the whole time. She has had one main manager who treats her very badly. Last week, she asked for more hours and she got the usual run around. That same day, she was called into the office and was told that a customer had reported that she was heard talking about being dissatisfied with her hours. She was told that if she did not like it there, she should just go. She constantly requests that she be allowed to try other departments and every time she asks, she gets told to hang on and then watches her hours get cut. Can we sue this person?

I found out I was pregnant with my first baby. I have been calling in because I keep getting complications at work and even when I am at the house. So, on March 29, I was called in the office by the assistant manager, zone manager, and my department manager. I thought I was having my verbal, but they shocked me when they said it was a written coaching. I told them I never had a verbal warning. They got on the computer and said that I had a verbal on Feb. 19 with the assistant manager over my department. The talk me and him had was the evaluation, which is done after 3 months when you are hired. I kept saying I didn't have a verbal, but they went ahead and gave me a written verbal.

I was really upset about that because I have sacrificed and did my best. I remember working even on my days off last year's Christmas because everybody was calling in. Plus, I had to go school full-time. I also remember one of the associates I worked with had problems at home and so the same assistant manager, who claimed to have given me a verbal, and a zone manager and my department manager had a talk to with her. She opened up to them and told them that her husband has been beating her and the kids. She told them because being the managerial staff, she trusted them as she told them confidentially. But the following day, all other department managers knew about it. She was the talk of the store. She ended up quitting because of that.

A new assistant told my wife (pharmacy department manager) she had till February (This was before Christmas.) to get her "outs" down to an acceptable level. In early January, she got a verbal coaching from this same assistant. My wife felt she was being treated unfairly, and via the open door policy, she went to the store manager who seemed to support her.

Now in March of the same year 2012 (March 27), she received a written coaching for the same thing, after things had seemingly returned to normal (and her outs were down). The next time her outs were up, there came the written coaching described above in which she was told that she was not allowed to say anything in her defense (no excuses allowed) and that the same assistant had been told by the store manager that my wife had talked to her about this same assistant manager.

I am convinced they are trying to get her to quit or fire her soon due to the higher wage she receives (She's worked there 25 years with no complaints and had hardly any sick days used.) in an effort to trim overhead. She has heard that new policies have come from the home office that is forcing this pressure on employees, but it's a no-win situation for my wife. Here are a few of the unfair pressures put on her in the last few months:

holding what the records show they should have. She just found a box that was completely empty and yet it was being scanned as full.

Through fear and intimidation at Wal-mart, I believe, it's taking advantage of the current job market to "crack the whip" (It's common to be told that if you don't like it, get out). And then to top all of this stress with the removal of the profit-sharing program that had been in place for most of my wife's career (replaced with one that only matches employee contributions), there's increasing health-care costs (for less coverage).

My wife is breaking down from wear and tear to her hands and back and the stress with no other skills to fall back on, since she's been at Wal-Mart most of her life. I am extremely concerned for her and us (I am sad to say, mentally ill from stress and anxiety-related issues, so this is my only chance to help her), and even to make this complaint terrifies me that it will cause her more grief at work. We are just hanging on here and are in desperate need of help. (We're married 32 years.)

My son works for Wal-Mart and due to being a minor, he gets his paycheck on a debt card from Wal-Mart. It won't work correctly at other stores and held his money for a week until it cleared the problem and it was from the Wal-Mart accounting department. I guess as they said you should have used your card at the Murphy gas station. I guess this is slave labor as you work for the company store.

I will turn them over to the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) as this is considered a hate crime for not letting a child get his money and make sure he spends it with Wal-Mart. I left the Indian Reservation due to they want the same thing from Native Americans stay on the reservation so they can collect monies for each Indian that will stay and let them run their lives. But at least, when they gave you your rations, you could use the money at any store even the liquor store off the reservation, which I didn't do.

This is the worst company I have seen go directly downhill. I know as I have family that worked for Mr. ** before he died. He made many of his employees millionaires and didn't say to them you must spend your money at my store. They just wanted to because he cared about his employees as they are your first line of customer service and when you are treated as the most recent employees, Dollar General will shut them down. Although, they think they can't be touched. Beware what goes around as Main Street goes around and Dollar General is taking more and more of Wal-Mart's money everyday even in the rural areas.

My son is a truck unloader and he is usually in the truck unloading to other crew members. This particular night he was unloading 2 trucks which had 4,100 pieces of freight between the 2 trucks. He arrives at work at 4:00 pm and his crew consists of two new employees and someone who does not speak English well. The manager Yvonne comes around at 6:00 pm, finds that the trucks are not unloaded and recruits other employees to help move freight, so they can remove the freight from the truck. It takes until 8:30pm to remove the freight from the truck. No one is in the truck helping my son remove the freight and his keeping up with the others as they remove the freight from the doorway. The others are responsible for stacking it in the warehouse.

Yvonne has her own criteria about how high to stack the inventory, which is not Walmart policy. The inventory was not stacked as wanted it so she said. "The Colorado store is able to unload and stack the inventory faster and better". She turns to my son and said "You have been warned about this before and you are fired". He was the only one fired, none of the one's stacking the inventory was fired. (Yvonne has written him up before because he pointed out that he does not control the other employees' behavior). Another manager told him he needed to fight the complaint in their "open door policy". This kid has had his toenail removed twice now because they don't maintain the floor jacks and he accidentally ran over his toe. There are times he has had scratches on his arms because he is trying to hurry to unload the freight and doesn't pay attention and scratches his arms. As a mom, do not let you kids work at Walmart, they do not care about their employees.

I used to work at Kmart. I was there for eight years. When the store's doors closed, I was glad that Walmart had hired me. Right from the beginning, I love working for Walmart. The management team at the time was excellent. Kmart's management team wasn't very concerned about the people who work for them. I have been with Walmart for nine years now. The first seven years, I have built good working relations with really good people and I have learned a lot about many areas of the store. I cannot say that the last two years have been happy ones working for Walmart. The store seems to be a totally different store than when I first began. People do not seem to care about each other. I feel that this is a result from the poor management team that we now have. There is no respect for the individual.

I am not the type of person who continually complains, but today was a very sad day for me at work. There is a woman named Lenna who has worked for Walmart for twenty eight years. Today, she retired. There wasn't any thank yous, any flowers, any recognition, not even a cake. I do not know the details of actions today, but Lenna was very upset. She took it upon herself to get on the loud speaker and thank the customers and her fellow associates for the years that she was able to spend with them and to say to everyone that she will miss them. Then, as word got around, and after some time had passed, she went and addressed management. I do not know what was said, but Lenna left the store very upset. Only after the fact was a basket created for her. I have thought about this all day and it is now 10:30PM.

I have shed a tear while writing this, not only because of a lovely lady's mistreating but I see rudeness nearly everyday working for Walmart by the management team. I really do like my job and I am very thankful to the Lord that I have my job but the atmosphere at our store is very dense and people just come to work and do their jobs and then go home. I don't think people look forward to coming to work and enjoying their good, hard day's work. This type of treatment reminds me of Kmart. I want to thank you for letting me get out what was bottled up inside of me. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

I worked at Store No. 1053 in LaGrange, KY. On Sunday evening, January 29, 2012, I went into the Personnel Department to use the computer to check my work schedule. No human resource employees were working that evening. I noticed that my W2, along with many other store associates', was lying out on a conference table available for anyone to come along and take. I immediately reported to the CSM that I was uncomfortable with my information being left out like that and she said absolutely nothing. A few days later, I went to pick up my paycheck and I noticed again that all the W2's were on the conference table while no one was in the department. When the manager returned, I mentioned that I took my W2 on Sunday evening off the table while the room was empty and she informed me that I was not supposed to do that. I told her that I was uncomfortable with my private information being left out like that and she told me not to worry because no one would take my W2, and besides there was nothing in there anyways. I told her that my social security number was in there and it is very important to me! I asked her if she knew that identity theft was the fasting growing crime in America and she told me not to worry.

I was shocked by her indifference and couldn't believe she could be so stupid about private, personal, confidential information considering her position. So I decided to go for it and asked the obvious. Did you leave your W2 up for grabs on a table? Did you put managers' W2's on the table? Crickets. I informed her that if she didn't want to do anything about it, I was going to the store manager. She said, "Go head." So I did, tried telling the store manager, but he made me go back to register and put customers in my line. The next day, I was harassed by other store associates, so I decided it was time to go. I have an excellent credit score and don't need the hassle for a minimum wage job. I am fortunate enough to be in that position, but I feel badly for many of the associates of Walmart, as I was shocked to discover that many long time associates are on food stamps and can't afford health insurance! Almost 1/2 the employees that came through my check-out lane paid with food stamps including one employee that told me she had been with the company for 7 years and was a produce manager. Another woman who had been with the company for over 20 years couldn't afford their health insurance.

Walmart is a disgraceful American company that should be ashamed! They are putting a strain in my community, the State, and Nation with their greed! It's disgusting! And I only wish more people knew of their dirty little secret of greed! Take care of your employees and stop telling them where to go for hand-outs. Give them their dignity back! Stop being retail gangsters. Wake up, America! Make our tax dollars count! Put an end to corporate greed! Stop shopping at retailers that don't pay their employees because you end up paying in the end!

I work at Wal-Mart store number 1886. I have recently been given my d-day when I was leaning by my register to take some weight off my feet. This process took about 15-30 minutes, and meant being understaffed in that department the next day. The reason I bring this up mostly is because it was a large waste of time for the manager, the witness and the employee. I personally find this an atrocious thing to be done, and I hope that the assistant manager who showed a clear waste of time by doing this, gets a coaching for wasting managerial time. The big issue is that he didn't simply say, "Find something else to do that's productive." I'd understand if he said it and I ignored it, but the big issue is that I went from nothing wrong then get hit by an extreme. I have ADHD, and it's hard for me to focus, so I have to rely on others to find me things to do. However, the lack of focus makes me not ask others. It's a problem I've dealt with for years.

On another issue, I was coached a few months back for letting a beneficiary use my discount card. It's an official beneficiary via the Wal-Mart life insurance policy. This was done by the same assistant manager, who did not explain in detail what he meant by beneficiary or the fine details on things. I personally would like something done about this, because I work my tail off. The other managers like me, and respect me, including the store manager. But this particular one seems to have some issues with me, I feel hurt, because when I go to the co-managers, I get nothing but avoidance.

I do not like that I am on a d-day over this, now I can't call in sick, be late by a few minutes, or screw up even the smallest thing. I've never had a complaint made against me before by customers. I'm one of the few people who will actually do their work.

This is a statement that I forwarded to the market and regional HR in the bay area California. To this day no one has been put on suspension or has lost their jobs like I have. I am also pretty sure that the people involved in the accusations against me are not model employees with a history of issues but they know the Wal-Mart system so well that they can get away with things that no other company would tolerate. I know this because I saw how they got away with things and lived and could not do anything about it.

Meanwhile, my family suffers the repercussions of vindictive associates that can actually get together to eliminate an obstacle and the company does a mediocre investigation at best. Meanwhile, the people involved are sitting back laughing while a person and their family's life is ruined because you can never confront the people that accused you to get to the bottom of the situation. I am in desperate need of some help because I feel completely helpless with this. Please point me in the right direction. I did speak to the regional HR a few times but nothing changed and by not knowing who is involved it is really very difficult to give specific answers to any given situation.

Continuous sexual harassment by my manager Terry ** at Wal-Mart # 0094. A complaint was filed at the beginning of January 2012 to no avail. Now Terry has changed my work schedule without notification and has caused me to miss work and look like a no-show. Terry has also given my low productivity (DA) when I'm only a cashier that does not stock palettes. This in turn will not allow me to transfer for 6 months with this infraction on my work record. Please advise of any other steps I need to take to correct this matter or be transferred to another local store in my area. This is my first job and it turns out to be a horrible first job experience.

I voted one star only because 0 isn't an option. This store's management has a total disregard for their employees and the needs thereof. Due to babysitting needs, I can only work certain hours but when I try to do an availability change, it is self admittedly thrown away. They say it's up to the needs of the customers, yet though I work as a cake decorator. The bakery associates work only until 5 or 6pm and I am stuck until 9 or 10 with nothing to do, yet expected to fill the needs of customers with no training of how to do such (hot bread is the first thing coming to mind).

Although we are expected to fill our department with 4 full time and 1 part time employee, we have 2 and 1. I am denied personal and vacation days due to 'no coverage,' but the other employees take whenever they want and are approved. The managers don't like me and therefore choose me to abuse constantly. This is not the only Walmart to do this. Every Walmart I've worked for or had friends working for has been the same. Sam *** cared about his employees but corporate only cares about where their next dollar comes from. We're forced to work holidays, and if we get injured, no matter if it was preventable by management or not, we're terrified to report it because we get coached and terminated.

I don't have insurance because to get even basic care, I have to give up half my paycheck. This is disgusting! I'm a single parent and can't even pay my rent unless I want my son to go hungry, all because corporate 'cant afford' to give us hours, even the full timers barely make 35. Walmart disgusts me, especially when they profess to care and prove they don't.

On December 17, 2011 I tried to turn in a letter from my doctor after finding out I was pregnant saying that I am not allowed to lift over 25 lbs. during a work period. I was told I have to go on a leave of absence because I cannot do 100% of my daily work. I had told them on three separate occasions that I cannot do that because I am from a low income family and they need the support of my money to live. They had then told me that it is Walmart's policy and there is nothing they can do. When I asked if I can transfer to a different department where it would not matter that I was pregnant, I was told that I cannot transfer due to the fact that no matter where I would go in the store I could not fully do my job properly.

Two days later I had gone to my doctor's appointment to get my first ultrasound and the doctor had told me that the baby was at the right size to be at the stage of the pregnancy I was in but there was no longer a heartbeat and I had miscarried. They had said that it must have happened within the last few days (when I was distraught for my job). I have almost no question that the stress I endured from the worry for my job assisted in the death of my unborn baby. When I tried to turn it in I told them the note wasn't until after my 12th week in pregnancy, so I didn't turn it in. I was 9 weeks along when I tried to turn it in. I had no prior incidents as in getting coached or write ups. I'm out of work with no pay for the rest of my pregnancy and then after for recovery.

On December 17,2011 I tried to turn in a letter from my doctor after finding out I was pregnant, saying that I am not allowed to lift over 25 lbs. during a work period. I was told I have to go on a leave of absence because I cannot do 100% of my daily work. I had told them on three separate occasions that I cannot do that because I am from a low income family and they need the support of my money to live. They had then told me that it is Walmart's policy and there is nothing they can do. When I asked if I can transfer to a different department where it would not matter that I was pregnant, I was told that I cannot transfer due to the fact that no matter where I would go in the store I could not fully do my job properly.

Two days later I had gone to my doctor's appointment to get my first ultrasound and the doctor had told me that the baby was at the right size to be at the stage of the pregnancy I was in but there was no longer a heartbeat and I had miscarriage. They had said that it must have happened within the last few days (when I was distraught for my job). I have almost no question that the stress I endured from the worry for my job assisted in the death of my unborn baby. When I tried to turn it in I told them the note wasn't until after my 12th week in pregnancy, so I didn't turn it in. I was 9 weeks along when I tried to turn it in. I had no prior incidents as in getting coached or wright ups. I'm out of work for the rest of my pregnancy and then after for recovery.

I have been working for Walmart for one year and I haven't got my raise and the problem that the managers did threatening my job. Not only that, Walmart do not communicate with their staff and their responsibility. Now in order for me to go back to my job, the managers have told that I have to reply to work at Walmart. And I should not have to reply again when the information is still the same.

I was unfairly let go, they kept my personal hours and sick pay which totals over 400 hours. They let me go since I was a department manager and if my people messed up they said it was my responsibility. I went from an excellent evaluation to a verbal to d-day to termination in 19 days. We got a new assistant manager and zone manager. They harassed us everyday. Our assistant had thrown stuff up on the counter and bad mouthed us. He had me physically sick for solid week to the point I was throwing up. He told me I was only one who knew how to do lot of stuff, the rest did not have enough sense. I was told the ones they were going to let go, but they are not because they are training new workers. He has coached some to d-day point.

My zone manager has followed me and my spouse around and when I complained to home office they said nothing. They said I served out of date salad when I was not working. It's kind of hard to do if you are not there, but I was responsible as it was my area. He told me I needed to learn to be a horses rear, but used the ugly word and be just like him. They told my people that the zone manager was going to be doing my job when I was not fired yet. They did not realize I had people that respected me enough to fill me in. Also, they let people in other departments talk about me and did not correct them. They had it in for us and would not let up, no one is as bad as they say. They terminated be because I would not coach my people but I did not know I could until my d-day.

The personnel manager, Louann **, at the time in store 1830, gave all my personal information to her husband. I told the store manager, Alan, but he did nothing about it. She should have been fired. Why wasn't she fired?

Well, my grandmother passed away yesterday and I called the call in number like you have to and all that. Then two hours later, I called my assistant to let her know what happened. This is what I said to her, "I'm calling in for bereavement." She said, "Well, for what?" I said, "What do you mean?" She asked what happened in the rudest tone and way you could tell she was like thinking ** the whole time. She wanted names, place, dates and was pretty much saying that she didn't believe me. So I will probably get fired now or a D-day. All they do is lie off their **. I've had my assistant tell me she will always believe her supervisor over me and that I don't have a chance because everything I do is a lie and I was wrong. Most likely, I won't have a job in a few days.

I only gave one star because zero is not an option. A co-worker asked for a day off at the end of January (six weeks ahead) and the "manager" said that she didn't think he needed it off for something that wasn't an emergency. This kid works like 10-15 a week and there's at least 30 cashiers able to take his shift. I honestly don't know how this person ever got a supervisor spot--for she was totally unprofessional and unreasonable. This dump is the only place in town to work though. I would rather take a beating every day than go to work. I am just waiting for the economy to turn enough that any place else is hiring--and I mean any place.

Anybody had a problem with Walmart's bakery? Recently I bought 48 cupcakes for my daughter's school and in one cupcake was a large fingernail! Sad part is I took what was left back to Walmart and never received a phone call or an apology. If I were smart I would have not thrown it away and taken it to a lawyer. It made me so sick I vomited! I will never buy from Walmart's bakery again! Yuck!

I am a graduate student working on my Masters Degree in Gerontology with a certification in Counseling. I am also working at a position that is an equivalent to an internship position. Because of this position, I had to choose and limit the hours I would be available to work at WalMart.

Recently in the past six weeks, I went out of town on a family emergency, at which time my niece lost her baby, and I assisted with that funeral. This past couple of weeks, I had to miss work again due to a family emergency. My step-father we thought had a stroke on a Thursday night; by Friday night, they discovered it was a tumor in the brain and they were planning on operating on Monday. I went out of town to be with my family in this. Monday when they operated, the family was notified that the tumor is malignant and has six months or less to live. I came back home a week later both exhausted emotionally and not feeling physically well. At that time, I saw my family doctor and was placed on medications for ear infection and high blood pressure. Walmart told me then that I had to make a choice and that if I missed anymore due to this family crisis, I was going to be terminated. Since when does an employer have that right?

I told Walmart I quit and I will fight. I should not have to choose between being with my family and step-father and his condition or working at Walmart with no future or hope. Walmart at this point sucks and could care less about the family.

We have a husband and wife duo that works overnights stocking. They get the same days off and get the same schedule all the time while other associates don't get the same days off as their significant others who work at Wal-Mart. So to make it possible to have family time, we must change our availability and get hours cut. Some of us get stuck with a 9 pm to 6 am shift while the husband and wife don't ever get stuck with that shift cause the husband has a straight 10 pm to 7am shift cause he's an overnight dairy associate while his wife is an in-stock associate just like every one else that gets a 9 pm to 6 am shift. Every time things don't go their way, they threaten to get a hold of corporate and our Wal-Mart babies them.

I've also had issues with them before as they are a relative to my ex. She has cut me down in front of people and I've talked to management and all they did was talked it out with us. Honestly, other associates have said some of the stuff she said was really bad and that she should have been fired. All other associates have told me I deserve the days off I request and that they are fine with it, but the wife goes and complains to management and then they say they can't give me the days off I request because she complained. I don't know what to do bout this. I can't afford to be cut hours but I also can't put Wal-Mart ahead of my home life.

I have a home life or lose hours. I feel as if I got to cut my hours so I can spend time with the family. Then either the wife should have to change their availability so they lose hours, too, to make it so they have time with their family. It isn't right that they get the same days off to spend together while other people got to lose hours to do the same.

I recently was hired as a cashier in a WalMart in Westbury, NY. I had orientation on a Thursday for 6 hours filling out paper work and watching some videos. It was the most disorganized experience I have seen in a company. First of all, nothing had been prepared for the 11 or so associates who were just getting hired. All paperwork was being printed out at the moment. We wasted our time sitting there for hours doing absolutely nothing waiting on the management to get ready. There were other employees constantly going in and out of the room interrupting the orientation by engaging in their own conversations and cursing making it difficult to even hear some of the videos that were being shown. One of the managers was speaking on the phone while the orientation was in process arguing about some personal issues she had. Another employee came in with a doll in his hand, sat by the manager, and began to smack the doll saying this is how we should treat kids. We stood in there for 3 hours just waiting on our schedule for the next 2 weeks. There was only one person working with us trying to enter all our information into the computer making it a long night.

Although I had requested for that first weekend to be off because prior to being hired I had a commitment for those days, the manager had told me that those of us who were in that orientation will begin Monday anyway because it takes 48 hours for our names to be in the system. We were only given a nametag on that day but were not given the clock in badges because they did not have them ready. On Monday I began work, I walk in to personnel, and they tell me to clock in a very rude manner. I had told them that I didn't receive a clock in tag. They gave me one and then told me to begin my CBL's. I noticed that my CBL's were for overnight stock, in which I was first called in for but then I had requested cashier and I was told I can do that instead. I was not able to complete my CBL on cashier training because the manager forgot to change it for me. I completed the CBL on Alcohol and Tobacco only. I was told that's fine and to go on the floor and ask for Sam and they stuck me doing re-shop or returns. I was not given a break at all and was there for 5 hours. Then they put me at the door to collect receipts but no instructions are given to me as to whom and who I do not check. I did no cashier work on this day.

The next day, I began at 7pm again and then I was going to finish working on my CBL. I was told it still hasn't been corrected for me to just go out on the register and get hands on with another employee. I work on the register for about an hour and then they call me out to go greet customers at the entrance for about an hour. If I don't go and ask the manager if I'm entitled to a break, I would have been left there. I also tell the CSM that I haven't received an ID number yet to work the register and she tells me I need to get training for 3 days for the register before I get one. I noticed that 3 other cashiers that began orientation with me were on the registers and I asked 2 of them if they had received their ID numbers and they said yes. How is it possible that they had received it if what the CSM said was true? They had only worked the registers one day and were given an ID number and they were never told to greet customers at the door or collect receipts as I was. I hate to think and turn this into a racial thing but by some of the actions that were taking place and me being the only light skinned there, I just so happen jump into this conclusion. If it's a rule that that one cannot have an ID number for the register until they have had 3 days of training, it should apply to all and not just the white looking girl.

On my second working day, I was given two 15-minute breaks in which I did an error in punching out that I went to meal those both times. I had thought you punch in and out whenever you go to lunch or any type of breaks so that they can monitor when you are gone or not. As it is, you only punch out for lunch and not the little breaks. Well, when I reported this to the manager, she said she is busy and will not help me fix it that I have to do it myself in a really rude way with an attitude. She was just sitting there talking to another manager fooling around. She wasn't even busy. It is said that WalMart associates should be friendly. The management in this WalMart in Westbury is highly disorganized and talks down to their employees and is very disrespectful to them. They are very rude, impolite, and there is nothing friendly about them except to those they pick and choose to be friendly with. I had been here for 2 days and I will work on my 3rd day on Thanksgiving (Thursday and Black Friday) which will be the busiest time of the year for the store and I have been given very little training because they choose to have me as a greeter or at the door instead of behind a register getting hands on what I applied for.

Will it be wrong if I call in and say I'm sorry? However, I quit the job because of their lack of professionalism, their poor treatment, their unfairness, and their disorganization. We employees are just a number. The management hires you and then it doesn't even remember your name and who you are. You are treated like a nobody. I have another job. I am a professional teacher and just wanted to do this for the holidays and do something different. However, I don't need to put up with that kind of treatment. I feel sorry for those who really need the job and put up with it because it is their only job and the only way they can provide for themselves and their families. Those are the ones that management takes more advantage. It's really sad. I hate quitting on something that I begin with but this store is not worth it. I'm only speaking about the WalMart in Westbury. I hope that it is not like this in others.

Associate in Electronics. Almost a month ago, I, along with a couple of other associates, were pulled into the office, without fair warning, and were told that we were no longer considered Sales Floor Associates, but overnight stockers, yet I was still responsible for sales, and any type of customer service dealing with the electronics area.

I contacted our regional manager because I had questions and concerns about this recent change, and asked him about it. He had our store manager sit me down and explain to me that it was company-wide, and it had to be done. I just don't understand how they could just, out of the blue, take a level 4 sales floor associate, and demote them down to a level 2 ,without the option of a raise on our next anniversary date. Can they do this and get away with it?

I started working with Walmart in August of 2008. I was excited to be there. Well, in February of 2010, I had to transfer to the Stillwater Walmart due to a job offer for my husband. I thought, "Hey great, a new place to work." Boy, was I mistaken. They treat their employees like **, refuse to listen to them when they need help, have told me that they do not have time for me, and I am just one of several that they have said this to.

I left my husband shortly after moving to Stillwater. My current fiance is a department manager for Walmart. He has one associate for his departments that he is over and they keep telling him that they will hire someone for him. Well, six months down the road, they are threatening him with his job because according to them he moves too slow. His departments are on opposite sides of the store. For one person, he sure does know how to move.

They are constantly telling him that they do not have time for him, that he moves too slow, that he had better get his departments in order or they would fire him, and just today, they flat told him that he was not allowed to go get our daughter from school, that he had to stay there. In the last six months since he has taken over this department, he has had to put in several 12 plus hour days, was made to clock back in after clocking out for the day because his manager said he was not allowed to go home until she said so.

I have since quit the company and my mother is working for them. She ended up screwing up her elbow and now has to have surgery to fix it. She was put on weight restrictions for her arm and they not only put her back on the floor as a stacker when they knew she could not lift anything, but also gave her a pay cut. Walmart, even though they say that they are a family friendly company, couldn't care less about family and only cares about the money that they make. I am ashamed to ever have worked for this company. I, myself, was given a D-day due to missing work because my daughter was sick. What kind of place forces you to work when your kids are sick and you are the only person who can take care of them? Especially when both parents work. I was also passed over several times for management just because they did not like me. And I was told this by a manager.

The Walmart store in Hammond, Indiana #4631 was still being built and had an expected date to open on October 16, 2011.

I was hired at Walmart on September 14, 2011 for the fitting room. I went to an 8-hour orientation that day and was given instructions that I will either be called or to check the mywlamart.com site to see what my schedule was for training. I never once received a phone call and my schedule was never posted on the site. I called 3 days a week since September 14, 2011 to contact personnel and I was always told that they are screening their calls and to leave my name and number and I should be contacted. I never received a call from anyone. I even went up there 3 times and they told me that I was not on the schedule yet and to leave my name and number.

It is now 3 months later and I just called and was told that I was terminated because I never showed up but I wasn't even notified when or what day to come in for training. I checked the mywalmart.com site everyday to see if my schedule was posted but it never was. The lady that I spoke to admitted saying that they had been screening calls but she never got any messages regarding me. She then asked why I am calling 3 months after I was hired and I told her I had been calling but I was always told that I would be contacted but never have. I had no idea that the store had even been open because the 3 times I went up there it had not opened. I asked the lady from personnel for the region number so that I can call corporate and she declined to give that to me and proceeded to tell me she had a meeting and that I can come pick up my check for the orientation and she will be back after 12 pm. She never gave me any reasoning on how come I was not contacted after orientation.

Before even contacting her, I logged into mywalmart.com and there was still no schedule. So then I just wanted to see what happened, 10 minutes after getting off the phone with personnel, I was unable to log on.

I have worked for Walmart for two years and six months. I began working as a part-time photo lab technician and then I transferred to overnight Sales Floor associate in Electronics. Almost a month ago, I, along with a couple of other associates, were pulled into the office without fair warning and were told that we were no longer considered Sales Floor associates but overnight stockers--yet I was still responsible for sales and any type of customer service dealing with the electronics area. I contacted our regional manager because I had questions and concerns about this recent change and asked him about it. He had our store manager sit me down and explain to me that it was company-wide and it had to be done. I just don't understand how they could just, out of the blue, take a level 4 sales floor associate and demote them down to a level 2 without the option of a raise on our next anniversary date. Can they do this and get away with it?

I worked for three years as a department manager for Wal-Mart Stores Sporting Goods and was wrongfully terminated under the heading of inability to perform the job without training. Wal-Mart failed to enter me into their own 4 week mandatory training program for all department managers.

After three years and 7 months, Wal-Mart presidents/CEOs and board of directors have ignored me and have not answered a single question about my proven wrongful (34) termination letters; 40 videos along with 34 pages of documented proof that I never received the required training. Wal-Mart is a self-made god besides God and feels that they answer to no one!

How sad? I am a retired military veteran and it really is a disgrace how Wal-Mart can treat American workers without paying a price for this ill treatment upon American citizens in 2011! What say the American population? Georgia workers do not have a voice working in this state. Workers can be fired for good cause, bad cause, or for no cause at all. How sad?