Dude this was me when i worked in a call center that had ridiculous goals. I am SO GLAD i left that job...the money was not worth my emotional distress day in and day out.
The day my mom was fired from Walmart for not putting out the crates fast enough she came home looking brighter than I ever imagined. She looked so freed. I hope I can give her anything she wants one day.
She was happy because she broke free from the miserable hell she was in. There's no hope in Walmart in general and no hope in retail in particular, it's a dead end.
Retail is an endless, thankless job. You collect shopping carts, people take them out again. You clean toilets, people shit on the seat again. You put items on a shelf, people take them off again. You ring up one customer's purchases, and the next customer comes through your line. At what point do you actually accomplish or achieve anything meaningful?
@@FANTAVISION The things I have experienced in the past as a retail janitor... It's as if the customers don't know where their anuses are located, I swear. They definitely don't know that toilet paper is flushable, or that paper towels are NOT flushable... and they can't figure out how to get paper towels out of the dispenser even though there's instructions written on the dispenser in 3 languages, with pictures...
Boss: What happened, your shift should have started 20 minutes ago?! Employee: Ugh boss I got into a car accident, my legs were torn off, I'm barely alive. Boss: But you're still coming in right?
@@Rocnati that is so true!! sams club is the same way!! oh my goodness that is crazy!!! 5 points and your gone... lmbo. if you have an accident you better call in and if you are out more than 5 days or your have 5 points your FIRED!!!!! THEY DO NOT EXCEPT DR. NOTES! THEY ALSO DO NOT ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM A DOCTOR. YOU BETTER MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PROTECTED PTO TO COVER ALL DAYS OUT OF WORK. CRAZY!!!! But it is also on who the managers and team leads like you or not if they dont your screwed!!!! bye bye job.
Its the truth too. Call outs are held against you NO MATTER WHAT. even if you have a doctors note, it is not accepted. You literally have to be on your death bed, and even then, there's no guarantee you'll still have a job when you return to work the next day. Bc of their stupid point system. 5 points no matter your tenure, no matter if you are truly sick, if you and/or anyone else in your family has health problems. No longer can use actual sick time anymore, you have to use what is called "protected paid time off" which is only earned up to 48 in the fiscal year, and how much you earn per pay period is based on tenure.
Andrew E I heard blockbuster was also bad depending on your coworkers and managers and it got real bad in the last days of the company being open still
The local Wilkinson's used to play the same song on a loop all day every day. I asked the some of the staff about it and they said they felt like they were going insane.
I find some minor humor in the Christmas music where I live (Texas). Hearing any of the many, many songs talking about snow and/or cold weather during Christmas while it is still 72 degrees outside is kinda funny.
@@CheeseMoon24 everything you may have heard about working there is mostly true. I’ve Been there almost 4 years. Ever since I left I’ve been a happy man.
My mom worked at Walmart about a week. She was trying to look for help and her supervisor was constantly ignoring her. So, what did she do? She clocked out and stopped showing up.
Walmart was my first job and my deepest regret. You can feel the crushed souls of the workers as you walk in... I got fired because i missed more than their allotted bereavement time when my dad died which they only give you like 3 days of bereavement time...
Your dad dies and those pieces of human waste only allow 3 days to mourn a loss like that as policy? All I can say is wow. Just wow. They don't deserve any workers with a policy like that.
American capital industry has made us forget the importance of human appreciation and understanding. It's a thing that you see not as much in places like Japan because they are thought to appreciate any service from the very early age of 1yrs, which is why for the most part we seem to be more rude as a culture, if you can even call us a culture
@@kirbyolsen5941 there’s something about the new store design that makes it so depressing. It could be the lighting or something, I don’t know. But it’s horrible for sure.
If everybody thought this way, there would be no Walmart. EVERYBODY keep revolting! Lol Worked there for 9 years, it's a slave camp, and they robbed all rural places of small business and prosperity. We used to have a sign at the end of town that said "We will expand 21 miles by 2012" well guess what, since 1993 when bill Clinton was campaigning for Walmart and Sam Walton made a deal with the devil, he built a monopoly and screwed everybody. The beginning of our country being sold out to China. It's a horrible company and I am ashamed of myself for ever working there. Fuck them.
No energy, no patience, no social life, depression drinking and constantly feeling anxious and claustrophobic because of the home>work>home routine - this sums up one of the longest 3 months of my life working in retail. It humbled the hell out of me, though. And that I can appreciate.
I just got hired at walmart. At the interview everything seems to fine and all. I just went to the job orientation and after seeing how the employees were working their butt’s off like they’ve been own by a slave master. I thought to myself, OMG what have I got myself into. Mind you I just got hired and I’m already looking for something else.lmao.
@@MariaHernandez-iq1tc trust me walmart is not worth is. I been there 5 months and already got a verbal warning on my record by a manger that NEVER TRAINED me and doesn't like me for whatever reason(probably racist) and it's worse cause I work in the suburbs. Can't wait till leave walmart never working for them again
I got hired on the spot 3 weeks ago and I am working as a stocking 1 TA... Gotta say everyone definitely looks miserable for sure. I would greet some employees and wouldn't get a response back 😂 my manager didn't give me a proper orientation either and had me do computer assessments for 3 days and after that forced me to use my phone for work (BYOD). I asked for a work phone and she told me was "you're new so you will have to wait" and then switched it up to "you probably won't get a work phone because of you hours and I will prioritize someone who works more hours than you ". 🙄 My routine has been to just top stock, fix the aisles and sometimes other employees come to me and ask for my help to put away boxes they vizpicked. It makes my day go by fast tbh but I wouldn't suggest Walmart to anyone....
When I got out of high school, a few years ago, I was pretty desperate for a job. After weeks of no luck I bit the bullet and went to apply at Walmart. The manager asked me what department I was interested in and I told him electronics. He thought that was perfect because apparently they were short staffed in that area. So he took me to the back of the building where they stock everything and told me to put in an application at the saddest excuse for an application terminal I've ever seen. So i sit down and he goes away. 15 minutes into the struggle of trying to use this piece of shit computer to put in an application that just won't work, I look around at the blank walls and florescent lighting. And I realized at that moment the mistake I was about to make. I got up without saying a word to anyone and just left. That's as close as I've gotten to working there.
I interviewed and got asked for a drug test. I was like"lololol this is walmart" i chuckled at the man looked around and said see you later. Never came back lol
Working in retail turned me into a misanthrope. I was a happy, positive person before retail, but after, I hated life and people. Near the end of my retail days, I started calling out more often because I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't take another angry customer yelling at me over company policies I don't control. I couldn't take another bratty kid running around and knocking over displays while their neanderthal parents did nothing. I couldn't take another holiday season with eight hours of Christmas music and endless customers. I had to find something else before I lost my mind. Thankfully, I'm no longer working retail and I'm actually enjoying life again and I have weekends off. I actually enjoy what I do now. I feel for the people still working retail. I know their pain all too well.
Blox117 Yes. It is bad. I have worked on farms, maintenance, janitorial stuff. I have cleaned septic tanks and have had human shit splash on my face. STILL PREFERABLE TO RETAIL. No job that I've worked was worse than my retail jobs. People think retail is easy. Just standing behind a counter and working the cash register. It is not easy. It is by far the HARDEST work I have ever done.
Thanks for sharing, I completely understand. I've never worked retail, but I have had to do something possibly worse. Call center customer service. Even though I've been out of that line of work for several years, I still feel like I'm recovering, or may never recover. I've just become so much more impatient, confrontational, irritable, I just have very little ability to empathize with people. I was a 'manager' for most of my time there, taking escalated calls all day. And 9/10 times when someone asks for a manager, it's because they want something that's against the rules, usually us to waive a fee or lower prices. So they would all begin with the customer trying to tell me a sob story to justify me bending the rules for them. After several hundred calls, they just all seem fake. Any time someone starts talking to me with a sob story or telling me about why their problem/situation is different from the norm, my brain turns off. I get very defensive and assume they are lying until they prove me wrong.
I agree with you 100%. I unfortunately still work retail and its my stores really busy time of year. I've been working 45+ hours a week, you can argue that the extra money is great but the truth is you don't see much of the overtime because of good ol' uncle Sam. We are short staffed and can't get any help from other stores. Not to mention having managers that don't know how to make a schedule and make you work 7 to 9 days in a row, our schedules are on a week to week basis so sometimes my days off are in the beginning of one week and at the end of the next. Don't even get me started on the mindless customers. I work in the bakery section of my store and of course they all know how to bake because they watch the Food Network.
My dog was dying and needed to be put down in December. I had to have her euthanized and she was just 6 years old.. I was told that "we need you here, it's too close to the holiday so you'll get double points for calling off". The company is morally bankrupt
yep I have a situation like that coming up. I have to take my mom out of town for heart testing for a bypass surgery, and my manager hasn't approved my request yet. I put it in 2 months in advance, and his reasoning is, I haven't done that schedule yet...it's like that's not the point...
I feel like I owe you an apology. I had seen some of your videos regarding Walmart in the past and decided to work there anyway because of the pay. That place rented me a soul just so it could be crushed. The day that I quit, I immediately felt like more of a person. I don't see how anyone lasts years at that place, it's just unhealthy. Sorry, Fanta. I should've listened.
I worked there four years in the lawn and garden/ seasonal department. Yeah, my insane self might go back cause I need the money... hello stress smoking.
Tbh Target is getting as bad as Walmart to its workers, especially with the hierarchy changes. All my coworkers are incredibly depressed. Everyone is losing their benefits and all corporate cares about is the RedCards. We don't matter anymore, haven't for a long time. It's retail all the same.
GamingTV my closest managers aren't managers anymore and are at the same level and pay grade as me with three times the responsibility. Guests treat us like garbage. Policy doesn't matter anymore. And no one is happy there anymore except for the higher ups. At least at my store. I don't know about the store where you live but mine is going downhill fast.
J. Monroe And most times when you actually check, it is as cheap or cheaper and so much cleaner and nicer. Doesn't feel ghetto. You can not make me even go in a Walmart now but when I did,I would NOT use their restrooms. Horrible. I think long term employees are brainwashed. Might have something to do with the stupid rah rah sessions televised for employees every day. When I heard they had a Walmart cheer, I thought I would be sick. My sister in-law still devotedly works there.
GamingTV 'Welcome to the real world?' I think he knows that. Just because the Target you've experienced is nice doesn't mean every Target is like that. And I'm sure it's not a matter of him being lazy or unambitious, but just a matter of present circumstances that doesn't have him in a good place. You don't need to be on a high horse to tell him to get out of there.
When I worked at Walmart they made me, a cart pusher do the following: 1. Clock in at 4am to clean the bathrooms and clean the floors 2. Pick up trash in the grass outside of the store 3. Scrub the sidewalk with the scrubber 4. Clean and scrub the years old chicken slime that smelled like dog shit thus, making me smell like dog shit 5. Make all of the stores plastic and cardboard bales by myself 6. And finally make sure there are no carts in the parking lot every 2 hours. I was 17 and was in charge of all of these things by myself and was criticized when I wasn’t on top of it. They took advantage of me and did not care to fire me when I had to drive my family somewhere lol. Worst job ever I would never recommend it unless you are truly down and out. Shout out to all the people still working at Walmart y’all are stronger than ppl think trust me
Ya your a pushover u can say no to that shit they can't force u to do all that..... People that complane are just lazy and don't want to work if u had to do extra that's your falt get stronger with yourself
@@Bikutta Fuck you guys, saying this kid is a pushover. Employers abusing kids, must be the kid's fault. This dude doesnt even have a fully developed brain yet; and yall take the employer's side? Go fuck yourselves. You sound like the assholes who'd be okay with child labor.
@@PrestonCormack man fuck off. Calling a child a pushover because the managers took advantage of him. I work at walmart, and it's not as easy as saying no. I said that I couldn't do something manager asked me to because of unsafe working conditions, and it spread like wildfire. Every assistant manager stopped talking to me, and wouldn't even look in my direction or acknowledge me for weeks. They still don't. When they do look at you they just roll their eyes and walk past you with their chins up. If you have to go to them for something, they ignore you and keep talking to each other about what kind of flour they use when making cookies while you have a customer waiting for you to get them. Then when you finally get their attention they get all short with you and answer with a word or two without even looking at you. You're not supposed to get punished for speaking up and refusing unsafe work or not doing things that aren't you're job. But you do. And if you report it the assistant managers hate you even more for reporting it. If you don't have a backbone, you get pushed around and walked over, and if you do have a backbone you're a lazy bitch. There's no winning
I'm currently trying to leave my job at Walmart. It's affecting my mental health. I totally felt it when you talked about wanting to get into a car crash to get out of showing up
I worked at Home Depot for five years. FIVE YEARS of a bright orange apron, same 5 songs, cement and lumber dust filling the air, one employee per department... I mean the memories drain my soul.
I worked Lowe's for an ENTIRE season! (yes I avoided the annual lawn and garden purge! ) Exactly ONE year to the day of my hire, was let go for , get this (lack of available work) . I dig ya on the same 5 songs , though I got to avoid the orange .. red white and blue a little more tolerable. lack of anyone to cover my area when I had to take lunch, rules against ditching your apron in your area before hiking to the breakroom ( guaranteeing ya to be asked for assistance by a customer who doesn't give a shit if you are off the clock on way to break). Not allowed to take required breaks during deliveries. Personnel cooking the timesheets giving people lunch breaks they did NOT take because of workload. Not being allowed to go to car during lunch . Not being allowed to smoke in your car in the parking lot. Threats to fire ya if ya call in sick ( that's okay I got revenge ..sneezed on the main price label printer keyboard, infected the WHOLE store! 4 days later 80%^ called in sick! Passive Aggression for the WIN! ) . Changing schedules without giving a weeks notice (lucky to get 2 days notice) . Oh Customers doing things like peeling back price labels on the racks in hopes of finding a lower price they can argue about.. cause "customer is always right" . Oh and on that ! No no, don't spend morethan 2 minutes with a customer! This is like McDonald's Drive Through! push them through push them through! Customers son't want to know how big the plants can grow! ( oh yes they DO! 3 years previous retail nursery work damned straight !" Designed and installed irrigation system in outdoor lawn and garden ( legit ! NOT just some upside down lawn sprinklers) , resulting in lowest plant materials loss in the REGION ! Not just he state .. the REGION , yet get bawled out for too many write offs for department. Co-workers who spend more time standing instead of working yet get away and get raises too?!
I worked at Home Depot for 5 years in the electrical dept. Best fricken job I ever had. I LOVED working at Home Depot. I came in one day and looked at my apron and decided I needed a fresh one. So I grab one out of the cabinet, grabbed my sharpie and was gonna write my name on the line following the pre-printed words: Hi! I'm_________. Then I looked at it and wrote Happy to be here!!! My customers loved me, my co-workers loved me and some of my managers loved me. As for the rest of em - fuck em sez I. Their loss, and mine.
Walmart philosophy: stand around, talk, play on your phone all day then your golden. However if you work hard, bust your ass, then management rides you constantly!
Dude when you said you wanted to get into a car accident just to not go to work my jaw dropped I totally thought I was the only person who ever thought such a horrible thing because I was so miserable but I have to admit it's good to know that I'm not the only one
People who don't work there anymore are much happier than when they worked there. 👍 if you agree. and I was belittled and harrassed by my assistant every day.
I was fired from Walmart for reporting a manager for raising his voice at me. And if that's how they're going to treat employees then I'm glad I don't work there anymore!
@@KellyRyan1219 well as shitty as walmart is i do work with some good employees the managers are utter shit and the company is the absolute pit of dispair i do try to make the best of it
I work in the walmart deli. What kristoffer said is true. I was the only one there on my second day and had no clue what I was doing and all the customers were yelling at me because I couldn't get everything done in time and the support manager that came by threatened to fire me bc after I cooked 200 rotisserie chickens by myself while doing other stuff I left one out for 30 min. We arent even allowed to have water in the deli so we spend all of our 8+ hour shifts by hot ovens and fryers not being able to drink anything. crazy.
Taylor, i just had my first day and at the end of my orientation I was promised to just do video training all day. When I went in, I just watched two videos and was sent to do floor work already. I didn’t even get to watch the thousands of videos everyone did. Just two and I was sent to the kitchen already. My first day.. I literally went through what you just said. A customer seemed upset because I didn’t cut her meat fast enough. She just took her cheese. My coworker only worked part time and only taught me what I needed to know for the 5hr shift he had. After that, I was just alone. No other coworkers came by. Just the supervisor and assistant manager came by to help here and there. I felt so alone. 8hrs went by so slow and my feet hurted all day. I came home and sobbed so hard. It hurts cuz I had some hopes for Walmart to be decent. It seems like I made the wrong choice.
My older brother worked at Wal-Mart for years and apparently they fired a 60 year old woman who had been there for 20 years so they didn't have to pay her retirement.
Kristopher Workman don’t know how it is now but when I worked there if you weren’t management you were hourly and hourly doesn’t get benefits, no pto medical or anything.
I worked at a Wal☆Mart warehouse and I hated it. If you weren't working fast enough by 12:00, they'd send you home for the day and give you a point (6 get you fired). They had the most difficult bathroom rules. You actually had to ask permission! And they could actually deny it! I've never worked at a place like that. Once, I actually had to sneak into the bathroom because I couldn't hold it, but the manager wouldn't "let me" go. Once the bathroom closest to my work station was closed for cleaning, so I decided to go to the next nearest one, in the brake room. "You can't use that one. You have to use one of the floor restrooms." The next nearest floor restroom was ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WAREHOUSE. That's just plain stupid. I'm already at THIS bathroom, why can't I just use this one?! You had to ask for permission to get water. Once I said, "Just going to the fountain to refill my water, ma'am." The response was, "Are you kidding me?! Get back to work!" I can confirm that you're not allowed to talk. "We're not supposed to be talking right now, we're supposed to be working!" As if you can't do both. On slow days, they want you to pretend to be busy. If you're caught not pretending to sweep imaginary dust off the floor, you'll get in trouble. Actually can someone help me understand this one? Why do I have to pretend to be busy on a slow day? I just can't make sense of that. You can't take your cellphones with you. "There's no way for us to know if it's yours or one of ours." Bullsh*t! As if you can't just check to see if it has service. You can't activate a phone in a warehouse. Even if you could, it would be caught on camera. You have to leave you phones in the break room where they can be potentially be stolen by a greedy coworker. I've had my lunch stolen from me twice and you expect me to leave my cell phone there?! You people are crazy! And don't get me started on metal detectors!!!!! What, they're afraid we'll sneak a gun OUT OF the warehouse. I really don't see the point of standing in line at a metal detector for 30 minutes at the end of the shift. The annoying thing is they don't pay you for it. They make you clock out BEFORE you stand in line. (When I worked at Zulily, the clocks were on the other side of the metal detectors.)
They broke my spirit. I work incredibly hard, they punish me by giving me more work than anyone else to do I come in on days when I'm not scheduled because it's busy and they need help, and they cut my hours in half when they feel like it even though we're already severely understaffed I work hours doing jobs that aren't even supposed to be mine, they pull me aside and say I'm not doing enough I speak with an associate while working and I get told we need to separate I do more work than any big manager and I'm told I need to do more I'm done.
Ah yes, the gratitude of corporate America. They'll whine at the stone they squeeze that they aren't getting enough blood. And remember, any job description you sign up for is virtually useless, you'll be doing anything they can legally make you do, and plenty of illegal things if they think you don't know your rights. And when you insist on things like your rights, or a raise, since you're clearly doing much more than what you're being paid for, you're told you're "not being a team player" ie, you're not allowing us to exploit you
You just reminded me of myself, the moment they realize how good of a hard worker you are they just completely throw everything at you since they know you'll get it done
i dont have a problem with corporations because they make a select few people absurdly rich.....i hate them because they get rich from exploiting workers even though they can very well afford to improve the work environment
Lil Rachael I've never worked at Walmart and I'm glad I never had to. My biggest beef is with the greedy-gut family of Sam Walton, who each have multi-BILLION dollar estates and for what reason? Simply for being born to Sam Walton and his wife? I don't have a problem with them being wealthy. I don't blame them for being born into that family either, nor do I think they should turn down their steady stream of money. But at what point do they say, "Okay, I have enough money to last me and my family for eons and we have NO fear that we'll ever run out, so let's take future "earnings" and give our workers much needed, and deserved, pay raises and better benefit packages" Those multi-billionaires sometimes make sure everyone knows how much they give to "charity", they're the 'chairman of the board' for this charity, or for that charity, but all the while the people that work the hardest in their companies need the help as much as the charities do. I'm all for giving and all, but I'm also for an employer being responsible for making sure he takes care of his employees and compensates them fairly, even going above and beyond when possible. Everytime I go to Walmart I wonder why a business that pays billions of dollars to the founders family every year can't afford to hire enough employees so we'll have more than two registers available to choose from on a busy morning. There's 25+ registers but only two or three registers available ALL morning long, with people having to wait and risk being late to work or school. I hesitate shopping there, but at certain times of the day, it's the only store available to make a stop for certain items. The Walton heirs WILL answer for their greed one day. "What does it profit a man to gain the WHOLE world, and yet, lose his SOUL in the process"....I think Sam Walton, (those that knew him said he was a humble and decent guy), would be disappointed in how greedy his children turned out to be.
EXACTLY. Personally I am very much a socialist, and people always think that myself and others like me just don't like people getting rich. I don't mind people receiving wealth for what they've accomplish, the problem is with the exploitation of workers. The point of socialism isn't to make everyone exactly equal so everyone is the same, it is to stop the exploitation of workers. But nothing says people aren't allowed to be wealthy.
Cap 2 supervisor here. I can tell you, Walmart has crushed my co-workers. It has crushed me both physically and mentally, and I've only worked there for 7 months.
You're absolutely correct my friend on everything you stated that is exactly how my store is when I worked there. And they don't give a s*** about you all they care about is 'their' paycheck and 'their' bonuses. my friend calls them "glorified secretaries" the only associates they care about are the ones that they're sleeping with and the ones that are willing to follow them around like lost puppies when they should be on the floor working
Target employees are very helpful and smiles. Walmart employees are dead inside and out with misery lol. Just being in a Walmart parking lot drains my energy.
The worst position at Wal Mart: People greeter. I had to do that for about an hour one day and it felt like I was being punished. I can't imagine what it's like for people who do that all day every day.
And nothing else. You can't move from your spot, you can't chase down thieves. Your position is something that can be filled by a signpost that says "welcome" on it.
I’ve been in retail for 3.5 years, and this video was so spot on. The music has me appreciating 10 second silence breaks in between songs. The customers literally do speak to you as if they are a prison guard and you are an inmate. Customers literally take out seven pairs of shoes, try them all on, buy none and leave everything scattered all over the floors and seating areas. The disrespect is insane, they talk down to you. Also, working in the shoe department of a store, they expect you to know everything about all 800 shoes we carry as if you made the shoe yourself and aren’t just some minimum wage worker. Saying sorry has become a reflex, I must apologize for things outside my control 25 times a shift. I fantasize about my last day there haha. Respect to anyone on here who also works retail.
That's really sad. I'm always super nice to the employees at Walmart and my husband always tells them they deserve better pay. A little bit of kindness helps. Oh and I put items back in the general area of where I got it, if I decide not to buy it.
My pet peeves is customers arguing with me about the price of items. I AM BEING PAID MINIMUM WAGE TO PUT STUFF ON SHELVES WHY THE FUCK DO YOU THINK I CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT PRICES
@@jamesmol3634 So real haha. "Man this is expensive" could I interest you in literally any of the other items in the store that are differently priced? When things are too expensive for me I put them back.
Currently working at Walmart and it really makes me hate my life. It feels like a punishment. Terrible customers, managers that don’t care, constant fatigue and depression, people talk to you anyway they want, never getting breaks on time, they constantly forget me so I have to do my own breaks. I hate it there so much it hurts. The day I leave will be the happiest day of my life. And if a cashiers light is off, keep walking. Don’t pressure or cuss or act a whole ass about me going to break. I’m tired and I deserve to get a break from y’all 😢
Don’t give up and yes you will be happier. They laid me off because I was scheduled on Fridays that I didn’t ask for and went to the studio to do my music instead since they didn’t want to change my schedule at first. Then the minute they decided to change my schedule they laid me off for attendance because I was scheduled on Fridays that I didn’t ask for. Only problem I really had was the managers, one in particular and I was the only young black employee my age there
@@jaysouthmusic8230 They definitely will do that or change your department because they need staff there. I’ve talked to so many cashiers that said they were hired for bakery or apparel only to be told you got the job but we are changing you to cashier because we need them. All of them usually didn’t stay long. I didn’t even know they could do that to people.
@@cinnamoomilk That is true and while I was there I saw so many people come and go, many of the quit, one got let go who was my favorite co worker because she actually helped trained me instead of the manager himself and they obviously kept the slackers
I was in a Walmart one morning, and they kept calling for the employees to assemble in the ladies' lingerie section for a whatevertheheckitwas code something another. I wondered what that was, so I went over there. It was a company meeting where the employees were singing some kind of motivational group song. O.M.G., how humiliating.
I didnt say anything about God friend. But yeah I've been a christian for 5 years and have gone through more hell than other christians have ever. And I've been judged in january and because I have a job trial, and for certain reasons I'm still alive. But probably won't be much longer. I'm going to hell friend. There is no hope for me. You other christians can sin and backslide as many times as you want and make it back but me? I can't. I had 15,000 demons in me and God was making me work a full time job at an auto shop 40 hours + full time college 5 classes = 100 hours night and day. And i was cursed and opened up to darkness. Demons could get on me without me sinning. And God turned it all into a test which i had gone through for 3 years being constantly tormented. But I'm headed there anyways, and it sucks. You other christians have normal christian walk and have normal problems. Then make heaven. Me? I go through all hell and I can't make it? I'll let you know what Jesus told me last fall, he said most would of fallen away. refering to my brothers and sisters. in other words most of you other christians wouldnt of made it through my trial probably 90%.
@ dog you don't get it in order for me to obedient to God right now I have to be obedient then I get to go to hell. Wonderful right? Because God and Satan are arguing over me right now. Whether I'll be obedient or not. And I've been running for like 5 months cause I don't want to go to hell. But all I'll get if I'm obedient is less punishment in hell. Meanwhile all you normal christians do is just go to church, pray, eat lots of food have good life and abundant life with family and friends. And I never got any of that. But I am being more obedient to God, but all God will do for me is take away some punishments I will have in hell. So thank you but count your blessings that you didn't go through my trial for the Lord himself many times called it a diamond trial. And that he was making me into a diamond. And I would of been great in his kingdom been a priest in Scotland. Most people christians are not kings or even priests. He told me only the select few are kings. and priests are the great like top 1% the rest are going to be in the camp of the saints which will be in Israel.
It is really hard to explain the true nightmare of working at Walmart. The sensory overload from the general noise, the repetitive nature of the environment. The Christmas season stress management instills in you. (Christmas starts in July and doesn’t end until after tax season.) The repetitive nature of constant customer abuse. The hopeless feeling of well this is my job I have to go in. The way management makes it so you don’t talk to co workers not even in the break room. There are no god words to explain just how bad that job is. I really wish I could afford the therapy I genuinely need to heal from that place. It is straight up psychological torture. Just under the radar of being criminal.
Not just Christmas but thanksgiving night for Black Friday “work or your fired”! I was so miserable as thanksgivings is to be with family and over eat together and give thanks, surely they could at least let the people who want to work that day come in but let everyone else spend the day with family and then work for Black Friday.
im a cart pusher at Walmart and its going on over a year starting may 25th, I can sum it up working there for you "theres, war, then theres hell, then theres Walmart"
The only saving grace I had working for Walmart were the times I was sent to the back to help bin. At my old store the management didn't watch the backroom associates very closely (they were too busy making life miserable on the sales floor). We were able to talk to each other and ask for help when we needed it working in the back. The only downside to this was inventory time. Anyone that knew how to use a Telxon had to work surprise overtime to get everything ready.
Current story from a Co-Worker of mine at Little Caesars. She's a manager who transferred to another store in order to get more hours on her paycheck. From what I was told, her father was recently diagnosed with tumors in his brain. The doctor told him if they removed them, he'd be a vegetable. He was then told he had a few days to live. So, the man decides to check himself out of the hospital to pass away at home with his family. Naturally, she wants to spend the last few days she can with her father before his passing. She took a day off and then was told she had to come back to work. She made sure they understood why she was taking time off...and they already knew. From what I heard, they told her something along the lines of "You need to return to work tomorrow. It's not like there is anything you can do for him." Now, I will say that not every supervisor behaves this way and it's likely not the policy of the company itself. When my grandfather was passing away from cancer, my store manager and other managers came to me and offered me as much time as I needed. So, I know this is likely the decision of a single supervisor...who I have a good idea of who he is. You can have many different jobs in your life. But, you get only one father.
Josh Blount That’s terrible and inconsiderate! I hope she got to spend what little time with her Dad. It’s sad to know that some bosses and employers have this mentality that they can rule over there employees lives. 😥
Josh Blount i had a similar experience at mcdonalds my mother jad attempted suicide so i left for a couple days to be with her etc And when i came back my general manager was the biggest dick in the world. Humiliated me in front of my co workers because i am left handed so i cussed him out threw my hat on the ground and walked out. One of my best desicions by far got a way better job after
I was so close to working at Walmart until I felt an odd energy from the associates. Instead I found an awesome job at Marshall’s. Saved my butt for real.
I was depression drinking and i threw up on my walmart vest and i straight up didnt care enough about my job to get rid of the big vomit stain on the back of my vest when i went into work the next day
HELL YEAH! Every day all I do is work hard for the people who are suppose to support me tear me down. I one day had to clean the bread oven... I was never trained on how to... I no joke was about to collapse and coughing so much blood was coming out. All the chemical products that I alone had to use got deep into my lungs. They didn't even send me home, help me in any way, they actually got angry at me for "slacking off" because I asked for water after 30 minutes of hacking. I ended up staying 3 hours over schedule to clean that oven.
I needed a job a few months ago around the peak of quarantine, unfortunately there was a job shortage in my town for months so it was hard for me to find jobs. I applied for over 15 jobs and I heard back from Walmart for an interview. I showed up and could instantly sense the cold and dead vibe emanating from every employee I passed, including the lady interviewing me. I got an email the day after saying "you didn't get the job". Thank god they rejected me. I didn't dodge a bullet, I dodged a nuclear bomb.
Wow 😯 I will never complain about Walmart employees ever again. Many employees have that face that looks like they hate life and I just assumed it was their personality not that the job was slowly killing them
meikoblock Welcome to life. And if you wonder why some little kids have the same face, it's because something bad happended to them while they where growing up. And some employees grow to hate life after Walmart. Hell, a week ago I heard one say, "I treat customers how I'd want to be treated, hell, I just wanna get my shit and leave this hellhole." And that came from an employee in the electronic's section
If most people at a store are happy, then someone that looks dead inside is an individual. When all of them look dead inside, then it's a big sign that it's a terrible place to work. Forced smiles too. Healthy environments don't need to force their employees to smile.
I too work at Wal-Mart, and I will tell you I used to love life and be so full of excitement for the future. I started at walmart just to have money while I was going to college, and in these 4 years, I have completely lost all faith in myself. I have now gotten out of college, and I look at jobs now, and internally I think I cannot qualify for them anymore. It has destroyed my self esteem. It also stresses me out so much that I feel majorly depressed most of the time now.
I work at Target, which is way less depressing than Walmart, but it’s still miserable for the employees. I work in the makeup section, and I’m not allowed to leave the five damn aisles. During the night when no ones around, I feel like I’m going insane. Just like you said, I stare at the displays that I’ve seen a million times, except I can’t walk around the whole store. Still, I can’t even fathom how Walmart employees feel. Such bright white lighting, but dark depressed souls.
At walmart they asked if i could stay late so i said yeah. But i could only stay for a hour i have a appointment. They said fine after the hour just sign out. So i did that. The next day they wrote me up for leaving after the hour.. A few months later when i stop working there. It felt like a weight came off my shoulders. Wal mart sucks.
Lucifer Graves that's why i quit. I worked there last year as a first job from april to September. I worked from 2-11pm and never got weekends off they had me working in the water aisle every day and eventually the overnight manager tried to tell me i didn't work the whole day and was terrible at my job. This was someone who came in at 9pm an hour after i get off lunch. Water sells fast and in bulk and she told me that i couldn't leave until i filled everything to the brim, including the water in the baby section and juice aisle, since it was documented as a coaching that meant they were ready to fire me, my problem wasn't staying late, it was that i had 2 buses to catch home and they stopped running at 12. So it was either end up stranded there while anybody who could've given me a ride went home, or i quit the job, so i just never went back. It's not like i could afford an uber or lyft every single day they felt like i should stay late. I ended up unloading their truck one day then having to walk home for 4 hours. The pain was so crippling that i had to call off after my 2 days off. I loved the job itself, but it was pretty inhospitable for the associates
People should make me wealthy by buying up my "Impact" a James Grider ebook on Amazon so I won't have to work at Wal-Mafart. Doesn't it piss people off that unlike in video games, when you grind for money which is real-life version of XP, you get nowhere. Like, you only make enough to make ends barely meet, like barely enough to pay rent and utilities. Imagine you were playing a video game like "Call of Duty" and you know how you progress through all these numbered levels and with each level you unlock some new perk or some new gun? And it doesn't matter how bad you do, how little XP you earn, play enough games and you will get there and you unlock that shit. It's guaranteed. But in real life you don't progress like that. If what happens to you in real life we were to project into video games, it would be like you don't progress at all. You just stay level 5 in Call of Duty and you can't unlock any more guns or perks. And your struggle in the game becomes about staying at level 5, forget progressing to level 6, just staying at level 5 and constantly fighting not to drop back to level 4 or 3 and lose what you have earned. So it's like if the game was requiring you to get 25 kills every match and if you don't, you lose your gun and you must play with a knife the next match and if you don't get 25 kills, then fuck, they take your knife away. And I would not want to play a game like that. But that's how life is. Earn a certain amount of money at the end of the month or you lose your home, you lose your car, you lose your electricity, whatever. But that's like playing Final Fantasy XV forever, slaying the same shitty weak monsters in the same starting area over and over and knowing you will never be strong enough to keep going through the story, that you'll never finish the story, you'll never beat the tougher bosses, that this is it. It makes no sense. Such game would be thrown in the trash. The way things should work is it doesn't matter how much my job pays, a less paying job should only mean it will take you longer to be as rich as Donald Trump than a person with a high paying job. If I can only get 10 kills per game in COD, it'll take me 3 times longer to prestige than a guy who gets 30 kills per game, but it's still guaranteed that I will prestige. If I work at Walmart vs working as a lawyer, a lawyer will get his mansion soon than the Walmart employeer, but surely the Walmart shopping cart organizer will reach that mansion one day too. But no. It doesn't turn out that way. Life doesn't give you that guarantee. When you are working for money in real life, mostly you're just spinning your wheels. And this is the kind of crap I might discuss on my Dusty Female Cat channel.
When I worked for them, I told them a week in advance that I had an appointment in a week and needed to take the night off before the morning of my appointment. Well, I reminded the overnight manager and it didn't sit well with him, so he went on to belittle and berate me and as he was about to fire me, I threw my vest and name tag at him and quit. I worked with some decent people on the graveyard shift, but my boss, supervisor's, and the customers were so childish and unprofessional, they were infuriating and hard to deal with. I got another job a week later and quickly got over it, but despite the 10 dollars an hour, working for Walmart was THE worst job I've ever had.
Michael Stevens eerily sounds like 1908. I was cap2. Lmao it got to the point were even if the job wasn't done, I'd tell the manager and leave. They threatened with a coaching... except I was an asshole and actually looked into the policy. I wasn't required to stay. And if I had overtime at the end of the week they could coach me. Long story short, they never could coach me for leaving on time. It helped that I didn't care either. At the end Wal-Mart just failed to have any power. It was just idle threats and false incentives.
same i'm cap 1 right now and i've stopped caring completely i'm over 9 occurrences and come in everyday and just dick around. we got a new management team in and they are the worst batch in the three years i've been there. i've given up and have just been praying to be fired Edit little update i finished my EMT schooling so i quit like 2 weeks ago.
I work at Walmart from highschool through college (early 90's - late 90's). Literally a couple days after Sam Walton died everything changed. The store I worked at went from everyone working together to basically a turf war within the store. We had friendly and supportive Assistant Managers and they were either fired or transferred. They brought in people who would rather cuss you than look at you. Used to if a customer had a problem with an employee and complained that the Assistant Manager would address the situation in private. Now it was basically a public execution of the employee. What I mean by that is the Assistant Manager would chew the employee out on the floor for everyone to see. Even if the employee did nothing they were treated like a criminal. I had an Assistant Manager actually try to pick a fist fight with me. He would call me at home on my days off and demand I come in and work. I was a junior in highschool at the time. If my parents answered the phone he would demand they put me on the phone. He would yell and cuss me because he had to actually work. After that, my parents would hang up on him if they realized who it was. He ended up getting arrested and fired for stealing from the store. I was working the day he was arrested. When the police had him in handcuffs when he saw me he blamed me for him being arrested. He actually threatened to come back and get me. The officers told him to shut up. That evening the police showed up to actually walk me to my car after I got off. After I quit I still had managers tell me to stop standing around and work. I told him I had quit and they didn't believe me. One co-manager tried to write me up when I was shopping with my girlfriend. She kissed me as he walked by and he went off. He told me I had better quit being inappropriate and do some work. I just gave him the finger and we walked off. He started yelling at me and I turned around and told him I had quit a day or two ago. He didn't believe me until a woman with the store hr told him I had quit. Then he chewed me out for quitting. I just laughed at him. The employees now don't know anything about anything. One employee couldn't even speak English. I had no idea until I asked her a question. I just turned around and left. You don't go to Walmart after dark or after 9 pm. If you do, better have some form of protection.
Nah man i had a job in a factory that was so miserable i would wake up and drink my coffee and look at a small pond near my house and literally seriously contemplate drowning myself in it. I totally know where you're coming from. I make less money now but it's enough to live and fart around a little and I'm 1000X happier.
I work at a cinema and it's great fun. Because there aren't always movies playing, two thirds of the time have no customers and so we just do jobs and hang around for most of the time.
I don’t know about anyone else but I get a lot of anxiety when I walk into a Walmart... I walk in and grab what I need and walk out I never look around. Grab ‘n go. 😬😂
Yup this is the reason Walmart constently moves everything around to force you to look at products you never saw before. I just moved to mod team I feel like a troll rearranging the shelves on customers.
I LOVE that my Walmart now has self checkouts so I can do that - before it was such a long line to get to the ONE (out of 2 or 3) register that's open that I would HAVE to look around and feel SO anxious
I worked there for 3 years as a student and felt exactly the same way. Some things are just so horrible that words alone can't describe it. The general negative atmosphere, the rude customers, the overwhelmingness of the superstore, the lack of respect, and the incompetence of management make you feel like you're all alone on the battlefield. As a former cashier, I was often forgotten on cash for hours on end without breaks and lunches. You would literally have to BEG them for a washroom break. Customers that shop at Wal-Mart are from the lowest cesspool of society that literally give you a death-stare even when you're working fast enough. These bitches would even have the gaul to ask why you're not fucking smiling. I cussed off a customer once for asking me that. I asked how that was her business in any way/shape/form. Most shoppers (especially the women) are miserable and just come to Walmart to show off and take out their unhappiness / sexual frustration on the employees. It's a very unhealthy and toxic environment. I used to come home and describe this atmosphere exactly as the gentleman in the video does. It is extremely toxic. Quitting is the best thing I ever did! Never was I so happy to leave a job!! #FuckWalmart #HumanRightsAbusers
TheHoly Reviewer They think they are better than you try to belittle you and they are on government assistance They come in pijamas with their long nails fake lashes Michael kors purse and they paid with food stamps and get very angry when a candy or food cooked from deli is not cover by food stamps
Amen to that. I could name countless stories of women just like that there was a lot of rude men to though. I once had a female customer ask if I could get someone that was a real man because I looked young at 20 I guess I should of flipped out on that bitch instead I just went to take a bathroom break. Then there was this one woman that I went out of my way to help her and her husband and she just kept looking for something to complain about no matter how helpful I was, eventually she just found a misplaced item on the shelf and said shes gonna tell a manager but you could totally tell she thought she was so much better then me and the way she talked to me was deplorable she was a totally miserable person and you could see it in her face. I learned a lot from that job about people though there are just tons of incredibly miserable people out there that like to take their frustrations out on retail workers they also think they are so much better because they make a few more bucks it's kind of sad. I always make sure to treat food service workers and retail workers right for one they don't get paid enough it's alot harder work than it seems it's a real mental labor to put up with all that crap the customers alone are a nightmare. I'll never work retail again.
One of my Walmart orientations (yes, I worked there more than once) had a moment I’ll never forget. The main lady came out and was giving us her ‘Welcome to Walmart!’ speech and talking about how great of a company it is and how much room there is for advancement (that’s a straight up lie). She then started telling us a little about herself, including how she has worked with Walmart for 25 years up to that point. She said something I’ll never forget: “[My Walmart job] started as just something to have while I waited for a better opportunity to come along!” After she sighed and had a very awkward moment of silence, she finished her thought. “And…well…I guess a better opportunity never came along…”
I never treat anyone lower than dirt even Wal Mart employees are fellow human beings and I would never berate them just cause they work there. Sad a lot of people would do that to others.
It's really dictated on your personality. Most people have no problem taking it out on strangers. Especially places like walmart that almost encourage it.
Terrible Tanner I've worked as a CAP 2 (the group that unloads trucks and gets freight ready for overnight workers) since May and no one at my store has ever done any kind of Walmart chant. Our assistant manager sees that shit as a waste of time.
It is a waste of time, and an ultra-depressing one at that. However, things may change once WalMart discovers your assistant manager's infidelity, and they promptly execute him and replace him with a Senior Chant Leader. "Gimme a dub-ya, SmilingDeath!"
Absolutely not. No possible way. Nobody gets away with desecration in the temple of WalMart! These eight years of heresy will not go unpunished. One visit from the DM and she'll be sacrificed to appease the CEO. From thereon, you'll be jumping up and down, chanting as instructed, or you'll be joining her on the altar.
Dude, she meets with the CEO regularly. I'm pretty sure if anything was going to happen because a stupid chant not being done, it would've happened by now.
I’ve worked at Walmart for 2 years I haven’t experienced any of these things except for the customers the customers are the worst I actually like my job at Walmart and plus I make 14.75 and hour and I’m not even a manager
I have been working at walmart for almost 3 years now. When I first started I was happy and was excited to go to work but after a couple weeks everything changed. I started to not want to go in and dreaded going to work. I started smoking cigarettes and still smoke them to this day. Now I'm super depressed and hate going to work on my days off I just lay in bed and try to recover. No motivation to do anything outside of work. Working in retail is probably the worst decision I've ever made.
I feel your pain. I just made 5 months and I already got a verbal warning by a manager who NEVER TRAINED ME ON TOP STOCK and it will be on my walmart record or record for a year and I haven't even been there 6 months yet. All that for 15 an hour and the manager is lowkey racist towards me but not the other black employees(he's hispanic btw) so I feel your pain. Can't wait to leave walmart
I used to work at Walmart and never ever again man. They under pay the employees. They say there prices are low, yah right it’s all an head game. I find way more cheaper stuff at kogers and food lion
the sad part is where I live. Walmart is powerful and profitable here. Plus the employees suck but, are kissasses ever since they got more money from those closing Walmart around the country
I honestly feel awful for Walmart employees so much, I don't shop there unless i have no other options and when i do i try to be as nice as possible to tge employees. How a place presents itself really matters.
I refuse to shop at Walmart even with its appeal for cheaper stuff, it’s depressed workers and its greed just doesn’t invite me in to shop! How can a very rich company and family have its workers get paid such a low wage amount when they’re bathing in money? So sick and wrong
It all comes down to worth of the job. Why would they pay you 20$ an hour when there are 800 16 year olds who have the same skills necessary willing to work part time for half of that.
I primarily shop at target for things like toiletries, towels, electronics etc. Once you get accustomed to target going to a Wal-Mart is depressing. It just feels dirty and cheap and the people, both customers and employees, seem absolutely miserable. I hate going into a walmart
Rachel Magowan: there’s this thing I’ve noticed which really bugs me. When you walk in there are only two long pathways to take and you must pass by everybody. I think it’s so they can stop people trying to steal stuff, though it makes it feel like a jail cell to me for some reason.
The cashiers aren’t allowed to sit down even if your work is caught up on and you have no customers. Me and a couple others ave fibromyalgia and standing so much makes you tired and causes a lot of pain . You have to have a doctors excuse to sit . But the cashiers at Aldi’s sit down to ring you up .
Split days off need to be against the law. I worked Walmart on off for total of 8 years. I went like 4 months straight on split days off and literally threatened my HR that if they did it again it would they would be another activate shooting training course throughout Walmart and they got the idea and FINALLY stopped.
I hated receiving constant death threats and abuse from customers all the time. I worked in the money center and because of that I had to deny customers service. And when you deny a customer cashing a check for $5000 because it's fake or doesn't fit Walmart's standards, they get a little upset. If you can imagine. Also when you have to explain to a customer not to sent thousands of dollars to a stranger they met online that lives in Nigeria because it's a scam - People aren't grateful you're stopping them from being scammed, they are furious. I hated every second of it. Customers will purposely do whatever they feel like, be as nasty as possible, because they know you can't do anything back. The job I have now is actually a lot worse than what I had at Walmart, but I don't feel anywhere near as bad because most of the stress from being there is all gone.
PsychoIncarnate yea customers are pigs sometimes. They think u owe them the world. I work at a casino hotel and resort as a porter (janitor) i see alot of people but mainly a bunch of elderly people and theyre just the worst. Theyre pigs. Never clean up after themselves they piss and shit all over the bathrooms spill pop on the floors and leave it.a nd tbh they just look like empty hollows sitting at their machines gambling.. but whatever i get free pop and food and get to talk to all the people from all the different departments inside the casino.
Potential x10 I too, was a porter at a casino. I feel your pain. Drunk morons in casinos vomit everywhere, shit and piss everywhere and are fucking retards in general. Start applying for other jobs immediately. If you speak English, you're overqualified for this job.
That isn't so much legend as it is a fact. Notice how most malls in the US are designed to be basically easily fortified with a few APCs and a good few dozen sandbags. Plus, the racks and shelves are at a convenient height to store guns and ammo if SHTF. Along with the roofs being very easily fortified already, it's basically a fortress of food and basic supplies.
Maybe this mostly applies to day shift but working overnight maintenance it's pretty chill. All I have to do is both bathrooms (which tend to be surprisingly clean) sweep gm, and then scrub it. I occasionally get a random sidequest like put the carts away or take trash out but nothing so bad. Worse thing that happened is my coworkers and I having to train our new teamlead instead of one of us getting promoted.
Like when you can't use a chair to sit down on when you're standing 8 hours a day for cashiers because it may look "unprofessional" bro walmart is built on being unprofessional.
The nearest Walmart to me is a filthy dung heap that's constantly overcrowded with some of the worst, most despicable people imaginable. But that's what Walmart seems to strive for.
@3:05 is how I felt when I got to the point of quitting. I remember standing outside, almost crying on the phone to my girlfriend, looking for anything to talk me out of going inside. I also had a friend who would sit in his car a cry over the fact that he had go in there.
it is really the worst place to work. i worked there for a month because my hours got cut at my main job (victoria's secret) it was the most depressing job ive ever had. looks bleak there, SO many of the customers are rude, and you are just a number to management.
Bro its my 4th day. I wanna call off so bad. Im in the deli. I go in first day yesterday and nobody is training me besides this part time old lady who luckly was kinda cool but my god dude.
ShinTensei that was literally me dude I’m bouta go to my 6th day tomorrow and on my first day I was just thrown into the job no experience or help. My friend got hired today and gave him training and other stuff I didn’t get that. Some older lady helped me one day and she would tell me how bullshit the job is and to do me and I was surprised she thought that but it made sense. Everyone there is just a weird depressed person that doesn’t seem like they care about life it’s just crazy man but I’m 16 and not planning to work there very long. Anyways you still work there ??!
@@juicethemartian9298 lol it's 3:12 a.m and I have work. My coworker told me that they were thinking about getting rid of me about a month ago. I should be fine if I call out since it's been 30 days. I might cry at first if they fire me, but FUCK I'LL BE HAPPY.
Yeah most of the time you don't actually go through a training process with an actual manager it's most likely the associate who's also working the same position there who's gonna teach you stuff. A lot of it though is learned on your own and with customer experience.
Since everyone else is telling their walmart stories I'll tell mine. *sorta long* I worked there for 2 and a half years...it was a 24 hr store where they Required the cheer and every time we did it the customers always looked over at us as if they're thinking "look at all those retards.." managers never cared how slack workers worked but the people who worked their ass off for the company got time limits and "coachings" which are write ups essentially for productivity.. but certain people could slack or just do whatever they wanted. Managers played favorites and allowed certain associates to play comanager sometimes and have a radio and earpiece and boss the other little people around. My schedule was 10 PM - 7 am and I can count on just one hand how many times I actually left that store at 7... they would Force the entire night crew to stay over until 9 or 10 until trucks were done or detailing (called zoning at walmart) was fully done in every department which Always took past 7. Then the next night you come in thered be a meeting by pharmacy where they'd whine that we cant stay over people are getting too many hours. Most people always tried to Sneak out of there but at 6:30 and 7 am they began marching around the store or watching the entrance and exits to try to catch people in the act like police. They would Always set off the alarm at 7 and go searching for people to make sure no one could escape... and the worse thing of all at least it was to me- all of the managers WATCHED you.... I mean glared down every single associate, stood at the end of your aisle. Help with freight? Nah.. assist customers? Nope. Stand there with their arms crossed and Glare at you, oh yes. it made me feel so uncomfortable. Makes you constantly feel like you're like you're not working fast enough or doing enough and I Hated that... I'm not a zoo animal dont watch me. They LITERALLY treated that place like a prison, with the prison guards (managers) watching over the inmates every single second and then trying to prevent us from escaping every morning. I could get a job shoveling shit and it would be a better job than that was.... it was Literally a prison in the way things worked..
@Fred Tedason theres a disclaimer in the post saying that it's long so I dont care about your stupid mainstream acronym whining about it being too long :)~
I just went through something like this and I only been there for 5 months busting my butt off and I get a verbal warning about top stock which the manager never trained me on in the first place. Walmart is the worst place to work for
@@jaysouthmusic8230 OH yeah... it's been years since I worked there but I remember top stock process. I also remember Not being trained to do stuff and then being bitched about not doing it properly. That's the walmart way... Honestly Jay, I don't imagine Any retail job is much better
Not if they all do it en masse. The power of the union is in the power of the masses, if there isn't anyone left willing to work at Wal-mart, they close. There is a very big reason Wal-mart is consistently one of the biggest anti-labor lobbyists that pushes for anti-union laws, against wage increases, against benefits or protections, and why they spend so much effort on their own internal corporate propaganda to try and demonize labor organization to their bottom rung employees. Truth is they're terrified of unions, because they know that the soul-crushing horrors of working in retail are true, and that these are the people that'd flock to a union the fastest to try and reduce their crushing misery. The lords want to keep their serfs downtrodden, desperate, and if possible ignorant. If they're downtrodden, they have no will to stand up let alone fight for their rights. if they're desperate, they'll accept the most meager of crumbs and scramble to please their lord for those desperate crumbs. And if they're ignorant, they will remain in the dark as to the rights they as human beings have, and of the power they still possess despite not being a corporate overlord.
True, have never worked for Walmart but retail is probably one of the worst jobs in the modern world in general, not necessarily the hardest because that would be unrealistic but no other job will make you feel as worthless and mentally distressed as retail. Some say retail doesn't take any skill, or is "easy", which is complete bullshit, anyone who says that has never been there, or got lucky with awesome managers (unfortunately not everyone gets to have that luxury). I think it takes a good bit of skill to take the shit thrown at you on a daily basis, and then to get up almost every day and convince yourself to go back for more all with a smile on your face and then some. This is magnified by the fact that a lot of people who work retail are also in school and are just now experiencing "adult" life, so that added stress just doesn't help at all. Retail COULD be a pleasant, tolerable job, all without changing the pay rates, but corporatism makes that impossible. With that said, ive used my time working for retail as a learning experience. Ive developed social skills and learned how to deal with people, and basically learning how people work at a psychological level (Ive learned that more often than not you will be dealing with people who will act like they've never been in a public place before, nor taught how to behave in one) among many other things. As for myself, i will be obtaining a CDL sometime soon, and i hope to be out of the prison that is ret-hell. My advice for newcomers working retail; never settle, do good while you are there but use it as a placeholder for something else, then get out, otherwise it will destroy you. (Worked for Kroger 4 years, worked every department at some point within that time)
I understand what you mean when you say the entire atmosphere of your workplace eats your soul. I work at McDonald's and the guy who worked on grill burned his entire arm on the grill just so he could get away from working at the job while he looks for a new one. Retail, food service, and service in general can be hell if you're working for the wrong company.
80's Nostalgia Guy I've had plenty of idiotic managers so I can definitely relate. As for pay, it can most certainly be a factor when you're expected to overwork yourself for $7.25/hr (the minimum wage in my state) like my coworkers and I are.
No. What I mean is that hardly anyone works for the minimum wage. Straight out of high school it was possible for me to make more than 3x the minimum wage with little effort on my part. I just don't buy the idea that somehow people are stuck at that obscenely low wage.
The energy in there is very crushing. Just walking into the store, it's like getting railed with a wall of negativity that you have to shake off, and when you do, the sounds hit you hard. Kids screaming, management going nuts on the walkies, the small selection of songs noted in this video. Just walking into the store is a bad experience in itself. And Fanta is right, the negative aspects of Wal-Mart just aren't felt at other store chains.
They laid me off after seven months for attendance because they scheduled me on Fridays and I told them I was busy on Fridays and that was the closest day to the weekend I would get off. This one manager hated me for no apparent reason since I started there and he was Hispanic so I thought he was racist towards me and not the other black employees that were with me on cap 2 except this older black dude who didn’t like him either. There’s work life balance when it comes to Walmart and I don’t regret not showing up those Fridays to go to the studio instead I rather be chasing my dream than to help someone else’s
wanna hear something funny? im from Guatemala, right next to Mexico, and we just got walmart like 6-8 years ago and man... they brought it to be the "fanciest super market ever" where everything is over priced, of course they have american brands which we dont have everywhere like different sodas or imported candy, different chips n shiet, but they make you think like "you are the higher class" and you see people who pretend or are from higher class purchasing there dressed in a fancy way, like it was some kind of country club or something, and seeing other people being treated like trash like "hey, you dont belong here, go back to local stores or mini markets" and they treat the employees like shit, i hate to go there but... my shampoo, body cream and stuff like that are there, i have to go there once every 2 months, but i just get there and get out asap. its really sad how people fall for that crap when we all know that walmart its just a bottom feeder of retail stores.
Big Picture Thinking Neither should be used in this situation. He doesn't do either, he goes once every 2 months. Regularly would be once every week or two, often would be once a day. There are big differences yes, but regularly was a bad word choice.
"It felt like a prison." Stanford prison experiment. They funny thing is you could have an IQ of 200 but if you work at walmart, everyone thinks you have an IQ of 60. If Albert Einstein was a retail person before, and he wasn't known as "The Einstein" yet people would have thought he was an idiot. It's what you do that matters, and it reflects. You could be an average person with engineering degree, and everyone thinks you a genius. People are idiots. We're all ignorant. What I fuckin hate is when managers break people apart who are talking and not even a TWO minutes later you see them talking to their clique. I worked at a giant red, white and blue hardware store. Everyone talks. Everyone. But as soon as certain people did, oh boy... you are in trouble. Not everyone was a pain in the ass, but there was clearly a divide among the workers. Some managers stayed neutral and tried to help out both. Some understood the corruption. And then there were some who actively participated in it.
It's really crappy how people are forced to work so much that that essentially becomes who they are, because it's what they are forced to do for the vast majority of their waking hours
I worked at Walmart for over two years, and got fired for going to my grandmothers funeral. The stress from Walmart was making my eye twitch uncontrollably, and it didn't go away until after a week after i was let go. Now every time i go into the Walmart i worked out i do little things out of spite. Like taking the batteries out of the managers scanners(if they were left out on the floor), and throwing them in the garbage. Unplugging their little screens that play the commercial's on loop, and messing with the thermostat in the lobby. Either cranking it to the max, or turning it off entirely depending on the season. So the front desk will get flooded with customers complaining about the temperature.
Cheat Queen I asked for two consecutive days off and the rarely ever asked for time off. When they found out what I needed it for, they tried to deny it. Their leave of absence is separate from the control of the managers...So glad I don't work there anymore. They made the job seem harder than it really was, just collecting carts, lol...
You should try working at Amazon. It's basically the same, except you have to work at a breakneck pace, and all your coworkers are competing with you so they don't lose their job. It's got most of the things you mentioned. Shitty pop music, a building that looks like a fucking prison, no windows, inconsistent managers, just take them and crank them up to 11. Seriously, you may make around $15/hr, but it's still not worth it. I'm probably breaking some kind of NDA they probably had me sign during hiring, but fuck it.
No, I much prefer only hearing the machinery and scanners beeping than the mind-numbing, awful, vapid pop music that they play on loop. Yeah, my managers selected every track, and they were all assholes.
Oh, yeah, we had ToT's for 3-minute restroom breaks. Rest assured, the music was awful. And, if you didn't already hate pop music, hearing the same song at least 3-4 times a day while slaving over a pack station would definitely make you resent all pop music by the time you were done working there.
The wanting to get in a car accident and go to the hospital so you don't have to go to work, I've been there.
That's one of the most agreeable statements I have heard all day.
Don’t ever wish a car wreck on yourself or anyone. I was rear ended before Christmas and my life has unraveled ever since.
Dude this was me when i worked in a call center that had ridiculous goals. I am SO GLAD i left that job...the money was not worth my emotional distress day in and day out.
Or you could not go in. If you hate it that much, get another job.
Nick Cervenka easier said than done
The day my mom was fired from Walmart for not putting out the crates fast enough she came home looking brighter than I ever imagined. She looked so freed. I hope I can give her anything she wants one day.
I feel that. Same here
She was happy because she broke free from the miserable hell she was in. There's no hope in Walmart in general and no hope in retail in particular, it's a dead end.
If they want it done so fast then hire a robot.
I felt HIGH after I got terminated from Walmart. Now I'm a teacher. It's a big step up for me.
@@jimcolumbus6752 I’m happy for you!
Walmart sucks I gave 5 years of my life to that company and when i quit i instantly felt my soul come back to my body.
same
same dude fuck walmart
@@MrStompingshadow you'll get herpes that way
@anthony abel Me when i quit from goodwill
Anthony Abel Im glad, sir
Retail is an endless, thankless job. You collect shopping carts, people take them out again. You clean toilets, people shit on the seat again. You put items on a shelf, people take them off again. You ring up one customer's purchases, and the next customer comes through your line. At what point do you actually accomplish or achieve anything meaningful?
Agreed
@@FANTAVISION The things I have experienced in the past as a retail janitor... It's as if the customers don't know where their anuses are located, I swear. They definitely don't know that toilet paper is flushable, or that paper towels are NOT flushable... and they can't figure out how to get paper towels out of the dispenser even though there's instructions written on the dispenser in 3 languages, with pictures...
Customers don’t even put the carts in the corrals at my local Walshart.
You’ve provided people with the possibility to continue their lives. 🤷
@@RoxYgen03They don't even deserve that, grown adults should be capable of doing that themselves
Boss: What happened, your shift should have started 20 minutes ago?!
Employee: Ugh boss I got into a car accident, my legs were torn off, I'm barely alive.
Boss: But you're still coming in right?
That is unhuman.. No company should be unhuman towards customer service agents. When that happens, Give 2 weeks notice and go..
@@Rocnati And I thought I was only joking
@@Rocnati that is so true!! sams club is the same way!! oh my goodness that is crazy!!! 5 points and your gone... lmbo. if you have an accident you better call in and if you are out more than 5 days or your have 5 points your FIRED!!!!! THEY DO NOT EXCEPT DR. NOTES! THEY ALSO DO NOT ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM A DOCTOR. YOU BETTER MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PROTECTED PTO TO COVER ALL DAYS OUT OF WORK. CRAZY!!!! But it is also on who the managers and team leads like you or not if they dont your screwed!!!! bye bye job.
Is your manager Donnie Willis?
Its the truth too. Call outs are held against you NO MATTER WHAT. even if you have a doctors note, it is not accepted. You literally have to be on your death bed, and even then, there's no guarantee you'll still have a job when you return to work the next day. Bc of their stupid point system. 5 points no matter your tenure, no matter if you are truly sick, if you and/or anyone else in your family has health problems. No longer can use actual sick time anymore, you have to use what is called "protected paid time off" which is only earned up to 48 in the fiscal year, and how much you earn per pay period is based on tenure.
any retail job is cancer
Atleast it's a dieing business.
Not all I worked at footlocker and it was actually fun
@Malachi Gillespie im going into heb nightstocking soon hope i meet good people.
Andrew E I heard blockbuster was also bad depending on your coworkers and managers and it got real bad in the last days of the company being open still
Fast food is even worse
Not Walmart, but the worst is Christmas when you only have variations of the same 5 songs.
santa baby
The local Wilkinson's used to play the same song on a loop all day every day. I asked the some of the staff about it and they said they felt like they were going insane.
I find some minor humor in the Christmas music where I live (Texas). Hearing any of the many, many songs talking about snow and/or cold weather during Christmas while it is still 72 degrees outside is kinda funny.
Yes Christmas is the worst. I've never hated that holiday with so passion until I started working.
Home Depot plays a 45 minute loop of the same 6 songs sung by a few different artists during Christmas
Worked at Wal-Mart for a week, walked out and never came back during the first 15-minute break. One of the best and easiest decisions of my life.
that bad? Lmao start in like a week might end up doin the same
@@dubdubdin keep us updated, I wanna know if it’s really that bad.😂 I work in retail but not Walmart.
@@CheeseMoon24 everything you may have heard about working there is mostly true. I’ve Been there almost 4 years. Ever since I left I’ve been a happy man.
Lucky you.
It took me 11 1/2 years to leave.
My mom worked at Walmart about a week. She was trying to look for help and her supervisor was constantly ignoring her. So, what did she do? She clocked out and stopped showing up.
Walmart was my first job and my deepest regret. You can feel the crushed souls of the workers as you walk in... I got fired because i missed more than their allotted bereavement time when my dad died which they only give you like 3 days of bereavement time...
Your dad dies and those pieces of human waste only allow 3 days to mourn a loss like that as policy? All I can say is wow. Just wow. They don't deserve any workers with a policy like that.
I work at Costco and when my mother died they gave me 3 days also it's there policy but they were Generous about giving more time
American capital industry has made us forget the importance of human appreciation and understanding. It's a thing that you see not as much in places like Japan because they are thought to appreciate any service from the very early age of 1yrs, which is why for the most part we seem to be more rude as a culture, if you can even call us a culture
Bobby Da fasterblade Your lucky they only gave me 3 days.
I’m sorry to hear about your dad
Hearing this video makes me want to quit Walmart even though I don’t work there
lmao.....you have no idea
I work at Wal-Mart, and I wanna die. I mean find another job.
BlazeInferno360 same
I quit. Tbh never had been so happy in my life for quitting a job
I work there now and I wanna quit but everyone yells me saying it can’t be that bad ur getting paid good blah blah
Wal mart literally is the most depressing job ever. Shitty pay and just a draining atmosphere. Never again.
Decent pay but shitty job
Actually alright pay but still shitty job
@@kirbyolsen5941 there’s something about the new store design that makes it so depressing. It could be the lighting or something, I don’t know. But it’s horrible for sure.
@@DrewMIATL it’s just the atmosphere and the people inside it it’s terrible
Idk it's my first job and there paying me $11/Hr and the minimum wage is $7.25/Hr in my state.
"Remember to treat our employees with respect, because we most certainly don't" - Sam Walton.
Sam Walton died before the company became shit. When he was alive the company was a great place to work.
All supermarkets are owned by the devil.
@@desthomas3020 Facts
@@desthomas3020 Explains why working at any supermarket is a living hell
@@desthomas3020 😮
I absolutely hate working at Walmart and this video gave me the confidence to quit and enjoy the rest of my senior year of high school. Thank you sir
No problem! Glad I could help!
I quit and within weeks work at a much better place that gives me way more money and I have a much happier life and I’m not embarrassed to go to work
If everybody thought this way, there would be no Walmart. EVERYBODY keep revolting! Lol
Worked there for 9 years, it's a slave camp, and they robbed all rural places of small business and prosperity. We used to have a sign at the end of town that said "We will expand 21 miles by 2012" well guess what, since 1993 when bill Clinton was campaigning for Walmart and Sam Walton made a deal with the devil, he built a monopoly and screwed everybody. The beginning of our country being sold out to China. It's a horrible company and I am ashamed of myself for ever working there. Fuck them.
I thought you have to be 18 to work at walmart
Yeah, quit without finding a new job! That'll be great for a resume lolololol wow my generation are fucking loons
No energy, no patience, no social life, depression drinking and constantly feeling anxious and claustrophobic because of the home>work>home routine - this sums up one of the longest 3 months of my life working in retail.
It humbled the hell out of me, though. And that I can appreciate.
as someone who's been in maximum security at county and worked for Walmart I can honestly say I'd rather be in jail
Lmfao
God damn lol
For real and the pay is probably over x3 as much too
I just got hired at walmart. At the interview everything seems to fine and all. I just went to the job orientation and after seeing how the employees were working their butt’s off like they’ve been own by a slave master. I thought to myself, OMG what have I got myself into. Mind you I just got hired and I’m already looking for something else.lmao.
Same here
Hope you escaped that shithole
@@MariaHernandez-iq1tc trust me walmart is not worth is. I been there 5 months and already got a verbal warning on my record by a manger that NEVER TRAINED me and doesn't like me for whatever reason(probably racist) and it's worse cause I work in the suburbs. Can't wait till leave walmart never working for them again
Do you still work at Walmart?
I got hired on the spot 3 weeks ago and I am working as a stocking 1 TA... Gotta say everyone definitely looks miserable for sure. I would greet some employees and wouldn't get a response back 😂 my manager didn't give me a proper orientation either and had me do computer assessments for 3 days and after that forced me to use my phone for work (BYOD). I asked for a work phone and she told me was "you're new so you will have to wait" and then switched it up to "you probably won't get a work phone because of you hours and I will prioritize someone who works more hours than you ". 🙄 My routine has been to just top stock, fix the aisles and sometimes other employees come to me and ask for my help to put away boxes they vizpicked. It makes my day go by fast tbh but I wouldn't suggest Walmart to anyone....
When I got out of high school, a few years ago, I was pretty desperate for a job. After weeks of no luck I bit the bullet and went to apply at Walmart. The manager asked me what department I was interested in and I told him electronics. He thought that was perfect because apparently they were short staffed in that area. So he took me to the back of the building where they stock everything and told me to put in an application at the saddest excuse for an application terminal I've ever seen. So i sit down and he goes away. 15 minutes into the struggle of trying to use this piece of shit computer to put in an application that just won't work, I look around at the blank walls and florescent lighting. And I realized at that moment the mistake I was about to make. I got up without saying a word to anyone and just left. That's as close as I've gotten to working there.
Isabella Vicente Good. You avoided it.
This is a scary ass little story. Too real
I am in complete envy of you, you made the right choice.
I interviewed and got asked for a drug test. I was like"lololol this is walmart" i chuckled at the man looked around and said see you later. Never came back lol
Don't do drugs
Working in retail turned me into a misanthrope. I was a happy, positive person before retail, but after, I hated life and people. Near the end of my retail days, I started calling out more often because I couldn't take it anymore. I couldn't take another angry customer yelling at me over company policies I don't control. I couldn't take another bratty kid running around and knocking over displays while their neanderthal parents did nothing. I couldn't take another holiday season with eight hours of Christmas music and endless customers. I had to find something else before I lost my mind.
Thankfully, I'm no longer working retail and I'm actually enjoying life again and I have weekends off. I actually enjoy what I do now. I feel for the people still working retail. I know their pain all too well.
is it really so bad. i thought all jobs had downsides
It is that bad. I love where I'm working now. It's so much better than what I was doing.
Blox117 Yes. It is bad. I have worked on farms, maintenance, janitorial stuff. I have cleaned septic tanks and have had human shit splash on my face. STILL PREFERABLE TO RETAIL. No job that I've worked was worse than my retail jobs. People think retail is easy. Just standing behind a counter and working the cash register. It is not easy. It is by far the HARDEST work I have ever done.
Thanks for sharing, I completely understand. I've never worked retail, but I have had to do something possibly worse. Call center customer service. Even though I've been out of that line of work for several years, I still feel like I'm recovering, or may never recover. I've just become so much more impatient, confrontational, irritable, I just have very little ability to empathize with people. I was a 'manager' for most of my time there, taking escalated calls all day. And 9/10 times when someone asks for a manager, it's because they want something that's against the rules, usually us to waive a fee or lower prices. So they would all begin with the customer trying to tell me a sob story to justify me bending the rules for them. After several hundred calls, they just all seem fake. Any time someone starts talking to me with a sob story or telling me about why their problem/situation is different from the norm, my brain turns off. I get very defensive and assume they are lying until they prove me wrong.
I agree with you 100%. I unfortunately still work retail and its my stores really busy time of year. I've been working 45+ hours a week, you can argue that the extra money is great but the truth is you don't see much of the overtime because of good ol' uncle Sam. We are short staffed and can't get any help from other stores. Not to mention having managers that don't know how to make a schedule and make you work 7 to 9 days in a row, our schedules are on a week to week basis so sometimes my days off are in the beginning of one week and at the end of the next. Don't even get me started on the mindless customers. I work in the bakery section of my store and of course they all know how to bake because they watch the Food Network.
My dog was dying and needed to be put down in December. I had to have her euthanized and she was just 6 years old.. I was told that "we need you here, it's too close to the holiday so you'll get double points for calling off". The company is morally bankrupt
yep I have a situation like that coming up. I have to take my mom out of town for heart testing for a bypass surgery, and my manager hasn't approved my request yet. I put it in 2 months in advance, and his reasoning is, I haven't done that schedule yet...it's like that's not the point...
im sorry for the lost of your sweet pup. May he rest in peace.
Evil company
I feel like I owe you an apology. I had seen some of your videos regarding Walmart in the past and decided to work there anyway because of the pay. That place rented me a soul just so it could be crushed. The day that I quit, I immediately felt like more of a person. I don't see how anyone lasts years at that place, it's just unhealthy. Sorry, Fanta. I should've listened.
I worked there four years in the lawn and garden/ seasonal department. Yeah, my insane self might go back cause I need the money... hello stress smoking.
my first week here as a cart pusher and i haven’t had any emotions since i started
@@BrandonGhost 😭😭😭😭 I’m dead
I walked out of there and I felt so happy at same time depressed because the pay was actually decent
Target: That Place You Pay a Little More...to Avoid Walmart
Tbh Target is getting as bad as Walmart to its workers, especially with the hierarchy changes. All my coworkers are incredibly depressed. Everyone is losing their benefits and all corporate cares about is the RedCards. We don't matter anymore, haven't for a long time. It's retail all the same.
GamingTV my closest managers aren't managers anymore and are at the same level and pay grade as me with three times the responsibility. Guests treat us like garbage. Policy doesn't matter anymore. And no one is happy there anymore except for the higher ups. At least at my store. I don't know about the store where you live but mine is going downhill fast.
J. Monroe And most times when you actually check, it is as cheap or cheaper and so much cleaner and nicer. Doesn't feel ghetto. You can not make me even go in a Walmart now but when I did,I would NOT use their restrooms. Horrible. I think long term employees are brainwashed. Might have something to do with the stupid rah rah sessions televised for employees every day. When I heard they had a Walmart cheer, I thought I would be sick. My sister in-law still devotedly works there.
GamingTV
'Welcome to the real world?' I think he knows that. Just because the Target you've experienced is nice doesn't mean every Target is like that. And I'm sure it's not a matter of him being lazy or unambitious, but just a matter of present circumstances that doesn't have him in a good place. You don't need to be on a high horse to tell him to get out of there.
Target overworks their employees just like Walmart.
When I worked at Walmart they made me, a cart pusher do the following:
1. Clock in at 4am to clean the bathrooms and clean the floors
2. Pick up trash in the grass outside of the store
3. Scrub the sidewalk with the scrubber
4. Clean and scrub the years old chicken slime that smelled like dog shit thus, making me smell like dog shit
5. Make all of the stores plastic and cardboard bales by myself
6. And finally make sure there are no carts in the parking lot every 2 hours.
I was 17 and was in charge of all of these things by myself and was criticized when I wasn’t on top of it. They took advantage of me and did not care to fire me when I had to drive my family somewhere lol. Worst job ever I would never recommend it unless you are truly down and out. Shout out to all the people still working at Walmart y’all are stronger than ppl think trust me
Ya your a pushover u can say no to that shit they can't force u to do all that..... People that complane are just lazy and don't want to work if u had to do extra that's your falt get stronger with yourself
@@Bikutta Fuck you guys, saying this kid is a pushover.
Employers abusing kids, must be the kid's fault. This dude doesnt even have a fully developed brain yet; and yall take the employer's side?
Go fuck yourselves. You sound like the assholes who'd be okay with child labor.
@@PrestonCormack man fuck off. Calling a child a pushover because the managers took advantage of him. I work at walmart, and it's not as easy as saying no. I said that I couldn't do something manager asked me to because of unsafe working conditions, and it spread like wildfire. Every assistant manager stopped talking to me, and wouldn't even look in my direction or acknowledge me for weeks. They still don't. When they do look at you they just roll their eyes and walk past you with their chins up. If you have to go to them for something, they ignore you and keep talking to each other about what kind of flour they use when making cookies while you have a customer waiting for you to get them. Then when you finally get their attention they get all short with you and answer with a word or two without even looking at you. You're not supposed to get punished for speaking up and refusing unsafe work or not doing things that aren't you're job. But you do. And if you report it the assistant managers hate you even more for reporting it. If you don't have a backbone, you get pushed around and walked over, and if you do have a backbone you're a lazy bitch. There's no winning
@@heyoitsme2416 You are a good person
Sounds like home depot
I'm currently trying to leave my job at Walmart. It's affecting my mental health. I totally felt it when you talked about wanting to get into a car crash to get out of showing up
I'm bout to quit I've been there for a year
Can relate, quit after 1 year I felt so much happier.
Dude same. Worst year of my life. Worst people ive ever worked for or with. Sadly its made me kind of a dick when i shop there now lol
fr i’m so stressed out my physical health has declined as well as mental health
That’s how I was last night before I went to work at Sheetz
I don't know about anybody else but I always tried to make it a point to be as nice to retail employees as possible
I wish more people were like you.
Yeah. Gotta love employees who take abuse because "muh work ethic."
Working class solidarity over everything, always respect the struggle.
I have the same motto
@Jesse Pinkman Yo, Gatorade me you bitch
I worked at Home Depot for five years. FIVE YEARS of a bright orange apron, same 5 songs, cement and lumber dust filling the air, one employee per department... I mean the memories drain my soul.
I worked Lowe's for an ENTIRE season! (yes I avoided the annual lawn and garden purge! ) Exactly ONE year to the day of my hire, was let go for , get this (lack of available work) . I dig ya on the same 5 songs , though I got to avoid the orange .. red white and blue a little more tolerable. lack of anyone to cover my area when I had to take lunch, rules against ditching your apron in your area before hiking to the breakroom ( guaranteeing ya to be asked for assistance by a customer who doesn't give a shit if you are off the clock on way to break). Not allowed to take required breaks during deliveries. Personnel cooking the timesheets giving people lunch breaks they did NOT take because of workload. Not being allowed to go to car during lunch . Not being allowed to smoke in your car in the parking lot. Threats to fire ya if ya call in sick ( that's okay I got revenge ..sneezed on the main price label printer keyboard, infected the WHOLE store! 4 days later 80%^ called in sick! Passive Aggression for the WIN! ) . Changing schedules without giving a weeks notice (lucky to get 2 days notice) . Oh Customers doing things like peeling back price labels on the racks in hopes of finding a lower price they can argue about.. cause "customer is always right" . Oh and on that ! No no, don't spend morethan 2 minutes with a customer! This is like McDonald's Drive Through! push them through push them through! Customers son't want to know how big the plants can grow! ( oh yes they DO! 3 years previous retail nursery work damned straight !" Designed and installed irrigation system in outdoor lawn and garden ( legit ! NOT just some upside down lawn sprinklers) , resulting in lowest plant materials loss in the REGION ! Not just he state .. the REGION , yet get bawled out for too many write offs for department. Co-workers who spend more time standing instead of working yet get away and get raises too?!
I worked at Home Depot for 5 years in the electrical dept. Best fricken job I ever had. I LOVED working at Home Depot. I came in one day and looked at my apron and decided I needed a fresh one. So I grab one out of the cabinet, grabbed my sharpie and was gonna write my name on the line following the pre-printed words: Hi! I'm_________. Then I looked at it and wrote Happy to be here!!! My customers loved me, my co-workers loved me and some of my managers loved me. As for the rest of em - fuck em sez I. Their loss, and mine.
Walmart triggers panic attacks and cause blood pressure spikes. Co workers betray you and mgrs want you to quit plus lovely customers (yeah right)
"Debra! Will you marry me?!"
Debra Dunn 100% accurate..
Yes, co workers are 2 face kiss ass back stabbers. They form cliques and conspire to get you fired.
@tawn sawyer Only 95% ?
Walmart philosophy: stand around, talk, play on your phone all day then your golden. However if you work hard, bust your ass, then management rides you constantly!
Dude when you said you wanted to get into a car accident just to not go to work my jaw dropped I totally thought I was the only person who ever thought such a horrible thing because I was so miserable but I have to admit it's good to know that I'm not the only one
People who don't work there anymore are much happier than when they worked there. 👍 if you agree. and I was belittled and harrassed by my assistant every day.
Jaime Torres lol
You quit because you were getting bullied?
I was fired from Walmart for reporting a manager for raising his voice at me. And if that's how they're going to treat employees then I'm glad I don't work there anymore!
@@goat4298 I reported an coworker who hit me in the back of the knee while doing returns and they literally fired me for "horseplay in the work place"
What's really sad, is all the elderly they hire, cuz they have to struggle to work for health insurance, even food , Thanks Hitler Mart
walmart changes your personality for the worse
when i started working there, i loved my job
now after 3 yrs im a bitter SOB
@@KellyRyan1219
i try to make the best of it, i love working with my employees, most of the customers
are great
@@KellyRyan1219
well as shitty as walmart is
i do work with some good employees
the managers are utter shit and the company is the absolute pit of dispair
i do try to make the best of it
Hell all of us need to band together and form a. Survivors of Walmart Union. And sue them for PTSD or something😂.
Youve been there 3 years why not find a new more fufilling job? Learn a skill take some classes.
@@pag9128 it's not that easy
I've never seen people who look more dead inside than Walmart deli workers.
BOSS ROSS the Deli is the hardest job.Walmart schedules 2 people while Costco usually has 10 or 12 people.
I work in the walmart deli. What kristoffer said is true. I was the only one there on my second day and had no clue what I was doing and all the customers were yelling at me because I couldn't get everything done in time and the support manager that came by threatened to fire me bc after I cooked 200 rotisserie chickens by myself while doing other stuff I left one out for 30 min. We arent even allowed to have water in the deli so we spend all of our 8+ hour shifts by hot ovens and fryers not being able to drink anything. crazy.
@@taylor5827 You cooked 200 chickens by yourself?! That's unbelivable
@@slamislife74 yeah the rotisseries
Taylor, i just had my first day and at the end of my orientation I was promised to just do video training all day. When I went in, I just watched two videos and was sent to do floor work already. I didn’t even get to watch the thousands of videos everyone did. Just two and I was sent to the kitchen already. My first day.. I literally went through what you just said. A customer seemed upset because I didn’t cut her meat fast enough. She just took her cheese. My coworker only worked part time and only taught me what I needed to know for the 5hr shift he had. After that, I was just alone. No other coworkers came by. Just the supervisor and assistant manager came by to help here and there. I felt so alone. 8hrs went by so slow and my feet hurted all day. I came home and sobbed so hard. It hurts cuz I had some hopes for Walmart to be decent. It seems like I made the wrong choice.
Walmart is strictly a passing through job until you find something better
Working at Walmart was the worst experience in my life.
I'm leaving that hell hole for a job as a pest control tech tomorrow! It's been a long time coming! I can't wait to get my soul back!
Lord Omega I remember when I quit Walmart. It felt as if I was released from prison.
@@marinangelov I'm looking forward to actually having a Thanksgiving this year!!!
Im working on getting a new job, can't wait to tell the managers to shove that job up there asses
@@marinangelov 👁👄👁 wha- why’d ya gotta say the r slur, man? Why ya gotta do it?
My older brother worked at Wal-Mart for years and apparently they fired a 60 year old woman who had been there for 20 years so they didn't have to pay her retirement.
Brandon Adams And I'm sure no one had any proof to back that claim up.
PeugeotRocket That was literally 4-5 years ago so I doubt you'd be able to find the proof now.
If she invested in 401k than she can still collect from that
Kristopher Workman don’t know how it is now but when I worked there if you weren’t management you were hourly and hourly doesn’t get benefits, no pto medical or anything.
I worked at a Wal☆Mart warehouse and I hated it. If you weren't working fast enough by 12:00, they'd send you home for the day and give you a point (6 get you fired).
They had the most difficult bathroom rules. You actually had to ask permission! And they could actually deny it! I've never worked at a place like that. Once, I actually had to sneak into the bathroom because I couldn't hold it, but the manager wouldn't "let me" go. Once the bathroom closest to my work station was closed for cleaning, so I decided to go to the next nearest one, in the brake room. "You can't use that one. You have to use one of the floor restrooms." The next nearest floor restroom was ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WAREHOUSE. That's just plain stupid. I'm already at THIS bathroom, why can't I just use this one?!
You had to ask for permission to get water. Once I said, "Just going to the fountain to refill my water, ma'am." The response was, "Are you kidding me?! Get back to work!"
I can confirm that you're not allowed to talk. "We're not supposed to be talking right now, we're supposed to be working!" As if you can't do both.
On slow days, they want you to pretend to be busy. If you're caught not pretending to sweep imaginary dust off the floor, you'll get in trouble. Actually can someone help me understand this one? Why do I have to pretend to be busy on a slow day? I just can't make sense of that.
You can't take your cellphones with you. "There's no way for us to know if it's yours or one of ours." Bullsh*t! As if you can't just check to see if it has service. You can't activate a phone in a warehouse. Even if you could, it would be caught on camera. You have to leave you phones in the break room where they can be potentially be stolen by a greedy coworker. I've had my lunch stolen from me twice and you expect me to leave my cell phone there?! You people are crazy!
And don't get me started on metal detectors!!!!! What, they're afraid we'll sneak a gun OUT OF the warehouse. I really don't see the point of standing in line at a metal detector for 30 minutes at the end of the shift. The annoying thing is they don't pay you for it. They make you clock out BEFORE you stand in line. (When I worked at Zulily, the clocks were on the other side of the metal detectors.)
Trainfan1055 pretty sure the "metal detectors" were actually the alarm detectors dude lol
Nat Diaz What do you mean.
That's bullshit. What a garbage place.
meme account 10365838 Yup. Still not as bad as an Amazon warehouse, but still pretty close.
Dude.
...the fuck?
They broke my spirit.
I work incredibly hard, they punish me by giving me more work than anyone else to do
I come in on days when I'm not scheduled because it's busy and they need help, and they cut my hours in half when they feel like it even though we're already severely understaffed
I work hours doing jobs that aren't even supposed to be mine, they pull me aside and say I'm not doing enough
I speak with an associate while working and I get told we need to separate
I do more work than any big manager and I'm told I need to do more
I'm done.
Ah yes, the gratitude of corporate America. They'll whine at the stone they squeeze that they aren't getting enough blood. And remember, any job description you sign up for is virtually useless, you'll be doing anything they can legally make you do, and plenty of illegal things if they think you don't know your rights. And when you insist on things like your rights, or a raise, since you're clearly doing much more than what you're being paid for, you're told you're "not being a team player" ie, you're not allowing us to exploit you
This is why u Wana work for urself, ur own company. Any work u put in is worth it
Never work hard for shitty jobs never
You just reminded me of myself, the moment they realize how good of a hard worker you are they just completely throw everything at you since they know you'll get it done
i dont have a problem with corporations because they make a select few people absurdly rich.....i hate them because they get rich from exploiting workers even though they can very well afford to improve the work environment
Lil Rachael I've never worked at Walmart and I'm glad I never had to. My biggest beef is with the greedy-gut family of Sam Walton, who each have multi-BILLION dollar estates and for what reason? Simply for being born to Sam Walton and his wife? I don't have a problem with them being wealthy. I don't blame them for being born into that family either, nor do I think they should turn down their steady stream of money. But at what point do they say, "Okay, I have enough money to last me and my family for eons and we have NO fear that we'll ever run out, so let's take future "earnings" and give our workers much needed, and deserved, pay raises and better benefit packages" Those multi-billionaires sometimes make sure everyone knows how much they give to "charity", they're the 'chairman of the board' for this charity, or for that charity, but all the while the people that work the hardest in their companies need the help as much as the charities do. I'm all for giving and all, but I'm also for an employer being responsible for making sure he takes care of his employees and compensates them fairly, even going above and beyond when possible. Everytime I go to Walmart I wonder why a business that pays billions of dollars to the founders family every year can't afford to hire enough employees so we'll have more than two registers available to choose from on a busy morning. There's 25+ registers but only two or three registers available ALL morning long, with people having to wait and risk being late to work or school. I hesitate shopping there, but at certain times of the day, it's the only store available to make a stop for certain items. The Walton heirs WILL answer for their greed one day. "What does it profit a man to gain the WHOLE world, and yet, lose his SOUL in the process"....I think Sam Walton, (those that knew him said he was a humble and decent guy), would be disappointed in how greedy his children turned out to be.
EXACTLY. Personally I am very much a socialist, and people always think that myself and others like me just don't like people getting rich. I don't mind people receiving wealth for what they've accomplish, the problem is with the exploitation of workers. The point of socialism isn't to make everyone exactly equal so everyone is the same, it is to stop the exploitation of workers. But nothing says people aren't allowed to be wealthy.
Same as Linda. I can't just see myself having all of this money and my workers aren't being taken cared of.
Cap 2 supervisor here.
I can tell you, Walmart has crushed my co-workers.
It has crushed me both physically and mentally, and I've only worked there for 7 months.
Cap 3 employee, how tf did you become a team lead/coach that quickly lol? Im curious? Lol or did you just come in as that???
@@Bangheed they be promoting anybody at my store 😂
9 months killed me
Digital supervisor here... I have no soul no longer
they dont train there employees, they literally over work and underpay
employees, unrealistic expectations, wonky hours, etc etc etc, i could go on
You're absolutely correct my friend on everything you stated that is exactly how my store is when I worked there. And they don't give a s*** about you all they care about is 'their' paycheck and 'their' bonuses. my friend calls them "glorified secretaries" the only associates they care about are the ones that they're sleeping with and the ones that are willing to follow them around like lost puppies when they should be on the floor working
We look dead inside because we get treated like shit by both management and customers. We are literally exhausted.
Target employees are very helpful and smiles. Walmart employees are dead inside and out with misery lol. Just being in a Walmart parking lot drains my energy.
Target employees also can barely get any hours.
I worked both places and both suuuuucked. Target was better but it still sucked
I work at Costco and I love it
@@housesoap9777 k now I know where to apply for a job first when I turn 16!
don’t be fooled. target employees are only nice and friendly because their job depends on it...they force you
The worst position at Wal Mart: People greeter. I had to do that for about an hour one day and it felt like I was being punished. I can't imagine what it's like for people who do that all day every day.
exiledPostman LMAO. Constantly smiling and saying Hello! Welcome!
And nothing else. You can't move from your spot, you can't chase down thieves. Your position is something that can be filled by a signpost that says "welcome" on it.
exiledPostman 😭😭😭
exiledPostman ima door greeter, been for two years. To me it isn’t that bad but man I get so bored I start thinking about any and everything !
what? that shit is easy money.
I’ve been in retail for 3.5 years, and this video was so spot on. The music has me appreciating 10 second silence breaks in between songs. The customers literally do speak to you as if they are a prison guard and you are an inmate. Customers literally take out seven pairs of shoes, try them all on, buy none and leave everything scattered all over the floors and seating areas. The disrespect is insane, they talk down to you. Also, working in the shoe department of a store, they expect you to know everything about all 800 shoes we carry as if you made the shoe yourself and aren’t just some minimum wage worker. Saying sorry has become a reflex, I must apologize for things outside my control 25 times a shift. I fantasize about my last day there haha. Respect to anyone on here who also works retail.
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That's really sad. I'm always super nice to the employees at Walmart and my husband always tells them they deserve better pay. A little bit of kindness helps.
Oh and I put items back in the general area of where I got it, if I decide not to buy it.
My pet peeves is customers arguing with me about the price of items. I AM BEING PAID MINIMUM WAGE TO PUT STUFF ON SHELVES WHY THE FUCK DO YOU THINK I CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT PRICES
@Becoming Godsize - You've obviously never worked at Walmart. The customers do refer to you as 'dumbass'.
@@jamesmol3634 So real haha. "Man this is expensive" could I interest you in literally any of the other items in the store that are differently priced? When things are too expensive for me I put them back.
Currently working at Walmart and it really makes me hate my life. It feels like a punishment. Terrible customers, managers that don’t care, constant fatigue and depression, people talk to you anyway they want, never getting breaks on time, they constantly forget me so I have to do my own breaks. I hate it there so much it hurts. The day I leave will be the happiest day of my life. And if a cashiers light is off, keep walking. Don’t pressure or cuss or act a whole ass about me going to break. I’m tired and I deserve to get a break from y’all 😢
Don’t give up and yes you will be happier. They laid me off because I was scheduled on Fridays that I didn’t ask for and went to the studio to do my music instead since they didn’t want to change my schedule at first. Then the minute they decided to change my schedule they laid me off for attendance because I was scheduled on Fridays that I didn’t ask for. Only problem I really had was the managers, one in particular and I was the only young black employee my age there
@@jaysouthmusic8230 They definitely will do that or change your department because they need staff there. I’ve talked to so many cashiers that said they were hired for bakery or apparel only to be told you got the job but we are changing you to cashier because we need them. All of them usually didn’t stay long. I didn’t even know they could do that to people.
@@cinnamoomilk That is true and while I was there I saw so many people come and go, many of the quit, one got let go who was my favorite co worker because she actually helped trained me instead of the manager himself and they obviously kept the slackers
I was in a Walmart one morning, and they kept calling for the employees to assemble in the ladies' lingerie section for a whatevertheheckitwas code something another. I wondered what that was, so I went over there. It was a company meeting where the employees were singing some kind of motivational group song. O.M.G., how humiliating.
sing or you are fired, sing like you mean it or else, sing with iron lungs
Timothy Tim just like god obey him or go to hell. But remember he loves us so much.
I didnt say anything about God friend. But yeah I've been a christian for 5 years and have gone through more hell than other christians have ever. And I've been judged in january and because I have a job trial, and for certain reasons I'm still alive. But probably won't be much longer. I'm going to hell friend. There is no hope for me. You other christians can sin and backslide as many times as you want and make it back but me? I can't. I had 15,000 demons in me and God was making me work a full time job at an auto shop 40 hours + full time college 5 classes = 100 hours night and day. And i was cursed and opened up to darkness. Demons could get on me without me sinning. And God turned it all into a test which i had gone through for 3 years being constantly tormented. But I'm headed there anyways, and it sucks. You other christians have normal christian walk and have normal problems. Then make heaven. Me? I go through all hell and I can't make it? I'll let you know what Jesus told me last fall, he said most would of fallen away. refering to my brothers and sisters. in other words most of you other christians wouldnt of made it through my trial probably 90%.
@ dog you don't get it in order for me to obedient to God right now I have to be obedient then I get to go to hell. Wonderful right? Because God and Satan are arguing over me right now. Whether I'll be obedient or not. And I've been running for like 5 months cause I don't want to go to hell. But all I'll get if I'm obedient is less punishment in hell. Meanwhile all you normal christians do is just go to church, pray, eat lots of food have good life and abundant life with family and friends. And I never got any of that. But I am being more obedient to God, but all God will do for me is take away some punishments I will have in hell. So thank you but count your blessings that you didn't go through my trial for the Lord himself many times called it a diamond trial. And that he was making me into a diamond. And I would of been great in his kingdom been a priest in Scotland. Most people christians are not kings or even priests. He told me only the select few are kings. and priests are the great like top 1% the rest are going to be in the camp of the saints which will be in Israel.
I never attended those things, I just always played dumb when I was called out on not showing to it,which was rare.
It is really hard to explain the true nightmare of working at Walmart.
The sensory overload from the general noise, the repetitive nature of the environment. The Christmas season stress management instills in you. (Christmas starts in July and doesn’t end until after tax season.) The repetitive nature of constant customer abuse. The hopeless feeling of well this is my job I have to go in. The way management makes it so you don’t talk to co workers not even in the break room. There are no god words to explain just how bad that job is. I really wish I could afford the therapy I genuinely need to heal from that place. It is straight up psychological torture. Just under the radar of being criminal.
Timothy Beebe I'm there with you man. Going on 4 years.
Not just Christmas but thanksgiving night for Black Friday “work or your fired”! I was so miserable as thanksgivings is to be with family and over eat together and give thanks, surely they could at least let the people who want to work that day come in but let everyone else spend the day with family and then work for Black Friday.
I work at Walmart and they don't mind chatting with coworkers where I work.
im a cart pusher at Walmart and its going on over a year starting may 25th, I can sum it up working there for you
"theres, war, then theres hell, then theres Walmart"
The only saving grace I had working for Walmart were the times I was sent to the back to help bin. At my old store the management didn't watch the backroom associates very closely (they were too busy making life miserable on the sales floor). We were able to talk to each other and ask for help when we needed it working in the back.
The only downside to this was inventory time. Anyone that knew how to use a Telxon had to work surprise overtime to get everything ready.
Current story from a Co-Worker of mine at Little Caesars. She's a manager who transferred to another store in order to get more hours on her paycheck. From what I was told, her father was recently diagnosed with tumors in his brain. The doctor told him if they removed them, he'd be a vegetable. He was then told he had a few days to live. So, the man decides to check himself out of the hospital to pass away at home with his family. Naturally, she wants to spend the last few days she can with her father before his passing. She took a day off and then was told she had to come back to work. She made sure they understood why she was taking time off...and they already knew. From what I heard, they told her something along the lines of "You need to return to work tomorrow. It's not like there is anything you can do for him." Now, I will say that not every supervisor behaves this way and it's likely not the policy of the company itself. When my grandfather was passing away from cancer, my store manager and other managers came to me and offered me as much time as I needed. So, I know this is likely the decision of a single supervisor...who I have a good idea of who he is.
You can have many different jobs in your life. But, you get only one father.
Josh Blount That’s terrible and inconsiderate! I hope she got to spend what little time with her Dad. It’s sad to know that some bosses and employers have this mentality that they can rule over there employees lives. 😥
Josh Blount That's just...I have no words
Josh Blount i had a similar experience at mcdonalds my mother jad attempted suicide so i left for a couple days to be with her etc
And when i came back my general manager was the biggest dick in the world. Humiliated me in front of my co workers because i am left handed so i cussed him out threw my hat on the ground and walked out. One of my best desicions by far got a way better job after
worked little ceasers twice and they are totally like that
I would've quit my job. It's Walmart for god's sake. I can get a job that pays the same almost anywhere.
I was so close to working at Walmart until I felt an odd energy from the associates. Instead I found an awesome job at Marshall’s. Saved my butt for real.
do you want to know why Walmart is so rich? because they underpay their employees
Not anymore. It's actually one of the highest entry-level paying jobs out there. $11.50 in my town
@@SourCrust There still underpayed pal
@@SourCrust lol. The job just sucks
@@SourCrust They're u derpaid because I guarantee those people are told to do other jobs that people with the actual position get paid more for.
@@SourCrust that's less then minimums wage wear I live and the Wal-Mart by me only pays minimum wage
I was depression drinking and i threw up on my walmart vest and i straight up didnt care enough about my job to get rid of the big vomit stain on the back of my vest when i went into work the next day
Lol.
I know this comment is old but it does sum up the Walmart experience. I drink every single day. I need to get out of this company...
Dam
Lmao that will show those fuckers
Cheers
Walmart employees need more respect than they get.
Depends on the employee, imo.
HELL YEAH! Every day all I do is work hard for the people who are suppose to support me tear me down. I one day had to clean the bread oven... I was never trained on how to... I no joke was about to collapse and coughing so much blood was coming out. All the chemical products that I alone had to use got deep into my lungs. They didn't even send me home, help me in any way, they actually got angry at me for "slacking off" because I asked for water after 30 minutes of hacking. I ended up staying 3 hours over schedule to clean that oven.
uhmm if you were one of the ones who saw how ghetto and ratchet those employees are you not feel sorry for them..believe me!!!
I needed a job a few months ago around the peak of quarantine, unfortunately there was a job shortage in my town for months so it was hard for me to find jobs. I applied for over 15 jobs and I heard back from Walmart for an interview. I showed up and could instantly sense the cold and dead vibe emanating from every employee I passed, including the lady interviewing me. I got an email the day after saying "you didn't get the job". Thank god they rejected me. I didn't dodge a bullet, I dodged a nuclear bomb.
Walmart fired me 21 years ago. It felt like I got parole.
A T LOL
lol man after i quit that hellhole i feel more free than ever
Timothy Tim Yes! Lol
They fired me 17-18 years ago. I felt the same way.
Same here 4 years ago . Fired .
Wow 😯 I will never complain about Walmart employees ever again. Many employees have that face that looks like they hate life and I just assumed it was their personality not that the job was slowly killing them
meikoblock Welcome to life. And if you wonder why some little kids have the same face, it's because something bad happended to them while they where growing up. And some employees grow to hate life after Walmart. Hell, a week ago I heard one say, "I treat customers how I'd want to be treated, hell, I just wanna get my shit and leave this hellhole." And that came from an employee in the electronic's section
If most people at a store are happy, then someone that looks dead inside is an individual. When all of them look dead inside, then it's a big sign that it's a terrible place to work. Forced smiles too. Healthy environments don't need to force their employees to smile.
I too work at Wal-Mart, and I will tell you I used to love life and be so full of excitement for the future. I started at walmart just to have money while I was going to college, and in these 4 years, I have completely lost all faith in myself. I have now gotten out of college, and I look at jobs now, and internally I think I cannot qualify for them anymore. It has destroyed my self esteem. It also stresses me out so much that I feel majorly depressed most of the time now.
Ignant
A7XEvanescenceFan I can say the same but work there for 2 years now.
I work at Target, which is way less depressing than Walmart, but it’s still miserable for the employees. I work in the makeup section, and I’m not allowed to leave the five damn aisles. During the night when no ones around, I feel like I’m going insane. Just like you said, I stare at the displays that I’ve seen a million times, except I can’t walk around the whole store. Still, I can’t even fathom how Walmart employees feel. Such bright white lighting, but dark depressed souls.
sunny ray pretty sure it's to decrease robbery.
Otk_Obelisk obviously? lol. i know why i have to stay in the same area all the time.
Do u atleast get to sit or something?
Potential x10 no i work in america
I worked In the same department as well and it was terrible. Well mostly because of management being terrible.
Just got terminated from walmart. This video makes me proud that this happen. Thank you🙌
Bruh i got fired from Wal-Mart on February for missing too many days, I'm glad tho cause they let me go right before the Rona hit 😂
How did u get terminated
Your soul is an obstruction to maximum employee performance :)
At walmart they asked if i could stay late so i said yeah. But i could only stay for a hour i have a appointment. They said fine after the hour just sign out. So i did that. The next day they wrote me up for leaving after the hour.. A few months later when i stop working there. It felt like a weight came off my shoulders. Wal mart sucks.
Lucifer Graves that's why i quit. I worked there last year as a first job from april to September. I worked from 2-11pm and never got weekends off they had me working in the water aisle every day and eventually the overnight manager tried to tell me i didn't work the whole day and was terrible at my job. This was someone who came in at 9pm an hour after i get off lunch. Water sells fast and in bulk and she told me that i couldn't leave until i filled everything to the brim, including the water in the baby section and juice aisle, since it was documented as a coaching that meant they were ready to fire me, my problem wasn't staying late, it was that i had 2 buses to catch home and they stopped running at 12. So it was either end up stranded there while anybody who could've given me a ride went home, or i quit the job, so i just never went back. It's not like i could afford an uber or lyft every single day they felt like i should stay late. I ended up unloading their truck one day then having to walk home for 4 hours. The pain was so crippling that i had to call off after my 2 days off. I loved the job itself, but it was pretty inhospitable for the associates
People should make me wealthy by buying up my "Impact" a James Grider ebook on Amazon so I won't have to work at Wal-Mafart. Doesn't it piss people off that unlike in video games, when you grind for money which is real-life version of XP, you get nowhere. Like, you only make enough to make ends barely meet, like barely enough to pay rent and utilities. Imagine you were playing a video game like "Call of Duty" and you know how you progress through all these numbered levels and with each level you unlock some new perk or some new gun? And it doesn't matter how bad you do, how little XP you earn, play enough games and you will get there and you unlock that shit. It's guaranteed. But in real life you don't progress like that. If what happens to you in real life we were to project into video games, it would be like you don't progress at all. You just stay level 5 in Call of Duty and you can't unlock any more guns or perks. And your struggle in the game becomes about staying at level 5, forget progressing to level 6, just staying at level 5 and constantly fighting not to drop back to level 4 or 3 and lose what you have earned. So it's like if the game was requiring you to get 25 kills every match and if you don't, you lose your gun and you must play with a knife the next match and if you don't get 25 kills, then fuck, they take your knife away. And I would not want to play a game like that. But that's how life is. Earn a certain amount of money at the end of the month or you lose your home, you lose your car, you lose your electricity, whatever. But that's like playing Final Fantasy XV forever, slaying the same shitty weak monsters in the same starting area over and over and knowing you will never be strong enough to keep going through the story, that you'll never finish the story, you'll never beat the tougher bosses, that this is it. It makes no sense. Such game would be thrown in the trash. The way things should work is it doesn't matter how much my job pays, a less paying job should only mean it will take you longer to be as rich as Donald Trump than a person with a high paying job. If I can only get 10 kills per game in COD, it'll take me 3 times longer to prestige than a guy who gets 30 kills per game, but it's still guaranteed that I will prestige. If I work at Walmart vs working as a lawyer, a lawyer will get his mansion soon than the Walmart employeer, but surely the Walmart shopping cart organizer will reach that mansion one day too. But no. It doesn't turn out that way. Life doesn't give you that guarantee. When you are working for money in real life, mostly you're just spinning your wheels. And this is the kind of crap I might discuss on my Dusty Female Cat channel.
When I worked for them, I told them a week in advance that I had an appointment in a week and needed to take the night off before the morning of my appointment. Well, I reminded the overnight manager and it didn't sit well with him, so he went on to belittle and berate me and as he was about to fire me, I threw my vest and name tag at him and quit. I worked with some decent people on the graveyard shift, but my boss, supervisor's, and the customers were so childish and unprofessional, they were infuriating and hard to deal with. I got another job a week later and quickly got over it, but despite the 10 dollars an hour, working for Walmart was THE worst job I've ever had.
Michael Stevens eerily sounds like 1908. I was cap2. Lmao it got to the point were even if the job wasn't done, I'd tell the manager and leave. They threatened with a coaching... except I was an asshole and actually looked into the policy. I wasn't required to stay. And if I had overtime at the end of the week they could coach me.
Long story short, they never could coach me for leaving on time.
It helped that I didn't care either. At the end Wal-Mart just failed to have any power. It was just idle threats and false incentives.
same i'm cap 1 right now and i've stopped caring completely i'm over 9 occurrences and come in everyday and just dick around. we got a new management team in and they are the worst batch in the three years i've been there. i've given up and have just been praying to be fired
Edit little update i finished my EMT schooling so i quit like 2 weeks ago.
Corporations know what they’re doing. From lighting to the coloring of the floors and walls. It has a mental effect on people that dulls you down.
KochDerDamonen What lmfao
I work at Walmart from highschool through college (early 90's - late 90's). Literally a couple days after Sam Walton died everything changed. The store I worked at went from everyone working together to basically a turf war within the store. We had friendly and supportive Assistant Managers and they were either fired or transferred. They brought in people who would rather cuss you than look at you. Used to if a customer had a problem with an employee and complained that the Assistant Manager would address the situation in private. Now it was basically a public execution of the employee. What I mean by that is the Assistant Manager would chew the employee out on the floor for everyone to see. Even if the employee did nothing they were treated like a criminal. I had an Assistant Manager actually try to pick a fist fight with me. He would call me at home on my days off and demand I come in and work. I was a junior in highschool at the time. If my parents answered the phone he would demand they put me on the phone. He would yell and cuss me because he had to actually work. After that, my parents would hang up on him if they realized who it was. He ended up getting arrested and fired for stealing from the store. I was working the day he was arrested. When the police had him in handcuffs when he saw me he blamed me for him being arrested. He actually threatened to come back and get me. The officers told him to shut up. That evening the police showed up to actually walk me to my car after I got off. After I quit I still had managers tell me to stop standing around and work. I told him I had quit and they didn't believe me. One co-manager tried to write me up when I was shopping with my girlfriend. She kissed me as he walked by and he went off. He told me I had better quit being inappropriate and do some work. I just gave him the finger and we walked off. He started yelling at me and I turned around and told him I had quit a day or two ago. He didn't believe me until a woman with the store hr told him I had quit. Then he chewed me out for quitting. I just laughed at him. The employees now don't know anything about anything. One employee couldn't even speak English. I had no idea until I asked her a question. I just turned around and left. You don't go to Walmart after dark or after 9 pm. If you do, better have some form of protection.
Nah man i had a job in a factory that was so miserable i would wake up and drink my coffee and look at a small pond near my house and literally seriously contemplate drowning myself in it. I totally know where you're coming from. I make less money now but it's enough to live and fart around a little and I'm 1000X happier.
Same. My coping mechanism was adderall abuse which made me at peace and relatively productive at the job.
I work at a cinema and it's great fun. Because there aren't always movies playing, two thirds of the time have no customers and so we just do jobs and hang around for most of the time.
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I don’t know about anyone else but I get a lot of anxiety when I walk into a Walmart... I walk in and grab what I need and walk out I never look around. Grab ‘n go. 😬😂
I'm the same way. I feel like a crazy person, but as soon as I walk in, I need to get out as fast as possible.
Yup this is the reason Walmart constently moves everything around to force you to look at products you never saw before. I just moved to mod team I feel like a troll rearranging the shelves on customers.
ItsQueenCassie I make my granddaughter do it for me with a list. I hate the place more than any place on Earth.
Devin Peirce why do.I feel you were thinking other words not "ghetto"...
I LOVE that my Walmart now has self checkouts so I can do that - before it was such a long line to get to the ONE (out of 2 or 3) register that's open that I would HAVE to look around and feel SO anxious
Him saying he wanted to be in a car accident to avoid work hit HARD. I can’t believe we think these things because our job is insanely toxic.
Hmm walmart never accepted my application. Guess i was spared
I worked there for 3 years as a student and felt exactly the same way. Some things are just so horrible that words alone can't describe it. The general negative atmosphere, the rude customers, the overwhelmingness of the superstore, the lack of respect, and the incompetence of management make you feel like you're all alone on the battlefield.
As a former cashier, I was often forgotten on cash for hours on end without breaks and lunches. You would literally have to BEG them for a washroom break. Customers that shop at Wal-Mart are from the lowest cesspool of society that literally give you a death-stare even when you're working fast enough. These bitches would even have the gaul to ask why you're not fucking smiling. I cussed off a customer once for asking me that. I asked how that was her business in any way/shape/form. Most shoppers (especially the women) are miserable and just come to Walmart to show off and take out their unhappiness / sexual frustration on the employees. It's a very unhealthy and toxic environment. I used to come home and describe this atmosphere exactly as the gentleman in the video does. It is extremely toxic. Quitting is the best thing I ever did! Never was I so happy to leave a job!!
#FuckWalmart #HumanRightsAbusers
TheHoly Reviewer
They think they are better than you try to belittle you and they are on government assistance
They come in pijamas with their long nails fake lashes Michael kors purse and they paid with food stamps and get very angry when a candy or food cooked from deli is not cover by food stamps
Amen to that. I could name countless stories of women just like that there was a lot of rude men to though. I once had a female customer ask if I could get someone that was a real man because I looked young at 20 I guess I should of flipped out on that bitch instead I just went to take a bathroom break. Then there was this one woman that I went out of my way to help her and her husband and she just kept looking for something to complain about no matter how helpful I was, eventually she just found a misplaced item on the shelf and said shes gonna tell a manager but you could totally tell she thought she was so much better then me and the way she talked to me was deplorable she was a totally miserable person and you could see it in her face. I learned a lot from that job about people though there are just tons of incredibly miserable people out there that like to take their frustrations out on retail workers they also think they are so much better because they make a few more bucks it's kind of sad. I always make sure to treat food service workers and retail workers right for one they don't get paid enough it's alot harder work than it seems it's a real mental labor to put up with all that crap the customers alone are a nightmare. I'll never work retail again.
I have nine years retail experience-- you're description of the day-to-day life of a retail worker is spot on.
One of my Walmart orientations (yes, I worked there more than once) had a moment I’ll never forget.
The main lady came out and was giving us her ‘Welcome to Walmart!’ speech and talking about how great of a company it is and how much room there is for advancement (that’s a straight up lie).
She then started telling us a little about herself, including how she has worked with Walmart for 25 years up to that point. She said something I’ll never forget: “[My Walmart job] started as just something to have while I waited for a better opportunity to come along!” After she sighed and had a very awkward moment of silence, she finished her thought. “And…well…I guess a better opportunity never came along…”
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I never treat anyone lower than dirt even Wal Mart employees are fellow human beings and I would never berate them just cause they work there. Sad a lot of people would do that to others.
Same for fastfood and service workers. I always treat them with respect.
And dont forget to tip your waiting staff
heyitsablackguy yea don’t mess with people that handle ur food lol
It's really dictated on your personality. Most people have no problem taking it out on strangers. Especially places like walmart that almost encourage it.
@Alan Davis They should but they won't. Fear is pretty powerful.
I think the Walmart Chant is the real killer. For me, it'd be to sell my very soul to partake in that most demeaning act.
Terrible Tanner I've worked as a CAP 2 (the group that unloads trucks and gets freight ready for overnight workers) since May and no one at my store has ever done any kind of Walmart chant. Our assistant manager sees that shit as a waste of time.
It is a waste of time, and an ultra-depressing one at that. However, things may change once WalMart discovers your assistant manager's infidelity, and they promptly execute him and replace him with a Senior Chant Leader. "Gimme a dub-ya, SmilingDeath!"
@@terribletanner805 Unlikely. She's worked there for about 8 years and supposedly has always had the same mindset.
Absolutely not. No possible way. Nobody gets away with desecration in the temple of WalMart! These eight years of heresy will not go unpunished. One visit from the DM and she'll be sacrificed to appease the CEO. From thereon, you'll be jumping up and down, chanting as instructed, or you'll be joining her on the altar.
Dude, she meets with the CEO regularly. I'm pretty sure if anything was going to happen because a stupid chant not being done, it would've happened by now.
I am a current employee and yes everything he say in this video is absolutely truth!!
I'm a current employee as well, you still work their?
get outta there asap save ya sanity
Make yourself happy quit and find a better job
I’ve worked at Walmart for 2 years I haven’t experienced any of these things except for the customers the customers are the worst I actually like my job at Walmart and plus I make 14.75 and hour and I’m not even a manager
@@Brandon-mg6dw wal mart sucks a big donkey dick
I have been working at walmart for almost 3 years now. When I first started I was happy and was excited to go to work but after a couple weeks everything changed. I started to not want to go in and dreaded going to work. I started smoking cigarettes and still smoke them to this day. Now I'm super depressed and hate going to work on my days off I just lay in bed and try to recover. No motivation to do anything outside of work. Working in retail is probably the worst decision I've ever made.
I feel you on this, I don’t work at Wal-Mart but I do work in Retail, it’s so soul-draining.
I feel your pain. I just made 5 months and I already got a verbal warning by a manager who NEVER TRAINED ME ON TOP STOCK and it will be on my walmart record or record for a year and I haven't even been there 6 months yet. All that for 15 an hour and the manager is lowkey racist towards me but not the other black employees(he's hispanic btw) so I feel your pain. Can't wait to leave walmart
Cap team 2 is a total nightmare. I work this same shit everyday. It’s so stressful. It’s actually harming my health.
Justin Osborne been there brother cap 2, please, get out ASAP!!!
fuck yea cap 2 is the worse job to have at a walmart
I am a Cap 2 supervisor.
I fucking agree, Cap 2 is so overworked, and we're barely even compensated.
😂 I used to work Cap 2 at Walmart, I lasted for like 3 weeks. That shit was terrible, even worse than my first job (which was at a McDonald's 😂)
Justin Osborne I’m on it right now and it’s awful. Not the work but just the managers and expectations.
I used to work at Walmart and never ever again man. They under pay the employees. They say there prices are low, yah right it’s all an head game. I find way more cheaper stuff at kogers and food lion
The Walmart in my location starts at 11
dont forget aldis they have way cheaper food then walmart
Your new pfp is awful
Never seen those two stores in my state. I'm in the bay area of California.
the sad part is where I live. Walmart is powerful and profitable here. Plus the employees suck but, are kissasses ever since they got more money from those closing Walmart around the country
I work at Walmart, and we are dead inside.
GamingTV The fuck 😂
wtf
GamingTV your comments are great
GamingTV like beef jerky lmao
I currently work at Walmart, you still there?
I honestly feel awful for Walmart employees so much, I don't shop there unless i have no other options and when i do i try to be as nice as possible to tge employees. How a place presents itself really matters.
I try to do he same
I refuse to shop at Walmart even with its appeal for cheaper stuff, it’s depressed workers and its greed just doesn’t invite me in to shop! How can a very rich company and family have its workers get paid such a low wage amount when they’re bathing in money? So sick and wrong
11$ is pretty good at my town
Danny Fenty I make 11 an hour at Walmart LMFAO
Walmart is paying $11.50 in my location.. that’s pretty damn good lol
Actually walmart pays really good now. I make $14.70 as a part-time college student.
It all comes down to worth of the job. Why would they pay you 20$ an hour when there are 800 16 year olds who have the same skills necessary willing to work part time for half of that.
I primarily shop at target for things like toiletries, towels, electronics etc. Once you get accustomed to target going to a Wal-Mart is depressing. It just feels dirty and cheap and the people, both customers and employees, seem absolutely miserable. I hate going into a walmart
Rachel Magowan very accurate.
Rachel Magowan: there’s this thing I’ve noticed which really bugs me. When you walk in there are only two long pathways to take and you must pass by everybody. I think it’s so they can stop people trying to steal stuff, though it makes it feel like a jail cell to me for some reason.
maybe you hate going inside wallmart because you havent let a wallmart product go inside you?
thankyou fianlly someone i can relate to
Rachel Magowan it's like reverse Astral projection, your soul stays at the door and you mindlessly walk around
The cashiers aren’t allowed to sit down even if your work is caught up on and you have no customers. Me and a couple others ave fibromyalgia and standing so much makes you tired and causes a lot of pain . You have to have a doctors excuse to sit . But the cashiers at Aldi’s sit down to ring you up .
becky gould and make 2 times as much and have benefits. Stop shopping here and giving them money
That's because Aldi's originated in Europe .. apparently they think you can sit and work at the same time!
I love aldis 💗 the employees seem very nice
Standing too much without a break is probably even worse for one's health than sitting too much.
Split days off need to be against the law. I worked Walmart on off for total of 8 years. I went like 4 months straight on split days off and literally threatened my HR that if they did it again it would they would be another activate shooting training course throughout Walmart and they got the idea and FINALLY stopped.
The reason you are not allowed to talk to each other UNION.
I hated receiving constant death threats and abuse from customers all the time. I worked in the money center and because of that I had to deny customers service. And when you deny a customer cashing a check for $5000 because it's fake or doesn't fit Walmart's standards, they get a little upset. If you can imagine. Also when you have to explain to a customer not to sent thousands of dollars to a stranger they met online that lives in Nigeria because it's a scam - People aren't grateful you're stopping them from being scammed, they are furious. I hated every second of it.
Customers will purposely do whatever they feel like, be as nasty as possible, because they know you can't do anything back.
The job I have now is actually a lot worse than what I had at Walmart, but I don't feel anywhere near as bad because most of the stress from being there is all gone.
PsychoIncarnate Dee
PsychoIncarnate try being the operator at Walmart 🙃 that’s me currently I answer calls for the store and I’m the speaker for the store too
PsychoIncarnate yea customers are pigs sometimes. They think u owe them the world. I work at a casino hotel and resort as a porter (janitor) i see alot of people but mainly a bunch of elderly people and theyre just the worst. Theyre pigs. Never clean up after themselves they piss and shit all over the bathrooms spill pop on the floors and leave it.a nd tbh they just look like empty hollows sitting at their machines gambling.. but whatever i get free pop and food and get to talk to all the people from all the different departments inside the casino.
PsychoIncarnate yuh
Potential x10 I too, was a porter at a casino. I feel your pain. Drunk morons in casinos vomit everywhere, shit and piss everywhere and are fucking retards in general. Start applying for other jobs immediately. If you speak English, you're overqualified for this job.
Legend has it that Walmart will be FEMA camps in the future.
It already is..
@@agentsmith2399 exactly from the inside that's a scary sight to look at
I thought Amazon would be.... Its like Super Store USA from family guy
That isn't so much legend as it is a fact. Notice how most malls in the US are designed to be basically easily fortified with a few APCs and a good few dozen sandbags.
Plus, the racks and shelves are at a convenient height to store guns and ammo if SHTF. Along with the roofs being very easily fortified already, it's basically a fortress of food and basic supplies.
Already is
Maybe this mostly applies to day shift but working overnight maintenance it's pretty chill. All I have to do is both bathrooms (which tend to be surprisingly clean) sweep gm, and then scrub it. I occasionally get a random sidequest like put the carts away or take trash out but nothing so bad. Worse thing that happened is my coworkers and I having to train our new teamlead instead of one of us getting promoted.
I felt the same way I was so depressed at Walmart and he’s right about the light
I survived a 10 year sentence
Only thing that kept me going was the customers that were so nice
I never truely recovered from working there
How have you coped with the trauma?
i work at home depot as a lot associate, i used to complained alot and used to hate it, i don’t hate it anymore
Like when you can't use a chair to sit down on when you're standing 8 hours a day for cashiers because it may look "unprofessional"
bro walmart is built on being unprofessional.
That's funny cause the cashier's at Aldi all have stools.
The nearest Walmart to me is a filthy dung heap that's constantly overcrowded with some of the worst, most despicable people imaginable. But that's what Walmart seems to strive for.
@3:05 is how I felt when I got to the point of quitting. I remember standing outside, almost crying on the phone to my girlfriend, looking for anything to talk me out of going inside. I also had a friend who would sit in his car a cry over the fact that he had go in there.
Damn it really is that bad huh...
It's like working in Hell!!!
@@Leggs013 damn
it is really the worst place to work. i worked there for a month because my hours got cut at my main job (victoria's secret) it was the most depressing job ive ever had. looks bleak there, SO many of the customers are rude, and you are just a number to management.
Ashley sweatshops
Ashley like in prison metaphor what he referring
Bro its my 4th day. I wanna call off so bad. Im in the deli. I go in first day yesterday and nobody is training me besides this part time old lady who luckly was kinda cool but my god dude.
ShinTensei that was literally me dude I’m bouta go to my 6th day tomorrow and on my first day I was just thrown into the job no experience or help. My friend got hired today and gave him training and other stuff I didn’t get that. Some older lady helped me one day and she would tell me how bullshit the job is and to do me and I was surprised she thought that but it made sense. Everyone there is just a weird depressed person that doesn’t seem like they care about life it’s just crazy man but I’m 16 and not planning to work there very long. Anyways you still work there ??!
@@juicethemartian9298 lol it's 3:12 a.m and I have work. My coworker told me that they were thinking about getting rid of me about a month ago. I should be fine if I call out since it's been 30 days. I might cry at first if they fire me, but FUCK I'LL BE HAPPY.
Yeah most of the time you don't actually go through a training process with an actual manager it's most likely the associate who's also working the same position there who's gonna teach you stuff. A lot of it though is learned on your own and with customer experience.
I wanted to quit after 3 weeks.. but over a year later I'm still there. Too scared to hand in my notice.
@@acoolname1015 hey same boat
Since everyone else is telling their walmart stories I'll tell mine. *sorta long*
I worked there for 2 and a half years...it was a 24 hr store where they Required the cheer and every time we did it the customers always looked over at us as if they're thinking "look at all those retards.." managers never cared how slack workers worked but the people who worked their ass off for the company got time limits and "coachings" which are write ups essentially for productivity.. but certain people could slack or just do whatever they wanted. Managers played favorites and allowed certain associates to play comanager sometimes and have a radio and earpiece and boss the other little people around. My schedule was 10 PM - 7 am and I can count on just one hand how many times I actually left that store at 7... they would Force the entire night crew to stay over until 9 or 10 until trucks were done or detailing (called zoning at walmart) was fully done in every department which Always took past 7. Then the next night you come in thered be a meeting by pharmacy where they'd whine that we cant stay over people are getting too many hours. Most people always tried to Sneak out of there but at 6:30 and 7 am they began marching around the store or watching the entrance and exits to try to catch people in the act like police. They would Always set off the alarm at 7 and go searching for people to make sure no one could escape... and the worse thing of all at least it was to me- all of the managers WATCHED you.... I mean glared down every single associate, stood at the end of your aisle. Help with freight? Nah.. assist customers? Nope. Stand there with their arms crossed and Glare at you, oh yes. it made me feel so uncomfortable. Makes you constantly feel like you're like you're not working fast enough or doing enough and I Hated that... I'm not a zoo animal dont watch me. They LITERALLY treated that place like a prison, with the prison guards (managers) watching over the inmates every single second and then trying to prevent us from escaping every morning. I could get a job shoveling shit and it would be a better job than that was.... it was Literally a prison in the way things worked..
@Fred Tedason theres a disclaimer in the post saying that it's long so I dont care about your stupid mainstream acronym whining about it being too long :)~
I just went through something like this and I only been there for 5 months busting my butt off and I get a verbal warning about top stock which the manager never trained me on in the first place. Walmart is the worst place to work for
@@jaysouthmusic8230 OH yeah... it's been years since I worked there but I remember top stock process. I also remember Not being trained to do stuff and then being bitched about not doing it properly. That's the walmart way... Honestly Jay, I don't imagine Any retail job is much better
@@666Lachrimae666 yup so that's why im planning on finding another job and quitting walmart it's just not worth it anymore
@@jaysouthmusic8230 Best of luck to you my friend
Employees that talk might talk about unionization! That's actually part of why they have that policy!
rehab joe buffet very true.
Walmart employees are too expendable to unionize.
Not if they all do it en masse. The power of the union is in the power of the masses, if there isn't anyone left willing to work at Wal-mart, they close. There is a very big reason Wal-mart is consistently one of the biggest anti-labor lobbyists that pushes for anti-union laws, against wage increases, against benefits or protections, and why they spend so much effort on their own internal corporate propaganda to try and demonize labor organization to their bottom rung employees.
Truth is they're terrified of unions, because they know that the soul-crushing horrors of working in retail are true, and that these are the people that'd flock to a union the fastest to try and reduce their crushing misery. The lords want to keep their serfs downtrodden, desperate, and if possible ignorant. If they're downtrodden, they have no will to stand up let alone fight for their rights. if they're desperate, they'll accept the most meager of crumbs and scramble to please their lord for those desperate crumbs. And if they're ignorant, they will remain in the dark as to the rights they as human beings have, and of the power they still possess despite not being a corporate overlord.
True, have never worked for Walmart but retail is probably one of the worst jobs in the modern world in general, not necessarily the hardest because that would be unrealistic but no other job will make you feel as worthless and mentally distressed as retail. Some say retail doesn't take any skill, or is "easy", which is complete bullshit, anyone who says that has never been there, or got lucky with awesome managers (unfortunately not everyone gets to have that luxury).
I think it takes a good bit of skill to take the shit thrown at you on a daily basis, and then to get up almost every day and convince yourself to go back for more all with a smile on your face and then some. This is magnified by the fact that a lot of people who work retail are also in school and are just now experiencing "adult" life, so that added stress just doesn't help at all.
Retail COULD be a pleasant, tolerable job, all without changing the pay rates, but corporatism makes that impossible.
With that said, ive used my time working for retail as a learning experience. Ive developed social skills and learned how to deal with people, and basically learning how people work at a psychological level (Ive learned that more often than not you will be dealing with people who will act like they've never been in a public place before, nor taught how to behave in one) among many other things.
As for myself, i will be obtaining a CDL sometime soon, and i hope to be out of the prison that is ret-hell.
My advice for newcomers working retail; never settle, do good while you are there but use it as a placeholder for something else, then get out, otherwise it will destroy you.
(Worked for Kroger 4 years, worked every department at some point within that time)
I understand what you mean when you say the entire atmosphere of your workplace eats your soul. I work at McDonald's and the guy who worked on grill burned his entire arm on the grill just so he could get away from working at the job while he looks for a new one. Retail, food service, and service in general can be hell if you're working for the wrong company.
80's Nostalgia Guy I've had plenty of idiotic managers so I can definitely relate. As for pay, it can most certainly be a factor when you're expected to overwork yourself for $7.25/hr (the minimum wage in my state) like my coworkers and I are.
Is anyone actually working for $7.25/hr? I live in a poor area, and it's not difficult to get a job that pays twice that amount.
Al Gogh Rythm Maybe you live somewhere where the cost of living is higher, so wages start higher. Minimum wage is 7.25 here.
Al Gogh Rythm twice that amount? You live in NYC or LA? Cause I live in Texas and minimum wage everywhere here is is 7.25.
No. What I mean is that hardly anyone works for the minimum wage. Straight out of high school it was possible for me to make more than 3x the minimum wage with little effort on my part. I just don't buy the idea that somehow people are stuck at that obscenely low wage.
The energy in there is very crushing. Just walking into the store, it's like getting railed with a wall of negativity that you have to shake off, and when you do, the sounds hit you hard. Kids screaming, management going nuts on the walkies, the small selection of songs noted in this video. Just walking into the store is a bad experience in itself. And Fanta is right, the negative aspects of Wal-Mart just aren't felt at other store chains.
They laid me off after seven months for attendance because they scheduled me on Fridays and I told them I was busy on Fridays and that was the closest day to the weekend I would get off. This one manager hated me for no apparent reason since I started there and he was Hispanic so I thought he was racist towards me and not the other black employees that were with me on cap 2 except this older black dude who didn’t like him either. There’s work life balance when it comes to Walmart and I don’t regret not showing up those Fridays to go to the studio instead I rather be chasing my dream than to help someone else’s
wanna hear something funny? im from Guatemala, right next to Mexico, and we just got walmart like 6-8 years ago and man... they brought it to be the "fanciest super market ever" where everything is over priced, of course they have american brands which we dont have everywhere like different sodas or imported candy, different chips n shiet, but they make you think like "you are the higher class" and you see people who pretend or are from higher class purchasing there dressed in a fancy way, like it was some kind of country club or something, and seeing other people being treated like trash like "hey, you dont belong here, go back to local stores or mini markets" and they treat the employees like shit, i hate to go there but... my shampoo, body cream and stuff like that are there, i have to go there once every 2 months, but i just get there and get out asap.
its really sad how people fall for that crap when we all know that walmart its just a bottom feeder of retail stores.
Lesther Sykes sad this places sucks even outside the U.S......lol:)
Lesther Sykes so you bash and then confess you shop there regularly.
"regularly" he said he goes there once every 2 months LUL
SS Shadow regularly and often aren’t synonymous.
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Neither should be used in this situation. He doesn't do either, he goes once every 2 months. Regularly would be once every week or two, often would be once a day. There are big differences yes, but regularly was a bad word choice.
"It felt like a prison." Stanford prison experiment. They funny thing is you could have an IQ of 200 but if you work at walmart, everyone thinks you have an IQ of 60. If Albert Einstein was a retail person before, and he wasn't known as "The Einstein" yet people would have thought he was an idiot. It's what you do that matters, and it reflects. You could be an average person with engineering degree, and everyone thinks you a genius. People are idiots. We're all ignorant.
What I fuckin hate is when managers break people apart who are talking and not even a TWO minutes later you see them talking to their clique. I worked at a giant red, white and blue hardware store. Everyone talks. Everyone. But as soon as certain people did, oh boy... you are in trouble. Not everyone was a pain in the ass, but there was clearly a divide among the workers. Some managers stayed neutral and tried to help out both. Some understood the corruption. And then there were some who actively participated in it.
It's really crappy how people are forced to work so much that that essentially becomes who they are, because it's what they are forced to do for the vast majority of their waking hours
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I worked at Walmart for over two years, and got fired for going to my grandmothers funeral. The stress from Walmart was making my eye twitch uncontrollably, and it didn't go away until after a week after i was let go. Now every time i go into the Walmart i worked out i do little things out of spite. Like taking the batteries out of the managers scanners(if they were left out on the floor), and throwing them in the garbage. Unplugging their little screens that play the commercial's on loop, and messing with the thermostat in the lobby. Either cranking it to the max, or turning it off entirely depending on the season. So the front desk will get flooded with customers complaining about the temperature.
Cheat Queen I asked for two consecutive days off and the rarely ever asked for time off. When they found out what I needed it for, they tried to deny it. Their leave of absence is separate from the control of the managers...So glad I don't work there anymore. They made the job seem harder than it really was, just collecting carts, lol...
Why would you willing step foot back into one of those abominable places?
Cheat Queen I had to quit because they wouldn't work with my college schedule after I sent 3 availability requests
Cheat Queen Damn. Thats pretty fucking funny
Lmao lol so petty but hilarious
I just found out that my grandma died and I started crying on the spot and asked if I could go home they still made me work .
Pure capitalist mindset
Wow people especially Walmart are such selfish unsympathetic jerks! I feel so sorry for your grandma dude 😢
You should try working at Amazon. It's basically the same, except you have to work at a breakneck pace, and all your coworkers are competing with you so they don't lose their job. It's got most of the things you mentioned. Shitty pop music, a building that looks like a fucking prison, no windows, inconsistent managers, just take them and crank them up to 11. Seriously, you may make around $15/hr, but it's still not worth it.
I'm probably breaking some kind of NDA they probably had me sign during hiring, but fuck it.
Try working at an Amazon with no music lol. But I also work at Walmart now and agree Amazon is worse . Longer hours too.
No, I much prefer only hearing the machinery and scanners beeping than the mind-numbing, awful, vapid pop music that they play on loop. Yeah, my managers selected every track, and they were all assholes.
Amazon>petioning for politicans>popeyes>mcdonalds thats my list for all the jobs ive had so far. I just started ups hopefully that goes better
You had music? You were lucky ...the only music I heard was the songs in my head. And taking bathroom breaks got you written up for TOT's.
Oh, yeah, we had ToT's for 3-minute restroom breaks. Rest assured, the music was awful. And, if you didn't already hate pop music, hearing the same song at least 3-4 times a day while slaving over a pack station would definitely make you resent all pop music by the time you were done working there.