Walmart

All management does not have any problems with anyone who took their jobs seriously and worked very hard to get somewhere higher in the company. Except...

There are many downsides to working with Wal-Mart.

1. No matter what you do for them, especially doing jobs for other departments, your whole shift takes a big hit on your assigned department. This affects your ability to make any sort of progress in zoning and stocking picks from the bins, as well as finishing the previous night's freight. This happens after finding whole pallets in the tire lube express back room because they didn't feel like messing with it.

The worst part of it all is the manager in charge of scheduling. My first few months were pretty good; I got plenty of hours. Then, after all the hard work of emptying out the seasonal trailers and bringing them all the way to the garden center patio, taking trip after trip until all the pallets were brought in, it took up most of my shift. This left me unable to help any customers with their questions or concerns regarding anything in my department.

Of course, I kept my mouth shut, and they then decided to cut hours by a lot in January and February. So, instead of my 6 to 8 hour daily shifts, I got nothing but 4-hour shifts and even a two-hour shift one day a week. And it's happening to a lot of good people.

Oh, and it takes a long time to get up to any type of management positions. You have to be there for years and years. And even being there for 30 years doesn't mean that you're safe.

The only thing I have to say to management is: start paying attention to the details of your workers.

No one can survive on the menial hours, not to mention pay, that is being given to the good employees. They all deserve at least $10/hr, especially when Wal-Mart only starts everyone at part-time, and then it takes years of b.s. to become full-time.