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from personal experience, as someone who worked there.... run. Run fast, and run hard. That shit that they pull on the orientation day only lasts at most a week. Then you have fucking side managers who aren't even managers of your department yelling at you for shit that is out of your control because they can't get off their ass to do it themselves.

Story time kids. I got plenty of them.

We had a guy working store standards with us, useless idiot. Barely pulled in carts, stood in the porch most days and did nothing. He messed up our cart machines plugin cord somehow and didn't tell the other store standards about it, and nearly electrocutes one of the guys. Still kept his job. A couple weeks later, that same guy sat down to tie his shoes and immediately gets yelled at by one of the side managers because it "looks lazy and he needs to be outside hauling carts."

I can't count the amount of times I got yelled at for shit that was out of my control, or for really fucking stupid shit. Someone doesn't show up for work, somehow that's my fault. Someone is scheduled to go home at 10, but the managers change it the night before to 10:30 and don't tell him about it, still... my fault.

I worked the night before Black Friday prepping the entrance. I was there until about 11:30. I was told at the last minute that I would have to come in in the morning because the guy who was supposed to open isn't coming in, and they can't find a replacement (Typical retail answer). I agree as I need the money. I bring in a coffee because I need caffeine to wake me up. I immediately get yelled at for bringing in the coffee. "We don't drink coffee while we are working", get rid of it." I sigh and agree and bring it to my car. I come back in, to get pulled into the office and the manager says to me "I expected you to throw it out", I think to myself "I spent money on this. I'm not throwing it out." I get written up for not wearing a safety vest, when I didn't even clock in yet.

They chopped my schedule one year without warning to one 5 hour shift... in 5 weeks, all while being told "I should be thankful that I'm getting work". Mind you, here in Canada its illegal for them to do that, and I was the guy who always showed up for work and didn't miss a single day.

The single biggest thing that took me over the edge... and it wasn't even something that was done to someone in my department. It honestly infuriated me so much that I, as a store standard overruled them.... During the pandemic we had people on the door at all times to limit the amount of people coming in. A young girl, couldn't have been older than 17, was told to stand by the door and count the people coming into the store and limit them. Mind you, this girl had just broken her entire leg from a sporting event she was in. She wasn't allowed a bench to sit on, and she was being told to stand there for 8 hours with a freshly broken leg. I literally looked at her, and said, "sit on the customers bench. I don't want you moving out of it, and if any of the managers question it, tell them to come see me and I'll take responsibility for it". It could have ruined her leg for life.

They also fucked over our Covid pay. They gave out a loyalty pay for working multiple years with the company. I got somewhere around 700, when I should have gotten double that. I digress. This pay wasn't supposed to be listed with the government as paid work, but it was. Because it was listed as that, we weren't entitled to Covid pay, which was 2 grand.

I got a lot more stories than that, those are just the ones that come to mind.

Case in point, fuck Wal-Mart.

Also, a little side note, because of the way Wal-Marts manager system works, every assistant manager is your manager. So someone in produce can also tell people in Electronics what to do, its extremely fucked and if I were in charge of the company I'd change it immediately. The amount of times I as a cart pusher got yelled at by the produce manager was unreal. Doesn't work in my department and is yelling as us literally daily, sometimes 4-5 times a day, we complain about it to HR/manager of the store, and nothing was done.

One last edit, I promise. TC I wish you the best at that company, hopefully your experience is better than mine. But one key piece of advice and if nothing else I tell you makes it through, I hope this one does. DO NOT accept to go haul carts. Trust me on this one. They will pull you in the middle of whatever line of work your doing to haul carts, and eventually try to convince you to go on carts permanently.