Hello dear associates. You don't need to know my name but what you need to know is I work at Walmart as a front end associate and I'm getting sick of it. When I started this, I already knew it wasn't one of the best jobs at Walmart but still, I wasn't expecting this amount of disrespect and unfairness. When you want to do a Walmart job application online and you read the job description, it's not a complex job, at all. You run a register, help people at the SCO, greet some people and get paid, go home, feed your kids, and live your life. That sounds like a plan, right? Unfortunately, it's not what it seems. I used to read negative comments about the job online before I completed my Walmart application, and I'm not gonna lie I thought people were overreacting. I mean how bad could it be, right? Well, let me tell you how bad it could actually get for you as a front end associate at Walmart. I'm going to tell you about my one day as an associate of this company and you will feel enough to hate this job. Yesterday, I clocked in and bang, the chaos started. My manager tells me to hop on a register because the line gets uncontrollable at other registers. Anyway, I did just that for about an hour and then here he came again, asking me to run the SCO because the person that's running it is missing today. They couldn't find any other associate but me. Anyway, I went there and started helping people who have no idea how a technological device works, and telling the teenagers that they actually need an ID to buy alcohol, etc etc. Usual stuff. And then some id^^t dropped a bottle of wine and apparently maintenance was short yesterday (they're always short btw). While I was cleaning the area, well let me put it this way, while I was doing something that was not my job, I had to answer 10 questions from the customers in like 5 minutes. And then I'm being called to carry a 50 inch tv because I'm young, I can do it. (like there are no other young people in the store). Then I finally got back to my register and found people yelling at me about how they had been waiting for me for 10 minutes while my front end manager giving me a side eye because I wasn't in a place where I was supposed to be (like he isn't the one who started all of this). So like that's just one day. You might think that I did most of the things that I stated at the beginning of the post as some things that are in the front end job description. Well, fair enough and not fair enough. Let me tell you why. I was lucky that my manager didn't run into me yesterday because if he did, I'm 200% sure that he was going to warn me about me not being in my register. That's how hypocritical these people can get. Another thing, I did the job of maintenance yesterday and I can assure you I did that tens of times for this month alone so far. I also can assure you that I'm not going to get paid extra for it. So I get to do a job that can be done by 3 people, but I get paid the salary of one. That's what bothers me the most and this is only the monetary part. The psychological part is another mess. There is no sympathy from managers. They don't understand you. They don't want to understand you and they never did, or will. Anything you say to them is an excuse for you to not doing your job. It's really humiliating to so many people including me (rightfully so). So here it is, Walmart is a company that will use you for 100% of your powers and abilities and not match your performance and sacrifices when it's a payday. If you are okay with that or you have no other choice like so many people, come to Walmart. I guarantee you won't enjoy it, but it is what it is.
Shutting the fu^k up and actually doing what you're asked to do is significantly easier than bi^^hing online
You completely misunderstood this point of view. It's not the things that they do, it's the paycheck. IF you expect the performance of 3 associates, pay the amount of salary that 3 associates would get, That's it.
No need for essays just do your job 😭
Do you think I'm posting this after the first time I had some day like yesterday? Do you know how many times I did this kind of work and did not get paid what I deserved? You know nothing about me or what I had to do before I posted this post.
That's what you get as a Walmart associate brodie. You just need to shut up and dribble like they said to Kobe and them back in the day. If you feel you are being treated in a way you are not supposed to be treated, do your work, shut the fu^k up and live with your little salary while everyone above you living a much better life than you do off of your hard work.
We got Walmart associates comparing themselves to NBA players before GTA 6
You should say all of this to Walmart ethics or to your manager. Posting this online is not helping anyone best believe.
It might help some poor guy who's considering an application to this he^l ho^e to see what it's really like.......
Do you ever see talking to the managers about problems in the store end well for associates at Walmart? If you saw it I would like to come work at your store that would be amazing.
I mean if you're a favorite child of them it would end very well for you. If you're not that's a different story 😀😀
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Why do you make it seem like it's too damn hard to clean up a bottle of wine 😭