The real reason people burn out here
I’ve been with Walmart long enough to say this without hesitation: it’s not the work that burns people out, it’s the lack of structure and respect. You can be physically tired and still keep going. But when you show up, do your job, pick up the slack for others, and still feel like no one notices—or worse, like you’re being taken advantage of—that's what breaks people.
Today was one of those days where I watched a great associate walk out mid-shift. She’d been asking for schedule consistency for weeks. All she wanted was her shifts to stop changing with no notice. Management said they’d work on it. They didn’t. She hit her limit and clocked out for good.
What’s wild is the store probably won’t even blink. They’ll fill the spot with someone new and keep moving like it’s normal. But it’s not. When good people leave and no one stops to ask why, that’s when the damage becomes permanent.
it is 100% most apartments leads coaches and upper management do not give a s*** you can make your complaints on the handheld for concerns nothing is done the only thing I've seen done is they move them to another store where they still show their associates disrespect no backup no support I understand they're paying you a paycheck but in the end those people's paycheck has a lot more zeros behind it and the associates that did that for them getting nothing for it
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Absolutely agree! My body can't handle the constant rotating shift but for some reason its required in our home lines department. There is no logical reason our department wouldn't be just fine with set schedules but nope. I'm currently on a 30 day leave of absence after getting so run down and I'm debating returning. I'm a reliable worker, zero points and management has asked me multiple times to apply for team lead but I just cannot do that rotating schedule. Why doesn't corporate see how hard that is on employees?