Posts with tag: walmart application

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Stores Community
6 months ago

Going home after a long day

Hi guys. I just finished my shift and I’m posting this while I’m going home in my fiance’s car. I work at Walmart as a front end associate and I remember coming to this company HYPED. Because it’s my first job, and I’m excited to start my life, you know? I remember feeling like having a party after completing my walmart application. But that changed after 2 weeks on the job. As you can guess or imagine, I went back and forth with a customer and I don’t know if you know this but if you’re a front end associate, talking back to a customer is like talking back to your parent. It’s basically a sin at our store. I don’t know if it’s the same for you guys, I hope not. Because it’s a huge pressure for me not to call out someone for their stupidity. Especially when their stupidity affects my life, at least I need to have the right to complain and stand up for myself a little, you know? And dealing with this on a day to day, feeling restricted on my freedom of speech, that’s not what I signed up for. As a result of all this, whenever I go back home after my shift, I feel like it’s my first day out of prison. Whenever I get to work I have my eyes on the clock. As soon as my shift ends I want to get out of here. I wouldn’t even want to stay if they offered me 3 times more than my salary. As a result, after noticing all of this about my work life, I feel depressed. Let me also add the fact that I spoke to people who worked at different jobs (including walmart) about what to expect as a 9-5 worker, but still, part of me didn't want to believe what they told me. Because I always believed life has to offer us a lot more and we need to take as much as we can. That's just how I feel. Starting this journey of 'living life' is really hard for me and I'm starting to lose hope and change my view as to what life should be, or if we want to be more accurate, what life already is. I mean I don't even know if I expressed myself properly, I just wanted to have a little therapy session online while I'm going home because I had a lot to get off my chest. Anyway, thanks for reading, and good luck

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Stores Community
6 months ago

What should I do?

I think I messed up with my walmart application. I think I should have applied for the Team Lead position because everybody acts like I am one. I work in the front end and according to my associates, I’m the experienced one. They love to ask questions to me about everything, day to day activities, what to do if a customer is being rude, even life advice. They seem to trust my wisdom I guess. It’s like I’m the work mother to them. The responsibility on my shoulders increased ever since they fired our Team Lead and they hired a new one. In fact, I applied to be the new one but got rejected, and they hired someone else. Some people thought it should have been me but I disagree. I don’t want to be someone who stabs people in the back. That’s something I never did in my life and I’m not planning to do so. If he got the job, he got the job and everybody should adapt, but nobody does. Even the new Team Lead who was hired recently. He asked me a question the other day (I won’t say the question because it’s kinda embarrassing) and I asked him how did he apply for this job, he said he did his walmart job application online and I told him well, you just need to open the description of your walmart job application and the answer of your question should be there. He seemed offended by the way I responded, but I don’t care anymore. Management made a choice by hiring him and everybody needs to live with that. Including him. I’m not going to do his job for him and get paid as a front end associate. No, that’s not going to happen. But it seems like they won’t let me go off these responsibilities and duties that are not in my job description. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job and I also love the people who I’m working with but I’m also tired of this. Because it feels like a daily reminder of what I’ve missed. And just like I said having the same paycheck is not helping either. I genuinely don’t know what to do except one thing, I definitely don’t want to leave this store. Not in a transfer or by leaving permanently. So what should I do? What would you do if you were in my shoes? I don’t want to break my associate's hearts and I also don’t want to offend the managers because I don’t want to get fired. It’s like I want to stand up for myself, but the weight on my shoulders won’t let me do so.

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