I worked at Wal-mart for 2 and 1/2 years. Full time
I was hired at $4.75 per hour, when I left (2 and 1/2 years later) I made $5.16 per hour.
It was my first “real” job after GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL, while I was ATTENDING COLLEGE. I am a female, btw. I can honestly say that working for Wal-mart was one of the single most dehumanizing things I’ve ever experienced. I’ve since had many, many sh*tty jobs—even jobs where I had to clean up dog poop–nothing was as bad as working for Wal-mart.
I think that there is something very, very yucky about that company. It seems like the dysfunction goes deep. I wouldn’t be surprised if the “president” of Wal-mart was the antichrist. For real, that company is evil and yucky. I go to Target, I don’t even care if I pay more. So there Wal-mart.
Er, then why did you stay there for 2 1/2 years? There were NO other jobs you could switch to? Why was it so dehumanizing? You didn’t explain anything – oh, other than that it was “yucky.”
Well, I worked for Wal-Mart for almost three years as a baker, here in Topeka. Call me a drone, but I didn’t mind the place. I had decent co-workers, a good boss, and got taught cake-decorating on the job.
Well, David B,
For starters, I continued to work there because the area in which I lived (notice past tense) had very few job opportunities. This was due in large part to the decrease in coal mining jobs–darn the luck. I had bills to pay, I was in college the whole time and livng on my own from the age of seventeen.
It was dehumanizing because, as the “store manager” told me, I was just a number, a warm body which could be easily replaced. That is how the employees were treated. We were overworked and underpaid. We also were easy targets for customers who weren’t as happy about their whole Wal-mart experience as the folks in the commercials.
If that isn’t bad enough–they made us do a f*cking Wal-mart CHEER every god-forsaken morning. Give me a W! Give me an A!!!
Oh and another thing… I know that it is “Wal-mart policy” NOT to evacuate the store if a bomb threat is called in. They would rather just take the risk than face losing an hour or so worth of business.
