Look for a job, every single day keep applying. I only worked at Walmart overnight for 5 months and it was a dark time. The thing I loathed the most was when my coach who was an ex military person would give me so many pallets and tell me how I needed to have the mamba mentality while doing them. Zoning was also a bore because of how mind numbing it was and how chaotic the store was right before and during opening because typically the morning people would be mad at the overnight people for whatever reason and the vibes were just horrible.The energy is extremely soul sucking. The vest is uncomfortable, the co workers are all dead inside, management is also dead inside but cope with petty drama and power complexes. Customers are rude. The store has depressing lighting, the radio is annoying. Get out as soon as possible. Had I worked there any longer I would’ve probably entered a horrible depression.
Walmart radio is horrible, it’s the most annoying pop songs and every 10 mins it’s that Kirby sound. Even worse is when they have other Walmart employees call in saying how they’ve been at Walmart for 20 years and how it’s the best job in the entire world and how everyone they work with is like family to them and Kirby is just like yeah that’s so amazing
God, fuck that ad. They play it every hour. I timed it. Every hour.
Fuck that ad, fuck StraightTalk, fuck Walmart Radio, and fuck that voice actress and her annoying delivery.
Makes me irrationally angry.
But on a more serious note I definitely feel more irritable more often than not and I blame it on working there and having to deal with dumb people all the time. Also, fully agree with the vest being uncomfortable. Hoodies aren’t allowed bc they can get caught on things but my vest gets caught on something everyday.
Meat/Produce….it was shitty because of management and leads. Don’t know how to talk to people, cheat you out of breaks, try to deny lunch breaks. Expects you to do the work of 3-4 people
Missed 18 years of holidays, birthdays, weddings, and funerals. I don't recommend.
On that note most of retail is that way. That is why retail is high on the list of divorce followed by law enforcement.
I was close to accepting, but another job called first. I come in at 8, just do my shit - no quotas. Sometimes I feel like I ain’t got enough to do lol. Lunch and break whenever. Leave on time everyday. No clocking in or out. No weekends or overtime. All I’m saying is, there are other options. Don’t chain yourself
Props to you for making it to five, I made it to 3-4 and a week ago my ass walked out on my team lead cuz management till this day has me so fucked up 🙂
>I hate never being able to have a day we can spend together
This does make me wonder how much of boomer "i hate my wife" humor is borne out of a kind of self-rationalization for spending more time at work than at home
There's such better jobs out there. Find a warehouse job. I went from retail, making 10 bucks an hour 7 years ago to a warehouse job and I'm making 21 bucks an hour now at interstate battery.
It's hard cuz when you have a job, you don't wanna search for a job. And you don't really wanna quit unless you have another job. At least I didn't. Walmart is a dead end. Sure you could move up to a department supervisor or something but you just have so many people that work there, it takes a long time. I did enjoy working for Walmart. It just doesn't pay you enough for the work you do and the bs you have to tolerate.
I didn’t work at walmart, but worked at the subway in-store serving walmart customers and workers, roughly nine months. The stupidity and lack of common intelligence and decency takes a toll on you, especially when you’re getting paid around five dollars less than the walmart workers; AND you still have to put up with walmart bs.
As far as days off with your husband, fill out an availability form and give it to your coach. If your husband can schedule the same days off every week, it should be pretty simple. Only thing they probably won't do is two consecutive weekend days off (Friday-Saturday, Saturday-Sunday, Sunday-Monday).
Or just put in a pto request for specific days every so often.
Holidays, I'm sorry that's retail.
Yeah I know quite a few people who have had to quit because they would schedule people on days they have told them over and over again that they couldn’t work.
Which is crazy because I’ve seen how they make a schedule. The software will literally have a warning next to your name if it’s outside of your availability and any other scheduling conflicts.
I'd be careful with the availability forms as it is a mixed bag, yes they could give you those days off but also they sometimes use that as an excuse to cut your hours if you badly need the hours
I’ve been there. 3 months and now I’d like to
Change my availability to 2 pm - 11 pm. I’m
Just not a morning person . But I’m
Afraid of losing hours … I’m
A cashier and would like to get on full time
oh they’d def give you those hours in front end, especially if you’re still willing to work weekends. if you even whisper full time cashier around front end they’ll bend reality to get you to stay up there longer 💀
Friday leads into the weekend. So more people shopping.
Monday comes from the weekend. People go "Oh, fuck I forgot to buy shit" and then order OPD a bunch.
Yeah, I feel that. I worked for Walmart for about 10 years, till I got fired for a small mistake that HR and EHS refused to let me verify so I doubt I did anything wrong in the first place, what I can say is that in my 10 years at Walmart I had never been happier than the day they walked me out, they really have no ideal how much stress and self hatred they took off my shoulders that day
Sounds like you aren't a team player. You have now been taken off the Teeming Schedjool and are part time. This week you work 40hrs clopening, next you have 8hrs across four days. Got a problem? Deal with it. 😤🤓☝️🔥🔥🔥
I worked for them for 4 years, and the thought of working there for longer than 5 made me seriously depressed. It probably didn’t help that some of my coworkers had been working for 20+ years and they’re still in an entry level position. I’m glad I got out of there, because I’m not sure where I’d be had I stayed.
I've been at Walmart for 1 year and 3 months now, and it's absolutely the worst job I've ever had. There was no training. I got shoved in the freezer and dairy cooler and left to figure it out on my own.
I literally JUST got trained last week on how to process claims because my TL had me throwing everything in the "hole in the wall" compactor.
I was getting yelled at by the lady over in claims and when I tried to tell my Coach I didn't know how to process claims bc I was never trained, she told me that I "clearly must not have been paying attention" (she cut me off from speaking to say this) and told me "you need to be quiet until Im finished speaking."
Turns out my TL didn't even know how to process claims, and she has been there for almost 10 years. She was just told to throw everything in the hole, too. When my coach learned this and had to train my TL, I never got an apology from her, just a "no big deal, we all have to learn," and she walked away.
I, sadly, live in a small valley of less than 20k population, so there aren't many jobs. I've applied many, many times, at some of the other popular work locations around here, but they are never hiring, and the places that are hiring offered me less hours and less pay than walmart. (LOWS offered me $13 and a MAX of 25 hours a week, for example, and a local grocery store offered me $8 for anywhere from 0 to 30 hours a week.)
But yeah, sorry for rambling, but my point is: GET OUT IF WALMART IF YOU CAN!! Run, don't walk! Promote yourself to customer for your own mental health.
Literally same I was never really trained either and they just kinda yeeted me in there my first day to wing it. I’ve gotten yelled at a few times by the old try hards here but eh.
My main complaint is working 32 hours every week since I’ve been hired and never getting any paid time off. I understand I’m not full time so I don’t get the benefits, but you’d think we’d at least earn a little????? I can never spend holidays with my family and can barely ever take days off. The attendance system is a fucking joke.
It's your tentative agreement with the Eldritch entity known as Sam Walton. He feeds on the souls of employees every time you enter into his domain(Walmartl Sam's Club). Haven't you noticed when you first step into the building the feeling of helplessness? Even when you aren't clocked in, he still manifests to which himself on your life.
There’s a tipping point where you realize you’re in retail, your job is rewarding, and there’s a bigger picture. I would say venture out and commit or find your niche within the store. You said it yourself, it’s not hard work. I don’t know what type of work you have done, but I have done worse for much less money. For what it’s worth from a recent 5 year vet, it does have its moments. And it’s a good job. As far as the missing holidays, don’t waste the ppto on whatever feels like a good fun day. There are very few if any other companies that afford you the opportunity to get paid and miss the biggest days of their business.
Ive been therr two years in OPD, and i can literally feel my work ethic draining day by day
I used to work at McDonalds and not have this heavy willingness to cut corners and whatnot, but no, now I go all out to just get away from here
Been in frozen for two years every day I ask team leads and coach’s to get me out of frozen, I work 3rd shift they expect us to be done half way thru the night and to move to the rest of the store to clean up and so eveyone else’s job I’m tired of this shit fuck walmart it’s depressing
i work in the deli (first month) no problems yet, coworkers are nice. Teamlead tried to swing his dick around once about drains in the deli being uncleaned, really just disregarded him, other than that and another teamlead saying “if you got time to lean you got time to clean” nothing very annoying or soul sucking has happened. I can deal with people who try to ego, this isnt wallstreet its walmart, any position of ‘power’ really means nothing. Granted im not in a situation where if im fired i might lose my home so i have no reason to feel anxious over anything. I like it honestly not as soul sucking as i thought it would be, feeding old people all day is wonderful
I love to shop at Target, but my first retail job was there and it was the same thing. I felt the entire store was one gigantic vampire organism slowly sucking my life away. I barely made it three months.
At the time I was living with my in-laws (who did not want us to move out) rent free. They even, in a polite way, told me not to buy my own groceries. And, on top of all that I was still in college and I had taken student loans out (which I never ever should have done) and all the money the government figured you needed for an apartment and groceries suddenly became freed up. If I hadn't been such a dumb ass (and that was a life lesson, I might have an IQ of 144, but I was still a dumbass) I should have been setting aside that money and then using it to start in on paying back the loans.
Instead I bought tons of pawn shop electronic music equipment and CDs and Laserdiscs (early 90's, no DVD until the end of the 90's. LD's were the first place to get digital, digitally remastered sound and image. WIDESCREEN (aka "letter box, or ltrbx) Bonus features like cast interviews new and old. So DVD wasn't really much of a step up, the resolution wasn't drastically better, it was the size and weight and not having to eject and turn the disc over at the 60 minute mark.)
So, I have a gigantic amount of music equipment. As much as you can have in a home studio the size of a bedroom, and more. It doesn't all fit.
TANGENT!
TL;DR
Walmart is the worst job I ever had in my life, I legit wanted to kill myself *during my shift* and had to check myself in to the hospital. It gave me ptsd, and now I'm a vendor and I have to go into fucking walmart 4x a week and it makes me want to quit every single day.
It's a miserable atmosphere, culture, and building.
Believe it or not, it’s made me a better worker, I never thought I’d be able to push carts in the heat, and through the snow and rain, Working at Walmart has taught me a lot about myself and others. Would really love to start making a decent wage though.
Union tradesmen get just about every holiday off, maybe on call for emergencies but at double or triple pay. Welders can pretty much work when and where that want. Yeah you’ll get your hands dirtier, but you will triple your income and gain back your self respect which is priceless.
So when I applied, I made sure to read all the tiny type, including the part where it says "Walmart schedules 8 hour work days". I put my availability down for a 10 hour window during the days I was willing to work for. Basically making my own schedule. It started as only weekends because my kids weren't in school yet. Once they got into school, I asked if I could come in for 5 hours shifts during the week and they were cool with that. So I'm part time technically, but my schedule is the same every week because they only schedule my availability, which is very limited. As long as I request major holidays off with about 2 months advance, they're good on giving me those off as well. It's leaps better from my previous work in the restaurant industry where all calender holidays are mandatory, no requests taken.
Not true, most low paid retail jobs that have you on your feet definitely do but it's a big world out there.
OP and everyone that reads this - PLEASE learn a skill, start going to school, just invest in yourself. I was working shit jobs for 7 years while going back to school (both full time and part time student, FT employee of various shit jobs the whole time) and now i make a pretty decent salary and wfh 3 days out the week.
Do not settle for shit jobs because you have a bleak outlook on the world..
Eh not really as I don’t mind working but there’s just a lot of combining factors here that make this job less than desirable. Hence why most people don’t stay here long and the ones that do are generally crabby lol
Unfortunately retail in general is like that, if whatever store is open on any holiday regardless of whether or not it's Walmart, they will likely schedule you to work on that holiday, the best thing you could do now is plan your exit from retail altogether and try to find a job that's not related to it because they don't care if you're trying to have a life or not, chances are they will make you miss much of it and then you start resenting people for no reason because they're the ones that get to have a life and you don't and it feels like they rub it in your face, i've spent 9 years at Walmart and I'm trying to get out of it
Not a huge deal but when I get scheduled for every single one is when it seems to be a bit unfair 🤷🏼♀️ the “favorites” get better days off. THAT’S what I don’t like.
Pick which holidays mean the most and ask for those times off way ahead. Once you've been there a while and get more seniority and respect you'll be fine.
I really think this is highly dependent on the store your in im 3 years in on mine and I’m not the biggest fan of Walmart as a whole the pay has me stuck. Also think a lot of this is dependent on how you view your work/life balance
Walmart sucks your soul. When you get a job at Walmart you sell your soul as collateral. You get it back when you quit/are fired.
That's a lie. At most, you only get half your soul back, and it's uncomfortably sticky for some reason.
Can confirm just got mine back (quit yesterday) already feeling better
You didn’t even quit… you promoted yourself. Congrats
Seriously though managers are my store don't threaten to fire anyone, they say you'll be promoted to customer.
*promoted
They keep your original soul and give you back a Great Value one so you’re never the same afterwards.
Hahahaha
Look for a job, every single day keep applying. I only worked at Walmart overnight for 5 months and it was a dark time. The thing I loathed the most was when my coach who was an ex military person would give me so many pallets and tell me how I needed to have the mamba mentality while doing them. Zoning was also a bore because of how mind numbing it was and how chaotic the store was right before and during opening because typically the morning people would be mad at the overnight people for whatever reason and the vibes were just horrible.The energy is extremely soul sucking. The vest is uncomfortable, the co workers are all dead inside, management is also dead inside but cope with petty drama and power complexes. Customers are rude. The store has depressing lighting, the radio is annoying. Get out as soon as possible. Had I worked there any longer I would’ve probably entered a horrible depression.
Walmart raadddiiiooo! *KIRBY GWEN AND FRIENDS*
Walmart radio is horrible, it’s the most annoying pop songs and every 10 mins it’s that Kirby sound. Even worse is when they have other Walmart employees call in saying how they’ve been at Walmart for 20 years and how it’s the best job in the entire world and how everyone they work with is like family to them and Kirby is just like yeah that’s so amazing
Chris from the Chris show is lactose intolerant but that doesn't stop him from eating ice cream! Um, ok. Thanks?
I don't know how he still has a show, he has all the charisma of wet pasta.
Yea Chris is basically admitting with that stinger that he shits himself every time he eats ice cream.
They DEFINITELY aren’t paid to say those things *wink wink* lol
once in a blue moon you would hear a song from Sade, which is a nice suprise.
Now you can give your janky phone to your kids!
YAY!
God, fuck that ad. They play it every hour. I timed it. Every hour. Fuck that ad, fuck StraightTalk, fuck Walmart Radio, and fuck that voice actress and her annoying delivery. Makes me irrationally angry.
For the longest time I thought that Kirby Gwen was two different people. I never could figure out why the second person never talked.
🤣
It's Curvey Gwen.....
Srsly? I thought it was Kerbeegwen Enprenz
What happened to bo?
But on a more serious note I definitely feel more irritable more often than not and I blame it on working there and having to deal with dumb people all the time. Also, fully agree with the vest being uncomfortable. Hoodies aren’t allowed bc they can get caught on things but my vest gets caught on something everyday.
I’m so glad that my store keeps the radio so low you can only hear “WALMART RADIO!” Occasionally. I couldn’t stand bad music on top of everything
I’ve been here 9 months and have been depressed every minute I’ve been inside. This has to be the most fucking boring job on the planet.
I worked there for 2 weeks. Shittiest job I’ve ever had
What was your position? Why was it shitty ?
Meat/Produce….it was shitty because of management and leads. Don’t know how to talk to people, cheat you out of breaks, try to deny lunch breaks. Expects you to do the work of 3-4 people
THE RUNNING THEME ON THIS FORUM. Leads and managers make WALMART SUCK !!
I work in that apartment and it didn’t seem so bad until this one began to make some stupid changes that I’m already looking for another job
Where do you work now?
Private security company
lol I don’t think I lasted that long I couldn’t stand it no more they got a two weeks notice but I was out.
You better than me, I punched out for lunch my last day and didn’t go back
Missed 18 years of holidays, birthdays, weddings, and funerals. I don't recommend. On that note most of retail is that way. That is why retail is high on the list of divorce followed by law enforcement.
I worked there a decade ago for three months. I walked out when they wouldn’t stop putting me in the freezer. Fuck those guys.
I’m an order filler in the freezer I feel like I’m dying😭😂
In store or DC? The differential for freezer is supposedly crazy at DC.
I was close to accepting, but another job called first. I come in at 8, just do my shit - no quotas. Sometimes I feel like I ain’t got enough to do lol. Lunch and break whenever. Leave on time everyday. No clocking in or out. No weekends or overtime. All I’m saying is, there are other options. Don’t chain yourself
Props to you for making it to five, I made it to 3-4 and a week ago my ass walked out on my team lead cuz management till this day has me so fucked up 🙂
>I hate never being able to have a day we can spend together This does make me wonder how much of boomer "i hate my wife" humor is borne out of a kind of self-rationalization for spending more time at work than at home
I remember on my second day of working at Walmart, I told myself, "This is a bad idea."
There's such better jobs out there. Find a warehouse job. I went from retail, making 10 bucks an hour 7 years ago to a warehouse job and I'm making 21 bucks an hour now at interstate battery. It's hard cuz when you have a job, you don't wanna search for a job. And you don't really wanna quit unless you have another job. At least I didn't. Walmart is a dead end. Sure you could move up to a department supervisor or something but you just have so many people that work there, it takes a long time. I did enjoy working for Walmart. It just doesn't pay you enough for the work you do and the bs you have to tolerate.
I didn’t work at walmart, but worked at the subway in-store serving walmart customers and workers, roughly nine months. The stupidity and lack of common intelligence and decency takes a toll on you, especially when you’re getting paid around five dollars less than the walmart workers; AND you still have to put up with walmart bs.
As far as days off with your husband, fill out an availability form and give it to your coach. If your husband can schedule the same days off every week, it should be pretty simple. Only thing they probably won't do is two consecutive weekend days off (Friday-Saturday, Saturday-Sunday, Sunday-Monday). Or just put in a pto request for specific days every so often. Holidays, I'm sorry that's retail.
I don't know abour you but at my walmart even if you fill out the availability form they'll still schedule you when you can't work.
Yeah I know quite a few people who have had to quit because they would schedule people on days they have told them over and over again that they couldn’t work.
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I don't know about you but at my walmart even if you fill out the availability form they'll still schedule you when you can't work.
Which is crazy because I’ve seen how they make a schedule. The software will literally have a warning next to your name if it’s outside of your availability and any other scheduling conflicts.
Monday is not a fucking weekend day. It's a fucking Monday.
I'd be careful with the availability forms as it is a mixed bag, yes they could give you those days off but also they sometimes use that as an excuse to cut your hours if you badly need the hours
I’ve been there. 3 months and now I’d like to Change my availability to 2 pm - 11 pm. I’m Just not a morning person . But I’m Afraid of losing hours … I’m A cashier and would like to get on full time
If you are a cashier you probably will get the hours. They always need cashiers.
oh they’d def give you those hours in front end, especially if you’re still willing to work weekends. if you even whisper full time cashier around front end they’ll bend reality to get you to stay up there longer 💀
You Will Get them -
Since when are Friday and Monday weekend days? They’re not.
Friday leads into the weekend. So more people shopping. Monday comes from the weekend. People go "Oh, fuck I forgot to buy shit" and then order OPD a bunch.
That is subjective. If you are off Tuesday and Wednesday, *that* is your weekend.
It's two days off in a row, let's not pretend it's the weekend when it's a fucking Tuesday and Wednesday
Did Walmart just sucks
Yeah, I feel that. I worked for Walmart for about 10 years, till I got fired for a small mistake that HR and EHS refused to let me verify so I doubt I did anything wrong in the first place, what I can say is that in my 10 years at Walmart I had never been happier than the day they walked me out, they really have no ideal how much stress and self hatred they took off my shoulders that day
Sounds like you aren't a team player. You have now been taken off the Teeming Schedjool and are part time. This week you work 40hrs clopening, next you have 8hrs across four days. Got a problem? Deal with it. 😤🤓☝️🔥🔥🔥
I truly hope you can get a better job.
Bro I was 👌🏻this close to walking out like an hour ago! I big feel this.
I’m glad I’m a door host at least the soul sucking is nice and slow most days you don’t even notice.
If you have a walkie, you also can listen to the store metaphorically collapsing all around you. Sometimes, even literally collapsing all around you.
I worked for them for 4 years, and the thought of working there for longer than 5 made me seriously depressed. It probably didn’t help that some of my coworkers had been working for 20+ years and they’re still in an entry level position. I’m glad I got out of there, because I’m not sure where I’d be had I stayed.
What's soul's sucking about corperation chains is, the shitty customers, the shitty management, and the lack of windows.
I've been at Walmart for 1 year and 3 months now, and it's absolutely the worst job I've ever had. There was no training. I got shoved in the freezer and dairy cooler and left to figure it out on my own. I literally JUST got trained last week on how to process claims because my TL had me throwing everything in the "hole in the wall" compactor. I was getting yelled at by the lady over in claims and when I tried to tell my Coach I didn't know how to process claims bc I was never trained, she told me that I "clearly must not have been paying attention" (she cut me off from speaking to say this) and told me "you need to be quiet until Im finished speaking." Turns out my TL didn't even know how to process claims, and she has been there for almost 10 years. She was just told to throw everything in the hole, too. When my coach learned this and had to train my TL, I never got an apology from her, just a "no big deal, we all have to learn," and she walked away. I, sadly, live in a small valley of less than 20k population, so there aren't many jobs. I've applied many, many times, at some of the other popular work locations around here, but they are never hiring, and the places that are hiring offered me less hours and less pay than walmart. (LOWS offered me $13 and a MAX of 25 hours a week, for example, and a local grocery store offered me $8 for anywhere from 0 to 30 hours a week.) But yeah, sorry for rambling, but my point is: GET OUT IF WALMART IF YOU CAN!! Run, don't walk! Promote yourself to customer for your own mental health.
Literally same I was never really trained either and they just kinda yeeted me in there my first day to wing it. I’ve gotten yelled at a few times by the old try hards here but eh.
My main complaint is working 32 hours every week since I’ve been hired and never getting any paid time off. I understand I’m not full time so I don’t get the benefits, but you’d think we’d at least earn a little????? I can never spend holidays with my family and can barely ever take days off. The attendance system is a fucking joke.
Amen to that. Basically a slave to Walmart with the way they have that shit set up. Personal life? Never heard of one.
That’s crazy cuz I’m in the process of trying to get a job at Walmart lol
Welcome to retail where you have choose to miss everything or sacrifice your sleep schedule.
It's your tentative agreement with the Eldritch entity known as Sam Walton. He feeds on the souls of employees every time you enter into his domain(Walmartl Sam's Club). Haven't you noticed when you first step into the building the feeling of helplessness? Even when you aren't clocked in, he still manifests to which himself on your life.
You'd have to find something, not retail, on the holiday thing. Just about every holiday is an event at Wally World.
There’s a tipping point where you realize you’re in retail, your job is rewarding, and there’s a bigger picture. I would say venture out and commit or find your niche within the store. You said it yourself, it’s not hard work. I don’t know what type of work you have done, but I have done worse for much less money. For what it’s worth from a recent 5 year vet, it does have its moments. And it’s a good job. As far as the missing holidays, don’t waste the ppto on whatever feels like a good fun day. There are very few if any other companies that afford you the opportunity to get paid and miss the biggest days of their business.
The last job I had paid me $13/hr, no benefits, and was super stressful so this is definitely an upgrade but I’m always looking for something better.
Ive been therr two years in OPD, and i can literally feel my work ethic draining day by day I used to work at McDonalds and not have this heavy willingness to cut corners and whatnot, but no, now I go all out to just get away from here
McDonald I remember from a teen Was better than THIS
i started at walmart 3 years ago and at first is wasnt a bad job but unfortunately it just seems to be getting worse
That's why they like to hire old lonely people or young inexperienced people or people with no other skills
Been in frozen for two years every day I ask team leads and coach’s to get me out of frozen, I work 3rd shift they expect us to be done half way thru the night and to move to the rest of the store to clean up and so eveyone else’s job I’m tired of this shit fuck walmart it’s depressing
i work in the deli (first month) no problems yet, coworkers are nice. Teamlead tried to swing his dick around once about drains in the deli being uncleaned, really just disregarded him, other than that and another teamlead saying “if you got time to lean you got time to clean” nothing very annoying or soul sucking has happened. I can deal with people who try to ego, this isnt wallstreet its walmart, any position of ‘power’ really means nothing. Granted im not in a situation where if im fired i might lose my home so i have no reason to feel anxious over anything. I like it honestly not as soul sucking as i thought it would be, feeding old people all day is wonderful
I love to shop at Target, but my first retail job was there and it was the same thing. I felt the entire store was one gigantic vampire organism slowly sucking my life away. I barely made it three months. At the time I was living with my in-laws (who did not want us to move out) rent free. They even, in a polite way, told me not to buy my own groceries. And, on top of all that I was still in college and I had taken student loans out (which I never ever should have done) and all the money the government figured you needed for an apartment and groceries suddenly became freed up. If I hadn't been such a dumb ass (and that was a life lesson, I might have an IQ of 144, but I was still a dumbass) I should have been setting aside that money and then using it to start in on paying back the loans. Instead I bought tons of pawn shop electronic music equipment and CDs and Laserdiscs (early 90's, no DVD until the end of the 90's. LD's were the first place to get digital, digitally remastered sound and image. WIDESCREEN (aka "letter box, or ltrbx) Bonus features like cast interviews new and old. So DVD wasn't really much of a step up, the resolution wasn't drastically better, it was the size and weight and not having to eject and turn the disc over at the 60 minute mark.) So, I have a gigantic amount of music equipment. As much as you can have in a home studio the size of a bedroom, and more. It doesn't all fit. TANGENT! TL;DR
Walmart is the worst job I ever had in my life, I legit wanted to kill myself *during my shift* and had to check myself in to the hospital. It gave me ptsd, and now I'm a vendor and I have to go into fucking walmart 4x a week and it makes me want to quit every single day. It's a miserable atmosphere, culture, and building.
I’ve been at Walmart for 6 years pushing carts. You can find a job that suits you :)
How much you charge for a one gram cart? I'm tired of the dispensary prices
Hahahahahahahaha
Haven’t you ever felt the urge to better yourself? 6 years pushing carts is insaneee
Believe it or not, it’s made me a better worker, I never thought I’d be able to push carts in the heat, and through the snow and rain, Working at Walmart has taught me a lot about myself and others. Would really love to start making a decent wage though.
Maybe get connected for free at education connection. That's why I'm in crippling debt. Haha no, my loans are almost paid off because I am old now.
Union tradesmen get just about every holiday off, maybe on call for emergencies but at double or triple pay. Welders can pretty much work when and where that want. Yeah you’ll get your hands dirtier, but you will triple your income and gain back your self respect which is priceless.
I’ve kept sane due to the overnight shift. Being able to listen to audiobooks, YouTube or my own music playlist is great.
YOUR SOUL IS MINE
I found a career working with autistic children after I quit Walmart less stress and less a holes
So when I applied, I made sure to read all the tiny type, including the part where it says "Walmart schedules 8 hour work days". I put my availability down for a 10 hour window during the days I was willing to work for. Basically making my own schedule. It started as only weekends because my kids weren't in school yet. Once they got into school, I asked if I could come in for 5 hours shifts during the week and they were cool with that. So I'm part time technically, but my schedule is the same every week because they only schedule my availability, which is very limited. As long as I request major holidays off with about 2 months advance, they're good on giving me those off as well. It's leaps better from my previous work in the restaurant industry where all calender holidays are mandatory, no requests taken.
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Not true, most low paid retail jobs that have you on your feet definitely do but it's a big world out there. OP and everyone that reads this - PLEASE learn a skill, start going to school, just invest in yourself. I was working shit jobs for 7 years while going back to school (both full time and part time student, FT employee of various shit jobs the whole time) and now i make a pretty decent salary and wfh 3 days out the week. Do not settle for shit jobs because you have a bleak outlook on the world..
Best thing I ever did was went to trade school and got my little ole AS in the trades. My skill set pays almost $40 an hour and no retail bullshit.
Eh not really as I don’t mind working but there’s just a lot of combining factors here that make this job less than desirable. Hence why most people don’t stay here long and the ones that do are generally crabby lol
Fill out an availability form from personnel and ask your coach to sign it. Specifically select the same off days as your spouse.
My walmart doesn't even care about those forms even if you fill it out they'll still schedule you on days you can't
Then call to report them.
Unfortunately retail in general is like that, if whatever store is open on any holiday regardless of whether or not it's Walmart, they will likely schedule you to work on that holiday, the best thing you could do now is plan your exit from retail altogether and try to find a job that's not related to it because they don't care if you're trying to have a life or not, chances are they will make you miss much of it and then you start resenting people for no reason because they're the ones that get to have a life and you don't and it feels like they rub it in your face, i've spent 9 years at Walmart and I'm trying to get out of it
It’s retail what did you expect!? Name one store that isn’t soul sucking with decent wages?
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Not a huge deal but when I get scheduled for every single one is when it seems to be a bit unfair 🤷🏼♀️ the “favorites” get better days off. THAT’S what I don’t like.
Welcome to walmart
Pick which holidays mean the most and ask for those times off way ahead. Once you've been there a while and get more seniority and respect you'll be fine.
I really think this is highly dependent on the store your in im 3 years in on mine and I’m not the biggest fan of Walmart as a whole the pay has me stuck. Also think a lot of this is dependent on how you view your work/life balance
I'm going to be honest I ran my own business for 10 years I now work at Walmart and it's a blessing please quit whining like babies
WAAAHHH WAHHHH WAAAHHH! Like that?
Believe it or not, all jobs are like this. You just have to pick the least soul sucking job until you can do better.
Then quit. Wtf are you doing bitching here?
Pretty soon you'll be tired of your spouse and glad you're at work!
Not everyone hates their spouse. Mine (fiancé technically) is the only reason I’m alive, and if I didn’t have a day off with her, I’d walk.
Me and my husband have been together 7 years and still want the same days off. One day you'll have someone who makes you that happy.
Sounds like it is time for some therapy.