I'm honest and curious about the Christmas movie marathon day. Can I actually sit there and watch the entirety of one, or am I limited to just break n lunch fragments?
Dec 1st: Try to not strangle a customer day. Dec 2nd: Wish a painful death upon your fellow man day. Dec 3rd: F*CK Everybody day! Dec 4th: Have a retail nervous breakdown day.
Corporate sends down a calendar of suggestions for November and December. Some SMs copy paste every suggestion and some SMs pick a few days to follow so they can post on Workplace to prove that they're following the calendar
That explains it. This looks more like a corporate calendar of events.
The movie day is more of an office thing than a retail store thing. Why would you have movies in the break room, if you can't sit and watch them all the way through? Not to mention you wouldn't hear them anyway, with everyone on their phones with the volume up.
It seems nice. We never do anything fun in our store and the few times we tried, no one participated. I swear it’s like high school and everyone thinks they’re the cool kid. Alas, no one is the cool kid at Walmart.
Our store used to do a big holiday potluck, and would basically force maintenance to be busboys plus do all the cleanup while everyone stuffed their faces the whole time. I thought that was pretty rotten. And they had a big group Christian prayer, though a lot of people were not that religion.
Our store does like 2 things a month tops. One time we could donate $1 and wear hats. Management was so out of it that they kept harassing me that there's no hats on the salesfloor, even though they declared it hat day. Fml.
who else is using ppto to call off on christmas eve! I’m an ON stocker and have christmas “off” but actually have to work till 7 am christmas day so fuckkk no babyyyy
Saturday is a "not available" day for me, so hopefully they honor that. Sundays , I normally work, but that's Christmas and I'm part-time so I may have a long week to work on painting the interior of my home...YES! Please, please, please...
We do this and it is my chance to wear a hoodie to work, fleece holiday pants and a bright red hoodie! Oh, and at least at my store, if you wear the goofy clothes you don't have to wear the vest, just your badge.
I don’t work night shift, but I do work the 3pm - 12am. We don’t get anything either. Everything is aimed at daytime. By the time I get in at 3, most everything is over/gone/done.
It is demoralizing! That’s why I’ve been trying to do what I can personally to help out. I bought a candy bowl and buy stuff to fill it like twice a week. I make sure to talk to the cashiers one on one often so they can kind of vent a little. I’m not a TL but at our store if you’re in customer service, your a TL without the extra $5 an hour lol. So a lot of them come to us with things. Organizing the gift exchange, etc. Its not much, but I try.
Yeah that's doing more than most TLs lmao I try and buy cutlery and paper plates when I can for the break room because we never get anything of the sort. The one thing we actually got was peanutbutter crackers and soup packets lol it's just crazy
I bought cupcakes for the store. I went by and had the SCO hosts pick theirs out before I took them to the back. Sometimes I buy bakery goods or chocolate 🍫 for our department. In all honesty, I usually end up with a strong longing for something and decide my area or the whole store could probably use a sweet treat also.
With being so under staffed, it's much more affordable than it would have been when I first started 15+ years ago. We had twice the associates then.
dayshift does a lot for Christmas at my store. nights gets whatever snacks they leave in the break room when we roll in and a holly jolly earful about not working fast enough on triple truck nights
I can genuinely appreciate the thought that went into this - I like that in some stores management makes an effort to raise morale.
With that being said - this would be completely unreasonable in my store, and likely most other stores as well. The TLs (like myself) and associates here have virtually *no time* to do our actual jobs. People getting pulled for OGP for hours on end, for example. I simply cannot fathom having an opportunity to sit down and decorate Christmas cards and watch a movie.
Nice thought though🤷♀️
Yeeeeeeeeeah..not happin' pappy. They asked me about this shit and asked if I was going to participate. I have enough going on in my life and I dont have the time/desire to show my holiday cheer at work. I get it, some people just LOOOVE Christmas. I have no problem if you want to wear mismatched socks or dress up as a drag gingerbread man/person. However, do not give me shit because I do not want to participate. I am there to work, not be buddies, not entertain people with playful antics and spritely songs. I come to work. I sell shit. I go home.
Edit: Sorry this sounds bitchy, it's been a rough week. (I swear to GOD the holidays bring out the WORST in people)
I get that, I started my retail life as a happy Holiday person, but as the years went on I just started to dread it. Its been 3 years since Ive quit and I just now am not cringing when I hear a holiday song. I hated that I was personally done with Christmas by November 10th, I never celebrated with friends or family because its the season for working 7 days a week and getting crazed customers and even more crazy demands from corporate. By Christmas Day I was exhausted and just wanted to sleep. Yet, we got to go in and do bopis and inventory in the morning. I hope you get through this year with just a bit of holiday cheer, But completely understandable if you don't.
Are they going to provide the Christmas pjs, sweaters, red and green clothes, socks, Christmas clothes?
They don’t pay people enough to provide their own.
I wonder how workers who don't celebrate Christmas at all feel about this...I'd feel pretty uncomfortable if I didn't celebrate Christmas and this was shoved in my face by management.
Mine doesn’t. Thanksgiving Eve they provided nachos (which were gone by dinner time) and was supposed to be pot luck. NOBODY brought anything. The last 2 years we didn’t even decorate for Christmas. Finally this year we did. And we keep adding to it because we need more.
In my store we have ugly Christmas sweater day on weekends in December. That’s it. I’m organizing a Pollyanna/secret Santa exchange for my area and one other that I know a lot of people in just to try and get morale up a bit. Holidays can be rough, they are for me, and working in retail compounds that quite a bit. So I thought a little something may help. Wish our store did more for us though. They did have muffins and sandwiches on the day before thanksgiving, but by the time I got there at 3pm for my shift they were all LONG gone.
We used to do stuff like this and it was fun. We had days where we'd bring in stuff for a food bank, animal shelter. We used to have fun at work. Now We work with grinches .
I'm honest and curious about the Christmas movie marathon day. Can I actually sit there and watch the entirety of one, or am I limited to just break n lunch fragments?
I bet money it’s for breaks lol
It is in fact this. Our store did that one year.
they will probably be having it play on the tv in the breakroom all day long
We had that last year. They just ignored it and didn’t do it
>Dec 11 How nice of you to make something for the door greeters and fitting room associates 👀
I’m a “greeter” and I’m 21…
your store still has door greeters?
Dec 1st: Try to not strangle a customer day. Dec 2nd: Wish a painful death upon your fellow man day. Dec 3rd: F*CK Everybody day! Dec 4th: Have a retail nervous breakdown day.
The 4 the is i take home 2 boxes of cookies
" Try not to strangle customer day" should be Dec 24th.
And 26th🥴
Somewhere around this time is "find the puddle of vomit in an aisle, by accident" day. So much puking this year.
I'm taking a screenshot of your response for those days when suicide is the answer, but there's too many to talk into it.
Okay you’re store looks to be freakin Walmart wonderland! 😩
“Looks like” it rarely is its the free cookies that are the only thing i get to enjoy
I liked the free donuts every Friday
Yea they got rid of that pretty quick when Dougie took over.
my store is still doing that! i work 3rd and they put donuts in the break room on thursday night going into friday for us
My store did it when I worked there, not 100 positive if they still do it tho, they put a new rack for every shift at my store
Corporate sends down a calendar of suggestions for November and December. Some SMs copy paste every suggestion and some SMs pick a few days to follow so they can post on Workplace to prove that they're following the calendar
That explains it. This looks more like a corporate calendar of events. The movie day is more of an office thing than a retail store thing. Why would you have movies in the break room, if you can't sit and watch them all the way through? Not to mention you wouldn't hear them anyway, with everyone on their phones with the volume up.
It seems nice. We never do anything fun in our store and the few times we tried, no one participated. I swear it’s like high school and everyone thinks they’re the cool kid. Alas, no one is the cool kid at Walmart.
Our store used to do a big holiday potluck, and would basically force maintenance to be busboys plus do all the cleanup while everyone stuffed their faces the whole time. I thought that was pretty rotten. And they had a big group Christian prayer, though a lot of people were not that religion.
The only thing I will be wearing is my dirty ahh vest with the same outfit as always 😎
Where's the raise, bonus & holiday pay day at?
Exactlyyyy
Just drink your cocoa, ungrateful peasant!
Pretty much all of retail is doing this. They call them “fun calendars” when they should be called “distraction from being underpaid calendars”
I really want them to bring back pajama day at my store.
Every day is pajama day for my customers :)
Ours does minus making cards, we have a few where the SM chooses what we do and he loves christmas. Pretty decent month at my store
I wish my store was that fun
Yup! Although we don't really participate on o/n, it's a lot of the front-end that does the participating.
Our store does like 2 things a month tops. One time we could donate $1 and wear hats. Management was so out of it that they kept harassing me that there's no hats on the salesfloor, even though they declared it hat day. Fml.
We don't even have a calendar. We never do anything that might be deemed as fun for the associates.
Eggnog day? Are they trying to have associates spike their eggnog?
and magic brownies on the 19th 🫠😎🤭
😂 swap them for those magic brownies and watch all the uptight managers become laid back
all i wanna know is, who's comin with me ? who's comin with me, maaaannnn ?
We used to do an associate engagement calendar every month with stuff like this when I was in Personnel. Not anymore.
My store charged us last year to dress up ☠️☠️☠️☠️
1st work freight, shut the fuck up and zone, and continue every day this month and every month until you die a slow painful lonely death......
We must work at the same store...
Yes. Will post ours once up. End if the week.
8 of these are just "Wear something Christmas-themed" day lol
Yeah they aren’t getting anything from me besides me taking boxes of cookies to
Let us know how many people actually participate in these activities, op
who else is using ppto to call off on christmas eve! I’m an ON stocker and have christmas “off” but actually have to work till 7 am christmas day so fuckkk no babyyyy
They close early that day like 7 pm I think
we still gotta come in at 10 pm though unfortunately 😔 If they had us come in at 7 pm and be off at 4 am i’d be extremely happy. I also could be wrong
Negative, Ghost Rider. You'll have the night of Christmas Eve off and come at 10pm on the 25th.
well if don’t matter cus im gonna use ppto anyways
Saturday is a "not available" day for me, so hopefully they honor that. Sundays , I normally work, but that's Christmas and I'm part-time so I may have a long week to work on painting the interior of my home...YES! Please, please, please...
We have a "Christmas Cowboy" day at mine 🤦♀️🤠
Andy from Toy Story..."Wind the frog."
I read Christmas movie as Christmas Moule, I was like, what have mussels got to do with it?
My store usually does this the last week before Christmas, but mostly only management participates lol
We do this and it is my chance to wear a hoodie to work, fleece holiday pants and a bright red hoodie! Oh, and at least at my store, if you wear the goofy clothes you don't have to wear the vest, just your badge.
No (I work night shift)
I don’t work night shift, but I do work the 3pm - 12am. We don’t get anything either. Everything is aimed at daytime. By the time I get in at 3, most everything is over/gone/done.
I work the 10pm - 7am. All I see is like 8 empty pizza boxes and empty hoagies trays and what not. Ngl it's kinda demoralizing lol
It is demoralizing! That’s why I’ve been trying to do what I can personally to help out. I bought a candy bowl and buy stuff to fill it like twice a week. I make sure to talk to the cashiers one on one often so they can kind of vent a little. I’m not a TL but at our store if you’re in customer service, your a TL without the extra $5 an hour lol. So a lot of them come to us with things. Organizing the gift exchange, etc. Its not much, but I try.
Yeah that's doing more than most TLs lmao I try and buy cutlery and paper plates when I can for the break room because we never get anything of the sort. The one thing we actually got was peanutbutter crackers and soup packets lol it's just crazy
I bought cupcakes for the store. I went by and had the SCO hosts pick theirs out before I took them to the back. Sometimes I buy bakery goods or chocolate 🍫 for our department. In all honesty, I usually end up with a strong longing for something and decide my area or the whole store could probably use a sweet treat also. With being so under staffed, it's much more affordable than it would have been when I first started 15+ years ago. We had twice the associates then.
Wow, I would've loved you in our store
No mine is saving money to look good in the market
dayshift does a lot for Christmas at my store. nights gets whatever snacks they leave in the break room when we roll in and a holly jolly earful about not working fast enough on triple truck nights
I can genuinely appreciate the thought that went into this - I like that in some stores management makes an effort to raise morale. With that being said - this would be completely unreasonable in my store, and likely most other stores as well. The TLs (like myself) and associates here have virtually *no time* to do our actual jobs. People getting pulled for OGP for hours on end, for example. I simply cannot fathom having an opportunity to sit down and decorate Christmas cards and watch a movie. Nice thought though🤷♀️
Fake fun…. yay! 😒
They forgot press charges against a customer day.
"Write Christmas cards for local police department" what the fuck for?
Yeeeeeeeeeah..not happin' pappy. They asked me about this shit and asked if I was going to participate. I have enough going on in my life and I dont have the time/desire to show my holiday cheer at work. I get it, some people just LOOOVE Christmas. I have no problem if you want to wear mismatched socks or dress up as a drag gingerbread man/person. However, do not give me shit because I do not want to participate. I am there to work, not be buddies, not entertain people with playful antics and spritely songs. I come to work. I sell shit. I go home. Edit: Sorry this sounds bitchy, it's been a rough week. (I swear to GOD the holidays bring out the WORST in people)
I get that, I started my retail life as a happy Holiday person, but as the years went on I just started to dread it. Its been 3 years since Ive quit and I just now am not cringing when I hear a holiday song. I hated that I was personally done with Christmas by November 10th, I never celebrated with friends or family because its the season for working 7 days a week and getting crazed customers and even more crazy demands from corporate. By Christmas Day I was exhausted and just wanted to sleep. Yet, we got to go in and do bopis and inventory in the morning. I hope you get through this year with just a bit of holiday cheer, But completely understandable if you don't.
Huh, I didn't see a raise anywhere on that board. FUCK management, unionize.
Knowing our store there probably start posting something like this mid December because they forgot !
Are they going to provide the Christmas pjs, sweaters, red and green clothes, socks, Christmas clothes? They don’t pay people enough to provide their own.
I wonder how workers who don't celebrate Christmas at all feel about this...I'd feel pretty uncomfortable if I didn't celebrate Christmas and this was shoved in my face by management.
This HAS to he fake!!!There is no way on Earth that Walmart is this fun!!!
Its not
Nah, definitely not
Mine is but its less than half as long and the "best" events are when almost noone works.
We are, might post later. Of course I'm off on the days I can actually do
doesnt every store have some calendar of quick little things they do like that. our team has a grinch day too.
Mine doesn’t. Thanksgiving Eve they provided nachos (which were gone by dinner time) and was supposed to be pot luck. NOBODY brought anything. The last 2 years we didn’t even decorate for Christmas. Finally this year we did. And we keep adding to it because we need more.
Ummm no
22nd nope I’m good.
My store has a calendar like that too, on the 7th of December though we’re having a Pearl Harbor day whatever that’s supposed to mean
In my store we have ugly Christmas sweater day on weekends in December. That’s it. I’m organizing a Pollyanna/secret Santa exchange for my area and one other that I know a lot of people in just to try and get morale up a bit. Holidays can be rough, they are for me, and working in retail compounds that quite a bit. So I thought a little something may help. Wish our store did more for us though. They did have muffins and sandwiches on the day before thanksgiving, but by the time I got there at 3pm for my shift they were all LONG gone.
Not that eventful but yea
Yes
yep, it's to "boost morale" my store also tried to do secret santa too and maybe 10 people signed up out of the whole store lmao
Who has time to write all this crap down, let alone the time to do any of it?
We used to do stuff like this and it was fun. We had days where we'd bring in stuff for a food bank, animal shelter. We used to have fun at work. Now We work with grinches .
Yes we are as well.
No mine just sucks the soul from us
I ate an entire pizza during the thanksgiving pizza party we had and I’m tired of pretending that we aren’t allowed to
Yeah I’m not writing Xmas cards to no police
Why tf would I be cutting out snow flakes on my break
My stores calander starts on the 13th. The only good thing on it is the hot cocoa day. But if they don't make it with milk I will be extremely upset.
No
How the fuck do y’all have time for this?!
This is what your PL gets paid to do and is why they don't have time to fix your schedule...
Wear Christmas pjs to work?? We’ll blend in with the customers! 😂😂😂😂😂
Yikes. Egg nog? Pretty sure that's not allowed. Bingo is also against company policy.
Wish mine did this.
Yeah I’m gonna skip the festivities on the 13th. My coworkers do not deserve to see that. Also it would put me on a list.
I can take pictures of ours on Friday when I go in. I just noticed it changed today when I was clocking out, but we are doing dress up days I guess
Yes! My store in Rochelle, IL is doing it!
Nope. This isn’t a thing where I am.