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I don’t feel like this web site is for me anymore, only because I no longer work for Wal Mart. But I am here to say that there is life without WalMart. I got a nice job at a Texas based grocery store, where they offered me more money with less hard labor. And better benefits than WalMart. But since leaving my old WalMart store, I have found out that one manager as shot his self, and now another has had a heart attack. Is this what WalMart call’s Every Day Low Pricing? I want to make a call on anyone who reads this to say no to WalMart! Their clothes are out of style and don’t last long. And I would rather spend my money at stores like Target, that have better quality of, well, everything.
Here is a good story for everyone how much the telecommunications company I worked for loved me. After returning to work following what was to be a simple medical procedure and dying to be saved then rushed to heart cath and to suffer strokes and be airlifted and put in a hyperbaric chamber to get rid of air bubbles in my heart . Upon returning to work for half days then full days my boss made my life a living hell, they were being very petty on everything I did, talking about me behind my back to my co-workers ,writing me upetc. So adviced by my dr. to go back ill ,which I did they would visit my home to make sure I was home and really sick. It has come to the time I had to retire after 30 and a half years at the age of 49. Not a good bye thank you nothing. Thanks for listening it helps,all I can say to the bosses is what goes around sometimes comes around. You never know what is going to happen inn your life.
I hate my part time job at Kwik Trip because I never get weekends off and because I am on unemployment from a full time job. If I even ask for one day off they sayI could have worked that day. In truth a computer makes the shedule no one knows if work was available. I was told by HR that they always assume you would have worked. I normaly work about 20 hours a week and any day I ask off, they tell unemployment I missed work and I lose money. That means I can not plan anything, even Dr. apointments.
I hate my job because they don’t tell us the rules or procedures, they said I wouldn’t need to know it. I asked if I could see anyway. They said no, then I do something wrong that they said I didn’t need to know. Then I don’t follow that procedure that they said I didn’t need to know how to do and they cut my hours over more then half. Even though I asked what it was and they would not tell me.
I feel like that is unfair even though they wouldn’t even tell me where to look the procedures up!
I appreciate the concern which is been rose. The things need to be sorted out because it is about the individual but it can be with everyone.
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vernon getzler
Apothecary Jobs
I work for my mother-in-law. I haven’t had a vacation in almost 4 years. I don’t get bonuses; actually I had $600 taken from me around Christmas time because the company didn’t make enough money. She doesn’t work that hard and her husband is a lazy drunk. They live in a $500,000 house and can hardly afford to pay my paycheck. But where the hell do I go from here? There aren’t any jobs!! THIS SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so tired of doing the same damn job over and over and over again; I type all day long. It’s boring and it’s unsatisfying. All I do is procrastinate… *sigh*
I hate my job too. And I know why. My boss earns huge money while I earn not even enough to put my kids through school. But I have a dream …. I would love to one day have my own business where everyone who works there has equal profit sharing instead of crappy salaries. We live in a world where democracy rules but we happily allow ourselves to be abused by dictators and then claim to be free. Viva to the new workplace democracy Viva
All the employees at my business are incompetent, especially the part-time people.
I get paid 2 times as much as everyone because I am a manager, and I get 3 times the benefits, but for some odd reason the lowly employees beneath me aren’t motivated to work as hard as I am.
Respect is a one-way street in my department. That’s the way it should be. That’s the natural order of things.
I have a difficult time understanding why people who get paid a fraction as me, who get stepped on like they are garbage, are not as loyal and subservient to me as I want them to be.
I believe all of the non-management employees should be so grateful to work for me that they should give up everything in their private lives to be here.
While I get 5 weeks of paid vacation days that I am entitled to, and nearly unlimited paid sick leave and I have the option to fill up my off time with anything and everything at my leisure, I believe the non-management employees should have no life whatsoever and we should make sure they are scheduled in such a way as to ruin their ability to do anything they want, such as go to the doctor (especially when they’re pregnant – and I seriously have actually done this to 2 employees!) and to block them from going to church or their own kid’s wedding. In fact, if it ruins their health or finances or relationships, then we should make sure to remind them they can be fired for complaining.
All employees must put me first. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me! I am the company. Loyalty to me should be their ultimate goal.
If you don’t put me first, even over your kids, get another job you lowly pathetic whiner! I have to get back to work now, and as a manager I only allow myself deadlines that are 10 times longer than what even the most incompetent workers can handle.
You are a complete moron, I am a manager at a Costco and in no way do I have that attitude. You ever wonder why a sports team fires the coach and not the players when the team does poorly? Think about it, if your able to comprehend… If you “think” your employees are that bad well in all honesty its a reflection on yourself. So get your head out of your ass and treat people how you would like to be treated especially if they are there to get shit done and try and make you look good. You are not fit for a leadership position and sooner or later you’lle be crying in the unemployment line blaming everyone else for your being there. Grow up, quit your bitching and do everyone a favor and quit.
I think he was being ironic.
I hope you were kidding because that is really sad..then again you could be my boss if so SCREW YOU
I worked at Wal mart in danville about 7 months…
first month felt nice being a first job for me as a cart pusher. It seemed decent everyone slightly annoying to each other yes but i shrugged this as just droll job. Things became less passed off as just a bad day and more along the lines of disrespect of each other more around 2-3 months into the job.
They threatened several of the cart pushers about their attitude over the winter, I feel needing to warm up from the cold justifies slight agitation not argument of course though. During the snow points, CSM’s (front end supervisors basically) told us how we were “playing in the snow” and we were not working while there was probably 6 inches of snow on the ground. Shoveling it was a job of ours no problem, besides pushing carts through the drifts we were told to ignore due to “it not being that cold” or “this isn’t that much snow”
The cart machine was a big help but the managers refused to repair or maintain it. The over night shifts commonly had the leftover carts from customers brought all at once on the machine (machine rated to safely bring up 25 carts, the 3rd shift tended to leave rows of 45-60 carts in the parking lot… implying extreme over limit loads). Once machine was broken management stated “I have someone contacted about this and they will be getting back to me soon”. Aforementioned statement was a lie, a CSM even went as far as to say “well we are not gonna just fix them when you can work it fine by hand now go do it and stop complaining” after I decided to ask when about to leave for the day.
Greeters were heavily disrespected by CSM’s. Cashiers were commonly told basically suck it up and deal with the customer if they were yelled at/had merchandise thrown at them. I heard several people throughout store mention not much better anywhere else in walmart.
I am not one to complain about wages, I made sufficient to live off of. I would have stayed at walmart were there any respects paid. I feel the ignorance to each other from the CSM’s especially (other than two I indefinitely respect). Wal mart really is a company I feel could do with a complete re structure and system. I honestly couldn’t continue work with them for 20 dollars an hour and they cant hire me less need to support my family.
and even then, I would probably work a nursing home as poop cleaner for 8 bucks an hour first.
I’ve been in a deadend job shredding old paper documents that have been entered on computer for over 3 years now. I need more variety.
Amazon.com was the worst job I have ever had. They only hire people to feed to the hungry temps. to try and make them work harder. They lie about everything, I am glad I am not a share holder. There was dirt on a pillow and the manger brushed it off and t
Unsafe working conditions on the job can be reported to OSHA. Google OSHA, look for the link to REPORT UNSAFE WORKING CONDITIONS.
YOU GOT PROBLEMS? YOU better solve then yourselves at my old company! If you tell the mgmt, you’re the problem!
I worked for my company, a Fortune 500 even, for almost 5yrs. I found out through a contact that the Northern states have a Union so I asked for a transfer up there last winter. I was denied. I was fired 3/29/10 and my company are trying to use a Letter of Counseling from 2006 as justification. That was the last time they had to speak to me about anything derogatory and I was still a new hire just out of training. I got the flu back in September 2009, was still at the Emergency Room when I called my job to tell them I was placed on bed rest for 5 days. My supervisor refused, in an agitated tone, to abide by the Doctors Order stating he didn’t have a worker to fill in for me and I needed to go to work! I went to work sick! The following week, I failed my annual D.O.T. physical due to elevated blood pressure! That’s when I asked for the transfer.
Well, to make a long story short, my coworkers get promoted for their incompetence.
i have been at my job for a year now, the boss will bullying us around, he leaves letters hanging up for all employees to read, ( i have copies of them all). he tells us all the time that we are stupid, we dont know how to do our job, he expects us to do everything in our shift while waiting on customers in between. he thinks he dont have to follow the state and federal laws, he doesnt have any posters up that our required by law to have posted for all employees to see. i have requested 2 times for a step ladder to use instead of the office chair. oh i work at a gas station. it is a small one, we have 3 pop coolers inside, 1 outside, plus ice box, kerosens tanks, and a pop box to put 2 liters in or salt, windshield fluid. the boss wants us to empty the garbage cans outside( he wont buy garbage bags) those cans are HEAVY! he also will take money out of our checks if our register is short during our work week. as for us to see the parking lot please, he has so much stuff in front of the window you cant watch the customers. as for stock in the storage area, he has it stacked high at times way over our heads. also i dont know if this is legal or not, but he can watch us via internet on the camera’s that he has set up in store he can also hear everything too. everyone is afraid to speak up except for me, i believe in my rights on the job! about 6 months after i started working there we were broken into 2 times, then robbed a month later, then someone cut the locks on the storage sheds outside, then was robbed again sometime in sept or oct. anyways with all this happening he treated us like crap, he would cuss us out right there on the job. its all on video, (dvd) he would tell us if we didnt like it to quit our job, just so he wont have to pay unemployment, he also said that if anyone got fired that he would win the case he still wouldnt have to pay out. umm i already been to the top of the unemployment chain and i won both of my cases it took me a while but i proved i was right in the end. thats not all i pulled a muscle in my back and he “TEXT” me saying if i have time to sit outside i could clean the windows, i wasnt sitting outside, a customer was while wife was inside getting waited on! i believe the text is harrassment.
I hate my job because it’s VERY inflexible. I’m in college and I want to have a life outside of work and school. I want to volunteer or participate in political campaigns. It seems like the unspoken rule is that NO ONE (even full time people) are supposed to ask for a day off.
I hate that we lose pay when the weather is bad and they have to close down work. Why should I lose pay because the weather is bad? I can’t control the weather and I have no control over if we’re going to be open or not.
Other workers doing the same job I do in the same CITY make more money I do an hour AND they have benefits (even part time people). We have lots of stupid nitpicky rules and it’s annoying and frustrating having to explain them to customers.
Hello Tired of Being Lied to Americans,that is just what happen in my husband’s 20 year Job in Trona Ca.He was poisoned with DDT Mirex PCb’s Dixons,all sorts of solvents while the employer violated L/C 3602 B 2, and the state H/S C25180.7,Air quality violations for 10 yrs, the employer got a fine of 379,000 and the worker got a lie in print nothing from the regulators. We found this out in at Fat adipose you can collect by a toxicologist and you need two,the chemicals are fat soluble with only 3% human toxicity performed on them see the US Patent Office for the chemical owners and the 0 to 3% human toxicity test ,it is only six test.
The workers Comp system will not perform chemical toxicity on you w/ fat, the fat is accurate
ask the corner. We deserve the right to know what our consumable products are mixed with fora fast buck,or a regulation change.See the toxic Substance Control Act, 90 days to get achemical out in production without proper testing.See The Bevill this really kills with solvents,much legislation is watered down as in L/C 6425 B, H/S C 25189.6 so the corporations lawyers can kill us and face no time and the community that is acceptable collateral, we have the highest cancer rate for our new born babies,we as adults are second to last CDC. Is it not time we looked closer at the lack of testing would this not create jobs? Doctors have only one semester of Toxicology to ge thterelicense so there’s certainly room for improvemet there.Doctors should know, and know what to do, ask your ongologist how much toxicology they have beforethey give you an experiment or a drug that ha ahd only 14%research & developement, this is what we allow fr our kids as well as wat we work in, so corporations can have billions and no fault.See all Workrs Comp Systems nation wide not jus CA.
I work at Caterpillar Inc. in East Peoria, Illinois and I hate my job. I’ve been there 6 years and I still make 7 dollars and 23 cents less an hour than the person right next to me doing the same exact job. Thanks to the two tier pay scale that has been barganed in our contract between the company and the UAW, everyone hired after febuary of 2005 will make only a fraction of the money as everyone eles. (Unless your management). Thats not even a half of it. We get less vacation time, less sick time, less vacation pay, you get the idea, LESS EVERYTHING. Without any help from our government, our unions will continue to break, wages will continue lower, and our rights will continue to be violated. WE NEED YOUR HELP PRESIDENT OBAMA.