Working at Wal-Mart — Reviews by Employees

Ugly Box junk store. Oprah says Walmart is terrible.

Walmart Blows!!

It is a toxic company. The employees are so miserable. Then they treat the customers like crap.
I will never shop here ever again.

Management of this company wants their employees in debt.

I worked for wal-mart for 12 years, left and came back; I've been at the second one for 3 yrs. When I first started working for the company, the Walton brothers were still alive, and I think now that they're gone, so is most of the good work they did with the company. The first years were okay; they weren't anything fantastic, but it wasn't bad. Right after Sam died, things started changing, and after Bud died, the company went on the slow decline it's on today. Also, as one poster pointed out, a lot depends on the managers of the store. The reason I quit the first time was I had a genuine old-fashioned male chauvanist pig for a new department manager; he thought women belonged in the home, and he made all the women miserable. The store manager who took over the otherwise okay store was a nice guy, but he hated confronting anyone over anything; I got no help from him whatsoever. I finally had to quit before the dept. jerk got me fired. As of now, he's run 8-13 women out of that job.
The second store I went to was pretty good; I had good co-workers, a good dept manager who'd work right with you, a decent schedule. Pay always sucks at wal-mart, though;' never enough. I left that area for my health and went out west. My physical health improved, but I don't know how long my mental health is gonna last.
This wal-mart has a lot of nice co-workers, but too many managers and not enough people. Out of the bunch 2 are really nice, 3 are good, and the rest suck. And just try for agreement on anything with all these chiefs. Our store manager is so stupid, he doesn't even know where to find anything in his own store!! seriously, he tries to help, and he's a nice guy, but you can't work with him; you spend too much time telling him where to locate stuff in his store!! And most of them hide in the back office; just as well, because when they come out, it's just to give more work or do something stupid.
You run 3 or more departments for the same pay. Benefits cost just went up. The stupid rules are crazy; now you need a spotter when you're on a ladder of any size, only there's no help around, so you can't get one. Management says call the operator for help; she calls management, who, naturally, don't show up.The customers get mad when they have to wait for you to find someone, and they finally leave, griping all the way, and who can blame them for going to another store where you can use ladders like normal people do? My upper shelves are a safety hazard, and my upper fish tanks look terrible! This is not good for the store's reputation! If you're caught on a ladder helping a customer, you get coached, not warned, even though you'd lose the sale if you'd didn't. then you'd hear about how low sales are in your department!
The back room just adopted some stupid stocking method used by Target, which makes it impossible to keep up freight, get freight for customers, or fill empty spots, even when the stuff is in the back room. You have to sign it in and sign it out, and all kinds of junk. The amount of stockers has been cut to nothing, so picks for my department are few and far between. If they were going to adopt another company's stocking style, why not one that actually works, and is a top company?!
The open door policy is a waste of time. Management either lies or just ignores you. It' good for venting off steam, but at the same time, it's common knowledge in this store that you must watch what you say; certain managers can't be trusted, and if they don't like you/ what they hear, they'll do all they can to get you fired. It's russian roulette with a twist; you may keep your job, you may not. And don't expect any praise for keeping up. Sam may have valued his employees as "our most important asset", but the new CEO's and managers sure don't.
As far as hours go; it's like a see-saw/ months go by, and you get decent hours and decent schedules, then for no reason, everything goes haywire. There are no replacements in any department when someone leaves, so you do the work of 3 people. This store is always doing some special support stuff; wear certain clothes to support this, that , and the other cause. it's just like ancient Rome: all bread and circuses, no actual benefits to anyone. And clueless management can't understand why moral is lower than your shoe size.
The work environment is decent enough; they are safety conscious enough. (can't have those lawsuits). The location is great, I only take 15 minutes to get to work, as opposed to 45 where I lived back east. My department manager is the laziest thing on 2 feet, but he's nice, at least, and my other co-worker cracks me up, he's such a cut-up. Promotion is like the afare-mentioned russian roulette; I've seen total idiots get jobs that should go to other, far more competent people, and women still get overlooked. it took 8 months for the best woman worker in paper goods to make department manager, but several hamsters-I mean guys- were promoted first.
Altogether, I'd say Wal-mart is no longer the company it was when Sam and Bud were in charge. People were important then; now, it's just the dollar and the profit. Even customers have noticed the change.

Rich people rule!!!

Horrible company.

Only low lifes shop there. The food is crap. Service sucks.

Walmart destroyed the country!!

walmart does have good it but mostly bad people do not understand how hard you work at walmart i dont even make $8.00 an hour and i could work from 2pm-11-pm and the next day come in at 6am to 3pm so if u work at walmart fulltime than you can not have a happy and steady life walmart drama is like highschool maybe even worse mangers stay in their office however a coustmer is number one and i do mean number one even if they r wrong