Anyone work for Wal-Mart?

[crazelion]

Anyone work for Wal-mart. I am thinking about apply there when ours get finish getting built. What I wanting to know is would they hire me as Manager in training. I have 3 years of food service manager experince as manager. I would like be a manager at Wal-mart. I know it will be hard work. Or will be better off starting out as cashier or sales assoicates and work myself up to manager.

Also I have my degree in Information Systems End-user support and pretty much have gave up finding a computer job where I live at.

What kind of benefits do they offer. Do Wal-mart treat there employees right. What kind job do you have at Wal-mart and do you like your job.

The reason I am interest in Wal-mart they is building one right down the street where I live at. It would be really is to get to work.

I am about to quit my job at HomeGoods because they is only paying me 5.50 hour and they cut my hours down to 10 hours a week. I trying to found me another job because I can't live of of that or try to hold out to baseball season one. Where I am the concession stand manager they is paying good money to do the work but it only seasonnel.

Anyone have any advise for the underemployed person trying to better themselves.

 

[mudnuri]

all I can tell you is what happened to my great aunt- she is 82 and worked there as a "people greeter"...

DGA has a bad leg, and standing for long periods were very painful for her. After much perswasion, I got her to get a letter from her Doc that she CANT stand,she MUST sit....took 3 weeks for the manager to approve this....in the mean time, she grabbed a chair from the cafe place, and each time the "CSM" who is NOT a store general manager saw her, she would remind her that her "job is to stand"...DGA would politely say she had a doc's letter etc.

DGA requested to work 8-12 hours a week, no more than 4 hours per shift. She was CONSTANTLY scheduled 8 hour days- and usually 3-4 of them. It took weeks to get the schedule corrected, and then they corrected it to her working from 6am-10am....Wal-Mart is 1/2 hour from us, they know this....

Getting her 15 minute break was almost non-existant. You have to walk from the front of the store, ALL the way out back to clock out for your 15 minutes....by the time she got there, she was out of breath, etc... she's old for god sakes. She requested, "can't I just take a break in the cafe, grab a soda etc.... NOPE.

My aunt in Texas was a District Manager for Sam's Clubs...same deal as Wal-mart...I can go on with horror stories if you'd like.

Brandy

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

DH and my brother worked for WalMart a number of years ago. They never had anything bad to say about their time there. They worked the early shift (5:30 am- 2?) stocking shelves. Benefits included health insurance, stock ownership, and more (I don't remember everything they offered).

Maybe you could apply for Customer Service manager or department manager, maybe even someone in the back office who handles inventory-related duties. WalMart may think you are over-qualified for a cashier's position.

This time of year is the slowest for retailers. I work for a retailer and we're in the midst of our annual inventory, hours will be cut drastically in another week or two. Sales and hours will pick up again by March. Walmart is likely to start you at least at the same rate you are currently being paid, so why not go fill out the application, maybe get called in for an interview and see where it leads.

 

[crazelion]

Okey tell more Wal-Mart horror stories so I know what I am getting my self into.

 

[gshoemate]

I worked there for almost 3 years, the only reason I left was because I moved. I started out in the jewelry dept. then worked in the Accounting office for 2 years and was assisting the personnel manager when I left. Hated it in jewelry. i didn't like being out on the floor hearing all the store gossip and drama....just wasn't for me. Then when I got into accounting I would with like 5 people that I got along with and we were locked in a little room and didn't have to deal with people, so it was great. I think alot depends on the management team that you have. My store was a small general merchandise store that went Supercenter. On the day we went Supercenter no one explained what it would be like. I was there from 5:00am until 11;00 pm took no break or lunch (it was my choice, I knew the work needed to be done) and management ordered dinner in for us. It took several long overtime days to get things up and running and when it did, we all got raises for doing such a good job. I think it boils down to how you are as a worker. If you go in, sluff off, complain about your work and your hours and don't get anything done, management is going to lose respect for you and when it comes time for a promotion, there going to pick the person who worked the hardest. So you go in, do a good job and it will pay off. As far as them putting you into a management position......they will probably need dept. managers since it is a new store. The assistant managers and store managers will come from other stores. But once your in they can put you in a training program to get to the goal of assistant manager if thats what your shooting for. I might shy away from the Customer Service Manager position....thats a stressful one. Your in charge of all the cashiers and if the lines are moving, the customers come to you for answers. Wasn't my cup of tea.

 

[psammie1025]

Next month I start my 15th year with Wal-Mart! They are a great company to work for with great benefits for the associates.
I started off as a sales associate, worked as the dept manager of the pharmacy over the counter dept & recently moved to soflines to run menswear!
I do believe that good mangement teams make all the difference!
Go in, apply, talk to them & let them know your interest in the management training program & GOOD LUCK!

 

[believe]

I have a friend that works for Walmart as well as her husband, 2 different stores. Her husband was in management, but could never get to first shift even though they kept promising him..he ended up getting out of management. I also know that Walmart only pays for sick doctor visits, she has to pay for all her children's well checkups. Those are the only 2 things I have heard her complain about. We have one individual at my church, a teenager, that works for them and I have never heard him complain...he works at the Walmart that I love to shop at.

 

[Chattyaholic]

My DH worked at our local Wal-Mart for 3 years. He is first and foremost a farmer (works with his Dad and BIL, farms about 1200 acres) but a few years ago the income from the farm was poor (we also raised hogs but prices were horrible for so long, we finally sold out) so DH and his BIL needed to get jobs for the winter months. Wal-Mart hired them both, and agreed to give them time off in the spring (about 4 weeks) for planting and in the fall (about 8 weeks) for harvest. Not many companies will give something like that to their employees. A big "plus" for Wal-Mart in my book!

DH was a great worker for them, was used to hard work, and is very much a "people person." I don't think I've ever known anyone not to like him. He started out working overnights, stocking shelves. Then he went to the back room, unloading trucks, and they made him Receiving Manager. His last year or so he was leader of the ICS (Inventory Control Specialist is what it stands for, I think...) Team. It just got to be too much though. They tried to work him to death. He would always do what was asked of him, and more. It was just getting too hard on his body. Many nights he would come home and his feet/legs hurt, as did his back, sometimes his arms too. He wasn't overweight or anything, it was just too hard on him.

They wanted him to get into management, but that would mean giving up farming and he wasn't willing to do that, so he eventually decided to quit. He works as a crop insurance adjuster now and loves that even more, and it's not hard on his poor old aging body.

Wal-Mart did have good benefits though, health insurance was number one in our book as we always paid our own. We're back to paying our own now though, so that's a downside. But with Wal-Mart's insurance I think it was something like $25 deducted from his pay checks, and it included dental and optical. Paid vacations, paid sick days, paid "personal days", and stock option (whatever amount he put in, they gave 15% too). I think we own a couple hundred shares of stock, and he started his 401K there too.

Our DD works there too, in the accounting office. She's been there over 3 years and really, really likes it.

 

[KIRSTIN'S MOMMY]

I was a bakery mangaer for our local Sam's Club for 7 years. I can tell you that food service for Wal Mart or Sam's is totally different from working anywhere else in the store. The hire inspectors to come in every month and look at your dept., and now you have to get at least a 98% or something or you get written up. My district manager made ours 100%! That is almost impossible, especially during the holiday months, when your freezers are overflowing, the store is crowded so you can't move merchandise from one freezer to another, etc. I was on call 24-7. I have on more than one occasion, been called down to the store after midnight, to let someone out of the building that didn't feel well, and then have to be back at work at 5am until 4pm. There were days during the holidays that I worked in excess of 18 hours with no breaks, but I was management, and on salary, so I didn't get breaks. Also, management are not eligible for Christmas bonuses, overtime, store drawings, etc. And the insurance is insurance, but not good. There is a deductible that you have to meet before they start paying, and then they are notorious for not wanting to pay claims. I was turned over to collections on more than one occasion because they didn't pay in a timely manner. I left a little over a year ago, because 50-60 hr. work weeks with a small child just weren't cutting it. I felt I was not giving my daughter the mother that she deserved, and my husband now tells everyone he has his wife back. It's not a bad company, and I have had my district manager asking me to come back, but with my dd still being so young and wanting to have another child, it's not going to happen anytime soon.

 

[Disneyland_emily]

I work for Walmart in Utah- (if ya want the specific one PM me) and I can sum it up in one sentance-- Its a pretty decent part time job but I dont want to do it for a living..

We really have a decent mgmt team in my store which helps. The pay is pretty decent (although we earn every penny of it most days) Im up over 8 an hour after 1.5 years there and I can get the time off I need for Disney trips and such- and the stakeholders bonus is a nice chunk of change (we are at over 600 a person) They are pretty good about giving the schedules we need to us (ie days off etc) and I love having the flexability to work full time in the summer and school breaks but part time the rest of the year-

Personally I dont think working for Walmart as a career is worth it unless ya got into high mgmt- They dont have better perks for being mgmt rather than hourly until ya get to co-mgr and store mgr-

All in all- Ya get what ya pay for at walmart- Its a pretty fast paced job that is quite frankly not for the weak hearted... But I plan to stay till I finish school because all in all its worth it

-em