A solid clock in/clock out job, with good job security.
Wal-Mart is one of those companies that will get beat on day in and day out by previous employees who have worked there.
Lets see where I stand:
I have worked at Wal-Mart on two seperate occasions, totaling 5 years with the company. Once, as a regular night time associate, and the other as a department manager on day shift.
I must say that, this place is what it is. A corporate run company, offering entry level jobs for people of all backgrounds. Because Wal-Mart is so large, they are able to offer employment to a large amount of the communities they are built into, which is a plus.
Now with all entry level jobs, you can only assume, and for good reason, that you will be working with others, and for others, that may not share the same high values and work ethics that you may share in regards to to working for any given company. This can effect your quality of living so to speak while at your job. Additionally, the consumers in your specific area will also play a huge rule in the type of environment you will be working in, as this is a retail/customer service based employment. You will deal with great customers, and you will deal with the unruly ones as well. A lot of people like to knock a company just because the people that shop there are not up to par, so to speak. But in all actuality, the worst customer of all could theoretically walk into any establishment on the planet, and contribute a "bad rep" to the companies face and name. For this, companies should n
Absolutely the worst job hiring experience I have ever had!!
I am 57 years old and, I can tell you, getting a part-time job at Walmart has been the most stressful and down right confusing experience of my life! I applied at the Raymore/Belton Walmart (amongst other places) in October, hoping for just a part-time job to go with my full time job, to make a little extra money. From the very first contact I received from them, it has been such a nightmare! Just trying to reach the person in charge of hiring (who left me the message) was almost impossible (which she informed me at my interview she does not have a special ext # or other contact # or, a way to leave her a message, nor did she ever display her schedule so one could at least know when she'd be at the store. Can someone explain to me how anyone could hold the position of hiring when they have no way to be reached, except to call the store & hope they happen to be there!) Then, once I finally did reach her and she set up the interview, telling me to go to Customer Service that day and have them page her, I was made to wait over 25 mins, all the while, being told by CS that they thought she had left for lunch and wouldn't be back for another hour. I was contemplating leaving when, at 26 mins after our scheduled time, she showed up, only to approach me and ask me my name. It didn't help, with her looking all the more confused as she asked me how she could help me. I told her I was there for the interview she set up, thinking that would finally do it but, she just continued looking
Everyday was different, depending if the store was busy or not. The non-busy days were easy. Follow my own designated routine. tend to dirt, mulch, stone, brick and sand. tend to the plants if some else hasn't done so. Find empty pallets and stack them neatly. Bring pallets and plant racks to back of store when there is a time to do so. Help with customers when necessary. Go on water and ice runs when necessary(a lot of departments in the store had an ice chest full of ice and bottles of water for associates). Complete tasks given to me by managers when necessary.
Usually, its the busy days that distract me from my normal routine and requires me to push certain tasks down the list for others. These were stressful days, especially in the heat or muggy weather. Being a former cart pusher, I know this kind of stress all too well.
I felt like I learned a few things, while working for the garden center, and the store in general, but I can't think of anything I could carry with me to other jobs, other than retail. I learned a few things about plants I thought I would of never thought I would ever know, but other than that I can't think of anything significant that I learned. It was a go to work and get things done kind of job.
Management at this particular Wal-Mart store has been unorganized ever since I started as a cart pusher. There are a few respectable and hard working managers in the store (those who have heads on there shoulders) and then there is the rest of th
ProsThe associates lounge, discount card and convient access to food.
ConsStress, bad weather, time management and disrespect.
(Your experience will pretty much mirror the quality of your management staff. All I can do is describe my own experiences.)
Most important thing to remember is to always respect the customers, over everything and everybody except safety. Wal-Mart as a company and the store I worked at are not lying when they say that the customer is the most important part of the job.
Second is that no matter what anyone else will tell you, this job is a very good one. Good wages for the work and okay benefits. If you think you are gonna get paid vacations and health insurance for a relatively low stress job that anyone could do anywhere else, i want whatever you are high on.
There were really only four ways to get fired at my store. Insult a customer, steal, bad attendance, or cause an accident by acting like an idiot and getting someone seriously hurt. You can cause shrink, fail to finish your job, even smart off to your supervisor. Chances are, as long as you are worth keeping around, you'll keep your job. There are limits, of course, but it takes a LOT to get canned. But don't be surprised if people start to ostracize you socially if you are lazy or act like a fool though. They'll just make you miserable until you quit. Why pay unemployment when they don't have to?
Attendance deserves its own paragraph. You will be fired if you accumulate five points. Every time. No exceptions. And you will never be hired on again.
People quit this job. A lot. Almost no on
As an employee of Wal-Mart I was very much dissatisfied with practically everything. Not to say I didn't learn anything but what I did learn wasn't because of my love of my employer, my job, or any type of training. Everything I learned at this job was to make my customers happy.
As the title states I would give Wal-Mart a negative review in everything. I'll start with job work and life balance. There really wasn't any balance. I was a soft-lines associate according to my job coding that meant I would work in clothes, shoes, and jewelry. Jewelry only as needed. However this is not what I did. I was constantly pulled from one area to another. I was at several points pulled up to cashier without any training, scheduled in jewelry, sent over to zone in other areas, and at other times pulled to other areas than I was scheduled within the clothes areas. What I'm saying I was constantly doing the job of at least three to four people on a daily basis. This doesn't make for much of a balance of anything.
Now on to compensation and benefits. From the day I started to the day I was let go I never made much more on my pay checks than I did from day one. Even though I had received raises my hours were constantly being cut the longer I worked there. As to benefits I wasn't eligible for benefits as part time until I had worked there for two years and the benefits that were offered were a joke. The health insurance barely covered anything and that's about all they offered that was of
As an employee of Wal-Mart I was very much dissatisfied with practically everything. Not to say I didn't learn anything but what I did learn wasn't because of my love of my employer, my job, or any type of training. Everything I learned at this job was to make my customers happy.
As the title states I would give Wal-Mart a negative review in everything. I'll start with job work and life balance. There really wasn't any balance. I was a soft-lines associate according to my job coding that meant I would work in clothes, shoes, and jewelry. Jewelry only as needed. However this is not what I did. I was constantly pulled from one area to another. I was at several points pulled up to cashier without any training, scheduled in jewelry, sent over to zone in other areas, and at other times pulled to other areas than I was scheduled within the clothes areas. What I'm saying I was constantly doing the job of at least three to four people on a daily basis. This doesn't make for much of a balance of anything.
Now on to compensation and benefits. From the day I started to the day I was let go I never made much more on my pay checks than I did from day one. Even though I had received raises my hours were constantly being cut the longer I worked there. As to benefits I wasn't eligible for benefits as part time until I had worked there for two years and the benefits that were offered were a joke. The health insurance barely covered anything and that's about all they offered that was of any
TL;DR: If you don't mind being treated like a second-class citizen and working for a company who cares very little about you, all on minimum wage, then this is the job for you!
This job is emotionally and physically draining, let me explain.
First off, management is one of the poorest I have ever had to tolerate with. I started out as a cashier and later on I still had to do cashier and customer service duties which is easily the worst task. Often the amount of cashiers they have scheduled for the day isn't enough to combat the growing demand at checkers (as angry, impatient customers so generously remind you), and sometimes there are more cashiers than necessary leaving many cashiers to try and look busy to avoid harassment by their managers and customers who are all too happy to proclaim someone as lazy and undeserving of a minimum wage job. Yes, management will try to correct any problems and they are very forgiving, but many of times more problems arise when they are solved because all they do is shift resources to solve problems on hand; much like moving bricks from one side of the house to fill a hole.They will accommodate you if you are not feeling well like when I had to surgery on my foot they gave me a stool to sit on. When I first started working there many of the managers followed procedure to the best of their abilities; now, I would be lucky to get customer service help or sent home on time. The managers that were willing to cooperate with me and my need
Pros10% Discount (On a few select items), Bonus for Stock Holders
ConsPoor Management, Poor Scheduling, Customer Service is Terrible
Ok so maybe that title is a little harsh but I can say without a doubt that Wal-Mart is the worst place I have worked. So bad that I do not even like to go there now to grocery shop.
I have done two separate stints at Wal-Mart; 2002-2004 and 2005-2007.
During my first stint I worked as both a Bike Assembler and a Stockmen. This was my first job and of course I’m not sure what to expect. Being a bike assembler wasn’t bad at all; my coworkers were all cool and the work wasn’t too hard. You put the bikes together then put them out on the floor, simple enough. After a month or so I was told by a manager that I wasn’t really needed back there as they had guys called “Nuts & Bolts” that they could always call in to assemble bikes for them if needed. I was told that they wanted to move me to Stockmen.
Now let’s pause right here – when I say Stockmen what comes to mind for you? Stocking the shelves or something along those lines correct? Of course, the name implies. This is what I thought when I was told the title but alas, I was wrong. A stockman is in fact the individual(s) you see out there gathering baskets in the parking lot. A more apt title would be cart pusher. Of course they don’t call it cart pusher because then no one would want the job. This job is about as awful as it sounds; people leave carts all over the place, there are many times where you don’t have enough help but are still expect to maintain the whole lot, weather (self explanatory), rude & lazy customers whic
Provides extensive experience in many fields, however fails to provide a positive work environment and opportunities for stability.
I realize how long this review is, however I feel it a necessary obligation to explain why I left a field and company in which I could have advanced further, and to expand upon my belief in workplace innovation and stress the need for efficiency.
Within almost three years of working for the company, I had been offered two promotions into two fast paced, high responsibility positions. Normally these positions were vacated due to unfair firing practices or sudden resignations, both spawning from inefficient and neglectful upper-management.
A typical day at work was that of a department manager; it took me almost two years to be offered the official promotion, however costs-saving practices generally demand that entry associates act as co-manager or fulfill daily management duties just to keep-up. Everyday would include backroom/inventory management, order placements, demolition and reconstruction of merchandise displays, correction of stock placement, modular updates, vendor management and customer service. Throughout the year we had alternating "seasonal" events; this stretched from New Year's to Christmas, and every employee was required to fit seasonal management into their day.
Our store was extremely understaffed; we were a casual "8-11" store who was competing on the district level with super-centers. I began my career in consumables, encompassing ten-eleven separate sub-departments at any given time. I would spend three-five hours daily just rectifying work from previou
Always watch your back, unless you wanna get fired quickly.
I currently (but perhaps not too long) work at my local Wal-Mart, and I'm here to give my honest, and most inclusive review of working at this store/location. First off, I was hired as an Assembler (basically building bikes and grills, with occasional handy-man type work here and there) on PT. (Part Time, meaning at the most, 40 hours a week, no more) My first day of the job, was really confusing because my trainer was missing... which was odd according to HR and the managers. So I was then put at the front as greeter/receipt inspector. On my first day, as an Assembler, I was doing AP Customer Host work. The manager of that job was so "impressed" by my greeting skills, that I ended getting PROMOTED. Yea, first day on the job, and already promoted? From PT to FT like that? Well, there are some caveats. While I did get a pay increase, I wouldn't actually start seeing that increase until working a month, which I achieved 7 days ago. So now, I'm an AP Customer Host. With this job, I've noticed that anything you say, will be thrown back at you. Have a crush at work? Trust me, give it a day or two and people will find out, and that crush will find out, and things will fall apart. Have a grievance with someone there? Boom, an hour later, EVERYONE knows. It's sad really... I didn't think Wal-Mart would have such a hard pressing environment, so full of toxicity. I've worked in factories, and NEVER have experienced SO MUCH toxicity COMBINED the likes of Wal-Mart has. Not only that, but
ProsDecent starting pay, two paid 15 minute breaks, one hour unpaid lunch
ConsManagement in general, HR, toxic work environment, too many "cheifs" and not enough "indians"
When I first started their it seemed okay, but I did get suspicious when they would hammer into us it's your walmart and we value our employees. They started me as cashier, which I didn't apply for because I knew that was a bad idea, but took that position anyway. After about 4 months the store manager and a former assistant manager called me in the back and asked me if would work in the sporting goods department because some customers were complaining that I don't smile enough or was to slow. A lot of times my slow service was a result of long lines, due to a lack of cashiers and customers squawking that prices were wrong and making me waste my time trying to get an answer from the departments, which also lack staff. Especially in the evening. When they told me all this I told the assistant manager who hired me I told you didn't I, to which he answered, yes you did I'm sorry you obviously know yourself well. So I was moved to the back area to cover not just sporting goods, but seasonal, pets, toys and automotive. Most of my shifts began at 3:30 PM, at the same time the department managers were getting off. I was also usually covering these 5 departments by myself. The department manager of toys was not pleased with my performance because it was not zoned to her standards and there are only about 10 people on the night crew, who don't have time to get everything done. When I complained about this department manager not getting things done before I arrived and the lack of staf
ProsGuaranteed credit card
ConsLack of staff, more work than I could handle, unrealistic expectations
Questions And Answers about Walmart
Why did you leave your job at Walmart?
Asked Mar 14, 2017
Points to Termination
Disadvantage is you have no say so on points given and no way to contest WHO give them. Your at the whim of whoever you tick off be it your fault or their neighbors dog biten them.
It would be nice to give points on management I'm sure there are several hundred in our store that would give him 1 for being a pervert.
Answered Nov 25, 2021
Store managers and most department managers are terrible. Good ones transfer.
Answered Nov 9, 2021
What is the best part of working at Walmart?
Asked Jan 8, 2020
Working alone pushing carts
Answered Jul 13, 2021
My super-friendly and helpful coworkers, and having a great management team helps too.
Answered Mar 14, 2021
What is the interview process like at Walmart?
Asked Jul 19, 2016
Yaphank Wallmart 11/11/21
Pleased with the way this location is operated. Love the fair prices in food department. Everyone attentive and helpful as I shopped I was greeted like 5 x's
easy to find well stocked shelves. A plus was a Pepsi employee stocking
From greeters, cashiers, on the floor well trained location Professionalism
Impressed with all member on schedule
Merits to management and staff.
Answered Nov 11, 2021
I received a phone call after applying on Indeed after about 5 days, the phone interview was done via zoom and took about an hour. I was offered the job right then and there. It will depend on which department you are applying for. In my case it was asset protection and over all the entire process including background check took 5 business days. hope this helps
Answered Oct 28, 2021
What is a typical day like for you at Walmart?
Asked Mar 13, 2020
Very boring and you are surrounded by miserable people
Answered Jun 10, 2021
Unimaginably stressful.
Long hours, nasty ,unhelpful management, and disgusting bathrooms.
Answered Jan 15, 2021
How are the working hours at Walmart?
Asked Feb 25, 2016
8-10 hours a day 4 days a week
Answered Apr 13, 2021
They vary. Just be ready to come in for overtime/tactical when they go through the list whether you like it or not.
