Vanillalite
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This. It's probably a bit of both honestly. It helps them with turn over AND broadcasting it gives them a PR bump which they've badly needed for a while now.
It's not as if it can't be both.
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Wal-Mart giving 500,000 raises
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This. It's probably a bit of both honestly. It helps them with turn over AND broadcasting it gives them a PR bump which they've badly needed for a while now.
It's not as if it can't be both.
kingwingin
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Walmart should pay their employees minimum wage and then pay them the rest with giftcards.
Sadly that's not an option for everyone...
terrisus
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And tips.
CitizenCope
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Had a friend start at $10 an hour TWENTY years ago. She's still there. Not bad.
legacyzero
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That's not the case at all. People are just explaining why they are doing it. It's not charity to their employees.
Not everyone, but I think a lot of people shop at Wal-mart out of laziness/comfort. I know that's what the case was for us. Granted, Costco helps and not everyone can afford to shop there, but if you're regularly rolling out of Wal-mart with $150+ carts, you shouldn't be shopping there.
FalsettoVibe
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I hate going to Walmart. The employees don't seem to care.......and I see why.
AlimNassor
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The best news is us Department Managers will be getting a huge pay raise. $13-$15 fucking dollars/hour. I am cry tears ofblood.
terrisus
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Sorry, corporate is too embarrassed by you, they're cutting your pay.
Yep, unfortunately these things will 'balance out' the pay raises for Wal-Mart's bitch-ass.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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AlimNassor
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Corporate can't even remember our store exists.
A Human Becoming
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Not in Maine and New Hampshire. >.>
Working at Walmart must be soul crushing.
I mean I see employees there and they look so worn down, like life has just spit them out and left them behind.
BFIB
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I did it for 3 months. In that 3 months my electronics department manager just stopped showing up for shifts because I was doing everything. So he'd lie to me and say that management wanted him to "work the evening shift". So after a few weeks, I asked one of the store managers (there's like 5 of them), who had no idea that our dept manager was working evenings (I worked 7-5). So out of nowhere, he starts showing back up for the mornings, but he'd just disappear.
So after 3 months, I finally had enough, and got another job out of retail for good. I didn't even give a 2 week notice. So I show up 3 weeks later to get my last paycheck (manager had to give it to you), so the one manager I had a pretty good relationship with had no idea I hadn't shown up for the past 3 weeks. He just assumed I got moved to an evening shift or something. So he hands me my check and asked why I left. So I was pretty open about it, and he agreed, and offered me to manage the electronics dept. I declined and got the hell out of there.
Not to mention the morning "team pull up" where they indoctrniate you with their stupid cheers. Just an odd experience, and by far my worst in retail.
terrisus
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Okay, I happened to be inside a Wal-Mart while they did one those cheers. Before the stupid cheer, a manager type lady was spewing off sales numbers. I was perplexed because she was saying things like, "electronic sales increased by 759%! Domestics are up by 250%! Woohoo good job guys!" Do they completely fabricate those numbers or something?
BFIB
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I don't remember TBH. I do remember the managers would make us step forward and say something positive about the company. It truly was soul crushing as a previous gaffer said. And everyone had to do it. It wasn't a "volunteer" thing.
KoruptData
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I have the company email in front of me. I work as an optician at a Sams Club optical and the raise thing doesn't affect me but another thing they are doing is adjusting sick time usage. The old policy said you could only use sick time if you were absent more than one day. So if you missed one day, you were screwed. Also, even if you missed two or more days, you couldn't use sick time for the first day. Now if you have an excuse, you can use it.
They're normally year over year, at least when I was working at BB/HD.
TheChocolateWar
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Woo time for inflation!
terrisus
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We did the same thing at Best Buy.
I would imagine it's fairly common in retail.
And, I can't speak for Wal-Mart, but I know we went over figures that were real, since I pulled some of them myself, so don't see why theirs wouldn't be as well.
Angelus Errare
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Good on them. $7.25 an hour in 2015 is just stupid.
I'm pretty sure they'll also get a ton of it back when employees buy things in store with their discounts
So is $9/hour in most of the country
Rafa=FedKilla
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Wasn't an hourly associate brah.
Interesting. I work in a distribution center and we had the same policy, I wonder if we will adjust to the new one as well. That would be excellent.
TheChocolateWar
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Yup, everyone should be able to afford a mortgage and eating out! No. I was living on 8.50 until I passed the bar exam, and I had debt to service and live in one of the highest cost of living areas in the entire nation.
Oh shit I walked into the middle of one of these things not to long ago. It was after Christmas and I was picking up a ship to store item and I suppose that area is were they perform their satanic sales cheer thing. It was very, very awkward I stood there for what seemed and eternity as their manager spouted off numbers and cheers everyone looked miserable as they pretended to love their jobs. What a humiliating thing to have to deal with.
MrToughPants
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$9/hr that's ridiculous, how can anyone survive on that...
devious.one
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Yeah, that tidbit caught my eye. That and the "more predictable hours". There's times (this is common) where I've worked 5am-2pm, 7am-4pm and 1pm-10pm all in the span of like 4 days. I just want some consistency so it's a little easier to set up errands and such.
But given how many Wal-Mart employees shop at wal-mart, a lot of that money will be coming back to them.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
I just wonder how they will up the salary management pay. Brahs were already making about as much as the hourly associates. Now they've been surpassed by Department Managers.....
AlimNassor
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Maybe just your store? Most of us aren't like that. Some are but, most aren't. But it's true most of us hate the job, that includes management.
I'm rarely apart of those cheers, I skip out. Can't be worse then Macys. At Macys we constantly talked about how amazing the company was and how to make "MAGIC". Every single supervisor/manager down to even the associate was fantaically devoted to Macys and making MAGIC. Met your quota for a day? 100% you need 120%. Ugh.
I have worked at retail places before where quota was absolutely unreasonable. Like selling 2 product protection plans an hour, and if you met that you get a pat on the back, and are expected to improve on that next time.
At Single 0, it's $295 a week or $1275 a month on average in a place with.
That is plenty to live on if you are single, don't have debt, and choose not to live in an expensive area. Granted, income tax will knock that down a little bit.
Bubbavelli
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My friend works at Walmart and from what he tells me, it doesn't seem that shitty. He gets plenty of hours and they're even willing to pay for his schooling if he wants to become a pharmacy tech. Granted he isn't living off it by any means rather just a job for now as being in his young twenties and still living at home
It's not just one store.
I mean you see that a lot in retail but it at least seems to be more prevalent there.
TheChocolateWar
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You actually get a tax refund and stipend with that income level. I had a larger return than withholding because tax law is a thing.
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