Walmart - Why They're Hated

Walmart has received a lot of criticism and hatred over the years. This video attempts to explain some of the biggest reasons behind it.

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[briananderson]

I was at Walmart Sunday, grabbing some items for this weekened. I asked my cashier how he was doing. His non-energetic response. "I'm working at Wal-Mart, so... You know" Kind of sums up the worker experience.

[thFurno]

If I had to describe the “vibe” of Walmart (at least ones I’ve been to), is that you get the feeling that literally everyone in the store (both employees and customers) don’t want to be there. It’s also probably the only place where all the stereotypes match up perfectly with reality.

[chasegilmond]

I used to work for Walmart. You really get a feeling that management and corporate hate the employees for costing them money. It was so bad at one point that our store has a 126% turnover rate

[robertcorbett]

Worked for them for 16 years. The store i worked at was short handed the entire time i worked there. After 16 years, me and all the other department managers were told to either start over at the bottom with entry level pay or take a check and leave. I took the check and i hate them to this day.

[thomashartmann]

As a German it still gives me some small pride that Walmart came to Germany, got their asses handed to them, lost a couple billion dollars and left in shame.

[SheldonAdama]

“This effort is no longer profitable!” - Walmart when it pulls out of a rural town after killing all the small businesses

[paullukis]

In rural America it has become the only choice for clothing and furniture unless you count Dollar General or Amazon.

[agore]

Thirty plus cashier aisles, four cashiers maximum, even during the Christmas season...enough said.

[middlemuse]

I worked at Walmart for a bit in 2009. A lot of the really bad scandals were pretty fresh at that point, so the store I worked in was extremely strict about certain policies, like making sure to take your lunch breaks. Even so, it was a really demoralizing place to work. It was so clear that the company cared more about avoiding more lawsuits than any of the humans involved.

[Bleedblxck]

My favorite part of Walmart is how they used to have the 35 registers up front but only 4 were ever open at a time, but now they have 35 self-checkout station up front and only 6 of those are open at a time. They can't even be bothered to allow us to do it ourselves.
The Walmart near me has 2 huge sections of self-checkout and one is ALWAYS roped off and closed and the other ALWAYS has a line of 15+ people

[mtfan]

My parents both worked at Kmart for 25+ years each. My dad’s store had a Walmart go in next door in the early 2000s and one of his coworkers left to go work there. She came back the next week and told the Kmart staff that their morning meetings consisted of pep sessions where management claimed their mission was to put the Kmart next door out of business and wanted the employees to cheer for that.

Kmart was a big store but they played nice in the community and referred people to other local stores for stuff they didn’t have. Walmart is just plain dirty.

[Hrb]

Use to work at Walmart something I will never do again. My reason behind this.
1. Was told I get a point (3 points = being fired) if I'm more than 5 min over the time I was supposed to clock out ( because they dont want to pay overtime)

2. Would constantly get pulled to other side of store to do things then get yelled at when my section wasn't up to par because the managers were not on the same page this was a daily thing

3. I made 11 an hour working in lawn and garden haveing to both stock and cashier with no a/c ( not a big issue) while the people who were solely cashiers inside made 12 and didn't have to do anything else. where ever I got pulled to help was also made at least a dollar more than I did.

4. My store manager tried to get Me to quit college by telling me that he makes way more money than I will with my degree path ( big whoop I'm becoming a teacher) yet I still made 11 an hour...

Personally I put more care and did more there than most of the eympolees did and got nothing but yelled at for not doing enough. It was a tired cycle

[timardner]

Walmart used to sell LIVE FISH for aquariums. Sadly they were neglected and not cared for properly at all. I remember looking at the fish tanks one time and there were 40 DEAD FISH and it STUNK up the pet section! Thankfully they stopped selling live pet fish.

[shadowgb]

Walmart acts like they don't even need customers anymore.

[RabidPrairieDog]

Former district manager for Walmart here. You know you work for a shitty company when part of the new hire orientation material are instructions on how to apply for specific government assistance from the local, state, and federal governments because you know your wage is super low. It's literally, "Hey, we're going to pay you a shitty wage here, but don't fret! Here's how to apply for various government aid!"

[one_million_hamsters]

I've never met anybody who sincerely enjoys working for Walmart.

Same for Amazon.

[clan]

I can’t think of anyone who “likes” walmart they just go there cause its there.

[dtremethick]

I was in Germany when Walmart bought WertKauf. I spoke to an American executive that was hired to change the chain into Walmart. He said that he told a store manager that they would meet on a Monday morning and complete a full inventory of the store. Monday came and the manager was gone, ON VACATION - FOR 6 WEEKS!!! German labor laws were on the manager's side. I heard that Walmart left Germany a few years later.

[AbcDef-iqno]

I was working as a newspaper reporter in the early 2000s in the midwest in a small town where there was a Walmart, and one day I drove by and noticed a crew of Walmart employees in the parking lot adjacent to their garden center with push brooms and hoses hosing off all of the granular remains of lawn fertilizer / weed killer from torn / leaking bags into open ditches surrounding the parking lot. I had just done a story about high nitrogen levels in the town's wells and wondered if this could be adding to the problem. The next day I had just started working on the story at the newspaper and I got called down to the publisher's office and was told to immediately stop working on the story. When I asked why I was told that Walmart (the newspaper's biggest advertiser) had gotten wind of the story and called my publisher and threatened to pull all of its ads if I proceeded working on the strory, so the story had to be killed.

[spindafan]

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