I used to work for Wal-Mart for about 5 months before I got my job here. Let me tell you, that place is a nightmare. I worked in Electronics, and NO ONE who worked in that department knew anything about computers. I was basically a god send to them because no one ever offered to train them! Their computer/computer equipment sales were really low because no one knew what to tell the customers about the merchandise. When I started working there, I kind of trained the people in my dept. on basic computer stuff and then sales went up. Of course, I never got a "Thank you, Ron", I got to see my dept. manager get a promotion for it! Wonderful! :rolleyes: Also, I didn't enjoy going to my first class at 7:00am and having to stay after, sometimes until 1am. Even when I asked politely to go home because I had class in the morning, they said "You're not in high school anymore, deal with it".
I only made about $6.50 an hour there at my "prime", and this is probably the only job that I slacked horribly my last day off. Any other job I would have been embarassed about this, but since it was Wal-Mart I really didn't give a s**t
Highlights of my last day included:
1. Taking 8 15 minute breaks.
2. Taking a 2 hour lunch.
3. Having all the people in my dept. cover for me, i.e. when managers would ask where I was they would say I was helping another dept. or getting a TV, etc.
4. Having all the management PRAISE me for such a well done job and tell me if I ever wanted to come back, I'd have a job.
5. Letting my friends get employee discounts for the entire day!
I hate Wally-World. Once Sam Walton died the company went down the tubes big time.
On a side note, the one thing I always loved at Wal-Mart was watching huge, unkempt unwashed parents walk in with their poor children, who probably got their clothes from hand me downs. They'd buy a big screen TV, usually costing about $1500-2000 with their income tax & Earned Income Credit, and then I'd help them carry the TV out to their truck...a vehicle that was falling apart at the seams! Why couldn't they buy their poor kids some new clothes, and maybe fix up their car? Oh, no, a big screen TV is WAY more important that that!!
