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The Black Friday Thread: Walmart Worker Trampled and Killed By Crowd
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I was referring to override's comment that you weren't just responsible for one department. I worked in Pets, and once my shit was straight I was expected to move on to neighboring departments, to say nothing of the times when a customer needed help with something.
But the fact that you could even claim to "work in Pets" is a vast improvement over Target. I guess I just see a difference between being expected to help out elsewhere and actually being responsible for other departments. When I worked at Target, I was always working something like "Health and Beauty AND Electronics AND Home AND Toys." And that was if I was lucky, and not just working all of hardlines (so throw in sporting goods, automotive, seasonal, and the rest). So I was generally, on a given night, responsible for anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 of the store.
Whereas when I worked at Wal-Mart, I worked in Electronics. When we were open (it wasn't a 24-hour store, obviously) I was actually specifically told not to help in other departments. They wanted me there, period. Obviously after close I was expected to help where needed. Walking around on the floor at Wal-Mart, they often have more people in the area of Electronics than we had in the entirety of hardlines. We were lucky to have 3 or 4 people in all of hardlines during peak hours (so, for like 3 hours of the afternoon/evening).
The point being that Target works their employees like damn slaves just like anywhere else, so anybody trying to claim that Target is more than marginally better than Wal-Mart (and I mean overall, even including the money they put back into communities and such) is deluding themselves.
I worked there part time for roughly 6 years and never experienced anything to that extent. There were days that we were short staffed around close, but most sections had 1 person barring breaks. So yay for anecdotal evidence. All of which being meaningless as the only real negative that Wal~Mart brings to bear is its imposition of demands on suppliers which they cannot refuse due to market share. Shitty store design, crappy worker treatment, outsourcing some of their externalities to local, state, or federal programs; none of that is really unique to Wallyworld and all of it is besides the point. Whichever point we have tangented off into making.
Well being treated as less than human by an employer is marginally preferable to starvation and freezing to death.
I'd take my job back at Target being bitched at for not covering Electronics while told to put away toys and getting no raise year after year because they score every employee in the store "below expectations" on their reviews than this, but hey what am I going to do? Tourist town, in a recession, mountains of cash owed to DeVry
Not much I can do but tough it out and squirrel away pennies until I have enough to do something
...no, but they are the same company. The "Sam" in "Sam's Club" is Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.
They are required to bring in the old crew once the store is reopened. The business cannot take any action other than to fix the problems.
I know because I called OSHA on UPS for safety violations that the union wasn't taking care of.
If they do, you sue, and you win. Also, they get fined much dinero.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
No breaks or lunches? That's a DoL violation there too, depending on your state. Here in NY, if you work more than 6 hours straight you are required to take a lunch. Meaning you have to stop and take a lunch at some point, and if not, they get fined and you can sue for some more.
Unions started for a reason, and most of the reasons now have laws to help you if there's no union to join. You might want to talk to a lawyer who specializes in labor laws because you could be sitting on like a fucking gold mine.
Very true. I don't know how it is at other large scale companies, but at Costco the employee agreement with non-union employees (only a few warehouses in California & Arizona are unionized) is so iron clad you can literally have a no-call/no-show (not calling ahead, not showing up to shift) every other day for weeks and not get fired for it. The pros are obvious, because it takes practically an act of Congress or God to terminate an employee with seniority greater than a year for anything other than outright theft or assault. On the bad side, it means ridiculously inept employees (and in my experience, people who come to work stoned or on other drugs) are almost impossible to terminate. In a way, it highly negates the need for a union when Costco itself ties its hands in how it can deal with you.
You pay to shop at Sam's though... consequently, it's a bit nicer. I still prefer CostCo over Sam's. Especially the "big as a man's fist" chocolate muffins.
Those are some giant goddamn hands.
That, my friend, is the smell of quiet desperation.
Damn you now i have a craving for those maple muffins.
Oh. I just figured the fat chick in the mumu whose offspring are orbiting her like moons just didn't wash her va-jay-jay.
And I thought I was big for preferring the original X Box controller.