THE REAL STORIES OF WAL-MART EMPLOYEES
As our nation’s largest employer and most financially successful company, Wal-Mart is a singular American institution. It occupies a unique position in our world by virtue of its size, reach and responsibility for the livelihoods of millions of workers and the needs of billions of consumers. And with such overwhelming influence comes certain moral responsibilities.
This website is a place where Wal-Mart employees and former employees can talk about Wal-Mart’s failure to live up to those responsibilities. Read, watch or listen to the stories of those who know Wal-Mart best - its workers.
“I have not met a pharmacist at Wal-Mart that is happy with how they are treated by the company ” -anonymous
“When moving pallets of bottled water by myself which weighed over 700 pounds, I frequently had to take ibuprofen just to get out of bed because weight belts were never available nor was another employee there to help. ” -- Alfred Miranto
“During the time of my pregnancy at Wal-Mart, I was forced to lift heavy items such as microwaves, compact refrigerators, carpet shampooers etc. When I asked for help, they told me that I didn’t need it.” -- AH
“Why do you work overtime when you know that they will not pay you?” -- BW
“Is it not the right of the American worker to be entitled to a decent job with fair and just benefits?” -- Anonymous
“When you have your evaluation each year, you get a very small raise. Then they cut your hours back so that you don’t make anymore take home than you did before.” -M.L. in Illinois
“They are trying to cut cost by cutting corners.” -Ronald Brown
EMPLOYEE STORIES
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Wal-Mart makes new stores while workers get fewer hours and less pay. We need a union!
I work at a Nashville Arkansas Wal-Mart. First of all, I like my job, but hate the way Wal-Mart is working our butts off and not giving us hours. I was a 40 hour a week full time worker....now they have widdled that down to 34 hours and less if you even ask for more hours. | Read More
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Employees are being neglected, Wal-Mart needs a union!
I've been at Wal-Mart for 7 months, I'm having problems with my department manager. She tells her manager that I'm not doing my job, she does this with all of us except one, because we don't kiss up. Then they are cutting my hours, I was getting 32hr wk and now one wk I'll get 26 then 32 then 21. | Read More
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Out with the old, in with the new…
In the store I work it seems that they're targeting employees with 7 to10 years and terminating them and filling that spot with part-time people. | Read More
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Wal-Mart has changed, employees are no longer appreciated…
I have been with walmart for 5 years. This use to be a more humane place but now people are being fired for poor reasons. Employees are like tissue, completely disposible. At least six people are fired every month. | Read More
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“This is an interesting web site. I visit daily and read the associate letters.”
This is an interesting web site. I visit daily and read the associate letters. One reason I do is so I can find out if the rules/hours/pay... whatever... changes are really coming from home office or they are just our Management making changes. I am a LONG term assoc. and have had this game played on me a lot in the last 20+ years. | Read More
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No air conditioning, no breaks, no sympathy
My spouse and I work at a Walmart in Kentucky, and we have recently discovered the extreme lengths Walmart will go to to save a little money. We both work third shift (I prefer not to say even what position we are in) and first of all I would like to say that we do not get air conditioning, and it definitely gets hot and humid here in Kentucky. | Read More
Check out Wal-Mart workers on Capitol Hill
Wal-Mart saves money by paying its workers low wages so the Walton family can live better.
FEATURED STORY
Meet Jane Doe
After working at Wal-Mart for nine years with a reasonable accommodation for her disability, Wal-Mart suddenly denied the accommodation. They required her to take a leave of absence and have yet to reinstate her. She has been essentially fired. This is her story. | Watch the Video
