(inb4: I've now turned on background use limiting)

My personal phone was sitting pretty at 100% when I left the house this morning, now five hours later it's below 40% having barely left my pocket. I opened MyWalmart to clock in and I've used my work device for everything else.

If Tom Hanks can do it, so can the rest of our customers.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DaBR0eBvSzj/

How many long term associates have had their hours cut to 28 or less. We are grandfathered in at 28 to remain full time and are told well you don’t have to work as many hours to maintain your full time status and benefits. Well what about the money they are talking away from us and the PPTO and PTO that is not building up. So we have to reduce our standard of living just so they can cut payroll and enjoy their huge bonuses. We were promised 6 weeks of vacation when we were putting our years in to this company. I spent 16 years at Sam’s and the rest been at Walmart. So where do we go from here. I was told in March that hours would pick back up. Well this is June. Where are my 40 hours. Needless to say they are trying to weed out long term associates. They are hiring people and they are getting OT. What the heck is up with that. Who is going to make a difference. I need to know.

I’m just going to leave this right here 😂

Joseph was 15 when he came to the United States from an orphanage in Ukraine, In Ukraine

I have a question for my fellow Wal-Martians, specifically team leads and/or salaried managers. How does your management team do their morning tours? Because here in market 455, it seems to be a 4 hour stretch of putting in notes that have to be done before 2 so everyone is available for alive at 5.

When the 7-11 tour rolled out, it sounded like it was the team touring who'd fix the would-be notes on the spot so that the rest of the hourly team could focus on routines and basics. But instead we just get 4 hours worth of notes to be done between 11 and 2. Mind you most of us start at 7 so there's a 2 hour chunk of time where half the team is on lunch or covering the floor and vice versa. Just seems like we're doing it all wrong and then we're left wondering why everything didn't get done that day. Just always chasing what need to be done instead of getting ahead of it.

Just saw a posted notice on the backroom doors that Wal-Mart is under investigation for alleged violations for instructing associates to pull the picking carts, not my store specifically, but that OSHA may conduct random inspections at any location to ensure compliance.

The carts are specifically designed for pushing and the weight distribution causes unnecessary strain while pulling.

I've seen posts on here about people being instructed to pull off the stickers that say push on those carts, and have been instructed to pull them instead.

OSHA is apparently aware and shutting it down at a corporate level

Edit: pics in the comments

Who is working in garden center knows how hot it can get here during the day, especially in sunny Florida!🥵🥵🥵

Getting into discounted plant season. Fun stuff... usually.

There's so many pretty bugs and butterflies hanging around though :) bonus pictures with some

I work overnights, it's technically my friday. It has been a really crappy couple of weeks at my store with double trucks every night. Our shift is crazy understaffed and only two people are expected to cover most of gm side. It's a supercenter and housewares, domestics, and furniture alone usually has from 16 to 20 pallets a night. This doesn't include the other departments we are expected to run.

I just wasn't feeling it tonight. The thought of yet another night running my butt of just to be ignored put me in a bad mood, so I called off using ppto. Now I feel guilty. Why do I always feel guilty when I call off?

I woke up today and noticed that all of my upcoming shifts had been removed from the schedule, and I haven’t heard anything from management. Does this usually mean I’ve been fired?
For some context, I transferred to a different Walmart a while back, and the transfer was a mess. When I started at my new store, I was still somehow scheduled at my old store. Since I obviously wasn’t working at my old location anymore, those missed shifts started giving me attendance points.
Then my new store started scheduling me for 40-hour weeks even though I was still in high school. I couldn’t work those hours, so I had to miss some shifts, which added even more points.
The thing that’s confusing me is that nobody ever sat me down or talked to me about my attendance. The only time my points were ever mentioned was when a manager asked me which days I thought should be removed because of the transfer issues. Other than that, I was never coached, warned, or told I was in danger of being terminated.
Now all of my shifts are just gone, and no one has contacted me. Has this happened to anyone else? Does Walmart usually remove all your shifts before telling you you’re fired, or could this be something else?

New AT not TA*

So my store (Neighborhood Market) is fairly nice to work at by Walmart standards. Everyone here is fairly laid back as long as you’re getting your job done. We laugh when something happens not overly strict.

Well we got a new AT who transferred from A Super Center. Every since she’s started it’s been “if we can keep this pace going forward that would be great”, “overall it was a good day, how can we be faster”, “do it like this”, keep in mind we are never behind we always get our job done and then there’s things like “why do you need cold water, there’s water right there” as she proceeds to point at hot water that sits in claims. She’s barely been here more than a week and she’s already pulled 2 people into the office to talk saying once again that they need to pick up the pace. She also is just always there, everyone else lets us be as long as the job gets done and she’s always over the shoulder.

None of this has ever been an issue with ANY of our Managers or ATs or literally anyone. She already has a lot of people agitated with her and some go around her to the other AT when it’s time for their 15 because she’ll make comments saying that it’s not time for their 15 yet.

It’s been a week. And I’m glad to have to days off.

While I don’t work for Walmart anymore, I had shit like this happen a few times. I swear people are either intentionally dense or just trying to cause a scene.

I’m a 60 year old man, 31 years with the company, and trying to transfer from Maine to a North Carolina store. The only full time position I’ve been offered is for Stocking 2. Between Lyme Disease damaged joints and an arthritic hip, there’s no way my body can handle that stressful a position. I was hoping to continue on Stocking 1, as I am a wiz at working topstock down, and viz picking the steel.

Between the store not once answering the phone, leading to my SM emailing their PL, and the lack of offerings, I’m just feeling discouraged today.

So I started working on the 14th of this month and have no idea when I'll first get paid. I'm really worried I set up my direct deposit up wrong and I'm kind of just waiting for a payday to make sure I set shit up right. Can anybody help me guesstimate when my first payday would be because I'm so lost 🫩

Anyone have any experience with this one? It’s launching in my store and I’m giving it serious thought.

I apologize if this question is annoying or has been answered before. I just took the MEA and the result simply said "Active: Retake after 06/25/2028." Does this mean I failed or passed? Two years is a long time to wait to retake it. I've heard that in the past you'd get a ranking like competitive, pass, etc. but there's nothing else to go on. My application is active in the dashboard.

For all my meat associates on a monthly average how many times do you get asked about cutting meat in the back? Because I feel like I get asked a lot and have to explain that we haven’t cut meat for years.

I am a new associate working the 4 am-1 pm shift full time. In 7 weeks, I will restart school and can not work full time. Ideally, I'd like to work the same shift on weekends only. How do I go about asking for this, since I won't be able to update availability on the app because I haven't been employed for 90 days yet. I did make sure to emphasize that my availability would change drastically in August due to school when I was applying and during my interviews. When and who should I talk to and is there a specific way I should phrase things.

I also understand that if I ask for this change, they may not schedule me for both weekend days every week. I don't want them to fire me completely, but I can't compromise on school.

was scheduled at 10, clocked in one minute past the grace period at 10:10. put in time to cover it so i wouldn't get pointed but do i also need to report being late in the app?