Walmart reviews

Wal-Mart's attendance policy leaves things to be desired. I understand that people shouldn't call in all the time. But I totally disagree with giving someone an unexused absense when they have a doctor's note to prove that they or a family member were actually ill. I have a write up on my record that i was given for missing a total of six days in a twelve month period. Only one of those absenses did not include a doctor's note. Actually the one day I missed that I didn't go to the doctor was due to a sunburn I recieved while I was working on a charity project for guess who...Wal-Mart!

As with any service field, you are a customer doormat. The company seems to be on a decline; an always shrinking staff, incompetent management(who admit to only being there for the pay), no more merit raises, smaller bonuses, raises have went from percentage based to flat rates, each position in the store has a set maximum wage(meaning some people are capped-out so they must work each year with no more raises-where's the incentive in that considering the cost of living is soaring??? New hires seem to be making the same or more than me(an 8 year employee), it's very hard to get weekends off, if you get written up you can't promote or transfer stores for a whole year...I'm sure there's tons more, oh my hours suck, but that's my own fault, overnights pays $1.50 more an hour. Oh, and COMMUNICATION SUCKS! And they have been cutting hours during traditionally busy times of the year-forget overtime.