Working at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc - Page 27

Long hours and working with a very disrespectful Manager with no people skills makes your job miserable. Benefits and pay are very good but the amount of hours you have to work does not balance out to a good pay, if you don't mind long hours then the pay is good. It does not balance out to have a personal life.

I worked at the Mishawaka, Indiana store for 10+ year, s. After taking the deli manager position, I realized that, due to the lack of training, this position would be a challenge. I learned what I could from other department managers. Getting management to hire enough associates for my department was always stressful. I would end up losing good, hardworking people because of the lack of coverage. There was always stress between the associates in the deli, especially if there were a few could not keep up with the rest. Anytime home office made changes to the way tasks were performed, the store management would never follow through. Falsifying documents was a regular occurrence. I had one assistant manager who would, literally, stand in front of myself and the store manager and falsify hourly records on the handheld. All the store manger would do was to tell that person to stop. But then would send out E-mails praising that person for doing such a "great" job. I would complain to regional management, but nothing ever changed. When One Best Way began, things went from bad to worse. I was expected to train people, that had been allowed to slack off for so many years, to meet expectations that even I could not do. Asking for help from anyone in the management chain was, again, pointless. I could not get management to "physically" show me how to perform tasks to meet the companies expectations. I struggled with this for a long time. Stress and anxiety were a regular

Management uses maintenance associates to stock it's not fair that maintenance is paid the same as stockers when they have several other task and have to clean and exposure to chemicals but receive same pay.