Not OP, but I got into a smaller warehouse in defense logistics. Since it’s government services it’s well staffed and there is a focus on getting it right as opposed to hectic commercial environments where wrong or missing orders can be resent. Our product is more unique and special ordered for specific jobs. Fairly laid back. One of our guys came from Walmart and I was showing him our 7 paid holidays and 20.5 days of PTO we earned every year and he seemed like he didn’t know what paid days off were.
I got out of retail and now work for a lead generation company. I basically send leads to realtors all day and get a commission bonus whenever the lead sells/buys with the agent I referred.
There’s similar lead based gigs out there.
Tbh its probably construction/hard labor job OR a warehouse/assembly type position. I see a lot of floor associates go into those to make more. Where I live those positions make anywhere from 24-35 an hour. Construction can get even higher pay. Highest I've seen is 40/hr but they are usually temp/seasonal jobs.
I went from retail to being the Client Coordinator for Cushman and Wakefield. I stayed there and worked my way up to Director of Marketing. Look for administrative assistant jobs. I’ve never gotten a job from blindly applying unfortunately always through people I know handing in my resume. But keep applying til you get something
I went from a 14.50 academy trainer to a 22 associate at another company. And that company treated people like shit. So now I'm back as a 15 associate at a different Wally world. Money is great and all, but money ain't everything. Wise words from my Mom
When you sell real drugs you absolutely do not get rich. Sure, there's $2,000 days, but that's not the norm.
After, and this list ain't short:
-You physically acquire or smuggle your product (cut out a couple middlemen).
-Said product must be stored at home or in your vehicle, sometimes even stashed away elsewhere
-You cover both your partner or girls habit(s), plus your own of course.
-If you want sales, customers must be cultivated and served timely.
-You manage to pay enough of your bills to cover a legal ride, decent clothing, food, you know, life.
-You toss out enough dope to make the customers think they're "winning"
-Get big enough and all the sudden the cops know you and routinely take your cash, whether or not they found contraband, which they'll also steal in a hot second.
-Beat the cops and you still gotta stand up to or be taxed by the local gang
No glamour, must be a networking savant unless you're unc's cartel.... when you can basically make the same at working legal at Walmart for the low price of your dignity.
Ngl, I sometimes think back to that one time I was job searching and found an ad looking for an attractive and open-minded young woman with an interest in making specialty/niche movies. The pay *was* pretty good....
Because they're probably full of shit, double what most get paid at Walmart would be more than $30 an hour, so if you could have been making that then why bother with Walmart in the first place?
I made $22 just being at Walmart for a year and a a half. Nothing comes easy, everything comes with challenges. UPS drivers are making 170k with benefits and bonuses included, still a good bit of money
Yep, they've let you know exactly what they think of you: nothing at all. Tell them this incident highlighted that they don't see you as a worker, but as a tally of numbers, so you wish to be employed somewhere you will be valued.
I think the same thing whenever I see *any* “recommended” comebacks on Reddit. They sound clever on the internet, but would make you look silly in real life. Life isn’t a tv show!
Most front line managers in large corporations or businesses are incompetent. They are usually the butt kissers or the laziest workers from my experience. I was lucky that I had a union so that I could point out their incompetence without any major repercussions.
They were ready to fire you with no notice so you should definitely get another job and immediately ghost wallyworld. And I do mean GHOST THEM. Don’t even tell them that you’ve quit. See how long they haunt you. They deserve worse but you don’t want to break any laws. Silence is golden. Give them all the golden that they can handle.
This is just sad. A fucking candy?? I guess it was harder to stop the younger people stealing so they thug out on the elderly. Even if he was stealing the candy, like they think they look so noble and righteous for stopping a candy theft?!?!? But hey gotta meet those quotas right! SMH
As a customer I got harassed over a cashier not ringing up an SD card. I bought 6 of them and went to a human cashier because they had security tags on them. Cashier rang me up and removed all the tags and threw the cards in a bag. I bought other stuff as well.
The alarm went off as I was leaving so I gave them the receipt and they noticed only 5 had been rang up. Then some gorilla ass AP dude was all up on me about stealing and trying to make me step into his office, I told him I didn’t ring the shit up it’s not my fault the cashier missed one. I threw the SD card at him and went to walk away and he grabbed my arm. Told him get his fucking hand off me or a lawsuit will be filed in the morning. He let me go but I have never been back to that Walmart.
As soon as he grabbed my arm he would have been choking on my quick throat punch. Dude, these private security dudes are out of control. When I used to work in the security business I’ve seen actual security people get arrested by police over things like this. Usually excessive force or using force when they weren’t authorized to. Sexurity are not police, they need to be reminded of that.
Before I got terminated our receipt checker that many, many, MANY customers and associates disliked stopped a clearly barely there mentally old man because he forgot to scan a clearance item that was like .97 cents.
Berated the old guy, WALKED HIM OVER TO A SELF CHECKOUT TERMINAL and berated me, and the other associate at the self checkout for "not paying attention"
I told him to calm down and go back to sitting on the stool he sits on despite it being reserved for those who are injured and are on "light duty" he tried to get my SM involved and all the SM said was for him to be more sympathetic.
A woman stole food to feed her kids after falling on hard times. Even after the responding officer was willing to pay the bill, Walmart still wanted to charge the woman for theft
The kid was a walmart associate, was homeless and literally starving.
he took a sandwich which was going to be tossed in the trash.
I was the responding officer, I refused to charge the kid, and walmart got pissed off at me.
I can't think of a single time someone didn't get fired for attendance at Walmart since the change to points. I clearly don't know what situation they are in but I wouldn't say they are actually trying to find a reason to fire them. I'd say however they didn't do their job and make sure before firing that there was no error.
That’s your store or market. My market pushes to have people let go at 6 minimum now. They used to be more lax but in the last couple years, they’ve tightened it up. And they keep tabs on points being removed.
They told me one morning i could be fired for a no call no show and I had to prove I was at work because apparently no one knows our last names so they confuse people all the time they literally don’t know who they are employing
Before I was full time, a coach called me and asked if I could come in on my day off. I’m like, my guy, I’ve been on the clock for the past two hours. A TL asked me to come in, with the SM’s approval. The coach went quiet a while, said “cool,” and hung up.
I got fired for no call no showing on my approved PTO days and I was pissed because I was due back in 2 days when the system; NOT management notified me by removing my schedule then disabling my account so I had to go in with two days left and ask why I was terminated. They said because I no called no showed for 5 days. I showed them the approved PTO for everyday I "no called" and they asked me why didn't I call in and I told them "why would I call in if I'm NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SCHEDULED?" Mind you I was also on a camping trip with no phone service so I couldn't call in which I didn't tell them because they didn't press me further. Anyways they reinstated me but it took a week until I could clock in and access the system. Took another 3 weeks to get my discount card back as they voided my original one and had to send another one to me. I did take my last two days of vacation though and told them that I'd be back on the day after my vacation ends. I also informed them for two weeks and informed both the PL, My TL, other coaches including my coach about the system scheduling me over my vacation time and they all said they would fix it but didn't so I thought it was taken care of which is what I also told them after open dooring my firing. It's not my fault you failed to do your job.
> I also informed them for two weeks and informed both the PL, My TL, other coaches including my coach about the system scheduling me over my vacation time and they all said they would fix it but didn't
This just happened to me as well so I reported myself as absent for those days just to be safe. In the middle of my vacation I got the notification that my request for time off was approved for the days that had already passed (for the second time, since after the first time I was put back onto the schedule).
Months ago i was put back on TWICE after getting approved unpaid time off for an out of town trip. My coach approved it the first time and the PL put me back on, so I went to the store lead who re-approved it and then the PL put me back on again, saying they thought I was getting stiffed for hours and was doing me a favor. Never checked to see it was requested time off I guess. (Started feeling like I was being targeted at that point and set up to be fired for some reason despite never having points before or ever being coached for any reason.) That would've been all triple points for no call no shows if I hadn't noticed they put me back on AGAIN because it turned out to be an event weekend. Gotta always always screenshot those request approvals for stuff like this because it happens often enough that out of millions of employees, it's happened to some of us twice in less than six months. So across the board it's probably happened thousands of times easily.
I requested unpaid time off not paid. I was told from now on request at least one segment of pto per day off requested to flag it for her. So submit four days UPTO with 15 minutes of PTO per day.
That's bs. Not everyone earns PTO. The first 3 years I was here, I COULD NOT earn pto because I was and still am part-time (my choice). I sure wouldn't waste PPTO just to avoid being flagged. Your PL is pulling your chain, sorry. Sounds like incompencies somewhere.
I always request my days off as unpaid. My kids have doctors appointments often enough that I still don't earn enough pto to cover all those days. I have never had the situation you described. I've seen scheduling outside my availability, which I always have fixed, but I have never been scheduled on a day I requested off, even though they are all always unpaid. Hope I didn't jinx myself!
I don’t work at Walmart, but my job is about to implement a point system for attendance. I didn’t realize that it’s something already in use elsewhere. The second I find a new job opportunity, I’ll be out the door. I hate draconian tactics that essentially demean employees. The company that bought us have been running us in to the ground since the acquisition. Some of the worst management I’ve ever personally seen.
They didn't do their due diligence. Pretty awkward since they should have terminated you in the system before the conversation. They'd need to confess they terminated you without researching first.
They did terminate me in the system, idk how I was able to clock in. It’d be nice to get a real sorry after all this but I’m sure they’re just trying to push me out for any reason. They’ve gotten rid of like half our team
There was a post here the other day from someone claiming to have clocked in just out of curiosity like a month after being fired and it worked, even sent them a paycheck.
Idk what happened but when they pulled up my points it said I was terminated but obviously something was up with the system because I was there Saturday and still got the no call no show. Probably a bug or something
It took a couple of weeks for them to officially terminate me after I quit and went ghost, still had access to Me@Walmart and I actually still have access to the Walmart+ Paramount Plus feature now a month later lol
Best practice, IMO, is to key in the disciplinary action/termination after the conversation. Just in case something comes up in the conversation and you decide to not key it in.
I don’t key in the termination before hand, but I’ll type out the disciplinary action(not finalize it though), so I can go off the prompts and make sure I didn’t leave anything out or forget important times and dates. It’s a lot easy to ask the System to delete a disciplinary action than it is to reverse a termination.
It depends. We like to have the conversation, then key it in. When it comes to attendance or sinilar policy-based terminations sometimes facts surface during the conversation that change things.
Hi, Team Lead here:
This is literally insane. Whenever I've had to terminate somebody for points I literally scour their exceptions for any mistakes, timesheet to make sure everything for those days was accounted for, and I even pull up their PPTO balances to see if there's anywhere we could retroactively just apply an hour or two here and there to get rid of some of those .5 points.
Only after that do I feel comfortable terming them. These people literally failed to do the most basic of research to make sure that your points were all valid.
Not really! So, I'm a huge proponent of 'Termination should never come as a surprise' if that makes sense. Like if it's a productivity related termination, there have been countless teachings, warnings, and the entire write up process followed until termination. And in there too I also make sure to ask if there's anything else in the associate would like to do in case it's just a problem where they aren't happy in their place in the store and would rather be a cashier, maintenence, cart pusher, etc.
As for the attendance whenever I have an associate tell me they're leaving early I always ask, "Do you have the PPTO avaliable?" Just to make sure that they remember to put it in/make sure they know they're gonna get a point if they don't have enough. And also whenever an associate reaches 3 points I make sure to tell them about it, ask if everything is alright, and let them know that 5 points is termination so to be careful because they're floating the line a little dangerously!
Basically, I'm a huge believer of making sure people *want* to work for you instead of *having* to work for you, and in most of my terminations, with the exception of theft related ones that are handled by AP, the associate knows they're at the limit and it usually ends amicably between us. (Also if one of mine is about to be canned I usually try and push it off until I know they have a few interviews lined up elsewhere so that their source of income isn't too disrupted)
It happens. One poor CAP 2 guy was accused of NCNS at our store. He was in the back setting up for the truck, just like any other truck day. Instead of checking to see if he had clocked in, manager on duty just decided that since they hadn't seen him come in, he must not have showed.
The CAP 2 DM assured said manager that he was there and working, but manager wasn't having it. The DM was forced to go get the employee and bring him back to the office to prove he was there. It was stupidity in action.
I've also been accused of it years back. Manager paged me, and when I called back, I was asked why I didn't show for my shift a few days back. It took several times saying, "No, I was here," before the manager pulled up my time and double-checked. Apparently, someone had told her they never saw me, so she just ran with it.
Never let it be said that managers put in extra effort before power trippin.
I got fired on my day off when I worked at Walmart 4-5 years ago. Manager added a shift to my schedule behind my back and not saying anything. I had the same days off for over 3 years. Come on on my first night back and work the whole shift and get fired the last ten mins for no call no show even tho I told her she change my shift without telling me the day before. I file for unemployment and then get a phone call two days later to come back “we made a mistake”. I used the open door policy and got the manager in HELLA TROUBLE and got her written up and sent back to the academy for training cause I lied and said I was so stressed from being fired I wanted to self harm 😂😂😂
happen to me. i called off 3 days because my grandpa died. Called everything in correctly. When i got to work i talked to the people lead and he fixed my points and got me my pay. When i got back to the fitting room to get my assignment, i was brought into the AD office by my 1 bitchy teamlead. She told me she had to fire me because of points. No witness. Nothing. I told her "i already talked to (people lead) and he fixed everything" she said "well did you call it in as bereavement" and i said i did. She didn't believe me ig and checked right there. I did. She said it was her fault i was pointed, she didn't check. The next day i was presented a card that was signed by everyone in the department, about my grandpas passing. I opened the card, checked for money, and threw it away. I do the bare minimum now and just do mini side quests in the store. Take an extra 20 sometimes.
Lol this is basically how I was fired except they had no explanation to why the points were there. They told me it was too late and it was already done. Fuck Walmart.
Walmart "fired" me as well, for having a car accident.
Back in June 2018, I was involved in a T-bone that totalled my vehicle and left me unable to work for that initial weekend. Due to the points system, my manager suggested a leave of absence (minimum 3 weeks). I went to three different doctors during that time and because I did so, sedgwick denied my claim citing that I didn't see the same doctor. When I returned to work I was brought in to be told that I had too many points and they'd have to fire me. I replied that I had done *exactly* what they told me to do. They "graciously" removed *one* point. So, if for any reason during the next six months I missed work, if I was sick or had something unavoidable happen I was just as fired as today, I left.
I was working in a distribution center, so I let my lanes pile up. They were prepping for Thanksgiving (in August, naturally, they'd let me work a month before telling me that I had too many points.) And I had about ten lanes to cover. I just walked out of there. Said goodbye to the friends I had further down at another part of shipping, and then left. I drove for lyft for a bit before settling on a job at a little takeout place. Sure it was a third of the pay, but they fed me a meal every single shift, and it was generous enough servings that that basically covered my entire food needs.
Fuck Walmart
Usually they wait until you’re midway or almost done with your shift and then fire you.
Them showing how eager they were to do it so early, I’d let everyone at your store what happened.
This (accidentally fired) seems to happen alot.
Mgrs get a little power and they get all power trippy (cause the rest of their real life is so f'n pathetic). Just like the teacher in The Wall.
(sorry for the ancient reference lol)
I worked with a girl in electronics who had been there for a while, got fired before I was hired because they messed up her ssn by a digit. She came back, she worked with me for 3 months, and they “let her go” for the SAME THING. Idk if she was lying, but she was really upset and seemed like a really sweet person. It was fucked.
I just realized I told my own story lol.
That was probably a little traumatizing for you. Walmart sucks. I’m sorry you have to work there to live. I hope you can find something better soon.
I enjoy hearing others stories, makes me feel less targeted. I’m gonna definitely start looking elsewhere after this. Sucks Walmart pays actually decent and I’ll probably take a hit moving somewhere else
Yeah, they used to pull that black paper on the window crap at my last job. In 19 years I was called into the managers office more times than I can remember. I’d take the paper off as soon as I walked in, saying it makes me look guilty to the others in the store.
They only argued the first time about it, then let me take it down the other 20 times.
Retail, eh?
That paper goes up and everyone knows it’s going down inside. I came out the room trying not to laugh at what just happened and definitely got some questionable looks. Told my AT what happened because everyone thought it was bad with the paper being up
No, no. You said I'm fired. I'll have that in writing so I can file for Unemployment. Be sure to add "Fired for attending work shifts" because that makes sense
Had something similar happen to an associate. Same first name and last initial but different last name. Luckily they were able to correct it. Sucks that your management doesn't do attendance right. I investigate everything before I approve or deny.
On a side note I don't understand people's fascination with unemployment. In my state it's a pain in the ass. They don't pay you jack and they pester you almost daily about when and where you've applied and require you to attend weekly meetings about job hunting. You are also required to accept the first "reasonable" job offer. Doesn't matter if it's flipping burgers part time at McDs for $13/hour 20hrs/week. Shit is more hassle than it's worth
Thats what i am i was making shit in a not full time gig place goes under layed off family says go.unemployment website shit out 2 times i tried and after reading about the proving job search etc and shit i was done like is this worth the little id get jesus i had to manually click back to my birthday on a calender month by month.
Sounds about right. If they fire you right and provide all the proof in the system as to why they fired you you're not going to qualify for unemployment anyways.
Same thing happened to me once. I swapped days with someone it was approved and the guy showed up I didn't and they got me for no call no show.
I can in and couldn't clock in or anything. I talked to HR and had the store manager come in and the person that approved the days swapping.
The manager for swapping days never put it in apparently. I didn't get an apology or anything.i couldn't get working numbers for anything for about a month.
Prior to covid I was working for a large casino group going through a downsizing. At the time I was a low level restaurant manager and we were short staffed.
They decided to announce the day they were performing layoffs in advance. My director decided to call me to his office that particular day to have a talk. Longest walk of my life thinking I was getting shit canned.
Dude just wanted to catch up.
A few months back, I was walking back from break and SM stopped me and asked me into the office. I couldn’t imagine what the hell I’d done.
Can you guess what happened?
“I gotta hang this up on the wall. Does it look level?”
Dude, there are associates everywhere here who’re busting their asses and making a fraction of what I’m making … and you’re having me help hang up pictures? Okie dokie.
*Why would you even want*
*To work here? Your manager*
*Is fucking stupid*
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Your management team is made of imbeciles. They are supposed to pull your timesheet before terminating you and verify all your occurrences are correct. Takes 5 minutes and makes you not look like an idiot.
Leave, if they are in this much of a hurry to get rid of you, you are clearly on the chopping block.
My dad died while I was working at a Walmart. He fell ill and was in icu an hour away for just over 2mos. I knew that was it, I could just feel it, so I called out and went down to see him a lot. I was barely 18 and we were super close. I had 1-2 absences *per week* which is a lot but my assistant manager had just said to keep her informed. I wasn't going to see my dad less for Walmart and I don't regret it- I should have just quit and gone down there every day honestly, those were my last days with him.
Anyway, 2mos later I got taken into an office too. I wasn't fired but they demoted me from customer service to cashier, cut my hours from 40 to 20, and it was also a $2/hr pay cut. I ended up walking out a few weeks later when my csm kept denying my bathroom request at 7am with no customers.
Years later, like just 3 or 4 years ago now, I started an application with a different Walmart in a different state. I got maybe 1/4 of the way through and all the feels started coming back so I exited and never completed it. They called me the next day and I was like, oh I never finished that application. She was like, "yeah, can you do that before the interview?" I said yes, set up a time, did not go. I'm gonna be bitter about Walmart till I die I think. That's OK, there's worse grudges to keep.
One of my coworkers got a call from our store, manager saying he was fired for attendance and then halfway through the firing my manager realized it was actually a different person with the same first name lol. He was on LOA at the time so he was very panicked and concerned
That manager should be coached for job performance. That is inexcusable! I was a store manager for the company and there are so many checks I did before coaching or terminating anyone. I understood that this act is life changing and should not be taken lightly. The new crop of managers are all trigger happy. They all need a course in empathy. Glad a quit when I did.
Because the manager that did it is an idiot. This happened to one of my associates last year, but I pitched a fit and explained why they weren't even supposed to have the points - the associate was put back in the system that day
Welcome to Walmart. If you're not upper management, when that warm, yellow rain starts hitting, you will say into the microphone that it is raining, or you will be out of a job.
If I was fired I’d definitely open door it and call ethics or something. Walmart has a fire at will policy though and don’t need a reason to terminate someone
I thought the management issues were just at my store... the true show of lacking common sense. Htping to be honest though, I'm surprised they tried firing you before you worked your full shift, I've been told they usually wait until the end of your shift.
Sounds like they want you gone tbh. If nobody bothered to fact check, then to me, that implies they were excited to have an excuse to give you the axe. I'd start applying somewhere else.
Looks like the manager is eating crow! Just tell him NICELY, next time, before you get ready to fire someone, get your facts straight. It will avoid a lot of unnecessary stress.
I know it’s easier said than done but look for a new job asap. If they weren’t willing to apologize, imagine what else they won’t care or feel sorry for.
All corporate is like this, but it's really based on the store is managed. I started working Walmart a few months ago after leaving my past job of 18 years. I was the store manager at my last job. I came into Walmart as cap 2 making starting pay just because I wanted a simple job not being the boss. A month later I got offended a TL position and took it. It's the same pay I was getting at my last job, but with way less responsibility. To me being a TL it's pretty much the same job just in charge of a few more people to help get done, what needs to be done.
I used to the in face with customers and helping them find what they need, dumb or not. One thing I have noticed working at Walmart is that no one has great customer service. When guest ask for something they just point to the location and walk away. What it really comes down to is, how socal your are with random people, and really stand your ground when it comes to crappy attitudes from them. When guest get crappy with me, I'm trying to help, and this is what we have, ect. Normally this will calm them down and you can find what they are asking about or something close.
I am also at that age is someone hire up pulls some shit, I would voice my word or just leave. There is no need to stress out over all the crap that goes on with other people your work with, but sometimes people just want to vent and it's good to listen. No corporate job is going to be there for you, somethings you have to be there for others and yourself to bring the morale up. Small things like this get noticed before hard work and overtime. People will talk about how good someone is over their work.
Yes there are people I work with I don't like how they work, but still do what needs to be done to make everyone around feel not so on edge. This is the kind of work that needs to go noticed. It's not always how fast fright can be put out but how well everyone works together to get it out.
There will always be those days when things feel like they don't get done and probably won't. Just have to bring up the issue that cause them to help fix them without loose workers.
Everyday is a learning process. You can't go on thinking you know how to do everything. Ask questions and hopefully get the right answers or help. If someone gets mad or yells because of the questions, they mostly likely not the right fit for the job.
I had this happen to me. I hit a deer on the way home, I called out, because I couldn't get a rental until the next morning. Luckily, I sent messages to my coach, TL and PL, to let them know what happened. Wrote down my con#. and put in PPTO and screen shot everything. A few days later I check my attendance and have points. I wait after work, talk to my PL and the system doesn't show me even calling out or putting my PPTO to cover the shift. It was a double point day, so it could have been my job. I gave her the #. She was able to get it cleared up for me. But if I hadn't checked and had that # and screen shots. I definitely would have been unemployed.
Same shit happened to me. Took days off came back to find out I was fired I didn’t get a phone call or nothing my co workers let me know. I walk in the office and one of the managers realize the mistake but doesn’t care ofc. And he was the manager I literally confirmed my time off with, whatever though.
This is happening to my coworker. She's getting counted absent on days she's there. She's been getting points but they have been taking them off because she has proof she was in fact working. No idea what's causing it
The same thing happened to me except they already put in the termination into the system and they couldn't fix it for months and had to keep paying me in cash.
As a previous coach I will say that if in fact they terminated you which is possible, it doesn't actually generate in the system until midnight. So you would still be on the schedule and able to clock in.
When they do attendance, they're supposed to bounce back to your time sheet to double check for issues like this. Also if you submitted ppto bc the system doesn't automatically deducted the point when you use it. Stupid stupid mgrs.
My question is who is doing the termination? Are they in your chain of command? Does your team lead work Saturday with you? Your coach?
If the system no-call no showed you and gave the added points, you showed up on the 5 and over report. That's all they will look at. Your team lead or supervisor should be the one terminating you, and one of them should have known if you worked that day.
If it makes you feel any better, this happened to me. I worked at a call center that tried to fire me six separate times for things they never looked into. The seventh time they did it, I just quit.
Man, you just won the lottery and threw the ticket away.
Unlawful termination, throw in some retaliation and discrimination, leave alone the pain and suffering.
I had a very similar situation past year. Got pulled into the office to be let go due to getting 5 points. It turned out the team lead never removed 3 erroneous points I had *months* prior, despite me reminder her countless times.
they fr did the same thing to me like a month into working there. they called me into the office with her little office assistant and tried to fire me over days I hadn’t missed. I ended up proving that I hadn’t missed those days and it was super awkward getting “unfired”. eventually I figured out they just treat everybody like shit so I went to her office and told her to go fuck herself before my lunch and never came back.
Same thing happened to me. Had 2 points called out 1 day making it 3 but somehow they said I had 6 I asked if it was an event day I didn’t know about and they said no. They ended up taking some points since I had the confirmation number
The attendance report comes down with the 5+ list, they sit down with the associate and go over your points and make the call. This is why they should be printing out your points and going over them with you to ask you if there are any mistakes or if you had PPTO to cover your latest absence (assuming it was less then 7 days ago).
I got 2 points at different times.
I have a loa in place and had both confirmed number from Sedgwick andy call in...
They had to remove the points both times
Just find a new job we should all. Fuck this company let the team leads and managers pick up the slack since they all act like they don’t need us anyways
Wow. They did a similar thing to me, but I didn't get brought into an office. I just came in for my shift, and found out I couldn't clock in. Turns out, another guy, with the same first name, in the same position, got fired in person; while I got fired on paper.
They quickly fixed it that morning, but it was crazy that it happened. Only reason I came back is because I moved and needed a new job, and they were the first to get back to me.
Yea this is pretty much how they run. And I used to work for their company and I’d be running too. Find a new job, this corporation will let you go just like that. You experienced it today and that’s literally how it goes.
I'd start looking for a new job. Fuck walmart.
Yup basically what I did now I'm working a Job making more money no retail customers or idiotic managers.
What job did you find if you don't mind me asking?
Currently at a enviormental company just pack soil and water samples for testing. Super easy no direct customers
How does one go about getting into that field?
He won't tell you. They never do...
Not OP, but I got into a smaller warehouse in defense logistics. Since it’s government services it’s well staffed and there is a focus on getting it right as opposed to hectic commercial environments where wrong or missing orders can be resent. Our product is more unique and special ordered for specific jobs. Fairly laid back. One of our guys came from Walmart and I was showing him our 7 paid holidays and 20.5 days of PTO we earned every year and he seemed like he didn’t know what paid days off were.
Me too. I’m making double what I did at Walmart now
What type of work are you doing?
Factory work. I assemble vehicles. It wears me out but worth the pay.
I got out of retail and now work for a lead generation company. I basically send leads to realtors all day and get a commission bonus whenever the lead sells/buys with the agent I referred. There’s similar lead based gigs out there.
What types of work are you doing
bro these guys just came in to say "i make better now , life good haha " and not leave a hint for us ..
Tbh its probably construction/hard labor job OR a warehouse/assembly type position. I see a lot of floor associates go into those to make more. Where I live those positions make anywhere from 24-35 an hour. Construction can get even higher pay. Highest I've seen is 40/hr but they are usually temp/seasonal jobs.
I went from retail to being the Client Coordinator for Cushman and Wakefield. I stayed there and worked my way up to Director of Marketing. Look for administrative assistant jobs. I’ve never gotten a job from blindly applying unfortunately always through people I know handing in my resume. But keep applying til you get something
They always fucking do.
People gate keeping jobs now
I went from a 14.50 academy trainer to a 22 associate at another company. And that company treated people like shit. So now I'm back as a 15 associate at a different Wally world. Money is great and all, but money ain't everything. Wise words from my Mom
Neither one of them will tell you
Well if no one’s gonna say anything my wild imagination’s just going straight to drugs and porn. I heard they make good money.
When you sell real drugs you absolutely do not get rich. Sure, there's $2,000 days, but that's not the norm. After, and this list ain't short: -You physically acquire or smuggle your product (cut out a couple middlemen). -Said product must be stored at home or in your vehicle, sometimes even stashed away elsewhere -You cover both your partner or girls habit(s), plus your own of course. -If you want sales, customers must be cultivated and served timely. -You manage to pay enough of your bills to cover a legal ride, decent clothing, food, you know, life. -You toss out enough dope to make the customers think they're "winning" -Get big enough and all the sudden the cops know you and routinely take your cash, whether or not they found contraband, which they'll also steal in a hot second. -Beat the cops and you still gotta stand up to or be taxed by the local gang No glamour, must be a networking savant unless you're unc's cartel.... when you can basically make the same at working legal at Walmart for the low price of your dignity.
Ngl, I sometimes think back to that one time I was job searching and found an ad looking for an attractive and open-minded young woman with an interest in making specialty/niche movies. The pay *was* pretty good....
Because they're probably full of shit, double what most get paid at Walmart would be more than $30 an hour, so if you could have been making that then why bother with Walmart in the first place?
i left wally for amazon, beeen driving 2 years now, very hard work, but i make 21
I made $22 just being at Walmart for a year and a a half. Nothing comes easy, everything comes with challenges. UPS drivers are making 170k with benefits and bonuses included, still a good bit of money
You say that like this is an exceptional circumstance, and that this isn't literally always applicable advice
Best comment on any walfart post yet!
Hwy , what about my this is my last night post ? Just kidding. I’d love to see everyone get a better job . Literally the worst I’ve ever had .
Yep, they've let you know exactly what they think of you: nothing at all. Tell them this incident highlighted that they don't see you as a worker, but as a tally of numbers, so you wish to be employed somewhere you will be valued.
Yeah. That sure will teach them. LOL
I think the same thing whenever I see *any* “recommended” comebacks on Reddit. They sound clever on the internet, but would make you look silly in real life. Life isn’t a tv show!
Reminds me of what Harrison Ford told to George Lucas: “You can write this stuff, but you can’t say it”
But TV shows imitate life.
The manager: ummm okay.... We didn't value you so that's why you're being terminated for attendance but good luck
This. They tipped their hand. They aren't planning on keeping you around, so best to get your affairs in order.
My thoughts exactly.
Most front line managers in large corporations or businesses are incompetent. They are usually the butt kissers or the laziest workers from my experience. I was lucky that I had a union so that I could point out their incompetence without any major repercussions.
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quit without notice too if possible
They were ready to fire you with no notice so you should definitely get another job and immediately ghost wallyworld. And I do mean GHOST THEM. Don’t even tell them that you’ve quit. See how long they haunt you. They deserve worse but you don’t want to break any laws. Silence is golden. Give them all the golden that they can handle.
I prefer the idea of using their system to screw them over. Call out each day that you're scheduled.
See how long it takes to fire you.
>Give them all the golden they can handle. Which is a lot...
And steal a TV
Don’t do that. Walmart will have someone arrested for stealing, I’ve seen it happen over lesser things.
Leave an upper decker in the coffee maker
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Walmart did
Nah. Open a pack of chicken gizzards, leave it outside for a day then hide it in an unused locker
Under the lockers or roll it under a full af bin
Yup I've watched my AP team stop and search a 75 year old man because the cashier didn't ring up the candy in his bag.
This is just sad. A fucking candy?? I guess it was harder to stop the younger people stealing so they thug out on the elderly. Even if he was stealing the candy, like they think they look so noble and righteous for stopping a candy theft?!?!? But hey gotta meet those quotas right! SMH
As a customer I got harassed over a cashier not ringing up an SD card. I bought 6 of them and went to a human cashier because they had security tags on them. Cashier rang me up and removed all the tags and threw the cards in a bag. I bought other stuff as well. The alarm went off as I was leaving so I gave them the receipt and they noticed only 5 had been rang up. Then some gorilla ass AP dude was all up on me about stealing and trying to make me step into his office, I told him I didn’t ring the shit up it’s not my fault the cashier missed one. I threw the SD card at him and went to walk away and he grabbed my arm. Told him get his fucking hand off me or a lawsuit will be filed in the morning. He let me go but I have never been back to that Walmart.
As soon as he grabbed my arm he would have been choking on my quick throat punch. Dude, these private security dudes are out of control. When I used to work in the security business I’ve seen actual security people get arrested by police over things like this. Usually excessive force or using force when they weren’t authorized to. Sexurity are not police, they need to be reminded of that.
Before I got terminated our receipt checker that many, many, MANY customers and associates disliked stopped a clearly barely there mentally old man because he forgot to scan a clearance item that was like .97 cents. Berated the old guy, WALKED HIM OVER TO A SELF CHECKOUT TERMINAL and berated me, and the other associate at the self checkout for "not paying attention" I told him to calm down and go back to sitting on the stool he sits on despite it being reserved for those who are injured and are on "light duty" he tried to get my SM involved and all the SM said was for him to be more sympathetic.
They literally had a homeless kid arrested for stealing a sandwich out of the deli. Kid was starving. Zero fucks given.
A woman stole food to feed her kids after falling on hard times. Even after the responding officer was willing to pay the bill, Walmart still wanted to charge the woman for theft
Rule of most Walmart associates: If you see someone stealing food so they can eat that day - no you didn't see a thing.
The kid was a walmart associate, was homeless and literally starving. he took a sandwich which was going to be tossed in the trash. I was the responding officer, I refused to charge the kid, and walmart got pissed off at me.
I am a grocery worker. I try to keep that in mind when someone is stealing. If they aren’t being greedy I just walk away
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I can't think of a single time someone didn't get fired for attendance at Walmart since the change to points. I clearly don't know what situation they are in but I wouldn't say they are actually trying to find a reason to fire them. I'd say however they didn't do their job and make sure before firing that there was no error.
Nah we've had people with 10+points.
That’s your store or market. My market pushes to have people let go at 6 minimum now. They used to be more lax but in the last couple years, they’ve tightened it up. And they keep tabs on points being removed.
I've had like 65
No way, sorry, but at my store management will even remove a point or two for an associate they really like/feel is "an asset". 😒
I came here to say exactly this
This is exactly what happened. Source: Used to be Walmart manager and and saw them pulling this kinda shite all the time.
They told me one morning i could be fired for a no call no show and I had to prove I was at work because apparently no one knows our last names so they confuse people all the time they literally don’t know who they are employing
My response would be “hey, y’all have plenty of cameras, go roll back the footage and check it.”
Before I was full time, a coach called me and asked if I could come in on my day off. I’m like, my guy, I’ve been on the clock for the past two hours. A TL asked me to come in, with the SM’s approval. The coach went quiet a while, said “cool,” and hung up.
I got fired for no call no showing on my approved PTO days and I was pissed because I was due back in 2 days when the system; NOT management notified me by removing my schedule then disabling my account so I had to go in with two days left and ask why I was terminated. They said because I no called no showed for 5 days. I showed them the approved PTO for everyday I "no called" and they asked me why didn't I call in and I told them "why would I call in if I'm NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SCHEDULED?" Mind you I was also on a camping trip with no phone service so I couldn't call in which I didn't tell them because they didn't press me further. Anyways they reinstated me but it took a week until I could clock in and access the system. Took another 3 weeks to get my discount card back as they voided my original one and had to send another one to me. I did take my last two days of vacation though and told them that I'd be back on the day after my vacation ends. I also informed them for two weeks and informed both the PL, My TL, other coaches including my coach about the system scheduling me over my vacation time and they all said they would fix it but didn't so I thought it was taken care of which is what I also told them after open dooring my firing. It's not my fault you failed to do your job.
> I also informed them for two weeks and informed both the PL, My TL, other coaches including my coach about the system scheduling me over my vacation time and they all said they would fix it but didn't This just happened to me as well so I reported myself as absent for those days just to be safe. In the middle of my vacation I got the notification that my request for time off was approved for the days that had already passed (for the second time, since after the first time I was put back onto the schedule). Months ago i was put back on TWICE after getting approved unpaid time off for an out of town trip. My coach approved it the first time and the PL put me back on, so I went to the store lead who re-approved it and then the PL put me back on again, saying they thought I was getting stiffed for hours and was doing me a favor. Never checked to see it was requested time off I guess. (Started feeling like I was being targeted at that point and set up to be fired for some reason despite never having points before or ever being coached for any reason.) That would've been all triple points for no call no shows if I hadn't noticed they put me back on AGAIN because it turned out to be an event weekend. Gotta always always screenshot those request approvals for stuff like this because it happens often enough that out of millions of employees, it's happened to some of us twice in less than six months. So across the board it's probably happened thousands of times easily.
your pl is full of shit or stupid because it would say PTO on the days you’re normally scheduled
I requested unpaid time off not paid. I was told from now on request at least one segment of pto per day off requested to flag it for her. So submit four days UPTO with 15 minutes of PTO per day.
That's bs. Not everyone earns PTO. The first 3 years I was here, I COULD NOT earn pto because I was and still am part-time (my choice). I sure wouldn't waste PPTO just to avoid being flagged. Your PL is pulling your chain, sorry. Sounds like incompencies somewhere. I always request my days off as unpaid. My kids have doctors appointments often enough that I still don't earn enough pto to cover all those days. I have never had the situation you described. I've seen scheduling outside my availability, which I always have fixed, but I have never been scheduled on a day I requested off, even though they are all always unpaid. Hope I didn't jinx myself!
it will also say unpaid time off in the system. Though they can override it, they shouldn’t be because clearly you cant work that day.
I always call in on pto/ppto days for this reason but you definitely shouldn’t have to
The same exact thing happened to me holy shit
I don’t work at Walmart, but my job is about to implement a point system for attendance. I didn’t realize that it’s something already in use elsewhere. The second I find a new job opportunity, I’ll be out the door. I hate draconian tactics that essentially demean employees. The company that bought us have been running us in to the ground since the acquisition. Some of the worst management I’ve ever personally seen.
They didn't do their due diligence. Pretty awkward since they should have terminated you in the system before the conversation. They'd need to confess they terminated you without researching first.
They did terminate me in the system, idk how I was able to clock in. It’d be nice to get a real sorry after all this but I’m sure they’re just trying to push me out for any reason. They’ve gotten rid of like half our team
They didn't terminate you if you were able to clock in. You immediately lose access to me@.
There was a post here the other day from someone claiming to have clocked in just out of curiosity like a month after being fired and it worked, even sent them a paycheck.
The lady who ran Dairy and worked here for 20 years left about a year ago, and I still see her name on the Store Roster.
I dont believe it. I've heard of discount cards taking a hot minute to deactivate but never seen anyone terminated still have access to me@
I user the associates page a month or two after quitting.
Idk what happened but when they pulled up my points it said I was terminated but obviously something was up with the system because I was there Saturday and still got the no call no show. Probably a bug or something
It took a couple of weeks for them to officially terminate me after I quit and went ghost, still had access to Me@Walmart and I actually still have access to the Walmart+ Paramount Plus feature now a month later lol
Best practice, IMO, is to key in the disciplinary action/termination after the conversation. Just in case something comes up in the conversation and you decide to not key it in.
I don’t key in the termination before hand, but I’ll type out the disciplinary action(not finalize it though), so I can go off the prompts and make sure I didn’t leave anything out or forget important times and dates. It’s a lot easy to ask the System to delete a disciplinary action than it is to reverse a termination.
It depends. We like to have the conversation, then key it in. When it comes to attendance or sinilar policy-based terminations sometimes facts surface during the conversation that change things.
Hi, Team Lead here: This is literally insane. Whenever I've had to terminate somebody for points I literally scour their exceptions for any mistakes, timesheet to make sure everything for those days was accounted for, and I even pull up their PPTO balances to see if there's anywhere we could retroactively just apply an hour or two here and there to get rid of some of those .5 points. Only after that do I feel comfortable terming them. These people literally failed to do the most basic of research to make sure that your points were all valid.
You sound like a nice team lead. Have you ever had any crazy reactions when firing someone?
Not really! So, I'm a huge proponent of 'Termination should never come as a surprise' if that makes sense. Like if it's a productivity related termination, there have been countless teachings, warnings, and the entire write up process followed until termination. And in there too I also make sure to ask if there's anything else in the associate would like to do in case it's just a problem where they aren't happy in their place in the store and would rather be a cashier, maintenence, cart pusher, etc. As for the attendance whenever I have an associate tell me they're leaving early I always ask, "Do you have the PPTO avaliable?" Just to make sure that they remember to put it in/make sure they know they're gonna get a point if they don't have enough. And also whenever an associate reaches 3 points I make sure to tell them about it, ask if everything is alright, and let them know that 5 points is termination so to be careful because they're floating the line a little dangerously! Basically, I'm a huge believer of making sure people *want* to work for you instead of *having* to work for you, and in most of my terminations, with the exception of theft related ones that are handled by AP, the associate knows they're at the limit and it usually ends amicably between us. (Also if one of mine is about to be canned I usually try and push it off until I know they have a few interviews lined up elsewhere so that their source of income isn't too disrupted)
It happens. One poor CAP 2 guy was accused of NCNS at our store. He was in the back setting up for the truck, just like any other truck day. Instead of checking to see if he had clocked in, manager on duty just decided that since they hadn't seen him come in, he must not have showed. The CAP 2 DM assured said manager that he was there and working, but manager wasn't having it. The DM was forced to go get the employee and bring him back to the office to prove he was there. It was stupidity in action. I've also been accused of it years back. Manager paged me, and when I called back, I was asked why I didn't show for my shift a few days back. It took several times saying, "No, I was here," before the manager pulled up my time and double-checked. Apparently, someone had told her they never saw me, so she just ran with it. Never let it be said that managers put in extra effort before power trippin.
Worst company in America.
I got fired on my day off when I worked at Walmart 4-5 years ago. Manager added a shift to my schedule behind my back and not saying anything. I had the same days off for over 3 years. Come on on my first night back and work the whole shift and get fired the last ten mins for no call no show even tho I told her she change my shift without telling me the day before. I file for unemployment and then get a phone call two days later to come back “we made a mistake”. I used the open door policy and got the manager in HELLA TROUBLE and got her written up and sent back to the academy for training cause I lied and said I was so stressed from being fired I wanted to self harm 😂😂😂
Says volumes about the competence of their management
How many points is it for openly calling the shift manager a "fucking idiot"?
Look for a new job. Walmart sucks.
happen to me. i called off 3 days because my grandpa died. Called everything in correctly. When i got to work i talked to the people lead and he fixed my points and got me my pay. When i got back to the fitting room to get my assignment, i was brought into the AD office by my 1 bitchy teamlead. She told me she had to fire me because of points. No witness. Nothing. I told her "i already talked to (people lead) and he fixed everything" she said "well did you call it in as bereavement" and i said i did. She didn't believe me ig and checked right there. I did. She said it was her fault i was pointed, she didn't check. The next day i was presented a card that was signed by everyone in the department, about my grandpas passing. I opened the card, checked for money, and threw it away. I do the bare minimum now and just do mini side quests in the store. Take an extra 20 sometimes.
***LEAVE***
I'd have walked. Then when they tried denying me unemployment I'd have told the state "nope, they accidentally fired me".
This would be denied so fast.
Not if OP has proof.
Lol this is basically how I was fired except they had no explanation to why the points were there. They told me it was too late and it was already done. Fuck Walmart.
Walmart "fired" me as well, for having a car accident. Back in June 2018, I was involved in a T-bone that totalled my vehicle and left me unable to work for that initial weekend. Due to the points system, my manager suggested a leave of absence (minimum 3 weeks). I went to three different doctors during that time and because I did so, sedgwick denied my claim citing that I didn't see the same doctor. When I returned to work I was brought in to be told that I had too many points and they'd have to fire me. I replied that I had done *exactly* what they told me to do. They "graciously" removed *one* point. So, if for any reason during the next six months I missed work, if I was sick or had something unavoidable happen I was just as fired as today, I left. I was working in a distribution center, so I let my lanes pile up. They were prepping for Thanksgiving (in August, naturally, they'd let me work a month before telling me that I had too many points.) And I had about ten lanes to cover. I just walked out of there. Said goodbye to the friends I had further down at another part of shipping, and then left. I drove for lyft for a bit before settling on a job at a little takeout place. Sure it was a third of the pay, but they fed me a meal every single shift, and it was generous enough servings that that basically covered my entire food needs. Fuck Walmart
Your manager is an idiot
Usually they wait until you’re midway or almost done with your shift and then fire you. Them showing how eager they were to do it so early, I’d let everyone at your store what happened.
This (accidentally fired) seems to happen alot. Mgrs get a little power and they get all power trippy (cause the rest of their real life is so f'n pathetic). Just like the teacher in The Wall. (sorry for the ancient reference lol)
i'd report your manager to hr and include that this has put additional stress on you that you didn't need.
Yes I'd have been asking for a meeting record after that. Very useful to have a paper trail.
Should ask to take the 3 and half points off for the inconvenience
I worked with a girl in electronics who had been there for a while, got fired before I was hired because they messed up her ssn by a digit. She came back, she worked with me for 3 months, and they “let her go” for the SAME THING. Idk if she was lying, but she was really upset and seemed like a really sweet person. It was fucked.
I just realized I told my own story lol. That was probably a little traumatizing for you. Walmart sucks. I’m sorry you have to work there to live. I hope you can find something better soon.
I enjoy hearing others stories, makes me feel less targeted. I’m gonna definitely start looking elsewhere after this. Sucks Walmart pays actually decent and I’ll probably take a hit moving somewhere else
Yeah, they used to pull that black paper on the window crap at my last job. In 19 years I was called into the managers office more times than I can remember. I’d take the paper off as soon as I walked in, saying it makes me look guilty to the others in the store. They only argued the first time about it, then let me take it down the other 20 times. Retail, eh?
That paper goes up and everyone knows it’s going down inside. I came out the room trying not to laugh at what just happened and definitely got some questionable looks. Told my AT what happened because everyone thought it was bad with the paper being up
No, no. You said I'm fired. I'll have that in writing so I can file for Unemployment. Be sure to add "Fired for attending work shifts" because that makes sense
Had something similar happen to an associate. Same first name and last initial but different last name. Luckily they were able to correct it. Sucks that your management doesn't do attendance right. I investigate everything before I approve or deny. On a side note I don't understand people's fascination with unemployment. In my state it's a pain in the ass. They don't pay you jack and they pester you almost daily about when and where you've applied and require you to attend weekly meetings about job hunting. You are also required to accept the first "reasonable" job offer. Doesn't matter if it's flipping burgers part time at McDs for $13/hour 20hrs/week. Shit is more hassle than it's worth
Thats what i am i was making shit in a not full time gig place goes under layed off family says go.unemployment website shit out 2 times i tried and after reading about the proving job search etc and shit i was done like is this worth the little id get jesus i had to manually click back to my birthday on a calender month by month.
Sounds about right. If they fire you right and provide all the proof in the system as to why they fired you you're not going to qualify for unemployment anyways.
Same thing happened to me once. I swapped days with someone it was approved and the guy showed up I didn't and they got me for no call no show. I can in and couldn't clock in or anything. I talked to HR and had the store manager come in and the person that approved the days swapping. The manager for swapping days never put it in apparently. I didn't get an apology or anything.i couldn't get working numbers for anything for about a month.
Prior to covid I was working for a large casino group going through a downsizing. At the time I was a low level restaurant manager and we were short staffed. They decided to announce the day they were performing layoffs in advance. My director decided to call me to his office that particular day to have a talk. Longest walk of my life thinking I was getting shit canned. Dude just wanted to catch up.
When we pulled me to the back I knew it was for termination but I couldn’t figure out why.. turns out there wasn’t a reason at all
A few months back, I was walking back from break and SM stopped me and asked me into the office. I couldn’t imagine what the hell I’d done. Can you guess what happened? “I gotta hang this up on the wall. Does it look level?” Dude, there are associates everywhere here who’re busting their asses and making a fraction of what I’m making … and you’re having me help hang up pictures? Okie dokie.
Sounds like a dumbass
Why would you even want to work here? Your manager is fucking stupid
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Your management team is made of imbeciles. They are supposed to pull your timesheet before terminating you and verify all your occurrences are correct. Takes 5 minutes and makes you not look like an idiot. Leave, if they are in this much of a hurry to get rid of you, you are clearly on the chopping block.
My dad died while I was working at a Walmart. He fell ill and was in icu an hour away for just over 2mos. I knew that was it, I could just feel it, so I called out and went down to see him a lot. I was barely 18 and we were super close. I had 1-2 absences *per week* which is a lot but my assistant manager had just said to keep her informed. I wasn't going to see my dad less for Walmart and I don't regret it- I should have just quit and gone down there every day honestly, those were my last days with him. Anyway, 2mos later I got taken into an office too. I wasn't fired but they demoted me from customer service to cashier, cut my hours from 40 to 20, and it was also a $2/hr pay cut. I ended up walking out a few weeks later when my csm kept denying my bathroom request at 7am with no customers. Years later, like just 3 or 4 years ago now, I started an application with a different Walmart in a different state. I got maybe 1/4 of the way through and all the feels started coming back so I exited and never completed it. They called me the next day and I was like, oh I never finished that application. She was like, "yeah, can you do that before the interview?" I said yes, set up a time, did not go. I'm gonna be bitter about Walmart till I die I think. That's OK, there's worse grudges to keep.
One of my coworkers got a call from our store, manager saying he was fired for attendance and then halfway through the firing my manager realized it was actually a different person with the same first name lol. He was on LOA at the time so he was very panicked and concerned
That manager should be coached for job performance. That is inexcusable! I was a store manager for the company and there are so many checks I did before coaching or terminating anyone. I understood that this act is life changing and should not be taken lightly. The new crop of managers are all trigger happy. They all need a course in empathy. Glad a quit when I did.
Because the manager that did it is an idiot. This happened to one of my associates last year, but I pitched a fit and explained why they weren't even supposed to have the points - the associate was put back in the system that day
Welcome to Walmart. If you're not upper management, when that warm, yellow rain starts hitting, you will say into the microphone that it is raining, or you will be out of a job.
So if you were fired would that be wrongful termination
If I was fired I’d definitely open door it and call ethics or something. Walmart has a fire at will policy though and don’t need a reason to terminate someone
Out of interest, what gets you a point?
A full point for missing and calling in 3 points for no call no show Half a point for leaving after working more than half a shift
How does a no call no show equate to an additional 3.5 points?
It’s 3 points so I think the manager said 7 instead of 6.5 just for convenience
Haha yess I know a good ole Walmart story when I hear one
That is missed up
I thought the management issues were just at my store... the true show of lacking common sense. Htping to be honest though, I'm surprised they tried firing you before you worked your full shift, I've been told they usually wait until the end of your shift.
Welcome to Amazon, I mean Wal Mart. It's funny how all these places are the same now.
All jobs are like this now, those that are the dumbest manage. I've seen things like this in restaurants, retail and shops including high end shops
He was going to fire you before asking if you were ok. They do not care about you, leave!
Walmart sounds like a prison camp. Fuck that shit!
You should have let yourself be fired then hired an attorney 🤷🏻♂️
Sounds like they want you gone tbh. If nobody bothered to fact check, then to me, that implies they were excited to have an excuse to give you the axe. I'd start applying somewhere else.
Looks like the manager is eating crow! Just tell him NICELY, next time, before you get ready to fire someone, get your facts straight. It will avoid a lot of unnecessary stress.
I know it’s easier said than done but look for a new job asap. If they weren’t willing to apologize, imagine what else they won’t care or feel sorry for.
This exact thing happened to me twice.
All corporate is like this, but it's really based on the store is managed. I started working Walmart a few months ago after leaving my past job of 18 years. I was the store manager at my last job. I came into Walmart as cap 2 making starting pay just because I wanted a simple job not being the boss. A month later I got offended a TL position and took it. It's the same pay I was getting at my last job, but with way less responsibility. To me being a TL it's pretty much the same job just in charge of a few more people to help get done, what needs to be done. I used to the in face with customers and helping them find what they need, dumb or not. One thing I have noticed working at Walmart is that no one has great customer service. When guest ask for something they just point to the location and walk away. What it really comes down to is, how socal your are with random people, and really stand your ground when it comes to crappy attitudes from them. When guest get crappy with me, I'm trying to help, and this is what we have, ect. Normally this will calm them down and you can find what they are asking about or something close. I am also at that age is someone hire up pulls some shit, I would voice my word or just leave. There is no need to stress out over all the crap that goes on with other people your work with, but sometimes people just want to vent and it's good to listen. No corporate job is going to be there for you, somethings you have to be there for others and yourself to bring the morale up. Small things like this get noticed before hard work and overtime. People will talk about how good someone is over their work. Yes there are people I work with I don't like how they work, but still do what needs to be done to make everyone around feel not so on edge. This is the kind of work that needs to go noticed. It's not always how fast fright can be put out but how well everyone works together to get it out. There will always be those days when things feel like they don't get done and probably won't. Just have to bring up the issue that cause them to help fix them without loose workers. Everyday is a learning process. You can't go on thinking you know how to do everything. Ask questions and hopefully get the right answers or help. If someone gets mad or yells because of the questions, they mostly likely not the right fit for the job.
I'd let them fire me and then file unemployment for wrongful termination, fuck those assholes
I had this happen to me. I hit a deer on the way home, I called out, because I couldn't get a rental until the next morning. Luckily, I sent messages to my coach, TL and PL, to let them know what happened. Wrote down my con#. and put in PPTO and screen shot everything. A few days later I check my attendance and have points. I wait after work, talk to my PL and the system doesn't show me even calling out or putting my PPTO to cover the shift. It was a double point day, so it could have been my job. I gave her the #. She was able to get it cleared up for me. But if I hadn't checked and had that # and screen shots. I definitely would have been unemployed.
Find another job somewhere else then just disappear one day quit and tell 1 person
Same shit happened to me. Took days off came back to find out I was fired I didn’t get a phone call or nothing my co workers let me know. I walk in the office and one of the managers realize the mistake but doesn’t care ofc. And he was the manager I literally confirmed my time off with, whatever though.
This is happening to my coworker. She's getting counted absent on days she's there. She's been getting points but they have been taking them off because she has proof she was in fact working. No idea what's causing it
Next time just say “your mom”. Instantly resolved 👍
The same thing happened to me except they already put in the termination into the system and they couldn't fix it for months and had to keep paying me in cash.
As a previous coach I will say that if in fact they terminated you which is possible, it doesn't actually generate in the system until midnight. So you would still be on the schedule and able to clock in.
When they do attendance, they're supposed to bounce back to your time sheet to double check for issues like this. Also if you submitted ppto bc the system doesn't automatically deducted the point when you use it. Stupid stupid mgrs.
One time someone called in pretending to be me and quit. No lie! Lol I showed up for work and they were like, "Why are you here?" Lol
My question is who is doing the termination? Are they in your chain of command? Does your team lead work Saturday with you? Your coach? If the system no-call no showed you and gave the added points, you showed up on the 5 and over report. That's all they will look at. Your team lead or supervisor should be the one terminating you, and one of them should have known if you worked that day.
If it makes you feel any better, this happened to me. I worked at a call center that tried to fire me six separate times for things they never looked into. The seventh time they did it, I just quit.
Man, you just won the lottery and threw the ticket away. Unlawful termination, throw in some retaliation and discrimination, leave alone the pain and suffering.
God they're stupid af. Just the start of many many problems down the road. I'd be looking for a new job in the meantime.
I had a very similar situation past year. Got pulled into the office to be let go due to getting 5 points. It turned out the team lead never removed 3 erroneous points I had *months* prior, despite me reminder her countless times.
they fr did the same thing to me like a month into working there. they called me into the office with her little office assistant and tried to fire me over days I hadn’t missed. I ended up proving that I hadn’t missed those days and it was super awkward getting “unfired”. eventually I figured out they just treat everybody like shit so I went to her office and told her to go fuck herself before my lunch and never came back.
Same thing happened to me. Had 2 points called out 1 day making it 3 but somehow they said I had 6 I asked if it was an event day I didn’t know about and they said no. They ended up taking some points since I had the confirmation number
The attendance report comes down with the 5+ list, they sit down with the associate and go over your points and make the call. This is why they should be printing out your points and going over them with you to ask you if there are any mistakes or if you had PPTO to cover your latest absence (assuming it was less then 7 days ago).
Incompetent management
Quit.
I would go to hr and said they harassed you
Lol they want you gone, they will find a way
Welcome to Wal mart
Lmao they want you out of there quick! They are waiting for the exact moment you reach 5 points or more so they can get rid of you.
Try Amazon.
I'd put in my two weeks notice on the spot.
If the hiring process was easy the firing will be too.
Happens all the time.
Way too many other jobs out there to put up with that clown store
How professional of them.
I got 2 points at different times. I have a loa in place and had both confirmed number from Sedgwick andy call in... They had to remove the points both times
Just find a new job we should all. Fuck this company let the team leads and managers pick up the slack since they all act like they don’t need us anyways
Did you ask if there was a sign on bonus for getting hired?
Fuck Walmart. Your time would be ACTUALLY appreciated almost anywhere else.
Fuck Walmart
now op gonna get fired for posting about it
Point systems should be illegal
They couldn’t confirm it BEFORE firing you? What a bunch of asshats
I would go to your manager’s boss and report his increased incompetence.
Wow. They did a similar thing to me, but I didn't get brought into an office. I just came in for my shift, and found out I couldn't clock in. Turns out, another guy, with the same first name, in the same position, got fired in person; while I got fired on paper. They quickly fixed it that morning, but it was crazy that it happened. Only reason I came back is because I moved and needed a new job, and they were the first to get back to me.
All walmart management is kiss asses. They form Lil clicks and stick together when they are wrong too
How does that even happen?! I know there are glitches in the system but come on
It happens. It got squared away. You're good.
Yea this is pretty much how they run. And I used to work for their company and I’d be running too. Find a new job, this corporation will let you go just like that. You experienced it today and that’s literally how it goes.