1. Low wages
Many people who worked at Walmart expressed their disapproval regarding how much they are paid for doing their job. For example, a few years ago, the average annual wage for an employee was no more than $13,860, while the federal bankruptcy line for a family with three members was $14,630.
This type of information made a lot of people claim that working at Walmart actually means poverty. In addition to that, several studies regarding this company stated that their business model, “low-wage, low-benefit”, actually affected the overall country’s economic status.
2. Poor working conditions
Over the years, a lot of people who worked at Walmart complained about the fact that they spent a lot of hours working overtime without being paid for it.
Moreover, they said that they were forced to work off the clock and they didn’t receive proper rest periods or meal breaks. In 2008, the employees who were sick of the way they were treated decided to tell their story in court. In order to settle the lawsuits, the company agreed to pay them a massive amount of money, $352 million to be exact.
Another piece of criticism that the giant brand received was the fact that they have a policy in which they have to lock the doors during night shifts. The company said that they designed this rule in order to protect them in threatening neighborhoods.
However, people weren’t happy with the fact that they couldn’t get out in case of family emergencies or natural disasters, such as hurricanes.
2 thoughts on “5 Things Seriously Wrong With Walmart”
They screwed me out of $16.20 once so I don’t shop there anymore. I still have the receipt that says they owe me but they claim that I was given another receipt as well. I never received the one they are claiming and they said they have me on video receiving this paper but I don’t know what they are talking about. I complained to every manager plus their online customer service to no avail.
I worked for Walmart for 18 and a half years. Walmart was a small store in Sebastian Florida at the time. In 1989 they built a super Walmart a couple miles away and just before it opened all the employees were put to work stocking the shelves among other things. The registers had to be put together, and I guess they wanted to save money, so management assigned two cashiers to each register that was to be assembled. All the parts of the register were set out for us. We had to thread cables through holes in the hollow shell of the register to be connected up. It was so long ago that I can’t remember exactly how many parts there were to the register. Soon after that we were assigned a newly hired person to be train on the registers, instead of the managers doing it. When Sam died we noticed changes. For one thing, they made it an open all night store. No more employee picnics, no more barbeques for the employees in the back of the store. No more good job certificates in a frame showing Walmart’s appreciation for the good job we were doing. We knew it was Sam’s kids that took over and stopped all that. After working there for years we noticed that people that were just hired were starting off with a higher wage, but our wages stayed the same. I retired in 2008.