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This.
As far as "sinking that low," however, keep in mind that there are times when some could use an extra few hundred bucks a week, and WalMart was just one of those places where getting a job was that easy. If ever I fall into that situation again, however, I think I'll just consider working a call center for a few weeks instead.
I remember reading in Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America how she was never officially offered employment at Walmart, but rather went from applicant to orientation with the drug test hanging over her head.
>>First you’re an applicant, then you’re an orientee, and gone is the intermediate time during which you know you have been offered the job and can negotiate with the employer as a “free agent.” The drug test “tilts the playing field even further,” Ehrenreich explains, “establishing that you, and not the employer, are the one who has something to prove.” It’s all a way of making sure the employee feels perennially “one down, way down, like a supplicant with her hand stretched out.”<<
In college, I did telephone marketing for my school's alumni association. I hated it and I sucked at it as well, so I left after three months. I also quit a part-time retail job after 2 months due to relocation and just sheer misery.
I was using it as a second job. I made it very clear upon being hired. They promised me part-time, working every other night.
That wasn't the case.
-They had me schedule for 4 nights in a row, working 8.5 hour shifts; just enough to keep me under full-time status. This meant that for 4 consecutive says, I would literally get no sleep/rest, unlike what had been promised upon hire.
-The job sucked. Stocking is not for me. Not to mention, everything was extremely disorganized, from palette setups to workers.
-Drunk management
-Drugged-out co-workers
I could go on and on. It just was not for me.
Maybe some people like it?
Drunk managers, I can't testify one way or the other: drugged out co workers: nope!!!!!
Now I do understand stocking not being for everyone and yes, WalMart is not the best when it comes to scheduling. I know of others who have had the problem.
Six weeks. I was hired by Verizon to support there call center. I had six weeks of paid training, but a condition of my employment I had to pass a test every two weeks. I passed the first two tests, failed the 3rd and last one. So out the door I went. I wasn't happy about losing that job, but I ended up at a far better place, the base pay is better and I enjoy my job a lot more. I would have been miserable at a call center with people yelling at me all day that there FIOS isn't working, but with incentives and overtime I would have been making over 100k a year.
Drunk managers, I can't testify one way or the other: drugged out co workers: nope!!!!!
Now I do understand stocking not being for everyone and yes, WalMart is not the best when it comes to scheduling. I know of others who have had the problem.
Just read about new scheduling software that predicts how many employees will be needed during certain times in retail operations. Unfortunately, it doesn't predict very far ahead of time, making it difficult if not impossible for employees to work other jobs, schedule family get togethers, etc.
As to co-workers on drugs, unless a company is testing pretty consistently, I suspect this is going on more than most folks believe.
Was talking this topic over with a neighbor. He said that he got a job at a college early in his IT career. But another job came through that he'd interviewed for, so he quit going into the college job. Said he got several paychecks before they realized he was gone.
Just read about new scheduling software that predicts how many employees will be needed during certain times in retail operations. Unfortunately, it doesn't predict very far ahead of time, making it difficult if not impossible for employees to work other jobs, schedule family get togethers, etc.
As to co-workers on drugs, unless a company is testing pretty consistently, I suspect this is going on more than most folks believe.
Of course! And frankly, I don't particularly care what one does during their free time. What BOTHERS me is when it is blatantly obvious, and when it affects work performance.
1 hour and ten minutes. I was hired on as a cart pusher at Walmart when I was 19 and was told to go push carts during a thunderstorm with no help or supervisor. I was outside for about ten minutes, and after getting soaking wet and freaked out by all the lightning and the fact I was pushing metal carts, I ducked back inside. While inside, a better job I had applied for called me on my cell and asked if I could come in for an interview the next morning. I said, "Of course." and proceeded to simply leave without clocking out or anything. I just threw my vest down by the carts. I had the other job for two years so I would say it was a good decision.
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