Walmart Employee Reviews

3.0

Wal-Mart Associate (Current Employee)

20.4.2014, Job Location: Wal-Mart Associate (Current Employee)

First thing is to continue to prepare the store for customers by making everything presentable and easy to retrieve.

I have learned that if something looks good to the employee, it will look good to the customer.

I have refrained from management because I cannot do 3rd shift requirements that are part of the job.

The people I work with are really nice and we try to help each other when we can.

The hardest part of my job is not having enough time to put all the items away that customers have left for us that are in the wrong place. It can be frustrating when the time issue is involved because we are always ready to help customers and that can take time.

The most enjoyable part of my experience with Wal-Mart was when I was in the bakery making cupcakes. I used to say my favorite place to be is Wal-Mart bakery.

Now I am all over the store. I do like details and organizing. I especially like working in the craft section, opening little boxes of merchandise and matching UPC codes on the display.

4.0

Retail Sales Associate (Current Employee)

14.3.2014, Job Location: Topeka, KS

Every night I walk into my job I never know what to expect because every night is different and I never know what my tasks will be until I come in that night. A typical day is fast pace, stocking shelves, working in the back room binning and picking merchandise, cashiering, resetting mods for new merchandise, and sometimes I do a little of all of those in one night.

I love the people I work with that is a bonus they are all great people and very helpful when needed. I think that the hardest part of the job is when you try the best that you can to help a customer but don't fulfill their needs such as if we are out of something that they needed or we do not have what they are looking.

The most enjoyable part of my job is interacting with different customers, helping them out if they need it, and just to see smiles on peoples faces.

3.0

Department Manager (Former Employee)

13.3.2014, Job Location: Tyler, TX

As a department manager my typical day was always filled with much to do (scanning outs, working and binning left over freight, cleaning up leftover cardboard, etc.). I learned a lot about retail in the time I worked there.

As far as backroom and sales floor processes, and how to properly stock and maintain a store so customers can find what they need, and safely do so. The management seems to have communication issues from time to time, as well as not always treat all associates and customers they way a manager should. I did however make some good friends out of working there with fellow associates and managers alike.

As with any workplace of course the proper treatment varied. Overall I enjoyed working there overall, but the quality of the store I worked for seems to be dipping year by year. Within 3 years more than a handful of managers had either quit, or transfered to another store due to lack of communication and respect from there supervisors. Its a great place to work if you find your particular area in the store you enjoy, and you have a good sense of patience and understanding of the effect stress and a large workload can have on a manager of such a large retail store.

Great job security, and great benefits if you stick with the company.

1.0

Department Manager/Sales and Inventory Associate (Former Employee)

5.3.2014, Job Location: Hastings, MN

While Walmart professes to be a place of equal opportunity for all, it is anything but that. There are two cultures and classes. One is the salaried management, the other are the hourly associates. The management follows an almost cult-like devotion to the regional and home office, above and beyond what is normally found in other coperate cultures. Reading and studing the sayins of ""Mr Sam"" is encouraged. Standard answers and phrases are used in dealing with employee problems. The number one goal is manipulating and lying to the associates to get the most amount of work from them at the least possible pay.

The hardest part of working there is that the work never stops. The more you accomplish, the more is asked of you until it is impossible to get it all done. Walmart threatens and finds reasons to terminate anyone who talks about unionizing, as it does with people who get sick or injured while on the job. As an example, if you need medical leave, you are told your job will be held for six weeks and then you will be permanently replaced. If you do come back, management claims it will find you soomething to do, but not at the same level you left. Federal law requires companies to provide 90 days of short term medical leave. Walmart does what it wants and then dares employees to do anything about it.

In short, unless you are a manager who enjoys blackening souls and crushing dreams, or you are someone who desperatly needs work, stay away from Walmart. It will only end in tears.

1.0

Pharmacy cashier / Pharmacy trainee (Former Employee)

26.2.2014, Job Location: Central, LA

It was very nice at first. I learned alot of things being a pharmacy cashier to begin with. I loved the customers and loved helping them. The pharmacy was very busy all the time. Management was not that supportive, as far as getting help with a line of 10 or more customers.

I think the district manager could have imported more help with getting customers checked out in an efficient and more timely manner. When I went back to train as CPhT, I was thrilled at the help and support I received from my co workers and the manager at that time, They taught me so much and all were patient with me and encouraged me to see it through, However, when the new pharmacy manager came, she instantly disliked me and others.

She is a poor manager, not caring about customers or anyone but her self and the "rise to power" , only cared about more power she could receive. I know that I would stll be employed and progressing if it wasn't for her. I miss my customers and co workers. All in All I give it a 10+ BEFORE new management came. Now, I would not recommend anyone to work there if you really CARE about customers and helping them, because that does not exist there anymore.

I would go back there in a heart beat if the new manager wasn't there anymore,. The hardest part of the job for me was learning the insurance imput in computer. The most enjoyable part was helping and assisting the customers or just listening to them talk and letting them know that you really cared about their well-being.

1.0

Sales Associate (Former Employee)

20.2.2014, Job Location: Wylie, TX

I personally worked for Walmart for a little over 2 years. I found this company terrible to work for. I think the Management Team is a joke. In my particular store we had Sr. Management talking behind co-workers as well as employees backs.

Making fun of employees for various reasons handicapped, personal attacks etc. I found this behavior repulsive and ultimately the reason I chose to leave Walmart. They say not all stores are like the one I was assigned to. In my observation as a shopper at Walmart I would occasionally talk to employees while shopping.

I would say 75-80% of the people I talked to were dissatisfied employees for one reason or another. I also don't need to mention the low pay Walmart pays their associates. It is an extremely tense working environment and the the low pay doesn't help.

Medical and Dental benefits are less than desirable. I would not recommend Walmart as a good place to work.

3.0

Assistant Manager (Current Employee)

5.2.2014, Job Location: Wallace, NC

My day begins at 7am. Usually there are two other assistant managers, and the store manager who tours the entire store with myself. We look for roughly several things. Overall cleanliness, whether we have enough products on the counters, if pricing is correct, if sale items are properly displayed so that customers can compare pricing, are a few of the basic areas of focus during the tours.

We make notes of things that need addressing both on the sales floor and the back room. Each assistant has an hourly assistant. I usually meet with that assistant so that we can plan ways to complete daily task in addition to any extra task that the store manager needs. We assign these task to various associates, and follow up with them throughout the day. I spend several hours handling administrative items, and customer complaints.

Also I plan, with the help of the rest of our team, how to merchandise items to gain maximum sales. This is a quick overview of my typical day as an assistant manager at Wal-Mart.

4.0

Cashier/ Customer Sales Representative (Current Employee)

26.1.2014, Job Location: Centerville

This job is what you make of it. The managers will only do what you stay on them to do. No one is going to look out for you, you have to look out for yourself. Starting from the very bottom there are not many opportunities available unless you are there for 4+ years.

Even then it is hard to get into another area or on the floor. Being a cashier is very boring, the only excitement out of the day is police and customer thief drama. It is all about the customers and sometimes they converse with you, however you are required to keep doing your job so it is hard to have a conversation at any part of the day other than lunch. The hardest part of the job is staying busy.

When things are slow you have to show that you are the best at what you do. Redlining to some managers can still look like you are doing nothing so I suggest to walk around the store picking up trash etc. The most enjoyable part of this job is the relationships that you hold with your team.

I have a great team of cashiers and cashier managers that I know will do the right thing, the best part is that they can count on me to do my job.

2.0

Overnight Stock Associate (Former Employee)

20.1.2014, Job Location: Abingdon, MD

A typical day at work: Grab carts for trash and cardboard, go to my department, find 14 to 18 pallets on average stacked taller than myself to sift through, work what I can, about halfway through the shift, manager lets me know that I have more pallets accross the store in another department that I am to work as well before my shift ends.

Somehow, most days I could get most if not all of it done. They expected more out of me because I worked harder, which is understandable, however, my pay never increased for the extra work i was doing, nor was I offered a higher position.

Not worth my time. the hardest part of the job was trying to go above and beyond when so much was asked of me. Being a manager for almost for years now, I would never go back to it or ask that much out of one specific employee. I didn't pay attention to most of my coworkers a lot of gossipers that i wanted no part of.

Though one or two would help me take my pallets back to storage upon occasion. the most enjoyable part of this job....honestly, was leaving it.

1.0

Overnight Stocker (Former Employee)

4.1.2014, Job Location: Springfield, MO

Working overnight shifts at Wal-Mart predicates how your life will be during the day. I lost 20 lbs since I started working there 10 months ago. The physical labor can be overwhelming and the expectations to complete the tasks within a certain time frame is extremely stressful.

The worst part of the job wasn't even the labor, it was the management. Not a week went by where one manager in particular would threaten me with job termination. I know it's their jobs to supervise but getting threats of getting my "face pounded in" for not getting 1 of 5 pallets off the floor before 6 a.m. was beyond infuriating.

The worst experience was witnessing a manager actually pull out a watch and time an older lady to see how fast she could stock an item on the opposite side of the aisle saying things like, "and don't run," which left the lady in tears once he left.

Management is Wal-Marts worst aspect.

1.0

Cashier (Former Employee)

24.12.2013, Job Location: Santee,Ca

I was a seasonal cashier I don't know if it is just the Walmart I was at or all are like this but this one was a horrible employer to me. In another words if I ever go to hell I expect to wake up in a 24 hour Walmart kind of thing.

I don't know where to start but first I will start with the erratic schedule it's evening, nights one day early morning the next. I wasn't given at least seven breaks while I was there, it was always a mystery if I would get one or a lunch. I would often call for a manager for change while cashiering (for my drawer) and they would never come. In fact, at Walmart, if you need a manager for anything they will not come and you are left there with the customer to explain why. (you after a while will throw the management under the bus because realistically it's not your fault).

You are never told anything, in fact it is your job to chase management down to figure out your schedule or to make changes to it even though it was someone else in Management who told you to work a certain shift. What ever happened to, if someone wanted you to work, scheduling for it?

Also the store I worked at was a mess, things were always out of place, left thrown around and it seemed one out of four customers items were wrong up wrong. Oh and as a last present from this store, I guess as a Christmas present, they didn't bother to tell me when my last day was, they simply stopped scheduling me.

Even though I worked every weekend for Walmart while I was there and even dressed up like Santa, far beyond my job description, Oh and didn't miss a single day.

2.0

Electronic Sales Associate (Former Employee)

19.12.2013, Job Location: Marble Falls, TX

I worked at walmart for about a month as a temp electronic sales associate. After being offered the position I had to wait for 2 1/2 months to begin training. My training consisted of being put in front a computer and sales floor training, I finished my computer training in 2 days, my sales floor training never took place and I was left on the sales floor alone with no knowledge of the registers in that department due to the registers being older and not in the training programs, the manager and other associates left and did not return until almost closing, in that time I managed to learn the registers with no instruction and sell over $3000 in electronics including, HDTV's, various component cables, Xbox 360, PS3, PC games and game cards, Prepaid phones, prepaid phone cards, MP3 players ETC.

I spent the remainder of my days having my schedule change without notice and being yelled at for "not being ontime"

When I stopped to ask another associate about a product I didn't know much about so I could figure out who might find use of it in the future the manager stopped us and screamed at us cussing and so on to the point that customers left the department.

I turned in my badge and clocked out after HR refused to help me file a complaint for harassment. Instead the HR personnel spent the entire time texting their friend setting up plans for the weekend. So I resigned.

5.0

Service Desk Associate (Former Employee)

7.12.2013, Job Location: Woodstock Georgia

Wal-Mart as a company is wonderful. They have excellent focus on community and they are sensitive to their associates needs to balance work and family. In a normal working day I would preform the regular task of cashiering and what they referred to as "zoning" which was simply to keep the area around my assigned register clean, neat and the merchandise easily accessible.

When I was transferred to the Customer Service desk a normal day included returning ,restocking , and organizing merchandise, answering phones, solving customer concerns, processing paperwork, normal sales and money wiring. My co-workers were always a blast to work with and made every day fun to work through, even when we delt with difficult customers.

The most enjoyable part of the day was simply getting to work with people I enjoyed being around and the most difficult part of the job would have to be working through being short handed.

3.0

Any associate (Current Employee)

23.11.2013, Job Location: The Woodlands, TX

I clock in, check my tasks to see where i am put. If i am up front cashiering then i cashier as well as clean all registers, sweep around the registers and zone all merchandise at registers. I separate the returns and take them to the designated area and put them up.

If i am to stock, i am to find all my merchandise and put it in its designated area. after i have stocked all my pallets of items and have done my picks (items from the backroom that need to be put on the shelves), i take back the overstock, thrown trash where it needs to go, and take care of any of my claims. once i get back to the department i am working i zone and finish any tasks on hand.

If i am in the backroom, i would tell each associate where they need to start picking (pulling needed merchandise from the bins) we get all the picks that the 9-60 tells us to pull out of the system and then we take the items out to the floor so the stockers can stock the merchandise. Once we return from lunch we bin the overstock in the areas they are suppose to be binned. After all merchandise is binned we clean the backroom by shooting pallets up, sweeping and organizing.

During each of these jobs i am also going to the computer and tasking on and off of all assigned jobs.

4.0

Sales Associate (Former Employee)

14.11.2013, Job Location: Susanville, CA

I would face and stock crafts, seasonal, and fabrics. After a while, I became cross-trained in Electronics and Photo. I loved most of my managers, and communicated with them daily. The hardest part of my job was mindlessly going through the aisles to find what needed to be faced.

Also dealing with certain customers in fabrics. I enjoyed my job, but it was boring for the most part. I loved working in Crafts and Fabrics, because I felt like a kid in a candy store, seeing a whole bunch of things I could create. I liked most of the customers that came through my department, because we'd exchange ideas for crafts, or painting, or even creating blankets and costumes.

This was my first real job, and I learned about how important your attendance is. I learned how to operate a cash register, how to manage your time to complete tasks and projects, how to ask for help when you need it, and how to keep everything tidy and clean.

4.0

Customer Service Manager (Former Employee)

9.11.2013, Job Location: Orem, UT

Every day I got to interact and meet new people. I learned that everyone's situation is different yet one customer is not more valuable than another. Every customer had the right to be treated fairly and positively.

Management was spread out all over the store, there were at least two different managers in the store at all times. All of them were unique and interesting individuals with a different outlook on how things should be.

I absolutely loved my co-workers! All of them were so cool and different. I always enjoyed coming to work and socializing with each person I worked with. It definitely was one of the greatest perks of working there.

Hardest part I would have to say would be on certain days, usually later at night when they would only schedule one CSM to run the entire show at the front end for 2 hours or more. That is a huge responsibility for a store that can get so busy. Keeping track of everyone's breaks, lunches, and ending shifts and not being able to take a break yourself because well, you are in charge of everything. It was stressful but I can honestly say I have grown a lot more because of shifts like that.

The part I enjoyed the most was making a difference in people's day. No matter how small, if it was assisting someone to their car with their groceries to helping resolve a conflict with Wal-Mart's return policy. The scenarios were endless in how I could help so many people at one time and it was truly fulfilling how that happened on a daily basis.

3.0

Overnight Grocery Stocker (Former Employee)

31.10.2013, Job Location: Caldwell, ID

Overnight Grocery - Hard work, hard hours, fast paced.

Typical day: Unload is behind, help out, pull freight to floor, unload from pallet because there aren't anymore carts. Someone stole my pallet jack, find another, stock shelves, break, stock shelves, lunch, stock shelves, finish up, prep excess freight for back room, clean-up, break, face product on shelves, if you finish early help someone who isn't finished yet.

What I learned; My limitations. I learned I need to ask for and accept help when it's offered.

Management: Not all managers are the same, each has there own interpretation of what is important. Learn what it is, and do it.

My co-workers: these are the people that are in the trenches with you, they understand what you're going through and can empathize, and sympathize. If you make friends, there humor and good will can sustain you when you feel like giving up.

The hardest part of the job: is the job, it's just physically tiring. You need a high endurance to keep going, especially overnight hours.

The most enjoyable part of the job: depends on the person, it could be looking at the massive amount of freight you just threw, and saying ""Done."", or like for me the people you work with.

2.0

Sales Associate (Former Employee)

15.10.2013, Job Location: Warner Robins, GA

So far I have worked at Walmart two times in my life, the first time when I was in college and recently for a little over a year. I would have to say the latter experience was the worst of the two due to the management, working EVERY weekend, and the fact that it was a second job.

The recent administration that runs this company clearly does not care about its employees as much as it did in earlier years. In saying that I also feel your experience rests on the people at your given location. At my location, I felt like there were two problems that bothered me.

Being constantly understaffed and having management that was inconsistent. Most days I felt like I was everywhere but my own department and most shifts I was the only person assigned to my department so it stayed unattended. When I worked nights I would have to cover 2-3 departments because no one had them covered.

Also if you worked during a shift change, the incoming managers would often want you to stop what you are currently doing and do something different. On a positive note, my coworkers were pretty nice and most customers were pretty good as well.

I would think as much money that Walmart makes, they would could afford to have effective people, great pay, and excellent benefits but what do I know. Walmart did, however, teach me one valuable lesson: Avoid retail unless it's something you really want to do.

5.0

Courtesy Associate (Former Employee)

2.10.2013, Job Location: Danville, VA

When you had the opening shift which is 7am to 3 or 4 pm,you started off sweeping the parking lot and all the grass around the store of all trash and debris.Also doing any extra duties or tasks given to you by management on that particular day.

Then after taking the trash to the trash compactor to be disposed of properly,I would go back outside and using the cart machine to collect all the carts in the parking lot and returning them to the cart bay inside the store.

Also helping customers load/unload their groceries and merchandise.

Management is good and can be really hard on you when you need it,and especially around the big holiday rush in October through December.

I loved working with my co-workers,we all had a sense of humor and helped each other out with work and even talking about things outside of work.

The hardest part of the job was when it got busy around the first of the month or hildays and the cart machines would break down.That meant having to push carts by hand and sometimes you were working by yourself for more than 3 or four hours.

Along with my co-workers,I loved the customers especially the kids that came in,they loved seeing me since I'm so tall and friendly.

I gained so much experience working for Wal-Mart,from learning how to work in a team,and how to do some things with a time limit in mind or a deadline to meet.

5.0

Sales Associate (Former Employee)

20.9.2013, Job Location: Lockport, IL

Typical day at work consists of working any overnight freight left behind. Then working new freight coming in. At 2pm, we stop tasks to ""zone"" our areas, or make each aisle look neat and shoppable. Periodically 'mods' have to be set for new product placement. As an Electronics and Phone employee, I've been required to extensively inform the customer about ongoing progressive technology. After the 8 hour shift, you communicate to your supervisor what got done, and what didn't for the next shift. We get 1 hour unpaid lunch and 2 15min breaks.

I've learned a lot of people in this nation are poor and Walmart has found a way to be a successful business surrounding that principle. The co-workers are the best part of the job, as working together gets the job done and quicker. I've learned that consumers buy a lot of supplies constantly and we have to keep up with that demand.

Many feel that there's too many managers running each Wal-Mart, to the point where they're kind of stepping over each other's toes if you will. But there are some really great Assistant Managers, and both Store Managers I've worked for really know how to make money.

Hardest part of the job was knowing that our tasks are really never finished. The consumers always going to consume and we're going to have to restock constantly. But great customers and co-workers make up for it.

5.0

Receiving Processor (Former Employee)

6.9.2013, Job Location: Sanger, TX

Unloading freight in a fast safe manner, loading merchandise on conveyors labeling freight in a time critical manner for speed and accuracy's.

Co-worker's where excellent could not be any better, for a great team of leaders.

The hardest part of the job was meeting production numbers while maintain safety guidelines with out getting written up due to low production numbers the average processor unloading trucks had to do five thousand cases which was really hard to accomplish without cheating the system to gain production numbers.

The most enjoyable was the pay scale.

Management was under a lot of stress because of production numbers that they knew where hard to obtain due to the fact you can't control the freight trucks that pull into the unloading docks.

They want you to get involved in every charity event they have in the end you don't get anything in return for it.

They do give out money gift cards for incentives.

But within the 90 days of employment there they went up on there production number requirements three times trying to make it unreachable to obtain production goals.

3.0

Dry grocery stocker (Former Employee)

2.9.2013, Job Location: Chesapeake, VA

A regular day working at Wal-mart, the feelings can be neutral, fun at times, and depressing. About 60% of the staff, employees, are very lazy and its very frustrating to see when your a hard worker. The work is quite easy but the quantity is often huge, and the time is short. I truely enjoyed working there, but the hardest part of my experience was to work very hard for a small pay.

My years of experience in this field should have given me a great starting pay, but I was basically looked at as a new hire, with no experience, getting minimum wage. Although I was suspected to work with my years of experience. Very unfair. I did learn alot of things dealing with the company and how to operate certain machines.

All in all, I would not recommend this job to ANY new hires, without the knowledge on how this store operates.

2.0

Cashier (Former Employee)

31.8.2013, Job Location: New Hartford, NY

This was one of the worst places I ever worked! I applied at Walmart #1677 in the hopes of being able to advance in the company, and expecting minimum wage was excited to hear I'd be making $8.30/hr, but was sadly mistaken after being there a few months! If you're hired at any position - besides cashier - you're able to cross-train in almost any department so you have some great advancement (and pay increase) options, but if you're a cashier like I was they won't let you switch anywhere in the store.

They are so understaffed with cashiers that they don't let you switch anywhere else in the store, but they do cut your hours so that they can train all of the Sales Associates on the registers so if they are getting long lines they can just bring up all the associates instead of getting more cashiers. They treat you like dirt, and if you don't kiss their behinds you're treated even worse!

The Customer Service Managers (CSM'S) that run the cashiers are a bunch of young immature barley out of high school kids who are best friends and play favorites with the cashiers and hardly ever do their job, and if you're not in their ""group"" of friends than you better not even sneeze wrong!! If you do you'll run the chance of getting fired for something you didn't even do!

I was beyond excited when I was able to put in my two week notice and able to leave the store! I don't ever look back and think I should have stayed, being homeless on the street would be better than having to ever work there again!!

1.0

Sales Associate (Former Employee)

10.8.2013, Job Location: Benton, IL

Management will lie to save their jobs. They harass employees to get them to quit. Management will also go in and change schedules without notice, or schedule you a day that you have stated you cannot work without prior request. When you get injured and it is another employee fault they will do everything they can to make sure you get as little as possible. They will starve you out to get you to settle.

Management has also been known to provide false documentation at workman compensation hearings. They also bring in managers who have had ethics violation complaints made against them as witnesses.

Management refuses to correct payroll when they are in error. In fact, it took me 15 months to get my back pay, which was paid in cash because they wanted to make sure they did not get in trouble with corporate.

2.0

Cashier (Former Employee)

2.8.2013, Job Location: Pekin, IL

To start, Walmart is a fantastic company for everyone in the world who doesn't work there. If you ask any employee - they will tell you that they hate their job and they wish that they could find a different one. If they tell you any different, it's because their review is coming up and they need to fool management so they don't get fired. My time at Walmart was far from the best.

I had wonderful coworkers - and that was the only good part of working under that roof. I met some of the best people in the world while working there.

The management was way to preoccupied with their own stuff to even consider listening to some of the lower employees. They never took anything I or any of my other coworkers had to say. The store manager was a jerk and tried to make everyone do harder work for half of the pay that they should be receiving.

Walmart is a monopoly. They don't care about their workers. They only care about their productions. You are only a number to them, and they don't care about what happens in your personal life. If you're still breathing, you can work.