Working @ WalMart
 

Hi folks,

We have a WalMart opening up in our area and I'm looking for some work over the summer since I'm out of college and on break. I'm not looking for something to take up all my time, just something part-time.

I was thinking of applying at WalMart since I hear they're a pretty good company to work for. I was just wondering if anyone knew of the discount that they offered on merchandise and DVDs and what their dress code policy is? Anyone know of their advancement opportunities?

I worked for a company in the past that had a very, very, very strict dress code policy, but from what I hear WalMart seems to be pretty laid back, and definitely not as rigid as the last place that I worked at that was (Hint) "started by a mouse."

Thanks in advance!

I work for wally world. You get 10 percent off on everything except food. I work in a warehouse so we have no dress code. Promotions are from within usually, and overall it's not a horrible place to work for.

At my Wal-Mart you also get 10 percent off on junk food, which would include potato chips and cookies. And oh yeah, I hate working there. The only reason I'm still there is because I am making $7.00 an hour and other places around here don't pay that well.

I'd work there in a pinch, if nothing else better came along, but thankfully I got to pass them up in favor for the full time job I have now. My first job was at Wal Mart, and I wouldn't say it was bad, but I was seasonal help and I had little to no training for my department, and that made it a hellish experience. And most managers treated me like crap since I was just seasonal help. I only worked with a few good people. And I have had hardly any good experiences with their customer service as a customer, so I would hardly care if one day they go the Shopko and K Mart route and go bankrupt and fall out of public conscience.

I have worked for Wal-Mart for several years and it's a pretty good place to work. I make almost $12 an hour so for me the pay is good. You get 10% off everything except sale, clearance and groceries. The dress code varies according to the department you work in. I wear jeans since I don't work on the sales floor. Also, receiving and Garden Center associates wear jeans. Cashiers and floor help can't wear blue jeans. Other denim colors are ok.
Be prepared to work weekends and nights. And to those who whine because of the bad pay, lousy hours, lousy supervisors...
QUIT. No one is holding a gun to your head. Quit and get another job (newsflash!!!! there's crap to deal with at ANY job) or go to college and get a degree and get the job you want or go into business for yourself.
I hate reading about people whining about their jobs. Jeez. QUIT.

My wife worked there for most of last year in the pharmacy. Like others have said, the pay was decent for retail work but the benefits were great: 10% off most everything for her and for me as the spouse (so maybe for your immediate family in your case), relaxed dress code (no blue jeans but very casual), and best of all, discount stock purchases. We saved tons of $$$ using the 10% discount, and we also bought a lot of stock through their plan - Wal-Mart will probably decline at some point in the future like nearly every large retailer, but that point's a long way off.

My wife has always been an outstanding worker and they wanted to promote her to a dept. mgr. within about 2 months of her working there, but she declined - more work for about the same pay. But they clearly do promote from within, and it's very noticeable if you're doing a great job.

To her, the one big drawback was the stereotypical Wal-Mart customer - constantly looking to save a buck, to the point of bickering over literally a few pennies - "Target has this shampoo for $1.94" when it was $1.97 at Wal-Mart. So be prepared for that if you work on the sales floor. If you can't take that, go for the back room but then you might work really weird hours.

Check out the Wal-Mart sex party webpage:
http://www.walmartsucks.com/dirty_laundry.html

That website is down, can't access it at all.

I didn't even go to it. If it's anything like the Best Buy sucks page, then I don't want to see it. It's so mindboggingly staggering that anybody would hate a company that much to start a website about it and that people would actually waste their time posting stories there, as if anybody else gives a rat's ass. It's almost as worthless as www.wheresgeorge.com, ranking up there in the top worthless sites for people with nothing better to do. I sometimes wonder people who devote all these hate pages to certain things if way deep down inside they really love the place but are afraid to admit it. Kinda like homophobes who harbor those feelings themselves.

calhoun, you sound awfully bitter about this. Oh yeah, it's regularly, not reguarlly.

Well anything is better than working a theme park, ahem I worked at Knotts Berry Farm for minimum wage, I had people's lives at risk on my hands for i was a ride operator. THe only benefit you get is you get to go to the park for free but only You, so unless all you're friends also work there then it's cool, you get a measly 10% discount at their knotts store and 2 measly guest passes per quarter.


I just worked during summer so it was fun to meet alot of other young people. Given a choice I'd say Wal-Mart seems to be oKAy, though I think I would rather work for Best Buy since I'm there like every week anyways.

I can't reach it anymore either. It was a message board where Walmart employees were reporting about who was sleeping with whom at their store. Quite entertaining.

Check out this article about WalMart from the Boulder Weekly:

http://www.boulderweekly.com/archive...overstory.html

An excerpt:

It sounds like a lousy place to work.

well, I worked at Wal-Mart for 16 months before I moved, and I liked it...my co-workers liked it....dress code is relaxed

ummm....about that news article....yeah I was Parttime, and I maded $10,000...full timers worked twice as many hours as me...they must have made way more.

...the average employee makes only $15,000 a year for full-time work. Most are denied even this poverty income, for they're held to part-time work. While the company brags that 70 percent of its workers are full-time, at Wal-Mart "full time" is 28 hours a week, meaning they gross less than $11,000 a year.

Health-care benefits? Only if you've been there two years; then the plan hits you with such huge premiums that few can afford it-only 38 percent of Wal-Marters are covered


I work 36 hours a week, am hourly, and make right about 30k a year with the overtime ($14.60 an hour). I've been there 5 years and I got insurance benefits after 3 months.

I just had another question for those that posted and are working @ WalMart or know people who do....

If I were to do cashier, how are their shifts run? Are they set, like all cashiers work 6 hour shifts, or are they variable like some work 6 hours, some work 8 hours?

Thanks!

I'm surprised to learn that employees only get a 10% discount. That seems pretty meager. When my wife worked part-time at Restoration Hardware she got a 40% discount, which I suppose is attributable to the company's high markup on inventory - we spent way more there than she earned in wages.

I always imagined that all retail workers were generally getting a 25% or better discount. It seems to me that Walmart could probably increase the employee discount without losing much money.

Sears is the same, 10% for employees. When Sears has the "friends & family night" (10% off everything in the store) a couple of times a year, we get another 10% off.

If we want to use a visa/mc/discover card, we have to use the Sears branded card to get the discount.

If you have Sears stock, the annual report usually has four coupons. This year there wasn't any, cost saving I guess.

Circuit City has a great discount. You get items at store cost which can sometimes be a significant savings, especially if its on accessories which are generally high markup items.