Instead of Holiday pay Walmart has decided to offer a 15 percent discount for its employees.

[semicko82]

I used to work at Walmart and the employees who've been there for a while are like brainwashed zombies.

I remember being on break one time, and one of the employees cracked a joke about how Walmart treat their employees. The manager overheard and said "Don't you ever talk about Walmart like that"

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

I've only known like 4 people ever who worked at Walmart...

Kinda unrelated, but my job in the restaurant industry is trying some new shyt that I think is fishy. Still eligible for bonuses and shyt as I'm in a management role, but I'm "mid-management". The company just consolidated with a bunch of other brands over the last 2 years and is now rolling out this thing, effective December 9, that if you aren't upper-management (basically GM or AGM), your salary is being converted to hourly, and your salary isn't guaranteed until 50 hours, at which time you now get OT but you have to hit 50 on the dot to have your salary guaranteed...

I'm not feeling it, I mean my hourly rate is relatively high based on my salary, but unlike a regular hourly employee I dont accrue OT until 50 hours. I typically average 45-46 hours/week, last two weeks since this took effect I worked 43.83 the first week, 45 on the dot this past week...

So all together I'm projecting a 10% decline on my checks going forward for every week I dont see 50, sounds like bullshyt to me, but they dressed it up that it protects all the people nationwide who are working 50+. Those people all get their salaries guaranteed plus OT, but for the minority of us who don't work 50, it looks like it will be taking money from us, whereas prior to 12/9, if I worked 38 or 52 hours, my salary was guaranteed...

My unit hasn't bonused since October we missed it by 0.5% in November, but apparently we still get bonuses the same at my level, which is pretty generous (can get monthly, quarterly, annual bonuses; at my pay grade it's about 25% of a regular check)...

But my purpose in posting this is it seems like all service sector jobs (retail, culinary, hotels, etc) cut major corners to save the big wigs money and short the muhfukkas actually putting in the work. My company is now part of a larger conglomerate with four other well-known chains, something like 12,000 units nationally, and I keep telling muhfukkas this shyt they dressing up like it's to help us is window dressing...

Yeah that’s straight bullshyt and they are doing it to save money. shyt at my job we get OT starting at 36 hours. Companies know what they are doing. If I’m hourly I’m not working more then 40 hours if I’m not getting paid overtime PERIOD. I’d be looking for another job with the quickness

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

What is Universal Basic Income? - Yang2020 - Andrew Yang for President

It’s coming. I mentioned it in a discussion in my Macroeconomics class and no one was against it

this shyt we have not is not sasainable(sp).

 

[Legal]

Nah there's a grey area that we fall into, companies can hold workers exempt from OT if they are management and making a salary rate. This is how restaurants find the loophole...

Where I work, before December 9, your salary was paid whether you worked 40 or 80 hours, it was paid the same. Because there are exemption laws that allow you to not pay managers OT, what they are doing now is supposedly to help the management, you get OT now after 50, you just have to make sure you reach 50 to guarantee your salary...

So there's nothing to report about, they are protected with exemption laws...

My girl has a work payout situation like that, and she's middle management in retail.

While it's fukked up that 50 hours is the expectation before OT starts, it actually ends with her making more money than before.

Previously, she was salaried, and technically got overtime for working over 50, but it was by some messed up math that actually resulted in people making less per hour the more they worked.

They changed it up to close to what you have now, and she's working the same hours she normally would've worked previously, but getting paid more for it.

I personally think it's a shytty system, but at least she's working it a bit to her advantage.

 

[Koba St]

Associates?

 

[murksiderock]

Yeah that’s straight bullshyt and they are doing it to save money. shyt at my job we get OT starting at 36 hours. Companies know what they are doing. If I’m hourly I’m not working more then 40 hours if I’m not getting paid overtime PERIOD. I’d be looking for another job with the quickness

You and I think similarly. I will be exploring other options soon, but until i get something else, I'm gonna continue doing what I do, using these muhfukkas to my advantage. The fact that they aren't really strict on the 50-hour standard works to my benefit, I get as close to 40 as I can each week. The way I look at it, sure, short term I'm taking a 10% cut with this new rule, but being my PTO is paid off a 40-hour week anyway, why would I stress to meet 50? I average around 45-46, depending on particular shifts I work, I can come away with low 40s (never been under 40, hard to accomplish in this industry)...

Honestly where I work is really accommodating and friendly compared to most other restaurants, so I not sure how much better it can get, but you can bet it all I shoot for it...

It’s coming. I mentioned it in a discussion in my Macroeconomics class and no one was against it

this shyt we have not is not sasainable(sp).

I clicked the link but can you break this down in simple terms for us simple folk to understand it?

 

[Will Ross]

Want to fix the issue poor people have to get together and fight. But it won’t happen because gender wars and racism.

 

[murksiderock]

My girl has a work payout situation like that, and she's middle management in retail.

While it's fukked up that 50 hours is the expectation before OT starts, it actually ends with her making more money than before.

Previously, she was salaried, and technically got overtime for working over 50, but it was by some messed up math that actually resulted in people making less per hour the more they worked.

They changed it up to close to what you have now, and she's working the same hours she normally would've worked previously, but getting paid more for it.

I personally think it's a shytty system, but at least she's working it a bit to her advantage.

Its shytty because the next step I can see in the future, is them putting in measures to restruct how much OT nikkas get. The conglomerate that owns our restaurant (and gour other brands, remember) has over 12,000 stores nationally, they are not gonna want to pay over $40/hour to thousands of managers who take advantage of that rule. People are gonna flex that to they advantage...

It would be cool if I was at my last job where I averaged 55, and sometimes worked 60+, but i wouldn't trade working more hours at work for anything. There is always more money to be made and I have a vision anyway, that 10% paper I'm gonna lose will return to me multiple times over. I'd much rather work 45 hours over 55 in this industry, OT be damned, and at any rate like I said, you can see the writings on the wall that in the future, they gonna limit this...

 

[Meowth tote da Uzi]

Walmart trash. My boy got stabbed during an altercation and had to be hospitalized. He called out for it and they gave him points. I think he said u get six points or some shyt then ur fired. They gave my mans 3 for that shyt.

 

[Bumblebreh]

Today I printed $10 worth of pictures from there instant kiosks. I waited in line over 5min with no nobody looking to help the overworked cashier, so I said fuk it and walked out. Merry Xmas Walmart

someone is going to get fired for that

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

you didn't get a holiday bonus, you get a holiday pay, then it was you could use the holiday as a vacation day later, that was how I took 10 day vacations every three months

you would get bonuses if they store hit goals but mine didn't hit them the last year I was there

Yeah which proves my point

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

There is a regulation preventing a discount on milk???

And they weren’t already getting discount groceries???



And the stores are always a mess, and only 4 checkout lanes have cashiers, so what are they doing at work?

All the cashiers basically play guard dog for the self checkout lines now.The Walmart by my house just went through renovation.

Before, it was like 18 lines with cashiers.Now there's only 4 lines with cashiers.The rest are all self checkout.All the extra cashiers

just hover around the self checkout area.Marching up & down the line.Watching your every move.

 

[UserNameless]

They should do a national walkout and let people have at the stores

That would be amazing

Y’all talking about bonuses, but I thought holiday pay was basically time & a half. Can someone please clarify?

after all these pages , I still don’t think it’s really been clarified .

One is arbitrary and the other is against the law .

 

[southern.girl]

That would be amazing

after all these pages , I still don’t think it’s really been clarified .

One is arbitrary and the other is against the law .

From my understanding, the title was incorrect & Walmart stopped the time & a half pay.

 

[diggy]

15% off, make them flips and make more than holiday pay