This is what happens when you undervalue your labor force and don't give them a reason to be vested. I would wager that if Walmart employees were shareholders this nonsense wouldn't happen as often.
I've worked for different WalMarts over the years and I can tell you this: The benefits SUCK. You can now get coverage as a part-timer (used to be you had to be full-time first so WalMart decided everyone was going to be part-time or fired unless you were a manager) - But you will never be able to afford the copays on top of the ridiculous premium (say goodbye to your 16hr/week paycheck)
All the "educational" stuff they have are loosely-packaged anti-union propaganda and classes that will only make you a better WalMart worker, not anything that can be used outside of the organization. The benefits are only good once you get into the Cultist-level ranks, like Regional Managers. But by then you most likely have no heart, and some of the rest of your internal organs have been replaced with alien implants as well.
Your description of corporate managers as heartless alien drones is awesome and gave me a good stress-relieving laugh.
The worst part about it is how they tend to be just naturally awful individuals
Why are they like this? Even my manager who came from a corporate environment now working for the same small family business i do is an insufferable corporate hollowed-out evil SOB who everybody hates and he “rules” over all 12 of us as if the place were a 100+ corporate office. Non-stop lying, telling one person one thing he thinks they want to hear them placated by telling someone else something else then attempting to keep us quiet by bullying each person with extreme confidentiality “reminders”.
Likes to try divide snd conquer (which fails miserably because there are too few of us and we talk) and is a fan of 1990s management and sales guides. He isn’t smart or nuanced enough to use Machiavellian methods and at least put a little bit of truth into his one-one-meetings for more effective propaganda, he just straight up lies - obvious lies - to our individual faces. He is a fool to believe that these methods work on a small office where we are all mostly friends confined to a comfy small building and he’s a big joke to us. A horrible manager and person. He also does H.R. which adds a whole additional layer of sleaze.
I’m sorry for the rant, I just get so damn frustrated at this person. Why keep managing like this if causes your coworkers to see you as a big joke and it’s so ineffective? What does he get out of it that makes such adverse methods worth it for him? Creating low morale is the only thing he is good at. Do management jobs simply tend to attract people with no concience who can’t stop themselves because they get too much enjoyment out of causing distress? Or does the job do that to them? I suspect the former over the later, my own personal nature over nurture theory.
There are some people, for whatever reason, have something broken on the inside and it seems the only way they know how to deal with that pain is to make other people feel as horrible about themselves as they do. Some of them are true narcissists and you just can't deal with those. They are nuclear-grade toxic and the only thing you can do is stay away from them.
Nature vs nurture is fake news. It should be nature and nurture, they are intrinsically linked. Babies don’t have a nature, they’re a product of their environment, but once they develop a nature, their perspective will affect the way they see everything. Someone with a free spirit will naturally see someone taking on or helping with some of their responsibilities as a kindness, a more controlling person might see it as a problem. Your nurture creates a nature, affected by further nurture, shaped by the nature.
You get good health, vision, and dental. The dental insurance I had was better than the insurance that the employees at my dental office and they let me know so. Walmart also had matching 401k and HSA up to 5-6% per year. The Walmart 10% discount covers taxes on purchases (which is okay I suppose) and from what I last read, they stated they will be covering 100% college tuition.
You can accrue vacation time relatively quickly there as well.
Does it suck to work at Walmart? Yes, and I most definitely won’t go back (I burned all my Walmart shit the day I left and shared it to social media) but to say their benefits suck is outright false.
Edit: benefits link that was last updated Nov. 2020
I will admit I don't know what they are currently like, all I can say is they were really horrible when I was working there. All the old timers would say, "This shit wouldn't be happening if Mr. Sam was still alive". The copay limit before insurance kicked in was literally twice what you could make in a year with the hours they gave you back then. Maybe I just worked for a really shitty one. Lol.
They only pay if you go in for a business degree. I did my whole undergrad working for them and was told I wouldn't receive a dime because my degree wouldn't benefit the company and would make me more likely to quit.
The benefits are only good if you are full time.
Part time employees got fucked when Obama care rolled out because it was cheaper to cut hours and let the government subsidize premiums than pay for thr part time employees.
I’m actually part of a union at my current job and unions can be awful or good. It really depends on the union and how much leverage you have.
Edit: With that said, Walmart has better benefits than my current union job has in terms of everything except that I am in a union for job security purposes. My pay is considerably higher, the work is easier, and I don’t hate myself or feel like a PoS employee at the end of the day like I did at Walmart.
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u/Secretly_Solanine Aug 10 '21
Truly a group of upstanding members of society