If your going to return something without a receipt then your going to get whatver price we are charging for it now not what you seem to think that you paid for it.

And no csm, or mgr at my store is going to tell you otherwise so deal with it.

So, I go in today, and talk to a manager about getting out of pharmacy.

And I was told I;m being unprofessional, there are no problems in my department, and all my stress and anxiety arein my head and I need to buck up and deal wiht it. And I got chided for not having a Dr's note on file saying I suffer from depression and anxiety (Even though both the market manager and my counsiler said there's no reason to have one), and for not having a reasonable acomidation on file. Reasonable acomidation for what? To get away from a bitch?

Then I get told that it doens't matter if they move me becuase I;m the one causing problems and they don't want to transfer me all the time because I refuse to be professional.

A year of complaints to managment, and two months of begging to get out of the department...and I;m being unprofessional?!

But according to the manager I talked to, who is not the manager over pharmacy but "I;m his buddy and he's busy so I;m dealing with his department" he's never heard a peep about this problem and since this is the first time he heard about it it must be my first complaint and I had no right to go to the store manager about it becuase "He runs a multi-million dollar store with 500 employees and can't be bothered with petty problems" Daily harassment is petty?

So I quit.

I;m going to miss my coworkers, alot of them were highly supportive, a few said managment is in the wrong and to try and get the labor board involved some how,but I;m not going to miss the poor managment and the bitch.

I can't think of any other words for it. :-(

3 friends sentenced in NH Walmart worker slaying
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091221/ap_on_re_us/us_nh_murder_plot

I'm not usually one to advocate for vigilante justice, but I hope these three pricks get theirs while in prison.

A call today at the fitting room:

"Are you open on Christmas Day?"

What are we, AI drones?

But thanks for calling.

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So, depending on how tomorrow morning goes I may no longer be an employee of wamart. I'v played by th rules, I;ve done everything managment says to do. No one has done anything about the people I haveissues with in my department. Its to the point that I can't even get to work without being so stressed out and anxious that I can't make it a full hift without my stomach being in knots, getting migraines, and my chest tightening up. I left early on wendsday becuase of that, thursday I come in and get a D-day for leaving on wendsday and get told by themanager "If ou don't care aboutmoney, you can go home now" Bump into the Co-manager who lies to my ace and says she talked to our market HR lady and the computer andomly selcets people.

So,I call the market HR lady and she tells me she can't do anything (Oh yeah, and she adno idea anyone wante out of the department). For a year I;ve complained, following the chain of command, and for two months I;ve asked to get out of the department, everyone passesthe buck or says they can't helpme. So I havenot done my D-day essay, becuase the whole reason I've went home early is becuase of the people inmy department. So, I;m going to simply comein, talk to any higher up manager that will listen, explainI;m tired of being a whipping boy for crap I don't do, or stupid shit (I get yelled at cause someone put a open diet coke in the trash...I;m allergic to that, and she knows it), so ither I get out of the department or I quit. One person who works in personell hopes the fire me for not doing to d-day essay so that why I can claim unemployment becuase she used to work in my department and knows how stupid the store is being and wants to see them suffer a little.

Of course, the head pharasist claims there's nothing goingon and I;m jsut causing trouble even though there are four of us who have dealt with the people currently and if you ask anyone in the store about the pharmacy they all say "No one lasts cause of the bitch there" but there's no problem.

Our store manager told us that there are going to be some "structural" changes come January. Anyone know anything specifically? He said that there will still be department managers, but there will also be some other manager that is a $2.00 differential. It is NOT a zone manager, apparently. He stressed that. He says it's rolling out to all stores next year. And, that is all I know.

I suspect there will be fewer department managers (does anyone else have a crafts department that is literally one aisle with its own manager? She makes me envious even though she runs around like she's insanely busy all the time.)

Anybody got any additional info?

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So I'm scheduled 9am to 9pm on Christmas eve. WTF?

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after going back and forth on the issue for over 5 yrs they made it official, they are making our store into a supercenter, starting in mid April, store planning is already there taking measurments and checking things out. the even better news is, we are getting rid of self ckeckout :)I depise those machine. they said we will stay open durring the whole thing, which is not good. when we had our remodel in the summer of 07 it was accident galore and plus the the amount of thefts was unreal! but I hope all will go well as a supercenter around her would be great!

One of the first things I do, as I begin working, is to walk around the produce area, neatening things up a bit, seeing what needs to be done and picking up plastic bags.

Its that picking up of plastic bags that has me whapping my head against my desk and asking WHY?

Parents, why do you give those to your kids to play with?
People...why do you bag up all that fruit and veggie, then just leave it? Was your old high school health teacher watching you? Was your mother there? Why?

Why did you (whoever you are) put those bags on the back of the produce tables, honestly, for that one table, you must have been at least six foot tall to reach. Really, there is a trash can right there...why can't you USE it?

Why, once I've cleaned up all those plastic bags, must you people put more all over my department? I swear, I could probably spend four hours each and every night doing nothing more than picking up plastic bags.

Admittedly, this is a small gripe in the big scheme of things, but its still something that has me scratching my head...hitting my desk and just asking...Why.

I;m so tired of hearing that phrase. A year ago I switched to Pharmacy and butted heads with one tech. Well,I talked to the pharmicists about her, they said "Just ignore it, it's how she is" So I went to my assistant a fewmonths later who said "I have no control there, but I will talk to your pharmisists and see what can be done"...a few months later I go to our stoe manager who says "Your pharmisists should handle it but I;ll see what I can do".

Thursday I punched out for lunch at 2:45, and I punched back in at 3:50 I think, I knew I was a few minutes late. Running up to the pharmacy I get stopped by a lady who jsut retired from our store and she asks where something is. I try and help her look in the seasonal section (Directly infront of pharmacy), but after a couple minutes I point her in the direction of housewares and go do my job. And this tech yells at me becuase I was back in pharmacy at 4:05 when I was in theback punching out "Twenty till" I tell her I punched in before four and sh tells me 'Well it must be nice to just chit chat in electronics"

Mother fucker! She knows my boyfriend is in connections, and since all elctronics does is "Play video games all day" Imust punch in and play games back there too. So after work I go talkto a co-manager about jsut getting me out of the dept. He tells me I need to calm down and use chain of command. WTF bastard, I did, nothing got done, get me out of the department! Then he tells me that I shouldn't even be talking to him becuase he's jsut the ON co, and has no control over days...He won't even tell me if there's ON openings!

Next day I talk to the days co manage who says...you guessed it..."I'll see what I can do"

What the hell do you people want, a note from my counsiler stating I have social anxiety and cannot be in a situation where someone does nothing but berate and belittle me on a near daily basis? I shouldn't even b in that posistion to begin with! Personell said I should talkto our market HR manager, the market manager,or themarket pharmicy manager. But I;m wondering why I jsut haveto keep playing passthe buck, suffer mentally and on my job performance, while bitchface gets glowing (Role model) reviews, the top two pharmisists just ignore her out bursts and the other two feel there is nothing that they can do so they let her snap back at them and walkalll over them.

What are other stores doing? The stores in our market are closing at 8pm, with associates being told they must stay until 8:45 when they are scheduled. Upper management wanted 10pm, so I guess it was some sort of "compromise." I think it's rather awful, and am curious if it's company wide.

Most of those associates working until 8:45 on Christmas Eve are also the same associates that are being required to come back in at 10pm on Christmas Day, along with the overnight crew. I'm not at WM anymore, but I still have many close friends there, and I think it's appalling. Not surprising anymore, just appalling.

When I was a wee tot, I excitedly looked forward to my Saturday outings with my Grandmother to Walmart. It was a VERY different store back then. The Walmart we had was small and had a warm, family like atmosphere that made folks feel welcome.

The employees were always happy, smiling, and eager to chat with customers. They were even eager to help out! I know, it seems like a foreign concept now. Back then, Walmart was actually getting it right. It was people before profit.

But now, as I approach my 5th month working for Walmart, I'm very disappointed by how the company has degraded down to a mindless corporation blind to anything but profit. They've forgotten where they came from and who got them there. Which is their customers and sorely unappreciated employees.

It makes me sad to admit this, but one day Walmart is going to go under because it's simply gotten too big and the left hand no longer knows what the right hand is doing. Too much bloated middle management will sink any company. Along with 'heirs' to the company that have no clue how to run a business.

I have lost all respect and pride for this company at the moment. That's why I'm saying my goodbyes to it on February 1st. I will be resigning and moving on to the next phase of my life plan. I will be attending college and nurturing a career I can be proud of.

In time, I will start my own business and you can be sure I'll learn from the mistakes Walmart has made. Every customer I've asked has said they hate Walmart, yet they come there anyway. I want to own a business people will be happy to shop at and want to come back to.

Like it used to be. But I know you can't go back, only move forward. Working for Walmart has been a huge cautionary lesson for me.

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