I feel for you brother. I know its much easier for you to attack others and blame others for your problems than look deep inside yourself for the solution.
My CEO makes millions, I have no problem with that. I know that the more my CEO makes the more I make.
Being that I live in this area, I know plenty of people who work for walmart and they are quite happy with their pay. In fact one of my best friends and neighbors is a VP over at walmart corporate. He started there at an entry level position after college about 12 years ago and WORKED HIS WAY UP. No ones pay is capped, YOU ARE ALWAYS FREE TO WORK HARDER, GET PROMOTED AND EARN MORE PAY. It seems people like you think you are owed a raise without earning.
Hell, I can even use our company (JB Hunt) as an example. Our President of the company, Kirk Thompson, started out working here as an hourly employee in accounting. Yes, he makes millions now. Do you know why? BECAUSE HE EARNED IT WITH HARD WORK. We have quite a few VPs here in corporate who started out working here as drivers. So spare me the working man ethics crap. The CEOs are the epitomy of the working man. They started out in the work force just like everyone else....THEY JUST WORKED HARDER.
Look dude, I actually started out in this thread trying to help you a bit. Making suggestions on how you can better your income. However, for some reason you want to make excuses and pass the blame to everyone from the President to Walmart. Im sure if you call Al Gore, he can help you blame global warming for your financial situation. And the fact that you refuse to even do something as simple as ebay to make extra money tells me you are just lazy. Sorry, I just dont feel sorry for you. In the time it took you to respond to all these posts, my 13 year old kid could have earned 200 bucks. Pretty sad, dude.

 

Okay, thanks, Malaki. I'll look at it again.

 

BS that no ones pay at Wal-Mart is capped they have put in PAY CAPS for LONG TERM FULL TIME ASSOC. I am talking people in the stores that have been there over 10+ years the people that really know the stores and how to make them run. I was there when that happened you freaking idiot. My store alone had 50+ assoc. get hit by that and they all WALKED OUT THE DOOR THE SAME DAY AND QUIT then all of a sudden we were short 50 people. Then we had to replace all of them at once yes it will make that stores bottom line look good but the ones left had to cover the areas those people had then also cover our own. You try covering 1/2 of a 140,000 square foot store on your own with around 8 departments.

Your so called conservative buddies did this so they could improve their stock folders 2 bucks never mind the fact it will force about 300K people who know the most about the comapny to find another job.

 

Sure....if you arent a good enough employee to get promoted, your pay will stay stagnant. However, whose fault is that if you cant get promoted? Most GMs at walmart started at the bottom and worked their way up. Sorry, not everyone has the work ethic to be promoted. In fact the GM at our local walmart I know pretty well. He is a 25 year old young man who started at walmart pushing shopping carts. In the time it takes most people to go to a good college and graduate school, he chose to work hard in retail and make something of himself. He is now a young man making 6 figures with no college education.
Man, you have been using every excuse in the book and blaming everyone. I can tell you that I have worked in many managerial positions and personally, I dont think I would promote or give someone like you a raise. You seem to be a complainer and you dont know anything about personal responsibility.

 

Maybe when Sam Walton ran the company that was the case. At my store the Store Manager had been with the company a TOTAL TIME OF 4 YEARS. He was hired right out of school to be an asst manager. The rest of his underling were all what we called 90 day wonders all of them had LESS THAN 1 YEAR with Wal-Mart. Now of course the Dept Managers had worked their way up but half of them quit when they had their pay capped since they are paid by the hour and were not paid salary. The closing Asst Manager did not even know how to MIX PAINT UP what does that tell you about the quality of help that was being hired to run the store I was at. Here is why I am no longer at Wal-Mart and the EEOC is handling the case for me the store was being upgraded to a supercenter and the HR Manager pulled me off the schedule and did not tell me why next thing I now is I am told you are on a medical leave and have until this date to get all the paperwork to come back in. I did that and they REFUSED to accept it yet my copy I turned into the EEOC was fine there are 3 one for the doctor one for the store and one for me.

You keep saying that if you are not a good enough employee to get promoted then your pay will get stagnant. Well that does not seem to apply to CEO's of companies that send them to BANKRUPCY or drive the stock price down 25% or can not meet Wall ST expectations. See Kennath Lay of ENRON or Grinstien of DELTA for the first example. For #2 Look at Lee Scott of Wal-Mart when he took over stock price was at 60 a share now at 44 or the guy of Home Depot. They get awarded MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PAY AND STOCK FOR DESTROYING WHAT THEIR EMPLOYEES CREATED.

 

90 day wonders??....I you talking associates having that 90 day probation period and then getting canned? Whats wrong with that? If I was a manager I wouldnt keep people who dont work well in any position after 90 days. No one is owed a job....people earn jobs. No one is owed a raise, people EARN raises....and no one is owed a promotion, people earn promotions.

If I were in financial trouble and had to get an entry level retail job and start at the bottom, here is what I would do. I would immediately go to my managers, tell them I want to do what it take to be promoted and ask them for their guidence. Then I would tell every one of those managers that I want to be their go to guy when things need to be done. "You need someone to clean poop off the walls in the restroom....Im your guy!" You need someone to clean up all the broken bottles...Im your guy" You need me to do anything....Im your guy!" Then I would spend all my spare time trying to learn all the aspects of the business in every part of the store. I would tell him that I will do whatever it takes to be promoted and then work my butt off without griping about starting at the bottom. Nor, would I gripe what those above me are earning. As far as im concerned, they EARNED it.
Ive worked in retail managment before at Home depot. I started at the bottom and made assistant store general manager in 6 years. I know exactly what managers go through hiring the entry level employees. You probably hire 15 people to get one good employee. 1 out of 15 that stands out. Sure you get a lot of people that think they work hard. But they really dont. Sure you get a lot of people who think they deserve a raise or promotion, but they really dont. What you get is a lot of smart ass employees who bad mouth the company and are too stupid to know that the managers know everything that goes on in the stores and most things that are said. When I was a manager, what I was looking for was 1 or 2 great workers that had what it took to be successful. All my energy went into helping them become great workers and potential managment....the rest of the employees were just cheap labor. Which kind of employee a person is would be up to them, not the managment.

 

No I am talking about ASST STORE MANAGERS THAT HAVE BEEN WITH Wal-Mart for 90 days total then thrown to the stores as mangement. They are hired right out of schools then trained in Bentonville then spread out all over the country. They have NO CLUE ON HOW TO DO ANYTHING IN THE STORES AT ALL. Put it to you this way think of a store as a platoon of soliders now you have a Master Sargent with 25 years of service and has seen it all and done it all and you are being assigned to a combat area now all of a sudden you get this new Second John Luitenant fresh out of OCS screaming orders out of a Manual and turning the platoon into a CF. That was the situation at my store all the senior prople were leaving due to the new 90 day wonders coming in and those who were left tired to hang on. One of these so called Managers ran a fork lift THRU a truck then fired the assoc that told him the brakes on the fork lift were bad to cover his ASS.

 

I agree. What needs to happen is something needs to happen. A lot of fence sitters would get off the fence if somebody else went first, but nobody ever goes first, or if they do, they aren't visible enough.Very true. The other piece of this is I have a rather good job, and if I go on strike, they will replace my ass in a heartbeat. I like my job. There are a lot of worse choices out there. A LOT of worse choices. I can go for a good while without a paycheck, but I can't go forever, and when I have to get back to work to survive, I'd much rather go back to working at a good job.

I'd protest as part of a mass movement. If nobody was moving, they wouldn't hold it against me. But the way it works in the real world, everybody but a handful of people will still be moving.

(And the only reason I'm not living hand to mouth is because I still have some money left over from where I got laid off. Sh!++y economy.)

 

Ok, I see what you are saying. However, I would have to say...SO WHAT?
Are you trying to say you know a better way to run the #1 corporation in the world? Isnt that a little bit like the coach of a last place junior high football team, sitting on his couch screaming at is TV at the coach of the superbowl champions. Saying that he knows a better way to coach football?

 

Lets see here you have employees that have been at the store 25+ years and know the store the customers and how things run in that area. Or you have a 90 wonder who does not know his HEAD FROM HIS/HER ASS all they do is stay in the office and leave you hang. Which one would you go to. I am going to say the one with that 25 or more years in the company not that one that can not even figure out how to custom mix paint. You keep looking at everything from MANGEMENTS point of view which is cut costs considering it took 2 people to replace just one guy that had been there 25 years and he only was making 13 an hour and they had to pay the new guys 7.35 each which cost the company more by the time you count the benefits.