[silvan]

Originally Posted by Geeeeeezer

Has anyone else noticed this?

Just in the last while, like the last couple of weeks or so, yes, I have. Wal-Mart drivers in company trucks driving like serious assholes for some reason. I don't know what's up with that, but it's odd. Usually a Wal-Mart truck driving like a real asshole is a contract hauler pulling a Wal-Mart trailer, but apparently not anymore.

[DaveP]

Originally Posted by silvan

Just in the last while, like the last couple of weeks or so, yes, I have. Wal-Mart drivers in company trucks driving like serious assholes for some reason. I don't know what's up with that, but it's odd. Usually a Wal-Mart truck driving like a real asshole is a contract hauler pulling a Wal-Mart trailer, but apparently not anymore.

Maybe something IS up with their drivers.

Last week I ran a couple hundred with one and about every mile or so he'd get on the CB and say..."Jusht remeeeember...Wal-Mart doth not dithcriminate" (That's a lisp...not bad spelling) :shock:

[BigWheels]

I spoke to a Wal-mart direct driver one-year ago at their DC southwest of Chicago.

He said changes were underway where drivers would be driving a bit more than they were used to and would be home a bit less than they were used to. He wasn't thrilled about it but he didn't seem like the type of guy who would allow that misfortune to affect his professional driving habits.

[cclarke1268]

Maybe their dist. centers started treating them like they do us :shock:
I'm always disgruntal (sp) when I leave one of their dist. centers. Or it's because they are not called truckers they are called assosiates of the highway by their powers that be. (sp) :wink: Most I have been around lately have been good,but they are not the same as they used to be when they drove them cabovers. imo

[inmate1577]

I've never noticed that WalMart Co. drivers are doing anything bad.
I've always found them to be professional and friendly especially when trying to find a well hidden DC :lol:

My only complaint is with Western Express whose drivers can only seem to operate a truck unless there is a cell phone stuck to the side of their head.

[Geeeeeezer]

Originally Posted by uglymutt

Swift, werner, schnieder all run freight for walmart, as soon as a position is open these drivers just move in, so now there workforce is made up of these drivers, mostly swift drivers fill the spot in a empty walmart truck

And I reckon THAT would explain THAT!!!

[Danisawannabe]

I can't speak about Waly World's drivers as I am a neon green rookie, but I left Wal-Mart (store level supervisor position) in Feburary this year to start driving and my wife still works there.

At the stores they are getting very budget minded (cheap). Maybe this attitude is at the wharehouse level as well.

For example at the store: Raises work on a formula. If you change positions your pay very possibly may change, and not always for the better. Learning more than one area doesn't matter to your pay, but expect to also work it. Merit raises have been eliminated. After 3 "unauthorized" absences in a rolling 6 month period you start getting written up. Being sick is not an "authorized" absence, even with a doctors note.

Just a sample of what was going on in the store I left. Some of these things are not at all stores, yet.

I understand about being frugal. But being frugal is about fixing a leaking sink before someone slips in the puddle and breaks a leg. Cheap is hoping an accident does not happen.

Dan Isa Wannabe

I here you there on the store stuff. I was working in a store and saw how bad it is getting in there anymore I refuse to shop there I will spend the extra 2 cents and get my TP at target than at Wally world.

[CAD]

I wish we had a target close to us. I hate shopping at Wally World. We have a Kroger for groceries on the other side of town, then we have a local grocery store that I call the Freak Show. It is for the folks that aren't classy enough to shop at Wal-Mart... :shock:

[Jackrabbit379]

Ya know, CAD, most grocery stores are getting that way. :?