What a shitty, shitty thing to do. The person who even suggested this shit should be fired.
I'm willing to bet that Walmart begins paying it's employees in company scrip within a decade.
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Walmart will only give their employees that work Thanksgiving and Black Friday a measly in-store discount instead of holiday pay
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What a shitty, shitty thing to do. The person who even suggested this shit should be fired.
I'm willing to bet that Walmart begins paying it's employees in company scrip within a decade.
because technically, by american law, you aren't given a right to a day off. Most companies provide vacation, but you could work everyday.
I know that the YMCA, at least in Delaware has officially made it so the only recognized holiday is Christmas.
I'd quit on the spot if I could afford to.
Most of their employees can't afford to do that, so that's exactly why they are pulling this shit. This should be illegal, beyond fucked up.
Most of their employees can't afford to do that, so that's exactly why they are pulling this shit. This should be illegal, beyond fucked up.
Dotn shop there thanksgiving day. Send a message.
Walmart has been known for fucking over its employees, especially women who work at Walmart. I have a family friend who is a woman and she recently quit from Walmart because of how she's been fucked over by Walmart.
Not planning on it but this entire forum could completely abstain and it wouldn't even dent Walmart's Black Friday profits.
Walmart is trash. I'm sure target isn't much better, but I'd rather shop there any day.
also, their shares are up like 45 percent in a year, so the genpop is probably skipping Walmart too. Millennials are more of a target crowd it seems.
also, their shares are up like 45 percent in a year, so the genpop is probably skipping Walmart too. Millennials are more of a target crowd it seems.
When I worked at Target on Black Friday in 2016, they scheduled a lot of us starting at 11 PM Thanksgiving. Most of us ended up working 11 PM Thanksgiving night to 10 AM or so Black Friday. Sure, we got time and a half for that single hour on Thanksgiving itself, but then every hour on Black Friday we just got an extra dollar per hour, so it was basically nothing extra. Definitely not enough to make up for the fact that our shifts on Wednesday and Saturday still started at their normal 5 AM too.
My point is that Walmart sucks but so does Target.
Can we just skip ahead to when they start paying people in toilet paper annd a sack of barley? "What else do you need you leeches?"
Lol the only reason why I'm not working thanksgiving right now is because that would give me more overtime than they want me to get. But I would still at least get holiday pay for that day. And we got a damn 10% discount for the two weeks leading up to Thanksgiving anyway. Wal-Mart really, really sucks.
They actually changed that policy last year. Now there's 2 different PTO. Regular PTO and Protected PTO.
Regular is for vacation and what not. Protected is for when you are sick. You earn it by how many hours you work and the rate you earn them is different. I think for protected for every 40 hrs you get like 2 to 3 hours of PTO
Holiday OT is nice, but since it's usually one or two days per month it doesn't really amount to that much.
Assuming that you make $15/hour, time and a half is only $22.50 per hour. So if you work 8 hours on Thanksgiving you would make $180 instead of $120. So that would be a $60 bonus.
If you spend more than $600 at Wal-Mart during the last 5 weeks of the year, it's pretty much the same savings as the holiday pay would have been. If you do all your grocery shopping at Wal-Mart it's probably not that hard to spend that much, but for single employees it is probably difficult.
Assuming that you make $15/hour, time and a half is only $22.50 per hour. So if you work 8 hours on Thanksgiving you would make $180 instead of $120. So that would be a $60 bonus.
If you spend more than $600 at Wal-Mart during the last 5 weeks of the year, it's pretty much the same savings as the holiday pay would have been. If you do all your grocery shopping at Wal-Mart it's probably not that hard to spend that much, but for single employees it is probably difficult.
Target isn't open all night anymore. Most Thanksgiving shifts start between 4:45pm (just before open) and 7pm, and end no later than 1:30am, with Fulfillment teams coming in much earlier. Black Friday openers come in just before 7am.
Should be criminal. This fucking country sometimes....
It blows me away that a good portion of Americans support this kind of system.
It blows me away that a good portion of Americans support this kind of system.
For real? Damn, I'm happy for everyone who works there that they changed that
They're all gonna be billionaires someday. Just gotta keep hustling
Ahh, makes sense. I was backroom so it's still fuck Target I guess lol
Fucked up that the only thing employees at Walmart get now for working holidays is an employee discount:
When I worked at target I got holiday pay and they treated us decently well during Thanksgiving night/Black Friday and I still wanted to cut my throat standing at that register. I might have actually done it if I worked for fucking wal mart.
Fuck wal mart. The LEAST you cheap bastards could do is pay the ducking holiday pay.
Fuck wal mart. The LEAST you cheap bastards could do is pay the ducking holiday pay.
Actually being able to cash out unused PTO is a good thing, but not getting time and a half on holidays is shitty.
When I worked there years ago you just got this bonus as part of your holiday bonus, no working required.
Normal employee discount was 10% on non food items, this just gives you 10% on food too. Helps save a couple buck but that's it unless you are filling up a freezer full of meat or something.
also note that in the time it took me to write the post the Walton heirs made like 200k
Normal employee discount was 10% on non food items, this just gives you 10% on food too. Helps save a couple buck but that's it unless you are filling up a freezer full of meat or something.
also note that in the time it took me to write the post the Walton heirs made like 200k
They basically want employees to pay them for the holidays instead of paying their employees.
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Yeah but we have a great healthcare and education to make up for it
I tweeted Target saying I would take the place of a worker and volunteer in their place while they get paid during Thanksgiving weekend. They never responded :(
When I worked there I saw fellow employees go ham on groceries when they got that discount
Here's documented and sourced problems Wikipedia has listed for Walmart: