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advanced search   User Functions Username: Password: Don't have an account yet? Sign up as a New User Lost your password? Topics Home News About Wal-Mart (11/0) Associate Department (3/0) Events There are no upcoming events  Welcome to Talk About Wal-Mart  Friday, September 05 2008 @ 10:22 PM GMT Have a Story You Want to Share? Click Here Wal-Mart and spousal Medical Condition     Monday, August 11 2008 @ 06:34 PM GMT Contributed by: Simpleton Views: 9 I have been penalized for my wifes medical condition. She has TBI (Tramatic Brain Injury) as a result of a car accident in 1970. Over time, her injury to her skull, left her short term memory riddled with missing pieces. Over the years it has gradually gotten worse until she is no longer able to work at her professional job of a Phlebotomist. Even her traonong as a Medical Assistant didnt help at all. My wifes doctors, including Medical, Neuro-surgeon and Neuropsycologists agreed that she should be on a Total disability. Her job of 19 years was now gone. Income one-sixth of what it was. Meanwhile, I was a six year and eleven month Walmart worker at the same store where I started at earlier. An overnight stockperson, originating in the Automotive Department. I usually put away ALL of my daily two or three pallets of Automotive supplies with no problem. Even changed stackbases(complete pallet size displays) or endcaps( shelves on the end of each aisle) of merchandise as seasonal or displays warranted. Unfortunately, my wife condition became worse at times and I had to stay home and care for her, to make things easier for her. Her bad times, she lost the car completely in parking lots, frantic that someone might have stolen her car. More than once security or the police found her car safely in the parking lot a short distance away. Other times she would get lost and be driving 35 or 40 miles away not knowing where she was at all. (I bought her a GPS unit for her car and a cell phone for hewr to make it easier. In the past seven months I missed a total of 12 days helping her in tasks and chores as well as her "bad days", which still continue today. I was told I had taken too many "ILLEGAL DAYS" that would count against me. Resulting, in a being told I could get credit for some or all of the days IF I gave Wal-Mart information concerning my wife's delicate medical condition, since it was now affecting my work. My depression started getting worse, I felt that Wal-Mart had no rights to her Medical records since she cwas not an amployee. I was told it would count against me severely, if I did not comply with the paperwork. I spent an agonizing three/four weeks before the paperwork was handed in to the store administration. I started missing punches for lunch looding my name tag at work, having new new electronic swipe" employee tags made (So I could punch in and out of work for lunches and start/emd of shifts. I recieved an oral then a written warning. Then her paperwork was done by two her doctors describing her condition and the current extent of her brain damage and her future prognosis, which was denrntia, then fatal and last symptom of her life. Oh yeag, I recieved a "D-DAY" (Decision day whether to continue working for WalMart) I actually hesitated about coming back. Oh yeah, the back-dating all of my "UNEXCUSED ABSENSES" results in N E V E R H A P E N E D. It counted against me.. It disturbs me to this day that this information was given out to my employer, one of which she has never worked for in her life. I have a feeling by the time this gets into print I will be gone from Wal-Mart. I just have that feeling. UPDATE: August 1, 2008 Fired from Wal-Mart.   Post a comment Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Activists in Halloween Costumes Present Recalled Wal-Mart Products     Friday, October 26 2007 @ 07:44 AM GMT Contributed by: webmaster Views: 452 PUGET SOUND, Wash., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Calling attention to how the nation's #1 company is putting profits before the safety of Americans, local activists present the latest recalled products from Wal-Mart's shelves--in Halloween costume. The rally takes place Monday, October 29th at 5:00 pm in front of the Wal-Mart at 743 Rainier Ave. South in Renton. Wal-Mart's record with repeated child labor violations, labor law violations and discrimination lawsuits has recently been trumped by national news of its growing dismal record on recalled products. "Wal-Mart's consumer record is scary," says Jackie O'Ryan, spokesperson for UFCW Local 21. "It's simply reprehensible that the company still sells baby bibs and doll accessories tainted with lead, as well as toys that can choke small children, when we are well aware of these critical hazards. There's simply something wrong with a business model that continually leads to these flagrant abuses in consumer safety." At Monday's rally, a member from the Washington Fair Trade Coalition will talk about how the same Wal-Mart business model that drives the company to cut wages and employee benefits also drives them to pressure international suppliers to cut costs, leaving consumers and their families to pay the price. A member of the Washington Toxics Coalition will address the real impact of toxic toys on children and animals and a holiday shopper will lead the rally into the store to demand a promise from Wal-Mart to sell only products that won't harm her children. Wal-Mart is currently lobbying Congress to ban full scanning of port containers entering ports such as the Port of Seattle. One Wal-Mart container enters the United States every 45 seconds while Wal-Mart pressures members of Congress to oppose strengthening port security. For more information, visit http://www.wakeupwalmart.com or call Elena Perez at UFCW Local 21 at (206) 436-6543 -- or email: eperez@ufcw21.org United Food and Commercial Worker Local 21   Post a comment Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Wal-Mart Warns Over Black Friday Websites     Saturday, October 20 2007 @ 07:42 PM GMT Contributed by: webmaster Views: 471 It's become a holiday tradition! That's to say, early postings of "Day After Thanksgiving" sales (also known as Black Friday), particularly with regards to Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has warned that posters had better "watch out." As opposed to Santa looking for bad behavior, Wal-Mart will be looking. Wal-Mart's lawyers have an early holiday message for Web sites that post Black Friday ads ahead of their official release date: Don't do it. Wal-Mart Stores said on Friday that its lawyers have sent letters to the Web sites, saying publishing the ads before their official November 19 release date violates Wal-Mart's copyrights and other rights. To police the web sites, Wal-Mart has outsourced the effort to China, where workers will be paid 10 cents per site they take down. No, not really, but it wouldn't surprise us.   Post a comment Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Pepsi, Coke workers trade punches at Wal-Mart     Saturday, October 13 2007 @ 01:35 PM GMT Contributed by: webmaster Views: 401 By Associated Press Published on: 10/12/07 Indiana, Pa. — The long-standing rivalry between Coke and Pepsi took a physical turn Friday when a Pepsi deliveryman allegedly punched his Coke counterpart in the face at a western Pennsylvania Wal-Mart, state police said. The two deliverymen were "apparently bickering back and forth" while unloading their wares at the Indiana County store, police said. When the Coke deliveryman left the store, his counterpart allegedly punched him in the face three times, breaking his nose and giving him a black eye, police said. No charges have been filed, but police characterized the incident as a misdemeanor simple assault   Trackbacks (0) The Wal-Mart Greeter     Saturday, August 11 2007 @ 05:43 AM GMT Contributed by: webmaster Views: 503 A very loud, unattractive, mean-acting woman walked into Wal-Mart with her two kids, yelling obscenities at them all the way through the entrance. The Wal-Mart Greeter says “Good morning, and welcome to Wal-Mart. Nice children you have there. Are they twins?” The ugly woman stopped yelling long enough to say, “Hell no they ain’t. The oldest one’s 9 and the other one’s 7. Why the hell would you think they’re twins? Are you blind, or just stupid?” “I’m neither blind nor stupid”, replied the greeter. “I just couldn’t believe you got laid twice. Have a good day !!!”   Post a comment Comments (34) Trackbacks (0) satisfied employee     Monday, July 30 2007 @ 06:55 PM GMT Contributed by: Anonymous Views: 465 Maybe it's been 15 years ago. My sister found herself in a single parent position. The whole single life idea came as a shock. Coming from a very large family herself, she had 4 children of her own , on her own. Growing up she had learned from our own mom that being a mom was a profession of ultimate improtance. When the time came for her to find gainful employment, she applied at the brand new Lundington , Michigan store. We prayed that she would not only get a job at walmart, but the exactly right job in relation to her child care needs. After applying and interviewing, I remember her phone call to me saying that she not only got a job with wal-mart, but exactly the the job she needed to be home with her kids. My sister is a very hard worker, and walmart is lucky to have some one like her working for them. But the real reason I am writing this little note to walmart is because of what she said to me just yesterday......"I remember when I first started working. How proud I was to work for wal-mart...how privileged I felt to be able to go to work every day. I still I love my job. I don't want to work anyplace else." My sister has a great attitude. God has used Wal mart to develope her into the person she is today. We believed and do still believe that God answered our prays and wal-mart gave her a job...just the right job. After so many years, she still loves her job. Lois Barth works with the Ludington, Michigan store as department manager in chemicals. 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