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• I worked for Walmart Canada for two years as a produce stocker. The management there is awful. Incompetent people are in charge, and these people are much more focused on making you feel small than they are on doing their jobs. I reported my manager for his abuse of employees. They said they would investigate. All they did was talk to two corrupt associates who lied for my manager in exchange for the promise of future promotion. I thought they were going to talk to all of us. Isn't that what "investigate" means? Instead they used two liars to conduct a fake investigation that exonerated my manager of all wrongdoing. If they had talked to the real workers, he would not have withstood our scathing criticisms.
  
  Walmart management works to silence dissenting associates. They convince their associates that corruption is the name of the game and that they are victims of it, and they have to accept it. This flies in the face of what their company's statements say, which is all about respect for the individuals, transparency, openness etc. They run their store like a thug cartel runs their criminal enterprise. They lie for each other and exploit the system as much as possible, at their workers' expense. They fired me over trumped up charges because they knew I was trouble for them. I'm still trying to fight this, and hopefully I can get somewhere. In the meantime, know that Walmart Canada is totally corrupt!!!!   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 4 January 2016 by Rater #55 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• FACTS: "Men" please stay away from walmart!!! Walmart Calgary like most walmart, is divided into 2 parts. 1) Old staff(lazy old people) 2) New staff (work like animals). 95% of women population. So if you are young, especially MALE(Rare species in the store) you have to do everything basically babysit for the management. You will be asked to work as a store standard, do carts, backroom,mods,cleaning, help the "Women" who will most of the time unable to lift anything. Hate to say this but women at walmart should not be paid as equal as man. Management will put more pressure on men.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 26 October 2015 by Rater #53 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• I have been working for walmart for more than 3 years. I give more than 100% while working. still management is not happy with me. They try to push so much that u feel u just quit the job and leave. They never appreciate the work u do. Management always blames U for anything wrong happens. they treat u like slave. Some associates doesn't work, but also take no action, but add up more works for the associates who does work. Male employee are more suffer ones as they have to deal with their department and need to take care of other department, pulling, cleaning, lifting. But while the evaluation comes, they show all the -ve aspect. So, try other stores 1st, not recommend for work.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 18 September 2015 by Rater #52 | Comments (2) | Flag as inappropriate

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• If you are a guy/male, stay away from walmart. They will make you do all the heavy work, even going outside pulling carts, working the back room, will put you at the cash etc. As a department manager, I was given seasonal department and it totally sucked. Being the only guy in my department, I ended up lifting heavy stuffs, pushing flower-racks etc. Working with 2 collegues (Women) who had bad-back. I had total of 4 workers in my department, all of them were weak. The hiring manager, didnt care and I endeup picking the slack. My store saved money, by hiring less staffs. So you will endup doing all the work.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 25 June 2015 by Rater #51 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• I have 25 years management experience with a company who held their managers accountable for their actions and decisions.
  
  I have worked for walmart now 6 years. The managers I have had the horror of working for need to be fired or properly trained.
  
  The way employees are treated is appauling and wrong on so many levels.
  
  A unionize facility has never appealed to me but (as an employee) it is time that Canadian provinces step up and put a UNION in to clean up this unethical employer.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 29 April 2015 by Rater #49 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• I have worked for over 15 years & I love working at this company I have been in a management postion & had to step down because of my family situation & Wal-Mart has stood beside me all the way offering me help when I needed it I would recommend this company to anyone .   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 9 March 2015 by Rater #48 | Comments (3) | Flag as inappropriate

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• I worked for this company for 20yrs,the mngmnt team are the worst I've ever met,they hide in the office all day and expect you to handle rude customers,the schedual ing is the pits,you can call them on the pa or on the phone but no one answers you!!! The mngmnt team hires all their family and gives them the best hrs and weekends off,the personal mngr is a joke,she has her favorites and treats others like they are two year olds,there is no staff on the floor and if you even complain they will make your life miserabl,it was NEVER like this when I first started,the mngmnt team cared about staff and made sure there was enough staff to cover.The raises they give you are piss poor that they don't even cover the cost of living,The open door policy is a joke cause when you have a problem it's around the whole store in about 5minutes.There have been a lot of new store mangers some good some bad but this last one is a foreigner and now the store will only hire their kind.There is NO English spoken on the floor so when staff looks at you and laughs you don't know if they are talking about you ,They overlook you on promotions unless you kiss your Swass mngrs ass!! They would rather hire straight of the street then promote you when they know you are better suited for the position!! The front end mngr is a joke also,she hired all her nieces and cousins,I'll tell you your in a whole different world when you step into this Wal mart!! When the BIG shots come around the mngmnt team makes sure they walk around with them cause they are so scared you say something bad about the store or the mngmnt team.To phone head office is also a joke because you get someone who can't even speak English so you can't even understand them.I used to be proud to work for this company but lately since they hired A LOT of immigrants who don't speak English and don't know how to do stock or really do anything THEY are the ones that succeed !! Even the customers where complaining and when they wanted something they would search you out cause they could understand you!! Honestly speaking this company was a great place to work but now it's an absolute disgrace on how they treat you!! I swear If Sam Walton was alive he would hang his head in SHAME on how his company has been ruined ,he stood for honesty and family but now you have neither!! Nuff said!!   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 23 September 2014 by Rater #47 | Comments (3) | Flag as inappropriate

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• Awful place to work. Managers do not respect anyone and think that they are better than everyone else.  

  Posted on 24 May 2014 by Rater #42 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Simple jobs that are often given in impossible quantities, and never any support from anybody who holds any managerial position.
  Everyone is constantly looking to stab you in the back, and will do so every chance they get.
  They have multiple choices for advancement in the company but never let anybody actually advance. Holding everybody back with coachings that are, most of the time, their fault.
  If you need a permanent job, to provide for a family, or household of any kind, for the sake of your own sanity, find someplace else. This place will trap you into every corner imaginable.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 14 May 2014 by Rater #41 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• I have been employed at Walmart for over 14 years and have never been treated as poorly as I am with this company. I am harrassed daily by my direct supervisor, written up if I miss a day of work due to illness or if I am late coming back from my break (by 1 min). This company has no concern for the employee. They save by paying us the lowest rate they can get away with. Family values they preach about? They have none. If you are a parent they use that against you.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 9 January 2014 by Rater #40 | Comments (6) | Flag as inappropriate

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• Was hired for christmas as photo lab assistant, and was informed that if you do a good job you will be hired on after Christmas. This is untrue, they lay everyone off because they mass hire during the holidays and then no longer need the extra help. They laid me off on Christmas Eve but yet had the audacity to ask me to work the next week, which I was scheduled boxing day, New Years Eve and New Years Day. The management is terrible, miserable old women store #5777, they have no consideration for anyone or anything. They throw a Christmas "staff" party, but to attend you must be at management level. It is the worst job I've ever had. They really stomp on the little guys and give no care about it. Do not work here.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 10 November 2013 by Rater #38 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• I have worked for walmart for three months now, and first off I want to say this, every job experience is different for each person, some people may find the work enjoyable, other may not like it, just because someone posts a nice comment about an employer doesnt mean people have to give it a thumbs down, because maybe it was a good place to work for that person.
  But anyways, I've worked for walmart for three months now and I have not had an enjoyable experience, a few weeks ago I ran out of money on my till (my till was cleaned out I had no change, or bills in my till), after paging for a csm (customer service manager) over 7 times I had to chut my light off because if a customer payed with cash I could not give them their change, and if someone wanted cash back I could not give them their cash, my light was off for three minutes when a CSM came in and started shouting at me, when I explained why my till was shut down they lectured me saying that if I needed money I should have paged immediately, when I explained to them that I paged them three times she looked at me and said "well the handheld pager is dead so I couldnt have gotten the page that you needed cash" she turned on my light, walked away, and I still never got cash for my till, I shut ff my light again and began arguing with the CSM over the same thing.
  Next problem I have had is with my shift manager, Three weeks ago I sent out a request form for time off, she signed it and the day the schedule was written I asked if I got my requested time off, she said "yes, You have it off no need to worry" but when I looked I didnt get my days off, in fact, I was working all week with no days off, when I asked the shift manager about it her response was "Well when I looked at the schedule you got those two days off" but she is the one who writes the schedule because she doesnt trust anyone else to do it.
  I could fill up the 4000 characters with just my experiences bu instead I'm going to say this to all teenagers who are new to the workforce, if you need a job then walmart is a good start because it looks good on a resume, apply for other jobs on your days off, and if some other job offers you full time, then take it because at walmart, even though they say there is room for advancement, there really isnt   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 20 October 2013 by Rater #37 | Comments (1) | Flag as inappropriate

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• Walmart is the best company I have ever worked for. When I was hired as a cashier less than two years ago, my intention was to see what the company was like from the ground up. I started as a cashier within 6 weeks became a CSM then lead CSM and then an Assistant Manager all within 1yr. I have never worked with so many amazing people. I love what I do and I am extremely greatful to work for such a fantastic company. You tend to get out of a job/career what you put into it.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 13 June 2013 by Rater #33 | Comments (3) | Flag as inappropriate

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• I have been working for Walmart for 9 years. I have worked at many stores, and they are all the same. I have never been treated so poorly and harassed at a job like at Walmart. I have countless letters, emails, and even voice recordings uncalled for abusive behaviour.
  
  Other issues stem from people being power-hungry and believing they are more higher in the work ladder, when they are not.
  "Non-key associates" are guaranteed their 37.50 hours which is against Walmart's work schedule policy, and when they are scheduled less than 37.50 they go above their managers' head and take the hours away from people who are already doing less than the part-time work schedule policy indicates (minimum 12 hours)
  I am truly disappointed in Wal-Mart. I could never forgive a company for hiring these abusive people, but I am more disappointed in the managers in which I share "open door" with and nothing comes out of it.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 9 June 2013 by Rater #32 | Comments (1) | Flag as inappropriate

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• Working at Walmart's Homeoffice is a bit like working in upside-down world, where they say one thing and mean something else. The Core Values like "Saving Canadians Money so they can live better", "respect for the individual", and their open door policy are just posters on the wall, I haven't seen evidence that those values are actually valued. It's a really political environment where people generally work 60 hours a week, depending on your department. Work/Life Balance here is a thing of the past, if you've had balance in other roles. There's limited training, and success here is largely dependent on your boss, despite the fact that they claim to be data-driven. There's talk about partnership with vendors, but the attitude is really more that like "what have you done for me in the last 2 seconds?". Advancement is about politics. Words like "strategic" are used awkwardly. They may offer some low prices, but not always, and often not at better value. You're getting what you pay for. They are super bottom line oriented, and sometimes it comes at the cost of doing the right thing. I've seen good people go, and not so good people move up. I've met more unhappy people here than at any other workplace I've been at, both in number and as a percentage of people that I've met.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 3 June 2013 by Rater #31 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• District Managers refuse to speak to employees and employees are fearful using the so called open door policy. So who do we go to about problems with a store manager etc? Management do not care about the employees that help earn them bonuses and the Billions for the Waltons each year. And just because you work with people they are not your family. Many I would not want as family. They will throw you under the bus at the blink of an eye to save themselves. They tell you that you are with them more than your own family and that is just not true at FT 28 hrs. a week. I thought there were 168 hrs in a week. There is no way to get ahead unless you want to move from where you live. The headaches and stress of any promotion is not worth the .50 per hr increase. The favorites get to do as they wish, the rest of us work hard and earn our pay. A person with ambition should not choose Walmart unless at an age you feel no other business wants your years of experience and expertise.
  
  Self evaluations are done yearly, we all hate doing them as there is no goals anymore and Management has already made the final score before ever reading our evals if they even do. Might as well just photo copy each year and hand it in. They would not even notice. You can rate a 5 but they say no ratings actually over 4, I guess the papers they use are really out of date. No one gets more than .30 per hr anyway. Ever heard of scoring 3.9 and get .30, they round down even before the penny was gone, should be giving .39 cents. Heck you could score 4.1 and get .30! So why work so hard to get the same as everyone else and do not kill themselves.
  
  Company Policy is never followed for returns at our store so we get less and less profit sharing. Management is not doing what is best for it's employees. Policy across the Company should be followed but we have a store manager who feels above those policies. And every employee would love to see the store manager gone. The first thing you learn is who not to trust in the company/store. Every business has their "stool pigeons" and that is all Walmart managers as it is their duty to report back all they over hear and see.
  
  If a schedule is messed up you can work months of every weekend, they don't care about your scheduled weekend off.
  
  For a pt student it is not a bad job, much is expected with a shortage of help though. Staff turn over is very high and do not expect to get FT because the jobs are all becoming PT. The positive is the health benefits. The basis free package is ok and the paid by you benefits offer better coverage but you need to have a family to use them or lots of meds to fill.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 22 March 2013 by Rater #29 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• There was a new store manager brought in August 2011 and the store has gone downhill. The culture cannot grow unless it starts at the top. A store manager who doesn't even greet you and ethics that are asked to be compromised is not the way to build a business especially with Target coming to town. This will be a challenge for a disfunctionally-run retail location.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 12 January 2013 by Rater #27 | Comments (2) | Flag as inappropriate

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• No consideration is given. The people who work hard are the ones who get a lot of crap (since they stay behind to take it). Walmart itself trains people to not care about the work place, otherwise you will quit or become deeply dishonest. I feel no deep attachment to Walmart even though I've worked here for years. It's mostly been out of desperation since the alternative would be less stable. There has been many times in which I would rather just walk out and go homeless, however my human need to survive kicks in and this is most likely why Walmart Canada is so big. Preying on the human weakness.
  
  The company needs to focus on how it treats its employee's to drop in store theft. No one cries over theft because everyone is more concerned with avoiding trouble than saving profit for the store. The entire company is all about dodging trouble since its the main form of communication. They will always point out what went wrong, but never point out what was done well. 'Be positive' is the indirect message even though they never are.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 28 December 2012 by Rater #25 | Comments (2) | Flag as inappropriate

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• I have notice many useful and truthful posts on this employer have been deleted which is a shame since Rate my Employer is suppose to help job seekers, so I really hope Rate My Employer doesn't cave into threats by employers to delete such posts. I am going to say this again and I will continue to say it this company is garbage. Walmart recently opened up (...) and I was a happy worker since I got a job after a year of unemployment after a week I wished to stay unemployed so I wouldn't of been humiliated the way I was. I won't go into great length of detailing of what happened just in case Rate my Employer decides to delete it, but in short I was fired for being a hard worker but a slow worker yes I was fired in the first week for being to cautious of the costumers safety, for taking extra steps to insure the costumers was safe, and that I had a poor attitude towards management. (...) Walmart has no values, no soul, no heart, and no respect for the ones who work for them. They also like to fire people for no reason just days before Xmas to save money nice spirit Walmart. Just don't go here for any type of jobs no matter how much they plead just don't, don't even shop there just allow this place to run out of business and close up oh how I can wish and dream of that day.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 24 December 2012 by Rater #24 | Comments (1) | Flag as inappropriate

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• Horrible atmosphere with total favoutism. Manager only care about themselves and home office couldn't care either.
  CSM has a do as I say not as I do approach.  

  Posted on 6 December 2012 by Rater #22 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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