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• With the pandemic happening Walmart put the mask policy into effect, as the Greeter it was my responsibility to make sure everyone was wearing a mask when they entered the store.if they refused to wear a mask I was not to allow them entry, we were told we would be providing masks until the end of the week so for 3 days then it changed to August 18th still not allowing anyone who refused the mask entry. Now I am sure everyone working at any Walmart in the country has been subjected to a great deal of verbal assault and physical intimidation. After a week of this the Manager has informed the staff that if a person claims medical for not wearing a mask you must let them in with no questions or if they get angry you are to let them enter the store. In my opinion the manager has effectively thrown me under the proverbial bus making me look like a liar and an ass. It is truly disgusting, the management does not back up the staff. Also it is still mandatory for the staff to wear a mask unless you are the HR person then it is acceptable to walk through the store holding the mask 3 inches from your face. In short never trust the management they make you enforce a none forcible policy then change it so they look good   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 22 August 2020 by Rater #76 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Technology department full of politics. If you want to keep your job, Never speak your mind.  

  Posted on 15 December 2019 by Rater #75 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Where do I begin? Stay away. Stay Away. Stay away. 100% the worst management I've ever worked with. Not all, some are pretty decent. But in regards to my direct supervisor? The inconsistencies in direction given are almost alarming and can change from one breath to the next. And when you ask for help (because that is something you were told to do so you don't get put behind) you are told it is not their job. Scheduling is a nightmare. There are never enough people at the cashes or on the sales floor yet you are expected to perform as though every cash is open and there are 3 people in every department. Part time employees are given more hours and better shifts than full time employees on a consistent basis. If there were other job opportunities I would leave yesterday. There are some great perks for working here but the amount of stress is not worth it.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 30 January 2019 by Rater #73 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Don't work at Wal Mart here even if your homeless because they will take the last of your pride and respect. All is left is to kill your self.  

  Posted on 6 December 2018 by Rater #71 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• I have major back problems and was diagnosed with MS. The managers have been horrible to work with. With MS you have no idea what part of your body is going to work or not. Right now for me it's my right arm and fingers they still want to try and stick me on a big till. We lose so many cashier's because management is horrible and there is nothing for the part time employees. No medical benefits and you have to wait for a year to get a raise. Maybe if the company treated part timers better they would stay.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 27 October 2017 by Rater #67 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• First 3 months where great, loved some of the customers and got a shining star but then came the management change. This manager could care less about your personal life or your health as there was mold all over the dairy cooler and people where scheduled for as much as 11 days in a row (part-time btw)! when asked why the schedule was a mess he blamed the computer, very poor excuse and when asked why the mold wasn't cleaned he expected the day time workers to do it... we handle food and we are supposed to clean mold not to mention all the other work we have to do? Terrible experience as this company is 100% profit driven while disregarding how employees feel.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 11 October 2017 by Rater #66 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Worked here for a few years as a part time floor associate, started off alright but went very downhill pretty quickly. I'll start off with the good:
  -Most of the managers and workers were pretty friendly
  -For the most part I was allowed to take days off when I needed to, or make adjustments to my schedule (which wasn't often)
  -Most managers don't breathe down your neck and let you work at your own pace
  -you get 10% discount and a yearly bonus
  -no hard goals (such as sales) that you have to meet or get punished, you get rewarded for doing good on pitching their mastercard
  
  And now the bad:
  -towards the end, I have experienced more stress in this job than ever before in my life. I had constant anxiety for the last year or so working here, and about another year after I quit.
  -this place has some of the worst customers I have ever met.
  -you will be expected to cover multiple other people at the same time, for who's jobs you have absolutely no training, you will mess up and get yelled at alot, and apparently that's just part of the job
  -notice how I said 'most' in many of the points above. there was a minority of awful people that made the place hell to work, and they were not dealt with.
  -the lazy people would not get punished, but if you were a good worker and actually cared about your job, you'd get scorned for not picking up the slack
  -constantly understaffed, managment refused to hire enough people, and people quit often.
  -managment only cares about the food department, if you're on the other half of the store, tough luck, it was very common that one person would have to cover 3-5 departments by themselves(that they were not even trained in)
  -because I often had to cover departments I was unfamiliar with, I'd get yelled at by customers (for example, I know nothing about cars and I'd have to cover that area) and managment would often not come down and help
  -managment wouldn't help to deal with rude customers either, even though they admitted that customers are usually not rude to managment even when we tell them the same thing. It would be easier for them to take 2 minutes to explain than me having to answer for everything that's wrong with the company for 30 minutes
  -because we'd often have to spend most of the time covering a different department (as I mentioned above), we then get scorned for not getting much work done in our own department. Some managers literally expected us to be in 4 places at the same time.
  -even though the company policy is that you're not allowed to have Sundays off, for some reason, some people never get scheduled on the weekends, but then others get scheduled every weekend, often alone to cover multiple departments. Sunday morning is absolute hell in retail, and having to do the job of 4 people is seriously stressfull.
  -you have to figure out your own breaks, so if one of the people messes up and is late, you often end up either having low coverage, or you have to miss a break. In either case, you get scorned.
  -you have to do things which are not your job all the time, such as going on cash
  -I will emphasize this again: you are expected to do the job of multiple other people, for which you are not trained, all while keeping both theirs and your own department clean and the customers absolutely do not care, they will yell at you and complain to managment, and short of splitting yourself in half there is not much you can do.
  
  
  If I ever had to come back to this job, I would be completely apathetic and do the bare minimum, because that seems to be the only kind of person that doesn't turn into a nervous wreck working here.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 16 March 2017 by Rater #64 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• never work for here if you respect yourself.  

  Posted on 16 March 2017 by Rater #63 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• When nothing else is left, then work here.. if they hire you.
  
  I applied at the Nanaimo store in 2015 and based on previous experience at another store they hired me almost on the spot. Did 2 "orientations" that I would describe as unprofessional & 100% irrelevant to the position applied for. Position was p/t 24 hrs/wk evenings wed/th/fri, allowing me to work at other p/t job sat/sun/mon. Shifts dovetailed nicely. Nice when you can get 48 hrs/wk p/t in Canada, almost too good to be true. As I found out, it was....
  
  Got called to start on a thursday, 22 mins later get a call from the Asst Manager (a woman) saying I had not signed weekends for shift availability. I had previously recorded my conversation with HR that I would not be needed for weekends so it would not impact my other p/t job. Did not matter, I was told to pick a primary employer, so I chose the latter and she said she was disappointed and said that at that time they were withdrawing the job offer.
  
  That's the Walmart way. An excellent resource for those considering the Walmart "associate" life.
  
  http://www.walmartworkerscanada.ca/index.php?lang=en   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 23 February 2017 by Rater #62 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• Managment doesn't care about us. They keep making me find my own break coverage when they know I can't leave my dept. Since when does part time mean 6 days work in a row?
  Worst place to work.   read complete rating Hide complete rating

  Posted on 30 December 2016 by Rater #61 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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• I knew it was a bad choice to take this job. The worst job I ever had.  

  Posted on 16 November 2016 by Rater #59 | Add Comment | Flag as inappropriate

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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 | Comments (1) | 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 (3) | 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 | Comments (1) | 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 (4) | 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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