Walmart Reviews in Kansas City, MO Area

Pros

The location is convenient. Hours are pretty good.

Cons

Low pay. Not many opportunities to advance.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect the lower workers, they are the ones who actually get the work done in the store.

Pros

Always a walmart around so theres a place for jobs all over.

Cons

Managment does not care about there employees, they pull them all over to work and then you get introuble if your own area is not done. They will bleed you dry emotionaly and wont even care.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to care about you employees and help when needed. Just because your managment doesn't mean you can treat peolpe badly!

Pros

Regular Work and steady paycheck.

Cons

Lack of drive of other employees

Advice to Senior Management

Oversee emplyees that tend to dissapear during thier shift. It makes others have to cover thier jobs.

Pros

The 10 percent discount card

Cons

The company is trying to get rid of long term management and associates its terible how they treat the management and associates the upper leadership is not in touch with what is going on in the stores.

Advice to Senior Management

I think Walmart is a terrrible place to work they treat management and associates like they can replace them at any point the open door policy is a broken door

Pros

I would say that the pros of working at Walmart are fewer than I expected. Maybe it was just because of the location I was at. There were several nice people that I worked with, and some of the management was good.

Cons

The other people that worked there were not there to work. Which made it very hard to be there trying to work hard and do a good job> I felt like I was pulling most everyone else's slack. Which is not a good motivating environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Have better communication with your co-managers, so that there is a cohesiveness to the shift. It would give the impression to the hourly employees that there is a like minded goal.

Pros

Close to home. 75% of the time I enjoy my job. I work with a lot of great people.

Cons

Point system for absence; 6 in 6 months. 3 days of for illness and you have to fill out leave papers. Not family friendly since Mr. Sam passed away. Fully vested profits are a joke; I've lost more money to it than I've made.

Advice to Senior Management

Every person who works for Wal-Mart and earns over $50,000 a year needs to live on what an entry level position earns. Insurance keeps getting higher and pays out less. The people who work in the stores are the ones who really keep Wal-Mart running. We deal with the customers every day; most of them are a pleasure to help but we do get a lot of PITA's. Put out freight, modulars. Implement the crazy "new" programs that you dream up; been with the company long? Usually it's been tried 5 or 10 years ago and didn't work, that's why it is no longer a program in the stores. Mr. Sam said "You're associates are where your best ideas come from". Are you listening anymore?

Pros

the pay isn't bad and for the most part they will work with a school schedule. the profit sharing bounses are nice. the work doesn't require a lot of thought to get it done.

Cons

the harder you work the more work they give you. to get into management you have to do to whole "teacher's pet" thing with them. if you have the friends in upper management you can get the exp. in the hourly management to go higher.

Advice to Senior Management

communication is key! please be fair when treating your employees (with raises and work load).

Pros

Money, Good benefits, challenging, easy to work there, easy to get hired and also easy to complete nearly all tast given.

Cons

no appreciation, racism, stupid co-workers. they hire almost anyone, they also dont care much about what you do as long as your there and act like youre doin something when someone comes

Advice to Senior Management

not much advice bu to pay attention to workers needs and oppinions to provide a better and way more efficient workplace

Pros

Walmart has a fine benefits program if you take advantage of it. Get with your HR or Personnel Director and ask. It's not expensive and provides a wide range of great benefits

Cons

The floors are hard, standing on the floor all day is very hard on your feet and legs. Get a good pair of shoes

Advice to Senior Management

Treat people the way you would like to be treated

Pros

competitive starting pay if you bring some experience to the table, management is very competent for the most part

Cons

Market teams are out of the loop completely when it comes to the daily workings of a store. Bennifits could be better, but their not THAT bad. Policies contradict each other often. Due to recent law suits, it is almost impossible to get a promotion as a white male.

Advice to Senior Management

overhaul the application process for management spots. Pay the Salaried APC more so that we can actually fill the positions in my market. It's impossible to fill them when the new ZMS' make more as hourly's