Walmart Reviews in Portland, OR Area

Pros

Management listens and are mostly accommodating
A lot of opportunities for advancement
Schedule flexibility

Cons

High stress
Understaffed-expect one person to do the work of many
Constant pressure to work fast and hard to make up for not having enough help

Advice to Senior Management

Hire enough people to do all the work that needs to be done- employees would be a lot happier
Be more rigorous about the advancement process-I've seen a lot of people that don't do any work keep their jobs while hard working employees were terminated because cuts were made without considering performance.

Pros

No real need to be at the top of your game.

Cons

Long hours required one day and requirements to cut previous overtime on future days in the week. COACHING of employess seen as a disciplinary movement rather than an actual TRAINING FOR IMPROVEMENT of employees.
Managements lack of leadership and knowledge of actual day-to-day situations for improvement and actual increase of corporate profits.

Advice to Senior Management

Become true leaders and know what you are about, rather than just wear the mantle of a tyrant.

Pros

Well, paid vacation, 10 % discount, possible bonus

Cons

Well now they are big on promoting people just because they are difirent color skin or females. It's not because of your performance level. Personal testimony One female got intervied for an Assistant manager she got turned down well then the DM decided that they need more African American to meet their "" so they got her into the District Manager Possition. What a joke...........

Advice to Senior Management

get back to the basics and promote people according to their performance level and not their skin color or M vs F...

Pros

To gain work experiance for those that are young and just intering the job market or for anyone that needs just a little extra income. If you like interacting with the public and being helpful it can be great. If you come in with a good attitude and eagerness to show that they did right by hiring you they will notice.

Cons

Tuff place for those that have young families, bad scheduals, not enough hours and low pay. Very hard for most newcomers to get full time. Lack of information of what is going on in the company. Their attitude towards everyone that they can easily be replaced so "like it or leave".

Advice to Senior Management

# 1,
I think they really need to look into how they can change their scheduling. With gas prices being way up why do they have so many coming in for 4 or 5 hrs. 5 days a week? Wouldn't it make more since to bunch their hrs. into fewer days saving the associates money as well as wear and tear on their vehicles?
# 2,
Many of us are sickened by the amount of items we see going into the trash, most of which can be donated. Going Green?... LOL We don't understand why Wal Mart won't find a way to keep it out of our landfills when there are so many people that can really use the items. We have been told that the main reason is because they don't want people returning the items for cash. We don't get it and are totally discusted with what we witness every day. Shame on Wal Mart!

Pros

Wal-Mart has competitive pay for this field of work and advancement is easy as long as you are willing to work for it. i also enjoy having a choice in where i want to work in the store.

Cons

management can be a real pain, but it is really store Dependant. sometimes it feels like they are working against employees, where as other times they will fight right along side you. at my store, they tend to shave 3-4 hours off(weekly) in the months approaching inventory. If you live in the Washington state, about all your employee discount will cover is sales tax.

Advice to Senior Management

be more upfront with your employees. if you are going to cut hours, come forth and say why.