Always short handed - Sales Associate Walmart Employee Review

1.0
Mar 16, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I suppose the 10% discount (on non-grocery items) is a good benefit. If you are one of the lucky few full time employees, I hear the healthcare options were good. The other workers were nice and try to be helpful.

Cons

Will work you just under 40 hours so that they don't have to offer health benefits to you. Horrible starting wage of $7.50 per hour. A computer generated schedule that had me working 9 days in a row. Some days I would work until 11 pm, and have to be back at 5 a.m. the next morning. Absolutely no training....even on my first day there, they just threw me out on the sales floor alone, with nobody training me.

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