Shocked at Wal-Mart

[rachel89]

He kind of looked like a skin-head or something, but I didn't really want to hang around and get a closer look at his tatoos.

[barbie]

When my mom worked at walmart she got $12 an hour. She also has a nursing degree. The associates aren't all rocket scientists but a lot of them are educated and the wages are about right for big box retail stores.

Of course, there are many exceptions. A Ph.D can be a cab driver here, too, and the average monthly income of cab drivers here is about US$1,200.

We like to say about the average.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Walmart-Salaries-E715.htm
http://makingchangeatwalmart.org/factsheet/walmart-watch-fact-sheets/fact-sheet-wages/

barbie~~

[barbie]

Ask a Walmart Expert: How Do You Deal With a Poorly Trained Walmart Cashier?

http://www.groceryshopforfreeatthemart.com/ask-a-walmart-expert-how-do-you-deal-with-a-poorly-trained-walmart-cashier/

barbie~~

[iKate]

Ask a Walmart Expert: How Do You Deal With a Poorly Trained Walmart Cashier?

http://www.groceryshopforfreeatthemart.com/ask-a-walmart-expert-how-do-you-deal-with-a-poorly-trained-walmart-cashier/

barbie~~

The cashiers are actually among the higher paid ones in the store. The lower paid employees are usually stocking shelves or pushing carts.

[Dee Marshall]

I buy all my clothing at church goodwill and thrift shops because of my vows and I've never had anybody say anything to me or pass an off comment.  Having worked for the adult mental health service as a social worker I know very well that folk with mental illness and refugees from other countries get threatened and mishandled by violent bigoted people too.  I cannot even begin to understand why anyone would want to do such hateful things.

I worked in adult mental health, too and frequently those "violent bigoted people" are the people with mental illness. Many illnesses cause disordered thinking and paranoia (specifically thinking schizophrenia, paranoid type) and cause people to be easily led by the types such as Fox News. Black and white thinking makes them believe that attacking minorities they've been told are "evil" is a laudable act that will keep them safe. This is to say that I understand and feel sorry for them, but still hold them accountable for their actions.

[Mai]

The cashiers are actually among the higher paid ones in the store. The lower paid employees are usually stocking shelves or pushing carts.

not quite.  cashiers are  $0.20 above the base pay that the bottom associates get... stockers are at base pay  however, stockers are on the overnight team that get a $1 pay differential. day time sales associates are the lowest paid associates, unless they work in sporting goods, tire/lube express, or electronics.

[Lady Smith]

I worked in adult mental health, too and frequently those "violent bigoted people" are the people with mental illness. Many illnesses cause disordered thinking and paranoia (specifically thinking schizophrenia, paranoid type) and cause people to be easily led by the types such as Fox News. Black and white thinking makes them believe that attacking minorities they've been told are "evil" is a laudable act that will keep them safe. This is to say that I understand and feel sorry for them, but still hold them accountable for their actions.

People used to ask me if working for the adult mental health service was dangerous and my usual reply was that 'normal' people are far more dangerous than the clients I worked with on a daily basis.

[Dee Marshall]

People used to ask me if working for the adult mental health service was dangerous and my usual reply was that 'normal' people are far more dangerous than the clients I worked with on a daily basis.

And on average that is absolutely true. I liked the people I worked with very much. Only a very few of them made me nervous, but I wasn't the type of person who triggered them. The few paranoid schizophrenic people we had had an irrational fear and dislike of some very random sets of people and what they would do when presented with one of those people wasn't easy to predict. All of them were safer to be around than the average person on the street, providing that they were staying on their meds.

I used to tell my clients that the biggest difference between them and other people was that they had been diagnosed and that the others hadn't, YET.