Walmart Assembler’s Blog

So you know the slow person I was talking about in a previous post? Well they finally got themselves a D-day. For those that don’t know, a D-day is a paid day off from work to write an essay on why you should still be employed with Walmart. Yeah I know thats not exactly it but it sure is close enough. After your D-day the next time you mess up, you are fired. Simple.

I’m tired so this post is boring, I apologize.

Remember kids, Walmart isn’t anti-union, they are pro open door. I have to laugh at that statement.

I will post about a few things today since I am full of rage and need an outlet.

The first thing is an interesting post on the Consumerist. Read it here.

This actually happens at alot of Walmarts. I know of a couple of people, including associaties, that have gotten screwed when getting thier oil changed. The one person didn’t have the oil changed at all. Another person had the oil changed but the oil filter wasn’t touched. What sense does that make? They are also very good screwing you when you get new tires. There was also a good friend of mine that had his car wrecked by Walmart. It went in for an oil change and came out needing a new freakin door!! Welcome to Walmart, let us drive your car around with the door open and take it off by backing it out of the garage bay. Yeah figure that one out. I wouldn’t have believed it unless I saw it with my own eyes. Damn that was messed up.

Shoplifters are stupid. The other night these girls decided to load up a cart full of tvs and try to take off out the emergency fire door, you know, the one with the blaring alarm on it. How much brains do they got in thier head? Not much if you are going to try and go that route. You’d be better off going out the front door late at night. Remember 2 things. I don’t know about other stores but in my store we are not allowed to stop you and check your receipt if you set off the alarm.  Item 2, most of the time the door greeter is either sleeping or mia from his/her post. The smart ones are the ones that don’t get caught. Smart equals front door at 3am.

Now on to the bitching about my fellow associaties. Oh yeah, no one is sacred to me.

We have this one chik that works one of the consumable departments. She is slow. No matter how much freight she gets she can never get done by 7am. Ever!! It doesn’t matter if she has 300 things or 100 things, she just can’t seem to do it. She always has to bitch about something too. Be it she has too much frieght to do or she was asked to do one extra thing during the night. Then we have her supposed conversations with the managers she says she has. She will get into vivid detail about how she tells the manager to go screw himself or go fuck himself, something along those lines. I for one have never heard any such thing take place. And most of these conversations I have heard. They go something like this…

Manager: Hey slow chik. I need you to fill this end cap.

Slow Chik: You’re killing me. If I get it done it gets done.

Manager: thank you slow chik.

What? Yeah thats usually the conversation. Anyone see foul language or talking tough anywhere? No? Ok, I thought so.

Then we have her “boyfriend”. I use boyfriend very loosely. She thinks she is in a relationship with him, he is out to get some. Period. Anyway, her sex friend also works a very important department. And just like the slow chik, he never gets done early. Hmm…i wonder why you are only making 9 dollars and hour after 2+ years compared to me who makes…well lets just say it’s more. I have done his job with more then he usually gets in 1/2 the time it takes him, but yet he claims he can do it faster then me. At the meetings when he finds out there is alot of freight and no one helping him he gets all emo and says it’s not getting done. With that kind of attitude it’s not going to get done. Plain and simple. You don’t have a positive outlook you are going to fail. No one seems to understand that.

Everyone bitches about how poorly they are treated at night. Oh this person gets to do this and I have to do that, it’s not fair, blah blah blah. Shut the fuck up!!. You are there to do a job. If you don’t want to work to earn a living then marry someone rich. If you do your job there wont be a problem. These people that bitch are the ones that have one or two tasks during the night. Whoop-dee shit!! Try being me. I get lists of 12 + things to do a night. I get them done and have time to spare. Whats your excuse?

I apologize for the lack of updates. It has actually been pretty boring the past month or so. There haven’t been any major holidays or anything like that to bring out the stupid people. The weather has been nice recently which does bring out the nice weather clothing. We have our usual skimpy dressed girls walking around at all hours. You know the ones I mean. The clothes they are wearing look like they belong on an eight year old girl, not an 18 year old. I am not going to say it looks bad, most don’t bnut there are alot that shouldn’t be wearing what they are. I won’t go into that for the sake of offending people. We also have had a few drunks coming in and torture the cashiers. That always makes for good stories. There is actually another post I am working on but it is going to take a little time to do it. Look forward to it within the next week or so. I need a little more material for it and some facts before posting it .

As I was taking a stroll through the grocery isles during my long and uneventful night I happened upon a lady in the paper goods isle. She stopped me and asked if I could help her. Being the good associate that I am I told her “yes i can!!”. She wanted to know where the paper plates were at. Seeing that she was standing right next to them I casually motioned my head to the right as if I was pointing with it. She let out a laugh and apologized for being stupid. I told her it was ok since it was about 3am and most people are out of it, including most of the associaties. Next she wanted some cheap cups, the cheaper the better. I backed up a little bit and pointed. Again with the laughing. She said she had one more dumb question for me. Where were the platic forks? I instructed her to back up about 3 feet and look to the left. She wanted a bag with an assortment in it. I assume it was for a memorial day party of some sort. We didn’t have an assortment, she would have had to buy them each seperatly. She wasn’t too keen on the idea of spending a whole 6 bucks for plastic forks, knives and spoons. Then she spots the zoo pals assortment. She burts out in a fit of laughter. They were only 3 something and had everything she needed. So she throws them in her cart and says “Screw it. We be eatin with them!!” and then jets off down the isle. I later saw her at the register laughing at the zoo pals while I guess she was telling the cashier why she got them. Gotta love the cheap ones, which is why Walmart is here to take over the world!

Near the end of my night a customer asks if I can help them. I told him no and I was only wearing the name badge for fun. I then laughed as well as he did. I am glad he had a sense of humor. I asked him what he needed. Window blinds. We were actually standing maybe about 60 feet down from where they were. I told him to follow the poles and look to the left. He nodded and took off in the opposite direction. I stopped him and told him it was the other way, I thought prehaps my pointing in the proper direction didn’t help him. He told me he had to go get oil then he would be back. Fine by me. I took off to the back room to kill some time before going home. I stayed in the back for about 20 minutes or so before coming back out. On my way to the front of the store to take a cart back, I ran into Mr. window blinds. He looked kind of lost. I asked if he needed something else which his reply was, “I forgot where the window blinds are!”. Ummm…? I just told him like 20 minutes ago and he was only 1 department way. Now that I think of it he took an awfully long time getting a quart of oil. What do I care though. I took him right to the blinds and went on my merry way.

Remember the blog a little bit ago about the chik and the upskirt show? Well this time it was a chik with very large breasts giving out a show. What made me wonder is why would you where a tank top with no bra if your breasts are extremely large? To show them off, fine. I can understand that. If I had a huge rack I would certainly show them off too, but I would also wear a bra to keep them contained so they were not falling out like her’s were.

If you are ever bored and want some entertainment, go to Walmart after about 2 or so. You will meet all kinds of people such as drunks, people in pajamas, people who don’t have much clothing on at all and just plain ol’ strange foke who should be released into gen pop.

It has been relativly slow the past few weeks, ok since last time I wrote anything. We did lose one of our overnighters to the dayshift crew. I do believe it was in my last post I mentioned a person of X. Well X got the supposed better position on days even though it was a paycut. Figure that one out. Getting a better position but you lose money per hour, gotta love the Walmart way. I guess I can write about X unless something else pops into my mind.

So the first day X took the position they didn’t really like it and said they would be back to overnights in no time. A little time has passed and I don’t forsee X coming back to overnights anytime soon. X has already become one of “them”. It shows in the attitude and the conversation. In order to understand what one of “them” is you have to see how they act compared to how we act, then lose one of your own to them and watch them transform. It is actually hard to explain. It is one of those things you can just sense it. I know X will question me about this if they get wind I said such a thing. I won’t be able to explain it so X is SOL! hahah

I am going to try and get back in the habit of keeping this updated on a regular basis.

One of my fellow associaties decided to change thier position from over night status to something else during the day. Why isn’t important, but what is important is what happened when said person did this. I will call them X. X went for an interview for a day position not too long ago. X wasn’t sure what they were going to do but figured go and see what happens. One of the overnight assistant managers got wind of this. They were not too happy, they told X that they suck. Ever since then X has been called into the office for various reasons many times during the past several days. Last night X was assigned 2 departments. Doing 2 departments is nothing new for X. It is usually a welcome change. I was put in 1 department and told when I was done to move to another department. Fine. I told the assistant manager I would be done in about 4 hours or so. They were fine with that. Not even 4 hours had passed when the assistant manager came up to me and told me to just leave my department and move on. I informed them I had only a little bit left and it would take me about 20 minutes. I was told X would finish it and clean up after me. I didn’t really like that since it’s not fair. I wouldn’t like it, so why should I do it to someone else. I had no choice in the matter. I moved on. Later on I found out X had not only been assigned thier 2 departments along with mine, but also another one, and they all had to be done and zoned. Near the end of the night I found out X was given the job of finishing up 2 more departments on top of the other 4. Something wasn’t right. It seemed as though the assistant manager was getting some kind of revenge for X possibly leaving overnights. Actually I know that what they were doing. Those things along with some rude comments made and actions done there is no doubt in my mind thats what was going on. You know what X did about it? Bent over and took it up the keester!!

I know this stuff happens all over the place and at every job. But Walmart promotes a family friendly enviroment and crap like that. It’s bullshit!! The only family part that comes into play is when someone dies and they can’t boss them around or when the store manager has some family issues. So if you are thinking about getting a job at Walmart, remember you can’t have any life with your family. Kiss that goodbye.

Today is Earth Day. Do all things good for the Earth and the Earth will promise not to implode and kill us all. I have already posted how Eco-Unfriendly Walmart is so I won’t do it again. What I will post is an answer to an email I got from a reader.

Someone emailed me about my blog and how they can relate to my work. They also asked how I could want to go for management when I posted that video about the guy who worked for Walmart and saw alot of bad things.

In answer to your question, I am not going to do the management thing anymore. It is actually a combonation of things that makes me not want to do it anymore. I have talked to a bunch of other managers and didn’t like what they had to say. I also like to leave the building for an hour a day for my lunch. Why would I want to spend 12+ hours in Walmart anyway? 9 is bad enough. There is also an issues of my personal life. It’s not a good time for it. One last thing, I still care about people and the human race in general, not much but some. Once my personal life is done with and I stop caring about things and people I will join the big machine and dominate the world with our wonderful imports and cheap goods. Thats not fair, some stuff is made in the US.

Fun fact for you…

What percent of the items in the store sell at least one a day?

50%….

So half the stuff in the store sells at least once a day…freakin amazing..

Back when I first started this blog I was an assembler building bikes with the occasional stocking duty. After the x-mas rush I was sent out on the floor to stock with the occasional building of bikes here and there. Months of stocking has given me the chance to see the crazy people that come shopping late at night. It let me see society at it’s finest. Things are changing once again. Depending on what night of the week it is and what manager is on dictates where I will be and what I will be doing. Over the past two weeks I hvae built bikes all night, then the next night stock for a little bit then build bikes. There were even a few times I did just about everything in the store I knew how to do. Other things that have changed is the management. We have Assistant managers come and go all the time. There is one that has been there since I started that just won’t go away. Sometimes I won’t have a problem with them but other nights it is just downright unbearable to be at work. When that particular manager is on, our moral is probably at it’s lowest. Productivity is at it’s minimal, just enough to get the work done but not enough to be outstanding. When our other Assistant manager is on, our moral is at it’s best. This Assistant manager is a bit more human then others. They are still managment but they are more understanding. We are not given 50 things to do with only enough time to get 20 things done. Even on the off chance we are given that much work, it is not expected for us to get done 100%. NOw if we could only replace the low moral manager with another good for moral manager, our store could be top in the market. Most of our workers have potential, the ones that don’t get sent to clean the store. Maybe someone should say something to the higher ups about the bad manager. Our store manager isn’t all that much better. Since I have been there, I think I may have seen the guy 4 times.

Now that I am done my little rehash and rant I will move on to some things that were noticed in the store.

Asian girls that wear short, and I mean short, skirts should learn to wear some panties and bend at the knees and not the waist. There was a younger Asian girl walking around our store doing a little shopping the other night. She was wearing a short skirt that came to about the bottom of her butt cheeks, if she was lucky.  While doing her shopping she would get things from the bottom shelf by bending at the waist. Now any girl who wears skirts knows what happens when you do that. The funny part about the whole thing is when I turned the corner coming out of the bathroom I came face to face with the Asian girl’s goods being bared as she was reaching again to the bottom shelf. I was a bit shocked at what I saw. As I passed her she looked up and gave me a little smile. I said hi like a good associate I am and kept moving. I am wondering if she was really that dumb or just wanted everyone to see her bare stuff. Either way the guys were going crazy about it.

Remember the guy that wanted the item that we never had and wanted a scanner thingy? Well we got the item but I haven’t seen the man back again. Funny, he said he came in our store everynight.

There was more in my brain I wanted to post but my brain doesn’t want to cooperate today.

This is an interesting video..

This month is Earth Day at the wonderful Walmart. They have all of these earth friendly products out because they love the earth and want to save it. That’s all fine and good. The thing I don’t understand is Walmart supposedly recycles,right? Well we do recycle plastics, paper, and cardboard. What about all those shelves that were tossed in the trash compactor a few night ago? Or what about all the metal sign fixtures that were collected from around the store and thrown in the trash compactor? Better yet, what about all the bikes that were returned for stupid things like flat tires or people just didn’t want them? Guess where they went? Not donated to someone in need or to a recycling center, no, they went into the trash compactor. The trash compactor packs all the garbage and whatever else is thrown in there into a nice block and is delevered to a landfill somewhere to be put into the ground. Isn’t that nice? Brand new bikes that could be fixed and donated, hell even resold if need be, are now going to rust and pollute the ground. Props to you again Walmart!