Today, Walmart Corporate announced internally that they are eliminating 100% of all work from home agreements. They are giving people until July to move to Northwest Arkansas or to accept a severance package. I know a few people who have been with the company for 10-20 years who are top performers with no disciplinary issues. Absolutely bullshit. Corporate greed at its finest.

How do I get to go to work without this form? I'm tired of being at home

Hey all. I'm in something of a weird spot. I worked at Walmart about 10 years ago. Used to be a team lead. Back then, I made $12. This included the overnight additional $1/hr.

Fast forward 10 years later, I'm working insurance, have a ton of management experience, blah blah blah, not important. I made an equivalent of $29/hr working for big name insurance companies. Was looking at job postings and saw my local walmart offering $19/hour for the overnight shift.

Of course, this is lower than I make now, but I would GLADLY take that pay cut to go back to walmart - the amount of stress I have now at work compared to being a team lead wasn't even in the same ballpark. I would absolutely love to go back if that pay offer is correct. But, what with making $12 last time I worked there, that seems unlikely.

Is this true? Do overnight employees make $19/hour now? What the hell happened?

I’d like to first start this by mentioning that there are many, many scabs being paid to monitor, track and document any associate speaking out about the company or attempting to organize, but that’s where the topic of my post comes in.

Below are a few things I would genuinely like to know from the horse of the mouth:

1. How does it feel knowing that potentially 250,000+ associates are organized into one website, where anyone from any store can share not only to other associates, but the entire internet at any second?

2. How does it feel knowing that at any second, a new GWP incident can occur, potentially being more catastrophic than you first thought possible? Not only that, but to have it spread through hundreds of stores instantly.

3. How does it feel knowing that no matter how valiant your efforts are to deter, disrupt or discourage organizing, that this is the one thing you can not control or alter? That you can only sit idly by and are left to send a fraction of scabs compared to the users on this forum.

4. Do you know how much Walmart spends on Union Busting in a year? According to this source, it shows that you spend roughly 400 million dollars a year on union busting alone. Now let’s throw generous number and say 300,000 associates still work at Walmart. That would be roughly a $1300 bonus every year.

I know a few people that could use an extra $1300 a year, I know cause I work with them. That could pay off their credit cards, some of our tuition, car payments, rent for the month, sometimes it’s just food.

But that’s being generous. If we use the more accurate 200,000 associates company wide, that would be roughly a $2000 bonus every year. Sounds good? Don’t forget that.

5. Do you realize how devastating a union would be not just for Walmart, not just for it’s shareholders, but for the United States economy? This map from 2017 (ignore the outdated associate count; we all know that’s not accurate anymore) shows just how much of a conglomerate Walmart has become as a company, and how wealthy it is, but how handsome it is in the pockets of political leaders and members of the house.

My fellow associates, please take advantage of the community we have hear. Not a “WalMart family”, but a community of the people, by the people, for the people.

And as for Doug, the Waltons and any shareholder, corporate ladder climber reading this…

Respect Us, or Expect Us.

More sources to ponder on:

How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce

Walmart engaged in illegal union busting at California store, U.S. agency says

UN decries Amazon, Walmart, DoorDash for ‘shameful’ wages and union-busting

Amazon, DoorDash, Walmart, trapping workers in poverty: UN rights expert

May 13 (Reuters) - Walmart Inc (WMT.N), opens new tab announced on Tuesday that it plans to cut hundreds of jobs at its corporate headquarters and relocate a majority of its U.S. and Canada-based remote workforce to three offices, a shift in strategy after initially endorsing virtual work during the pandemic. "We are asking the majority of associates working remotely, and the majority of associates within our offices in Dallas, Atlanta, and our Toronto Global Tech office, to relocate," Donna Morris, Walmart's chief people officer wrote in a memo to its U.S. campus associates on Tuesday.

Like other U.S. companies, Walmart is shifting its strategy towards more in-person work after years of pandemic-induced remote working. At one point it even endorsed remote work as the new norm."We believe the future in tech will be one in which working virtually will be the new normal, at least for most of the work we lead," Suresh Kumar, the head of Walmart's global tech operations wrote in a LinkedIn post in 2021.

I had been working as a cashier for a few months. The other day the store was full and a client arrived with two other people. She tells me that she needs another cart and to find someone to bring it to her, I tell her that there was no one available. So she goes and grabs it and she tells me there you have it so you can put the bags. I was amazed because never a costumer who it’s with other people and is not handicapped needs to you put everything in their cart but I say ok but if you can, you can also put things. She told me I want to talk to the manager. I called the team lead and she started talking to the client and when I asked the person who was with her why she is doing all this? she told me why are you doing it. Then I went to where the team lead was talking to the costumer and she told me with a face of hate and contempt go away I don't even want to see you and I told her that she is racist( I’m Latina she was from Slavic I think)Conclusion the team lead called me to talk, she told me that I should have called them before and that the woman wasn’t racist, she was only entitled because she had been a manager in the past and and that I was being aggressive when I approached where they were talking. I had a crying fit and couldn't hold back the tears. I tried to continue working but some costumers asked me if I was okay and the team lead approached me and she told me to go to lunch. I walked out the door and got in my car, then drove to a gas station and then home. And I didn't want to go back but I don't know if I made a good decision.

I’m so confused right now. I’ve been out on leave for 6 months for medical reasons. I’m supposed to return Next Thursday. My people lead said Sedgwick has to release me and send her a email before I come back. Sedgwick is saying they don’t release me my doctor does and that I have to get my doctor to fill out a form and return it to my store. I’ve been on leave before and never had to do anything other than come in and work on my return date. So which is right?

I got into pretty bad a car accident, car got completely totaled. I went to the ER and they recommended me to take a few days off and gave me a doctors note. I was so sore that I couldn't move. I filed the claim the night of the accident, I took an unpaid leave from 12/1/2023 and said to be returning 12/5/2023. I'm not approved yet as they still need me to go to my primary doctor and have them sign the papers for the claim. The 5th and the 6th I wasn't scheduled but for the 7th I am scheduled to work, do I still have to call Sedgwick to return or am I good to walk in?

Edit: All the post I found aren't as clear cut and it just made me for confused. I do still have access to my me@walmart app if that helps.

Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs and asking most remote workers to move to offices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Meanwhile, workers at the U.S. retail giant’s smaller offices in Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto are being asked to move to other central hubs such as Walmart’s corporate headquarters in Bentonville as well as Hoboken or Southern California, the report added.

Walmart will still let staff work remotely part time, as long as they are in offices a majority of the time, the report said.

Walmart employed approximately 2.1 million associates as of Jan. 31, 2024, according to regulatory filings.

The company has been making moves to shrink its workforce over the past year and had said in April last year that it expects about 65% of its stores to be serviced by automation by the end of its fiscal year 2026.

In February 2023, it shut three of its U.S. technology hubs and asked hundreds of workers to relocate to keep their jobs, pushing for more employees to report to work from office.

Walmart didn’t immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/walmart-to-reportedly-lay-off-hundreds-of-corporate-staff-and-relocate-others.html

I was fired back in 2020 for reasons I won't mention, but I get asked all the time when I go in there (which is not often) if I'm gonna return to work there. About year after I got fired I did ask if I was able to be rehired here and the SM did say I was. But I decided that I would never go back to work for Walmart. I'm happy at my current job. They actually don't penalize you for being late or calling out.