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YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!! - DSP

Posted: Mar 22, 2015

Started at 2 a.m., and hour early, to get my "mandatory OT " in for the day....no NJA??? Why are they not calling off the mandatory OT this weekend??? This is insane!!!!

I still have work - cant you call for more?

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Call workflow people. I will share!

Because its getting their work caught up! - Smt

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They dont care if we take the hours off with no pay or use our PTO to make up missed time.

AND unless you work over 40 hours - sm

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there is no overtime..so effectively, they have just changed your schedule to suit their needs..

Schedule by demand...but be in compliance with your schedule!!! - AN

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Exactly, for part-timers (who very likely are part-time for a good reason) are essentially just being asked to add an entire shift to their week for the same pennies a line. I'm all for extra money, but when it's pennies, it's hard to find the merit in spending more time at your desk when you have outside responsibilities (hence, the reason you work the SCHEDULE you have).

AN....you bring up an interesting point - sm

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I wonder if they are testing the waters to go to a more P/T employee handling things..Full time equals having to pay insurance,part time no obamacare requirement..Hummmmm....

Good point - They could be using

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the Sam Walton school of thought. He was the King of Cutting Benefits.

Sam Walton - Nana

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It was a few years after Sam Walton died that things started going downhill slowly for the employees. I worked there for 14 years before I decided I'd like to be an MT, what a mistake that was. They had good insurance, bonuses, stock options (which they do still have), merit raises for jobs well done and yearly raises of up to 5%. I was making 15.00 an hour there. Hired by Spheris, got up to 12.00 an hour and steadily went down to minimum wage in 8 years after medquist buyout. Yes, the kids and big wigs at Walmart have taken a lot away, so it's just like all other big companies, but Sam was great to his employees.

In what capacity did you work for walmart? - former walmart cashier

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I worked there while in college, treated like a second-class citizen and made minimum wage. I did have stock but I was charged to get my money back when I left so I more or less broke even. I won't even shop there to this day.

Walmart - Nana

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I started out as a stocker, then after a couple months became a department manager. I started in 1990 or there abouts. I enjoyed it most of the time, except for the year or so before I gave it up. I had enough in profit sharing and stocks to rollover after I left and have a nice nest egg now. Like I said some things are different now though and I wouldn't go back.

Kidding me - Mountainwoman

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Their reasoning is simple. They have been paying OT for months, so they just require mandatory OT at the beginning of the week. The work gets cleared out and then there's no work, meaning they just got out of paying OT they required, since no one will have their 40 hours. Their weekend work gets caught up by those people trying to get their 40 hours in without having to take PTO.

A company I used to work for used to brag that they did this. It's crappy, but unfortunately, it's common.

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