Walmart sucks!!!
rico05 wrote:Also, I agree that you should look into food service. I run a coffee shop and I make more than all of my other college buddies and I get to serve coffee to hot college chicks all day long. It owns!
its surprising, but that actually is the way to go. im putting off finishing college, and leaving my job as a mechanic, so i can work with my step-father. he runs supermarkets, and he's opening a new one 10 minutes from where we live. with the both of us working 80 some odd hours a week, we can do the job of 4 or 5 other people, and pocket 60-70% of the payroll. he runs the business aspect, and i take care of the terminal/register/server-database network and help stock and maintain the place so we dont need any extra help aside from cashiers and a butcher.
its a ****load of work, but the numbers add up nicely.
You guys ***** too much. A job is a job. If you don't have a college degree you should be thinking your better than doing anything. I carry out groceries on all sorts of days, no matter what the weather is. I put in my time and make my money. I'm not above doing anything I have to do and I'm respected because I always do what I'm asked to do. I make more money than most of the employees my age because of my willingness to do what I'm asked. That's what work is. It's not supposed to be fun if it's only part time.
Corporate jobs do suck, especially when you're one of the "expendable" components. Wal-Mart, Best Buy, McDonald's are the most recognizable companies in the world because they operate a well-oiled machine. The harsh reality of the business world is that efficiency is paramount, and often times at the expense of people's feelings and dignity. I remember working my *** off at retailers only to be treated like a cowpie by store and upper management. I cringe everytime I'm waiting in line at Wal-Mart and a store manager or customer reprimands a helpless cashier or floor guy.
On the other hand, I learned some important lessons during those years. The one thing I learned from power-tripping egoists was that if I were in the same position, I would never ever treat an employee as they did. In point of fact, the most important lesson I learned didn't come from all those years I spent in business school, it came from pushing carts and stocking inventory as a Target employee in high school.
That most important thing is having the heart to treat your employees well and having the eye for talented and hardworking individuals. Being a marketing director for over three companies in the past five years, I have always stressed a cultivation of a caring, intimate relationship with each and every employee. A happy employee is exponentially more productive than a miserable one.
For instance, when I worked for a small underground hip hop label here in MA I'd get stacks and stacks of resumes of people with backgrounds in business applying for market research jobs. I never once sifted through those stacks, I'd get right into the urban neighborhoods, right down to the local Sam Goody, Strawberries and recruit part-time college kids who I knew were "fed-up" with their situation. I'd recruit these kids and let them call their own hours, made a conscious effort to get everything I could about these kids and reward them (I've been known to send employees on group trips to Jamaica, Mexico, Las Vegas), set them up with college tuition plans. In my experiences, treating employees like this pays dividends (and drives the bean-counters nuts).
You're all probably wondering what the heck the point of this epic story is but in short, I get paid well into six digits to do nothing more than make friends with talented, motivated kids, surrounding myself with a strong supporting cast and making sure I bring out the best in them. It saddens me to see bosses running a tight ship and jumping on employees all the time and coincidentally, lots of these people never "move up."
On the other hand, I learned some important lessons during those years. The one thing I learned from power-tripping egoists was that if I were in the same position, I would never ever treat an employee as they did. In point of fact, the most important lesson I learned didn't come from all those years I spent in business school, it came from pushing carts and stocking inventory as a Target employee in high school.
That most important thing is having the heart to treat your employees well and having the eye for talented and hardworking individuals. Being a marketing director for over three companies in the past five years, I have always stressed a cultivation of a caring, intimate relationship with each and every employee. A happy employee is exponentially more productive than a miserable one.
For instance, when I worked for a small underground hip hop label here in MA I'd get stacks and stacks of resumes of people with backgrounds in business applying for market research jobs. I never once sifted through those stacks, I'd get right into the urban neighborhoods, right down to the local Sam Goody, Strawberries and recruit part-time college kids who I knew were "fed-up" with their situation. I'd recruit these kids and let them call their own hours, made a conscious effort to get everything I could about these kids and reward them (I've been known to send employees on group trips to Jamaica, Mexico, Las Vegas), set them up with college tuition plans. In my experiences, treating employees like this pays dividends (and drives the bean-counters nuts).
You're all probably wondering what the heck the point of this epic story is but in short, I get paid well into six digits to do nothing more than make friends with talented, motivated kids, surrounding myself with a strong supporting cast and making sure I bring out the best in them. It saddens me to see bosses running a tight ship and jumping on employees all the time and coincidentally, lots of these people never "move up."
thats actually an awesome insite. What I find amazing is someone from walmart making essencially chump change and someone that makes six figures would post in the same thread on a forum on the internet. If more people had this kind of interaction from both ends of the scale it would make most work environments more pleasant to work in. The biggest problems come from both sides though. One problem is the more successful person(by dollars and cents) usually the boss has this snobish attitude of I am better then you because I have a better education and more money(this holds true to other then on the job as well). The flip side is the younger worker usually still has the rebelious chip on their shoulder.
well, i'm a university student so this losing this job won't be the death of me
it's not that i had a chip on my shoulder, i just was tired of being there bi0tch, was tired of having to work like a trained monkey and not getting any respect for it
and yes turnover is very very high, i the us alone walmart employs around a million people but has to hire over 500 00 new people each year, which says alot about that company
it's not that i had a chip on my shoulder, i just was tired of being there bi0tch, was tired of having to work like a trained monkey and not getting any respect for it
and yes turnover is very very high, i the us alone walmart employs around a million people but has to hire over 500 00 new people each year, which says alot about that company
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Aztek72 wrote:For instance, when I worked for a small underground hip hop label here in MA I'd get stacks and stacks of resumes of people with backgrounds in business applying for market research jobs. I never once sifted through those stacks, I'd get right into the urban neighborhoods, right down to the local Sam Goody, Strawberries and recruit part-time college kids who I knew were "fed-up" with their situation. I'd recruit these kids and let them call their own hours, made a conscious effort to get everything I could about these kids and reward them (I've been known to send employees on group trips to Jamaica, Mexico, Las Vegas), set them up with college tuition plans. In my experiences, treating employees like this pays dividends (and drives the bean-counters nuts).
Man this makes me want to not finish my marketing degree and work in the local sam goody...