Wal-Mart Manager Speaks out About His Store’s Ugly Reality

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http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/wal-mart-manager-speaks-out-about-his-stores-ugly-reality

From no time off, to working multiple roles at once, here's what's really going on at the mega-chain.

March 25, 2014 |


President Obama sparked a new round of big business ire this month, directing the Labor Department to reform rules that exclude salaried managers making over $23,660 a year from overtime protections.

That was welcome news for a Wal-Mart assistant manager – granted anonymity due to concerns over retaliation – who told Salon the retail giant exploits managers’ lack of overtime protection by making managers do rank-and-file employees’ work in order to cut costs. (Wal-Mart did not respond to a request for comment last week.) A condensed version of our conversation – on chronic understaffing, firings of strikers, and why he sympathizes with the union-backed non-union workers group OUR Walmart – follows.

The regulatory change that’s been proposed by the president on overtime — how would that change things for you, if that went into law?

That would force Wal-Mart to, one, start to count how much managers are working … The more time I spend at work, the less time I spend with my family … Without compensation for it, it makes no sense to me … My time with my family is worth a lot more.

How many hours a week do you think you’re working now?

Right now, it’s consistently about 48 hours a week. However, when we get toward the holiday season …you’re regularly working 60 hours a week.

How much do you bring home … from doing that?

My yearly salary is $44,000.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. For several years I worked for a large computer company that provided on-site

staffing at Wal-Mart's 'Home Office'. We were required to put in 45 hours a week so that we would have the same work schedule as their exempt IT people.

[burfman]

2. The six Walmart Heirs hold as much as the bottom 40%

What's wrong with this picture? Ya just got to love it - how can this be continuing in a democracy???

Somebody working 48 to 60 hours /week for $44,000 with out any overtime - not to mention the lower level employees who need food stamps to make ends meet. A company that pretty much exists to just import Chinese goods into the US while paying their employees sub-standard wages. Funding some of the richest people on the planet..

Not making this stuff up...... check out for starters:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/waltons-net-worth_n_1680642.html

[Old Codger]

3. well

averaging 48 hour week gives them 2496 hours a year , paid at 44000, comes out to over 17 and hour, really not all that bad a pay rate.

[Jefferson23]

4. Recommend.

Fuckers: It’s kind of sad that, you know, you have associates that are struggling right now — especially struggle this time of year — to get 24 hours a week … They didn’t ask to be part-time. A lot of them would love to be full-time …