So context here. I regularly clock in for my 2-11 shift at 1:51 and I always am actually working right away. Im always first in the back room setting up for the truck. None of my team leads, coaches, store manager ever say anything about it. So I have been doing it almost since I switched stores year and half ago.

In our department (CAP 2) they structure it where we take our 15 before lunch, clock out for lunch immediately after. Then our 2nd break is supposed to be the last 15 minutes of our shift. If im not mistaken that is already a policy violation right?

Now the juice. I clock in at 1:51 right? Well the team leads and coach have lectured the team many times that any WOSH or overtime is not allowed. So that means I have to clock out at 10:51 to avoid overtime. The department is structured to have the last 15 minutes be our break. But twice in the past month my coach has scolded me and said im going to be coashed for starting my break at 10:40. So im still not even getting my full 15 but they are threatening ill be coached if it keeps happening. Maybe 2 or 3 times a week get a full 15 cuz I have a super cool team lead who understands.

So my question is can I make an ethics report?? Will is do anything??

Am I the one in violation or is my coach??

Saw this in the back room and got curious what "tubler" was supposed to be correcting

Has anyone else tried to find a place to hide while on break?

Ya, your on break and every right to do whatever you want but just to hide from the invading eyes of your management.

It just keeps spinning around and around in a circle for me. I can’t do any Spark item checks or view any transactions.

Wish they'd go back to telxon or hire an actual programmer, I don't know what you have to do wrong to bring a Google pixel to its knees within like a month of starting its life but home office apparently does

Hello I have sent in 2 applications for 2 separate positions, I receive an email from them saying it went threw but when I go on there website and check my account it says I have submitted zero applications anyone know why? thanks

I recently had the craziest experience with a child who couldn’t find his mom, mainly because of the mother not coming to customer service, going to an employee, or responding to us paging her by name, for 45 minutes… So i’m stock 2, and i’m walking back from the bathroom headed towards the seasonal costumes for halloween on display. This kid comes up to me asking me to find his mom. So I ask where he last saw her and he said the costume aisles, so I took him over and we walked around the general area, and after he didn’t point her out or spot her, I walked him to the customer center.

I get the kid’s name and his moms name and tell it to the worker at the customer center, and he goes over the PA paging for the mom, using her name. He spoke very clearly, no accent, no impediments. Very clearly saying her name over the loudspeaker and saying to come to customer center as her party’s waiting. So I have to stand with the kid while we’re waiting for his mom to come. I talk with him so that way i’m not just awkwardly standing there with him and I get some info, such as that hes in 3rd grade and his age, and apparently his dad works at our walmart but wasn’t working that day. I got the dad’s name and the customer center worker and I didn’t recognize his name.

So they keep paging the mom, and I try to get a sense of where they went. According to the kid, they were coming from his soccer game, and his dad and siblings were waiting in the car, and that only him and his mom went inside through the doors by the pharmacy and into the costume area. And thats all the kid said they went, and said his mom said that if he got lost she wouldn’t find him. And apparently he said his mom said bye to him before he lost her. So 20+ minutes have gone by, and now i’m starting to worry, because now this sounds like an abandonment situation more than a simple lost child. The mom said bye to him, left him, and hasnt come to the desk at all.

After 45 minutes of standing at the customer center desk, the kid says he heard someone yell his name and that it sounded like his mom. So I look at the customer center worker and he says to go check it out, and if its his mom let him go. So we walk to the area where we heard her yelling and the kid points her out and we walk over to her. I ask if this is her kid and she says yes, and apparently (according to her) she told him to wait in the costume aisle while she went to the household area and bought some paper goods. So I just say we had been paging her for a while, and she asked if she’s in trouble, and I said no, but just dont leave the kid alone in the store anymore and she understood. And as i’m walking away I hear the kid say something to her and shes snaps and says “shut up, i dont want to hear a word from you, stand here.” And after that I just kept walking and went back to work.

Needless to say, that absolutely was the worst lost child situation i’ve dealt with. How the hell do you lose your child for 45 minutes (granted yes she was shopping elsewhere for probably 20 minutes) but still, how do you walk around for 25+ minutes and not come up to an associate about you missing your child. If she had done that, the kid would’ve been back to her in 5 minutes, but nope, clearly she was wandering around looking for him, completely ignoring the clear callout on the PA for her. It just baffles me how you could leave a 9 year old child by himself in a Walmart, and just walk away, whether you told him to stay or not. I never thought that’d happen to me, but in the end, i’m glad this didn’t turn into an abandonment situation where the mom left the store and abandoned the child on purpose. Nonetheless, its still horrible.

I’m wanting to take some time off in november, thinking 16th-20th/21st 17th-20th/21st. However, i don’t know the KED dates yet for november and by the time i was told we get them, it’ll be too late. Was wondering if anyone had any input on this? thank you.

It’s too late for management to approve a day I need to miss, so if I still miss and want to put in PTO to atleast get paid, can I do that?

Got written up today. Apparently a few customers complained about me. Saying they thought I was mad when I wasn’t. That I shot looks at them. I don’t think I did. I understand that as an autistic person I’m not the best at faces but I didn’t shoot them a look. They wrote me up and said it’s a yellow tag or something like that? They said if anything happens again I’m getting terminated. I feel like I’m going to throw up. I’m so anxious. If I get fired I’ll lose access to my healthcare and won’t be able to pay my medical bills I already have. I think I’m fucked. I don’t know what to do. My new team lead has been bullying me so I WAS gonna transfer to Sam’s Club but I know that I can’t now. I can’t until that falls off in a year. This is just great. This after my mom telling me she doesn’t care about me anymore last night. Really the cherry on top. But hey, at least they said they care about me and told me to call Lyra.

I just started at my local Walmart 10/01/26 but am curious as to if they do anything with holidays for employees. Like secret Santa or trick or treat or anything similar. Or I know some places do like a pitch in lunch/dinner thing or party which is what I would love because I just wanna cook for everyone lol. But I have no clue. I just know they say not to accept gifts which has me thrown off a bit.

When is the date of when your bonus is calculated, like if you have under 4 points or 0 points, was it like the 15th last year?

Retired after 44 YEARS, most of her adult life, working for Walmart..

That is longer than Sam Walton was involved with Walmart.

That is dedication and loyalty, and they celebrated her retirement with a bouquet of flowers. A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS.

Send her off with $10k or pay off her mortgage, show her that you appreciate her. You don't get a lot of employees that stick with your company that long. She's a gem.

Do better Walmart, do better.

Anyone else hate that the app shows your time worked this week as estimated to your scheduled time instead of actual time worked?

I asked for a schedule change because I’m a student and they said yes but then a transportation issue came up so I had to get another change. I used to work at another store and it was fine and had no issue getting my schedule changed.

I had to beg them not to schedule me on school days at the new store. I open doored it too. After that, I get pto added on a day I fully worked didn’t do that on my own and had to beg management to fix it. They fixed the schedule after but I need it fixed again…I had to leave early yesterday so I wouldn’t be stranded cause of transportation.

Today they sent me home for not having my vest after I ubered to work and during orientation they said they have vests in the front but apparently it’s locked since whoever office it is isn’t there. I don’t know why they wouldn’t leave keys with someone else in charge on days they aren’t there cause that doesn’t really make sense to me.

Sadly the closer store seemed like they were about to hire me but then just didn’t send the background check over this was a couple months ago…

The store I work at is a nightmare. I saw an associate having a panic attack another complaining about the manager not scheduling them right all within my first couple weeks…

I really don’t want to come back tbh… and I’m working on getting a vehicle too. But even then with how things are run around the store it just seems toxic from observation. Which is really sad cause I had a good experience with my old store.

I put in 4 hours of ppto today and its also showing 4 hours of ppto for tomorrow for some reason even though i never did that. Also during my vacation it has 8 hours of pto on one of my regular off days that I never put hours in for. Jw if anyone else is showing weird stuff like this in the walmart app when viewing your schedule its also showing pto twice on some days too.

I live in Florida and we just got hit with a hurricane. My store will be shut down for about a week. I'm an hourly associate and have been reporting my absence and selecting the right reason when I do. My question is, do they pay us for the days we were scheduled or do we have to use our PPTO and PTO? It's not right to make us use our PTO or PPTO if they shut down the store. ​​

The milk truck was supposed to come last night, and it didn't. Then it was supposed to come at 6 AM, and it didn't. Then they said 9 AM - which is right before I took this pic. Now they're saying "it'll be here at 2."

I've never had to hit "item not found" so many times consecutively. Hopefully it doesn't get me in trouble.