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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - General Chat - So I applied for a job at Wal-Mart. |
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Thexare Metal battleaxe Off to better places                   Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Originally posted by Colin Actually, they already do, it's combined with the "employment history" section on the application. |
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Sinfjotle Lordly? No, not quite.    Since: 11-17-05 From: Kansas Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Kroger/Dillon's didn't care about my refences at all. Hell, I put two relatives that worked there, got an interview, and got a job. No benefits or anything, mainly work with kids - 20year olds... Maybe my town is just awesome? | |||
Anya  Since: 11-18-05 From: South Florida Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| Make sure you fill out your app all the way and make sure its correct. I love laughing at the apps we get in....especially the one that I looked at today...
In the box that said "are you under 16" he said yes. In the box that said "are you over 18" he said yes. Yea....and the back sid of the app wasn't filled out...at all. |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| McD's might ASK for them but to be perfectly honest... :\ Yeah. I doubt they're 100% necessary to get the job.
Anya: I'd call him back for fun.  |
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Emptyeye Oneofthebiggestlegendsand starseverinthis...GOD! Ceremonial Full Moderator Since: 11-17-05 From: I DUNNOOOOOOOO!! Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Here's an exercise for some of you geeky/mathy types.
One of the claims trumpeted by Wal-Mart is "The average salary of our employees is $10.11 an hour!" Now, if you know me well, you know me to be a skeptical, some would say cynical person. Additionally, my girlfriend worked at Wal-Mart--twice--so I would have more reason than most to think that Wal-Mart are merely talking out of their asses. Instead, I completely believe this figure. YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Figure out why I'm completely willing to trust Wal-Mart when they make this claim. And no, I am not a Wal-Mart employee myself. |
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Anya Since: 11-18-05 From: South Florida Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Originally posted by Colin On some apps, they forget to put their phone number...oh and about the person's app in my last post...he wanted $10 an hour. |
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Devin 30 Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6383 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Originally posted by Emptyeye Because they include all of the people who are higher ranking employees than most, instead of just the position of the average register/stock person? |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Every application I've ever filled out, whether it was for McDonald's, Wal-Mart, or a machine shop, as always asked for references. It will normally say in plain easy to read text "fill in at least two references, excluding family". If you leave the entire section blank, they're not going to not hire you because they can't call people up and ask about you (personal references are silly anyway, who's going to put down someone who will say something bad about them?). Instead they'll not hire you because you clearly have trouble following basic instructions. (edited by emcee on 09-16-06 10:32 PM) |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Erm... $10 an hour?  I'm guessing that's significantly above minimum wage and/or GS's intro wage. |
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Emptyeye Oneofthebiggestlegendsand starseverinthis...GOD! Ceremonial Full Moderator Since: 11-17-05 From: I DUNNOOOOOOOO!! Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Originally posted by Devin Okay, and why is this important? Anya: I take it you did not hire that person. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Originally posted by Devin I think everyone here understands how averages work. |
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Dragon hellfire Octoballoon oops, you lose  Since: 07-18-06 Last post: 6448 days Last view: 6448 days |
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| 10$/hour is good for working at some job like that. It's about $7.50 here I think, slightly over minimum wage. Though, minimum wage is also high here. | |||
Amanda Red Paratroopa Since: 03-13-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6339 days Last view: 6308 days |
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| LAWL. I made $7/hr at Gamestop, and only $7.5/hr at wal-mart. I remember seeing applications like that when I worked at gamestop, and the people would write in short hand and yeaaah. XD
At CVS, I made..8.25 and I was doing like overtime all the time and was basically playing manager sine my flake of a manager never showed up, but the other shift got more money and what have you, and I always ended up having to take his shifts. |
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Emptyeye Oneofthebiggestlegendsand starseverinthis...GOD! Ceremonial Full Moderator Since: 11-17-05 From: I DUNNOOOOOOOO!! Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Originally posted by emcee I would hope so. Yet it would seem lots of people don't--or at least, that's what Wal-Mart thinks--otherwise they wouldn't go trumpeting that figure the way they do. More to the point, averages in and of themselves are actually pretty terrible barometers of anything. In short, without other stuff to support it (Mainly the standard deviation), while I'll believe the average figure of X (In this case, Wal-Mart employee wages), you're going to have to work harder than that to get me to make the leap that you want me to make by providing me with the average and nothing else. |
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PrincessPeach Buzzy Beetle  Since: 11-18-05 From: Rüti ZH Last post: 6302 days Last view: 6302 days |
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| I'm so happy we do not have Wal-Mart here in Switzerland... they couldn't live long with that attitude.
At every low cost job, you get about 15$ an hour (McDonalds for example). And references are a must. But if your under 18, at least here in Switzerland, you put down a teacher and a parent. I do not know, if my current employer checked my references, but I think they did (It's a 30$/hour job). |
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Ailure Mr. Shine I just want peace...  Since: 11-17-05 From: Sweden Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Originally posted by Plus Sign AbominationOriginally posted by Colin And what is so bad with unions in the first place? |
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Emptyeye Oneofthebiggestlegendsand starseverinthis...GOD! Ceremonial Full Moderator Since: 11-17-05 From: I DUNNOOOOOOOO!! Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| These days, not a whole heck of a lot really.
In theory, they're supposed to fight for proper treatment of their employees--fair wages, benefits, etc. You know, stuff that Wal-Mart doesn't particularly like. In practice, my dad works at a union job, and all they realy do is take a small portion of his paycheck and occasionally tell him their contract is almost up and they may have to strike. In short, Wal-Mart has even less to fear from unions than they think they do. (edited by Emptyeye on 09-17-06 10:52 AM) |
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Clockworkz Birdon Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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I work front end at Super Foodtown. I do more work than anyone there, make a buck less ($6.50) than everyone else, and get no union or benefits or 401K. This sucks. I wanna work at Gamestop.  |
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Danielle    6730 Administratorrrr HELLO THERE   Since: 11-17-05 From: California Rate me ^_^ Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| My manager did the same thing, claiming the average pay was $10 an hour... what a low class thing to do when there are only a small handful of employees at the store. I started out getting $7 an hour, and I'm getting 7.5 now. I do get tips though, which probably makes it more like $8 or $8.5 an hour, but still... people notice when you LIE TO THEM... =\
I recently applied to Best Buy, and I've been playing phone tag with the employment dude there. Hopefully I'll get an interview today... I think that job will be much nicer for me. Never again will I apply to Wal-Mart. |
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Anya Since: 11-18-05 From: South Florida Last post: 6298 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Originally posted by Clockworkz No you don't. It's fun and all, but if you don't get the numbers (certain % of used games sold, reserves and subs aka GI/Edge card) you'll get fired, hands down. I think this Monday I have to write up my entire staff b/c the goals were not met. I hate writing people up, especially when they're so nice, but it comes down to their job or mine, and I'm sorry, but I have bills to pay. I mean, you have to wonder why we push customers for reserves, subs and to buy used games: its to keep our jobs. As for wages, the normal employee gets min. wage, which is (I think) $6.30 an hr. Then you have the third key (3rd person with keys to the store) who gets around $8-$9 and then the assistant manager who makes either $10-$11 an hour. If your not an ASM or even a third key, don't count on getting any hours. I've got two employees who work about 3 days a week, with a total of 20 hours, depending on how many hours I get from payroll. Past two weeks, I've been given 87 hours to give to 4 of my employees and the ASM usually gets 35+ of those 87 hours. |
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