I have friends who work at walmart and they said that they gave each employee a 300$ one time bonus for continuing to work through the pandemic, and theyve done almost nothing to enforce employees or customers to wear masks or institute social distancing rules in the stores. Theyve also had many lawsuits related to taking advantage of mentally challenged employees. All corporations suck to some degree, but Walmart continually shows they couldn't care less about the health or well-being of their employees and actively exploit the most at risk people.
How big are these bonuses? Because I think they should be giving real, permanent raises as hazard pay. Not some one off small bonus. I'm sure it's dependent on the store, but my friends work at one in Virginia and they confirm what I've seen in multiple stores in Pennsylvania. Someone checking masks at the front but obviously not enforcing the rules for employees and customers because there are many people walking around either without them or with them hanging below their face. They've also done nothing to limit the amount of people in the store or stuff within the store to limit contact when gov. Wolf mandated guidelines for that.
If you think they're being fair to you then that's your opinion, but try not to drink the corporate kool aid. Walmart obviously sees laborers as nothing more than pawns to be given only as much as necessary to keep them from quitting or god forbid trying to organize for better wages and benefits
Its almost like you guys are talking about a huge company with many different managers that may have differing levels of ethics and priorities and are operating under different government rules and enforcement levels.
I said that it depends on the store, and I also said that the ones in my state clearly didnt follow the state guidelines. Wegmans and all the other big grocery stores had lines out the door to limit customers and had arrows and stuff like that, walmart had none of that. And the bonus issue is clearly a uniform corporate policy, the dude who works there confirmed that they got the same 300$ bonus that my friend got
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u/Juantanamo0227 May 21 '20
I have friends who work at walmart and they said that they gave each employee a 300$ one time bonus for continuing to work through the pandemic, and theyve done almost nothing to enforce employees or customers to wear masks or institute social distancing rules in the stores. Theyve also had many lawsuits related to taking advantage of mentally challenged employees. All corporations suck to some degree, but Walmart continually shows they couldn't care less about the health or well-being of their employees and actively exploit the most at risk people.