I am leaving Wal-Mart the cruel kingdom. Hooray!:
10:29 p.m. 2007-09-03

Some good news for my readers for once as of september 16th I will be no longer employed by Wal-Mart I am so happy to say. I have talked about and thought about it for a while because the environment was a really negative one where the only reason management would acknowledge you is if they wanted something in return. I worked for them for just under 3 years and in that time receive 2 thirty cent raises. I am not kidding you! I worked hard and serving customers were my life and that was the best they could do. When I started at Wal-Mart I was being paid close to minimum wage and at the time of my leave not much has changed. During the evaluations they downplayed my performance so they would not have to think about promoting me. They could have been honest if there were no open positions that would have qualified for a promotion. For my efforts including taking my personal time to read articles that could make me more knowledgable for the benefit of their customer service they scheduled me during classes even after giving thoses dummies, as there has been more then one, over three weeks notice of my school schedule. If it were not this it was increase the number of hours and using the justification of this is a business as their rationale. When I wanted to take my vacation time one of the dummy managers told me that I would have to wait possibly jeopardizing my vacation but good thing a manager who had some sense stepped in and accomendated my meager request for a single week off which constitutes vacation time for a part-timer.

When my brother told me that there was an opening at his workplace I was more than overjoyed. It was an escape out of this horrendous work environment that affected me even after my shift was over. I had to think about it for a very brief period of time before I accepted the job offer. I still cannot believe however how I had an employee actually question the reasons behind me leaving which is incredulous to me. Anyways I am happy that I will not have to face another Christmas time rush. Three is more than enough! The pay is a little better, but who isn't, and hopefully if the work environment is tolerable I can then move out into my own appartment but first thing first.