#Wal-Mart employee

[the-smoking-habits-of-my-feline]

i used to be a walmart employee, so I Can, in Fact confirm that every wal-mart has like a million disco balls and lights and things set up so they can have them drop down from the ceiling for their nightly after-hours rave party

[seat-safety-switch]

Necessity is the mother of invention, but being a total cheap-ass has to at least be an absentee dad. Our society is enormously wasteful, buying hugely expensive things it doesn't need and then throwing them out. If you are bright enough to make use of those things, you can get them for much less money.

Here's a great example: car door locks. They fail all the time. Repairing them is a pain in the ass. Replacing them is expensive. Each model of car has a slightly different one. A padlock at Wal-Mart costs $1.89. Sure, it doesn't look as good, having a budget Master-Lock bouncing off your paint on the interstate, but it does keep the door closed, and accurately communicates to thieves that you have nothing of value contained within.

Whenever I go to a car show, I am not impressed at all by the high-dollar exotics. I don't mean that to sound snooty: I am sure they have ripped off, exploited, or simply murdered a lot of people in order to afford that car. It's a deviousness that doesn't show up in person and that I simply am not aware of enough to appreciate. I am sure they are very popular at accountant conventions. What I like to see: junk being misused. Old leaf-blower being used as a supercharger? Yes. Road signs pop-riveted into the place the floor should go? You betcha. And that all-time, enduring classic, an engine swap from a car of the wrong make, a project both aberrant and delightful in equal measure.

So, if you are trying to impress a bunch of penniless dickheads on this year's custom car circuit, my advice is to hit up the dollar store. And then don't buy anything: follow the employees until they head to the dumpster to get rid of unsold inventory, and pick the lock. You don't have to spend $1.89 to get doors that close properly, it's not a Jaguar or anything.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

I Am All In Rewatch - Jess & Rory - Episode 3x18

Here he is all of a sudden completely domesticated, right.. Well, you know, he meets her and they what do we what movie watching? I want to watch this?... so they're so they're like this old couple all of a sudden, Like all of a sudden, he's just sort of like there's no edge to him. He's just I guess he's trying to get his act together and settle down and be a responsible guy, work up Wal-mart, get employee of the month. Doesn't need school because he's too bright. So he's really I think he's really focused on his relationship right? And now I think now I think he's like, you know what she's going off, She's going to meet some impressive guys...so I think he's like he realizes he's gonna lose her if he doesn't get his act together, because his act is going to get really old fast. And he's doing that....It's a common move on the East Coast. That's a move. It's a standard thing. It's East coast. Cause It's colder in the winder it's the move you do in the fall. -Scott

[frazzledsoul]

A follow up to this: I worked at Wal-Mart following the worst unemployment period of my life (it was early 2010) and there was a real "you'll stay here forever" mentality here. They said it often, like a mantra. It seemed like a cult. I left there because I got a white-collar job that paid much more and I was dumb enough to admit that while working both jobs, at which point my supervisor got upset with me (I'm pretty sure she was jealous) and reported me for looking at her wrong and placing my hand on the counter. The general manager accused me of "not respecting the legacy of Sam Walton", at which point I put in my notice.

The last day I forgot to give them my name tag, so I left it at the podium where they supervised the self-checkout station and I heard them literally screaming out for me before I left. "WHERE IS FRAZZLED?! DID YOU SEE HER?! SHE WAS RIGHT HERE!"

So I skedaddled out that sliding glass door and have not gone near that place ever again.

No point to this anecdote, except it's largely why I have only worked retail once in the years since. The work wasn't that bad, the pay was average at the time period, but the culture around how long your tenure was going to be was insane. I can just see Jess bucking against in his mind, keeping his head down, just biding his time until he could get out, trying not to think about how Luke was right about him.needing an exit strategy from that place.

(The meaning of "subsect" is a sect within a larger sect: what if that book is really about Wal Mart culture?)

I'm looking at the pictures of Jess Mariano in camo, especially under his Wal Mart vest, and I'm wondering what the little punk turned model big box store employee thought of that anti-union video they make all the recruits watch during orientation, where they seem to imply the union rep only has murder and sex trafficking on his mind somehow.

[facts-i-just-made-up]

If there's no seawater in mountains, then how is Himalayan pink salt made.

If it were made with seawater, the seas would be pink.

Pink salt in the Himalayas is made over millions of years when minerals common to the region work their way into salt deposits left by evaporating moisture.

"Himalayan Pink Salt" as sold in spice and health shops in America are made by an underpaid employee who gets table salt at Wal-Mart and adds a dash of red food coloring so their boss can sell it with labels full of cultural appropriation and fraudulent medical claims at a 3000% markup.

[cansofinduvidualtuna]

Wal-Mart employee miku, I want her to know my pain.

[holisticdetective42]

The cashier at wal mart asked me what my favorite animal was and I wasn’t prepared for the question and suddenly the only animal I could think of was giraffe which is not my favorite animal and this was three days ago and I still feel bad for lying to that wal mart employee that I’ll never see again

[mrsterlingeverything]

Cant tell you how happy it makes me that metroid prime got such great critical acclaim and id like to thank the wal mart employee who recommended prime 3 to me when i asked for "halo for wii" at 12 years old

[lizardsfromspace]

Someone did a study proving that critics talk about shows out of proportion to how popular they are and like. Yeah. Their example was that Succession is far less popular than Young Sheldon, but its finale had hundreds more articles about it than Young Sheldon's did (a measly 56), and. Lads, it's Young Sheldon. What are people going to say about Young Sheldon exactly? 950 articles on the Young Sheldon finale?

It's not even a new phenomenon to ignore boring or shitty 'popular' shows for ones there's more to say about. I'm sure 90s critics talked about Homicide: Life on the Street, The X-Files, and The Larry Sanders Show way more than they talked about Full House, Home Improvement, or Touched By an Angel, and that 80s critics wanted to talk about Cheers and Hill Street Blues more than...well, Full House. Sometimes the stars align and a massive hit does also have a lot of critical buzz about it like Seinfeld but it's not a new thing of "elitists" ignoring popular shows

I think there is a problem with "normie" TV not being covered but it's not that we need more Serious Analysis of Young fuckin Sheldon (lol) but that a lot goes unchecked when it shouldn't, and online people aren't aware of the odious shit being beamed into the homes of their offline uncles. It took a random tweet for the world to know that The Good Doctor, one of the biggest shows on TV, portrays autistic people as inherently transphobic, or that Law & Order was back and doing episodes about the Havana Syndrome. We need to know what deranged shit is being beamed into the brains of millions, since as the audience for linear TV becomes mainly conservative old people, they're gonna pander to that more

(I do also think some shows get unfairly put in that category. Superstore was frequently ignored for being a network workplace sitcom, but it was quietly a great show about labor, to the degree that "corporate sends in ICE to arrest undocumented employees as a ploy to quash unionization efforts" is a story arc. It's a more knowing show about capitalism than much prestige anti-capitalist media not in spite of being "that sitcom about a Wal-Mart" but because it's "that sitcom about a Wal-Mart")

Also the victims of TV coverage homogenization aren't the Young Sheldons of the world, it's all the b-tier shows and slow starters that would've received fair coverage circa 2002-2015, but are now lucky to get a pilot review, much less coverage of how they improve or what things they're playing with. We need more of that not 1,000 articles about one episode of Young Sheldon???

[offender42085]

Post 1218

Before and After......

Mitchell Seth Littleton, South Carolina inmate 366132, born 1997, incarceration intake May 2021 at age 24, scheduled for release January 2025

Burglary of a Safe/Vault, Burglary, Petit Larceny, Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle

In August 2015, a York, South Carolina teenager was jailed after he told police he stole his father’s work truck from the York Electric Cooperative ("YECC") -- the local public utility -- and reportedly helped others steal more items from the utility’s parking lot.

Mitchell Seth Littleton, 18 at the time, was arrested after York police were alerted to a suspicious person driving a YEC truck through the parking lot of the York Wal-Mart at 3 a.m. in the morning and shining a light into the windows of cars.

The day before, YEC officials reported that two bucket trucks owned by a subcontractor had been stolen from a fenced-in area on Alexander Love Highway. The two vehicles, a Ford F-550 and a Ford F-750, were valued at a total of $135,000. A large amount of unsheathed copper wiring, valued at $2,500, also was reported missing from the beds of several other trucks in the lot.

YEC workers said the thefts must have taken place between 9:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, and 7:30 a.m. Aug. 9. When police located Littleton with the truck on Aug. 10, he told them he took it from his father’s work place, according to an arrest report. He also said he was with two other individuals who went to the YEC lot to steal more items through a back gate he reportedly left unlocked using his father’s keys.

Police went to the lot and discovered the gate open, the key still in the lock and fresh tire tracks leading inside. Officers did not locate anyone at the scene. When someone from YEC arrived on scene, he was unable to identify anything that might be missing. The YEC employee identified the truck driven by Littleton as belonging to their Fort Mill office. The York PD report notes a York County sheriff’s deputy also located one of the missing trucks in York on later that day.

Littleton was held at the York County Detention Center with a bond of $81,092.50 at the time of his arrest.

The matter languishes in the courts for a number of years before a final conviction was pronounced in January 2019. Littleton was sentenced for a total of 7 years.

4y

[autumnalwalker]

A Dream About A Night Shift

I awake from a dream about finding pirate treasure in space and warding off robot skeletons and instead find myself sprawled across a pile of toilet paper in a Wal-Mart in a tiny town somewhere in the Pacific Northwest around midnight.  There is a black bear wandering the aisles.  It had been sleeping not too far from where I was and woke up not long before I did.  I do my best to slink around and not disturb the bear on my way to the employee break room where I find my only night shift coworker.  We decide we're not getting paid enough to deal with a bear and to just let it do its thing until morning.

The lights suddenly cut out and we hear a feral shrieking sound that definitely did not come from a bear.  We decide to lock the door and barricade ourselves in the break room.

We reconsider our choice once we hear the sounds of shouting and gunfire.  My coworker gets the bright idea to pull the grating off an air vent and climb through to safety.  I observe the dust-choked hole in the wall and comment that these things really aren't as large or suitable for climbing through as they are in the movies.  No way either of us could possibly fit in there.

With that plan out, we take a chance on leaving the break room and heading for the back exit as quietly and unobtrusively as possible.  Along the way we catch scattered glimpses of men in tactical gear fighting against some kind of alien clad in a slick black carapace.

Finally outside, we make a mad dash for my coworker's rusty pickup truck, climb in, start the engine, pull out around the squad of government vehicles surrounding the store, and speed up the hill and across the bridge into the night.

[helenarlett-rex]

Reviewing your Game X Change reviews

(From a Game X Change employee)

Overpriced...? What are you looking for? Video games? We literally have a program in our computer that makes sure we offer better prices than our competitors. DVDs? We sell the dame things at $4 a piece with a buy 2 get 1 free deal. How much lower do you think I can go? Trading cards? We sell them at market value rounded down to the closest dollar. If they're too expensive, that's the market, not us. I don't know what you want from me here... But when you say staff is "kinda weird" what do you mean? Do you mean they are a bunch of nerds...? You're in a used game store... What do you expect...? Or do you mean that most of them are some variate of LGBT? Because that sounds like a you problem.

As for the inventory, yeah... We know... It's a total piece of shit. We can't do anything about it. That's what corporate makes us use. We ALL complain about it. Corporate doesn't care.

I'm giving your review 2 stars. The only reason it's not lower is because I agree with you about the inventory system.

Look around you... No one is selling DVDs anymore. They don't even have a DVD section at Wal-Mart anymore. We're not going to keep dedicating half our store to a product no one buys just because a small handful of people refuse to upgrade to bluray and/or streaming. We were taking in something close to 90% more DVDs than we were selling. Excuse us for not wanting to go out of business...

Oh! The toys and snacks are what's overpriced! You must be looking at the anime statues and blind boxes. Yeah... Those are imported directly from Japan so the import fee jacks up the price. That is what you mean, right? You can't be talking about the used collectable section because our company doesn't know what the hell it's doing in that department. I commonly find action figures over there that sell for $50 or more on the used market priced at $10 or less. I literally bought a pair of $40 Predator figures for $3 each. As for snacks... Yeah... Just go to 5 Below.

I'm giving your review 2 stars because you are right about the snacks and your complaint about the DVDs is at least understandable. It's no longer sustainable for us to keep carrying them though, and no one else is either, so it's still a you problem. That's why you're a 2 stars instead of 3.

It's not the best place for new games because we literally do not sell them! We are a USED GAME STORE! Stop calling and asking if we have Call of Duty Black Ops 6! No! And we aren't going to until people get sick of playing it!

But thanks for the otherwise nice review. I'll return the favor and give you 4 stars as well.

First of all... What the fuck is a PS3 wifi guitar? There's no such thing... Do you mean, bluetooth? That's a thing... But the more important question is, who the hell are you emailing?! Of course we aren't replying to emails... We don't have an email address! Why the hell don't you just come into the store or call us on the phone like a normal person?! If you would have done that, we would have been happy to refund you! In fact... you STILL CAN! We have a three month return policy! I'm sorry your guitar wasn't tested first, but if you haven't noticed, there is a run on retro game consoles right now. Take a look at our shelves. It probably didn't get tested because we don't HAVE any PS3s to test it on... That's WHY we have the three month return policy!

Your review gets 0 stars because your problem could literally be fixed by picking up a phone and instead you are sending emails to an email address that doesn't exist!

Uhh... You do realize we aren't some little mom and pop thrift store or whatever, right...? Nor are we a pawn shop... We are a corporate chain, no different than Game Stop, or Wal-Mart, or Electronic Express or what have you... Do you go into Wal-Mart and ask them to negotiate a price? No, of course not... So why the hell do you think you can do that here?

You claim you've never had a nice interaction with an employee? Well... you know the old saying. If you meet one person in your day who is an asshole, that person is likely the problem. But if everyone you meet is an asshole, you're probably the problem. And considering you are in here bitching at us for not negotiating corporate set prices, I think I know which of the two it is...

Your review gets 1 star.

Uhh, no... It is not my job to go through all 500 of your damned Yu-Gi-Oh cards and tell you what they are worth. We buy cards valued at a dollar or more. We do not appraise cards... It's your job to know what you have if you are wanting to sell it to us. If you walk in with a box full of cards, not knowing what any of it is worth, and slap it down on the counter for me, it is store policy for me to tell you to leave and look up the value on your own. Do you think I have time to sit there and look up the value on 500 or more cards that you may not even decide you want to sell to us? There are between 2 to 3 employees in the store at any time and we have a lot of other things we have to do. No one has time for that... The store would be losing money in man hours if I had to spend all day sitting there looking up the value of every single card you were too lazy to look up yourself. And we flipped through most of your rares...? Your... Yu-Gi-Oh rares...? This is the part where I toss my head back and laugh. And I think once you start looking up the value on Yu-Gi-Oh cards, you'll understand why. It's not my fault you picked the world's most worthless card game to try to sell cards from...

But hold on... No where does it say we can only take 30 DVDs a day...? We literally told you ourselves. That's just a story policy. You want every store policy posted in writing or something? I don't have any signs up saying it's against store policy for you to take a shit on the floor either. You want to argue that you should be allowed to do it? And sorry you aren't happy with the price you got, but we only pay $0.10 a piece on DVDs and that's not a secret. We'll tell you up front. The things are worthless... We give half of them away for free. Hell, we've already stopped carrying them.

Your review gets 1 star.

Considering we test all game consoles (including hand-helds) on the spot before buying them, (that's literally what I do all day) allow me to translate this into what you actually meant to say, "They sold me a 3DS and then I broke it and tried to sell it back to them, but they would only give me 10 bucks for it now that it was broken!"

That's a 0 star review if I ever saw one...

Oh yeah, we only play 20% cash and 30% store credit. Our offers are very low ball. We know. We can't do anything about that. It's all set by corporate and they are greedy fucks. I wouldn't sell to us either. But overpriced...? Okay... We literally make sure our sale prices are lower than our competitors. We have a program that scans their prices and updates ours every day as needed to make sure of that. So I can only agree with half of what you're saying. Unless you're talking about snacks... We have movie theater prices on those damn things...

Your 1 star review gets 2 stars, because like, half of what you said is true at least...

You know... I wasn't going to review any of the reviews from Covid because it's just a million people bitching that we required masks, (and I wasn't even there at the time) but this one... uhh... I know the "mixed gentleman" you are talking about, and... he doesn't drink... So... You're just full of shit, aren't you?

0 stars for you, Sir!

I know the prices we offer are low, I've already touched on that... But you came in to do a trade and we told you it was too late? Okay... do you know what that means? That means you came in to trade something in within 30 minutes of closing time. All trade-in stop at 30 minutes to closing. That's story policy. It always has been. Because I have to test whatever game system you brought in before I can buy it. I have to enter every game and or movie you brought me into the computer individually by title so I can make sure I am giving you the right price. I then have to clean all of the items I bought from you then process each of them... Putting price tags on everything, shrink wrapping items that need to be shrink wrapped, removing disks from cases and sleeving them in interlopes.... Sleeved discs have to be sorted into the drawers... Cases have to be put on the shelves... It's a quick in and out for you, but the amount of work I have to do after taking in a trade is more than I have time to finish in 30 minutes. And that's on top of the closing duties I already have around the store... And yet assholes like you keep coming in every night 15 minutes to close... 10 minutes to close... 5 minutes to close... and get mad at me when I won't take your trade? No. Fuck you. If I came into your place of work 5 minutes before you closed and asked you to do something that was going to take you an extra 45 minutes, you'd be mad too, and probably wouldn't do it.

So your review gets 1 star, Sir.

Oh god, who let their child write a review on my store? First of all, kid... We don't sell anything new... We are a USED GAME STORE. Everything we sell is used. Including DVDs. The prices are horrible? You paid 5 bucks for a DVD... 6 years ago, I might add... Going price for a new DVD back then was like, what...? $20? And yeah, you are right. We don't give cash refunds. Only in store credit. Which I admit is kind of shitty... but we do TELL you there are no cash refunds when you buy it, so I don't know what you expect... Just take the store credit and get yourself a different DVD for crying out loud... I was almost going to write this off as you just being a 7 year old who thinks $5 is a big deal, but then you said we only offered your brother $5 of an Xbox? And $2 for $150 worth of games? That's literally impossible... Even a defective Xbox will get you at least $10. And a single copy of the most shit game I have will fetch you at least a dollar... So now you're just making shit up.

Sorry kid, your review gets 0 stars.

Oh, hey... My favorite type of review. This is what I call the "We are not a pawn shop!" review. I'm sorry you need the money, but we don't do pawn... We are not going to give you the value of your item and hold it for you until you come back to pay it off again. I see your name (before I blacked it out). I know who you are... And I've told you before, multiple times, we don't do that here! Go to an actual pawn shop! And no, we don't buy your items for the same price we sell them for either. I know what we offer is very low. (20% in cash) But even if we offered more, it still wouldn't be the same price we sell it for! How do you think we would make any money if I gave you $100 for your Xbox and then sold it for $100?

You get 0 stars because I've explained this to you multiple times...

[burr-ell]

the "They Were All War Criminals" take condensed and simplified:

claude giggling with his bestie rhea: man we're so COOL we managed to steal a coke from wal-mart!

rhea giggling with her bestie claude: i KNOW we're just so bad and naughty

edelgard: *firebombs the nearby house of a family of five, killing all of them*

claude and rhea: 👀 uh

some passerby: OMG all of those people over there are murderers!

claude and rhea, clutching their coke: 👀👀👀 UH

dimitri: *is still somehow The Worst One*

honestly my brain stopped higher functioning at claude and rhea being besties anon your brain is so huge

but also add in byleth helping claude and rhea steal the bottle of coke from the walmart (of which edelgard's dad is the manager and she doesn't know or care about the employees' wages) and dimitri knocking the teeth out of the people helping to firebomb the house (which was a mansion being used in part as a halfway house for some of the wal-mart employees who lost their homes when edelgard's friends threw a big neighborhood party but unfortunately the homeowners didn't have strong opinions about the minimum wage)

and then someone rolls up like well EVERYONE did something bad here so that makes the firebombing okay

[walmart-the-official]

Wal-Mart I swear to god if you start queuing rhose monthly shapes I will eat all of your employees, including the CEO

Sincerely,

Your friendly neighborhood hammar-head-shark

The CEO is a skeleton and employees are replaceable so right on, have fun

[frazzledsoul]

As a former Wal-Mart employee myself (in between more permanent jobs) I just have to point out here that Jess is allowed to shop from a big box store he used to work at without actually working there. He also is allowed to go inside the diner without actually working there, as we saw in AYITL.

I don't think Jess rhapsodized about his time there or anything, but he's likely spent plenty of time over the years working at "jobs he doesn't want" and this was one of them. The pay seemed decent at the time period (the reason he was there), they gave him lots of hours, his boss liked him, he didn't have to deal with customers. I don't think he was traumatized or exploited. It's a gig one takes to pay the bills, which is an adult fact of life. Probably a meh experience overall, as it is for most of us.

Furthermore, the idea that Luke, Lorelai, and the rest of Stars Hollow never have to shop at a big box store for essentials is laughably naive and more than a little elitist. The thing about "walkable communities" is that you often can't get everything you need there and have to go outside the town limits to get the basics to survive. The other thing about these type of communities is that they often aren't enough to support the entire community. Jess worked at a big box store outside of town and Dean was working construction because they could not be paid enough by the town's businesses to get what they needed. Rory, for the most part, does not have to support herself, but not everyone is that lucky.

Luke is shown shopping at a supermarket on the outskirts of town, at Target, and at the mall in season 7. Liz depends on him and he has partial custody of a teenage girl, so yes ... he is familiar with big box stores. That's often a reality of life while living in the suburbs or close to them. ASP's version of the world may be more of a fantasy, but in reality the more prosiac aspects of life force you to do stuff you don't want to do.

(I'll also point out here that S7 openly acknowledges that Rory's chosen career path is unstable and poorly paid, while the OS ignores that issue completely and AYIYL shrugs it off by having the narrative assume she shouldn't have to work so ultimately....ASP probably feeds into this fantasy a bit too much at the end).

In conclusion! The show's characters probably do have to go to Wal Mart at least occasionally. If Jess has a family as of 2024 he's probably made quite a few trips there (Philadelphia has five of them, BTW). If the next Gilmore Girls-themed commercial is Jess and Dean in tight T-shirts hawking automotive supplies and fulfilling their DILF potential, I will not be complaining.

[cromchychipdip]

I completely understand and support not filming your child doing something outside of their control (autistic meltdowns, potty training incidents, etc.) and posting it online for the world to see, but why is the first consequence that seems to come to people's heads "oh what if a future employer sees this one day?" Like... do employers actually judge people based on videos of when they were children? Does the manager of your local Wal-Mart actually give a shit if one of their employees was once a child and did childlike things? Will somebody actually be denied a job if a video of them at age seven, crying because they skipped their nap and are feeling overstimulated, is discovered through a background check? I wouldn't put it past most employers to judge people heavily on their online activity, but I feel like it seems completely unreasonable to judge somebody based on how they acted as a child when they are now an adult with enough independence to actively look for a job.