Wal-Mart: A Bad Job Analysis

I have had many bad jobs in my life, but none worse than working at Wal-Mart. I was a cart pusher at Wal-Mart for almost two and a half years between the two times I worked there. The working conditions were terribly unsafe, the management and fellow associates were bad, and the job expectations were unreal. When I worked as a cart pusher the first time I was employed at Wal-Mart we were expected to work in very unsafe conditions such as: thunderstorms, when under heat advisories, and without proper equipment. I was always told by management to “Suck it up” or “It’s your job deal with it” when I would try to discuss these unsafe working conditions with anyone. I always remember one day when it was snowing so bad that you couldn’t see more than a foot in front of you. Myself and a friend were working that day and we went to speak to a manager about either …show more content…
When it was summer time we had to fight as a group to get water provided for us outside and were often denied water breaks when working because the management would always say things like “You guys take too many water breaks” or “You can drink while you work.” Often, we would get yelled at by managers for working together, which after much trial and error we determined was the fastest and most efficient way to do our jobs. There were even times when our only piece of equipment outside, our electric cart mule as we called it, would break down and not be fixed for months at a time. We often worked in thunderstorms after being told in training was strictly against company policy, when we would bring this up to managers we were always told “It’s your job to go outside and get carts no matter the