Does anyone know what benefits new part-time Wal-Mart employees start out with?
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none to start with.You have to be there a year before you get any.You will get a discount card which will get you 10%off of your purchases at Walmart.I've been with Walmart for 12 years ,was 60 when I started and I'm not living at the poverty line.We do not pay that much for our insurance ,the company pays more then we do.
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go to www.walmartbenefits.com
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Starting wage normally depends on the area you are in. Cashiers don't start out as high pay as some of the other areas, but it's still normally good pay for the type of job you're doing. I don't know what wages are in NC, but most Wal-Marts start out anywhere from $7.00-$12.00/hour. Most have a pretty good benefit package, too--which is sometimes hard to find in retail jobs. I have several friends who work at Wal-Mart and they all enjoy their jobs very much. I think it would be well worth your time to check it out. Good luck.
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Mainly customer service, along with stocking movies, and cleaning the store. Pretty easy job if you are good with people and can stand during your shift.
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it varies, depending on where they are located and what jobs the employees do.\n\nWhere I live, they get minimum wage to start, but can get a small raise if they stay for more than 6 months.  \nWhere they really screw their workers, though, is on hours they work.  Here, they wont let anyone work more than 24 hours a week, which means they dont have to provide any benefits like health care.  But they expect you to be available at any time to work any shift as needed.
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Welcome them to the Company.\nIntroduce each new member by name and what dept they are assigned (or they can intro themselves)\nMake sure they know the strength, products, goals of company.\nChain of Command up to CEO.\nOverview of health benefits and retirement benefits, along with local discounts, if any.\nPresentation on Sexual Harassment/ violence in the workplace.\n\nThere's a fun start - have at it\nI usually get $$$ for that - but I retired
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Lowe's is the best company to work for if you don't have a college degree, but you are ambitious.  They have a matching 401K, vacation, sick leave, free short-term disability, cheap long-term disability and life insurance benefits.  They have really good health insurance plans that are not expensive (around $150 per paycheck for the best healthcare plan in the country).  If you have any clerical experience, I recommend the new HR assistant position they've created, or the admin office clerk position.  If you have sales experience, the Sales Specialists can make between 25k-60k per year to start (depending on location and experience).  If you have management experience, the Department Manager position is very competitive, with qualified managers starting at 25k-40k per year (depending on location and experience).  If you have no experience, but are hard working and ambitious, you can start as a regular Customer Service Associate, become a Team Leader within 6 months, and be a Department Manager in a year to a year and a half.  From there, if you can handle the complex task of being a Department Manager and you shine, you can be a Zone Manager (which pays REALLY well and has something like a 60% yearly salary bonus) about a year and a half to two years after getting promoted to Department Manager you can get into their Manager Training Program to be a Zone Manager.  I know a girl who started as a cashier at age 18 and became a Store Manager at age 27.  (Store Manager's usually make close to six figures and have over 150% yearly bonus potential).  She payed more in taxes on her annual bonus than I made in salary last year.
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Everyone has to start somewhere. In my experience it may actually help you in an entry level position if you have been out learning and doing things in life. However, if it comes down to you and someone with work experience they definately have a heads up....unless of course they were fired.
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as an at-will employee they dont need a reason to fire you. if they do you can claim full unemployment benifits instead of the partial your getting now. might be a good time to look for a new job
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Sorry aready signed up to be a superheroes side kick, if you think those benefits are good check out mine.\n\nRoom, board, and nice view from satelitle. Basic duties include getting beat up and continously needed help from the superhero or generally making him look good while I look like an idiot, on rare occasion come up with an idea that he/she can steal so that it becomes there idea, unless of course it fails. Saying stupid catch phrases, and looking why too young to be running around with an adult. \nFull medical, partial dental (gotta be able to smile, but it cant be better than the hero). 2 weeks of vacation annually, and 1 week sick, 1 week PTO, and 1 mental stress, and no waivers!
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Wal-Mart needs to take its own share of responsibility for the workforce it hires and to the communities around where it builds.  To date, it does neither.\n\nSure, Wal-Mart supplies cheap goods to the middle class.  But, at what a cost?  They do hire lots of people, but they don't treat those people properly.  Much of Wal-Mart's workforce can't even afford the health insurance they offer on what they get paid.  Even Wal-Mart's CEO has stated that the 'free' healthcare systems may offer better coverage than Wal-Mart's plans.  Only Wal-Mart can get away with shoving off their employee's health concerns to the state and local free healthcare system.\n\nWhat people need to realize is the difference between what Wal-Mart sells and how they operate their business.  While Wal-Mart does offer good deals on items, the way they operate their business is separate from the goods they sell.  So, as a discriminating consumer, you have to diffentiate between Wal-Mart the corporation (with shady business tactics) and Wal-Mart the store (out to sell discount items)... it's basically two different things (although still connected).  While I agree we need discount stores, we don't need corporations willing to do anything to make a buck even at the expense of other businesses, workers and the local economy.\n\nCorporate Wal-Mart decides where stores are to be built and how to manage all of the details around procurement of the land, building, construction details and stocking the stores (including tax abatement and various other incentives to get them to build there).  After the store is built, however, then it's operated by the store manager who tries to do the right thing (obviously directed by regional directors and corporate HQ).  Likely most, if not all, of the not-so-savory ways of doing business are handed down by corporate WM and not by the stores or the store managers.
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Good- MAJOR employer, good wages, good diversity hiring policy for minorities, American success story, great low prices, open 24 hrs, one stop shopping. Very respectable employee discount.\n\nBad- recently sued by ppl trying to keep them from gobbling up and destroying their neighborhoods by their saturation scheme of "wal-marts everywhere". Recently sued by women as a class-action suit for their "glass ceiling" of limited advancement and lower wages compared to males in exact same jobs. \nThey throw away books, by tearing off the covers, turning the covers in as "remainders" for credit from the publishers, and just throwing away the bodies of the books.\nThe throw away more in a single day than most people could eat or use in a lifetime. \nTheir price "rollbacks" are hiding the costs by moving them around- raising prices on some items to reduce them on others.\nThey micromanage- having too many assistant managers, dept managers, etc. In some cases 2 different managers will tell you to do opposite things. "manager" is a title thrown around that has little meaning, it's purpose is to get employees to care about their job, but they don't really have any voice or say in it.\nPromised bonus of $200 for making an inventory goal was reduced to $93.15 by the time it reached employee hands.\n\nUGLY- the Waltons (owners) are among the top 20 richest people in the United States, making the Forbes Richie list every year. And they've left Sam Walton's dream far behind.\n\nThey are now using their own TV channel for advertising, to bombard shoppers WHO ARE ALREADY IN THE STORE with constant ads. \nWal-Mart has gone corporate in the worst way, and moved from caring about the American Worker to exploiting the American consumer. They say "no one puts a gun to your head and forces you to shop there." But what would you call it if a major chain like Wal-Mart can move into an area and run all the mom-&-pop operations out of business because they can't compete with the juggernaut?\n\nWalmart is the American Dream turned dark, ugly, and sour.
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You don't want to work for Walmart!! Trust me, I've worked there twice within the last 10 years and they are probably the worst company to work for. All they care about is money, money, money!! The benefits are horrible, they treat their associates like crap, and the pay is even worse. Sure, they may be a great place to shop with incredible low prices, but they're definitely NOT a good company to work for. Please take my advice and reconsider working for them.
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Hi, like you I found myself suddenly unemployed a couple of weeks ago. I applied to Boots for a part-time job up until xmas (it's only 7 weeks)-mind you, I have worked there before, so it wasn't too difficult. Most of your local stores will need temporary staff, and don't forget you'll get staff discount which will help. I think you can work up to 16 hours and still get benefits. It's a difficult time to look for a permanent job, but I wish you lots of luck, and hope you still have a good xmas! :)
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You sound as if you are young and just starting out so please take the new job. Your current job can now be a good refernce since they were willing to increase your hours to keep you there. Also, if you feel you are leaving the current job in a bind and your new job is parttime maybe you could still help out until they find someone more permanent. This way you never "burn your bridge" at the current job. Good luck and remember, your new job has benefits and opportunity for growth.
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Bottom line MONEY.  The UFCW will tell you time and time again it's for the benefit of the Walmart employees, but that's a blatant lie.  It's for the benefit of the UFCW management.\n\nIf WalMart Employees wanted a union, they could form a powerful union on their own.  The major problem with this issue, if you increase costs to Walmart, you increase prices of products, you reduce your market share, and then the jobs start going away.  That's probably the reality the Walmart Employees understand.
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try this one.  Not only do you not have to pay them, they actually give you a starting bonus if you get a job through them.