Sneaking a "page" from some of my other favorite blogs, I think I'm going to create the Working at Walmart portion of my blog and make it a regular feature. Goodness knows enough interesting ;) things happen during the course of a workday at Walmart to provide a bit of interest to you all. I've already had the downright disgusting, openly obnoxious, and lightheartedly laughable...and many more. So....I'll tell you a few stories about my workday.
For my first Working at Walmart post, I'm going to toot my own horn a lil' bit. :) I know it's not nice to brag, but I can hardly resist this time--because, in my humble opinion, Walmart is very good to their employees--and I know this is contrary to some popular opinion out there. I was started at a good wage, IMO, they have a great "open door" policy, nearly every single coworker from the top to the bottom has been friendly and helpful (OK, I did say NEARLY...there are always exceptions!) ;) and we get a lot of nice perks and rewards. One perk is 10% off most of the things in the store (most grocery is not included, though some is) and one reward is getting a nice meal every so many days that we, the employees, remain accident free. Just since I've been there we've had tacos, a junk food/healthy food bar, and most recently...steaks with all the trimmings! (that was for 120 days accident free, and these meals are done all day for all three shifts) :) Not too shabby, right?
Well another reward is what I'm going to brag on a bit today. At least once a year and sometimes twice, Walmart does a fundraiser for the Children's Miracle Network. It's a great charity and the money goes directly to the hospital closest to your particular store--in our case, Milwaukee Children's Hospital. We had to sell "balloons" (the ones like are shown in the picture above...not actual balloons) and whoever sold the most won a free day off with pay. Great reward I think! Second and third place received gift baskets with a dvd, popcorn, candy and soda for a movie night at home. :) Anyway....one woman apparently wins *all the time.* She has kind of got the reputation of being unbeatable. Well. Heh. Heh. Heh. Enter yours truly. ;) So ok...she DID beat me by 5 balloons in the end. But. BUT (I think these are very valid points, so bear with me here...) ;) management said the contest was over and so I stopped selling. I should have continued anyway, as it's such a great cause, but after a full MONTH (yes, a month!) of asking people if they would like to donate a dollar to Milwaukee Children's Hospital, I was fed up with it! So...I stopped and my competition carried on. The store manager had told us we could keep selling them until the balloons were gone if we wanted to, but my assistant manager said the contest was over. So...I stopped. Four days later I found out they extended the contest an extra week....ARGH!! So--I started selling them right away again, but we were pretty close by then. (I had gotten pretty far ahead, but after four days I was still only losing by 3 or so!) So...I caught up and passed her again...but the very last day of the contest was a Sunday and I had the day off....meanwhile, my competition had a full eight-hour shift that day. ARGH, again! ;) So...she ended up winning by five balloons...but the store manager thought that we both worked so hard that he wanted us both to have a day off with pay. I though that was pretty decent since he wasn't obligated to do so! Next time I'm gonna beat her fair and square though...no draws for this girl...I'm glad it went in my favor in this particular instance, but I like to WIN!!! ;) Lol!
Our store goal was $3,000 and I believe we ended up with about $3,400 for them. M. & I raised about 1/3 of that between the two of us, so we were pretty happy--and one day we'll be lounging around and home and rakin' in the dough at the same time. Can't beat it! So...there's my brag for the day and my first Working at Walmart tidbit for you! So far I love it--and unless I'm offered something really great, as crazy as it sounds, I can see myself working there for a very long time. Who knows? :)
2 comments:
Yay! Glad you won, that's cool! When I won my sales contest that one time, I just added in the extra $5 feature & told all my customers "this includes..." & it was so easy! Guess you can't do it that way with a fundraiser though. I like the idea of "working at Walmart" on your blog! Should be interesting & entertaining.
Hey, so you did win! I can't remember if you told us that before or not? I have the opportunity to do billing for certain patient care services for the company & I get to keep 1/2 of what I make. I am pretty much the only one who does it at our store. It's not hard either, just takes a bit of effort... we're doing the work, why not get paid for it?
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