walmart has gotten some bad press lately but I think with the new starting wage more associates will be happier. if you made 9 an hour, your pay if you are full time, which most associates are, will go up 160 dollars a pay period. the insurance is comparable to any other company. and the maternal and paternal leave and adoption assistance are UNHEARD OF in retail. walmart is quickly becoming the best place to work in America. plus all the bonuses and other raises we all receive and the core beliefs and culture are AMAZING. I have worked here for a year and they are giving us all these awesome incentives just to work for them. I don't think an employer who does all
this FOR their workers would nefariously lay people off. they are looking out for the WHOLE of walmart. it's lame that a few out of LITERALLY MILLIONS of associates lost their jobs, but it's for the greater good of the company. which I appreciate. walmart is an excellent employer with endless possibilities for advancement and a LOT of interesting opportunities to better your life. All I hear is old timers complaining about how Sam Walton cared about his associates and would be angry about all the change that THEY PERCEIVE are bad. and the truth is that he WOULD be angry. not because these changes hurt long term associates, but because these changes and raises are expensive and don't have to be done. he was a miser himself and wouldn't have given us anything. while STILL making the same cuts.