Wal-Mart
Policy Changes Cut Pay Caps and Merit Raises, Employee Says

I've worked at Wal-mart a total of 11 months (I'm now moving onto more promising prospects in the navy) and have watched the companies policy's (at least at store 5199) degraded and ignored. I will begin with the new policy to encourage internal associates to move up in the company (as it was presented).

The policy basically states that the company was cutting all of the associates maximum paygrade (I forgot by how much) to encourage them to seek promotions. That is a load of horsesh* handed down from corporate as a way to increase corporate profits.

The second new policy I would like to bring to attention is the discontinuence of the merit raises (raises given to workers who show exceptional work). The excuse for this was that "their are to many hard working assciates and to few merits to distribute." This one ballfes me, I don't understand how taking away a workers incentive to excel is supposed to maximise profits. It seems like another cheap alternative to paying hourly associates more money than they need to.

If anyone could give some other reason for these new policy's please add your input. I've heard from several other associates (that's fellow coworkers to Wal-Mart outsiders) that have been with the company from before I was born that Wal-Mart has changed for the worse since the passing of Sam Walton. Apparently his successor cares more about pleasing investor's than Wal-Marts employee's (which doesn't make much sense in a company that seventy something percent of the stock is supposed to be owned by employees, and I doubt the employee's would cut their own wages). So input and, if possible, a better excuse would be much appreciated. If the company got this bad in eleven months I wonder how good it must have been.

Company: Wal-Mart
Country: USA
State: Illinois
City: Antioch
Address: 475 East 173
Phone: 8478382148

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