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>>55859780
Walmart wagie here (our ER comes out tomorrow!)

Big corporations aren't stupid. Anyone who's been around long enough knows that business goes in cycles and wall street demands constant growth. Walmart's entire business model is doing an economy of scale and minimizing costs. There's been a large emphasis on our managers about reducing controllable expenses. Theft is a concern and definitely been on the rise, but most of the costs for us comes in two places: employee wages and compliance costs (not reporting accdients, time lost fines, etc)

We get most of our revenue during Q4, which is winter time. We have like 6 seasons at our store (which often means a busy month and then a quiet month or two). Christmas, March Break, Easter, Mother's Day (flowers), Back To School, Thanksgiving, Halloween. Anyways, later summer and early autumn is not a busy time for us. They cut back. I average 28 hours a week, and we went to a new work structure recently. This was a pretext to cut hours across the board, but good wagies got to keep their hours. Younger workers don't know the business flows and fuck around and aren't productive. If you're in a cost-cutting environment, you don't give them more hours than you have to.

Pic related, it's my "sheriff star" (as my compliance manager called it) that I won a few weeks ago for being a good wagie