it is time for Wal Mart to read the note from the Doctor right of away and right now please about Wal Mart worker too Sick with a Swine Flu to come to Work and sign the UFCW Union Contract for Wal Mart Employee and United Auto Worker union Contract for Wal Mart Tire@lube Express Employee and Teamster Union Contract for Wal Mart Truck Driver Employee and Sam's Club Stock Person Employee and Sam's Club Forklift Employee and Sam's Club Cart Attendance Employee by give Wal Mart Employee and Sam's Club Employee a living waged with affordable Health care right of away and right now please and please tell Wal Mart Provide Worker Comp for Wal Mart Employee incase Wal Mart Worker get Sick or Injury on the Job

This is as almost disgusting as the Walmart employee who passed away, when she was refused a sick day because of a headache which turned out to be a blood-clot.

If a Walmart worker is sick, they are sick. They cannot be forced to come into work in spite of their job.

If walmart sticks unto their 40% worker health care, poverty level wages and anti-union policy, at least let workers stay home sick without spreading germs throughout their store.

Its bad when your threaten every day by walmart. You can be a employee with excellent attendence. When you come down with the stomach flu and have to miss a couple days. Your threaten with losing your job. Unexcused absents. threaten to be coached. Those are the only days you have missed for a year. Wal mart preaches about respect for the individual. Not one of the upper management respects that. Now walmart is including more management and less workers. Workers hours are being cut and jobs positions are being cut. Their running there stores completely under staffed. Wal mart employees are threaten every day at their jobs. Walmart is like Hitler was to the jews.

Mary,
Are you kidding?

"Walmart is like Hitler was to the jews".

Of all of the off the wall comments that I've seen on this site that one has to be the most offensive not to mention disgusting. To compare anyone to Hitler is wrong. Let alone a corporation that does as much for society as Walmart does. Do you really believe that you'll win converts to your point of view using that kind of rhetoric?

If you don't like working for Walmart then quit and find employment elsewhere. I would say though judging from your grammar, spelling and disgusting comment, you are not very well educated and that limits your possibilities. That is not Walmart's fault. It's yours.

I would ask that those who control this site remove Mary's comment.

Walmart is what it is today thanks to free trade with china. In 1999 bill clinton pushed to remove all trade restrictions with china both partys supported it and still do to this day. It was suppose to ease relations with them. before 1999 you could buy stuff from china but there was restrictions on how much they could import and tariffs. tariffs were in are constitution to keep foreign countrys from destroying are economy. What people don't understand is that this has all been planned by are goverment to destroy the middle class and make us like other countries were you have rich and poor. don't let obama fool you. Free trade has been pushed into are brains by the media as the greatest thing on earth but it was designed to destroy all production in the united states and bring us to are knees.There is no diffrence from repubs or democrats anymore and america needs to wake up and take back america by voteing for anything but the 2 choices. and we need to take back the federal reserve and make it part of the goverment not somthing controlled by banks that allow banks to control are goverment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU
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TC,

Are YOU kidding?

You MISSED the entire point.

Obviously YOU are associated with the company (read: Walmart's Bitch) and would oppose anything negative that was said against them.

For someone so educated, YOU sure do act like an IDIOT.

If you are an associate who goes to an emergency room for some sort of an emergency, but are not admitted to the hospital.....you will still receive a point for your absence. Three points is a verbal warning, 4 points a written warning, then fired! Any person that works with the public day in and day out is going to have a higher risk of becoming ill, that is common sense.

Oh pardon me, we are talking about Walmart!

No, it is you who miss the point. The point is that this comment is an insult to all who actually suffered and died under Hitler and to to those who live with the terrible memories of that dark time in history.

Hate Walmart and criticize them if you like but for someone to make them analogous with Hitler is disgusting.

By the way, I am not affiliated with Walmart in any way, shape or form other than being a customer. I am an American who believes that many unions are ruining our country and driving jobs offshore.
When I read comments like the Hitler comment I make sure to shop at Walmart twice that day and so do many others.

I DO work at Walmart and before you say anything negative......I have looked for other employment but is not easy for someone 50+ that was a stay at home mom for years. Outside of low pay I was happy with my job until recently. NOW there is no respect in the building at all. You see the commercials about more customer service, cashiers, etc. for the holiday. That is not true, our store manager said that they are hiring ZERO holiday help and right now we are working and being pushed beyond our limits as we are so understaffed. The other day I had a potato chip vendor helping me zone as he knows how hard I work and knows how I get yelled at regardless. I just missed 3 days sick. Tonight I am to go back. Trying to find a copy of absence policy is how I got here as 2 coworkers called and said the boss was overheard saying they are treating each of my absences individually so it will put me at 3 and disciplinary action UNLESS I have a doctors note. They have never accepted a doctors note and 1-3 days missed is counted as 1. IF anyone can help me find this please do so. I called the store and seems that personnel has taken the day off and there is no one in the office! Ha
Thanks......Terri

Terri,
While I can understand your situation, I'd like to point something out. You are in the position you are because of life choices you made and circumstances that you reacted to. Why is it now up to Walmart to give you everything you think you want and need? They had nothing to do with those choices.

You have made another life choice. You applied for a job and were hired at Walmart. Either deal with that choice or move on. It's not Walmart's fault that you are not qualified for a better job or that other jobs aren't available for someone with your skill set.

Your post like so many others on this site is antecdotal. The written policy whatever it is, is the policy. If an individual manager changes or interprets that policy in a way that you don't agree with then take it higher on the corporate ladder. That choice would also be up to you.

my walmart store told all of us that they would not be taking any call outs for the flu. We have to go into work.. dressed in our work attire.. punch in on the time clock.. then a member of managment would determine if you were sick enough to leave and go home. If you were allowed to leave then the day would count as a leaving early and will count towards your 3 tardy/3leaves equals 1 unexcused day. So far I have seen only 1 person allowed to go home out of all that have been very ill with the flu. As of right now 40% of our 500 employees have had or now have the flu. We were also told that a doctors note does NOT excuse us from being absent.
A few years ago we had an employee die at work because they refused her call out that morning. She called in to tell them she was having bad chest pains the manager on duty told her take some tums and get into work. Needless to say she dropped dead in the aisle less then an hour later. This employee was only in her 30's and still had a long life ahead of her but unfortunitly walmart likes to play god and decided they came first that day.

Unjust,

I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THE STATEMENTS THAT YOU HAVE PUT FORWARD ARE FALSE....

I have 2 close friends that work in a walmart store in new jersey ( 1 pro-union, 1 not) that said that WalMart was to approve ALL abscences related to the flu. I don't know where you are getting your information, but it is completely false as they have shown me the documents. Maybe you should stop taking your aggravation out on your store or listen to what is WRITTEN!!!

Unjust,

Even if what you wrote is true, no one can stop you from calling in sick. Unless your manager is driving to your house and dragging you to work, you can call in sick whenever you want.

How do you know what is happening in the store i work in? YOU DONT! Step back and take a look at all the walmart stores.. how many stores are run the same? Diffrent states have diffrent laws. DONT sit there and acuse me of giving false facts. And let me rephrase what i wrote because i guess i wasnt clear .. They are not accepting any call ins. If you choose to call and tell them that you WONT be coming in then it is held against you as per the attendance policy. I dont know where the documents your friends have because let me tell you they NEVER made it to my store. As an associate who works in the personal office i can tell you that document NEVER passed over our desk.

unjust,

You wrote that if someone showed up sick and asked to leave, then they would still be held accountable if they were allowed to leave. That's the same punishment as if they had called in and just stayed home. The only difference is that calling in is a guaranteed sick day. They can tell you that you can't call off all they want, but nothing is really stopping you.

Ike, nothing is stopping somebody from calling off? Really? Do you work for Wal-Mart or do you just believe anything Wal-Mart wants you to believe? The policy is written in a away that if you call off or go home early, you are always risking losing your job. So no, nobody will come to my house and make me go to work when I'm sick, but if I don't, then they can fire me. No matter what the reason is why I called off.

TDWM,

That was a very stirring post, but also very false. You only risk being fired after you've had a D-Day. Otherwise, you are only risking a "demerit" and you are allowed many of them before you are terminated. Are you saying that you could be fired for calling off one time!? I'm raising the bull$hit flag on that one.

If you read unjust's post carefully, it is stated that sick employees have to come in and be evaluated by management. I don't believe it, but... we'll give the benefit of the doubt. If management determines that you are sick, then you go home and recieve one demerit. That's the exact punishment you will receive if you call off. Therefore, there is no reason for someone who is sick to actually go in to work to be evaluated, since they will get a demerit either way.

That's why I don't even believe this scenario. First, store managment would know that this policy can't be enforced. Second, and more importantly, the employees would figure out that this policy can't be enforced and no one who is truly sick will risk being evaluated as healthy and forced to work. In other words, sick people wouldn't go in to be evaluated, they would just call off because they will take a hit anyway.