What Does it Take to Get Your Hours?

I believe that full time is forty hours. Not 35. Not 36. Full time, or the hours required to pay your bills and still enjoy the luxury of say-food- is forty hours. All the tinkering with that in the world, isn't going to change it. If you work for Walmart, the concept of forty hours might be a little foreign to you. I say might because there are still those allotted few who get their hours. How is that possible? Who does Walmart need so badly that they must have them, but not others? Is it cashiers? You would think that Walmart always needs their cashiers so that they could check the customers out, and keep them happy. No. Is it the stockers who keep the product on the shelf so that the customers can buy it? Nope. But, take a peek in the back offices and you will see them stocked to the gills Monday through Friday eight a.m. to five p.m. Why, you ask? Well, personnel is needed to maintain schedules. (Never mind if those schedules are now generated from the home office, you must have personnel there.) Personnel is also needed to maintain the interviews for new hires.(Never mind if you are in a hiring freeze-there is always busy work to be done) In the UPC office, you are going to need at least four associates to work through the paper work that is generated. What exactly are they doing? They are maintaining current levels of many important numbers. Does that sound like gobbledy-gook? Go ask a member of management and see if you get a better answer. Regardless, when they are not maintaining important numbers, there are important phone calls that must be made and received, plus there is at least one code purple to be attended every day. (For the uninitiated- a code purple is when they have a store meeting for all associates who aren't busy with real work) This code purple is going to take at least a half an hour, plus there might be cake. Why doesn't Walmart switch this around some? Call Bentonville for that answer, because I don't have it. You may also ask them why they even have a personnel department if assistant managers do all the interviewing and paperwork on new hires. Don't expect an answer in the near future. I've placed several calls to Arkansas, I'm still waiting on answers. I'll pass on any that I get. And you can thank me later.