https://www.yourtango.com/self/walmart-store-tells-employees-meet-management-before-resigning
Lol love these types of business decrees that literally anybody not conditioned from birth not to question authority wouldn't believe for a second.
This is up there with the signs on dumptrucks that say they aren't liable if so thing flies out of their truck and hits you. You'd literally get laughed out of court if you tried to argue it meant anything but fuck it might ad well try.
I hope somebody shows up to Walmart with a shirt that says "I've instituted a no arrest policy on my self, I believe that any claims of "shoplifting" or "larceny" can be worked out with a reasonable conversation, just lemme run to my car reaalllll quick."
That would be an intesting legal experiment. Carry on you an open TOS. Their cameras and employees saw it, therefore it means the company and it's employees and affilates and "all associated buisnesses in perpetuity" waive their legal rights. By allowing you to enter they have agreed to these terms. Oh and they agree to solve anything in 3rd party arbitration, and by 3rd party arbitraition you mean your cousin Vinny.
Yea it really is wild that knowingly lying to somebody about their rights to actively try to fuck people over by violating those rights isn't some kind of criminal offense.
Sick fucking society we live in.
Trying to make resigning your job like cancelling a gym membership or cable subscription and then at the same time complaining that you can't find anyone who wants to work for you
cancelling a gym membership
It’s so absurd how cancelling a gym membership has becoming a universal trope for a binding contract.
I’m going through this now and I want to burger the entire gym
the existence of people complaining about them is what has made me very severe in avoiding giving any organization I do business with auto draft privileges.
but recently, I had an in issue where some org I really believed in and had authorized for auto draft could not seem to acknowledge I was leaving the specific employer + entire region and need to cancel my membership. I spent months emailing and calling, total radio silence, no one I got ahold of could help me.
that's when I found out that I could send a piece of paper with some basic info and two sentences to the business office of my credit union, permanently revoking my authorization for that specific organization to draft on my account. worked like a fucking charm.
I am pretty sure the entire gym membership model is organized around how weird and obscure the ACH authorization process is.
Yeah I only ever had one gym membership, which I "cancelled" by ditching the bank account the debit card I gave them was tied to. So they called me up and said, hey, your card was declined, so you need to give us another card number. And I said, oh really? Because I think I'm going to cancel my membership right now. And she said, no, you can't do that, you have to go through our process for that. And I said, oh yeah? And what leverage do you have to make me do that, exactly? And then I hung up on her.
I tried doing that and the fuckers sent my account to a collections agency that hounded me nonstop for months and damaged my credit score. All over like $40 they refused to drop because my written cancellation was submitted by my ex to cancel both of our memberships rather than me personally submitting it
If you have insurance in the US, look into Active and Fit Direct.
It lets you into a network of local gyms on a subscription model with a flat rate. It’s billed by your insurance, so when you want to cancel, you just ask your insurance. You never have to interface with the gym at all for billing matters.
I never personally used it since I moved away, but did look into it and heard good things.
The best we can offer is free pretzels in the break room, THREE per employee.
not the same, but it reminds me of when I was probably 11 or 12 and following my divorced bio dad around on some weekend visitation, and we went to his work: a car dealership. it was pretty dead and nobody gives a shit, so I wandered around down in the offices... not where the sales rooms are, but like their internal meeting rooms and shit like that. burnt coffee machines, naked pinups and comic panels with cuss words taped to the walls.
I saw a whiteboard with huge block letter writing across the top "NO WALKS!!" I asked my bio dad (a real asshole) what it meant, and he said nobody is allowed to come to the dealership without buying a car that day. "what if they just came to look around?" "doesn't matter. they have to be sold or the salesman is in trouble and can get fired."
it was very instructive to my young brain, the knowledge that I would be sold something I didn't want by someone trying to keep their job, just because I might be curious.
watching those vultures work made me high irritated by aggressive sales people, so much so that if they approach me more than once I just leave and go somewhere else or find a way to shop online.
I've recently begun taking it as a challenge to get the sales person to hang up before me. Like I'll start getting unsociably angry - trying to work up whines and cries or infantilize them (e.g. "nononono, I'm talking. I'm talking. Are you done? You'll speak when spoken to."). I treat it like a sumo match. I've been working through a routine where I am "willing to critique their silly little sales pitch after they pay for a retainer and sign an NDA like the rest of my clients." I've stopped making eye contact and responding to people outside of grocery stores and putting no tip if I'm not sitting down at a restaurant.
It's made me excited for sales calls. Once I saw how the sausage is made, I've only gotten more militant in the ways I handle these people.
"At will employment means that the period of employment can be ended at any time for any non-discriminatory reason"
"That's right! And good luck proving that discriminatory reasoning in court peons!""That also means the employee can end employment at any time."
"HUH???"Sounds like conflict resolution to me. Obviously you're allowed to quit. They can't physically force you to stay. They're saying before you just bail on your shift and don't show up to work, talk to the manager and maybe they can find a solution. 9 times out of 10 people get demoralized over a conflict at work and just mentally check out because they don't feel supported.
Like, fuck Walmart, but I see this as an attempt to reach out to their employees and reduce churn.
You are giving significantly more credit to Walmart than they deserve.
Lmao and how are they gonna enforce that, it's not like you can stop people 🤣
