http://wwassociates.aimoo.comAimoo CityAimooen-USAimoo http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/you-can-find-us-here-1-569062.html Learning12 2009-07-13 05:24:35.253 Recycle Bin http://forum2.aimoo.com/itismywalmartjust trying to get us all in one place (This site wwassociates) will close Aug. 1st. http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/site-closing-1-548179.html Learning12 2009-06-22 18:46:50.713 Recycle Bin   This site will close Augest first  unless someone takes it over. http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/cpklu-1-548178.html Learning12 2009-06-22 18:43:45.48 Recycle Bin come over to the other site and read the messages posted to you.  http://itismywalmart.aimoo.com   so sorry to hear about your knee http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Mads-site-1-538989.html Learning12 2009-06-13 18:55:10.98 Recycle Bin   http://itismywalmart.aimoo.com   My Favorite Topics:  Try the link this way. Sorry I gave it to you wrong. http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/safety-incentives-1-536229.html brasington 2009-06-13 19:02:16.167 Recycle Bin what do your stores do to promote safety?  what are your incentives,  the best ones, the worst.our store is  pretty cheap, candy bars ( fun size!) pizza day one time we actually made 250 days and got a steak dinner, now at 300 days back to candy bar.....come on,  they don't want http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/news-from-Lies-1-533642.html Learning12 2009-06-13 07:23:16.84 Recycle Bin   I have heard from Lies and he has left the site for good.Joseph or any one else,if you are intrested in taking over?Contact him and ask for ownweship.(wwamanager@yahoo.com http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Allergy-trouble-1-530936.html cvangriff1 2009-06-05 20:39:24.32 Recycle Bin I have been having some really bad allergy problems the last few days.  The cottonwood in my area is blooming and little white fuzzy bits are floating around.  Sometimes it is so heavy it looks like snow.  I have been taking Zyrtec and it is not working.  I am going back to clari http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Hours-Cut-1-530532.html SouthGeorgiaGirl 2009-06-08 11:16:44.81 Recycle Bin I am a full time associate.  This week when week 19 was posted I had 12 hours.I will work 3 4 hour days.I thought full time could not go below 32 or 34 hours a week?Need answers please! http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/All-members-and-managers-Please-read-1-521502.html Learning12 2009-07-11 08:54:06.55 Recycle Bin   It appears that Lies is no longer with us.If any one has been in contact with him,please make it known.In Lue of his absents,I suggest that we merge with Mads site,http://forum2.aimoo.com/itismywalmart/Category-1-30428We can not make any managerial changes with out him as he is the only one w http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/walmart-apparel-1-519468.html dessree 2009-05-28 05:39:32.28 Recycle Bin hi everyone, I haven't been brave enough to try this new format, but here goes.have had several associates ask about buying walmart apparel and can't find it online or on the wire anymore.  any suggestions?  des http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Bonuses-1-516433.html fallenangelkelly 2009-05-25 12:54:56.513 Recycle Bin my old store that i worked at until march 27 is getting a first quarter bonus and my new store that i was at for the last month of the quarter is getting a bonus too...does this mean i get part of each? http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/holiday-pay-question-1-516152.html fallenangelkelly 2009-05-23 08:05:24.543 Recycle Bin i've done 4 11-12 hour days in a row this week and was scheduled to come in today but called out sick...i'm wiped out and physically not feeling well at all....now i have saturday and sunday scheduled off and work on monday...did i just forfeit my holiday pay by calling out today? http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/What-goes-through-your-head-when-long-time-associates-leave-1-515998.html ABRDB 2009-05-25 11:22:49.857 Recycle Bin Earlier today (or yesterday since it's officially Friday around here) I visited my former Wal-Mart, and learned that some people left who I just felt would be there forever. Although there are a couple departments that still have their original managers from the opening almost 6 years http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Been-a-while-need-advice-1-509840.html fallenangelkelly 2009-05-18 06:21:56.023 Recycle Bin so i got my own dept...electronics march 27...they hadnt had a manager for like 3 months...god was it a disaster!!! half the dept wasn't priced....the other half was all missed markdowns....no organization to be had...no associate direction...ok so now my question is this...how do you deal with empl http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/MY-SHARE-PLUS-BONUS-1-496855.html redtin9 2009-05-19 05:53:24.447 Recycle Bin Has anyone  had any news about the MY SARE PLUS bonus ?? No amount or date for payment has been announced at my store .... http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Let-me-at-home-office-1-490241.html Josephwm 2009-05-20 05:39:25.697 Recycle Bin SO we were informed today that home office will be taking over our scheduling and the budget for now on... The scheduling budget for the pet department, which we have 3 associates, and 1 department manager, we have another associate, but he's on military leave... but anyways, the total hours alloted http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/140K-stolen-1-486694.html Learning12 2009-04-28 07:20:19.983 Recycle Bin $140K stolen from FW Wal-MartWANE-TV Fort Wayne Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:28 AM PDTAllen County police are looking for a man who they think stole thousands of dollars from the Wal-Mart store on Maysville Road. Employee steals thousands from Wal MartWANE-TV Fort Wayne Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:13 AM PDTMan on th http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Union-stir-1-485611.html Learning12 2009-07-11 00:18:35.427 Recycle Bin   Now don't get your panties all in a bunch.Here is what is going around. http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/People-with-cameras-taking-pictures-1-485353.html Josephwm 2009-04-26 20:46:17.327 Recycle Bin Well, I"m sure we're all aware of Walmarts policy regarding picture taking by customers, how it's not allowed, and if we see people taking pictures, we're to ask them to stop and/or call management to escort them out if they refuse, and blah blah... I'm a strict holder of that rule at my store, as t http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/inventory-1-480160.html csmmama 2009-05-13 13:43:39.343 Recycle Bin should be the motto for walmart during the weeks before inventory!!! http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Hello-from-Arcangel-1-464734.html Ex_Walmart_Employee 2009-04-11 18:47:38.2 Recycle Bin Hello everyone,Well i got my SSI paerwork done I have had it before I worked,and Iam sure I will get it again, most of the time I have access to,the internet I rode the bus and light rail looking for work most placeshave on line applications now hope all is well with you all and hello toeveryone.tha http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/first-union-contract-in-Canada-1-463383.html Learning12 2009-04-10 07:38:54.62 Recycle Bin  (Date Posted:04/09/2009 18:21:31)Wal-Mart: Contract Keeps Status Quo At Quebec Store - Wall Street Journal Publish Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:33:47 GMT WSBT-TVWal-Mart: Contract Keeps Status Quo At Quebec StoreWall Street JournalBy Andy Georgiades Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES TORONTO (DOW JONES)--An http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Easter-Bunny-1-460271.html liesreality 2009-04-08 21:32:59.607 Recycle Bin Did the easter bunny visit your store? http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Techniques-used-to-shoplift-1-460270.html liesreality 2009-05-23 08:09:35.12 Recycle Bin What are some ways people have stole from your store that were different.1----At a store these 3 thieves would go over and pick up a trashcan that had a lid and rolled on wheels. They then would go to the eletronic dept. 2 would be lookouts while the 3rd would load up the trashcan with ink, movies, http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/We-were-robbed-1-459966.html Learning12 2009-04-28 07:25:44.153 Recycle Bin Police look for brazen thieves Date: April 5, 2009 Publication: Public Opinion (Chambersburg, PA) GUILFORD TOWNSHIP, April 5 -- Pennsylvania State Police in Chambersburg are asking for the public's help in finding thieves who stole over $11,000 in merchandise from WalMart Saturday night. Two men and http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Time-Sheets-1-457858.html liesreality 2009-04-08 01:51:57.637 Recycle Bin I think i asked this before, but couldnt find the topic. Does your store still allow people to turn in availability sheets stating what days/times they are limited on working? http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Cellphone-Hoax-at-my-store-1-457857.html liesreality 2009-04-10 07:11:35.853 Recycle Bin I meant to post this a couple weeks ago, but i forgot to, LOL.At my store they had a hoax that has been happening at other walmarts over the past several years, where a text is sent to cellphones stating that on the news it has been reported that a shooting has taken place in some walmart nearby and http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Jobless-forum-1-455835.html Ex_Walmart_Employee 2009-04-08 01:50:43.793 Recycle Bin Hello everyone,This is started for those who are jobless and any thoughts for jobless people,I'am happy not to be a people greeter and that Iam out of sight from those moronsthat make a people greeter  life miserable just because we have to stand in one placefor 8 hours. I dont feel like going http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/LOA-1-455239.html redtin9 2009-04-08 01:53:33.56 Recycle Bin What would you do ...if...you knew a associate was on maternity LOA and you saw her working at a private fast food deli...?And what are the benefits for maternity leave,,,with or without INS http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/You-gotta-look-up-you-gotta-look-up-at-the-Wal-Mart-TV-Network-1-454898.html ABRDB 2009-04-06 11:33:12.87 Recycle Bin Anyone else remember these stupid commercials on the in store TV network? They started to play around early 2004, when I worked in electronics (in other words, I saw them on about 20 different TVs at the SAME TIME), there were several new commercials that started around that time, all annoying...The http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Patch-from-Microsoft-1-447532.html Learning12 2009-04-06 11:36:00.45 Recycle Bin (Date Posted:03/30/2009 05:52:12)Watch this 60 minute segment on Conflicker worm http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4901282n Save this email. Recommend you scan you computer on and/or after April 1 with the tools at this Microsoft site: http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/bbguns-teenagers-1-447407.html Josephwm 2009-04-06 11:31:17.793 Recycle Bin today there were a group of teens that purchased a bbgun from my store, drove to the back of our store into the associate parking lot, and started shooting at our cars. Luckily, there wasn't much damage if any. I am so glad that my car didn't get hit with one. I hope they don't try that again! http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Shopping-cart-1-442664.html Josephwm 2009-04-06 11:32:28.713 Recycle Bin So we're told that we're no longer allowed to use shopping carts anymore. Not for returns, not for trash, not for anything.. THis is such bs.. what the heck are we supposed to do with our trash and returns?!!! Now i have to find a blue cart for my card board trays?! WTF, those will fall over, and wh http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/The-time-is-coming-any-tips-1-439261.html fallenangelkelly 2009-04-06 11:28:57.26 Recycle Bin i am off tuesday and wednesday, work friday at my current store and then start saturday at the other store as dept manager...i'm so nervous...i know i can do it..but still very nervousany tips from those out there? http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/91-days-accident-free-1-435180.html Learning12 2009-04-06 11:30:24.743 Recycle Bin   we never got this high before.They are giving us chicken tenders and potato wedges. http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/ATTENTION-WALMARTBENEFITS-COM-USERS-1-423593.html Josephwm 2009-03-25 06:36:08.98 Recycle Bin Walmart Benefits has undergone a makeover the past day or 2... The site url has gone from www.walmartbenefits.com to www.mywalmart.com. Make sure to update your bookmarks!You'll have to recreate your profile again and get used to the new layout heh. What i find cool about this is that it looks like http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Associates-appreciated-1-423161.html Learning12 2009-03-25 06:42:40.653 Recycle Bin We are having two full weeks of rewards.Things like,we had a cook out Friday,today was wear your favorite football jersey,we even get to wear jeans on two Friday's.Do you think they are trying to make us feel loved? http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/bonuses-1-422961.html Racrgirl 2009-03-25 06:38:01.45 Recycle Bin Bonuses come out this week.. we were told the amount for each store was not being announced till you saw your paycheck stub. So when did you find out how much and how much did you get? We are getting bonuses for the last 3 quarters all at once this week. so no telling how much that could be. Just th http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/union-news-1-422195.html Learning12 2009-03-25 06:20:46.39 Recycle Bin   I borrowed this from my favorite web site,(the writting on the wall) I don't think they will mind.Walmart finally forced to bargain collectively with American workers.March 13th, 2009 <!-- by Jonathan Rees -->Filed under: Employee Free Choice Act, Organized Labor I bet you thought Walma http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Hello-From-Arcangel-and-hello-my-new-Idenitiy-for-w-assosites-on-Aimoo-1-421478.html Ex_Walmart_Employee 2009-03-25 06:39:14.39 Recycle Bin Hello everyone,Iam ok Iam IN California I have quit Walmart,been looking for work for 4 weeks I remain,confedant. This is also formerly Arcangel.Iam also no longer married. The name I havelisten in the group Ex_Walmart_Employee is the,name I'd like to be known as now. I will be visitingregular cause http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/cool-signage-1-420362.html Learning12 2009-03-25 06:41:48.733 Recycle Bin   Mac or any one else out there. Have you received a cool for artichokes?I wonder ho many hundreds of pounds the company has thrown away just because no one knows where they were grown? http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/WTF-IS-HE-HIGH-1-419415.html fallenangelkelly 2009-03-25 06:32:37.997 Recycle Bin so my assistant who i have had since january did my eval today before i go to the other store....now i have been doing dept manager work since she left (about 3 weeks after he took over our area) and well before then too...so he tells me he has NOTHING negative to say but gives me a MEETS! I got a m http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Walmart-Image-of-the-Day-1-417203.html liesreality 2009-03-14 01:03:52.623 Recycle Bin I have a photo abulm set up for everyone to post pictures at: Photo Album, but still thought i would try and post a walmart image here once a day or at least one every day that i am online. Lina Munoz, right, of Union City, N.J., a Wal-Mart employee, stands on a counter to help customers at the Wal- http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/AVG-antivirus-problem-1-416318.html SAFETYMIKE 2009-03-14 00:36:26.513 Recycle Bin I've stayed away from here for a few days because my AVG antivirus said there was a virus threat with the website.. It turns out that there was a problem with the virus program detecting some java script as a virus threat. By doing a new update on AVG they had corrrected the problem and no threat is http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/How-have-you-adjusted-1-416267.html emath 2009-03-14 00:40:17.623 Recycle Bin I use to work for Walmart back in 2006. I had left the company after 9 years and went back only briefly. I went back during a very confusing time..with all the changes still happening, and people adjusting to so much change...emotions always ran high. I was visiting with a former coworker a couple o http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Hold-Merchandise-1-416135.html liesreality 2009-03-11 23:39:55.187 Recycle Bin I thought i started this topic a couple days ago, but i cannot find it, so i wondering if i actually did. I have bad memory, LOL>Does your store hold back merchandise for customers if they call and say they are on thier way to pick it up?will they do this for associates at your store, or do they http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Coverage-1-416124.html liesreality 2009-03-25 06:45:27.183 Recycle Bin Is your store bad about no coverage in areas. i dont mean when someone is on vacation they dont go ahead and plan to have someone cover the area. I mean do you have where on the weekends or on certain days they have one person run most of the store. At my store it is common practice on the weekends http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/It-is-official-1-415919.html fallenangelkelly 2009-04-06 11:29:31.667 Recycle Bin i am the new merchandise supervisor of electronics in the other store...they are keeping me at my current store a few more weeks. i start there on the 28th....based on the job description a merchandise supervisor is the same as dept manager just different title....a zone supervisor is one that is in http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Act-obama-supports-walmart-and-others-oppose-1-413600.html liesreality 2009-03-10 01:40:50.043 Recycle Bin http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123638372783358077.html?mod=wsjcrmainPresident Barack Obama's public backing this past week of a bill that would make union organizing easier is driving companies to step up opposition.Mr. Obama embraced the Employee Free Choice Act, a top legislative priority for uni http://wwassociates.aimoo.com/category/Walmart-doesnt-make-the-list-1-413596.html liesreality 2009-03-10 01:39:09.343 Recycle Bin Just like it did in 2007 and 2008, Wal-Mart missed the cut of top 100 corporate citizens in 2009, according to Corporate Responsibility Officer Magazine. It’s good timing, too - it was barely over a month ago that the entire Walton Family somehow missed the list of top 50 American philanthropists, d