We have a dept. manager in our store that fell off a ladder the first part of Dec. She did not go to the dr. right away, but reported the accident. Two days later she could not move and went to the dr. and she paid. It turns out, she had witnesses, that falling across the fork life had knocked 2 vertebra out of place. She finally after a month got to go to the dr. to see what was wrong under workman'scomp. She came back with a light duty excuse. What did management do??? Nothing. She still slung freight, did all her work with no help, not even someone to zone her areas. Tuesday I talked to our assistant and told her that I could not believe that she was making this dept manager come in at night to put out freight for another, lazy, dept. manager when this dept manager was on light duty because of workman's comp.
I had told ass. manager something like this 3 different times, and the store manager, and the co this same thing. Nothing had happened. This time I suggested the ass. check the dept. manager's personnel fine to see about this.
The next day the store manager put her on light duty. Made her sign a paper that said what she would do until this was taken care of. Today the ass came up and in front of me told her she had freight on the floor and late mods. that she needed to take care of.
They are not paying her mileage to go to the dr. She has to have surgery to put rod in her spine. They told her she will have to take a leave of absence and pay her own insurance during the time she is off. She only gets a percent of her salary. Wal-Mart did this to her but she pays for it in the long run. I have always been a totally devoted employee, Wal-Mart was the best, but now I wonder??????? They don't give a ____ about us.