When I was at Barnes & Noble I worked with a lady named Pat.  She was somewhere in her late fifties, and she was very cool.  We had many conversations in the break room and became quite close.  She was not your average fifty-some year old lady.  Well, she went to Pahrump, Nevada with her husband the one year for vacation.  Pat liked to gamble, and did rather well with blackjack.  When she returned she secretively told me about visiting and touring one of the legalized brothels.  The way she described it, you would go in and describe what you were looking for in a woman....tall, short, black, white, blonde, brunette, etc.  Then the girl would take you to a room and present you with a menu of the services available.
Out of curiosity I asked her, "How much would, say, a blowjob go for?"
Pat replied, "Anywhere from 8-15 hundred."
I recall thinking $1,500 was about $1,490 too much, but I live in Central Pennsylvania, not Nevada.
Some years later I was working as an associate in the produce department at my old Walmart.  The one morning I was working with Denise, the supervisor...Michelle, a fellow associate in her late twenties, early thirties...and Alice, a lady in her late sixties, maybe early seventies.  Alice was a bright woman, but was prone to blonde moments.
Anyway, I don't know how we got onto the subject, but I started telling them about Pat's trip to Pahrump.  As I got towards the end of the story I realized I probably shouldn't say "blowjob" around Alice...she was cool and all, but I just would have felt funny saying it.  So I get to the end and I say, "So I asked Pat, 'How much would a.......hummer be?'  And she told me anywhere from 8-15 hundred..."
Alice chimes in with, "I've always wanted one but they're just so darned expensive.....and get terrible mileage."
I just looked at Denice and Michelle.
Michelle leaned over and whispered in Alice's ear.
Alice's eyes go wide and she said, "Ohhhhhhhhh........"

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Hi, I have been an overnight associate at my store for the past few years.  Up until about a month ago, our system worked like this:::  There were three overnight assistant managers.   Two permenant for years and years before I was ever working there, and the other position took annual turns for one year.  ....One assoicate from daylight would work overnight for one year, when that year was up, the associate went back to daylight, and another one came overnight for a year.   Also, the permenant managers did our schedules,  we worked 6 nights on, 2 nights off, except for the occasional vacation or what not without enough coverage.  It worked for us, we weren't exhasuted, we were able to get what we needed to get done in our personal lives and still have time for fun, and we got weekends off ever 6 weeks to enjoy.  It's been this way for years before I came over night (I was daylight before I was overnight).

Now, I'm guessing because the rotating overnight manager was fired wayy back in July, for some reason they made our permanent managers go daylight, and made both of the co-managers and 3 assistant managers from daylight and stuck them overnight.  Now are schedules suck, which we new that was going to happen anyways, even though I know we weren't the only store that remotely runs that way.  One of the CSM's is obssessed with WalMart, literally, when she goes for trips she just has to go into all of the walmarts for some odd reason that not many people understand.  Well, she did ask the associates at another store if they operated somewhat like ours did, and they did.  They got two days off in a row for overnight.

So then most of the people I work with finally get over that part, we look at our schedules for the week of black friday and ever full-time associate has to work 13 hour shifts....is that even illegel?!?!?  And the worst part about that was, I've been ful time for the past three years, got 40 hours 99% of them, even got 40 hours sometimes when I was part time, but this week they wanted me to come in to babysit a line for 13 hours, but then cut my hours for the week?!?!!?  I really think I've about had it.

What I really wanted to know, after some ranting and venting, is if your an overnight associate, how does your store work overnight?


P.S.  I also heard from another employee a few days ago that most places get a $1.00 difference from being daylight.  She explained that because we live in a "depressed area", the city we live in, they are allowed to only pay us a $.50 difference?!?!?! 

P.S.S.I also understand about the whole daylight not getting two days off in a row.  I was daylight before, and even though I didn't get two days off in a row, I still was able to go home go to sleep, wake up the next morning, enjoy my day, get another full nights worth of sleep, and wake up refreshed to go to work.  Now, I come home, if I have an appointment or things to do I have to stay up, when I get home I crash, when I wake up I can't be loud or do whta I need to do because my husband is sleeping so we can go to work in the morning.  I can't go to appointments at night, obviously.  By the time my husband wakes up, I'm exhausted for doing not much, take a quick nap, get up shove what I need to do in a few hours, and if I'm lucky I get a quick nap before having to go to work again. 
When I had two days off in a row, It went sort of what having one day off on daylight.  Being at Walmart EVERY single day off the year will drive my nuts.  I would go back on daylight if I could, but I can't because I can't afford to loose the full-time, sadly enough.

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I've been employed at my local WM since March of this year,will it be silly to assume I would be getting a Christmas bonus? I read somewhere that there was a 6-month "probation" period before i was eligible,but I'm still not entirely sure.Does it vary a lot from store to store? By the way,I've averaged 30-33 hours any given week.

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Does anyone else have to audit the salesfloor people because their name is on the audit list? It is a waste of their time and mine, as far as auditing because they know about it. Just wondering.

Also is this audit list a compliance issue or something? My guess is that it is apart of the accounting scorecard. I can see auditing cashiers and stuff but some zms, ms, are on it and they refuse to come up because they have a bunch of projects to do. Is it that big of a deal if we decide to ignore the audit list?

has anyone else gotten one of these new boards/ it has a stack of post it notes and you are supposed to write a question for management on it and they are supposed to answer it in 24 hours on the other side. Ours has been up 2 days, and i think they will end up taking it down. people are asking great questions, but ones Management wont want to truthfully answer. They are answering by policy, but not by what actually happens in the store. Will see what happens. Some of the questions are pretty good.

My store is now promoting that stupid survey that prints out at the top of receipts. We are given highlighters for each register and we have to highlight the website & the number for the customer to type in online (or tell the operator- ?). Then we have to let the customer know about how they can go online or call the number on the receipt. That the customer "could" [not ever] win $1,000.

This "survey" has been on the receipts forever (by that I mean for the 3 yrs I've been at WM) and I have never been told to ask about it or do anything with it until today. I hated when we had CMN and now we have to do this? Ugh. I also hate the fact that soon we're going to have to promote the WM credit cards. I hate doing this and feel like we're harassing our customers. I feel that if I go into one store this winter and am asked about anything I'll scream at the poor associate.

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Hi I was just wondering about the Deli department, I have been offered the Deli Lead job and was told that the hours for that position was 5:30 till 2 working Sundays, Mondays, & Wednesday-Friday. But I have heard from other people that it was a Monday-Friday 7-4 job. so my question is, is my store trying to stick it to whoever takes this job or is it that way at other stores? The pay raise would be nice, but I don't know if I want to give up my Sundays.