Working at Walmart in Lawrence, KS: 1 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Lawrence, KS Area

"Walmart's unofficial motto is "pretend to do what you're supposed to when you think you are being watched." Only new people in the warehouse actually try to do what they were told because the workload is just too great. Nobody experienced loads the way they were taught at orientation except when the inspector comes. Everybody uses shortcuts to save time and reduce stress on their body. Before I started working at Walmart's loading docks, I was a healthy 29-year-old male with 2 years of prior warehouse experience. I was in the habit of doing 100 pushups and 100 squats every day and going on occasional jogs. Now that I've quit, I plan on doing no work for 1 month because my health has deteriorated so much. While working there, I got repetitive stress injuries in 5 joints, I got a stomach ulcer because I took ibuprofen in response to the joint pain, I nearly fainted from exhaustion after my first 5 weeks of mandatory overtime, the skin on my finger tips split open from moving so many boxes (despite wearing gloves and using moisturizer). I had no such problems working in any other warehouse. The management discourages reporting of injuries. They give you false information about benefits, and then deny you the benefits because you did not follow the proper procedure. I got the flu and took off 2 weeks. Walmart told me to get my leave approved through Sedgwick. Sedgwick told me that the leave was approved, but Walmart refused to approve it. I've heard from several employees that the turnover rate in shipping is 90%. I believe this is true, since when I quit after 7 months with the company, I was already senior to roughly half the loaders on the dock. Walmart paid me $25/hr. The next highest pay I found in a warehouse was $19/hr. Yet, Walmart cannot keep its employees. The reason is that the work load is beyond what human biology is capable of. The location is actually Ottowa, KS, but this website won't accept that location."