I am an employee with Wal-mart, and love Last Week Tonight. But I can't recall it ever being talked about. It's always Amazon and sometimes Target. Walmart is the biggest employer in the country, and from the start of Covid they've done nothing but treat us like garbage.
They introduce an Online department while barely touching payroll, they just made everyone work more (significantly more, we've had employees having accidents and new medical conditions like crazy from the stress both mentally and physically).
They got rid of middle ground promotion positions so fewer chances of advancement.
They have almost zero oversight on management who get to do whatever they wish. They have an ethics department which often give out fake numbers for "Contacts" for employees to talk to.
They put in covid standards but hold no employee to them, and if you complain about, say, people taking off masks. You are ignored.
They increased wages, but also lowered annual raises.
They also for a time removed bonuses, and seemingly brought them back but at a severely lowered rate. Partly because by removing none-self-service check out lines all stores have incredibly low ratings, which our bonuses are tied to. So the company still pays out less overall to employees.
Cut the rate of time off gain.
They just plain stopped training people and pushed that job on unqualified people who are outright not given time to train. And again, tied this to bonuses which is in effect removing bonuses.
Why is Walmart seemingly always ignored? Is it because we dont have a whacky Dr. Evil-esque CEO like Bezos? If that's the problem then make the leadership of Walmart, deservidly, a new villain. Focus on all the good they used to do until new management took over and immediatly removed time and a half holidays and cut bonuses company wide while smearing Sam Walton's legacy into the dirt. Since, despite being the number one employer in the country, they're treated as some kinda "90's evil" that no one wants to talk about for being the old thing.
