thetristanfrantz | Watch This Before Even APPLYING for Wal-Mart! (My sOb sToRY of Abuse and Build Up to Termination) @thetristanfrantz | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
A month ago today, I was fired from Wal-Mart. Now I’ve learned my lesson; Never work for mega-corporations. Truth be told, I was allured by the big number they showed me for what would be my starting wage; $14.50/hour, twice what I was being paid at my previous job. If I’d have known that it STILL wouldn’t be enough to feed my family, not only that but I would be abused, and scared into being submissive, and into thinking I could get fired on a dime, I wouldn’t have even thought about applying for Wal-Mart. But here we are. Also, I hate this contrast between workers today being exploited for profit and being cheated out of raises while the top richest people reap 100’s of billions of dollars, and being sexually harassed, and verbally whipped, as opposed to 19th century slaves who were exploited as a source of free labour, cheated out of freedom while their owners reaped every fruit of the slave labour, and who were sexually assaulted, and physically whipped. Same shit, different time period. If the people making those differences actually did some work for once, especially in retail, they’d realize just how tough it is, and what we have to go through. Wal-Mart is the top example, in my opinion, of a Feudal system simulation; Executives and managers would be the nobility, supervisors and coaches the clergy (though in cases where executives and managers are not present, they take advantage of the power vacuum and assume the role of the nobility), and the employees are the commoners, as they already are in their day to day lives. And since the ethics team won’t bother speaking with someone who was fired (or even read their emails at all), I will exercise the power of social media at my fingertips, however effective I am, addressing this to my nearly 800 subscribers, and anyone else that sees this from my sharing to social media. Luckily I don’t plan to live my life out like this. I’m not going to be 60, in the sunset of my career, and the best job I can land is fucking cleaning team lead. Obviously, no disrespect to any team leads that love their job and do what they can to make their workers comfortable and motivate them to kick ass.
A month ago today, I was fired from Wal-Mart. Now I’ve learned my lesson; Never work for mega-corporations. Truth be told, I was allured by the big number they showed me for what would be my starting wage; $14.50/hour, twice what I was being paid at my previous job. If I’d have known that it STILL wouldn’t be enough to feed my family, not only that but I would be abused, and scared into being submissive, and into thinking I could get fired on a dime, I wouldn’t have even thought about applying for Wal-Mart. But here we are. Also, I hate this contrast between workers today being exploited for profit and being cheated out of raises while the top richest people reap 100’s of billions of dollars, and being sexually harassed, and verbally whipped, as opposed to 19th century slaves who were exploited as a source of free labour, cheated out of freedom while their owners reaped every fruit of the slave labour, and who were sexually assaulted, and physically whipped. Same shit, different time period. If the people making those differences actually did some work for once, especially in retail, they’d realize just how tough it is, and what we have to go through. Wal-Mart is the top example, in my opinion, of a Feudal system simulation; Executives and managers would be the nobility, supervisors and coaches the clergy (though in cases where executives and managers are not present, they take advantage of the power vacuum and assume the role of the nobility), and the employees are the commoners, as they already are in their day to day lives. And since the ethics team won’t bother speaking with someone who was fired (or even read their emails at all), I will exercise the power of social media at my fingertips, however effective I am, addressing this to my nearly 800 subscribers, and anyone else that sees this from my sharing to social media. Luckily I don’t plan to live my life out like this. I’m not going to be 60, in the sunset of my career, and the best job I can land is fucking cleaning team lead. Obviously, no disrespect to any team leads that love their job and do what they can to make their workers comfortable and motivate them to kick ass.
