I have been a cart pusher at Walmart now for just at six months. So far, I have lost over 65 pounds, gotten first and second degree sunburns, been hit by a car, hit in the face by an old woman's purse, crushed my hand between carts, and had a knife pulled on me... all for minimum wage.
One person said "Go to college and get a real job"... well, I would like to say that I have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, yet I push carts. Bills gotta be paid.
We do have a mule, "Sally" as we call her, and she's a good ol' girl, but we only have one, considering I work at a Supercenter.
We have five Stockmen including myself, and we're like a family. We take care of each other and don't ever mess with any of us or you'll get the whole pack. That's one thing i can say about it being a decent job, but the bad totally outweighs the good by a thousand to one.
The West Virginia heat sucks because it's so humid, and the winters are even worse, being bitter cold and blowing wind, right on the banks of the Ohio River.
CSM's don't really bother us about carryouts, they usually just get a floor associate to do it, which is a big help to us. We have enough stuff to deal with already. We are so short handed in the lot it's not funny.
As all of my fellow cart pusher brothers and sisters know, the training video is nothing like the real world, when they strap all the carts together and you can push them and turn them around with just one hand. The person who made this video needs to spend an eight hour shift in the lot.
People have mentioned about having water store-used to them, which must be nice. all we get are cans of powdered Gatorade and batteries for Sally's Remote. BUT, we do have two little perks of this job; One, our store has a Subway, which their soda fountain has ICE COLD water coming out of it, which makes it a dream to mix Gatorade with. Two, around the back side of the store over next to the lawn and garden parking lot, there is a 1 inch pipe sticking up out of the ground in the middle of the grass, with a spigot on top. We call this "The Water Fairy"... it's high pressure and ice cold. Whenever we get hot during the summer, we take turns going to visit the Water Fairy, and basically hosing ourselves down with cold water.
"And That's All I Have To Say About That"...
