I read a post earlier about Walmart and wanted to share.
I worked at Walmart briefly, and within a few months I was an unloading backroom supervisor. One day, we got a new GM, who came into the back room, introduced himself and immediately announced all of us would be fired over the coming months. Over the next few months, employees were terminated for trivialities.
Before Christmas I worked 28 days straight, no days off. For Christmas Eve, a coworker/friend asked if I could take his shift. I agreed, since I had no family and I knew it'd help him out.
That Christmas Eve we finished early, and I asked the ASM if I could go early, and explained how much I've been working. He said yes.
I came in on Boxing day and was pulled into the office and immediately terminated for “job abandonment.”
They'd been trying to fire me for a long while. A bunch of the unloaders were stealing and they assumed I was the ring leader. I had no part of it, but I knew it was happening. What they didn't know, was I was the only person limiting the theft, as we were talking about entire shipments of (at the time) unreleased, brand new iPod videos and PS3s. They were even stealing Wiis before release day and screwing over preorders. I didn't care since everyone was at $8 an hour or less.
When I called the ASM in to testify that he let me go home, he straight up lied and said he never spoke to me. Every single unloader on shift was standing there and told the manager the ASM was lying.
The team continued to steal literally hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of electronics, TVs, iPods, game consoles, you name it. Poetically, my brother got a job there, and I routinely showed up to help him take his spoils home. By firing me and blaming me for theft, they created a situation where the team started stealing 3x as much or more, as I wasn't there to keep them “in check.”
By the summer time I went back to the store, filled a big gulp cup with piss, and splashed it over the GMs car, destroying his paint.
I found out later the ASM quit for more money at Best Buy, only to get fired for incompetence and end up taking a job at Zellers, only for that store to go bankrupt and lose his job again.
Fuck everyone involved.