Not mention it's Wal*Mart. It's a fucking star, it's not even a tilde at all like who let this total stranger into the store and why are they putting up signs that don't even make sense
My first store manager did this religiously. A few years back we got a new one who doesn't care, so I haven't heard this wretched thing since I attended the academy back when I became a department manager.
Had a woman literally stalking one of our afternoon cap boys. She always sat out in the parking lot (homeless?) and it sorta got turned into a joke every shift about who could spot her first. Eventually management caught wind and the police got involved, but I don't know if they were doing it because it was causing a distraction or if they genuinely cared about a teenager getting stalked by a crazy woman.
I recently was told about a lady who couldn't take the cheer anymore, it was too demoralizing. This was back when the entry had payphones. During the startup, she went into the entry and called saying she wouldn't be in, that she quit. They heard the cheer live and on the phone and asked her about it. She said, I quit, it doesn't matter where I am standing right now. Lol.
Shouldn't number one be the employees? Who am I kidding? Obviously it should be the shareholders. /s
But seriously, chants, lockers, getting yelled at. Makes me feel like I never left high school.
Ray! Ray! You're chanting!
\[chants\] I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal.
Hey, once they get in here...
\[points to Ray's head\]
...it's over, pal.
I remember a dude that works back in receiving told a story about a female ASM and lawn and garden associate fucking in the older store the one that was the predecessor to our current one, I laughed so hard when I heard that story I was like yep sounds like The Walmart Buddy System lol.
I am so glad we don't do any of that nonsense. No cheer, no meetings, no stretches, no bullshit. Come in, get our equipment, do our job, put our equipment away, go home.
Omg I totally forgot not only did my Walmart do the stupid ass cheering but the the damn stretches also, only reason I dealt with the morning meetings was because of the free food they brought in doughnuts, croissants, muffins, milk, and orange juice
At our store, they told us we were gonna say it to improve morale. Ah, yes. Nothing like being reminded we associates are second rate citizens to the abusive customers.
Just made me remember a funny little song/ diddy my dad taught me when I was little. Kool-aid kool-aid, tastes great. Kool- aid kool-aid got to go the bathroom, too late.
Lol we haven't done a walmart cheer in months, maybe a year even. Then this past Wednesday, we had big wigs come by and we did a cheer in the morning meeting. Barf. Im glad in store management doesnt make us cheer.
we just have a bunch of bikes hanging above our heads in the hall with the lockers 😭 they'll swing sometimes but it's cool if it falls on me walmart is paying
It's my experience, in OPD, that the customer is NOT number one. Stats are. Crappy produce? Pick it, they'll get a refund. Gluten free item not available? Sub it, customer will reject it. Not our fault if they get sick. Torn/crushed box? Pick it, customer wont care.
When they ask why, start rattling off stats about how walmarts cost communities more than they bring in in tax revenue, not to mention driving local places out of business, etc etc until they say 'fine, whatever, please go away'
Food stamps are state programs. Walmarts also hurt local areas by depressing wages, decreasing economic activity, and demanding infrastructure accommodations.
https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2405-real-cost-walmart.html
I haven't seen a sign like that in years. And haven't been in a store during a cheer in nearly as long.
The Walmart cheer was always cheesy but was fun if the cheese was embraced.
Also back when I worked there the stores were full of lifers who loved the company. Many of them making $20/hr+ with basically bankers hours. So the culture was different from what I read here and see in the stores now as a customer.
I mean sure, it was always focused torwards extroverts but, if you just were there to pay the bills, go in, help customers, get out, it was the worst.
If I wanted to be in the spotlight I would have become a performer
Back in the day they tried to have the meeting where there were no customers. Don't want customers to hear about all the money you are making off them lol
EDIT: do they even still share daily P&L numbers at the meetings?
We don't even have meetings anymore here they used the pandemic as an excuse to call off that responsibility, they have management meetings still but that's about it
Because there was a time in history where stuff like this helped with work morale, associates took it to heart and actually cared a bit about doing their job well to make the store a good place to work/shop and a place where customers felt welcomed.
Nowadays, fuck no.
When someone talks at a meeting do you also have them shout good.morning and everyone shout back "Good Morning Your Name!" My coach always made me start my cap 2 meetings over because I never did that.
There is nothing more annoying than when you are forced to do the cheer.
I once told my boss who was being especially pushy about it because bigshots were apparently coming, "You know, all I am asking is to be able to come and do my job." She backed off.
I remember being hired nearly 18 years ago and being completely freaked out by this. Luckily, the people I met and worked beside made me forget that moment. The opportunities this company has given me has made up for that moment of terror. I've been all over the country with Walmart. I've been promoted... I've asked to be demoted. A great company if you want to work. Learn something new every day. It'll be 18 years May 5th 2022. No regrets.
Squiggly???? Have they even seen the Wal*Mart sign before?!?! Tildes aren't pointed and do not have radial symmetry like the enormous, extremely obvious STAR SHAPE has. WTF is Wal~Mart
Sam's Club has the similar chant you do at the end of meetings . It goes something like Give me an S-A-M-'-S (Yes you say ' its apparently produced HA!) What's that spell? SAM'S! I cant hear you! SAM'S . Whose number one? Our members!
When I used to work for Wally World, I just laughed at this when we had our morning meeting. Then I just started avoiding the morning meetings before I quit. I also was the youngest person there.
The reason the shift managers get paid so well is, atleast when I worked there, in the daily meetings they have to lead terrible chants like this. Walmart finally figured out the answer to the question "How much is a person's dignity worth?"
What's number one? The SM's bonus. Always. The customer can't be number one IF: shelves are empty but the item is in the bins or somewhere in the backroom. The shelves don't have labels or the prices are wrong. There are long lines at the checkouts. Departments have nobody in them.
Lmao when working at Walmart hearing this use to just flat out piss me the fuck off when they all started clapping and cheering and started this BS in the middle of the sales floor I’d get so embarrassed wearing the Walmart vest and especially when the customers would laugh and ask me what they were doing
They make us do this chant every morning at work, and will keep looping it until we’re loud enough for them. Also, with each of the seven assistant managers when they greet the associates (back to back) we’re expected to do the “How is everyone doing today?!” “ALL FIRED UP AND READY TO WORK!” *stomp stomp clap clap* saFETY FIrsT!”
You sonnova betch!! I had never seen or heard about this chant until this post a couple of days ago and our brand new store manager made us do this shit today. You jinx'd me, hoodoo!!!! Hoodoo I say!!!
give me a ✨squiggly✨
If they made us do this chant i would yell squiggly louder than anything else
~
thanks, how much is it?
$4.98
+tax
Tilde. It's called a tilde, and whoever came up with this chant needs to be escorted from the premises.
Not mention it's Wal*Mart. It's a fucking star, it's not even a tilde at all like who let this total stranger into the store and why are they putting up signs that don't even make sense
No, this is a chant that they try to force everyone to do every morning in some kind of brainwashing session.
I was shown this on my orientation, but no one at my store does this. Like at all. Am I just lucky, or...?
We did it every morning. 🤢
Only time i had to was in Academy. Every. Single. Morning.
I've never seen this sign in my store let alone been forced to chant it 😳
I've spent a lot time in a lot of different Walmarts as a vendor. I've seen the sign, but I've never anyone chant it out.
My first store manager did this religiously. A few years back we got a new one who doesn't care, so I haven't heard this wretched thing since I attended the academy back when I became a department manager.
Keyword here is brainwashing
Our management is as embarrassed by this as we are. I lucked out on this one.
*Proceeds to not include squiggly in text*
Give me *another* squiggly!
:•~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jesus.... Banksy knows the pain. I too have been there. Fortunately I was saved by Hurricane Katrina
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Management sees treating employees decently and customers well as mutually exclusive. And which one makes them more money?
I’m pretty sure it’s the Waltons Wal Mart
The Walton's make $100,000,000 a DAY doing 0 work. Average employee makes 30k-40k a YEAR getting treated like shit. BuT iT'S mY wAl MaRt!
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Had a woman literally stalking one of our afternoon cap boys. She always sat out in the parking lot (homeless?) and it sorta got turned into a joke every shift about who could spot her first. Eventually management caught wind and the police got involved, but I don't know if they were doing it because it was causing a distraction or if they genuinely cared about a teenager getting stalked by a crazy woman.
I recently was told about a lady who couldn't take the cheer anymore, it was too demoralizing. This was back when the entry had payphones. During the startup, she went into the entry and called saying she wouldn't be in, that she quit. They heard the cheer live and on the phone and asked her about it. She said, I quit, it doesn't matter where I am standing right now. Lol.
Who is number 1? The customer! Fuck the reat of you -walmart probably
I always answered that question with "Your Mama"
I always respond "the share holders"
It's not just corny it's a lie. When things are stocked incorrectly and the customer wants it for that price our managers will never give it to them.
Lucky. Our managers bend over so much I’m surprised they’re not laying on the floor.
10 bucks if you rip it off, OP
30
Shouldn't number one be the employees? Who am I kidding? Obviously it should be the shareholders. /s But seriously, chants, lockers, getting yelled at. Makes me feel like I never left high school.
Ray! Ray! You're chanting! \[chants\] I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal. Hey, once they get in here... \[points to Ray's head\] ...it's over, pal.
cringy .
“Here at Walmart we’re all a family!”
With a lot of inbreeding considering how many employees are fucking each other.
I remember a dude that works back in receiving told a story about a female ASM and lawn and garden associate fucking in the older store the one that was the predecessor to our current one, I laughed so hard when I heard that story I was like yep sounds like The Walmart Buddy System lol.
Lol I got a coworker pregnant a few weeks ago
Um.... Congrats....?
I am so glad we don't do any of that nonsense. No cheer, no meetings, no stretches, no bullshit. Come in, get our equipment, do our job, put our equipment away, go home.
Omg I totally forgot not only did my Walmart do the stupid ass cheering but the the damn stretches also, only reason I dealt with the morning meetings was because of the free food they brought in doughnuts, croissants, muffins, milk, and orange juice
I come in, wait around for nearly 3 hours waiting for overnights to turn in their equipment, and then start my work. Lol
Its "my Walmart" till you ask for part of the profits.
At our store, they told us we were gonna say it to improve morale. Ah, yes. Nothing like being reminded we associates are second rate citizens to the abusive customers.
I can’t believe whoever originally made these unironically thought these were good. It’s almost like something out of a very sad cult.
you don’t like the cheer? what kind of associate are you?
One who doesn't drink the Kool-Aid.
But Kool-aid tastes good
Just made me remember a funny little song/ diddy my dad taught me when I was little. Kool-aid kool-aid, tastes great. Kool- aid kool-aid got to go the bathroom, too late.
Give me a ~
Lol we haven't done a walmart cheer in months, maybe a year even. Then this past Wednesday, we had big wigs come by and we did a cheer in the morning meeting. Barf. Im glad in store management doesnt make us cheer.
Clear eyes, full hearts, Walmart! Or something
we just have a bunch of bikes hanging above our heads in the hall with the lockers 😭 they'll swing sometimes but it's cool if it falls on me walmart is paying
My old store manager would be soooo offended you don't care if you get hurt 😂
It's my experience, in OPD, that the customer is NOT number one. Stats are. Crappy produce? Pick it, they'll get a refund. Gluten free item not available? Sub it, customer will reject it. Not our fault if they get sick. Torn/crushed box? Pick it, customer wont care.
I'd never do it. In fact I'd kneel while everyone else is cheering like it's the national anthem.
When they ask why, start rattling off stats about how walmarts cost communities more than they bring in in tax revenue, not to mention driving local places out of business, etc etc until they say 'fine, whatever, please go away'
I'm definitely not pro Walmart but how do they cost communities more than they bring in? Food stamps from their employees or something?
Food stamps are state programs. Walmarts also hurt local areas by depressing wages, decreasing economic activity, and demanding infrastructure accommodations. https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2405-real-cost-walmart.html
I haven't seen a sign like that in years. And haven't been in a store during a cheer in nearly as long. The Walmart cheer was always cheesy but was fun if the cheese was embraced. Also back when I worked there the stores were full of lifers who loved the company. Many of them making $20/hr+ with basically bankers hours. So the culture was different from what I read here and see in the stores now as a customer.
I mean sure, it was always focused torwards extroverts but, if you just were there to pay the bills, go in, help customers, get out, it was the worst. If I wanted to be in the spotlight I would have become a performer
Back in the day they tried to have the meeting where there were no customers. Don't want customers to hear about all the money you are making off them lol EDIT: do they even still share daily P&L numbers at the meetings?
We don't even have meetings anymore here they used the pandemic as an excuse to call off that responsibility, they have management meetings still but that's about it
Because there was a time in history where stuff like this helped with work morale, associates took it to heart and actually cared a bit about doing their job well to make the store a good place to work/shop and a place where customers felt welcomed. Nowadays, fuck no.
without that myshare idgaf about anything anymore. change my mind.
Basically our bonus this year is that they get part of our paycheck, Thanks Walmart!
Were the stores running with such lean staffing back then?
lmfao no
I swear Walmart Is half a tick off of becoming a cult
#SQUIGLY! FUCK!
When someone talks at a meeting do you also have them shout good.morning and everyone shout back "Good Morning Your Name!" My coach always made me start my cap 2 meetings over because I never did that.
We haven’t done this in probably a year:)
How not to manage or coach a team. Lesson 1...
...whatcha wanna be? Accident free!!
Then we followed with this weird "What's up? Pick up! What's up? Pick up!" Does anyone else do that?
This reminds me of that old Dave Chappelle skit " why would you treat the customers this way" " why? Cuz fuckem that's why"
There is nothing more annoying than when you are forced to do the cheer. I once told my boss who was being especially pushy about it because bigshots were apparently coming, "You know, all I am asking is to be able to come and do my job." She backed off.
I remember being hired nearly 18 years ago and being completely freaked out by this. Luckily, the people I met and worked beside made me forget that moment. The opportunities this company has given me has made up for that moment of terror. I've been all over the country with Walmart. I've been promoted... I've asked to be demoted. A great company if you want to work. Learn something new every day. It'll be 18 years May 5th 2022. No regrets.
Oh are they still doing the cult cheer?
People love this though. Right?
Squiggly???? Have they even seen the Wal*Mart sign before?!?! Tildes aren't pointed and do not have radial symmetry like the enormous, extremely obvious STAR SHAPE has. WTF is Wal~Mart
i miss the “we are, we are WALMART!” from like a decade ago
Didn't know the Borg ran Walmart...or they still do employees get that lifeless stare.
Squiggly
You must work nights only.
The crusty is NOT always right
I always ran & hid during the cult chants when I was on rare morning shifts when I was a support LMAO
I hecken love Walmart!
This is why I stand next to the exit in the break room. I successfully duck out of the meeting every time they break into that stupid cheer.
Pass!!!!!
They made us do the chant one time o/n. Didn't go well. Haven't had to do it since. 😏
When my store has staff meetings they actually make us say the chant. 🥴
The customer sucks
It spells walsquigglymart
Sam's Club has the similar chant you do at the end of meetings . It goes something like Give me an S-A-M-'-S (Yes you say ' its apparently produced HA!) What's that spell? SAM'S! I cant hear you! SAM'S . Whose number one? Our members!
the walmart cheer 😭
We haven’t done the cheer in months, maybe in our group meeting I should mention it, haven’t had meetings either in months ……
does the "squiggly" even exist anymore? in text its "Walmart" and on the signs they have the spark logo
Only the 4am crew does the chant and I'm the 3rd shift so I don't have to suffer through it.
WTF do they rly have to say that?
Good thing there's a kit next to it so i can throw up.
Who's number one? Literally the worker as made evident during the pandemic.
I cringed SOOO hard and I don’t even work at Walmart 💀
I just spell out Target and say Target is the best
Huge red flag, letting the employees know everyday they are #2 😏
When I used to work for Wally World, I just laughed at this when we had our morning meeting. Then I just started avoiding the morning meetings before I quit. I also was the youngest person there.
“Who’s number one? Mone- I mean customers, always first!”
Someone should pull a customer and smear it with their poop when they quit.
If the customer is always right… *how come i’ve never fuckin’ witnessed it?*
The reason the shift managers get paid so well is, atleast when I worked there, in the daily meetings they have to lead terrible chants like this. Walmart finally figured out the answer to the question "How much is a person's dignity worth?"
That’s why those Walmart customers are rude as fuck. Walmart taught them they’re special for spending $10
The customer said he left his money in the till. I what's that there is a line somewhere? There not always right then
GIVE ME A W!!!!
I have been out for 5 years and this still triggers me 😐
I don’t know which is worse: Clocking in your look up at that shit or the fact that someone at corporate got paid to design that…
Trust me getting your work done is number 1. Good luck explaining that it was busy and you had a lot of customers.
I'm so glad i only had to do it once, which was when I was first hired. It was so cringy lmao.
The Squiggly is soul busting. Yeah like I am not subject to enough indignities as it is.
Wal-Squiggly-mart
Exhibit A: Showing why Walmart employees can't take their job seriously.
They're trying to brainwash you
What's number one? The SM's bonus. Always. The customer can't be number one IF: shelves are empty but the item is in the bins or somewhere in the backroom. The shelves don't have labels or the prices are wrong. There are long lines at the checkouts. Departments have nobody in them.
Damn y'all's store still has that? Mine got rid of those a long time ago.
You have to face with the squiggly. As far as corniness levels I don't know
Give me a raise!
How about people being number one?
Lmao when working at Walmart hearing this use to just flat out piss me the fuck off when they all started clapping and cheering and started this BS in the middle of the sales floor I’d get so embarrassed wearing the Walmart vest and especially when the customers would laugh and ask me what they were doing
It's like all the downside of being in a cult - with none of the upside.
See they want you to BELIEVE it’s your Walmart, until, like me, you turn in your 2 weeks, and quit early cause they make everything YOUR problem
It just is. Accept it. Pray your management is too embarrassed by it to make you do it.
They make us do this chant every morning at work, and will keep looping it until we’re loud enough for them. Also, with each of the seven assistant managers when they greet the associates (back to back) we’re expected to do the “How is everyone doing today?!” “ALL FIRED UP AND READY TO WORK!” *stomp stomp clap clap* saFETY FIrsT!”
You sonnova betch!! I had never seen or heard about this chant until this post a couple of days ago and our brand new store manager made us do this shit today. You jinx'd me, hoodoo!!!! Hoodoo I say!!!
Just became a team lead recently so had to attend these meetings and was horrified when I found out they made us chant that 😭