Cait's Ramblings

Hi, i know you guys deal with labor laws, but im not sure where else to ask... maybe you guys know ^_^

I work at walmart and i'm a sales associate on the floor, but im friends with the people who unload the truck. They got approved to have water back there (as its a strenuous job, so they need to stay hydrated)

So the guy who physically unloads the truck bought one of those gatorade dispensers and put it back there for everyone to get the water out of.

They were allowed to get water from the filtered water spout that the customers get it from and "Store use" it (so that the inventory stays correct)


But they didn't get approved to "Store use" cups or ice for their water.... So the guy who unloads the truck just buys cups and ice for everyone...

To compensate for the cost, we set up a bucket in the breakroom for all the people in the backroom to put their pop cans in to help fund the cups and ice...

This went on fine for some time, and noone cared.. but then our cans from that bucket started going missing... Then eventually the bucket was gone.

So we set up a box instead... Then THOSE cans went missing.. and eventually on the box someone wrote "this is not allowed please see store manager with questions."

I dont get that, they say that putting the pop cans in the WALMART Fund can-return is "Optional + appreciated".. yet we're not allowed to collect and take the cans for ourself? Its not like we're taking the cans already IN the walmart fund can-return.

Yet other people are allowed to have physical money dollar donation boxes... and pop can tab donations..

and we cant have our cans to pay for something that the store should provide anyway??

Is there some law against this? I feel discriminated against because the lady with cancer gets her donation box, the other lady with cancer gets HER donation can, and yet the perfectly healthy people trying to stay hydrated arent allowed a donation box...

I dont really want to ask the store manager about the situation because she might take EVERYONEs donation boxes away PLUS not even allow us to have the water in the backroom AT ALL, which would be an ass-hole move.

I've learned all too much from school that if 1 person "screws up" it generally ruins it for everyone.

So I figured I'd ask a 3rd party...

Thanks for any input!

Because im a whiney ass bitch who doesn't deserve to live, i complained to my ISP because I can.
Corecom, in the past you have have been moderately okay.

You overcharged us by 100$ for 5 years for services we never had... Which isnt your department, its billing, and I understand that..

But recently, the service has been really crappy.. Here are my 3 main complaints...

1.) Time Used Information stopped updating in August of last year. Sure it's not something we NEED but it is interesting to see the statistics...

2.) You guys dont even support V.92 modems... Dialup is pretty much dead for any regular internet users... and you guys /still/ havent upgraded to support this. Yes everyone in my house is mad at me for not being able to have anyone call us. But, we can't afford a cell phone, so... tough luck for them,

3.) This is the big one. This is why I decided to write this email this morning. Back in 2001 when this was still DMCI, we used to get busy signals at all times of the day and couldnt connect. When they were bought out by Voyager, that stopped. When they were bought out by Corecomm, pretty much everything stayed the same, but we got this nifty online account viewer. In the past, oh, year or so (which ironically is when the time used information got cut off) we've been experiencing busy signals... at most times of the day. USUALLY at night / early morning hours. Usually it also only lasts 5-10 minutes at the most, but tonight it lasted 45 minutes. I could connect at 5:00 am exactly. Not sure if theres some magical thing that resets ever hour or what.

I've talked to you guys about this before, and I got some crappy answer like "Oh, there wasnt enough operators available" or something. Even though I tried calling BOTH local phone numbers for here.

So, please fix this. This isnt 2001, you should have some control over being able to connect in the early morning.

Oh and before you go blaming my modem or something, I can connect to dialinfree's free dialup internet during the times where the internet is busy. They also support V92 modems... and are looking better all the time :/





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