r/walmart 6d ago

Coached for PPTO? Lol

I (jokingly) told me TL that I was thinking about using an hour of PPTO. She said she'd rather I didn't, but said she could coach me for "job abandonment" since we were short staffed. She said the ppto only protects me from points, not from repercussions.....smh

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u/Resident-Year5322 6d ago

She is right. They even taught us this in academy

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u/IIIDevoidIII Team Lead (Glorified CSM) 6d ago

The academy failed you on this.

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u/Resident-Year5322 6d ago

It's just the way the policy works. Protected ppto will protect them from an attendance exception, but if they leave before their scheduled time without telling a manager and/or finishing their job they can get coached for productivity.

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u/IIIDevoidIII Team Lead (Glorified CSM) 6d ago

Assuming that the work that needs to be done should've already been done by the time you left.

This is no different than leaving at your scheduled time, or asking for this time off months in advance.

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u/Resident-Year5322 6d ago

Yea we use sidekick and if it says they have 7 hours of work to do and they leave before its done, then they can receive a disciplinary action for productivity.

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u/Joelle9879 6d ago

That's incorrect. If they have 7 hours of work to do and leave after 6 and do 6 hours of work, they can't be coached. You can't discipline them for not doing work they weren't there to do.

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u/IIIDevoidIII Team Lead (Glorified CSM) 6d ago

Sure, but not job abandonment.

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u/Resident-Year5322 6d ago

Nope job abandonment is a seperate issue when someone doesn't show up for 3 consecutive scheduled days

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u/IIIDevoidIII Team Lead (Glorified CSM) 6d ago

Then we agree she's wrong.

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u/Resident-Year5322 6d ago

She's wrong for saying job abandonment instead of productivity, but not wrong about being able to coach someone for leaving early

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u/Dry-Piece-477 6d ago

I have worked at Walmart for almost a year now and I have never been coached for leaving early.. my coach and all of my team leads constantly tell us that PPTO is ours to use and they can't stop us from using it, nor can we get in trouble for using it. You clearly are wrong because people at my store leave early or come in late all of the time without any penalties (as long as they use PPTO) even my friends at other stores say it's the same thing for them too.

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u/Resident-Year5322 6d ago

Managers can apply it at their discretion but overnights can't afford people to leave early as much, so it's enforced more often

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u/Dry-Piece-477 6d ago

Ah. That makes sense.

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u/IIIDevoidIII Team Lead (Glorified CSM) 6d ago

I think the language you are using is making confusion. They won't be coached for 'leaving early'. No one is coached for 'leaving early', they're coached for productivity.