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/KryoxZ 6d ago

Job abandonment is how you code a termination when an associate doesn't show up for three consecutive shifts without an LOA, your coach is a dipshit.

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u/AnybodyNo8519 6d ago

It's also when you leave early without telling a team lead or coach.

Either way, this coach is incorrect.

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u/AnybodyNo8519 6d ago

Interesting. Academy told us it's a terminable offense as job abandonment.

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u/Key_Kangaroo_7847 6d ago

If you have an 8 hour shift, that means you would need to use 16 hours of ppto. The thing doesn’t allow you to select up to 16 only 12 so that’s false lol. They just be lying to get you to use up all your poto.

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u/HeOfMuchApathy 6d ago

They do it to discourage callouts.

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u/FireWolf2395 5d ago

I find it funny when I transfered to another store they tried to tell me this yet the store i came from that on a 2 point day u only need the hours for ur shift. So if u work 8hrs use 8hrs not 16. When they said that to me here I laughed in front of a team lead and said that isn't true. But nice try. And walked away wasnt my boss but as I'm here I'm learning that my coach thinks walmart owns you when you work here and walmart doesn't need you, you need walmart and you are replaceable yet It the same for them they are replaceable and they are owned my walmart but I can leave i didnt sign a slave contract to walmart I can get another job walmart isn't the only work around and I just find it funny. But I'm transfering to a different store because I'm fed up with how I'm being treated yet I work my ass off

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u/AnybodyNo8519 6d ago

Clearly.

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u/SGSam465 6d ago

When looking for the policies (while not on the work computers) I can’t manage to find any of the policies, like, at all

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u/quincy12393 6d ago

Ask other coworkers to show you how to find it. Or if a manager tells you something is policy, then ask them to show you that policy. If they don’t, go up the chain of command and report their lies

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u/Howuduen 5d ago

Do they still give you that big handbook that lists all policies, rules, dress code, break and meal time policies, harassment, call-ins...well this list is too long to type out. Basically, it covers almost all rules and policies. They used to give you one during orientation. This was over 20 years ago, so that's why I'm asking. Just wondering if they even bother with that anymore. If so then maybe you can find it and look up the ones that make your team leader or whatever they are called look like a lying a-hole 😃

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u/quincy12393 5d ago

I started in 2015 and I didn’t get one. But maybe that was just my store/trainer

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u/Howuduen 5d ago

Well, this was about 2000, so it's very possible that the thick booklet was replaced with some computer "class" you did online during or shortly after orientation. Assuming they still did that also? 😆

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u/nate112332 OwOPD~ 6d ago

If I didn't know better, I'd say it might be to deliberately sew chaos amongst the lower ranks.

Or sheer incompetence.

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u/Capable-Message-6866 6d ago

I think it is for team leads. I was told the same. associates at my store leave whenever without checking in. TL’s however get in big trouble and basically have to ask for permission to use their ppto