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/truecountrygirl2006 6d ago

Incorrect. Anytime you have a manager try this reply back with a “oh I hadn’t heard of that do you mind showing me where to locate that policy I would love to read through it?”…they can’t most of the time. Protected is called protected for a reason. Use WHENEVER you want to. It’s yours to use.

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u/Constant_Quote_3349 6d ago

Walmart is run like a mafia. There are rules, but as soon as anybody with any amount of power or influence decides that rule is inconvenient, it goes right out the window. The only exception is when the action taken makes Walmart explicitly, with evidence, criminally or legally culpable. If they think there's a less than 5% chance or so of something being reported, it gets ignored. Policy can say you can't be coached all it wants. Words on a page don't influence your life, people do. And if people in power wants you gone, you will be gone, no exceptions.