Good Employee's Used Up - Anonymous employee Sam's Club Employee Review

1.0
20 Nov 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Positive interview experience with professional management staff. Quick turn around time from interview to job offer. Managers work along side hourly staff 'associates' doing the same jobs and working harder than most.

Cons

Very little in the way of positive feedback. Not once have I been told I've done a good job even though I go home each day sore and tired from working my butt off. Scheduling changes can come with little to no warning. Managers do little to motivate less productive associates choosing instead to pile more responsibility on associates that do work hard. There is definitely an atmosphere of favoritism. Promotions or transfers are rarely approved based on merit. Associates often get away with no-call-no-shows while others are written up or 'coached' for such things as not taking a lunch break within their allotted time frame. Very little communication from management unless the team has fallen short on some expectation. Very little done to staff properly. Always short handed. Overtime is a dirty word. Made to work well past quitting time frequently then told to keep track of your hours so as to avoid overtime. That means coming in late for the next shift or two and falling behind in your assigned areas only to have to stay late again once you've balanced your hours. Assigned to multiple areas. Working in one area means falling behind in another and held responsible when things aren't done despite working through breaks and watching other associates take hour long lunch breaks or half hour breaks on their 15 minute breaks.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
6 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is good and so are the benefits.

Cons

This is the worst job I have ever had. I made it 3 weeks before leaving and never coming back. They had me working 12 hour shifts when I was scheduled for 8 but couldn’t leave because I wasn’t finished with the large workload they piled on me. There was absolutely no teamwork, our manager just abandoned us so they could go hang out with their friends. There was no organization, no structure. 100% sure my manager never even knew my name. They had us breaking down pallets just to restack them. There are no consequences for management at all, they can basically do whatever they want and nobody is gonna do anything to stop it. If they're short they throw you into different departments with no training.

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