So I've been working at Walmart since October and I started out working in the Health and Beauty Department[ you know where all the soaps, shampoos, cosmetics] and in January, they moved me over to the Deli. I was really looking forward to working there because I'd get a higher pay and more hours. You and I both know that that's ALWAYS a good thing. Or is it?

Unlike working in HBA, where you can move about and work with alot of different people, in the Deli, you're in one place and work with pretty much the same people all the time. I generally don't mind this since I like working there- it keeps me busy and for the most part I like my co-workers.

All except two. One treats me like her personal peon. She acts like she's a supervisor and orders me around and throws an attitude when I ask HER to do something. An example was when I was helping some customers and I was running out of food, so I asked her to throw on some food for me and she told me to do it myself. Today, she snapped at me when I asked her if she was going on her break or on her lunch since she usually leaves and doesn't come back until way past the time where she's supposed to return. Normally, I don't mind being ordered around, I mean...it doesn't bother me. But she doesn't seem to either believe that I can think for myself or she just thinks I'm stupid and have no common sense? Or it might even be a racial thing since she's black and I'm white. The other girl[ whom I'm about to talk about] is also new, but she does not recieve the same treatment from this individual. The other new girl IS black and she gets way better treatment from this particular co-worker than I do.

This other girl is the nosy one. She's always making comments about me, the way I talk, the way I dress[ the first day I met her, she made an off-hand comment that she'd never let her daughter wear pants like mine because it was indecent.] She's always making it seem like I treat her differently when I don't. An example is when I don't say hi to her or something and she'll be like "you know you could say hi to me." And it pisses me off, but I just swallow it. Then today, she went to lunch, came back almost 30 minutes OVER the length of time she was supposed to be gone. I went to lunch and I had overtime to kill, almost an hour, in fact, from the day before when I had to stay longer because they needed the help. When I came back, she told me that I couldn't do that except on Friday or some b.s. like that. I personally think she was just pissed because she couldn't take another one of her 30 minute breaks.

I don't know, maybe I shouldn't be so upset? What do you think? should I just shrug this off?

No its probaly (as much as I hate to admit it) racial but more on this later. I have to leave the com. But i have had problems with that inthe past too. Not all blacks but one in particular that liked to listen to his ipod when we had customers and so he didnt hear when i needed stuff so i just yelled louder and he was like "dont yell at me" and "i dont take orders" (he was knew and i had been there 2 years) so i stoped telling him what to do, cutsomers didnt get thier orders filled and he was like "why didt you tell me?"

I had so may problems with him, they were even going to promote him.... i wanst so jellous about that becuase promoting ment heavy lifting and higher pay and im a girl so id break my back. T_T

=/ That's got to be so frustrating. Like, it's gotten to a point where I HOPE that said peoples are not there now. It's so annoying, I can't stand it. I mean, I know all black people aren't like that. I mean, I know it's never a thing about race, it's just people, you know? Some people might want to make it a race thing, but I find it personally offensive to be treated like a mule while everyone else is treated more fairly. I know I'm new to the department, but it really isn't fair.

I got the nosy problem. I never told the one girl what happened on V-day because it's not her business. They only people that needed to know were the managers and the people that really care about me. She is an older woman and she does try to go after my boyfriend. -_-

Originally Posted by Runes

I got the nosy problem. I never told the one girl what happened on V-day because it's not her business. They only people that needed to know were the managers and the people that really care about me. She is an older woman and she does try to go after my boyfriend. -_-

Oh...I see. Your post confuses me alittle bit.

I have the same problem at my workplace!

I work as a cashier at a superstore, and it's pretty busy from 10am-7pm all day, everyday. It gets exhausting, so when you see someone getting treated specially, you notice. I've been working there since August, and there's a girl there that has only been working since like...October/November. Well she's friends with one of the CSMs(cash register manager basically), and the thing is she's NEVER on register. She's always whines to go do returns (which is so easy because all you do is waste time walking around in the store), and when someone needs to go on break and they tell her to cover for them, she pitches a HUGE hissy fit. But it's so stupid, because nobody else gets to waste their entire shift doing nothing but walking around the store. And when she is doing returns, she even has the nerve to flirt and chat with the CSM! Oh, but if I ever did that, I'd get the axe for sure.

I digress.
It's better to just ignore their attitudes. If you act the same way back at them, it's just going to stir up a massive piss storm, and that's stress that you don't need.

I would think of it more as it's just their nature to behave like that.
Just like I think it's in that girl's nature at my workplace to act like a pissy, immature 13 year old girl.

as for the annoying guy i was working with he eventualy got fired because he was caught doing drugs.

but back to you, do you have something that you could use or think of to calm you down so you dont get too frusterated with your coworkers? or do you have other coworker freinds that you could talk to? what helped me the most was going on break and completly leaving the area (we had 30min anytime over that and its less for our pay and we had to clock in and out). and enjoying the good coworkers that i had.

Well that's why they call it work. :c
I personally would just suggest to shrug it off and try to ignore them.
If you can avoid contact or conversation with them, do it. >:3

I'm going to be honest with you. What taught me that there was still racism in the world was working at McDonald's. Most of the people I worked with were hispanic and I am white (which honestly didn't matter that much), but race issues came up a lot more than they should have.

First, we had a hispanic manager who was turning down white people in order to hire hispanics all the time. He also hired this half-hispanic girl at the same time he hired me and made her a manager immediately and said to me,"I made her a manager over you because she speaks both spanish and english and you don't and we have spanish speaking customers sometimes who need to talk to people who speak spanish." Even though she quit in the next month and was obviously less dependable than me.

Then, we started getting all these racist customers who were saying things like,"Your cashiers don't speak good English." Which is a valid complaint if it was TRUE. We never put people on the cash registers unless they spoke great English and just because a cashier says,"What?" To a customer and happens to have an accent or makes a mistake, it doesn't mean she or he is a bad cashier or that he or she only did it because they didn't speak good English. Things happen. Misunderstandings happen. Accidents happen. Every day in fast food these things happen and you can't just jump to that conclusion. People would scream racial slurs at everyone when they got angry. I remember one customer vividly. He swore using pretty much every swear word in existence and screamed at the top of his lungs,"Go swim back to Mexico, you stupid wetbacks."

And because all these customers complained ALL THE TIME and called the owner and stuff, suddenly, his second in command (I'm not sure what his job title was, but I know he was only one step lower than the owner), was coming in to our McDonald's all the time (he was white) and he took me to the side and said,"We're going to make you a manager here because you are white. The customers are complaining because there's too many hispanics who don't speak good English working as managers." And then all of us a sudden they hired about a million white people to work with us and promoted several of the white people who worked there.

I've since left and now there's more hispanics again than before and I seriously feel like it's just a war between the two races there all the time. It's ridiculous, especially considering that I live in California and we're supposed to be more progressive than that.

I don't know. When you get lots of people working together in a small space like that, their true colors always show. All their faults, whether they be racist or mean or immature or lazy or whatever are always brought out in the open it seems. It's annoying and there always seems to be at least one person that you work with that drives you completely up the wall.

Just do what you can and know the difference between when you need to stand up for yourself (so people don't walk all over you) and when you need to just let someone be angry and cranky because they are having a bad day or it's just not worth the fight. The more you learn these skills, the easier it will be. And try to see this as a way to get more patience in life because it seems that all jobs are good at testing our patience, doesn't it?! So I guess as long as it's making us better people . . . . .

You have just to ignore her, PrincessBane. If you will react on what she is always talking about and carried away, you will be the one whose gonna lose. Let her talk and talk until she is tired of it. After all, she is the one who always do that, not you. In relation with the first person you have mention? Will, if it where me I don't mind at all, maybe if she is going to do thatfor how many times will it be, I preferably will avoid her as much as I can.

Originally Posted by PrincessBane

Oh...I see. Your post confuses me alittle bit.

I kinda vented.

Ellen at work is the older lady (40's) that smokies like a train. She's in everyone business. She inch towards the office to hear what managers are saying because no one tells her anything. If you are having a conversation with a customer, forget it, she's in it.

She has very little ability to attract a male. Her hair cut makes me want to scratch my eyes out. she never washes it. It looks like a hornet's nest. On top of that she tells us when we are done with our men she'll take them. Ed has pretty much stopped talkative with her. Ronny as well, as he dates another woman in the store.

@Deviant- That's ridiculous. It shouldn't be right that employees like that should keep their jobs because simply, they're not doing them. =/ I used to have to do returns all the time, it's not really that hard and it kills time quickly, lol. I know what you mean, though...I'll try to ignore them. It's hard sometimes because they're all like..."in your face". =/

@BlankGirl- Yea, I do talk to the other co-workers who work along side me [and they don't like them either, hay-o!] When we go on our breaks, which are only 15 minutes long, we go back to the Associates lounge usually. Talking to them/ranting helps, though...lol.

@Tanaie- It's hard to avoid them in the small area which we work in. At some point, it's inevitable, but we will cross paths. I usually just try to put on a cold front.

@The Enchanted Tiara- That's such an apalling story, but I know what you mean because it sort of happened to me when I tried applying at a McDonalds here. Except it was not Hispanics[which really wouldn't have been a problem since I'm half-hispanic], it was...once again Blacks. Now, I'm not racist against blacks or anyone...but I live down in the south and I've recieved more racist attacks from them than from anyone else down here. =/ There's a place in Tallahassee that I dare not go at night because I'm afraid I'll get shot or something. It's that bad. I have a hard time[going back to the original topic] just sucking it up sometimes because I have a bad temper, so...just swallowing it up is like swallowing a brand of fire. xD

@Jomairah- I hear ya, thanks for the advice. I'll do my best to remember that, though as aforementioned, it's really hard for me to do.[COLOR="Silver"

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Originally Posted by Runes

I kinda vented.

Ellen at work is the older lady (40's) that smokies like a train. She's in everyone business. She inch towards the office to hear what managers are saying because no one tells her anything. If you are having a conversation with a customer, forget it, she's in it.

She has very little ability to attract a male. Her hair cut makes me want to scratch my eyes out. she never washes it. It looks like a hornet's nest. On top of that she tells us when we are done with our men she'll take them. Ed has pretty much stopped talkative with her. Ronny as well, as he dates another woman in the store.

Oh.....OH. I see now. What a very....obnoxious person. =/