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A day in the life of a Walmart manager

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Re: A day in the life of a Walmart manager

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Post by _ah »

nexus2045 wrote: post #157
BLanen wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That stuff can't be faked, even with a high salary. Before you say, "it's easy to say when you're getting paid $240K a year." Nah. A person needs challenge; a purpose. Lots of FANG ICs making $500K+ who hate their job. Why? No challenge or palpable purpose. Something only someone with a high income would say. Contrary to all data and research and evidence.

Making 500-700k at a FAANG right now. Money certainly makes me worry less, not complaining. I still feel like a cog in a machine. If anything, it further isolated all the problems in my life that money could never really solve. Meaningful friendships, dating, self-control and discipline, self-esteem. Before, I could go by telling myself the story that "if only I had X amount of income, I'd be happy". Now, I don't hav…

"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."

-Jean Kerr

Re: A day in the life of a Walmart manager

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Post by BLanen »

nexus2045 wrote: post #157
BLanen wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That stuff can't be faked, even with a high salary. Before you say, "it's easy to say when you're getting paid $240K a year." Nah. A person needs challenge; a purpose. Lots of FANG ICs making $500K+ who hate their job. Why? No challenge or palpable purpose. Something only someone with a high income would say. Contrary to all data and research and evidence.

Making 500-700k at a FAANG right now. Money certainly makes me worry less, not complaining. I still feel like a cog in a machine. If anything, it further isolated all the problems in my life that money could never really solve. Meaningful friendships, dating, self-control and discipline, self-esteem. Before, I could go by telling myself the story that "if only I had X amount of income, I'd be happy". Now, I don't hav…

I don't care about your singular experience.

I could send you paper and paper that wealth/income and stability increases happiness aggregated.

I could send you papers that would show that sending people scientific proof doesn't convince people and that wouldn't convince you.

Re: A day in the life of a Walmart manager

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Post by BLanen »

_ah wrote: post #161
nexus2045 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making 500-700k at a FAANG right now. Money certainly makes me worry less, not complaining. I still feel like a cog in a machine. If anything, it further isolated all the problems in my life that money could never really solve. Meaningful friendships, dating, self-control and discipline, self-esteem. Before, I could go by telling myself the story that "if only I had X amount of income, I'd be happy". Now, I don't hav…

"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help." -Jean Kerr

Complete anti-scientific hogwash only rich people would repeat, again.

Re: A day in the life of a Walmart manager

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Post by necheffa »

nexus2045 wrote: post #157
BLanen wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That stuff can't be faked, even with a high salary. Before you say, "it's easy to say when you're getting paid $240K a year." Nah. A person needs challenge; a purpose. Lots of FANG ICs making $500K+ who hate their job. Why? No challenge or palpable purpose. Something only someone with a high income would say. Contrary to all data and research and evidence.

Making 500-700k at a FAANG right now. Money certainly makes me worry less, not complaining. I still feel like a cog in a machine. If anything, it further isolated all the problems in my life that money could never really solve. Meaningful friendships, dating, self-control and discipline, self-esteem. Before, I could go by telling myself the story that "if only I had X amount of income, I'd be happy". Now, I don't hav…

Is the plan then to retire fairly early and focus on people stuff and hobbies?

Re: A day in the life of a Walmart manager

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Post by tombert »

bandyaboot wrote: post #163

> To end the meeting, Michael Cole, 66, a maintenance worker, leads the group in the Walmart Cheer, a chant workers throughout the company do to start and end meetings. This can’t be real.

The chant is absolutely real. I don’t know how frequently they do it in retail, but it was pretty infrequent in the software engineer positions.

Source: I was a software engineer for Jet.com for two years after the Walmart acquisition, and then another year separately.

Re: A day in the life of a Walmart manager

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Post by dclowd9901 »

havaloc wrote: post #10

"Walking every aisle is a new practice for store bosses in her area, implemented by their regional manager. It helps managers “see what your customers see,” says Hart, and pay attention to details. It also keeps her employees on their toes." I can't believe this wasn't policy already. Seems like good practice.

I think it probably has good efficacy if the walks are infrequent. Familiarity tends to have a negative effect on observability.

Re: A day in the life of a Walmart manager

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Post by riahi »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #159
applied_heat wrote: post #54

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There are a lot of jobs that are 24/7/365 without proper coverage from coworkers so people are always available and can’t turn off. Other jobs won’t call you off shift but if you just had to deal with something traumatic like a car wreck it’s hard to leave that at work as well.

> There are a lot of jobs that are 24/7/365 without proper coverage from coworkers so people are always available and can’t turn off. This comment is oddly specific. It reads like you are writing from personal experience. Besides emergency medicine, what else qualifies?

It describes almost every role in the field of medicine.

Re: A day in the life of a Walmart manager

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Post by zhivota »

tombert wrote: post #166
bandyaboot wrote: post #163

> To end the meeting, Michael Cole, 66, a maintenance worker, leads the group in the Walmart Cheer, a chant workers throughout the company do to start and end meetings. This can’t be real.

The chant is absolutely real. I don’t know how frequently they do it in retail, but it was pretty infrequent in the software engineer positions. Source: I was a software engineer for Jet.com for two years after the Walmart acquisition, and then another year separately.

Wait, so you're saying you had to do a chant as a SWE? That's wild. I'm really glad I never took up the recruiters for Walmart Labs now, that would have been a disaster for me.
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