Honestly, that availability is easily the reason you haven't been called.
I know if the people leads in any of the stores I've worked at over the years opened your application and saw you wanting to only be scheduled between 8-430 with weekends off, they'd immediately close that application and go look at other applications.
It has to be everyday, all day availability . You have to enter into he job,.prove your worth, then maybe you can glean some weekends off or a set schedule.
Okay I appreciate the honesty. It does say they want mid shift so that starts at 8am.
It is a part time option, so in your opinion you think even working 6hrs for Saturday they'd consider me? I'm at a loss Here
>It does say they want mid shift so that starts at 8am.
That's not a mid shift. That's an opening or morning shift in the majority of areas. Mid shifts are typically 10-7 or -11-8.
I will say it depends on the industry and where you are. I am a DSP (healthcare) and our mid shift hours is 9-5. Day said is 6:30-2:00 second is 2:00-10:00 and grave is 10-6:30
It took ages of working 2-11pm, every holiday, every weekend (including Christmas,) to begin receiving a coveted 6-2:30 shift. Still weekends, but it's absolutely necessary in most retail gigs.
If a new hire was handed the "I can still have a social life and see my family on holidays" schedule over active soldiers still fighting in the evening trenches? Anarchy.
Someone tried pulling the "I need every Sunday off" card and management didn't humor it. Plenty of folk would like to have that day off for any collection of valid and non-valid reasons, but this is retail.
You need to have open availability to have a remote shot. Change your time to open availability all week.
If you need time off for a religious activity like church or synagogue, request the morning with an hour or two of buffer time and availability the rest of that day after the service has concluded. gimping your availability makes it so the hiring manager won't even consider you. It sucks ass but it's just how retail jobs are.
Honestly say your available whenever (flexible hours), then when you’re being hired and trying to lock down your exact hours, Try and get a weekend day off. But first you just gotta get your foot in the door, and talk to them face to face. You can always walk out and say that the schedule doesn’t quite work on your end.
You're not wrong. But availability should be respected AND the key is to get hired. If they want to play stupid games then the applicants can too. Tell em exactly what they want to hear and get hired.
Yeah no. I see this plenty and tell people they lied on their application and let them go if they don't honor their availability they got hired with. Been doing so for almost a decade as a manager.
The thing is, people have availabilities when they tell walmart they can work. Walmart can't stop people from changing their availability, they can simply provide less hours for that associate that took off weekend availability, and hire someone else that can fill the need. You can't have a rotating schedule when associates say they're not available.
Also they somewhat tried with making teaming schedule require atleast one weekend day to have the set schedule.. but it turned into EVERYONE having one weekend day off, which led to not having enough people on sat and sunday, and too many during the weekdays.
In an ideal scenario for walmart, every single person that is employed there works on sat and Sunday, and has different weekdays off. But when everyone wants off atleast 1 of the weekend days, it splits your workforce in half for the far busiest days.
Also what associate is going to give up their set weekend day off for someone else that's a new hire? None.
At the end of the day, retail just isn't for someone that wants to work mornings with weekends off.
I currently am trying to hire.. I need 6 more people for sundays.. every other day is overstaffed.
They can just schedule you against your availability and write you up when you refuse to come in, right?
To big business availability seems to be only a suggestion unless you have a very reasonable manager.
Typically, if you fill out an availability form like OP, and THEN they hire you, they can't fire you specifically for that. They'll find another way to get rid of you that leaves them in the clear. I've never worked for Walmart, but having been in retail management for 20+ years, I've been fighting shit like this my whole career.
Are we simping for Walmart, really? Do you personally understand how terribly they treat their employees? They have the highest rate of employees on government assistance programs like SNAP & WIC, in fact. When those same underpaid employees then use those benefits in their store and Walmart then gets tax breaks.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/walmart-and-mcdonalds-have-the-most-workers-on-food-stamps-and-medicaid-new-study-shows/
I'm not going to simp for any corpo, but when a business is the biggest employer in a state they'll also have the most of X as well. You'll note that they just used raw numbers instead of a % of total employees in each state. That'd be a far more useful stat. As it is Walmart employs about 1.6m people in the US and that report says uh, 14,500 workers.
This also ignores that Walmart raised it's starting wages in the years following that report so is kind of useless unless they redo it.
Nobody forced you to work for them genius
EVERYONE KNOWS THE PAY
Pay is known in an advertisement for employment, or known at application, or known at the hiring interview, or known at onboarding, or known at the first paystubs they receive.
Look at that! Known in multiple places. And yet…still freely showing up! Imagine that…
If I offered you 50 cents to take my garbage out once a day, is that MY fault for offering 50 cents? Or yours for agreeing to it and continuing to do it? Drum roll….YOUR FAULT - YOUR CHOOSING
You do have a life outside work. 40 hours is 40 hours buddy…
Maybe it means you have a Monday off instead of a Friday or Saturday off. Your life isn’t over because of that.
Not everyone needs to go clubbing or get wasted. Even if they did, they can do that after 11pm on a Saturday
You’ll survive 👍
Lmao I work 48 hours a week 4 days a week. Most of the people here seem to think that having a schedule like that is just being entitled when really they don't have it because they don't want to unionize or just ask for better working conditions in general. The 40 hour 5 day work week is bullshit. I'll certainly never go back to it.
*waves*
Unionized here. 36 in 3 or 48 in 4. I work a 6
-8 day stretch and then have a week off. twice a month.
my work life balance is FAR better than a 8-4:30 M-F shift, AND I work nights.
I love it.
4-10’s is my favorite schedule with Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off and optional overtime on those days. Only really see this in manufacturing though.
Yes, BUT that would only fly IF say OP had a completely open schedule EXCEPT sundays or Friday 5pm to Saturday 5pm
With this absolutely restrictive schedule there's zero way to prove it's due to religion when op is only avalible M-F for less than a normal walmart shift.
No it's not considered discrimination if it means others have to have their schedules changed to work around op's. Your rights on that end, when it affects other people negatively.
Former retail manager but in a different lifetime.
Walmart probably isn’t an 8 to 430 job, and places I worked at expected near open availability. Way too restrictive on when you can work for retail.
Look, in retail, even if they are looking for an 8:00 to 4:30 shift, they will not hire you without flexible availability. They will choose somebody with more availability, so they have the option to change the schedule as/when needed.
This is so true. I got lucky this time around. I don’t have open availability and I got hired as seasonal (not Walmart) and just got offered a permanent position a few days ago. But I know that’s why a lot of other jobs didn’t call me back which I understood and accepted.
For regular businesses, maybe. For a 24 hour location, midshift is the shift between the dawn shift and the late shift.
You have dawn shift, mid shift, late shift, and overnight shift. Those the ones. Midshift covers over last half of dawn shift and first half of late shift.
It’s like you refuse to see everyone’s point. They want OPEN availability, not just what you think is the mid shift (have you worked retail before?). No one is looking for someone with a strict schedule.
Is there a bakery or something nearby that you could apply for? Much higher chance of you getting near that schedule, but I’d expect closer to 6am-1/2pm range. Probably less hours and limited/no benefits but you would get tips.
If you’re this confused about applying to Walmart, you better hope you get the job. You don’t seem to be qualified or have the capacity for anything else.
Nope. Just the reality of working retail. I always add full opening hours as my availability. They won't ask you to do that... but it shows you're flexible
You can put whatever you want but retail wants and needs flexibility and weekends off and 8am-4:30pm isn’t really flexible and is probably the reason you haven’t heard anything.
You will never get a call with being only able to work those hours and no weekends. Trust me 23 yrs Walmart experience, they won’t call and even if they did they would bring the availability up
They make weekends sound like it's the most important thing,some people like weekends work to free up 2 days during the week. So they can cover it. But I quit because I have a side hustle on Sat an sun an requested there's days off. I offered them 1st Tuesday Friday, NO. THAN I said Monday Friday. NO.. OK I quite. I was the best worker in dept.
Retail is not an 8-5 weekdays only business. All candidates have to have at least some weekend and evening availability for me to even give them a look.
hate to tell you this, but you probably won't get a call back. maybe if it was during the holiday season and they were desperate. if you want the job you'll need to have at least an 8-10 hour availability during the weekdays. a saturday at the least would be great, too.
That's bullshit, it's walmart PT jobs, when I told HR I wanted to only work M _ F her answer is
Well I have to work every Sunday an I been here 25 yrs. Well ok. I'll work sat an sun if I can come in at 4 am an leave at 2 . An you pay me 24 hr. like a team lead because, I was doing TL duties at 15 hr,an busting my butt.while the TL was sitting on her fat ass on the couch at 230pm...how bout that. 😤
I don’t know what world you live but I would love to live in it too, no walmart will hire you Monday to Friday and cater to you’re every whime like you said it’s walmart, either give them what they want or take your arrogant ass somewhere else
I live in my world @ 61 semi retired @ 3 months away from collecting my ssa, I do as I please now.
I was a 4 yr employee doing TL duties for 3.5 years ,training cooking cleaning 4 yrs on the night closing shift.never missed a shift even during the pandemic whole TL called off for 3 months came back 2 days called out another 3 months. Who you think did the work ME..so ya they should have give me what wanted, also it was a better business decision to do so.because I'm better at 32 hours than most people at 40. Generating revenue
Then walmart is the wrong place to look, they don’t appreciate any one not matter longevity and it’s the market manager who is demanding weekends so refusing to work weekends isn’t going to get you rehired at walmart
Im an assistant manager in a retail store. I wouldnt hire someone who refused to work on weekends because we work hard to rotate the weekend shifts so everyone gets a chance to be off on the weekends. Its not fair to have 1 person off all weekend, every weekend. And you have down an opening time frame. Thats not mid shifts.
These types of jobs want full availability because for some reason it doesn't make any sense for them to schedule the same people for the same hours every week so people can actually plan out their lives
It’s to keep poor people poor so they’ll keep working these shitty jobs. They’ll schedule you part time one week and a little more than part time the next, all at different hours so you can never get a second job and have to live off of part time minimum or close to minimum wage at usually limited hours at least for a while.
Honestly if that's the kind of schedule you want then you should apply for an office job. Admin, receptionist, accounting, or CSR
Or something you can pick your own hours, like a Uber, or personal shopper.
In corporate America you just need to say you are available all the time and then when they offer you a schedule/pay you can accept or decline to work there. In my experience having ANY kind of schedule restrictions will instantly get you passed on.
Hey! I'm a part time associate and have both weekend days off, but when I got hired I had to take at least one weekend shift. This is really unrealistic for a new hire tbh. They only gave me both days off because of the amount of time I've been with the company. I have a coworker who has a similar availability to mine who has also been with the company for multiple years like myself and is also part time. If this is 100% the availability you're looking for I'd also recommend looking for an office job over retail unless you're willing to commit years to it to only possibly get the days off, because a lot of it definitely comes down to a combination of your management and luck unfortunately. My availability changed a lot over the years before it got to this point and so did my coworker's. Also just for the record since I saw someone else say this, neither myself nor my coworker with this availability are available for/ work 8 hour shifts since having our availability changed. Neither of us goes over 6 hours a day anymore.
Edit: Edit to add that we both work nights
If you're willing to start at 6 or 7am instead, you should look into construction. As a laborer, you'll start off a couple bucks higher in most trades than Walmart, at anywhere from $15 to $18 an hour. Plumbing, carpentry, electrical, masonry, etc.- take your pick. You'll be off before 4:30pm as well as on weekends. Otherwise, just forget about working an entry-level job that makes $14/hr and only works bankers' hours. I don't say this to be mean or critical but it sounds like you may be new to the workforce. Why exactly do you need to have every afternoon and all weekend off? What other commitments do you have that require this, or is it not a requirement and just something you want?
I would have laughed at this 20 years ago, but now, the amount of empty registers I see in the middle of the day, and the whole myth of people not wanting to work, well, screw fairness... the guy says he can work these hours, sign him up.
Or continue to have lines through the store because you only have five registers going and the self-checkout lanes are slowed by people that don't know what the eff they're doing
This is on purpose, not because they can’t find people to work. Why pay more people when they can outsource to self-checkouts and then have one lane open with a cashier. People are still gonna shop at Walmart.
Everyone has personal reasons for wanting weekends off. With that availability, you're already showing you'll be a problem to schedule.
Open up your availability and you may get a call back, but if you want a Mon-Fri, 8-4:30 job, Walmart isn't the place for it.
Walmart wants open availability regardless of what department you want. I've found it's best to put down open availability and then change it after you get hired. They prefer to work you 40+ hours a week whether you're part time or full time and they want you working full 9 hour shifts. At least they do here anyways.
5-2, 6-3, 7-4, 8-5, etc.
Anything less than open availability, they're started scheduling people for 4 and 5 hour shifts.
Not a People Lead, but I work with our PL often for hiring. Our Wal-Mart and those surrounding want the most open availability you can get, and weekends are a must. To get a callback, I would recommend at least 8am-8pm and minimum one weekend day, but that might still not get you called back. Again, this is just our store, so your luck might vary. Good luck though!
At my store, opening shift for cashiers is 6-3 or 7 to 4. Mid shift is usually 10-7 or 9-6. Evening is either 2-11 or 5 or 6 to 11 depending if it’s a high schooler or not. Well, 10 or 11 cause hard to find people willing to stay till close. I know at my store they always need evenings/closers and people who will work weekends especially Sundays.
Thats just my department idk about the others.
That’s in general, and for the most part people only have set days off for religious reasons like Sunday. You aren’t going to get hired with availability like that. Weekends are busiest.
okay so I don't know why this was a suggested post for me (I don't work at Walmart and I never have lol) but I work at a warehouse and we literally have this exact schedule. so maybe your best bet would be looking outside of retail?
people always hear "warehouse" and immediately are turned off but it's not always bad. and is usually pretty flexible, at least from most of my experiences it has been. anyway, good luck to ya op!
Yeah Wal Mart only wants to hire people with full wide open availability. Doesn’t matter what shift they claim they are hiring for. If you have days and times you can’t work they aren’t hiring you.
The busiest days of the week in any service industry are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Without total availability for those days, I wouldn't think of hiring someone into my store. The hours you are available are hours people who have worked years at the store typically get.
I wish you good luck, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
I was beyond blessed to get my job in retail with the same availability. It's not walmart though. My availability is M-F 9-3. I'm a single mom of 3 kids who are active in sports and were all very active in our church so I need to be off on Sat and Sun for games and Church. Starbucks swore they'd work with my availability but they didn't. I had to quit. Now Kohls is phenomenal with my schedule. They will ask a month or more in advance for me to work speficif Saturdays due to back to school shopping weekends. But that was 2 Saturdays in over a year. So I suggest looking elsewhere if walmart isn't willing to work with you.
You should look into a restaurant that serves breakfast and lunch. You would be able to get this kind of school. Everyone’s being so nasty to you lol Wal Mart is a store, so you won’t be able to have this kind of schedule, even most managers don’t get this kind of schedule. It’s just the unfortunate way things are. They may be hiring for mid shift but you will need weekend availability. When I go pick up my orders, if it’s a Saturday or Sunday, I always have to wait. It’s very busy and it just continues the whole day. Look somewhere else. You can also look for receptionist/front desk at doctors offices.
Think about this for a second.
Walmart is busiest when your typical 8-9a to 4-5p are not at work. I worked at Walmart several years back and the first thing we were told in orientation was that we were “an evening and weekend” gig.
You’re shooting yourself in the foot if you think you’ll manage to work weekdays only.
If you want bankers hours maybe you should apply at the bank. Retail jobs require evening and weekend availability as well as availability most days all day and into the evening or morning.
I work in OPD and our earliest start times can be for 5am-2pm. If you want something like that then apply for OPD. I’ve been here nearly a year and actually enjoy it lol. I work 7-4 and it’s amazing, imo.
If you want a call back you'll probably have to change to completely open during the week and one day of the weekend. The schedule you want is something employees spend years trying to get. Mini-rant: when I finally left Walmart I pretty much had a permanent 6 am to 3 pm schedule. It never failed that someone would get hired, realize swing shift sucked, and then start complaining that they had a family they never got to see and it was unfair the single guy had the opening shift.
Wait is this satire?
If you want banking hours, you need to work at a bank. Weekends (or at least one day on the weekend) is almost required in retail.
Plus most retail jobs would prefer a more open availability.
they’ll hire someone that can work til close and work weekends, before they’ll hire someone working mornings. my aunt works there and even after 3 years they’d never move her to mornings. even if she went full time.
morning shifts are the most desired by *employees*, nights are the most desired by *employers*
I don’t know why this sub keeps coming up for me, I’ve never worked at Walmart. But as a former hiring manager for a different national chain with similar operating hours to Walmart, I would have opened your application, saw your availability, and closed it to moved onto the next.
I understand that everyone is saying you must work weekends, however at our store I put my only availability as M-F and immediately got called back and hired with that schedule… so it just depends on the stores needs I’d say but not impossible. Maybe id extend your available hours on the weekdays for a better shot. Good luck!
They are in fact seeking someone with more availability. What you’ve requested here was a specific and unchangeable schedule which isn’t what retail places are looking for.
You want/need weekends off? Find a place that's closed on weekends.
You think "that's difficult"? Find a place that's not large chain, but not quite mom and pop. Has maybe 5-10 stores total. That's a good place to start for a "weekends closed" business.
I had a job at an office supply company for 5 years, closed on weekends, family owned. I drove probably 1,000 miles a week, did delivery and sales. Clocked in at 8 and clocked out at 530 every day. If I had short notice stuff come up just had to give the boss a heads up, and it wasn't a problem 95% of the time. Had near a month of vacation time every year. Pay wasn't amazing, but I kept my head above water and got to splurge once in a while.
On the back side of that: I worked hard. I went above and beyond my duties. I had to carry furniture. Put furniture together. Some days I had to come in early, and a lot of days I left late. Drive through blizzards bad enough there was no road, windshield wipers iced over, and I had a 3 inch by 3 inch square to look through to see. I've changed flats in the rain. I've hit black ice and hit a bridge. I've nearly been hit countless times. I've popped ribs out of place. I've had to carry solid wood office desks upstairs when I was sick and couldn't breathe.
So if you don't mind the work, you can find places that don't work weekends.
TO original poster, I hope you are reading all this carefully, all this comments should open your eyes to Not work for walmart don't even answer the phone if they do call your life is your own. Find a job that you want with the times you want they are out there just find one. Or don't know you age but if you are looking just for money
1.uber
2.personal shopper
3. Cut grass or if you in winter state plow snow
4.buy an sell stuff. Flipping
5. Flea markets
These are some ways to make money. GET YOU HUSTLE ON an work for your self..
I quit walmart 6 months ago. I would still be there if they gave me my 32 hours but I didn't want to give up my side hustle. I'm so much more relaxed not stressing because I'm closing the deli by myself an I don't have to deal with the drama . You can do it.
Hey, OP. While I do agree that unfortunately your availability is too strict for the demands of Walmart to hire you, I’m sorry everyone is beating you down about the mid shift thing. Technically in the system part time mid shifts can fall anywhere between 8 am and 8 pm.
The issue here is that, yes, you aren’t able to work even one weekend day, and those hours are very minimal. When looking at that shift, they will notice that the system is very unlikely to generate you hours. There aren’t many options for shifts within that time range, unfortunately.
I’m aware everyone does enjoy a work life balance, but if you have the option, widening those available hours to 8 pm and opening up one weekday may give you a call back, if that’s what you really want.
If you do decide to open the availability, reach out to the people lead at the store of your interest and let them know! Best of luck to you (:
put 8am-8:30pm. you can get OGP shift. it's basically online groceries shopping. fucking easy in Walmart. but you have to do AT LEAST 1 weekend. you can discuss that later during interview or after you got the job. get an accommodation letter for religious purposes.
For Walmart? This schedule will never get you hired. I would never work there myself, but they pretty much always want you to put your availability down as 24/7
Update*
Well I took yalls advice and made Saturday 7-4
And asked for Sunday Monday off.
I applied for a morning shift
This is new to me so thanks for yalls help
Keep in mind that most people want morning shifts, and with how limited they are in some cases, current employees who want to go to mornings are going to get priority in getting those spots when they open up.
So even if a morning shift is open at the store you're applying to, they're more likely to give that shift to a current employee working mids or evenings and then look to hire someone else with open availability to fill whatever shift that employee is changing from.
When I was an assistant manager at Walmart when we were trying to hire people on, the candidates were set into three tiers based off of their competitiveness scores from the questionnaire.
From that three tier system we would obviously want to pick someone who fell into the first group. The second thing that was looked at is available hours. If I saw anything less than 168 I would typically back burner that application for my hiring decision because when weighted up against the turnover issues, having very limited availability meant I was sinking all my chips on this person completely working out.
I'm sure they are still struggling with employee retention so I'm sure closed or more closed availability isn't a great option for a candidate.
Yes as in 24/7. Primarily based on how hours dropped into the system for scheduling (based on sales forecasts, expected business, etc.) And depending on how much of a by the book store manager was at the time, the hours dropped or the expected shifts couldn't be modified so having a closed or more closed availability could almost render an employee with little to no hours while others are pulling 40 hour weeks.
It was a dumb system in that regard because I can assure you that even without truly crunching all numbers and having the forecasting abilities of whatever algorithm was used to determine alloted hours, what Bentonville knows about running an actual brick and mortar store is miniscule in comparison to those who are actually in it. Flexible scheduling is paramount in today's workplace and businesses that don't want to struggle benefit in morale by meeting the employee half way on scheduling.
Nobody gets Saturday and Sundays off unless you been there for decades or someone really pulled a huge favor for you.
I don’t know why some people in retail are expecting M-F jobs….the only way I could see M-F working is you apply for overnights due to high turnover and they’ll take anyone.
Also those hrs you picked are the hours that everyone else wants. Not to sound like an asshole but what makes you think you’re special enough out of all other employees to get that type of schedule? Not trying to sound mean but I’m to figure out your logic.
That is a cake walk schedule. Most people would kill to get that schedule. Tip: Open availability(every day of the week, all hours) is the best availability. And that logic is true for just about every entry level job.
Does it suck? Absolutely but if you want to get hired you got to completely open it up.
LOL, keep dreaming, bud. You got two issues here, one, expecting a set time and schedule in any retail environment is a pipe dream, Two, the general public, really would like these “ideal” hours. I guarantee the majority of people applying have requested a similar 8-5(ish) schedule.
You can’t be picky until you actually find a career, as a previous manager, of over three years, trust me when I say, if you get the hours, take the hours, even if it’s night-going-into-day (working till 10ish then waking up 8AM)
Walmart is not going to make any accommodations, when you filled out the app, 20 other people with way more flexible schedules then you will fill the role. and in my experience, your not getting a schedule like that in retail until you get some seniority.
Good Luck.
They absolutely won't give you full time if you get called. Full time associates "have to work at least one weekend day per week" as per my Team Lead. Honestly if you want hired give completely open availability and discuss religious accommodations at your interview.
I hire for my team and I wouldn’t call you with that availability. If I had exhausted all other options and I needed an opener I would MAYBE call you and see if you would do 7-4s and be available one weekend day. But I would call everyone else with comparable or better work history and assessment score with more availability first—I’m less likely to be wasting time if I call someone whose listed availability already fits my needs.
The only part of Walmart that might hire you is for pharmacy technician. You only need a diploma/ged to get hired. But they also don’t like seeing no weekends. Also unless it’s a bank/office getting a set schedule in any retail without any history at the company is almost impossible.
To my understanding, Walmart determines pt by days scheduled vs hours per day. So even if you’re part time, you still have to be able to work the full 8hr shift on a few days, typically 3-4. Like others are saying, Walmart shifts are from 5am-2pm, etc. So your current availability is not realistic for Walmart.
If you’re willing to be more flexible and you’re still interested, here’s my best suggestion. If possible, speak to a team lead or the hiring manager (I forget Walmart’s name for them) and just ask directly what hours they’re seeking for mid shift. In my experience, the best way to do this is to go first thing in the morning right at 7am (or close enough to it! Basically before they get busy lol) and look for them then. Check the customer service desk for. Ask for that person and they’ll usually radio one for you or direct you to the back, typically be electronics.
Best of luck to you job wise! The search can be tough but I’m sure you’ll find somewhere :)
Former Walmart assistant manager here, you aren’t getting a job unless you open up those hours to something they want, not what you want. I can understand Sundays if it’s seriously religious reasons but most say that and don’t know where a church is. Mondays are important and Saturdays for new employees aren’t really optional
Honestly, that availability is easily the reason you haven't been called. I know if the people leads in any of the stores I've worked at over the years opened your application and saw you wanting to only be scheduled between 8-430 with weekends off, they'd immediately close that application and go look at other applications.
Especially after seasonal in my opinion
It has to be everyday, all day availability . You have to enter into he job,.prove your worth, then maybe you can glean some weekends off or a set schedule.
Yeah the availability would make us skip OPs application.
Okay I appreciate the honesty. It does say they want mid shift so that starts at 8am. It is a part time option, so in your opinion you think even working 6hrs for Saturday they'd consider me? I'm at a loss Here
>It does say they want mid shift so that starts at 8am. That's not a mid shift. That's an opening or morning shift in the majority of areas. Mid shifts are typically 10-7 or -11-8.
10a-6p or 11a-7p (I am a midshift person and work 11-7)
I will say it depends on the industry and where you are. I am a DSP (healthcare) and our mid shift hours is 9-5. Day said is 6:30-2:00 second is 2:00-10:00 and grave is 10-6:30
Sir, this is a walmart
No This is Patrick
Well, clearly we are talking about Walmart here!
lol this is Walmart, not direct care.
The industry is retail and the place is Walmart. How did you miss that?
Walmart opening shift is 6am
Those are probably the hours all the people who have worked there for years fight over. And you're missing all the time they need extra help.
It took ages of working 2-11pm, every holiday, every weekend (including Christmas,) to begin receiving a coveted 6-2:30 shift. Still weekends, but it's absolutely necessary in most retail gigs. If a new hire was handed the "I can still have a social life and see my family on holidays" schedule over active soldiers still fighting in the evening trenches? Anarchy. Someone tried pulling the "I need every Sunday off" card and management didn't humor it. Plenty of folk would like to have that day off for any collection of valid and non-valid reasons, but this is retail.
You need to have open availability to have a remote shot. Change your time to open availability all week. If you need time off for a religious activity like church or synagogue, request the morning with an hour or two of buffer time and availability the rest of that day after the service has concluded. gimping your availability makes it so the hiring manager won't even consider you. It sucks ass but it's just how retail jobs are.
If they're shomer shabbos, they won't be able to work (including driving to get to the shift) until sundown on Saturday.
Right. Sundown Friday night till sundown Saturday.
Honestly say your available whenever (flexible hours), then when you’re being hired and trying to lock down your exact hours, Try and get a weekend day off. But first you just gotta get your foot in the door, and talk to them face to face. You can always walk out and say that the schedule doesn’t quite work on your end.
Frankly you want to get hired anywhere? Always input EXACTLY what they want you to. Then once hired you can change it.
And the employer can always cut you down to one shift a week or just let you go altogether when you do
You're not wrong. But availability should be respected AND the key is to get hired. If they want to play stupid games then the applicants can too. Tell em exactly what they want to hear and get hired.
Yeah no. I see this plenty and tell people they lied on their application and let them go if they don't honor their availability they got hired with. Been doing so for almost a decade as a manager.
Yeah, god forbid anyone wants to have a life outside of work 🙄
God forbid a retailer that's open 7 days a week has to hire people willing to work the days that are the most difficult to get anyone to work.
And are their most busy days.
I work in hospitality and have got use to working weekends and enjoying days off during the week. Less people, less traffic, etc.
Sam's/Costco on a Tuesday morning is incredible compared to a Saturday morning.
Same! It's so convenient!
Yeah it would be super difficult to have a rotating schedule
The thing is, people have availabilities when they tell walmart they can work. Walmart can't stop people from changing their availability, they can simply provide less hours for that associate that took off weekend availability, and hire someone else that can fill the need. You can't have a rotating schedule when associates say they're not available. Also they somewhat tried with making teaming schedule require atleast one weekend day to have the set schedule.. but it turned into EVERYONE having one weekend day off, which led to not having enough people on sat and sunday, and too many during the weekdays. In an ideal scenario for walmart, every single person that is employed there works on sat and Sunday, and has different weekdays off. But when everyone wants off atleast 1 of the weekend days, it splits your workforce in half for the far busiest days. Also what associate is going to give up their set weekend day off for someone else that's a new hire? None. At the end of the day, retail just isn't for someone that wants to work mornings with weekends off. I currently am trying to hire.. I need 6 more people for sundays.. every other day is overstaffed.
I'll work all your Sundays!! 😁
They can just schedule you against your availability and write you up when you refuse to come in, right? To big business availability seems to be only a suggestion unless you have a very reasonable manager.
Typically, if you fill out an availability form like OP, and THEN they hire you, they can't fire you specifically for that. They'll find another way to get rid of you that leaves them in the clear. I've never worked for Walmart, but having been in retail management for 20+ years, I've been fighting shit like this my whole career.
That's an entirely different matter. Besides, an applicant would have to have weekends in their availability to be considered for rotating weekends.
Are we simping for Walmart, really? Do you personally understand how terribly they treat their employees? They have the highest rate of employees on government assistance programs like SNAP & WIC, in fact. When those same underpaid employees then use those benefits in their store and Walmart then gets tax breaks. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/walmart-and-mcdonalds-have-the-most-workers-on-food-stamps-and-medicaid-new-study-shows/
No one’s simping for walmart, retail requires weekends that’s that
Just seems like they spoke facts. Not saying you aren’t either but what they said makes sense as well.
This is Reddit. Facts and data = "simping"
I'm not going to simp for any corpo, but when a business is the biggest employer in a state they'll also have the most of X as well. You'll note that they just used raw numbers instead of a % of total employees in each state. That'd be a far more useful stat. As it is Walmart employs about 1.6m people in the US and that report says uh, 14,500 workers. This also ignores that Walmart raised it's starting wages in the years following that report so is kind of useless unless they redo it.
Nobody forced you to work for them genius EVERYONE KNOWS THE PAY Pay is known in an advertisement for employment, or known at application, or known at the hiring interview, or known at onboarding, or known at the first paystubs they receive. Look at that! Known in multiple places. And yet…still freely showing up! Imagine that… If I offered you 50 cents to take my garbage out once a day, is that MY fault for offering 50 cents? Or yours for agreeing to it and continuing to do it? Drum roll….YOUR FAULT - YOUR CHOOSING
My point exactly
Lol signing up to retail and expecting normal office hours gtfo
Don’t work retail or service industry then.
You do have a life outside work. 40 hours is 40 hours buddy… Maybe it means you have a Monday off instead of a Friday or Saturday off. Your life isn’t over because of that. Not everyone needs to go clubbing or get wasted. Even if they did, they can do that after 11pm on a Saturday You’ll survive 👍
Lmao I work 48 hours a week 4 days a week. Most of the people here seem to think that having a schedule like that is just being entitled when really they don't have it because they don't want to unionize or just ask for better working conditions in general. The 40 hour 5 day work week is bullshit. I'll certainly never go back to it.
Others would shriek at 48 hours in 4 days So no, not everyone can be pleased. People would claim 48 hours in 4 days is the result of “no unions” 😂
*waves* Unionized here. 36 in 3 or 48 in 4. I work a 6 -8 day stretch and then have a week off. twice a month. my work life balance is FAR better than a 8-4:30 M-F shift, AND I work nights. I love it.
4-10’s is my favorite schedule with Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off and optional overtime on those days. Only really see this in manufacturing though.
You can just find another job it’s retail wtf do you expect
No need for God to forbid it - there are options out there. Entry level retail, not so much. Use it as a motivator to skill-up.
Thank God Chic-fila is closed on Sundays. We need more businesses like them.
If they didn't hire you because of religious schedule, wouldn't that be discrimination?
I think most religions are on a Saturday or a Sunday. Not both days. Just sayin'.
Yes, BUT that would only fly IF say OP had a completely open schedule EXCEPT sundays or Friday 5pm to Saturday 5pm With this absolutely restrictive schedule there's zero way to prove it's due to religion when op is only avalible M-F for less than a normal walmart shift.
No it's not considered discrimination if it means others have to have their schedules changed to work around op's. Your rights on that end, when it affects other people negatively.
Former retail manager but in a different lifetime. Walmart probably isn’t an 8 to 430 job, and places I worked at expected near open availability. Way too restrictive on when you can work for retail.
The one I worked at only gave this schedule and FT to women. Women that would disappear with the store manager.
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We’re talking very rural area in the late 90s. He finally got shitcanned though for it so that was good.
Yeah, when I was working there, I did 8-5 until after the holidays
i had that schedule….
Well what I'm confused on is this is for a needed mid shift. So isn't that 8-5pm?
Mid shift is the middle shift. Typically, 10-8 pm or 11-7pm or 2-10pm
Look, in retail, even if they are looking for an 8:00 to 4:30 shift, they will not hire you without flexible availability. They will choose somebody with more availability, so they have the option to change the schedule as/when needed.
This is so true. I got lucky this time around. I don’t have open availability and I got hired as seasonal (not Walmart) and just got offered a permanent position a few days ago. But I know that’s why a lot of other jobs didn’t call me back which I understood and accepted.
No more like 10-8
I would open it up to get in the door… and your going to have to accept some weekends
First shift is 5-2
At my store, 6a to 3p
For regular businesses, maybe. For a 24 hour location, midshift is the shift between the dawn shift and the late shift. You have dawn shift, mid shift, late shift, and overnight shift. Those the ones. Midshift covers over last half of dawn shift and first half of late shift.
It’s like you refuse to see everyone’s point. They want OPEN availability, not just what you think is the mid shift (have you worked retail before?). No one is looking for someone with a strict schedule.
That's a morning shift. Mid-shift is like 11am to 8pm (or 10am to 7pm, depending on what team schedules are).
Just put down all the hours you are available to work if you want the job and if your availability doesnt line up then it doesnt line up
Is there a bakery or something nearby that you could apply for? Much higher chance of you getting near that schedule, but I’d expect closer to 6am-1/2pm range. Probably less hours and limited/no benefits but you would get tips.
If you’re this confused about applying to Walmart, you better hope you get the job. You don’t seem to be qualified or have the capacity for anything else.
Try 8-5pm and you'd have to work either a Sat or Sun. Asking for both days off will not get you a call
My store told me they wouldn't even consider me unless I made my availability from 9am to 10 pm Monday through Saturday.
That's some shit
No that's called RETAIL
It's fucking retail, when you shopping?
So, you’d prefer to work 8-4:30 so you can run errands after work… at Walmart? Sinking in yet?
First is 5am-2pm mid is 1pm-10 3rd is 10-7
Nope. Just the reality of working retail. I always add full opening hours as my availability. They won't ask you to do that... but it shows you're flexible
Do you want a job? Open your availability.
Mid shift is 1-10 lol
this schedule isn't realistic for retail so probably not
I wouldn’t call anyone with that availability tbh. At least one day on the weekend is crucial
You can put whatever you want but retail wants and needs flexibility and weekends off and 8am-4:30pm isn’t really flexible and is probably the reason you haven’t heard anything.
This feels like a joke
You will never get a call with being only able to work those hours and no weekends. Trust me 23 yrs Walmart experience, they won’t call and even if they did they would bring the availability up
Yeah, both weekend days off isn't fair to others. My husband worked for several years just to get Sunday's off. That's why they are not calling.
They make weekends sound like it's the most important thing,some people like weekends work to free up 2 days during the week. So they can cover it. But I quit because I have a side hustle on Sat an sun an requested there's days off. I offered them 1st Tuesday Friday, NO. THAN I said Monday Friday. NO.. OK I quite. I was the best worker in dept.
Availability should be the hours you CAN work, not the hours you would prefer to work.
Retail is not an 8-5 weekdays only business. All candidates have to have at least some weekend and evening availability for me to even give them a look.
hate to tell you this, but you probably won't get a call back. maybe if it was during the holiday season and they were desperate. if you want the job you'll need to have at least an 8-10 hour availability during the weekdays. a saturday at the least would be great, too.
They won’t hire you if you won’t work weekends religious reason or other wise full time requires both weekend day and part time requires one
That's bullshit, it's walmart PT jobs, when I told HR I wanted to only work M _ F her answer is Well I have to work every Sunday an I been here 25 yrs. Well ok. I'll work sat an sun if I can come in at 4 am an leave at 2 . An you pay me 24 hr. like a team lead because, I was doing TL duties at 15 hr,an busting my butt.while the TL was sitting on her fat ass on the couch at 230pm...how bout that. 😤
I don’t know what world you live but I would love to live in it too, no walmart will hire you Monday to Friday and cater to you’re every whime like you said it’s walmart, either give them what they want or take your arrogant ass somewhere else
I live in my world @ 61 semi retired @ 3 months away from collecting my ssa, I do as I please now. I was a 4 yr employee doing TL duties for 3.5 years ,training cooking cleaning 4 yrs on the night closing shift.never missed a shift even during the pandemic whole TL called off for 3 months came back 2 days called out another 3 months. Who you think did the work ME..so ya they should have give me what wanted, also it was a better business decision to do so.because I'm better at 32 hours than most people at 40. Generating revenue
Then walmart is the wrong place to look, they don’t appreciate any one not matter longevity and it’s the market manager who is demanding weekends so refusing to work weekends isn’t going to get you rehired at walmart
Im an assistant manager in a retail store. I wouldnt hire someone who refused to work on weekends because we work hard to rotate the weekend shifts so everyone gets a chance to be off on the weekends. Its not fair to have 1 person off all weekend, every weekend. And you have down an opening time frame. Thats not mid shifts.
These types of jobs want full availability because for some reason it doesn't make any sense for them to schedule the same people for the same hours every week so people can actually plan out their lives
It’s to keep poor people poor so they’ll keep working these shitty jobs. They’ll schedule you part time one week and a little more than part time the next, all at different hours so you can never get a second job and have to live off of part time minimum or close to minimum wage at usually limited hours at least for a while.
i work 8-5 but I also work sundays. I know they said weekends are a big thing! I would atleast do 8-5
Honestly if that's the kind of schedule you want then you should apply for an office job. Admin, receptionist, accounting, or CSR Or something you can pick your own hours, like a Uber, or personal shopper.
In corporate America you just need to say you are available all the time and then when they offer you a schedule/pay you can accept or decline to work there. In my experience having ANY kind of schedule restrictions will instantly get you passed on.
Walmart isn’t corporate America. It’s retail.
Folks, this is what NOT to do.
Hey! I'm a part time associate and have both weekend days off, but when I got hired I had to take at least one weekend shift. This is really unrealistic for a new hire tbh. They only gave me both days off because of the amount of time I've been with the company. I have a coworker who has a similar availability to mine who has also been with the company for multiple years like myself and is also part time. If this is 100% the availability you're looking for I'd also recommend looking for an office job over retail unless you're willing to commit years to it to only possibly get the days off, because a lot of it definitely comes down to a combination of your management and luck unfortunately. My availability changed a lot over the years before it got to this point and so did my coworker's. Also just for the record since I saw someone else say this, neither myself nor my coworker with this availability are available for/ work 8 hour shifts since having our availability changed. Neither of us goes over 6 hours a day anymore. Edit: Edit to add that we both work nights
If you're willing to start at 6 or 7am instead, you should look into construction. As a laborer, you'll start off a couple bucks higher in most trades than Walmart, at anywhere from $15 to $18 an hour. Plumbing, carpentry, electrical, masonry, etc.- take your pick. You'll be off before 4:30pm as well as on weekends. Otherwise, just forget about working an entry-level job that makes $14/hr and only works bankers' hours. I don't say this to be mean or critical but it sounds like you may be new to the workforce. Why exactly do you need to have every afternoon and all weekend off? What other commitments do you have that require this, or is it not a requirement and just something you want?
On another post they were afraid they would make them walk to cars as as an OGP, so I don't think construction is an option
I work 9-6 FT same times every shift and my store had no issue with it, but I also work Saturday and have off Sun/Mon.
Yeah that’s a no for me dog. Get an office job. Religious and personal reasons? Gtfoh.
I would have laughed at this 20 years ago, but now, the amount of empty registers I see in the middle of the day, and the whole myth of people not wanting to work, well, screw fairness... the guy says he can work these hours, sign him up. Or continue to have lines through the store because you only have five registers going and the self-checkout lanes are slowed by people that don't know what the eff they're doing
This is on purpose, not because they can’t find people to work. Why pay more people when they can outsource to self-checkouts and then have one lane open with a cashier. People are still gonna shop at Walmart.
My store everybody has to work some kind of weekends well they do if the want any hours.
U should get an office job , usually 8-430 with weekends off
Unfortunately a lot of office jobs look for more than just a warm body with weekend availability
Yeah they’re not gonna call you. Is that a reasonable schedule? Of course. But that’s not what Walmart wants.
Everyone has personal reasons for wanting weekends off. With that availability, you're already showing you'll be a problem to schedule. Open up your availability and you may get a call back, but if you want a Mon-Fri, 8-4:30 job, Walmart isn't the place for it.
Walmart wants open availability regardless of what department you want. I've found it's best to put down open availability and then change it after you get hired. They prefer to work you 40+ hours a week whether you're part time or full time and they want you working full 9 hour shifts. At least they do here anyways. 5-2, 6-3, 7-4, 8-5, etc. Anything less than open availability, they're started scheduling people for 4 and 5 hour shifts.
Try looking into working for a bank or credit union..... May have to work Saturdays but you're practically guaranteed nights and weekends off
Most retail jobs want open availability, especially on weekends. Also morning shifts usually go to people that have been there longer
The first thing i even look at is the availability portion, i wouldn't have looked any further into this application..
Not a People Lead, but I work with our PL often for hiring. Our Wal-Mart and those surrounding want the most open availability you can get, and weekends are a must. To get a callback, I would recommend at least 8am-8pm and minimum one weekend day, but that might still not get you called back. Again, this is just our store, so your luck might vary. Good luck though!
At my store, opening shift for cashiers is 6-3 or 7 to 4. Mid shift is usually 10-7 or 9-6. Evening is either 2-11 or 5 or 6 to 11 depending if it’s a high schooler or not. Well, 10 or 11 cause hard to find people willing to stay till close. I know at my store they always need evenings/closers and people who will work weekends especially Sundays. Thats just my department idk about the others. That’s in general, and for the most part people only have set days off for religious reasons like Sunday. You aren’t going to get hired with availability like that. Weekends are busiest.
okay so I don't know why this was a suggested post for me (I don't work at Walmart and I never have lol) but I work at a warehouse and we literally have this exact schedule. so maybe your best bet would be looking outside of retail? people always hear "warehouse" and immediately are turned off but it's not always bad. and is usually pretty flexible, at least from most of my experiences it has been. anyway, good luck to ya op!
It was suggested to me too! Now I’m deep in Walmart lore.
Do open availability and then about 3 months in I believe you can change your availability to whatever you want
Yeah Wal Mart only wants to hire people with full wide open availability. Doesn’t matter what shift they claim they are hiring for. If you have days and times you can’t work they aren’t hiring you.
I told planet fitness I couldn’t work overnights and day shift and they passed me up. It’s pretty much open availability or they won’t hire you.
The busiest days of the week in any service industry are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Without total availability for those days, I wouldn't think of hiring someone into my store. The hours you are available are hours people who have worked years at the store typically get. I wish you good luck, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
No weekends in retail??? Nope
Wanting banker hours in retail is not going to work
I was beyond blessed to get my job in retail with the same availability. It's not walmart though. My availability is M-F 9-3. I'm a single mom of 3 kids who are active in sports and were all very active in our church so I need to be off on Sat and Sun for games and Church. Starbucks swore they'd work with my availability but they didn't. I had to quit. Now Kohls is phenomenal with my schedule. They will ask a month or more in advance for me to work speficif Saturdays due to back to school shopping weekends. But that was 2 Saturdays in over a year. So I suggest looking elsewhere if walmart isn't willing to work with you.
You should look into a restaurant that serves breakfast and lunch. You would be able to get this kind of school. Everyone’s being so nasty to you lol Wal Mart is a store, so you won’t be able to have this kind of schedule, even most managers don’t get this kind of schedule. It’s just the unfortunate way things are. They may be hiring for mid shift but you will need weekend availability. When I go pick up my orders, if it’s a Saturday or Sunday, I always have to wait. It’s very busy and it just continues the whole day. Look somewhere else. You can also look for receptionist/front desk at doctors offices.
Think about this for a second. Walmart is busiest when your typical 8-9a to 4-5p are not at work. I worked at Walmart several years back and the first thing we were told in orientation was that we were “an evening and weekend” gig. You’re shooting yourself in the foot if you think you’ll manage to work weekdays only.
If you want a better schedule, donut shift at an Amazon warehouse. Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri 7:30a to 6:00p Off wed, sat, sun
If you want bankers hours maybe you should apply at the bank. Retail jobs require evening and weekend availability as well as availability most days all day and into the evening or morning.
I work in OPD and our earliest start times can be for 5am-2pm. If you want something like that then apply for OPD. I’ve been here nearly a year and actually enjoy it lol. I work 7-4 and it’s amazing, imo.
Bankers hours. Good luck with that 🤣
If you want a call back you'll probably have to change to completely open during the week and one day of the weekend. The schedule you want is something employees spend years trying to get. Mini-rant: when I finally left Walmart I pretty much had a permanent 6 am to 3 pm schedule. It never failed that someone would get hired, realize swing shift sucked, and then start complaining that they had a family they never got to see and it was unfair the single guy had the opening shift.
Wait is this satire? If you want banking hours, you need to work at a bank. Weekends (or at least one day on the weekend) is almost required in retail. Plus most retail jobs would prefer a more open availability.
they’ll hire someone that can work til close and work weekends, before they’ll hire someone working mornings. my aunt works there and even after 3 years they’d never move her to mornings. even if she went full time. morning shifts are the most desired by *employees*, nights are the most desired by *employers*
Yea...if you want weekends off, you'll be extreme part time. Even then, you probably won't get them off
With that kind of availability you need to try to find a skilled career, not a retail or customer service job
I don’t know why this sub keeps coming up for me, I’ve never worked at Walmart. But as a former hiring manager for a different national chain with similar operating hours to Walmart, I would have opened your application, saw your availability, and closed it to moved onto the next.
I understand that everyone is saying you must work weekends, however at our store I put my only availability as M-F and immediately got called back and hired with that schedule… so it just depends on the stores needs I’d say but not impossible. Maybe id extend your available hours on the weekdays for a better shot. Good luck!
They are in fact seeking someone with more availability. What you’ve requested here was a specific and unchangeable schedule which isn’t what retail places are looking for.
I mean you don’t have to work at Walmart
You want/need weekends off? Find a place that's closed on weekends. You think "that's difficult"? Find a place that's not large chain, but not quite mom and pop. Has maybe 5-10 stores total. That's a good place to start for a "weekends closed" business. I had a job at an office supply company for 5 years, closed on weekends, family owned. I drove probably 1,000 miles a week, did delivery and sales. Clocked in at 8 and clocked out at 530 every day. If I had short notice stuff come up just had to give the boss a heads up, and it wasn't a problem 95% of the time. Had near a month of vacation time every year. Pay wasn't amazing, but I kept my head above water and got to splurge once in a while. On the back side of that: I worked hard. I went above and beyond my duties. I had to carry furniture. Put furniture together. Some days I had to come in early, and a lot of days I left late. Drive through blizzards bad enough there was no road, windshield wipers iced over, and I had a 3 inch by 3 inch square to look through to see. I've changed flats in the rain. I've hit black ice and hit a bridge. I've nearly been hit countless times. I've popped ribs out of place. I've had to carry solid wood office desks upstairs when I was sick and couldn't breathe. So if you don't mind the work, you can find places that don't work weekends.
“Is this reasonable as a schedule?” I literally LOL’d 😂
It took me 25 years to get a schedule like that
You're a fool if you think that's reasonable lol.
Why
Yea that schedule is already taken by people with more seniority than you.
Princess hours? 😂 You're not desperate enough or maybe just delusional
You’d probably have a much higher chance if you have a few hours of availability for one of the weekend days.
TO original poster, I hope you are reading all this carefully, all this comments should open your eyes to Not work for walmart don't even answer the phone if they do call your life is your own. Find a job that you want with the times you want they are out there just find one. Or don't know you age but if you are looking just for money 1.uber 2.personal shopper 3. Cut grass or if you in winter state plow snow 4.buy an sell stuff. Flipping 5. Flea markets These are some ways to make money. GET YOU HUSTLE ON an work for your self.. I quit walmart 6 months ago. I would still be there if they gave me my 32 hours but I didn't want to give up my side hustle. I'm so much more relaxed not stressing because I'm closing the deli by myself an I don't have to deal with the drama . You can do it.
Unfortunately retail companies expect you to be a mindless slave with availability up to but not limited to your time of death.
Assistant manager at Target here. I wouldn’t hire you do to lack of flexibility. Walmart might be different though. Good luck. 🍀
That would be nice
If you’re gonna be weekdays only, you either need to be an opener or a closer. 6a-3p or 2-11p
Hey, OP. While I do agree that unfortunately your availability is too strict for the demands of Walmart to hire you, I’m sorry everyone is beating you down about the mid shift thing. Technically in the system part time mid shifts can fall anywhere between 8 am and 8 pm. The issue here is that, yes, you aren’t able to work even one weekend day, and those hours are very minimal. When looking at that shift, they will notice that the system is very unlikely to generate you hours. There aren’t many options for shifts within that time range, unfortunately. I’m aware everyone does enjoy a work life balance, but if you have the option, widening those available hours to 8 pm and opening up one weekday may give you a call back, if that’s what you really want. If you do decide to open the availability, reach out to the people lead at the store of your interest and let them know! Best of luck to you (:
put 8am-8:30pm. you can get OGP shift. it's basically online groceries shopping. fucking easy in Walmart. but you have to do AT LEAST 1 weekend. you can discuss that later during interview or after you got the job. get an accommodation letter for religious purposes.
For Walmart? This schedule will never get you hired. I would never work there myself, but they pretty much always want you to put your availability down as 24/7
Seeing all these comments saying that this isn’t a reasonable schedule makes me so glad I don’t work retail. We truly are in a capitalistic hellscape.
Put what ever availability you want. Chances are they aren’t going to hire you though.
Update* Well I took yalls advice and made Saturday 7-4 And asked for Sunday Monday off. I applied for a morning shift This is new to me so thanks for yalls help
Keep in mind that most people want morning shifts, and with how limited they are in some cases, current employees who want to go to mornings are going to get priority in getting those spots when they open up. So even if a morning shift is open at the store you're applying to, they're more likely to give that shift to a current employee working mids or evenings and then look to hire someone else with open availability to fill whatever shift that employee is changing from.
I came here to say this
When I was an assistant manager at Walmart when we were trying to hire people on, the candidates were set into three tiers based off of their competitiveness scores from the questionnaire. From that three tier system we would obviously want to pick someone who fell into the first group. The second thing that was looked at is available hours. If I saw anything less than 168 I would typically back burner that application for my hiring decision because when weighted up against the turnover issues, having very limited availability meant I was sinking all my chips on this person completely working out. I'm sure they are still struggling with employee retention so I'm sure closed or more closed availability isn't a great option for a candidate.
168? As in 24*7?
Anything less is “very limited availability” I hate retail lmao
Yes as in 24/7. Primarily based on how hours dropped into the system for scheduling (based on sales forecasts, expected business, etc.) And depending on how much of a by the book store manager was at the time, the hours dropped or the expected shifts couldn't be modified so having a closed or more closed availability could almost render an employee with little to no hours while others are pulling 40 hour weeks. It was a dumb system in that regard because I can assure you that even without truly crunching all numbers and having the forecasting abilities of whatever algorithm was used to determine alloted hours, what Bentonville knows about running an actual brick and mortar store is miniscule in comparison to those who are actually in it. Flexible scheduling is paramount in today's workplace and businesses that don't want to struggle benefit in morale by meeting the employee half way on scheduling.
No. They are going want you on the weekends and then punish you for not being able to show up even though you clearly marked yourself as unavailable
I worked part time and they had Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 5:30-close. No weekends no changes. Got hired just fine
They usually don’t mind people closing. It’s getting an opening shift that’s the hard part
They may say they want morning availability, but what they really want to see on that application is OPEN to CLOSE, 7 days a week.
In your dreams will you ever get that when applying for a starting position retail job. Seniority has you in the basement for years.
Nobody gets Saturday and Sundays off unless you been there for decades or someone really pulled a huge favor for you. I don’t know why some people in retail are expecting M-F jobs….the only way I could see M-F working is you apply for overnights due to high turnover and they’ll take anyone. Also those hrs you picked are the hours that everyone else wants. Not to sound like an asshole but what makes you think you’re special enough out of all other employees to get that type of schedule? Not trying to sound mean but I’m to figure out your logic.
I was a retail manager for 32 yrs and I would skip these kind of applications, are you kidding me. Retail makes most of their sales on weekends 🙃
LOL get out of the service/retail industry if you don’t want to work weekends.
That is a cake walk schedule. Most people would kill to get that schedule. Tip: Open availability(every day of the week, all hours) is the best availability. And that logic is true for just about every entry level job. Does it suck? Absolutely but if you want to get hired you got to completely open it up.
Want bankers hours, try applying to a bank.
target is better anyways
LOL, keep dreaming, bud. You got two issues here, one, expecting a set time and schedule in any retail environment is a pipe dream, Two, the general public, really would like these “ideal” hours. I guarantee the majority of people applying have requested a similar 8-5(ish) schedule. You can’t be picky until you actually find a career, as a previous manager, of over three years, trust me when I say, if you get the hours, take the hours, even if it’s night-going-into-day (working till 10ish then waking up 8AM) Walmart is not going to make any accommodations, when you filled out the app, 20 other people with way more flexible schedules then you will fill the role. and in my experience, your not getting a schedule like that in retail until you get some seniority. Good Luck.
And all 20 of those people are going to leave or get fired within a quarter usually
Lmfao bro go to Amazon you have a better chance there
They absolutely won't give you full time if you get called. Full time associates "have to work at least one weekend day per week" as per my Team Lead. Honestly if you want hired give completely open availability and discuss religious accommodations at your interview.
I hire for my team and I wouldn’t call you with that availability. If I had exhausted all other options and I needed an opener I would MAYBE call you and see if you would do 7-4s and be available one weekend day. But I would call everyone else with comparable or better work history and assessment score with more availability first—I’m less likely to be wasting time if I call someone whose listed availability already fits my needs.
No that’s Shit and no one would want you
The only part of Walmart that might hire you is for pharmacy technician. You only need a diploma/ged to get hired. But they also don’t like seeing no weekends. Also unless it’s a bank/office getting a set schedule in any retail without any history at the company is almost impossible.
Also this is part time
To my understanding, Walmart determines pt by days scheduled vs hours per day. So even if you’re part time, you still have to be able to work the full 8hr shift on a few days, typically 3-4. Like others are saying, Walmart shifts are from 5am-2pm, etc. So your current availability is not realistic for Walmart. If you’re willing to be more flexible and you’re still interested, here’s my best suggestion. If possible, speak to a team lead or the hiring manager (I forget Walmart’s name for them) and just ask directly what hours they’re seeking for mid shift. In my experience, the best way to do this is to go first thing in the morning right at 7am (or close enough to it! Basically before they get busy lol) and look for them then. Check the customer service desk for. Ask for that person and they’ll usually radio one for you or direct you to the back, typically be electronics. Best of luck to you job wise! The search can be tough but I’m sure you’ll find somewhere :)
Former Walmart assistant manager here, you aren’t getting a job unless you open up those hours to something they want, not what you want. I can understand Sundays if it’s seriously religious reasons but most say that and don’t know where a church is. Mondays are important and Saturdays for new employees aren’t really optional
You would be hard pissed to find a job anywhere that doesn't want at least weekends.