Reply #19: I inventoried for Walmart as contract labor for RGIS

[The Flaming Red Head]

We started at 5 am and then got an hour lunch from 11am till 12pm and then we were expected to work till 8 o'clock at night without even a 15 minute break. (That's 8 hours with no break) We traveled Ark, LA, Miss, and Tx and they would put us up in motels and we would inventory nothing but Wallie Worlds.

Me and my friend decided to start an insurrection and we left and started taking 15 minutes every afternoon around 3 or 4pm.

Somebody (a Walmart manager) told on us and we told our supervisor that we would take it to the labor board or to an attorney if he fired us. We didn't like working 8 hours straight without a break.

The next day, to the amazement of everyone (usually there was a crew of at least 50 of us. Some had worked like that for years without knowing they had recourse) our crew supervisor announced at 3:30 PM that all RGIS employees would now take a 15 minute break, me and Jannette (my work buddy and bunk mate) thought we were all that.

Walmart and RGIS were horrible they didn't give us proper ladders for the upper shelves and would yell at us if we sat even for a minute while doing lower shelves (the very bottom ones), we were expected to maintain squat positions for hours at a time, which is very hard to do.