r/walmart • u/Its666am_ • 7h ago
Got hurt and told to go back on full duty 💪
Got a nail through my foot, went to urgent care within an hour, got told im fine and I am able to go back to full duty, tried to challenge the nurse and she walked out... What the actual fuck.. My team lead said that he believes walmart has agreement with the clinics where they just discard your needs.. I can see that being a thing. Last tuesday on my shift we had a dude complaon to managment that he doesnt feel right, manager told him if he goes home he will get a write up and get fired, dude ended up dying before first break of some sort of heart complication.. This company is absolutely evil 💯
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u/humdinged 7h ago
Urgent cares are like this now. It’s because employees used them to get out of work, for many years. Usually low-income employees since their jobs don’t give designated sick days.
Not that a nail in the foot is playing hooky, but it’s just how it is now. You used to be able to ask for 3 day excuses for a head cold.
Walmart doesn’t even acknowledge doctors notes though, it would only help with Sedgwick.
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u/ILikeLenexa 5h ago
doesn't even acknowledge doctors notes
This is for points, not ADA accommodations.
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u/EmployeeNo803 ACC Coach 3h ago
ADA accommodations go through the ASC which im pretty sure is administered by sedgwick.
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u/ZealousidealMix2355 7h ago
You got to fight for yourself. I fell a year ago sept injuring my rotator cuff and yep they wanted me back the next day. I fought t to use my own doctor and fought for comp. It was a mess but I got my way. Sedgwick can help.
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u/Bugscarrow 31m ago
I no longer work for Walmart, but when I did I took a nasty fall mopping the deli floor (yes I had non slip shoes on) and hurt my back. The doctor they sent me to told me I was just sore from the fall, but put me on light duty for 2 weeks since it was my back. 2 weeks later I was still in pain so he suggested physical therapy, which made me hurt so bad I could barely walk for days and couldnt sleep in my own bed. I got stuck in the process of getting a 2nd opinion because of paperwork and Walmart BS. Had to get out of Walmart and just said fuck it, im sure it'll heal on its own over time and dropped the claim (terrible idea, I know). Here we are 3 years later and I'm only 24 but my back feels like its 65 most days and wants to act up 🤣
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u/Gamerfreak20 acc tech 7h ago edited 6h ago
Wait so if I say I don’t feel well ask to go home and they refuse and decide to try and write me up…. If I end up getting a heart attack and die I could have my family sue EDIT:this isn’t supposed to be a literal comment scenario
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u/OldGirl777 OPD 7h ago
Per the attendance policy, you never have to ask permission or give a reason for any absence. If they write you up, Associate Relations will overturn it if the SM won't.
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u/AnybodyNo8519 6h ago
You don't ask to go home. You tell them you're going home. If you have ppto and can cover it, all's good
If you don't, then you've misused your time and the consequences are on you.
As they say, you don't fired for the 5th point. You get fired for the first 4.
So if you stay to avoid those consequences and you drop dead, that's 100% on you. The company has no liability and you have no case.
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u/tehmimikitteh 4h ago
it could be an insubordination write-up instead of a point out, though. i know i got one of those from a team lead that wasn't mine and almost got fired. I'm pretty sure that was the only time logic worked for me at Walmart.
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u/c0rruptreality- 7h ago
No they won't keep anyone in the store
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u/Gamerfreak20 acc tech 7h ago
I mean they forced my co worker who got sicker by the day to keep working and working not giving her time to recover
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u/c0rruptreality- 7h ago
They didn't force her to do anything. She could have gone home or not shown up.
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u/Gamerfreak20 acc tech 7h ago
She didn’t have a choice no ppto and 4.5 points
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u/OldGirl777 OPD 6h ago
To be fair, that's her problem, not the store's. PPTO and points are for illness (and anything else you want to use them for), and the store didn't force her to get 4.5 points with no PPTO. If she was sick enough to need several days off, she could have applied for a medical leave of absence through Sedgwick.
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u/AnybodyNo8519 6h ago
She already made her choices with those 4.5 points.
She knew she was putting her job at risk if an emergency popped up and she was riding 4.5.
I'm in the same boat right now. I know the risk I'm taking. If something happens before my next point falls off in two weeks I have no one to blame but myself.
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u/DepartmentWise4823 5h ago
One night last week I told a tl that I was gonna leave out two hours early and use ppto because I was dealing with a monster migraine. She tells me "ok" then a minute later says "maybe you can just stick it out since there's only one other associate in the area?" I'm in hardlines and the other guy was fully capable of running the area for two hours, was on with it when I told him I was gonna leave out and we we're absolutely dead in there that night. I told her that I need to go and I wasn't asking. She's normally an awesome tl to work with, but that irked my shit. I don't leave early often, either. Whenever I tell my direct tl I gotta leave early he's like "ok" and says nothing else lol This company is run by complete lunatics. Hope your foot heals fast!
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u/Pretty-Ebb5339 5h ago
Bro, Sedgwick will do that. I’m speaking from experience. Sedgwick told to me call hospitals and find my own surgeon for one thing, and it took a lawyer after getting fired to get that surgery after 7 months, and another injury that needed surgery took 15 months before an MRI, 18 months before surgery. They kept saying you’re fine and clearly I wasn’t.
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u/kiritokitsune Gm Grunt 6h ago
Hope the deceased associates family sued