How do you know if a firing is justifiable--if they are willing to rehire you?

Question

I worked for Walmart--and was fired for doing a return and then also doing an override in the computer--without checking it with anyone else. I was told on the night i was fired that I could be rehired in 30 days--and was. I had to take a different --lower position because they didn't have any open positions of my previous job. Now I am stuck and cant' be promoted until a write up in my file is inactive.--which takes a year. because I have an active write-up in the computer from my previous position. I don't know what they put in my file as far as the reason I was officially fired. Is there anything I can do to get my old position back before the year is up? I lost almost $2 an hour because of this.

Answer 1

Appeal your case so that your removal before from your former position will be reconsidered and your records will be updated that already included your former file.

Answer 2

You should leave Walmart. You really need to see the documentary "Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price". It will shock you. Rent it - today!

Here are the reasons you should not be a part of the Walmart empire:

1.) They drive local businesses (a.k.a. your NEIGHBORS) out of business.
2.) They drive manufacturers out of business, by demanding goods at such a low cost, that ends aren't met. (This almost happened to Vlassic Pickles... they couldn't afford to have Walmart NOT carry their products, but were having to practically give Walmart the pickles for free.)
3.) Walmart goes to great lengths to keep Unions from forming in their stores, which allows them to treat their employees horribly, and not give any protection to their employees. They actually have kits used to spy on their employees, so that anyone CONSIDERING forming a Union can be fired.
4.) Walmart offers healthcare benefits, but the benefits are so expensive, and the employees are paid so little, that at employee orientations, employees are given handouts about foodstamps, welfare, and government-paid low-income healthcare, and what they need to do to apply. In other words, they expect the taxpayers to pay for the employees' benefits, even though they are the richest corporation in the world.
5.) They tend to hire elderly and immigrants... people who have a hard time finding a job anywhere else, so that Walmart can get away with paying them little and treating them poorly.
6.) The government actually subsidizes Walmarts.... in other words, town governments want a Walmart in their town limits so badly that they actually PAY the Walmart up to 1.4 million dollars per year JUST to set up shop in the town. (Because that Walmart will bring in additional tax revenue for the town.) In other words, your tax dollars are also being used to BRIBE Walmart into being in your town in the first place!!
7.) Workers are not allowed to have overtime. Yet they are forced to stay late. Managers are taught how to flub their hours in the system so they don't have to be paid for them. There have been MANY lawsuits in the last few years where old employees have sought (and won) pay for these "lost" hours.
8.) The Walmart factories are sweatshops. Factory workers are taught to lie to inspectors about how many hours they work and how much money they make. A jacket sold at Walmart costs the customer $30.00. It actually cost $1.00 to make, and of that $1.00, only a tiny fraction of a penny goes to the factory-worker who made the jacket. Insane!
9.) Walmart uses the tactic of opening up in a new town, having prices drop SO LOW that all of the people in town get accustomed to shopping there, and all the little businesses in town shut their doors. Once all the little businesses are out of business, they jack their prices back up. Now all people are FORCED to shop at Walmart because everything else is closed, but you're paying dearly for it.

I could go on and on, but you really should watch the movie for yourself. It's very, very scary to me how that corporation has become more powerful than our government.

BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT!!!

Answer 3

Most places you can be fired or demoted for no reason at all, so "justifiable" doesn't matter. If you're unhappy, go somewhere else.