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Old Sep 19, 2022, 12:00 AM
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Originally Posted by bizi View Post
Will they fire you over this?
How long have you been with the phone company?
you have every right to vent here.
Crowd control is needed so I think you continue doing

what you think is necessary. Do you work for walmart?
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I work in a Walmart, but I don't work for them directly. It's a bit convoluted, but I work for a contractor hired by the prepaid phone companies to sell their stuff in Walmart stores. The trouble is that I'm the only one there from my particular company and I'm restricted by corporate BS contracts in what I can do. Not being able to use a register to complete a sale or even take a set of keys to unlock product for sale hobbles me as much as anything (or anyone) else. I can ignore the restrictions to a certain extent, but if I make it a habit, my bosses will come down on me.

As far as this worker is concerned, I don't have reason to believe my bosses will fire me (because I was able to succeed in spite of her), but she could continue to make things awkward and even tense. The worker is significantly younger than me, to the tune of about ten years. Her go-between is the other third party rep who is not much older than her and has been flirting with her nonstop. I wouldn't mention that if the whole situation didn't read like she got annoyed that I was a polite, yet insistent voice in her ear, batted her eyes at the rep who has a crush on her, told him I was being "mean" to her and got him to play "protector."

Walmart, in my experience working for them, has been party to lots of high school (and middle school) level drama, and this seems to continue the tradition. I would normally work around them, but with my company's restrictions, I can't. Not completely, at least. They could very realistically be the only way for me to get my job done.

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