No Money Until American Workers Are Respected and Responded To at Store #2615, Valdosta, Georgia
On March 20, 2008, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Terminated a Sporting Goods Department Manager at Store #2615 even though Wall-mart never provided the four-week training required for department managers.
Moreover, Wall-Mart refused to answer one question asked of them during a so-called thorough, and final investigation conducted by persons UNKNOWN in a letter without a signature or authority line. Why would they to this?
Questions still NOT answered by Wall-Mart Stores #2615 or President and CEO? It seems that American Shoppers have made Wal-Mart A god beside God, and they answers to NO one?
a. How could a thorough investigation be conducted without one interview from the primary person involved? (ME) Was my side of the story reviewed and investigated? Did Wal-Mart provide valid responses to any of my questions in their Final Investigation letter—a year later?
b. Why no signature or authority line in Wal-Mart Letter? Is this Wal-Mart Stores Inc. way of setting the example for Wal-Mart Store Manager Hal at Wal-Mart Store #2615?
c. Who conducted Wal-Mart’s thorough investigation? Why were their names, department, and or job titles NOT included as to that conducted this alleged final and thorough Wal-Mart Investigation of my wrongful termination?
d. Why didn’t Wal-Mart Final Investigation Letter provide the necessary documents proving that I received the Wal-Mart Department 9, Managers Four Week Training as required?
e. Why did Wal-Mart NOT give the name of my trainer? What date was I entered into the “Four Week Training Program? What date was the training completed? Who signed off on, and verified the documents? Where are these documents today?
f. Does all Wal-Mart Sporting Goods Department Managers receive training in America? If so? Then why was I NOT trained? What are the criteria for being terminated at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for “Inability to Perform Job?” Who makes this decision?
g. Did Sporting Goods Associates, Former Department Manager Jody, Assistant Manager Frank, Shannon, Trina, Co-Manager Andy or Store Manager Hal give written statements that I was (EVER) trained as Department Manager?
h. Will Wal-Mart Store #2615 simply provide proof that I received the four-week training as required for all “Sporting Goods Department 9, Managers?” Then upon receipt I will IMMEDIATELY STOP all complaints and admit that I have lied “AGAINST WAL-MART”---but this you cannot do… (Store #2615).
i. Does Wal-Mart provide “On the Job Training and Evaluate Workers” once employed? Is proof of training and yearly evaluations documented, dated, signed and filed away in workers personnel file at Store #2615? (Then simply make a copy and refute my accusations).
j. Are Wal-Mart workers terminated for good cause, bad cause or for no cause at all without Wal-Mart having to provide even a courteous response to workers since Georgia is an “At Will Employment State?” Thanks to Georgia politicians that keep this unfair work law in force in the State of Georgia along with a few other remaining states?
k. Did any assistant managers and co-managers receive a written coaching for routinely leaving keys in the Security Room door, Outside Trailers or in the Sporting Goods Department Cash Register following gun sales at Store #2615? As department workers witnessed on many occasions and hand carried keys to managers may times.
l. Does Wal-Mart Stores Inc. approve of double standards for certain privileged workers in the cliques and among the slicks at Store #2615? And why are they treated differently from other workers?
m. Did my asking management to purchase proper filing cabinets to properly secure customer’s private information on completed ATF Forms 4473s justify my wrongful termination under the heading of “Inability to Perform Job?” (Firearms Back Ground Checks)
n. Why was customer’s private information not secured for over two years in an un-lockable filing cabinet practically open to the general public? Did Wal-Mart interview workers and former workers in Sporting Goods Department for verification of this federal violation? (These files (ATF Forms 4473s) were located in the black box on a pole and filed in an unlock-able filing cabinet in the Sporting Goods Department).
o. Did my repeated speaking out and encouraging management to secure Wal-Mart Customers Private DATA information (ATF Forms 4473s) from “Identity Thefts” justifies my wrongful termination under the heading of “Inability to Perform Job?”
p. What is Wal-Mart definition of “Inability to Perform Job?” Are all Wal-Mart Workers treated the same when it comes to being properly trained as a Department Manager? Does ignoring workers complaints improve workers morale, or increases sales for the company?
q. Are all Wal-Mart Workers with Wrongful Terminations complaints treated as I have from Store #2615?
r. Did Wal-Mart investigate to see if my constant requests to get assistant managers and co manager Andy to perform the Daily Audits on completed ATF Forms 4473s that went undone on one occasion for over fifteen day? Was it my repeated attempts to managers to follow store rules and guidelines that contributed to my termination under the heading of “Inability to Perform Job?”
s. Did Wall-Mart think that I would simply bury my head in the sand like the legend concerning the ostrich bird and pretend that wall-mart is a god beside God and answers to no one. Perhaps like hundreds or thousands of other wrongfully terminated Wall-Mart Employees? No way, and this is just the beginning....
GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Former Wal-Mart (UNTRAINED)Sporting Goods Department Manager
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
