A Walmart employee shares their shock at people who have worked at the retail giant for more than three decades.
In a recent TikTok video viewed more than 110,000 times, creator Jadon Smith (@jjadonsmith) showed Walmart name tags labeled with the number of years an employee had been working for the company.
There were three options for the badges—one for 15, 25, and 30 years of service.
“Nah, imagine working for Walmart for 35 years,” Smith captioned his video.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median employee tenure in January 2022 was 4.3 years for men and 3.8 years for women. The Employee Benefit Research Institute reported this year that the average median tenure of all wage and salary workers 25 and older has been about five years. In a press release, Walmart said the average tenure for a store associate in fiscal year 2023 was five years. More than 50,000 associates have been at the company for 25 years or more.
The Daily Dot reached out to Walmart for further comment and to Smith via Instagram direct message.
Viewers of Smith’s video were pretty critical of employees who spent decades working for Walmart.
“IM SORRY 50 years at walmart SOUNDS UNREAL,” one commenter said.
“They can’t use the ‘it’s my first day’ excuse with those tags,” one person joked.
Others remarked how it’s not very surprising that some people spend a sizeable amount of time working for the retailer.
“There’s a guy at my local Walmart who’s been working there for 53 years,” one commenter shared.
“My Grandma has been working at Walmart for 45 years,” another person said.
Some even critiqued the assumptions some made when it comes to how much someone could make working for the same place for decades.
“Aye if you not [going] for an education you gotta do [something] and Walmart not a bad option at all they’ll take care of ya if you wanna make it a career,” a commenter argued.
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*First Published: Jul 15, 2023, 8:17 am CDT
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As of the end of FY2023, the average tenure for a Walmart associate in the U.S. was 5 years; over 300,000 U.S. associates have spent more than 10 years with Walmart and over 50,000 associates have been with the company for 25 years or more.
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Associates may face discipline up to and including termination for a substantiated violation of our Code of Conduct or our ethics and compliance program policies.
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For the most part, long tenure is granted to employees who have worked for the same company for five years. Short tenure, on the other hand, is roughly two years or less. Generally speaking, employees who have stayed on board for 2-4 years have average tenure.
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You can keep your Associate Discount Card when you retire if you've been an associate for 20 years, or if you've been with us for at least 15 years and are age 55 or older, as long as you haven't had a break in employment during that time. Learn more: One.Walmart.com/DiscountCard.
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We've added new insights specific to age representation. The average age of our U.S. workforce is 38.32, while the largest percentage of associates is 20-24, suggesting Walmart is a place for those starting their careers.
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Retaliation against associates who raise concerns or questions about misconduct will not be tolerated. All reports to Ethics & Compliance are treated as confidentially as possible, and if you choose, you may report your concern anonymously to the extent allowed by law.
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In the last decade between 2012 and 2022, the median job tenure has dropped nearly 11% from 4.6 years to 4.1 years, according to the latest LendingTree study, which analyzed US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.
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