10: Believing the words of your company's founder and making customer's your first priority to the detriment of the rest of your workload that was too much for one person anyway.

9: Expecting your boss, who hired you without training and promised you would be trained on the job, to actually tell you what your job was and how you were expected to do it, instead of judging you for failing to live up to unvoiced expectations.

8: Going over your bosses head after he admitted that some of the things he marked down on your performance review are his fault because he failed to train you, and expected your store manager to care.

7: Demanding that you be removed from an environment where your entire team, and your manager treat you with disrespect repeatedly in a company which prides itself on "respect for the individual", in order to do something you will be better at anyway.

6: Expecting your company, which tells the world that it cares about its people, to actually show you that they care.

5: Continuously requesting a transfer because you have moved twenty to thirty miles away and pass half a dozen locations for your company on the way to work every day.

4: Reminding the new manager that you feel the disciplinary action given by the old manager just before he got fired was unfair and shouldn't keep you from being transferred.

3: Complaining that you have to wait a year for benefits because you've been hired as part time, even though you've been working full time for six months and full time associates get benefits in six months.

2: Telling your Managers that the two hour commute to work, and two hour commute home isn't really worth it without benfits or any hope of a transfer, or any chance of getting the raises that everyone else gets like clockwork after three months and then every year.

1: Telling Customers the truth about your company. (Especially if you work for Walmart).

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