Worst place I have ever worked - Anonymous employee Hallmark Employee Review

The waste of Hallmark products and the way they make money is lubricious. I worked at a Wal-Mart store as a vendor for Hallmark. We had 6 double rows of cards and products. On the bigger holidays, we would throw away well over $20,000 worth of unsold cards and gifts. That's Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, and Father's Day. That's one store, one holiday, one year. The waste is monumental. They know for a fact that they make far too much product and half will be discarded. All they do is take huge tax write-offs to gain profit. The waste of trees for the amount of cards thrown away is insane. I am not a tree-hugger by any means, but the owners of Hallmark should be ashamed. Now the job, between 2 people we were given a total of 20 hours per week to handle thousands of cards and hundreds of gifts. Both my co-worker and I started the same time a year ago. Which was around Father's Day. This was after 2 other employees were transferred away due to not being able to do the job in the allotted time given. That is part of the reason my co-worker and I got fired right after all of the holidays ended. Everything started out great through the summer months. Then the holidays hit, through Christmas was ok. Then the immediate change over to Valentine's Day took place. Almost no help from the territory supervisor or the two supervisors above her. It was ridiculous trying to bring in 5 to 25 boxes of product daily. Valentine's Day and Mother's Day are just as big if not bigger than Christmas. We constantly asked for help or more hours. We almost never received the help we needed to get the job done. Not only did we ask for help from our immediate supervisor, but we also told the two supervisor's above her that there was not enough time to do the job that was required. So, then the firing takes place. My co-worker and I were taught when you tear a seasonal area down, to put the next season up, to do so in 4 to 8-foot sections. That is exactly what we were doing. At 11:00am I had to call my supervisor to tell her we didn't have the right fixtures to do the set-up correctly. It was upper management's responsibility to have all of our supplies available when it was time to do the job. When she answered the phone the first thing she asked was, "Are you done, yet?" At 11:00 in the morning. LOL Upper management has absolutely no clue what kind of manpower it takes to run their own stores. Long story short, LOL, our immediate supervisor came in and told us to tear the entire seasonal section down and not to do the work in small sections. Then approximately 2:00 pm the supervisor tells us to put everything away, finish discarding the $20,000 worth of Father's Day products, take out the trash, and leave. So, that's what we did. Three-fourths of the seasonal section was bare, due to the territory supervisor's instruction. Completely against Wal-Mart's rules. Guess who gets fired for that? Yes, me and my co-worker. Yes, upper management you fired the wrong people. The entire company is run by a bunch of supervisor's who have no clue what it takes to run a company. Their job is to keep work hours down and waste up. Period.