Ron,
It would be a good idea to get your facts straight before posting. The base salary of a begining assistant manager at WalMart is $35,000. Assistant managers and managers of a store have a salary thus they do not get overtime. However, they do get other perks such as bonuses. I know of one manager who just got a nice bonus of $800,000 for the past year. Of course most in management don't get that kind of bonus, but never the less most do get a nice tidy bonus every year. As far as hourly supervisors goes..they are paid hourly and do get overtime if it is needed. Granted..pay vaires for hourly supervisors. I know some who make less then $12 an hour..but there are some who make up to $22 an hour and with overtime make more than some assistant managers.

As far as welfare goes, I can tell you that WalMart does not encourage people to seek it at least in my experience. Perhaps they give resources to those who need it, but they do not encourage it. Kind of funny because there are so many times I really do hate descions made by my company but when i read posts like this, I realize how much I have a need to defend it. WalMart is such an easy target right now because it is the big boy to pick on, but why aren't people picking on other companies such as Dayton Hudson, Home Depot, and McDonalds. Believe it or not, there are some of us out here who are happy to work
at WalMart and we aren't all stupid redknecks either. To all of you who hate Wal Mart..and I know there are a lot of you here (sorry, more of a lurker than being active) then I would just say don't shop there and encourage all that you not know to shop there. Just please don't lie about how the company works. It is just like any other company. Has some great things about it and some bad things about it.

Sorry for the rant..cheers to you all