I work for Crossmark for almost three years. The first two years where good. few small problems here and there. I do product demonstrations in the Wal-Mart stores. Crossmark has contract for all the Wal-mart and Sam's club stores. I worked with my spouse for almost two years. We had good set up going it wasn't broke don't fix it.. Had lots of regular customers. We got new supervisor and she decide she didn't want husband and wife working in same stores together so they fired him because he refused to drive 61 miles to another store.. One month later I was fired for being FALSITY accused of misconduct with Wal-mart employee.
I am suppose to go in warehouse to get my products to demo for that day. I found the product and was putting it in my cart to purchase and one of the warehouse employees came up to me wanting to know what I was doing. I told her getting product to demo. she said you cant take that. I said isn't it a vendor product she said yes. For three years I have been told vendor products aren't in system and I can take to purchase them. Yes if it were not vendor I would have to get it signed out. She said No you have to have it sign out I said OK sign it out. She said she cant.
There was only 5 bottles to pull and I had other products that day so I said I will not demo theses today and I will find out what is the correct way for next time. So I put the 5 bottles back and went on with my day.
There was no yelling No load voices. just a little confusion. No body ever said anything else to me that day. Even managers came up talked and got their samples. I always gave them big samples to make them happy. If there was a problem why didn't store managers come talk to me.
Well when I got home an hour later my supervisor called and said he needed to talk to me about my fight today.
I said fight there was no fight you must have wrong store. he said no you got in big dispute with Wal-mart employee. I again said it's not me.
He said is Les and Amber in your store I said yes they are managers. He said what happed in warehouse this morning about taken product from store not paying for it and refusing to show receipts.
I started thinking and said oh my gosh you have got to be kidding me. and explained what happened and asked what did you do to back me up. He said nothing it out of his hands it's my word against theirs and since Wal-mart are the ones who crossmark are under contract with, we have to listen to them. So I said anytime they can just make something up and we are screwed.
He wanted me to do my last two events for the weekend and then I will be out of Job when Corporate gets the report.
I told him I wouldn't go in because I am so sick about the whole thing.
If they are not listening to me and backing me up and using me because they have no body else to do the events for weekend. If I am so bad why would he want me there anymore at all. Then what happens next time they lie. Went to Dr got work slip till end of the week till corporates decides what they will do. That same day I called my supervisor requesting in writing what I was being accused of and he refused to do it. I then sent e-mail to him and his supervisor to give me details in writing three times. Never got it. One week later I was fired.
Now this is what is going on with the Wal-mart stores and employees.
They don't want our company there and they are always harassing us for something. They don't like it they have no control over us directly and so they go to our supervisor and make things up. The employees don't like it we make a lot more money then a department supervisors does at Wal-Mart. My Sonr works in another store on other side of state and is really bad . One day they yelled at him saying people where hanging out at her carts all day, It was a poster with life size people.
They are Always throwing his supplies around and on ground and blocking his supplies with very heavy stuffs. Told them they couldn't drink water at there carts. One girl was Pg and was so sick of it all and quit. I had my supplies blocked too all the time too. I would get my cart set up and had it set up in same spot of months and new manager or employee comes on and they make me move where the customers aren't. this happened over and over. Don't they know we are there to help them sell products. I bent over back wards to make Wal-mart employees happy gave them huge samples. Helped them if need help.

The supervisors never call you back or respond to your e-mails.
When you do a fresh event you are to have a food safely certificate and they get too many scheduled and make the employees do them with no certificate. Hope health department goes in then.
Your suppose to get a referral bonus if you get someone hired. I got like 4 people in and only got one bonus.
My daughter was getting married and we gave 8 months notice we need time off and our old supervisor approved it. Well when we got new one she said we cant have it off. we did end up getting it off only because it was a slow weekend. But the days before we were so upset. When we first went into the Wal-mart store they were going to make us put our supplies outside in the garden section where it was snowing. I won that one. Wal-mart locks the trash compactor so we have to have manager look threw our stuff. I didn't trust them I always destroyed my left overs so they couldn't put back on shelf get paid twice.or use it them selfs.

Speaking of left overs Oh my gosh you wouldn't believe the stuff we throw away. It is a huge crime...Boat loads of unopened food and supplies like cups, napkins so on. It makes us all sick the amount of waste there is. We cant give it to food banks. The last time I worked I threw away 20 bottles of juice and four boxes of crackers. " Unopened". We throw away lots of health and beauty products what ever wal-mart sells we demo and throw away. Starving people and Crossmark throws away hundreds of dollars a day of unopened stuff.

OK about Wal-mart, I seen first hand the abuse the managers and supervisors give there good employees. They scream at them all the time. One day I seen head store manager yelling at employee and next day the corporate big shot was there and the employee walked by and the store manger pats her on back said have a great day. few hours later after corporate left and store manager "L" yelled at her again. What a fake show he did too make him self look good in front of corporate..
Crossmark is not fair they only worry about them selfs. Employees are nothing but a number. They need to go Union!!!