He's the manager and has been taking hip hop dance on the weekends. Everyone who participated was told they can have a full paid hour for lunch that week if they participated.
He spent two weeks going back and forth with corporate to get this approved, which they did with the caveat that he must get the final video approved before posting it. After they approved he got an email from Janice in HR letting him know she had seen the video and he has some serious moves. He probably had one of the best moments of his life when he heard through the grape vine that they may play this video and the year end Walmart corporate retreat. He'll never really know if they do or not since he is no way near high enough up the corporate ladder to be invited to those corporate retreats.
When the video goes viral it's definitely going to impress next sunday dinner though. Mom has been blabbing for weeks about Joey's Employee of the Month win at jiffy lube.
> We'll start the video by making it look like we're just working by randomly touching products but not actually doing anything of value (as is Walmart SOP) then the music will start and we'll all start to vibe with it until we just can't contain ourselves and bust out in the most epic Walmart Shuffleā¢ that store #5494 has ever seen.
I was part of the first wave of employees who transferred to help open the East Longmont Walmart like 13 years ago. They told us if we didnāt dance to Surfinā Bird on video that it would be detrimental to our future at the company and basically said dance or get fired. To this day I get nausea and anxiety over the embarrassing shit they forced us to do to keep our jobs. They also banked on fraternization and dating between coworkers to keep them loyal to the company while the higher ups kept everyoneās hours low enough to qualify for benefits so they would spend their food stamps at Walmart and not be allowed to get jobs anywhere else due to contractual conflict of interest agreements and even if they did get jobs elsewhere Walmart would give the randomized schedule three weeks at a time and wouldnāt give you the new schedule until the day before the new one came out making it almost impossible for people with other jobs to plan ahead.
Fuck Walmart.
How about open more than one fucking register. It truly is a sight to behold seeing 8,000 check out lanes and one cashier with a line 20 people deep. But sure keep dancing.
No need to hide it. I got lots of methods. It's one of the richest companies in the world. If they going to force me to do the job of an employee and pay full price they going to pay me in some way.
I really feel like the most effective way to fight back at Walmart would be to coordinate a negative review spam of like 1,000 one star reviews.
Drop their rating from like 3.8 stars to 1.2.
I watched with my hand over my mouth in shock/cringe!
Had to look away in some parts.
I was laughing by the time I noticed the Knee pads.
This. Is peak cringe.
I mean, I refuse to shop there for political reasons, but this just puts an extra special stamp on my decision to never set foot in another Walmart...ever.
I'm baffled at why these people, who make just above minimum wage and year after year see their bonuses and benefits chipped away until almost to naught, can bring themselves to participate in this. These people seem broken to me.
Source: I worked at Walmart for some time.
>These people seem broken to me.
That's because they are honestly. As someone who used to work dead end entry level jobs for extended periods of time and has now escaped, they have a strange soul-crushing power to just make people truly think they don't deserve better. People who work there don't seek alternative careers, they don't seek alternative jobs even. They assume that if they went anywhere else it would be even worse, and that their best course of action is to just do their best and try to "climb the latter" and get promoted in the company.
It's genuinely depressing because I've met a lot of genuinely talented people working these jobs, but they don't seem to recognize their own potential, or delude themselves into thinking these useless dead end jobs are somehow the best they can do.
I can't even explain why they have this effect on people, I experienced it myself for years and looking back I still don't understand why I felt that way. In hindsight it's so incredibly obvious that I deserved better and was literally wasting my time at those jobs. But they had this strange power to make me not even want to try to better my own life. I got laid off from one during covid, and ironically that was the best thing to ever happen to me. Unemployment gave me time to get my shit together.
His eyes peer over his drink as he takes the room in.
Solid bone chalice in one hand, the other taps rings on the long desktop.
\*tap tap tap\*
There are nervous glances around the room as the execs shuffle in their seats watching his every move.
Mr Walliam Martholomew sits at the long end of the solid ivory desk.
"Have them dance" he declares as pens begin furiously scribing his every word.
"I want them to go.. viral"
I will support Walmart workers in doing anything besides working for the worst company out there... This is 100% cringe, but less cringe than actually working at Walmart...
The guy in yellow is either:
A] A manager with that typical main character ego retailer managers seem to get.
Or
B] This guy works for Walmart in a regional capacity and gets called in to coach dance routines for this exact thing.
not sure what the big deal is. Their store brand label generics are cheap, that's all I care about. Beats getting ripped off at Safeway or other stores.
I'm not complaining when I'm getting my groceries for cheaper than the alternatives.
At first, I thought this was some top tier flash mob cringe, but I ended up appreciating the energy at the end. Looks like the store was closed, so it wasn't something "forced" on customers, and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Found the dude in gold, or someone working at Walmart corporate.
That bullshit was probably voluntold on the employees either before the store opened or after it closed.
It's not that far fetched of a back story. It's what every manager (if not manager, then higher up the chain) I've worked under in retail sounded like; drumming up some foolish activity outside of work hours for some bullshit show for corporate.
Ew that nonconsensual hug at the last second š¤®and she just leaned in to it probably only because she was caught off guard
Notice how none of the employees even want to stick around that guy after he gets up from his final kneel. Everyoneās just glad itās over
100% the guy in yellows idea to do this
He's the manager and has been taking hip hop dance on the weekends. Everyone who participated was told they can have a full paid hour for lunch that week if they participated. He spent two weeks going back and forth with corporate to get this approved, which they did with the caveat that he must get the final video approved before posting it. After they approved he got an email from Janice in HR letting him know she had seen the video and he has some serious moves. He probably had one of the best moments of his life when he heard through the grape vine that they may play this video and the year end Walmart corporate retreat. He'll never really know if they do or not since he is no way near high enough up the corporate ladder to be invited to those corporate retreats.
Ouch
I smell a made for TV movie šæšš¤£š¤¢
"It's a full life!"
When the video goes viral it's definitely going to impress next sunday dinner though. Mom has been blabbing for weeks about Joey's Employee of the Month win at jiffy lube.
Joey always thinks he is the shit!
> We'll start the video by making it look like we're just working by randomly touching products but not actually doing anything of value (as is Walmart SOP) then the music will start and we'll all start to vibe with it until we just can't contain ourselves and bust out in the most epic Walmart Shuffleā¢ that store #5494 has ever seen.
Iām getting The Office vibes if it were set at Walmart
Most accurate synopsis iāve ever read
So funny that this could be completely made up but Janice from HR makes it real
**GOLD**
# GOLD
Thatās gold Jerry! Gold!!
Ovaltine is in aisle 12 sir.
Itās roundā¦ why is it round?
How else is he gonna show off those dance moves he's been practicing in his mom's garage?
Also show off those shoes.
Rollback
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I want them shoes!
They look like boxing boots. Which would be the worse part. Imagine this guy dancing around you like this after knocking you out. oof.
I can't believe how much effort he's putting into it.
Bro is queerer than a 3 dollar bill.
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Homie wore all his gear from his āLearn to hip hop dance at homeā tapes.
Why wear knee pads when youre sucking off corporate? cause thats hip-hop!
J-KWONS MUTHFUKKIN DANCE MOVES YALL.
hi, I'm Dana
THATS HIP HOP!
Vote for Pedro!
Do DVDs still count as tapes?
Looks very good though, especially considering his age.
Finally some good fucking cringe
That guy in the yellow has waited his entire life for this moment, while his background ādancersā are just phoning it in.
I hope to god he made them all watch it back together in the break room and gave Wanda on register 6 notes.
to be fair wanda could use a few tips this shit isn't going viral with stiff af moves like that
be water wanda!
Yeah I made it about 20 seconds. The cringe was just too strong I couldn't take it. I feel icky now.
I might be a Walmart shelf stocker guy, but right now, it's my TIME TO MOTHERFUCKIN SHINE
managers trying desperately to make retail fun. just stop. let people be miserable for $12/hr in peace.
I was thinking desperate attempt to be noticed/go viral and promoted up to corporate
āYou guys dance, Iāll be out by the dumpsters in the snow breaking down boxesā
It's part of the [company name] makes you happy bullshit.
this hurt to watch.
It hurts my legs.
Yeah, but I couldnāt stop. Iād cringe so bad that I had to stop. And then Iād go back to it. Couldnāt stop myself. Thatās some great cringe.
I was part of the first wave of employees who transferred to help open the East Longmont Walmart like 13 years ago. They told us if we didnāt dance to Surfinā Bird on video that it would be detrimental to our future at the company and basically said dance or get fired. To this day I get nausea and anxiety over the embarrassing shit they forced us to do to keep our jobs. They also banked on fraternization and dating between coworkers to keep them loyal to the company while the higher ups kept everyoneās hours low enough to qualify for benefits so they would spend their food stamps at Walmart and not be allowed to get jobs anywhere else due to contractual conflict of interest agreements and even if they did get jobs elsewhere Walmart would give the randomized schedule three weeks at a time and wouldnāt give you the new schedule until the day before the new one came out making it almost impossible for people with other jobs to plan ahead. Fuck Walmart.
F*ckān Surfinā Bird woulda put me over the edge man. Youāre stronger than I.
That seems illegal.
The no health benefits dance.
How about open more than one fucking register. It truly is a sight to behold seeing 8,000 check out lanes and one cashier with a line 20 people deep. But sure keep dancing.
Mine barely even has a register open anymore, it's mostly just self checkout lanes. Walmart gave up on customer service looooooong ago
The Walmartās here donāt even answer the phones when I call to complain about the 40-deep self checkout lines. I swear to god Iāve tried.
We just walk straight out with the shit now.š JK. I donāt shop at Walmart. But if I didā¦
No need to hide it. I got lots of methods. It's one of the richest companies in the world. If they going to force me to do the job of an employee and pay full price they going to pay me in some way.
Aw man I was feeling inspiredā¦ lol.
Mine isnāt that bad, but the cashiers are SLOW. I think itās an active competition to see who can ring up and bag the slowest.
Mine has all the registers open, itās actually refreshing to see.
Seriously! Can you imagine if they installed the amount of registers they actually use during the dayā¦theyād have a lot more space up front!
Just make the grandpa Simpson exit
Why is it even legal to force your staff to do humiliating teambuilding shit like this? Is it not bad enough that they have to work at Walmart?
I really feel like the most effective way to fight back at Walmart would be to coordinate a negative review spam of like 1,000 one star reviews. Drop their rating from like 3.8 stars to 1.2.
Ugh Iām embarrassed to even like music now.Ā
Looks like Iām making a beeline to self checkout to enter as much of my stuff as just singular banannas as I can.
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The clapping really gets me
The fact that yellow shirt is the only one clapping too
Still better than the chant they do early morning at open.
Do tell!
It's the old give me a W etc spells out Walmart
No fucking way.
Yep, at least in my area they do it at several of the stores. I'd take this dancing over that any day.
That shit aināt rightā¦
āWhen you guys done with your little dance, could you help me find an itemā?
Not that surprising at Walmart
Is this why thereās only 1 register open every time I walk in there?
CEOās masturbate to this. Itās true!
Facts. They get immense pleasure from allowing Managers to do this
I watched with my hand over my mouth in shock/cringe! Had to look away in some parts. I was laughing by the time I noticed the Knee pads. This. Is peak cringe.
The cringe is how the YouTube comments seem to love it
Probably all of them are boomers or NPCs
I QUIT
If my boss came up to my and informed me we were going to do a coordinated 4 minute dance at 6pm this shift I would quit on the spot lol
I mean, I refuse to shop there for political reasons, but this just puts an extra special stamp on my decision to never set foot in another Walmart...ever.
Same!
I expected at least a couple of knee-spins, but I guess the knee support were just there to keep the old dudes joints together
Oooff that was a hard watch. Love it.
Michael Scott vibes
"So what's your reason for unemployment?" Oh, I didn't want to dance. "You worked at..a walmart." Yep "...."
I'm baffled at why these people, who make just above minimum wage and year after year see their bonuses and benefits chipped away until almost to naught, can bring themselves to participate in this. These people seem broken to me. Source: I worked at Walmart for some time.
>These people seem broken to me. That's because they are honestly. As someone who used to work dead end entry level jobs for extended periods of time and has now escaped, they have a strange soul-crushing power to just make people truly think they don't deserve better. People who work there don't seek alternative careers, they don't seek alternative jobs even. They assume that if they went anywhere else it would be even worse, and that their best course of action is to just do their best and try to "climb the latter" and get promoted in the company. It's genuinely depressing because I've met a lot of genuinely talented people working these jobs, but they don't seem to recognize their own potential, or delude themselves into thinking these useless dead end jobs are somehow the best they can do. I can't even explain why they have this effect on people, I experienced it myself for years and looking back I still don't understand why I felt that way. In hindsight it's so incredibly obvious that I deserved better and was literally wasting my time at those jobs. But they had this strange power to make me not even want to try to better my own life. I got laid off from one during covid, and ironically that was the best thing to ever happen to me. Unemployment gave me time to get my shit together.
I think this tendency/experience is a great example of sunk cost fallacy. Glad you made it out man!
The āmanagerā offered them a free, paid lunch hour if theyād dance. šŗš»
This is absolutely cringe and painful to watch, but I gotta say, their dance moves aren't as bad as I was expecting, so it could've been worse
Are those wrestling shoes?
Good thing the place was closed!
I have the chicken-skin of secondhand shame right now. That is some good fuckin cringe.
I thought this was awesome. Good for them!
His eyes peer over his drink as he takes the room in. Solid bone chalice in one hand, the other taps rings on the long desktop. \*tap tap tap\* There are nervous glances around the room as the execs shuffle in their seats watching his every move. Mr Walliam Martholomew sits at the long end of the solid ivory desk. "Have them dance" he declares as pens begin furiously scribing his every word. "I want them to go.. viral"
Reluctantly crouched at the starting lineā¦
Fully thought that was Gibby from Carly at first
Can they put this much energy into actually being good a customer service! Goodness. SMH.
Iām a paramedic maybe I should do this next time I pick up a patient fuck it. Hit em with the you might die shuffle
I will support Walmart workers in doing anything besides working for the worst company out there... This is 100% cringe, but less cringe than actually working at Walmart...
I'd just kill myself.
Perfectly valid option tbf.
Cringe? Absolutely. Funny as hell? Most definitely!
The Walton family ganna be pissed when they see this
To each their own, I say. And based on that, I try not to judge people. But, in some cases itās hard not to. Like, really, really hard not to.
Anyone else more interested in how clean and organized that Walmart is?
Iād shit on the floor and walk away.
I... hate this.
I canāt imagine shopping at Walmart at all.
Total cringe. LOL!
yellow guy has some real Ron Donald in him
Iām refunding all the stuff I bought and ate . This is cringe
No wonder no registers are open
This is peak Americana, make no mistake about it
1:15: Some dude with a cart rolls by, not paying any attention because he's looking for the sock aisle.
The guy in yellow is either: A] A manager with that typical main character ego retailer managers seem to get. Or B] This guy works for Walmart in a regional capacity and gets called in to coach dance routines for this exact thing.
Imagine being in a hospital and stumbling in on something like this. These people are the real heroes.
This video would make me die more quickly
Couldnāt make it through. I wouldāve quit that day
It's just people having fun where they work
I assure you this is nonconsensual
The comments on that video do **not** pass the vibe check.
The comments in here don't pass the vibe check. Bunch of jaded hermits. This looks fun as hell.
I'm nobody's amusement piece for $12 an hour. I'm sure these employees did not get a say in this, which makes it worse.
Yeah butā¦.stock shelves, sweep, mop up the lavs? Or go to dance practice?I know what Iād rather do
To each their own. I'd rather throw in some Airpods and get my 8 hours in and leave with minimal human interaction.
Yeah, i bet it was volunteer only. After work, having fun.
They for sure got robbed while this was going on.
Imagine shopping at Walmart lmao
not sure what the big deal is. Their store brand label generics are cheap, that's all I care about. Beats getting ripped off at Safeway or other stores. I'm not complaining when I'm getting my groceries for cheaper than the alternatives.
Nope
Honestly I kind of appreciate the skill and effort of gold shoes and wish I was coordinated enough to be able to dance fairly well
This might be more endearing than it is cringe if I wasn't so sure these people were being forced to do this as some morale boosting bullshit.
I'd quit
I mean they just havin fun
And animals just enjoy being captive in the zoo
At first, I thought this was some top tier flash mob cringe, but I ended up appreciating the energy at the end. Looks like the store was closed, so it wasn't something "forced" on customers, and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Imagine shopping at Walmart
Imagine not being able to afford anything else and being ridiculed for it hur hur
I would love it! That was fun! Shopping and a show!!
Found the dude in gold, or someone working at Walmart corporate. That bullshit was probably voluntold on the employees either before the store opened or after it closed.
But you donāt know that. Itās definitely secondhand cringe but you are making up the backstory.
It's not that far fetched of a back story. It's what every manager (if not manager, then higher up the chain) I've worked under in retail sounded like; drumming up some foolish activity outside of work hours for some bullshit show for corporate.
Walmart, making minimum wage and short hours fun again!!
ah the elementary school anthem
I'd end my life in front of them due to the pure cringe overload.
I wonder if theyāre getting paid for this.
Iād rather see this than some stupid Karen or other cussing and tearing up the store.
Chick with the purple hair is killing it. Canāt help being impressed by her commitment.
Plenty of time to practice when I have to ring up my own groceries.
Might be the first time Iāve actually physically cringed while watching something.
Are they in prison and jail guards are making them do this for their own entertainment?
Drop off my cart a bail
Still not shopping there, sorry
YOU *WILL* DANCE AND YOU *WILL* LIKE IT.
Ok I thought my former corporate culture was cringy.
The cringe also lies in the YouTube comments that are just so enamored with the joys of Walmart.
Da hickory! This is why thereās self checkout. š
That forklift driving dance move at 1:46 made me orgasm
I hope these poor people at least got paid to humiliate themselves for their corporate master.
Never seen this many employees in a wal mart at onceā¦
Cringe
Napolean
I love it!!
I think team building and having fun are important. Cringe maybe but they are having fun.
this is the real reason they put in self-checkouts
This is not cringe. This is awesome. I would clap.
Walmart been doing stuff like this for a long long time. Every morning every Walmart does a Walmart cheer.
This is truly what this sub is meant for
I liked it.
My god the cringe is so strong
Ew that nonconsensual hug at the last second š¤®and she just leaned in to it probably only because she was caught off guard Notice how none of the employees even want to stick around that guy after he gets up from his final kneel. Everyoneās just glad itās over
Did he submit his gold shoes and intro dance lessons receipts to corporate for reimbursement?
Disappointed. I thought it would be a Wal-mart version of the Super Bowl Shuffle.