At most companies, you can easily figure out how much vacation you get each year. It is prominently posted in the breakroom and other places each year. Not so at Wally World. It took me almost three years to find it online and print it out. At most companies, you get one or two weeks vacation after your first year, three weeks after your second year, four weeks after your tenth year, with five weeks after twenty years becoming less and less common. Larger companies may give you three to five days of sick time each year. Part time employees are usually shit out of luck as far as vacation or sick time go.

At Wally World, you get a fraction of an hour of vacation and personal/sick time for each hour you work. If you work full-time it is fairly easy to figure out your vacation time each year. Wally World is slightly below average early in your career, but if you stay ten years the leave time is above average. If you manage to stay 20 years, your leave time gets way above average with six weeks a year of vacation a year.

Some states have laws mandating more sick/personal time which usually cuts vacation time. Most companies have a “use it or lose it” policy on time off. Wally World does allow you to roll over some of your leave time each year and will even pay you for any balance over 80 hours at the end of the year, which is January 31 at Wally World. Overall, Wally World does try to compensate for low wages, but it is hard to make a living working here.