Wal-Mart isn't the only retailer like this, pretty much every big chain is like this. On paper you're perfectly able to miss a day, but lord knows in practice if you really DO miss that day, you get an unbelievable amount of ***** for it. I remember Target and Home Depot being exceptionally pissy about absences when I worked there. Home Depot gave me an unexcused absence for missing ONE DAY because my brother had emergency back surgery and was in Pediatric I.C.U. I called in and the manager on duty told me that I was under my 6 months probation and I could be laid off for it, when I went in the next day with a note (which the nurse thought was the most ridiculous thing she'd ever heard of, me needing a note, btw) they threatened to fire me, when I literally lost my mind screaming at the Store Manager and a couple other Managers they backed down, but warned me that if it's not me personally dying, then it's unexcused.Target wasn't anywhere near that melodramatic. They just expected you to come to work sick...at least, that's what my manager said. He said "Don't worry, if you're sick, we'll send you home"...Gee, thanks Doc, glad to have your permission to puke in my own toilet.Both those places can burn in hell...quitting both of those places after years of abuse was such a weight off my shoulders.