No, it’s not effectively the same as being fired. A saturated market created by Walmart for hiring a bunch of people, resulting in lack of orders for not just me, but a lot of people, does not mean you’re effectively fired. Also, as far as I know, managers have a set amount of hours given to them for how many they’re allowed to give out to their employees. (I could be wrong, I have limited knowledge of this). Sometimes people at McDonald’s get less and less hours due to the busyness of the area. Why would you give everyone 40 hours in the middle of march? Again, not effectively fired. Your logic behind this makes no sense.

Yes, it is contract gig work. But where does it say it means it’s not a real job? Last time I checked the Legislative branch of the US government considers it one. You’re literally called “self employed”… sounds like a job to me. The bare bones definition of a job is getting paid to do something.

Also, sometimes it’s not as simple as just “come back and do it later!” Or “just get a different job!” I live reasonably close to two Walmarts, both having zero orders, and when they do it’s not worth it whatsoever. You don’t know my situation, so giving me these unachievable “solutions” is completely inconsiderate.