Thread regarding Wal-Mart Stores Inc. layoffs

This company actively practices ageism. They don't care about anything but getting the Waltons another new yacht.

Walmart is an evil entity.

I had 29 years of service and most of that was as an Asst. Manager on the Sam's Club side. I was told that my job elimination was fair and consistent. I am 65 years old, less than one year from drawing full benefits from Social Security. The next day a person was put in my place younger with less years of service. I went to Walmart HR asking how was that right. I never got an answer.

Wal-Mart is an evil place to shop, and even more to work for. The customers, management, and corporation are nasty to their employees. Many associates and some assistant managers and customer service managers have quit because they couldn't take the unethical aggravation of the corporation and higher management. Open Door Policy does not help everyone. I only hope and pray that if I ever meet up with any of the higher management in the future they will leave me alone.

https://united4respect.org/

Go on here and tell your story

Same for me. No explanation at all. Now I'm supposed to answer to 19yr old that lives with their parents and calls their friends BFF's???
I'm out.

My Wife has been with Walmart 26 years getting closer to retirement, is currently an apm went from 40 hr Monday through Friday to 10 to 12 hr six days a week pulling straight nights threatening to fire her all the time can't do anything good enough think there trying to get her to quit.

I 100% agree with this. My husband and I worked for Sam's Club and we were recently let go for an anonymous complaint. When we asked for information we were told "it's your word against theirs" and nothing more. We have reached out to the Open Door Policy and have not heard anything back and it has been almost 4 weeks. After I had been terminated, info from other associates had made it way to me. All telling me that the complaint came from a new hire, who stated he wanted full time and more money and "now he's going to get it". Walmart/Sam's Club managers in the buildings that I have worked in, have always instilled in the associated that "McDonalds is always hiring. If you don't like how things are, leave". When I first started at Sam's, it felt like a family. Sadly, everytime management changes (which is A LOT) things get worse.

I have worked for Wallmart for 13 years mostly as a csm. Was coached only 1 time in my first year for long lines in the front end. Moved to department manager and within 6 months got a torn rotator. I had to do all of the freight and then all of my department stuff. I kept trying but my shoulder kept getting worse. Now I have what is called frozen shoulder and was coached for productivity. I told my store manager in September I needed to step down due to my shoulder and he said. I problem. They were going to move me to OGP. Then they said they hired people for that position and I would have to wait. Finally they moved me in January and my shoulder was getting better. 4 weeks later they say that I can’t step down because I have a coaching and have to wait for it to come off and move me back to my department. I do my freight as fast as I can because if someone calls out in OGP I have to cover there. My department is a mess because I am only there about half the time and now they have given me my annual review and I got needs improvement. I told my assistant that now I will have to wait a whole year before I can move down because of my review. She says no they will try to go an exception. What they should have done was move me 6 months ago after my MRI was done like they said. I would think that they were trying to get rid of me but I only make 15 an hour and moving to OGP would only make 13.

This is an amazing thread. My wife, carbon copy of many on here. 32 years of impeccable tenure, but within the past year or so could not do anything right. Constant harassment, the coaching (so WM has documentation leading up to the day), and finally termination with no severance. Isn't this all so convenient for Walmart. The common theme in this thread is amazing.
And yes, I agree, an awful company, right up there at the top of the worst of the worst.

Wow thought it was just my store. After reading all these post I realize I'm not alone. If they decided to fire me I will be fighting back. I have always been a hard worker. I never miss work. Willing to change my schedule to accommodate business needs. Always able to keep up. I never considered myself as old until lately. I also feel like this company is doing away with the older employees. It scares me. I planned on retiring from them but doesn't look like I will get the chance. Thanks for sharing your situations. Hopefully I will make retirement there but I doubt it.

Walmart is taking from associate 401k to pay out servant pay to the associate who are leaving there jobs due to jobs going cut.

It’s okay if they let you go. It’s actually a Humane thing for them to do. I’ve been there over 13 years and I don’t know why my hours aren’t cut or why they haven’t fired me yet. I’m just waiting to be out of my punishment. I understand all the bad comments. I’m sure even mgm are treated worse than us. Just try to do your best. Always consider to have test by the company even sabotage by the company in various ways. Like the hourly pay is based off the sales from the year before. I just think it’s all a psychological operation by corporate. I mean why so much micromanagement instead of sales encouragement. If you get to keep your job and have hours then consider it lucky. It’s hard to have that job if you have a family. I can’t believe people date each other at work. Talk about a real problem when it ends bad. But most of the time they end up marrying and working their still from my store. Maybe my Walmart does good or decent sales from them ruining the store. You need to drive over 30 miles to go to a Walmart on average in America. Strange it’s like grocery stores are rare. Eventually anti matter food makers will be in everybody’s home to make any food with anti matter. Will Walmart be using this next? Maybe their just waiting to use it by exploiting much of their available resources before then. They are overconfident as a company. They have various plans for Amazon. Amazon is to nice of a company to exist. Walmart has the experience to outlast Amazon even with robots. Experience counts even for workers of Walmart. If they fire you use your experience it will take you far to be successful in what ever you do. You been fire tested and can be a survivor. No job you’re apply will be worst than that. Even the dollar stores won’t be worst.

I order everything from amazon because it is free shipping and cheaper than using employee discount. I look on wmt then amazon. Amazon wins. Save money and live better.

@f7rql+O5pBfxv I think its the corporate greed. Keep stock holders happy and the upper management getting the big bucks. Keep prices low for customers, but the ones that get the cuts (despite keep the store productive) are the hard working associates that stock, ring, customer service, and just make your shopping experience as smooth as possible.

I always find it funny when they say everyone is replaceable, but some workers arent easily replaceable. Someone that is savvy with finding things, knowing a thing or two of the product, friendly and courtesy that are wiling to go a little further to get you the right thing and leave you satisfied and happy overall. Thats where experience kicks in you get better and better at your job.

This is what happens when you put over educated people at the top. All there schooling told them was to take care of the stock holders. People in the company are not important. Today they have forgetting the most important thing. People spend money with companies that give them the best quality service. You cannot have great service without great associates. Walmart needs to go back the old game plan. Having the best out in front each making things happen. When you walk into a Walmart today and ask a associate. If Walmart has a item or were it is in the store they have not idea. Managers today have no experience training or leader people.

well it wont be long before they fall they have all ready closed 17 stores and a lot more coming. they don't even announce it they are very sneaky they do not want the media to know. they will find out amazon is getting them good they think they are above the law. my mom all ways told me that when people do bad things that what goes around comes around and they will get theres in the end. and it looks like they are going to get it. that's what greed will do to you. they can not even be honest with there associates the next thing to do is keep people from going there to apply no good . I hope that customers stop shopping there when they let me go I am not shopping there no more my neighbors do not shop there that's good. they are one shady company they keep you in the dark.

19 years with the company started in my 20.Now they had a meeting saying no more csm positions and that I must apply for the new position warning me they are not taking everybody and they giving out servants pay and since then all they been doing is harassing me trying to make me quit so I won't even get my severance pay all I want to do is work my shift until the end and go home with my severance pay but for some reason you're so evil she has little demons working for her all of them trying to harass Associates so they could quit .one associate had to quit she never had a problem before working with the company all of a sudden she gets coach twice they coach me too the first month I got there but it was a yellow. I needed my job so bad I just Accepted and took it and smiled and did my best until the end but they still find ways to bother you everyday all I do is pray to God that they stop harassing me everyday I go in there all I want to do is finish out my term and just leave in peace and mind.

A horrible, awful company. A union would stop stop so much of the krap they pull.

I have been working for wal mart 21 years they are forcing me out they did not give me any hours for 1 month they said no hours check back after a month I opened my availability we will see how that goes 7 days a week 11am to 10pm. what line the give me now since they suggested it. they are good at lying, the need a bunch of harassement suits going on. what they are doing is wrong I am going to go to the media and news so that the customers will know how they are treating there older associates . its not like they can go and get another job. customers will stop going there my store is down with customers and the co manager had a meeting and she wanted to know why she is not very bright it don't take a rocket sciencetist to figure its called no help. a mad associate. they will fall soon amazon is getting them. that is there rival. I hope that somebody can get a class action law suit going a lot of people would sign it. I am going to write a lot of letters everybody that I can think of. something has to be done. I will keep you in formed what happens.

Yes they now doing it now in melbourne fl

I read all of your stories and that is what they are doing all of the stories are forms of harassement they need to be stopped. they do not care about you it is all about them. I had one from my store that was there for 22 years and he did self check outs they told him that he had to cashier he has never cashiered in22 years he can not because he shakes so he quit they do not care they are mean he needs to file for harassement I pity the ones that are young there what a mistake they are going to make hope they will read these and think twice. before wasting there time. this will get the word out.

Do other Walmarts cut everyone's hours in Nov, Dec, and especially January? This being due to upper mgmnt making sure labor is low so they can get good bonuses. What about the associates needing income to pay their bills? Wow, I just lost a lot of respect for wmart. Smh

I have worked for Walmart for 15 years. In the past year I just got above $16/hr. As of January 2019 minimum wage in my state went to $15/hr. In 2003 I was not schedule 9 months because I wouldn't open my availability. In February 2019 once again my hours were cut. In July of 2019 they stopped scheduling me again. I was repeatedly told I was not scheduled, only to be notified by another associate in December 2019 that I was terminated. Upon contacting the store manager I was first told that I was given 3 months to change my availability and that I refused. Then he calls me back and tells me that I was terminated due to no call/no show. How do run a 24 hr. business and tell an associate that their hours is no longer acceptable because there is only 3 set shifts?

I've been with walmart for 9 years, started as cashier, CSM the last three years, and have only been coached once over something pretty small. Since, oh I'd say maybe late spring/early summer we have been just horrendously under staffed, to the point where it makes it impossible to get our CSM duties done because we are on registers keeping lines down, or overriding alcohol sales because 98% of our cashiers are minors. We even are expected to clean the bathrooms ourselves and push carts when THEY don't schedule any inside maintenance or cart pushers. The returns situation is constantly insane, and for some reason the bulk of that responsibility usually falls on CSM. My cashiers are not allowed to take their returns to the bins behind the service desk, they have to run them back to their dept. before their break, which does not work since we are so short handed, WE CANT HAVE THE CASHIER GONE FOR THAT LONG TRYING TO TAKE BACK RETURNS, otherwise our other cashiers will not be getting their breaks and lunches on time since i have to stagger lunches because we don't have proper staffing. The amount of returns from the front end piles up during the day because we are so short handed we don't have enough cashiers to delegate to take care of take backs/returns. Most mornings when I am opening CSM, I walk into 5+ carts FULL of returns. One time I counted 18 carts!!!! Over nights doesn't contribute anything for FRONT END of walmart anymore, at least not at my store. They leave one self check out bullpin open over night and one cashier and THATS IT. They take the csm and any of her extra help to other departments, so not only do I walk into carts and carts of returns, I also run into unworked front end freight/other departments freight. On top of all of this, CSM's do NOT get their 15 minute breaks like they are supposed to do, and are constantly being told they should take 30 minute lunches instead of their allowed hour lunch. Several times I have bled through my underwear due to not getting my proper breaks, or even enough time to just pop in the bathroom for a couple minutes to do my business and leave. During our layaway season this year, they took 3 of our cashiers and would schedule them "event associate"...SOMETIMES. Many many MANY times this past holiday season, we had no one scheduled in layaway all day. There were MANY a time where the CSM was not only running the front end, but also getting layaways out for customers. We would tell most of our layaway customers this year that it would be a 25+ minute wait for their items depending on the location. Towards the end of laway they had us completely move all the layaways into new bins by OGP, and MADE US PUT TV'S UP ON THE STEEL, to where we would have to get a ladder and help just to get them down.
There are many things that I am leaving out, that I am just too tired to remember at this point. Since the front end got our "new Team Lead" I have been coached twice, within one month. I got given an ultimatum today to either step down or get coached due to a customer complaining about me being rude 3 weeks ago. For one, why am I being coached for something NO ASSISTANT, OR ASSOCIATE was around to hear. So they will take the word of a customer over an employee who has been there 9 years? Other CSM's I know have had letters to the president written on them about them being rude, but have never been coached like I have. CSMing with a skeleton crew is extremely starting to affect my mental health, and as much as I want the money for the position, I just can't go on being treated so poorly.

College students are lazy and have no work ethics.

i work for walmart...walmart is the devil....i only stay on as to have a front row seat when it sinks in the out out sh–ter it deserves...holiday pay gone,,,now "protected" days....the ceo's couldn't protect their mums if i ever decided so and it's about to happen,,,,greed walmart......told u this is your down fall...2020....its coming and hells coming with it

My husband is also being forced out. He has over 30 years with almost 20 of that as an assistant manager. He has always focused on being a team player, has worked with broken bones, pneumonia, colds, has missed many a school event or holiday event for what? He has been told that he most likely will not have a job come February. They are holding him accountable for things that happen during his days off. It is laughable what they try to pin on him. When he challenges these misconceptions he is told it doesn't matter anyway. I say bring on the payout and let him go. This company used to be a family, there was something called Store within a Store where everyone felt ownership in the company. Now they have gone the way of K-mart, none of those left around now are there? When you have inept leadership this is what happens. The people at the top that keep trying to emulate other companies are doomed to failure. While many say Sam Walton worked the associates to death at least he had a system set up to reward them for the hard work. The CEO's of these large companies are deplorable. Million dollar bonuses for what. Creating game plans, implementing them, and then leaving before they fail for their next big gig. What a joke. Wal-Mart is no longer a good place. I have felt like a widow for years therefore that is what I am leaving this post under. The Wal-Mart Widow.

Shame on you all,..b–ch b–ch and complain,..is that all you know to do. Be grateful you had a job that long!!!

This is so true i was firer on 11/21/19 before my shift ended. Because of my attendance I was told when you reach 6 pts you cannot clock in. Well there has been associates with more then 5 was still working. So when I look at my exit paper they add 11 12. Those numbers are not on my copy I keep copy of my points so I will know they will drop off. So they add those dates in so I will be over. And on 5/29 and 6/24 those points will drop off on the 11/29 and on 12/24 would drop off. So they add 11 12 to make me over points. I Know that what Walmart is doing I had 13 yrs. And my daughter had 10 yrs in she was threatened my our supervisor and report it they said there was other associates over heard her threatened him. They didn't even ask me what happen that day he had his girlfriend come up there with her gun to scare her she report it to the store mgr.Mike he didn't care and said she is licensed to carry so she went over his head. And call home office. Well they firer both but this guy had so many complaints about him. But our store always protect the people that came from his store. So this is why they should have a Union they cannot get away with all the bs. Like no Holiday pay,no more vac time only this Pt0 and ppto it a joke our sick hrs was only to use for family only. So when you call in sick you had to use PTO or ppto and they donot build up fast they lie again. I had 184 hrs of sick time that I build up before they change to the pto and ppto my daughter had 94hrs so when we got firer they did not pay us for those hrs we save and coming to work sick. Walmart has so much money but they take and take . Over nights use to get a 1.00 for working over nights they took 50ct away and they want you to do 60 cases per hr and plus 2-3 department. On Sunday we use to get 1.00 an hour they took that away and only pay us back pay for one year.Sunday pay. Walmart should been SO ASHAMED OF THEY TO TREAT THIER ASSOCIATES LIKE Sh–. ALSO THEY ONLY GET 10% DISCOUNT AND TO WORK ON Black Friday Thanksgiving Day they extra 15% that's 25% which Walmart is making Millions of dollars but give the Associates 25% Which they have use or lose it before certain dates .REALLY WALMART HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHTS.

This is so true i was firer on 11/21/19 before my shift ended. Because of my attendance I was told when you reach 6 pts you cannot clock in. Well there has been associates with more then 5 was still working. So when I look at my exit paper they add 11 12. Those numbers are not on my copy I keep copy of my points so I will know they will drop off. So they add those dates in so I will be over. And on 5/29 and 6/24 those points will drop off on the 11/29 and on 12/24 would drop off. So they add 11 12 to make me over points. I Know that what Walmart is doing I had 13 yrs. And my daughter had 10 yrs in she was threatened my our supervisor and report it they said there was other associates over heard her threatened him. They didn't even ask me what happen that day he had his girlfriend come up there with her gun to scare her she report it to the store mgr.Mike he didn't care and said she is licensed to carry so she went over his head. And call home office. Well they firer both but this guy had so many complaints about him. But our store always protect the people that came from his store. So this is why they should have a Union they cannot get away with all the bs. Like no Holiday pay,no more vac time only this Pt0 and ppto it a joke our sick hrs was only to use for family only. So when you call in sick you had to use PTO or ppto and they donot build up fast they lie again. I had 184 hrs of sick time that I build up before they change to the pto and ppto my daughter had 94hrs so when we got firer they did not pay us for those hrs we save and coming to work sick. Walmart has so much money but they take and take . Over nights use to get a 1.00 for working over nights they took 50ct away and they want you to do 60 cases per hr and plus 2-3 department. On Sunday we use to get 1.00 an hour they took that away and only pay us back pay for one year.Sunday pay. Walmart should been SO ASHAMED OF THEY TO TREAT THIER ASSOCIATES LIKE Sh–.

I worked for Wal-Mart for 30 years and was just let go. It was called a business decision. Is there anyone from Canada on here?

WE need to do something about his asap. Where are you all from?

Walmart won't need expensive experienced humans once they wall off the main portion
of their buildings from the public ( can't shoplift if you can't reach it ).
What used to be the main store will become a warehouse designed to accommodate robots that pull orders and restock holding shelves.
I imagine the wall will leave openings for the conveyor belts of the cash registers so that packages
can be quickly transferred from the back area to the customers.
The lobby will be populated by terminals for consumers to order and pick up.
The new efficient design will effectively double the capacity of the building which will justify the initial expense of retrofitting for robotic occupation. And robots work for less than peanuts, work 24 hrs a day, and rarely call in sick. And they don't have pesky family members that interfere with profits.
They'll only need humans to load orders into customers cars, tidy up the lobby, and shoo the homeless out of the lobby. Those are tasks even today's young generation can handle. Maybe.

I encourage everyone who has been terminated and you feel you were set up and it was based on age, which would included years of service as well to file a complaint with The Equal opportunity Office and give them a statement. The more people we have file a complaint the better changes we have for them to open up a class action suit against them! If you don’t send in a complaint and a action suit does occur you won’t be included. So get one sent in! I’m in the middle of completing my statement and I’ll be mailing mine in the next few days. You have approximately 180 days from the date you were let go to send it in. Again, the more people who submit a complaint the better chances we have because this company hates bad publicity!

Sam was Walton was nobody's friend. He worked the hell out of his employees for the least he could pay. He went to court to fight minimum wage several times. He was a crook out for SAM Walton no one else. Today the managers know no respect for long term employees.

All of us who have been terminated need to band together and we urgently have to get the word out! One or two of us won’t do. We need a massive amount of people to file a suit! Get our stories and issues written down and have a meeting. If we can get an attorney who is willing to listen to us, we can take this nationwide. They’re being sneaky and evil on long term associates and firing them.
The last alternative would be to go public!
We all have basically the same stories. If necessary we can blast it on social media or even go on tv and expose they’re underhanded corruption.

I agree. I was let go Sept 2019
Here's your last check see ya
Horrible. Csm 10 years out the door in middle of shift. Crying and in shock when I got home. Unemployment stinks bills rent due
They don't care. Forget open door policy. Never called back. Worked hard from part time to full time with benefits. Had appts that week. No more insurances
K–led my back
Do they care? Nope. Good riddance. Found full time at Home Depot in two weeks
Walmart treats workers like trash

I was with the company for over 28 years and in those years I was a model employee! Moved up to dept mgr for several depts. Was a ZMS for 3 years. Returned to dept mgr when that position was eliminated. Always had a good evaluation. Then was capped out of pay and was given more duties to do from positions that were no longer. For instances we now have to do our own returns, zone our depts do our own defectives! Granted we did do some of these routines but no by yourself as it is now.
In all the years I’ve worked there was I told I wasn’t doing my job correctly. But then we get this new store mgr who comes in and right away he’s on a witch hunt to get rid of long term associates and blankly set them up to fail! Gets rid of your help or if you do get help they would immediately pull them to other depts leaving you to do all the work needed to be done! I would have pallets on the floor of freight not touched that were left by overnights because they would send them to the consumable depts. Because that was their main focus. Hardline depts were left to do their own work! I would have to go up front along with other dept mgrs to sort through a huge line of shopping carts of returns and separate everything in those carts into other carts. We would be up there everyday for two hours and then was instructed to put them away and then after that was done go and help the other depts put away their returns as Well! By the time all this was done we had to make sure we had our depts zone, merchandise was off the floor and pallets of freight were completed! Then we had to do our section work, price changes and notes for the day finished! There wasn’t enough time to get it all done! You would ask for help from your Co-Mgr and your immediate assistant mgr and they wouldn’t lift a finger to help you or get you help! How do you coach a dept mgr out of a job they’ve been doing for years and you’ve called your market mgr, you’ve called the Ethics hotline and placed your concerns to only get ignored. They say there’s an Open Door to voice your situations and that door gets slammed in your face because they’re all against you. You are your only savior but you are the only one defending yourself! No one has your back, no one comes to your side. So you are left to fend alone! They can get away with all of this because there is fear of retaliation that if you voice your concern you are out of there! This is a company that was founded on the belief that we all are Team players and we help each other out. But when you have just the dept mgrs doing the Bulk of the work it doesn’t get done. There was never enough cashiers so they would call all associates to the front to check customers out. If you’re a long term associate you know how to use the registers so they would call you up there as well. Then you have mods that have to be done and you had to do those also because there were only three mod associates and half the time they would pull the. To do other mods not pertaining to your dept. After you left for the night of doing the mods you would have no one in your dept all day and the carts of returns would accumulate and you came into another mess of returns! So you would spend half the night getting rid of them and continued on your mods that now puts you behind on!
I could go on and on about all the shady things this company has done to long term associates but it won’t matter no one listens. I am now as of today fighting to keep unemployment pay cause they are trying to appeal it. Something needs to done and addressed about what they are doing and it’s in a matter that they aren’t being called out on cause they’re being sneaky how they’re going about it!

I am shocked they haven’t been sued over ageism. Matter of time, in my opinion.

Interesting. I just got hired as an associate by Walmart for close to $14 per hour and I'm in my 60's. Everyone is friendly and warm. I don't get your complaints. I live in Oregon.