When I was hired a little over 11 years ago, I first interviewed three times, each by a separate manager for a different area of the store, all one after the other on the same day. I was offered three different positions and had to choose one of them. I chose to work overnight. It then took three weeks to get me in the door for a two day orientation that I ended up sitting through by myself. A week later I started. That's a month, folks. A month. Four weeks to get me in the door so I could begin earning $10.50 per hour. At the time I thought it was such a joke. But the country was mired in the sh*tstorm caused by the the mortgage securities crash and jobs were not exactly growing on trees so one took whatever low-hanging fruit was being dangled in front of them.
Fast forward to today and we apparently have a process that is no better. The bulk of it is conducted entirely online - with the exception of the interview, if one is selected. After that, it all seems to go back online till they finally bring you in for orientation....as far as I can tell. The reason I'm even bringing this up is a friend of the family has a son who is has finished nearly three years of college and has to get a job while he finishes what he has left. He applied online and was set up for an interview, did the interview, and then received an offer a week later. He accepted the offer, waited another week for the next email, and was sent the exact same offer again. Can someone please tell me what the (expletive) is going on? Have we completely lost our minds with how this process should progress? He asked me about this and I had no answers for him. I didn't know it had gotten this disingenuous and impersonal. So I told him to walk away. Take the other job he was considering and see this as a sign that this is not in his best interest even if it's only going to be a job that he hangs on to for another year and a half. Avoid it like the plague, as they used to say. And we wonder why all we get in here for new hires - on such an infrequent basis, I might add - is the low-hanging (and rotting) fruit that's left available to us. The shoe is now on the other foot.
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New hire?!!!!! I'm already an associate, and had to fill out an application, be interviewed, and take a test to go from a part time position to a full time position in the SAME position I already worked! It took three months. Three months. Unbelievable. WORKDAY is a joke.
@1hac - Thank you for that response. I hope you and others like you will stick around and continue to feel inclined to move the discussion in an informative way.
Just search online for Workday. A bloated business that talks only about it's good side and never all the bad that still plagues them to this day.
Workday has a bunch of corps and colleges and claims to be the cloud HR every big business needs. But then they hire anyone with a pulse and zero knowledge and experience with HR. They give them a script to read and the top brass waits for that big old check. So when you call in to that 800 number you are speaking with someone making just barely above minimum wage at if they are lucky $10 an hour. Do you think they are going to invest any real time in your problems?
So far we have encountered at least 12 new hires that were not in the system for their first day. One had to wait 3 months before Workday finally got them added. Also had 3 accept offers with us and then accept offers from Walmart.
There are still a lot of weird glitches in the new system. He would have to come in and talk to a Manager to get them to call the personnel company and get it straightened out. That is a solution that I wouldn't advise. I think you told him the right thing - at this point no one should be starting down this road. If you're already on it, fine otherwise steer clear if you have viable options.
Yup, done too much time here. It has become a disgusting place to work. From HO, to Regionals, to Market managers and many CM's, no one cares if anything is done right, let alone ethical.
I wonder if they inform these new hires that alot of there shifts will only be 4 hours.
New hire, trying to transfer within the company is a headache..