Guess this is the problem with transparency? .com has always had a different benefit structure that’s been (better). But since we are (combined), in theory, it’s more apparent now. (This is literally, (separate but equal) (doesn’t feel good does it?)
Bentonville has always cried EDLP/EDLC, but now upset over (key talent) perks and want the same. Revolt
And then what, @gbae? Pack up that shiny new degree and move to Northern California and live in a 400 square foot POS shack with a $3000/month mortgage payment? Who is the stupid one here? Enjoy your Cabernet and your beaches, though, fool.
Just study and go get skills stop whining like punks. Either that or go back to farming or wherever the hell you people did before technology it is 2017 Folks wake the hell up lol
There is really no reason all non-tech positions shouldn’t be based in Bentonville. It’s a fallacy to suggest the company can’t attract talent in these areas to Bentonville because they’ve been doing just that for decades, and as noted below, a good many of the associates in San Bruno were recruited OUT of the Home Office.
A startling disconnect exists between what goes on in San Bruno vs. Bentonville in these customer-facing positions, not to mention widespread redundancy in roles and responsibilities. Lots of left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, or perhaps more accurately, not caring and doing their own thing because they think they know better. And there’s no accountability for such behavior either. It does our customers a tremendous disservice not to have a unified strategy across both dotcom and in-store.
Good point about the talent they hire. seems like most of them come from failed companies like yahoo.
Dot.com benefits are structured as such to attract talent, yet they recruit Bentonville-based associates? Why should non-tech associates have better benefits than HO? I've been to the San Bruno office many times and they are not hiring talent. In fact, majority of the Dot.com associates have never stepped foot in a Walmart. Dot.com leadership claims to only hire college graduates from top 20 universities wanting "the best of the best". That's a disgrace to the organization.
This is amplified now as we have a forum where people can see things like this.
I did not know about the disparity, frankly, I have never looked at this info nor had interest.
It's only after reading it here that I've got pissed.
I hate injustice...
That IS their intention for Bentonville ISD to die on the vine, unionized or not doesn’t change a thing
If you attempt to unionize they will shut your location permanently.
Labor unions? In the the heart of red state territory that has historically been anti-union? Not gonna happen. It is too late for that. Unionization would break the WMT business model and business attitudes towards unionization are not shifting.
The bottom line is that WMT is a mature company, and as such will have to adjust the organization structure and business model to remain competitive as the customer evolves. WMT’s tenure and relationship based culture will adjust to be more peformance-based. The dot com benefits packages are catered to the supply and demand factors associated with attracting, recruiting, and retaining the talent in that space.
Unionize.