We had some layoffs in early summer and a couple of guys left on their own right after that. Nothing too strange, but after that nobody was hired, so we’re operating severely understaffed for a few months now and no new hires are on the horizon. Did any other club have a similar situation?
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Our store is hiring like crazy , everyday more new faces as cashiers no one on the floor. We only lost about 5 to 10 people when block scheduling came out. We didn't lose any long term people and there are quite a few. I just still don't get how we are going to deal with Christmas on these hours ? No way can we get anything stocked like we did on overnights. Last year several of us got pulled to go back on overnights, I hope it happens again ,I did already volunteer to do it.
temps, temps,temps everywhere with no supervision or accountability! Associates expected to coach these people. Everyone getting less done. Stocking & store appearance woefully short of where we were 6 mo. ago!
I am the only associate assigned to my department. With the new block schedule Am off 2 days in a row. A couple leads and a manager try to cover the department but it's not the same. Always a nightmare when I come back.
Supposed to be someone from another department transferring over but they are short staffed too.
Had a member comment to me today that stocking should be done overnight. Duh.
STAFF you have a STAFF, Your one of the lucky ones.
#2wkt.. you must be in CA.
Our club is a joke...mismanagement of the front end, piss poor scheduling, putting people into leadership roles who don't have a clue how to be a leader. Horrible associates who run their mouths constantly against their supervisors and who gossip and lie about their co-workers. It is worse than high school. Hiring people just to fill the void, as long as you are a warm body your hired!!!! Training is a joke, taking CBL's is a joke, communication, did I say that? There is no communication unless you are a favorite chosen one. I go to work everyday, I never call in, I do more than my share and all I want along with others is to be treated fairly, not so much by managers, but by our co-workers. Respect for the individual is dead in our club. I know I went off the subject matter of this post, just had to vent. We are very short staffed...Usually 1 at the most 2 checkouts open at one time...
Working 50 plus hours a week for 4 weeks now.
ah yes understaffing...we have been understaffed fo about 10 years. We are a medium sales club. Yet we have been club of the year in the market more than once. Our GMs have been given many kudos by home office. Heck one of our GMs even got a blue jacket.
Now these hand claps and accolades come only one way and that is how the club performs financially. Our GMs have faired so well by purposefully keeping us understaffed. Keep those payroll dollars down and you get a big thumbs up. Since we can not compete in sales with the big boys we keep our financials in shape by not ever having enough people.
Workday might be an issue for sure but believe me you will never ever have what is in your opinion enough people. Your managers will become more and more irritable and demand more and more. Eventually when there is not enough being done coachings will commence . It will not matter that you have been a runner , had a lift out 5 times in the last hour . helped at jewelry and photo, answered questions 10 times and still have break and lunch to go you had better have that 6 pallet pod built and the stuff you took off the pod worked into the run and the remainder skids wrapped tagged and ready for the steel. Not to mention have the OYI and No location reports done. Oh and can you do an audit today?....
As far as home office is concerned. If you are making sales everything is just fine. Cut one more EMPLOYEE and see what happens. Club still running fine. Cut one more.
We can continue to look at what all this internal contraction of jobs at every club really spells out and speculate all we want as to what Bentonville is really trying to do. But my thought process has always been that these are not decisions made by people who have any experience working at the store level. They can't be. For years I've seen these changes roll out one by one and I've always maintained that most of these things would never be suggested by people had they any knowledge of how a store works and what is truly required for it to be able to fully function from the backroom straight on up to the front, seemlessly, whereby all bases are sufficiently covered and members are being taken care of they way they should. The emphasis has been moved entirely away from those standards and expectations in the last five years. The only real goal is to operate every store as economically as possible, with as little as possible, in order to just stay in business. I don't know about the rest of you, but to me, this is a liquidation only not with product. We all know what usually follows a liquidation.
Workday is a huge part of the problem. It took 3 weeks just to get my job code changed
Understaffed? Absolutely. The people at the Bentonville facility don't seem to think it matters. If all the Sam's Clubs close, how many of you at Bentonville will still have a job?
yep, pull people from what they were hired to then they wonder why there are no carts, poor optical sales, no deposit being made
My club been short staff about a year before block scheduling hit once that was in place it got so much worse we have 20 temps in the morning 20 temps at night we got more temps then actual employees
Yes my club is.
There is always call ins on top of being under staffed and then associates taking vacations.
It's so so BAD....
Going thru workday isa pain and they are prob struggling to learn it to get people hired.
YEP, exactly the same at our Club. They are offering OT to everyone because of the staff shortage but I do not understand why they are not hiring to fill the positions!
Most... downsizing through attrition until the next round of layoffs/job eliminated