Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

I agree both depts should be getting more than they receive! Half of bakery only packages bread but gets paid 15 a hour while the lot guys busy their butts everyday only to get yelled out that they are not working fast enough in 120 degree wether to get paid 12 a hour so unfair!!!

But it is a no skills job. Even a monkey can push carts. I started on carts. Took less then 5 minutes to train me. Try receiving out for a wile. You will want to go back to carts.

We have four maintenance people. Two do amazing jobs, but sadly our bathrooms are still filthy. And who clean up spills, all of us do when we cannot find a maintenance associated due to ridiculous scheduling or because they are out at gas, spotting a forklift, you name it, they do it.

Cart Guys and Maintenance People....No one really wants to do what you do. But if you don't do them, they will find a way to get them done. Hell, they'll just assign them to all of us if they have to. Maybe that's what they'll do anyway. One thing is for certain: You won't see them rolling up their sleeves and taking those tasks on any time soon. But maybe you will be rewarded financially. Maybe you'll wind up with both responsibilities in exchange for that raise you seek. Be careful what you wish for. Walmart execs seem to think that if they up the pay for a position or set of positions, then that gives them the green light to eliminate another position or set of positions, and then redistribute those responsibilities among who is left. The problem with that is very simply this: They keep doing it to the effect that they don't know where to stop once they've reached the point at which the various stresses they've caused, begin to crack apart and the operation starts to fail. Anyone who ever went to the beach as a child remembers how digging too many tunnels under their sandcastles would eventually result in the structure itself weakening and falling apart. You can thin out the herd by removing the ones who are less capable of handling multiple tasks effectively and keep only the ones who are highly capable and productive, pay them a little more, and you will still reach a stage at which those people become overwhelmed and unable to handle everything they are being relied upon to provide. This situation had been gradually brewing when they began playing around with team lead positions out on the floor a couple of years ago while trimming down the night crew by way of attrition over the transition from the "sales-driven stocking", program to the introduction of CIM. From 2008 to 2013, overnight crews were essentially cut in half. Removing the audit team and attaching those tasks to the team leads, getting rid of claims, cutting day time receiving down, and then assigning claims to those remaining in receiving, going third party with personnel, and finally, the removal of the night crew entirely and replacing it with block scheduling, and here we are. Of course, within all the above-mentioned changes there have been numerous others, many of which I can't identify simply because I am not fully aware of all of them, but they're still not f—ing done. People wonder where it all ends and what positions are safe. The answer is it doesn't end and there are no safe positions unless you're the puppet CEO because they always have to have one of those. Maybe the end of all this is the "Sam's Club Now", thing they're playing around with. Maybe it's a combination of store closings and Sam's Club Now. Maybe they dump both and eventually decide to abandon Sam's Club altogether over the next five years or something. Maybe they can all go f— themselves and all of us abandon them. This is a sinking ship. Either you go down with it and enjoy the scenery or you take the initiative to look for something else and get out while you still possess some semblance of your own sanity.

The club I USED to work at was in Southwest Florida. The lot guys were great. Add the blacktop with the unbearable heat here and I don't know how they did it!

Your maintenance crew is highly different then ours. Our crew can barely muster to clean the breakroom and a bathroom. Though we do have one gentlemen who is an amazing worker.

In my club the only associates that go out to help carts is the floor associates and merch leads. No one else cares.

All positions will eventually get a raise but with that raise will come more responsibility every position that has seen an increase has also seen an increase in the workload be careful what you wish for