Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

It’s not you getting a point for this one time and then getting fired it’s the 8 you already have. I honestly believe if your appendix ruptured as you say and had to go to the ER then it would be excused and you would occur no points. To have 8 points in a 6 month period is quiet a bit so you calling in seems to be a normal thing and your coworkers are the ones suffering. There’s real emergencies when people actually need to miss and then there’s people who thinks it’s ok to call in for the simplest things and you seem to be the second one.

At my store we have people with more then 5 points and some that should have a lot more then 5 but somehow they keep disappearing. We have a morning floor team lead that told some of us a month ago that she has 5 points and has called off at least 5 or 6 times since. So we asked one of the other team leaders and he looked and said that she isnt showing any points so where'd they go? We had a maintenance guy they finally fired when he hit 14 points and we have another guy in electronics that calls off at least once a week at last count he said he should be around 18 points. Seems like at our store the point system doesn't matter.

8 points? Our store fires everyone at 5!! You should be thankful! I hope you bought your manager a nice gift for letting you get to 8 points!

Understand when parentheses are used around a sentence, it's a quote.

This:

“My appendix ruptured while at work and because I already had eight points, I could not leave work to go to the ER without pointing out and losing my job. I should have been able to leave to go to the ER and not worry about losing my job. I had even said to management, ‘So if I fall out because of my appendix and have to go out in an ambulance…I will get a point and lose my job?’ The response from "management was, ‘Yes.’"

was a quote taken from the article.

@12IxYREe-1zia. I feel you big time.

I had called in sick only one day in 10 years. Then, I had to have surgery for a hernia. I missed work for 15 days total, 8 of which were covered by PTO that I had already scheduled months earlier and decided to use for this purpose to minimize disruption to work. I came back despite being told repeatedly by Sedgwick that I was entitled to take 42 days for the specific surgery that I had undergone . The market manager toured my department in my absence and I was written up and given a substandard evaluation rating within 6 weeks of my return despite the fact that I had never previously received such a rating nor had I ever received any negative feedback. I used 4 days of short term disability and 1 sick day in 10 years. Don't commit the sin of working for this company while under the influence of growing older.

Like others have said ya had 8 points...I do agree in this situation you should be excused without a point to go the ER. But then again if you didn't call out 8 times in the last 6 months you wouldn't be in this situation.

You see this is a situation you created and are trying to pin the fault on the company and its policy. Which is complete bullsmack. We all know the point system an points drop off after 6 months.

Also do you know when you do call out others on your team feel the need to work harder so pick up your slack. Yes we all get sick and it happens, but I've seen all too often people just don't want to work so they call out, guess what I don't want to work either but it's what I get paid to do...show up for work an get it done.

You applied for the job, not the other way around.

The 1st 2 comments are obviously from people who are not reading the article..

My God, scarier than the original article is how many people voted up the nasty comments.

You had 8 points??? You should have been fired 3 points ago.

Management can approve for you to leave and you won't get a point even if you don't have enough protected pto, I had a emergency and my store manager approved for me to leave and I did not get a point. Unless you were abusing the attendance policy and always calling out. Then no why should they excuse your point if you had 8 points you should have been gone along time ago SORRY