Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

Yes.. I was never informed about the PPTO being taken for Holiday pay either. Learned my lesson real quick with Thanksgiving. It never crossed my mind as I worked my 40 hours. However I have since found out you have to go on the wire as if you were trying to take time off.. Go to the Holiday day (the day the store is closed) and input 0 hours.. Then submit for approval.. Eye roll!! Now your manager has the option to approve you saving your PPTO or wasting it, so you can run out and accrue points! Really screwed up!! If you want paid for that day you should have to submitted just like any other day off.. Not the other way around!

I would just like to point out that not, "EVERY SINGLE" position has recieved pay raises. Cashiers haven't either. Also, I agree that you do have an important role & a heavy work load as a merchandiser/floor partner. Cashiers/ Frontline also have an important role & heavy work load. Most of us do not get an opportunity to stand still & breath very often as we are unloading & reloading carts, listening to complaints, (most of which are re: what they couldn't find on the floor or we don't carry anymore, or why we are out of an item, how long the lines are, the price is wrong, etc.etc.etc... All of this while we have to keep our SPI under 3 seconds & try to encourage mbrs to upgrade &/or apply for credit. It's alot of lifting, bending, trying to assist with all of their issues while smiling at them & trying to address all of their concerns so that they will leave having had a positive experience. This affects everyone's bonus.

@nrs...feel your pain

OP try this going forward. On any Holiday that the club is closed your PTO is going to automatically be added so you will receive your total hours for the week because you should have an extra day off. If you do not want to use your PTO simply ask your manager to remove it, that you prefer not to use it. If you are getting paid for your PTO then it’s not stealing it was on your paycheck. I can see now if you received your check and your hours were short you would be posting on here how the company screwed you and didn’t add your PTO so you would have all your hours. The company does a lot of stupid c-ap yes it does but some of the c-ap on here is not the company it’s people with no freaking common sense. The person who posted about receiving has a legitimate complaint and if any of you haven’t worked in receiving then go give it a try. Nothing like trying to unload trucks and no room and then some hero off the floor brings back a stack of empty pallets and drops them right in your way and walk away leaving the damn pallet jack in the pallets. By the way yes managers will be cut. One of our managers quit and they already said she would not be replaced and they changed up the responsibilities of the remain8ng managers.

Being a former PTC helper, yes if you have the PTO it will automatically drop in an average of hrs worked in the last couple months for that holiday that we are closed. I still run a report of hrs worked vs. hrs scheduled and the holiday pay is showing. Sometimes it looks like overtime due to working 5 days and getting that PTO pay. With a PTC there, it was easier to have those hrs removed and put back in your 'bank'. Now not so easy with managers doing so many different tasks, it's not a priority. I would do it if I could for associates, but no access. We really need a PTC back or someone similar to help our associates!

I have never had PTO taken automatically for any holiday. I don't understand where all these rumors originate from. If you want to get paid, then you put it in the system yourself. If not then it is unpaid.

Once they went to pto it automatically takes hours for holidays we are closed. That hasnt changed. You dont need a PTC associate to remind you of that every holiday. Adult a little.

For me block scheduling is the one issue I struggle with on an almost obsessive level. I know why they did it - that part is crystal clear. But what I am most frustrated with is how rife with flaws it appears to be. What compounds this frustration is that almost every other club in this market is also struggling with it. So why would they willingly create a situation like this and just walk away? Is it simply a matter of execution and every club is just failing to do so? Or is it really a system that was poorly laid out from the beginning? The person who posted about it actually being possible to successfully pull it off here the other day, has managed to make me question whether it really isn't just a case of store management dropping the ball. At least this person laid out a scenario where it has the appearance of being somewhat workable. Now all we have to do is get the right people in here and give it a shot, right?

Which brings me to my next point of frustration: Workday. Right before they rolled out Block Scheduling, they sc-apped PTC and divvied up the responsibilities to the managers and team leads. Why? Well, obviously money. But, in doing so, they created another system rife with flaws. The wait time for new hires was long enough in the past that it hindered our ability to get them in here quickly and put them on the floor. Now it seems they've managed to make that situation far worse. Is this another area where club management is just dropping the ball but pointing the finger elsewhere? I'm starting to question that, too. Even if this is the case, it doesn't make sense to me that personnel is outsourced. I don't think that the managers themselves should have to take on those matters, with all the other issues they already are mired in. Every club should still have a PTC and PTC assistant.

Receiving/Claims (i.e. Backroom) is another issue that causes stress for me, particularly because I'm the backroom guy from 3:00 PM to 11:30 PM and I am told that I have to process claims, too. How? Where in the grand scheme of my day does that activity find itself most plausibly undertaken? When I come in at 3 to a totally overrun dock area and I still have deliveries forthcoming, do you honestly think that I'm going to worry about claims? No. I'm going to try and get rid of as much if this goddamn freight as I can, so I have the space I need to roll out the red f—ing carpet for all the new freight that I have to get into the building. Claims can pound sand. Which brings me back to Block Scheduling....how is one person supposed to be able to move well over a hundred pallets of freight every night when they only have 3 hours of total access to the floor with a forklift? And then on top of that, how can they do it quickly when they have to play Tetris with the freight in the steel on an almost constant basis because no one is out there dropping at least the same amount of freight on to the floor to be stocked?

Jesus Christ....it's ten in the morning and I need a drink. And I have to f—ing work tonight!