Karma is hell. By the time RM's like "Sasquatch" and MM's like "Tiny Tim" get what is coming to them, I will be living easy and laughing over an adult beverage. Good luck to all the little people who work where the rubber meets the road in the upcoming weeks.
The repost:
I feel for everyone who is losing their job over the idiocracy of the Home Office. I spent 10 years in the Home Office and during the last 4 years of that I saw the same thing - good people being fired. Ofttimes, because they make too much. Ageism was a huge part of it. Targeting those over 50 along with those making too much money in the eyes of the company. Included in that was people who had the audacity to use their health benefits. (Walmart is self-insured. That could not estimate their costs year-to-year to save their soul. Every year they were underwater.) They then started targeting the remaining associates they wanted gone by giving them bad evaluations. That was the kiss of death for your career at Walmart. By doing this, you were not entitled to any severance package or unemployment. (And Walmart skimped on the Vaseline during all of this.)
And you ask yourself why as you find yourself without a job? It's simple. Walmart has become run by a bunch of incompetent village id–ts. (Home Office) They thought they were King S#!t sitting on top of the mountain. They rested on their laurels. They allowed Amazon to pass them by while they sat there thinking because they were the biggest, they were the best. Not anymore. Plus, too many other retailers have emerged as better over-all than Walmart.
As for me? I left of my own volition. (You can demand more money while employed.) I took a side trip making a little more money but got laid off after 2 years. I landed on my feet making $30k more than my last year at Walmart.
I now use Walmart as my very last shopping option. I shop at the Dollar stores, Aldi's, Whole Food's, Trader Joe's and Fresh Thyme where the employees are treated better. It's my personal boycott. It won't make much of a difference to the bottom line. But it makes me feel better because of the horrific treatment of their associates.