Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

Walmart's Forced Rankings

The Home Office has gone to a burn and churn aka forced rankings method for their evaluations.

Breaking it down, a certain % of associates are mandatorily ranked in the 5 groups of needs improvement, below expectations, meets expectations, exceed expectations and role model regardless of actual performance. Performance no longer matters much.

Now, these are hypothetical percentages and I have no way to really know what they are but 15% are designated as needs improvement and will be termed; 10% will be below expectations and given a slim chance to improve; and 64% will be ranked as meets expectations. These bottom 3 ranks will get no pay increase. 10% will be ranked above expectations and get some semblance of a pay raise while the remaining 1% get the promotions and higher pay raises.

This is how it works. I was witness to this at the Home Office. I saw associates of 20+ years with exceeds expectations or higher on every evaluation suddenly get a below expectations. How does an associate manage that after 20 years in the Home Office? It's to get rid or people making too much money.

This method has filtered down to the stores including changing the rules such as no incentive or pay raise if you have too many points.

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This is a b—s— post. I give evaluations and not once have I been told that a certain amount has to be anything. It really makes no difference anymore what a eval is because it plays no part in your raise. Not one single time as a manager have I ever went and looked what someone’s past eval was if they wanted to come to my area because I can see with my own eyes what someone’s work ethic is. There’s also many managers that have there favs and thinks very highly of someone and they actually s—. I’ve taken associates on that I’ve been told were horrible and they actually worked good for me and it’s usually because that person got on his/her previous managers bad side. I can imagine about 80% of the people posting on this site are the same ones that call in on a consistent basis and could give a c-ap about his coworkers. If the company gave everyone a 1000 bonus you are the ones that would be on here b–ching the next day because it should of been 2000. Let the voting down begin.

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100% true! Same with OP. This is a disgusting company to work for. Frauds, liars & cheats to all of us. Integrity means nothing at Sam's Club and if you have any while working there, they will certainly teach you how to lose it if you're weak minded like many "leaders" here.

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This is true. I was on a conference call last year at evaluation time. We had all turned in evaluations on our staff but they were not yet finalized. We were told that we needed to "correct" our evaluations because the average rating was too high and we needed more evaluations below standard. We were also told that our own evaluations would not necessarily align with our club's performance on the metrics. I then myself received a development needed rating with virtually no supporting documentation or discussion. All previous evaluations were good. However, I was a long term associate, over 50, and had taken a week off for necessary surgery in December. This company actively practices age discrimination IMHO.

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