Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

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I hope this person does not mind me posting his work here. I could have written this post. This company flagrantly practices age discrimination. Beware. Take care of yourselves. This company has the moral authority of one of their Chinese sweatshops in the are of the treatment of their long-term associates. Karma is hell, tho. The person who replaced me lasted 4 months before resigning due to excessive stress.

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If you’re over 50 and had any medical issues, you’re on the HR watch list. And yes it does exist. The matrix Walmart uses is based on age, LOA, and pay band penetration. if you have medical issues it is waited highly for termination. HR users a nine box graph to rate performance based on the above. I had Excellent reviews with meets and exceeds expectation from all of my managers. After I had surgery there was a leader ship change and my manager moved to a different department. The new manager 30 years younger, decided I was no longer useful and began writing me up claiming performance issues. I contacted the investigations group and filed a complaint for harassment and age discrimination. After exactly 6 months my complaint was closed and I was told Walmart could not disclose any information I provided to them. The negative performance reviews and harassment escalated to having two weekly meetings explaining my position and maintaining an hourly task timesheet. ( I was a senior salary manager at the corporate office). My advice, Walmart was a decent place to work sometime back, There are better companies to work for so don’t get your helps up and start working for Walmart. I haven’t worked for Walmart for two years, I don’t miss it

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Post ID: @OP+13fkq74A

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Those MM, regionals VP's etc. always like to take pictures of clubs not ready 100% at all hours of every day even during the busiest holiday hours. A good lawyer can subpoena all pictures and see how consistent those tools are in holding "accountability". Guarantee everyone knows who the targets are & who the kiss up pets are. No club/store anywhere in retail is perfect all the time if they are bringing in the customers. We have plenty of pictures everywhere to show that at Sam's. I see the MM's & Regionals come in for their high & mighty "visits" and it as a sad, pathetic life those who "lead" that way live. They will get their own medical issues just being those type of people.

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Post ID: @yhw+13fkq74A

Someone should have a legal team look into this. Definitely happening and all evidence is discoverable including how quickly they held BS "accountability" against those being targeted. No history of performance issues and within months of a medical issue, get "laid off" or terminated??Zero integrity business practices need to stop at Walmart. Class action exploration

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Post ID: @nty+13fkq74A

100% true. 4 years ago I had medically required surgery and within 4 months, 3 months after returning to work, I got "laid off". Started the BS "performance" issues 3 weeks after returning from 6 week medical leave. Just disgusting. So many people & 2 lawyer friends recommended suing them. Hind sight, I should have but I'm so much better for just moving on with my life. Karma will bite Sam's Club/Walmart and its lying deceitful leaders soon enough. I see it already happening and God willing they get whats coming. And yeah, I'm 52 also.

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Post ID: @rnl+13fkq74A

@OP This is so true. I worked in the Home Office for 10 years and saw this for my last 5. I had someone on my team with the trifecta - they were over 50, had 20+ years with the company and had triple bypass heart surgery.

Leadership knows who they want to target. A list is presented to their legal team and they will approve or reject it. If rejected, the list gets revised, possibly multiple times, until 'approved' making it 'legal.'

After the HO got rid of their initial 10-20% (and maybe more), they went to the rank and yank policy of evaluations. I saw many consistent above average associates suddenly get rated below average and that became the kiss of death for their jobs. No PIP was available to them to keep their jobs.

Ageism and selective targeting is alive and well made the HO an absolute pathetic and miserable place to work.

As for my story, I was laid-off at my job before joining Walmart. (Let it be known, the HO under pays like they do at the store level.) I took about a $12k pay cut. It took 2 years to gain that back. When I left I got about a $30k pay raise. So yes, there are better jobs out there that pay and treat their employees better. Don't be afraid to take that leap of faith and leave that HO job of desperation and despair for something better. You owe it to yourself!

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