Wtf is this new fresh training? Cross training in every department? Can anyone tell me how this is supposed to work?
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Walmart would do this when they had 10 managers in the building. Each one would pull you to do one of their tasks before you even finished the first second or third. It became a power grab and you suffered
And this is the reason Block Scheduling is terrible. Cross-training is great and all, but when you belong to a department and work it every day you get good at it (faster and more productive, more knowledge, better member service, etc.) and develop a sense of ownership and pride in your area – you want it to to look great and perform well because it's YOUR area.
Go Cat Go is exactly right. I’m a bakery associate at the moment and I’d like to think I take complete pride in my area bc I know I have to come back into the same area the rest of the week. Some of these people already don’t do their own job. Now you expect them to go work another area?? Yeah right.well see how long this stupid sh– lasts.
If your being sent into different dept. everyday then things are going to be in wrong places , signs missing shelfs a total mess. Clothing would be a nightmare ,nobody wants to go in that dept. and fold clothes, then a manager will go back to the person that had worked there and tell them to get it cleaned up even if there schedule said they were to work oh maybe in the Bakery that day. So it will end up pulling a person out of one dept. to go clean up another!! What a joke , this company is the worst , that is one thing there not doing is following Costco because they have better knowledge on how to run a large company and not do things that bring down the morale of everyone working there.
Definition of Block Scheduling: Everyone works everywhere, no one knows nothing, and no one gives a sh– about anything.
Fresh training is something that has kinda drove me nuts. First there was the belt program that only two or three meat cutters actually got to the “orange” belt. Can’t remember it all, but no other departments even got started. You were supposed to be able to get in total about 2$ more by the end of it as I recall. Then fresh training for leads, done twice, then they are/were trying to train associates in fresh class. Which stopped when corona happened, then they want/wanted everyone to do it virtually which has been messy. Messy with communication, about who, what days, meeting ids and all of that. At this point half of the people who have been in a class are no longer in those positions, or even with the company. Especially after this years big fun changes ....
It's not going to work. It's just some id–t at home office who has NEVER worked in a club or created a useful job that has to come up with one brilliant idea a year to save their job and make it look like they know what they're doing. Of course the people that actually work know that it's a failed experiment before it even starts.
This will fail with all the brilliant ideas they have came up with the past 10years. When they realize that this generation isn’t build to multitask, then maybe they will bring back the departments with its own staffing. Until then, keep hiring part timers that can only work 4 hours a day twice a week. Your turn over ratio will continue to sky rocket like your profits.
this idea of having people work all over the club is down right mo–nic. when people are assigned to 1 department, they know the routine & tend to get better. they take more pride in their work because they know they have to come back to it the next day.
when a person works deli one day, produce the next, bakery the next, they tend to not do their best because their is no consistency to their work days so they get fed up with the constant change.
many adopt the attitude that, I'll do the minimum because the next person in will take care of it.
Sam's/Walmart could solve so many of their issues by proper staffing & allowing managers & leads to run their clubs. But home office is too stubborn to loosen up on complete control over EVERYTHING. Power hungry & greedy wh0r3$.
There is No new merch schedules.
New Merch schedules too? I am o LOA and am not in the loop.
I don’t see it working at our club either.especially when they new schedules start later this month
Well if your store is like mine it doesn't.... No one has the staffing or hours to send associates to work other departments.