Even at $15 an hour, we are having trouble getting new people to join. This was never the case before but I am assuming the word about how people are treated here has gotten out (our managers are out of control - lying, bullying, the whole nine yards.) Sadly, this is hurting us once again and not them. We are the ones breaking our backs to get everything done in the allotted time. If it continues like this, it's only a matter of time before we start breaking and there's nobody left to do the job. At least then the managers might feel some heat.
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Maybe so but once again they will not stay
@exg I'd be happy to post all the details but the rules on the site don't allow it. That's why people are keeping it vague.
My store doesn't so much have a problem hiring people as it does retaining them. My team alone averages a loss of a team member every two weeks. These people usually cite two reasons for leaving: a toxic work environment and the option of a similar job that offers more.
I see that a clueless corporate/regional stooge has taken time away from making peoples' lives miserable to come visit us here.
What store? Why say this? Do you have anything that supports it? All it sounds like is rumors it's post like this that discredit the truth. Start posting facts and writing Incidents down.
We pay newly-hired people the same wage they can earn anywhere, we deny them full time hours, and demand open availability, making a second job difficult to get or maintain. For this pittance, we run people into the ground, threaten them with corny corrective action if they forget to sign a log, and offer them an environment that is thoroughly depressing. Veteran team members rarely establish friendships with new team members because we miserable, and we know they'll be gone in two months, and in many cases, we welcome that, because Whole Foods Market deserves the chaos it's created. That, and we don't seem to be discriminating about who we hire, so rarely does a new team member's departure feel like a significant loss.
Our inability to maintain regular teams has nothing to do with unemployment benefits, and everything to do with this clueless, out of touch company offering people absolutely no incentive to work for Whole Foods Market.
Might not necessarily be that the word is out. But there are a lot of people still being paid (unemployment) and don’t want to go back to work yet. Once that ends though, there will be a lot of people applying I’m sure.