It's so hard to believe I used to actually enjoy my job at one point, considering what it has morphed into. The stress these days is unbearable and it's getting worst each day. It's only a matter of time before this company and brand are destroyed for good. I'm sure as he-l not going to be here when that happens.
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high turnover rates and no long term employees fits in with amazons "union busting" labor methods..long term workers will remember the glory days and provide ammunition to the union cause...and a constant meat grinder of new recruits who have no collective memory of any good workplaces is the norm..they will always want a certain amount of misery to your toil that they hedge with the 15$ starting wage and the unemployed being desperate for work..however this isnt working so well in states that still have the unemployment benefits in place due to covid19..
I think a lot of companies experience the same changes Whole Foods has. Remember Sears and JC Penny's? There are definitely a lot of changes, but I would say had Amazon not purchased Whole Foods, the company would have been purchased by a hedge fund or another company that would most likely not compensate as well. Change is definitely tough.
I absolutely agree. Many blame the buyout by Amazon but I believe it started before that. Mackey started cutting labor to make the company look good to potential buyers. Amazon has made it so much worse for sure though. Everyone is in the Organics business now but what always set us apart was our guest service. Now we are expected to do our work and give the same guest service at 1/3 the labor force. I have come to realize it isn't possible. Right now I come to work and stay busy doing the best I can but I refuse to ki-l myself for a company, STL, ASTL's, TL and ATL that could care less about how hard I work and more about kissing their bu-t and snitching on other people. The environment is toxic and EVERYONE is depressed except the slackers who get away with everything. That OTS now SOP is the most useless program I have ever seen. Nothing but ways to justify jobs at the Regional or global level if you ask me. Nothing but logs, logs and more logs that no one looks at. I also have plans to leave ASAP. Job searching right now. Wish me luck that it is sooner rather than later. I hope things work out for you as well.
Yeah I quit I couldn’t take it anymore. Amazon ki---d Whole Foods. Couldn’t stand the je----f Mid-Atlantic store and Store Support regional “leaders”.
i could never say anything bad about woerking on mackeys farm back in the mid90s-early 2000s...the pay scale to labor performed was equitable,the gainsharing made us all good lil fledgling capitalists and the benefits were great..how i wish i could find the old benefits package pamphlets from those days..the new employees would lose it...who remembers the T.I.P.S program??? where we made a cash bonus on a quarterly basis for 365 products sold in your store(and mind you back then we hardly had any 365 items)..the gainsharing was cash in your pocket at the end of the month...imagine today with all the labor shortages but still making sales what kinda extra check team members would be receiving..i dumped my kool-aid when they changed how gainsharing was calculated,when they went to congress to formulate that "good organics law"(bought us some years against the competition) and the ol team member benefits vote--where you get to vote on what you are losing not gaining...