Why is everyone on here bashing new employees who start off at higher pay? You should be mad at Sam’s for not implementing the past raises of each employee from base pay to end up reflecting their years of experience and time of service. Instead you’re on here venting about the new employees when it’s not their fault. It’s the company’s fault for setting the standards and not taking into consideration long time employees.
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Maintence is treated like cr-p
And thats why you learn to do less and not help. Everything from higher starting pay to, part time have set schedules along with some getting set schedules to not work weekends. Sorry as a whole it is a sm--k in the face to the ones that have stayed. I have more knowledge then people in higher positions. New hires. So I am to the point of watching them struggle to figure it out, even though I know what they need to do.
I agree with the person who posted this. Its 100% true. They will never pay you what you're worth. The knowledge you've obtained really means nothing to them. When the company in itself is in a constant rat race to stay at the top. That means that they will always be changing how everything is. Even if its not broken and the system in place has been a proven method for years. I know with change comes resistance from those that have been there for awhile, people generally don't like change. But this company has done things over the more recent years that's got me like why? Then they change it around a few more times until they are nearly back to where they started - but with minor changes.
Getting off topic there. Yeah, it's asinine to me that you can come on in, because of your work credits, make more than someone who has been there for 20 years. It is a company problem, not the associates.
Granted before I left, sooooo many new hires were/are nothing but a bunch of ti--y babies - I can agree to that. That's another issue in itself in what management lets people do. Management seemed so afraid of getting home office called on them. Due to the repeat offenders and people that should have never made it past a year that were still employed because they knew how to abuse the system. That is suchhh a huge factor as to why. Why one person is running around carrying the load that the other people whom are there should be helping with - don't. Accountability is pretty much a joke. If no one is going to hold the managers accountable for the cr---y things they get away with, it just turns everything into a circus of bs.
From 2013 to 2021 my pay has been increased a whole .37, due to pay cap, and no yearly raises. The cost of living has gone up in those years for everyone, not just those recently hired.
That $3 more an hour is 6k more a year than those new hires. If you don’t think that’s fair then maybe you should look somewhere else
If Sam’s would take the time to hire qualified employees then maybe people wouldn’t complain so much but everyone we hired last 2/3 weeks or comes in with full availability then changes it to Monday through Friday opening shifts
Lmao@sense of urgency. I can’t tell you how many times a day my fellow long timers pick and choose what they want to lift or pull because they are “too old to do it”. Their words not mine. Those long timers 15 years ago would have worked circles around this generation. Those long timers now are no more efficient than the new hires, which is sad cause they know better.
From what I have seen, most new associates I work with do not have the same sense of urgency that the longer term associates have. They come to work late, call out, and expect other associates in the area to help them get their work done because," oh my arm hurts, oh this is heavy, that's to high for me, it's to cold in here I have to go take another break to warm up" waaaaah!! So you bet, I get mad making only $3 more per hour then these newbies do!