Constantly, I read comments on here regarding pay. Someone makes more than someone else or your position is underpaid compared to other positions. All of this comes after the company invested in raising everyone’s pay. You are not investing yourself in the company but you want more and more from it. Instead, you complain and attempt to build a negative network on a website like this. I would love to hear about your current position, pay and why you are entitled to more. Please remember, entitled and deserving have two different meanings. Career oriented individuals take responsibility, perform it well then move up the ladder. They don’t expect extra money to hold a key in their pocket. If you are not happy at your job, by all means, please leave. Some of us don’t want to be around negativity.
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I rook your advice and transfered out of sams. I stepped down from being a merch lead and was making the minimum 19 after 7 years. I went to
being a utility associate at the walmart regional project warehouse which starts at 18.10 but ended up getting a 60 cent raise. Why does time with the company only count when you transfer and not when they raise the starting pay for a position. It just makes you want to keep moving.
Your bus analogy is irrelevant, a person sitting at a bus stop for 15 years is no better skilled at doing that than a brand new person coming to sit on the bench. Are u seriously implying there is no difference in skill/productivity between an experienced worker and a brand new one? There clearly is and their pay should reflect that.
Encouraging everyone to move to a lead position to get more money is why we have bad leads. People with leadership/management skills should be encouraged to move up.
All of the money there is to be made in this company and you'd rather stay exactly where you are,not wanting to do anything different, but expect more money will the company constantly changes?
It's like sitting at a bus stop, letting the bus drive past, then wondering why you aren't moving with it. Get a lead position. Leave and come back. Move to a higher paid position. Move to a club that pays more. Jump back and forth from Walmart to Sam's. Smh
"I would love to hear about your current position, pay and why you are entitled to more."
Walton Family, owners, $4,000,000/hr
Doug Mcmilon, CEO, $10,576/hr
Kathryn McLay, CEO Sam's, $6,250/hr
clearly a mgmt post
YOU NEED TO LEAVE. WE NEED A UNION. The CEO and the other higher-ups need to do with less, not us. We do the biggest share of the work.
Anyone over 20 years they what out. I have been at sams for over 30 years. yep they are trying to push us out.
You don't know what you're talking about! I have been with this company for 19 years and now they are letting people walk in with zero knowledge and zero skills that are making the SAME amount as I am after 19 years!!! The employees that have been loyal and been here the longest have been forgotten about!!! ZERO raise for us. DO NOT SPEAK FOR EVERYONE!!
You’re statement of raising everyone’s pay is incorrect. Most of the long term associates didn’t get anything! I think that is a big part of people complaining. Why should some new hire come in making the same amount as someone who’s been with the company 15 or more years?
If u can’t deal with the negative work environment that the company cultivates then you should take your own advice and move on
STFU. Mgmt jobs are more disposable than anyone else's
The OP is clearly a member of management. Most probably posted on a company computer deep in the bowels of the home office.
Hey, Bentonville! I've got news!!
If everybody in this company who was unhappy left at the same time you wouldn't have enough manpower left to run the 2 cash registers you still begrudgingly open on a Saturday morning!
This is true because you mo--ns in living in the incestuous cesspool of B-Ville still consider a good employee to be, above all, an expense that needs to be controlled, reduced, and if at all possible, eliminated. You still haven't figured out that anybody who comes to work and does their job reliably and on time year after year is not an expense but a major asset to the company.
You corporate clones all have your head so far up your ar-e that you can't see past the payroll costs to understand all the way to the value we bring to the company. You would rather spend countless payroll $$$ paying a never-ending revolving door of new associates who you hire to do CBL's for 30 hours or so only to quit before you've even printed their first check! You've spent so much time running off long-term associates that you have forgotten that they are the same people who built this company and used to take pride in their work and the success of their club.
I hope all of those beaten-down long-term associates still remaining take the advice of the OP and leave. Now. There's plenty of companies out there looking for good, quality employees who will value your work and treat you with the respect for the individual that this company has forgotten they ever once stood for.
There's plenty of work out there. Give the company what they want and leave. They deserve it.
I can agree with your statement partially.
Yes, these employees should be thankful to have a job. Sams pays fairly well compared to other retail stores. We shouldn't talk about pay because someone is always going to make morec than another person. That's with any company. However, when you've been doing the same job for 10 years and they hire someone new with little experience but they make 2-3 dollars more an hour than you, it's disheartening. When you're required to hold keys, open and close the building answering manager calls but get no more compensation, it's unfair. You're just suppose to be happy you were chosen? I think not! I'll continue to do my normal job, exceed at that and still get my regular pay. I don't need to do managers jobs as well.
Some people complain just to complain and some people's complaints are legitimate.
It is like this no matter where you work.
A top tech company in my area shuttered their offices and let just about everyone go. The exceptions were those willing to move.
I've seen no correlation between giving people a raise and them doing more work because of it. They either continue working the same or calling in more because they can afford to.
I am thankful to have a job. My pay is fair. I come to work and do my best. Yes some days are hectic but I keep on doing my best. If you don't like it then move on.
Why you talk like that to us. My manager promised me a team leader position but she give to someone else! Company a joke I'm so upset. No I don't care maybe move one.