They are giving five months till they are gone. They have to make sure their stores are ready to hand over to a vendor who is not hired up. They will have more tasks in the next few months than the last two years.
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We literally never has an STSS involved with setting up a holiday table. TLs just used their laptops and a printer was plugged in directly to the laptop if needed. Not sure why other stores needed any help.
I'm amazed that we were never a target of ransomware. I was an SSI and it always blew my mind the security risks that we were trusted with. We had admin access for every workstation and file server, we could access almost every store camera, we could go into active directory and take over any computer. Grab or delete files off of any computer in the entire wfm.pvt network. Eventually they started taking those privileges away, but the MSIs still had it for a while. It seems WFM is just catching up now with the rest of the business world.
I feel bad for the STSS team because there has not been much support over the years and they often had to reverse engineer sh-t just to solve a simple tasks because documentation was so bad. That being said things will continue to run without them . Some things will stay broken longer or perhaps never get fixed but the stores will continue to run.
This guy said theyll be sorry whos going to set up the holiday table lol hahaha omg wow that really made me cry laughing
The whole reason they created the STSS position was because it was so hard to get support to stores that have a decades-long history of bespoke setups. The Global Team never liked this, always considered the STSSes a "security risk" that blocked them from "pursuing economies of scale" by making every store exactly the same. The stores are going to hate having this band-aid ripped off. The STSS team members on the other hand will soon be free from having to be stuck in the middle between a Global team that tells them to one thing, a regional TL that tells them another, and the stores, who have unique needs that only the boot-on-the-ground STSS team understands. But Global hates the "creativity" of the STSS team and the lack of visibility and control over them. So of course they have to go. They may SAY their goal is "effective, timely and consistent support" but really what they want is cheap labor that they can control. The team started in 2008. It will take another fifteen years for the stores to be able to run efficiently without them. A typical example is the holiday table setups, which require massive "creativity" from the STSS team regardless of what Global thinks. In fact, our team was told they would be removed from holiday table support last year. Yeah, that didn't happen.
With STSS gone now the stores will have to deal with a third party called Unisys. The vendor so bad that they were piloted at a couple stores a few years ago and cancelled the pilot due to how much the stores hated them.
Do as little as possible with your remaining time with WFM. Setup your replacements for failure make the company regret laying you off.
Boy that’s a lot of time to F-c sh-t up good…oh I can’t stand it I know planned it ima set it straight this water gate ..I’m tellin all a yall it’s…
Incredible to think: a position that has been keeping the lights on at the stores for over a decade, having to overcome lack of cooperation from store leadership, TM indifference and the general hostility that comes from being the face of the hated IT department. A position that has made sure that sh-t continues to work, despite the carelessness and often lawlessness of the average WFM-er, working pretty much alone in some cases (especially in outposts where stores are far from any regional office or hub city), having to ride by the skin of their pants, making decisions, mistakes, creative choices in a virtual vacuum. Expected to uphold company policy in the face of sometimes overwhelming odds. Now they are basically being told that if they don't stick around for the next five months helping the company deprive them of their livelihood or else they won't even get the paltry severance owed to them. Next time you see your STSS, you should bow the fu-k down. In truth their positions have been essentially gutted over the last couple years. Their cowardly bosses made sure of that. But hey, that's why they spend all day, five days a week, in meetings -- to make great "decisions" that -- in their words -- "provide effective, timely and consistent support." You're going to miss your STSSes.
Here's hoping they do as much damage as possible on their way out.
What is SSTS?
It's really heartwarming to know that the company places so much trust in a team that has been given full access to the stores with little or no effective oversight. You'd think they'd be escorted from the building by a security guard rather than be given five months to do as much damage as they can.