The September surprise is coming. Better get the resumes updated!
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You al know that back to school in september wont save our comps/sales/real retail metrics so the earning going into new fiscal year will be sh--ty.more cuts just to look good for wall street financiers..book it.#wallstreetstakeholders
At our recent store meeting, management announced that we are once again no. 1 in our region. Yet NO managers stould up and gave any credit to their tms. They didn't even say who the tm of the month is in easy dept. Make your plans now before Sept. They certainly don't give a care about us.
-2glj
8ball in the side pocket.
Ego and greed.
how many more deadly sins can we cover?
damn near all of them.
These same companies can alter base programs to suit individual company needs, so I'm not quite sure why allowing some homegrown ITT tech senior project is a better option when 75% of its core functionality is based off of patches and bandaids. They also either cant understand or refuse to admit the fact that their ancient programming choices are not compatible with today's hardware. The amount of errors and failures will increase. I witnessed it in one particular areas, and could within a day or two be able to predict when the server would crash.
also...if they really want to save some money...stop having TMs who make $18/hr do inventory and contract out with a company that specializes in it yeesh.
Its like...get over yourself already. If you're becoming more corporatized, you have to go all in. Pretending doing everything in house is better for the company over all has been proven wrong time after time after time when they refuse to hire qualified workers based on their skills and experise, not how likely they'll be able to f--- them. It's a pipedream...a crackpipe dream. WFM is in serious need of a conservatorship
If people purport to know something and remain silent, I can only assume that something bad indeed is on the horizon. Maybe good for the shareholders, stockholders, but not good for the people at the bottom who have worked for WFM for years. If you haven't gotten out by now, good luck to you. This company is failing in a way that economists will study for years. Record-setting ineptness is what the textbooks will cover. Why be a part of this, when you can work & take a pay cut somewhere elsebut be out of a raging fire?
People should be ready. Have a current resume handy in case you suddenly need one. The thing that pisses me off is that many of us know more restructuring is coming and many of us know it means more layoffs. Handle something right for once whole foods and let people be on their way and don't string them along. Straight up tell people what's coming so they can prepare. It won't be long before they are forced to let us know what's going on. I hope someone with solid knowledge blow the whistle. I would but all I have are rumors or people saying they know but can't tell.
-2ysj, one HUNDRED percent agree with you. But you, and I, know why they won't pony up that cash. One, they're already in the hole with this silly filly named 365. Two, their EGOS won't allow them to come to terms with the fact that SOMEONE ELSE already figured out an answer to their problems, decades ago. For some reason this pathetic E-team or whatever it is you want to call them can't accept this reality. So, go back to step One, then to step Two, and repeat the cycle. OR go somewhere else with a SMILE and be accepted for your work ethic and abilities and not for some hollow babble about nothing.
@1ndo yup..it's called "in stocks".
at the place I worked before wfm, they had auto replinishment and their was an entire team that was dedicated to scanning it all in at 3am, stocking it out, then a backroom team to scan overstock to backroom locations. On specific days each dept had EVERY item scanned. The items were coded so that the system knew how many could fit on the shelf; if it held 6 and you scanned and put in 4, it would either requested the items be pulled if they were in a location in the back room, or if not, the count was updated in the system. This could be done at any time with a scangun tho, so say for some reason juice for bought out, as your scanning your shelves, the backroom team is alerted and already pulling the items to be stocked out.
also, if a guest asks if you had more, you could scan the damn shelf and know within seconds if any was shown in tje backroom.
downsides are simple human error
forgetting to assign or delete locations, laziness and an inability to count.
I seriously doubt wfm could pull this off seeing as how the company I had worked for had it down damn near 15 years ago and we cant even properly organize a backroom beyond stupidass laminated labels that told you the CATEGOREY but not what specific items were there on amy given minute of any day. I mean seriously...they can't even get a a damn scangun to read a product barcode and be able to send a sign request. That's what we did. Scan item. Select Type of sign. select size. send batch to be printed. all the pricing, names and descriptions were in the system linked to the scan guns. If you shoot orders that way at wfm, wtf is it so hard to do the same with signs.
oh wait, haha, that's because no one maintained IRMA for the promise of something better in the works.
they need to stop trying to write their own systems and effing pony up for these programs that ALREADY EXIST.
Whatever system they implement will sink up with Irma so that's a sure thing that it won't workcorrectly.
What will auto replenishment mean for the buyers? MORE WORK! For that system to work, the system needs to know what is on hand, what is projected to sell, and what the minimum shelf condition should be. That requires good counting every day, EFFECTIVE loss control and systems that aren't based on Windows 3.1, circa 1989, that were being used at Harry's Farmers Market when Austin came calling. All the big servers and modern software in the world means nothing if it rests on a creaky, dysfunctional, inadequate and error-prone foundation. So auto replenishment is another great idea that only works as well as existing inventory, replenishment and ordering systems work. Which last time I heard, wasn't so good.
It would be nice if any of these people that get hired to increase the bottom line actually knew what it was like to work in the trenches. The more you combine and the more you take away, the less effective TMs are. The better ones will simply walk to somewhere they are paid and respected and will abandon this burning train wobbling along the tracks with its blind conductors steering it into a brick wall.
What will auto replenishment mean for the buyers? Will they be let go??
News coming soon, its gonna be a true eye-opener, and for those that didnt believe others that it was happen will truly look like fools now.
Why September? Because the fiscal year begins in September. Remember the last round of layoffs? That's how we started FY16.
Probably. WFM has no plans, so when they need to show they can control costs, they whack labor.
September is the deadline for some of the teams to get under par for buyers and supervisors. Not all teams/regions had layoffs, September is the deadline for attrition to do it's work.
Why September?
Don't know about more cuts, but I am expecting drastic procedural changes.