Word had beginning to spread around about more cuts coming after holidays. I'm not sure if it'll be layoffs or labor cuts which would mean hrs dropped. One person even said he heard it from someone in Administration. Anyone hear anything similar?
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Pre 2000 (up to 2003-04 or so) TLs also were awarded a lot more stock options than now. They were actually worth something back then and people could put down payments on houses with the rewards they earned!
I wonder if we will go back to salaried team leaders like we did pre 2000. It would only make sense once we got down to 4 per store. Someone still has to do the
Work. I don't miss my salaried 80 hour weeks, back before they made us hourly and would would get called in every time someone called out.
You realize that unionizing won't help the TL's get a better pay rate, right? They would be on the other side of the aisle, unfortunately (for them especially).
They better pay the TLs for taking on all the extra teams. Can't take this pile of rotting dog s$&t any longer. It's about time to unionize or get this treatment to the press. Something will get done soon, this much I do know.
Like white dog p--p from the seventies
It's obviously disintegrating. It's not a mule or a unicorn. It's a pile of dog crap drying out in the hot sun.
In our store we have hours where there is no one in grocery, whole body, or speciality. I mean no one. When there is no one in the department that means the sales take a hit and have. Increase labor and you will increase sales. That simple.
You can always cut more labor, especially if you don't work in a store, it's just a number. Just like you can always raise the prices since you are not having an onslaught of guest complaints delivered to you daily and in person. With sales continuing to drop labor drops, service drops, cleanliness and stock levels drop leading to less sales leading to less labor. Keep holding on until it functions like target or Walmart but it will never be the same place to work and you will never trust the company the way you might have before.
Would you people please realize that it is actually a mule that you're riding and not a unicorn! Put down the granola and accept reality. It will take wal mart oprrations to save or sink the rainbow retailers.
I've heard similar rumblings in the SW. If same store sales keep tumbling down the sh*tter like they have been, of course labor will get cut again. The only thing left the obviously incompetant ex Walmart ninnys at Corporate have left to leverage is your paycheck through deeper labor cuts.
We're already up to our ears in labor cuts. I honestly don't see how they could cut any more, there are hours that go by with literally no one working in grocery, specialty, produce, whole body... although I guess that's technically just 2 teams now. They keep saying no more layoffs, but they are actively pushing the "attrition" angle. Supervisors and specialists are being quietly told that if they leave their positions, they won't be replaced. I guess the plan is to have ATL/TL absorb the extra work? Or probably have a tm do it for no title or extra pay. And strangely enough, supervisors and specialists all seem to be getting written up for made-up infractions all of a sudden...