Here's what I got for you fellow workers and believers in the WFM Core Values. I am a 10+ year veteran and have worked at multiple stores in the SW region including the Mothership. I am so proud of this, but I'm disgusted with what we have become. I remember Gainsharing! It put 100-200 bucks in all the hardworking TMs wallets right when they needed it at the end of the month. That was real and then "they" cut labor targets and the people who made the money, on the floor, informed guests, the backbone of our business. Well, that's just gone and done in very sad way. "they" cut labor targets which makes it not only impossible to achieve a labor surplus that would benefit TMs, but also overworks everyone on the chain. Also, We do not offer a very competitive base wage, so, as a manager, my time is filled with hires and fires and onboarding. We will see where this all goes when we enact Whole Store Labor. In the mean time, as an ATX TM, I have seen a disturbing trend by great TMs to leave the store and join either Regional or Global Teams. You are running away from what you know you're good at and hastening the demise of this publicly traded company. I know many of you and miss you and know you are doing the best thing for you and your family! But to the rest of the Global Team, I would like to say you are a drain on resources that could be better used at the store level, doing the basics of our job, which is providing the Highest Quality Natural and Organic Products to our guests. Ive always been a store level guy who loves the product and the guest. WFM still provides both of those things. It might seem impossible to Unionize but we have an obligation to try. Let us realize that it is the people on the line, in the trenches that make our money and they make 12.00/hr, where rent is $800/month bucks min in Austin TX . Please consider unionizing because it is the only way you will have a voice at the table going forward.
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10+ years....surely you're an STL or AC by now.
Learn to read man. I said entry level. Ppl are cashiers forever and complain about pay. Lol you're not supposed to stay at that entry level position forever. Move up into management or get a real job if you want a better situation. You get from life just what you put in.
"Entry level retail isn't meant to be a career with good pay. It's for kids needing a first job. If you want better pay get out of retail or work your way up to leadership. Pay your dues like everyone else."
Back in the 1950's you would work a full time job and pay for a house and send your kids to college. The bankers and Wall Street executives are the ones perpetuating this idea that jobs like that are disposable jobs that you can't make a carer out of, because they benefit from squeezing every dime they can out of us.
Entry level retail isn't meant to be a career with good pay. It's for kids needing a first job. If you want better pay get out of retail or work your way up to leadership. Pay your dues like everyone else.
$11.50/hr is the starting pay in my area, not great but a cut above the typical starting wage at Kroger, Publix or Sprouts. When you're talking about retail the bar isn't exactly set very high, pay wise.
How do we begin?
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