Thread regarding Wal-Mart Stores Inc. layoffs

@OcSgdsb-2wfm Is right. As one of the dreaded millennials, I can confirm we are not fooled. I've been here long enough to almost be considered long term, but a lot of my fellow millennial associates are newly transplanted. They're not fooled either. They'll stick around long enough to name drop WM on their resume and they'll be gone.

Heck, even I am making plans to leave. This isn't the Walmart I signed up for. I expected corporate politics and red tape and leaders that made decisions without all the facts, because you're right, I watched my dad work here for a long time. But the reality of today's Walmart is so much worse.

And y'all are right. AES doesn't matter anymore. We had one meeting to discuss the results last year, no follow up and no action plan.

AES means nothing. Besides, nobody I know scores them honestly because they don't believe they're anonymous anymore. I just don't do the survey at all.

Lou-igpw, thanks for the news about Benefits. Benefits being outsourced will be good; all that has been on a steady decline the past 8 or so years. Maybe we'll finally see some improvements if a professional firm is brought in to take over. Would be a silver lining to the layoff situation.

Lou Ferr and others, you are sadly correct. AES means nothing to leadership. When has it ever changed anything? It has now become just a marketing strategy.

Good luck all.

All great comments, would be nice if there was a,"like" button. My husband works as a vendor for Walmart. He cannot ascertain if it is more stressful working for them directly or being their little puppets on a string with their logo on your paystub. They say dance, we do. They have too much power ansand it is ALL politics anymore.

As far as GSS and all the restructuring.. stop giving your all to WM or Sam's! It's simply not worth it. Put your time, your money, your energy elsewhere. Stop being the victim to a company you are just a disposable pawn for.

OcSgdsb-2vnd. leadership is definitely not afraid of grass roots. it hasn't meant anything in the last three years. store/club level doesn't care because upper level doesn't. 3rd party took it about 3 yrs ago when you had to sign on to take it. it means nothing but because you can be tracked, even tho they say different, people are afraid to be truthful

Millennials who are educated won't be sheep for Walmart, especially at HO. They will stick around for maybe 12 months and jump ship because of the stupidity and oppressive, toxic environment that is full of fear. Walmart is going to create a turnover situation that will rival what they have in the stores, except being effective in a job at the HO takes far longer to master than a store position. Millennials saw their own parents get treated like crap and being forced to follow stupid rules for the sake of rules, they aren't about to be pushed around by a company that has a pitiful track record for employee relations, they'll bounce.

I never saw any meaningful action taken from grassroots/AES during my time with Walmart, and I don't think leadership even cares about it anymore. Last year, before I left the company, there were no follow up meetings in my entire division after the results were released. All scores were down. Not a peep from anyone.

I understand that Walmart is going through a period of transition, and it has to in order to remain competitive. But this protracted lay off process is destroying the company. If they think they're fooling anyone with the piecemeal layoffs, they're wrong. Maybe they're fooling the media, but not anyone working at home office. They're clearly on a mission to lower operating costs by eliminating older, more experienced and educated workers. The fact that they get a youthful, "hipper" replacement workforce is just icing on the eCommerce cake.

I left for another job, and I'm glad to be gone.

The AES, aka grassroots, is coming out later this month, end of July. Leadership is deathly afraid of what the results will be. A third party is administering it. It will have a section where you can type in your comments and/or concerns.

It's not like leadership has addressed any concerns after the results come back. Not since I've been with WM.

Management got hammered after the Harvest. They were hammered last year. (At least my area was.) This year will be even worse. I can't wait for that one tried and true question: Would you recommend family and friends to work for WM?

NO AES (for veterans this was grass roots) where is it this year? It was always done in June. No mention of it this year. Just one more sign the company is not headed in the same direction and in the middle of a face lift. Bring on the sheep (millenials)

ML is hypocrisy personified. It's actually very funny for someone who is as highly compensated as ML to make the type of comments he did in the LinkedIn posting; it shows someone who is out of touch with reality. However, Walmart has always been a place where hypocrisy thrived; the HR basic tenants say one thing and do the complete opposite. Missionaries though are believers and will blindly follow whatever is fed to them. Unlike religious missionaries where duty promises them eternal security, the same will find one jobless in the work world. It is reckless to not look out for yourself and your family's financial best interest. Shame on ML to suggest otherwise.

What ML wants is the definition of "sheeple," people who are docile and easily led just like sheep. Being sheep-like doesn't imply intelligent, strategic thinking though, it's basically a recipe for people who are able to fog a mirror. As the definition implies once such people wake up, it will be over for them and over for the company. When you want the job done right, bring in the mercenaries (highly paid consultants and outsourced arrangements); which is what will have to happen because you've rid the organization of anyone who dare to challenge the status quo. Amazon is winning because they embrace strategic thinking and not a sheeple mindset.

You know for ML to have just got done preaching all this stuff about hiring missionaries instead of mercenaries, he sure is doing the opposite in practice.

What is the hiring of all these consultants and outsourcing firms? He's hiring mercenaries.

Anymore the leadership doesn't even try that hard to hide the hypocrisy. Just my opinion though.

Lou,

ML will be one of the worst things to ever happen to Walmart. Mark my words.

Not good news for associates working on old systems during the transition...

Since WM bought Jet.com, the latter has been making all the business decisions. The HO is trying to automate as much as possible or outsource it. (When this happens what is the end result? RIFs!) One of the products that was brought in is WorkDay. This is going to replace benefits and payroll and other processes. The analyzing and testing is going on now.

People in those areas should not be expecting to be employed in 5 years. (5 years is only my estimation. It could be longer or shorter.) When this happens I would expect 1,000's more to lose their jobs.

When ML looked into everything the HO was doing, he used this analogy: It's the summer and the lawn needs mowing. Would you rather spend your Saturday mowing the lawn or doing something you enjoy better? (Out on the beach?) He is pushing to get rid of everything done internally to being outsourced when practical like my two examples of benefits and payroll. Or automate it. When WM is a smoldering ruin he will take his money and run.

Companies have looked at their employees as liabilities for far too long rather than assets. This will not change anytime soon. Always have a back up plan. Or two. I realize that I probably have more 5 years or less with WM until they kick me to the curb.

Some systems are going automated. If you are teaching someone else how to do your job then you are probably getting cut. They are rolling several positions into one. However, some positions will go due to lack of productivity (money making business like post audit) Hopefully some of the senior leadership will go who have no business being there in the first place! They have only made a muck of things and do not care about people. Morale is at an all time low.

Yeah. You can't get anything done through that team. And all the new systems don't work. Example is GSM. It's buggy as HECK.

What they did was put in a new system and then try to follow with layoffs. They've done it in several areas. But what they don't know is these new systems aren't working. And senior leaders aren't being told this. So important stuff just isn't getting done.

Gss os the worst. Made all the stores in my area shrink out. They never respond to you either. The whole thing was a terrible idea.

I am sorry to hear this, really and deeply.

However, I need to say, working with people at the GSS is like trying to pass a kidney stone - it's painful and slow, really.

Sorry, had to get this off my shoulders.

Wow. You already can't get anything through GSS. What a crap show.

Get the effin UNION in these clubs.......

Who is getting cut??

Global Shared Services, aka the Finance building in Bentonville. North America

What is GSS-NA?