Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

4JLC,

The post was deleted because you called out SP by name. You're not allowed to do that.

There will be no union. Ever. Not at Walmart. Best get used to it.

The word union sends a message and it is coming. Wonder why my last post telling SP to be paranoid of one organizing at a grass roots level was mysteriously deleted from this thread???????

3say,

Not sure if the son in law is behind this. But the company is churning through people like nobody's business. Half the folks I know are plotting life after Walmart.

It's fake. And dying. it starts at the top & I mean the very top- as soon as Rob Walton stepped down & put in his son-in-law to be the chairman, it began flying "off the shelf like moon pies". Next bring in other "talent" to head up HR or President & CEO of WMT - who have different values, you have started the downhill turn. Walmart will be a very different company in another 5 years.

A union will never happen. Walmart would fire anyone caught remotely thinking about signing a union card.

Jesus himself couldn't get a union in at Walmart.

Scott Pleiman sent out a memo telling us to "stop the worry, gossip, rumours, paranoia, and assumption of negative intent." He actually called us paranoid. How incredibly condescending and rude. Guess I should just act like they haven't laid off a dozen of my friends and the spouses of some on our own team. Seems to be working for them. It would be one thing if they'd at least own up to how dirty they're doing some, but they haven't breathed a word about these layoffs other than to scold us for being upset. I have lost all respect for leadership here. The culture has already died. The new hires in my area (college kids who interned last year) are already planning their escape after their two years, so they don't have to pay back relocation. Walmart is just a name on a resume to them. The culture isn't even alive amongst the newbies. That really tells you all you need to know.

Layed Off Live Better

I agree about the Mr Sam quotes. They were inspirational coming from him because he meant what he said. Quotes uttered without the feeling behind them are not inspirational.

This pretending to care while plotting to put people out of work is nothing short of psychopathic. What other type of person can smile in your face and and ape kindness while plotting your professional demise? They're right up there with serial killers if you ask me. They have zero empathy.

The culture now is just a skin suit made out of the quotes of old company leaders. You can dress yourself up in the quotes of Sam Walton if you want to. But we can still see leaderships true colors bulging at the patchwork seams.

And every time I have to do that dang cheer, all I hear in my head is, "It puts the lotion on the skin!!"

But I bet these senior executives sleep like babies at night.

The culture is dead.

I second what the first commenter said. Its dead and oh so fake it's embarrassing.

Some observations/comments on my part.....

Working for WM has become a one-way street where they now take and take and take. I would be amused at every year begin meeting (YBM) where someone in leadership would inevitably say "We're going to do more with less." Aka, less pay raises, less promotions and doing the job of another 1/2 person on top of what you were already doing because they can't get budget approved for another hire.

I always despised when $#!t was going bad or morale was low that leadership would pull out old Mr. Sam videos and quotes to try to motivate you. Mr. Sam passed away in 1992 and the company was never the same afterward. Ask those that worked before and after 1992 and they will tell you the leadership mentality changed drastically. Stop it. Motivate people by showing you actually care about the associate. I felt just like a number after Project Harvest back in 2008/2009.

The Wal-Mart cheer. Dump it. It's become an embarrassment to the company. I did what I could to not have to do it. It's done half-heartedly in today's HO working environment. Enough said.

You can pretty much judge a company when their executive parking spots are closer to the entrances than the handicapped parking spots!!!!

Oh yeah.... Associate vs. Employee. Making us associates makes us sound like actual valued members of the team. /s

The new work environment/culture has become so toxic that stress, dysfunction, fear of losing your job by being railroaded on your eval is now the norm. You now get paid to do a job. Not to care.