Severances are done too. Management has the choice to offer you a severance or a position within the Club, if you don’t want the open position, you don’t get the choice of a severance anymore.
What @PsyfIpK-1tab said. Even if the job being offered pays significantly less than your previous position (which is nearly always, if not always true,) you are forced to take it or lose your severance. It's despicable.
Yes and No to the last response , Uppers in any company have always put expectations on lower management , however this company that I have known for a long time , the tactics of today that are being implemented from the top to bottom is short of abusive .
Sam's Club is a company that employs a lot of people. While they don't owe anyone anything, they certainly have lost the concept of trying to keep associates in order to maintain a high standard of experience and familiarity in the club. They treat employees like disposable condoms and f- them until they tear and throw them away. Morale is something they don't care a bit about anymore and that is a dangerous game to play when you are a huge corporation with the inability to micromanage because eventually all of your managers will either be from other companies or extremely inexperienced due to constant turnover. People don't like to be treated like they are disposable. You will spend a quarter of wages just training the teenagers you hire to do their cbls and quit in 3 months, then Sam's is ALWAYS short-handed but somehow overstaffed. Well duh, that's what happens when morale if low, you're ALWAYS in the process of hiring and people just love to call off. Sam's spends so much time on their corporate buzzwords and monthly changes trying to get ahead of the curve that they forget they are actually a successful company and should focus more on what they are doing right and less on their misses. It runs down hill. I've seen how corporate treats their GM's and it's awful, then he/she treats their managers awful and so on...This site is the best thing that's happened to Sam's in a long long time.
I don't think this is new practice... It's been like this before...