Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

The newest round of “changes”, seems to me, to be negating everything I have ever been taught or seen of our culture. First of all, coaching for improvement. This now seems to have turned into coaching toward eliminating you! I thought that this was meant to give an associate/Manager, a chance to improve their performance, not a reason to displace them. These changes are tearing our club apart. Morale is at an all time low. We have managers with all of the experience in the world, in their past... however, that does not make them more capable than a newer Manager, with less experience, nor does it make them good at their jobs currently. Our managers are still awaiting the fate determined for them, by some asinine survey, they had to fill out, during one of our busiest weeks of the year. It simply sickens me that so many associates with families and responsibilities are not being given the opportunity to tap into their potential, because of past experience. How do you learn, what you don’t already know, unless you are given the opportunity to prove yourself? None of this seems right at all. I only know that, a company I used to be proud to work for, has become a living nightmare for so many. I understand the need for change, but certainly this could have been handled in a much better way.