Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

-mkg, I totally agree with you. So many 45+ are scared to leave and afraid they can't find another job. They are so stressed out and miserable. I had been there 15+ years and knew they were trying to get those of us who made more and were full time out. I found another job last fall and immediately felt this weight had been lifted off my shoulders. I had to take a $1/hour cut, but it was so worth it. So tired of working my butt off with others slacking or visiting their friends in other depts, texting, and even snap chatting. So when another dept needed help, they'd come find me cause I "was reliable and knew what I was doing" is what they would say. Then our dept would suffer. I would make our dept look good so our DM could disappear for over an hour visiting with her little clique and take credit for it. So, you can find something else. If you have to take a cut, it's worth it. More than likely, you will get a decent eval and end up getting it back. There is life after Walmart. Get out while you can!!

The forced ranking has been at Walmart HO for a while now. I’m shocked it’s not already in the stores.

Please explain the no more long term severance packages part.

Truth. I have seen the options on the wire and can confirm.

It is true about the PIP plan. Don't even bother to try it if you get put on it. You were put on it for a reason. You were at the bottom of the bell curve. There is no second coaching

@VKFUpU3-1cxx

Wm likes those people it keeps wages down!

Old news already happening. I got let go and given 3 options meet a pip that was outrageous no one in the company could perform in 2 years let alone 45 days. Take 60 day pay to find another job. Or take a months pay and be done. No more big layoffs and comes down to how well you perform against other associates in your role even if you do two different things. If you are the same level in the same dept you get put on a list with all the others at the same level. They base off leaderships feelings about you. It’s a cutthroat process and happens more often than anyone really knows. This saves money so customers can live better(yeah right Aldis is cheaper) more less big wig like Doug fakemillan gets richer. Also they have no problem spending millions on an investments they dump or lose money on. Or spending it on H1b visas and move entire families from other countries to work jobs that once only took 1 associate now takes 5 foreigners

They need to do something with the attendance policy. I'm tired of having to do everyone else's jobs because they call in constantly!

What, you don't think the scenario the original poster posted is happening? You must have blinders on to not see how wmt is moving out with the old and in with the new and cheaper. If they can do it without paying severance, even better.

@VKFUpU3-okg

Sounds like a key phrase I constantly heard from about 40% of the directors and Sr directors I used to work with before I left last year. If they closed with “does that make sense?” I could narrow it down to a fairly small list...

Don’t have conference calls on saturdays

You can find this original poster on this site several places stirring up rumors. They give it away saying “fixing to”. That phrase is in all of their posts.

We don’t have conference calls on Saturdays. Nice try!

qta here.

To the last respondent, I love your post, and I'm very happy you were able to get out of that quagmire. I, too, was with that company for many years (although down in 'steerage class', lol), and much of what you described rings very familiar. It was an environment utterly ruled with fear, retribution and tyranny, and by the time I left I was a nervous wreck hardly able to eat. My family life was suffering from it, too. I knew the final straw had snapped when I screamed at my little boy and sent him into hysterics. That was IT.

Now, like yourself, I have not only survived leaving Walmart, I've wonderfully persevered. As you say, in spite of what they would have you believe, you CAN improve yourself outside that prison.

@rqw Paid HO Shill

Fake news

Blah blah blah

@qta There were substantiated grumblings of this going in place at the HO the last year I was at WM. I left last year before it was implemented and the HO became the Hunger Games. I didn't want to remain in an organization where in order to keep your high eval scores, you have to make your teammate look bad. Or you have to work 60+ hours a week to stay in decent graces with leadership. Or you have to hoard information and not share with your teammates to make yourself look 'more valuable'.

I still maintain contacts and they tell me what the OP said is true at least for the HO. (People post so much cryptic bull$#!t on the forum.) The HO has already been weeding out the over 50 crowd while I was there. And those that made too much money. Now there will be a constant churn of the bottom 10% which is all arbitrary by your manager. So a meets expectations will longer be good enough to keep your job. You'll be in constant fear of whether you're doing a good job. Favoritism will continue to rule the land. I've seen good people NOT get promoted because they didn't kiss @$$ or work 60+ hours every week. I also saw the opposite where total mo--ns kissed a$$ and got promoted when they shouldn't have. I've also seen managers hold mistakes against associates for years or voicing their concerns over changes. Basically you drink the kool-aid and agree with the id--tic decisions made by leadership or be blacklisted.

I was hired in 2007 and in 2008 there was a minor RIF (reduction in force aka layoff). One guy who busted his @$$ was gone. I asked why. Apparently he p!$$ed off our Director sometime in the past so he was on the 'hit' list. it was nothing you could 'prove' but many associates told me that.

I was miserable my last 3 years at the WM HO with all the RIFs and rumors of these changes. I took a chance and moved on to greener pastures. It was with less stress, a slower pace and more money. Those jobs do exist despite what WM leadership wants you to believe.

Assuming this is legit, the OP must either have a real hatred for this company---or a flair for sadism. No way for us to know which....

Upper management has been playing favorites since Sam was alive

Great, this will only allow upper management to play favorites