Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

There's a right way to do it. If you are planning on layoffs STOP filling positions up to the minute before laying off a bunch of staff! Leave the open positions alone and THEN when the company decides to chop heads it won't be as many people affected. Just let natural attrition do the work

I thought the same wat till their forced ranking system hit and seen hardworking people let go and replaced with 2 college educated people who still couldn’t figure out how to carry out tasks and more concerned about their personal life than focusing on work. They promote the lazy brown noses and let go the true laborers and it’s seen the company can’t figure out now how to keep a simple shelf stocked and Walmart.com always show out of stock on items.

Yep that is certainly a consideration, been considering it for years. We'll see if our DC actually gets a raise this year, after 5 years of basically nothing. Used to be a decent paying job but now is at least a few bucks an hour less than most similar factory/distribution type jobs.

Whiners. If you don’t like working for Walmart then quit and find another job. Why sit around and b--ch about it? Take control of your own damn life. No one owes you anything.

Should unionize

"Whose greed"? Yes all of the above but mostly the Waltons and the board of directors. When you steal accrued sick time from your employees that's not just trying to be competitive. Refusing to give raises is also counterproductive because none of us give a sh-- now, we'll do as little as possible but at least you saved 2% by not giving a cost of living raise. The shop at our DC is a prime example. No real raises for years and then they screw with people till they all quit. All of a sudden they have 12 mechanics and their goal is to have 30! They can't hire because their pay is no longer competitive and word is out about how c-appy Walmart is to work for. So guess what, they all got a $5.50 an hour raise this year because they are in desperation mode and have nobody to fix the trucks. Pretty ignorant the way this company screws people but refuses to see what it's costing them...

This sounds like apologist bs from someone at home office trying to deflect walmart's continuing actions for culling associates. Everyone knows walmart doesn't want to pay or have associates - they are a necessary evil in the pursuit of higher profits for shareholders. In this vein, walmart should get out of the retail business altogether. Unfortunately for walmart people still need to stock shelves at their stores.