Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

First of all the managers never came up with the block scheduling. Maybe you should get your facts right before you start bashing assistant managers. The protected pto it is what it is. If you look at other companies they don’t tolerate call offs. I’d say the company has been pretty nice about it. Assistant managers work hard and have families. Maybe you should think about things before you run your mouth and know what you’re talking about. Just a thought...

If managers are not "visiting" with associates, it's because they don't want to know the truth. Their bosses have never wanted to know the truth, and never will. Dog and pony, dog and pony.

wwaaaaaa boo hoo Someone stepped on managers toes. LOL. we cant run a business like this. waaa waaa waaa. You do not run the business anyway !! You guys do not manage , you just give the corporate directions. Home office said this or that bla bla bla . Most of you are not any form of a leader. You got promoted because you said yes , danced like a monkey and in most cases kissed up a whole bunch.

And yes I believe that my years of service should have earned me more favorable time off , like weekends. If you do not believe that either you have not worked here for many years or you are a kiss up.

I have worked with Wal-Mart for a very long time. Years ago there were 3 shifts with set days off and everyone worked weekends. Dept. Managers worked every Saturday , salesclerks worked either a Saturday or Sunday with set days off during the week and overnights worked each weekend with set days off. You were hired for one of these shifts--there was no availability issues. Either you worked or you did not have a job. NO arguing between the associates and this type of scheduling seemed to work better than anything corporate has come up with yet. Would it work today? or is it to simple ?

Please, you may show up for work, but do nothing but sit in the locked managers office eating the newest item you want to try, at the company's expense. And as far as the work environment goes, it starts from the top down. This is for attendance, work ethic, member service, and moral. Try visiting with associates on a regular basis, not just when the survey comes around.

Im an Assistant manager, we never miss and work like 60 hours a week. We rarely spend time with our family. I see everyday that hourly do less and less.

The managers never miss work for anything honestly it’s a rare occasion that we signed up for why are you associates any more entitled to availability constraints than we are. We can’t just be like oh my kid gets out of school so I can’t close. No f--- out of here with that bs.

I totally agree hate these f---ing self entitled associates that come in and want every weekend off.

@1dmz So if that person has a legitimate reason for having to change their availability, you deny it no matter what?

Child care, personal responsibilities, medical stuff, etc, you tell them too bad?

If so, you're exactly the kind of manager the company DOESN'T need.

I’m going to be honest here. I’m an assistant for the company. All of my departments have set schedules with rotating weekends off. Except those with availability issues. That’s where managers run into problems with schedules because someone gets hired with open availability then changes it to they can only work after 4 after a week into the job. I’m the least bias person on here and the front end is the worst of it. It’s almost impossible to make a schedule to cater to everyone’s needs that’s why all these changes are happening. The associates expect a multi billion dollar company to care about them not wanting to wake up early because they have been with the company for years and think they deserve it. If you’re choosing to work in retail. You basically signed up to not have weekends off or a set schedule. If you’re not happy with the changes just put in you’re 2 weeks and have good luck finding a company that will allow such BS. I refuse to hire someone without open availability. And if they try to change it after being hired I deny it and wait for them to fall through the cracks. We can’t run a business like this.