Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

Happened to me. I work in Dairy and was 6-3 for at least a year. All of a sudden without them talking to me, it got changed to 4-1. No one has explained anything to me but what a pain it is adjusting and arriving 4 in the morning

Northern California WM now closed overnights due to shrink ni o/n stickers the tower is in automatic floor cleaners and automatic shelf readers. My overnight cam eliminated as well as 13 others. Only 3 came left and 10 checkouts and rest 30 self. I never shop there again. Solid performer work hard sorting 40 carts overnights no weekends off in 12 years and was told adios in middle of shift. No severance. Be sure they have in writing unemployment or they will fight u as they did me. I won as I was rehireable and can get the unemployment. Unbelievable. Don't think it won't happen to u. Get out now. Please don't wait or will give u a stocker or cap position. It won't happen. What a waste of 12 years. I thought I made a difference. Nope.not to them

In my store in central california we are a super center academy store.It is one of the biggest stores in the state.We used to have a bigger overnight crew.Recently in the past months they have slimmed down the overnight crew.We have 2 asm who work by themselves 3 days a week and together on wednesdays.We have 2 supports managers but the last few months only one because one is on leave.The rumor is we are suppose to only have one going forward soon.In the front end we have two overnight csm and three cashiers they do all the go backs carts stock the front end.We have 5 total mod crew associates sometimes they pull them to zone or help with stocking when they are short on stockers.
Our overnight maintenance used to have 7 total and a support.Now it is been trimmed down to 4 with a support.Most nights we have 3 sometimes only two with a support in maintenance.
Overnight stockers used to have a lot like around 25 or more now they have like 15 or 16 total in that crew.I keep hearing rumors from other people working in other stores they eventually want to eliminate all the night crew in a year or two it wouldn't surprise me if they did.
Our overnight team struggles more now to get things done than they did before our higher managers in the day expect more stuff to get done now with less hands it is a struggle especially in overnight maintenance where they keep adding more stuff to them.The morale in the store is lower than i have ever seen it i have been there for over 10 years.

I've been told that management, that they're also eliminating some of, will get first pick over the jobs theyre restructuring. I just wish they'd tell us ahead of time. When they started the whole cap 2 process, we were told 2 weeks out about it... the company, although I get them needing to keep up with the internet shopping... it doesnt care enough about us at all. I've worked 3rd all 15 years I've been with the company and now, I have to change. Which is fine.. but how the hell are we going to get some with everything when we can barely do it now? I dont get it... we have people already quitting

Our store is keeping associates on maintenance,mod team,frozen and dairy on overnites. The rest of us have to go to cap 1 or cap 2 or leave the company. Yes we lose money too. Some are now looking into target at $15 hr starting or Amazon at $13 hr.

Well I was in retail for 37 years & if you all Walmart employees would vote in a Union this like of c-ap would not happen .yes Walmart has done the wrong thing to there employees & to there customers once again .GREAD is 4 sure what Walmart always been about .poor employees there have gave there life to get ahead in life & have worked there A– of for Walmart are getting a bad deal .& For the paying customers that pay for the employees wages & pay Walmart they are also p-ss-d that the shelfs are empty & no selection to buy & have to get around pallets in the floor trying not to trip over them .And if you have kids worried that Walmart employee running them over with a pallet jack & hurting them or k–ling them .over GREAD Walmart if you make your employees night stockers stock doing the day you will lose 4 things # Sales ,Profit,Customers,& of course hard working Employees & there family .Walmart is it all worth it to you to lose all this .you have lost my business intell you make the changes back to stocker working nights again & keeping the pallets out doing the day .maybe Walmart bosses should try stocking with people trying to buy things & pallets are blocking the idem I want to buy .1 big pain in my butt .employees again I will tell you vote in a Union .

Our store eliminated 3rd shift 2 months ago and I have since switched to 4 to 1. So far it's been a complete failure. We are currently at 60+ unworked pallets in receiving as it's near impossible to keep up with given you have to work freight from ladder carts now. Freight is being handled 4 to 5 times now before making it to the shelves. We were told the change was so the store could have more associates on the floor during business hours to help customers. The complete opposite effect has happened as customers are having a harder time getting around us and vice versa. Number one complaint since the change has been that products are out of stock, mainly due to the fact that this change has crippled the stocking process. A spectacular disaster thus far to say the least.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-03-01/walmart-cuts-some-overnight-shifts-in-latest-streamlining-move

Harrodsburg KY is eliminating 3rd shift around Oct 25

They informed us this morning..you have to apply for frozen or dairy..go to cap 1 or cap 2.. as a 3rd shift employee...can't promise anything..your preference regarding which shift you want is based on years with the store..can't guarantee hours or days..severance maybe maybe not..based on years and if you have any write ups..Just another way to screw employees

Our SuperCenter is also eliminating the 3rd shift. Company line is they are offering "more desirable shifts" to the associates...what a bunch of Bull. Every single associate on our 3rd shift works those hours because it is their preference. Many work those hours as a second job to make ends meet, and now Walmart is taking that away from them.
The real reason is corporate greed. By eliminating the 50 cent per hour shift differential at over 400 stores, Walmart will save nearly $ 8 million per year (also eliminating one Asst. Manager position for each location).
They are also letting the customers down. Most of the smaller SuperCenters affected are in smaller towns where they are the only place open 24 hours. Now if your sick child needs medicine in the middle of the night, or if you run out of wood-pellets to heat your home; you are S-O-L.
Thanks Walmart. Thanks for thinking only of profits instead of people.

Are store is making announcement about it now.

I just wanted to know about Maysville Ky my Walmart 3rd shift I believe they are when they start making big changes by remodeling or going on line I learned from Kmart customers when they start doing all these changes usually it means eliminating something or wanting you to change shifts this is all businesses I don’t know 🤷‍♀️ if this is a fact but You can’t help not noticeable changes don’t be surprised 😮 if it doesn’t happen

Rumor has it, its finally going to happen at my store in a month or two. I've only heard it through rumors. It was announced to people during the day crew a few days ago. Really? You think you would announce something that important to the people it affects the most. Overnights, at my store have a bad stigma. Most people during the day have this mentality that just because they don't see them work, that people don't work at night. WRONG.

Every night I've worked for the last 10 years always starts with cleaning up random stuff or "project" from the day shift then working on my tasks. Every overnights doubles as sales associate, as there are no sales people at night. And being at a smaller store everyone has multiple secondary job codes or job experience from having different job positions. Our overnight cashiers also help sort and stock apparel. Some nights I come in and see the previous shift with 6 cashiers standing around with no customers and 5 feet away from 6 pallets of apparel. It just boggles me, considering our store just added more self checkouts a year and a half ago. Its going to be a wakeup call that's for sure.

At my store they eliminated 3rd shift entirely (including maintenance) at the end of April. The 3rd shift people who decided to stay work from 4A - 1P (maintenance and mod team) or 4P - 1A (stockers).

I actually work at Sam's club and night shift is being eliminated on June 21st. And it was by seniority on who got what shift. It was either 4am-1230pm or 3pm-1130pm. And we get to keep our 50 cent differential which is grandfathered in which is still bs. There is a reason why people applied for night shift work so why take it away

.... We have about 11ppl on nights an only 3 are staying for the shifts. Most are taking the severance package. Clubs use forklifts and manual pallet Jack's so this is going to be interesting to watch forklifts and members interact like never before. This change affects associates, truck drivers, vendors, distribution centers, customers and members....

It's a dumb idea all to save 5million a year in the 50 cent differential. That's what my club was told.. oh and the quarterly bonus at my work is changed to if members fill out a dam survey. That's what our bonus is based on now.

In my opinion stocking the stores while there are so many customers is just accidents waiting to happen. Do you know what it is like stocking with lots of customers and children that are running everywhere? Children are adventurous and everything is a toy to them.

They just talked about this at my Walmart last night (I'm an overnight stocker). The manager confirmed that any stores that make less than $60 million in sales per year are getting rid of 3rd shift in September, and then if that works out well, Walmart will be eliminated 3rd shift in all of it's stores.

I started working for Walmart in 1987. Cart pusher to store manager in 7 years without a college education. Just hard work. Now to the point. Walmart has changed the way they schedule, stock stores and a host of other things over the years. Overnight stocking has went back and forth many times. Walmart is in constant change to try to improve. Some work some don't. Same way with staying open all night or closing. This is one of the reasons Walmart has stayed on top. Stand still and it's over. Back to becoming a store manager. I worked my butt off and transferred many times to advance but Walmart gave me that opportunity.

Two years ago our store started closing from midnight to 6am. This was due to the small sells and huge shrinkage due to theft. I just heard about these third shift eliminations but our store has not announced anything as of yet. I was under the impression it was only the small Neighborhood Markets.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-01/walmart-cuts-some-overnight-shifts-in-latest-streamlining-move

Our store is making this big change effective April '19....all 3rd shift was eliminated. Our options are a severence package or move to Cap 1/2....a pay cut is involved and no full time hours are guaranteed. After 20+ years, this is a sign for me to move on!!!

Same is happening in our store, hours been cut since christmas. Walmart doesn't care about associates any more Sam's legacy is just about fully through. Greedy cooprate Ceo's got dollar signs in their eyes eliminating overnight, jobs, forcing fulltimers to lose hours for ridiculous time cuts. Working for this company is a joke I hope they burn and it all falls on their greedy wallets.

In the near future Walmart is going to find themselves in real financial trouble......and meet the same fate as Sears/Kmart. The word is already out about Wal Mart in my area. No one wants to work there. Now they are screwing over the employees on third shift that have been loyal and hard working. The trouble is that Wal Mart Corporate is out of touch with the amount of work it takes to run a high volume store. Whomever in Corporate is making all of these changes.....needs to be sh-- canned. My store is a mess due to many of these changes. 2nd shift does not come close to getting all of the work done and 3rd shift has been cut down to less than 10 people stocking. They are working people to death. It was'nt that long ago that things were running great....but Wal Mart is never happy unless their stores are totally screwed up and employees unhappy. When this happens in my store, I will be forced to quit. This job is just not worth the b---s--- that this company puts people through every day.

Yes laying off our store April taking the 800 + hours reducing to 500 hours and putting them on days , can barely process trucks now , much less in daytime with customers and less people , also getting rid of two assistant mgrs in each store , Walmart’s greed for money will be their down fall, must be reading sears handbook on how to go out of business without really trying

The mod team is supposed to stay on third shift also with the maintenance team...No one mentioned that..The third shift stockers is a big waste of money...the one's at my store are lazy and slow.The store and assistant managers need to be working also instead of sitting behind the desk most of the time..especially since they make a ridiculous amount of money...

In the history of Walmart- you were never paid out for your sick time when you left the company. Most companies do not pay out on sick time. They will pay out for all accrued PTO.

Yea don't feel bad, they stole everyone's accrued sick time when they went to PTO. Not sure how this is legal and sure isn't ethical. 2700$ worth of accrued sick time built up over many years all gone, how is that ok?

I worked at Walmart store #603 for 6 years and one night was called back to the office in an abrupt 3 minute conversation was told I would no longer have a job on 3rd shift, but there was another similar job paying 50c less an hour.. Walmart invested millions of dollars into failed company projects and store remodels this year and I believe these pilot programs were funded mostly by the job cuts, Walmart isn't going to take a loss on anything, they're going to kick the employees out the front door and make them pay the bill on their way out, which is literally what they did to me. I quit 3 months after and they stole my sick time, I had 133 available sick hours and never got paid for them

Capital One Closing location of Commercial Loans in Laurel Maryland in October 2018.

So ASMs and higher have a gag order on them to not talk about the upcoming events. They're jobs were threatened if they were to talk about it with their Associates. Typical shady H.O. im ovetnight support at a 24hr focus store. resumes and applications will be going out today. Burn in hell Walmart

Yes, it has happened this year in many stores across the US. Walmart would not eliminate these jobs all at once, because it would hit the media. This would add more bad press to this sinking ship of a company.

Overnite will be eliminated and dept mngrs as well won't be this year. When walmart starts down sizing and eliminating tasks look out those are signs for pending future changes.

I'm in a division 1 store in central California. We too are seeing some of these changes happening. We close at 11pm so there is no need for customer service from 11-7. We won't have o/n stockers anymore. They told our o/n people they would be fazing out o/n after our store gets remodeled later this year. They are adding hours to cap 1 and 2. We have already combined some depts sort of. Our dpt 46 dm is "training" (what a joke) as an asm so our dm for dpt 2 is having to run both dpts. Our pet dpt mng position has been open for months and they keep dragging their feet to fill it. I'm thinking they are going back to chemicals and pets being ran by 1 dm. Division 1 stores are ran very differently than super centers.

i had seen somewhere that third quarter is when this type of changes are to start going down. if the company fazed out overnights think of what they would save from not having to pay that extra dollar to people that have been around long enough to get it. it’s crazy and kinda sad at the same time

So ALL Walmart’s will close at Midnight? Do you know when this is suppose to happen? I guess in my area then 24 hour supercenter Meijer will get a lot of Walmart’s business then.

Next step will be closing the stores at night.

If you only have floor crew there. This will be a company wide program.

I don’t think you are lying, I just don’t think it’s happening everywhere by end of Summer. I’m in a 24/7 Supercenter and I just heard we have 2 spots for o/n stockers open they are trying to fill. Why would they bother if we are eliminating o/n by September 1st? Why would your store tell you all this stuff and our store not saying a word? That’s what I question. I believe it’s happening in your store, but comments here say every store, that’s what I don’t believe. As long as a store remains open 24/7 they’ll need more than maintenance to run it. California has very few 24/7 stores. Maybe that’s why your area is getting rid of o/n? Sure it may and probably will happen everywhere eventually, but as long as there are 24 hour stores I can’t see just having maintenance. They would at least need a CSM and/or a cashier, more likely both as neither could override themselves if they had to, not to mention taking care of customers with checks and WIC. It’s all about customer service and customer first. When I hear all 24 hour stores are going away then I’ll be more willing to believe the total o/n elimination.

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I know Neighborhood Markets already doing the program. I think it started with them first.

@Uazquwt-uur why is it so hard for you to believe this? It may not happen exactly the same in your store or area. I'm in California. A lot of these changes have already started in this area. I've worked for this company a long time. I've seen stores change drastically while other stores have very little change. It all depends on the store and how it is doing financially. If you don't want to believe the changes are coming then stay in your little bubble and pretend it doesn't pertain to you. Don't act other's are lying just because it hasn't happened in your store yet.