Ok. Here it is. All store managers have been sent a form where they are to rate all of their assistant managers in multiple performance categories (not a yearly evaluation form, this is different). All of the assistant managers for the entire market will then be banded together in one large pool. These results will then be calibrated. Each manager will fall into low, mid or high category. The low which will be around 20-25% will be terminated and given 60 days pay. For the mid and high, some managers will be allowed to stay in role at their current store and some will be forced to transition to another location. Department manager roles will be given more responsibility and roles combined with some of those positions going away also. Workplace will be tested by additional stores and ultimately cause the elimination of personnel but that layoff will not occur in Feb. New changes to attendance will be rolled out by February. Anyone who feels like this will not happen to me, trust that it will and is happening. Just be prepared and pray for the best. Walmart will also roll out a small pay increase for hourly associates and put the news of that out simultaneously to coincide with the mass manager layoffs to reduce the negative media. Store managers are not being told that the managers that they rank low will lose their job but the majority of managers based on the co manager layoff experience have figured it out at this point and know what is going on.
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ASMs have not taken any survey locally so if that’s part of the process then that process is not happening here. At least in the way it occurred at Sams.
Seems to be a lot of different opinions on here about this, which is driving conversation. That’s great IMO as this board should do that.
YBM is less than a month away, we should know before then or at the latest within 2 weeks after that. Time will tell.
The survey happened at Sam's Club dec 2017. Many mgrs were laid off based on favoritism, not work ethic. The Asms did have to also take a survey based on prior job history and if they were willing to relocate. The SM did there survey rating them. Last week of January 2018 was the layoffs. If this is happening at Walmart the ASMs should have been given the job history survey also.
I meant 23k, too bad you can't edit these posts
i can't believe this post has almost 30k views!
WHy are you doing this Wal-Mart?! All those managers depend on their salaries to support their families and your just gonna cut their throats just so you can pocket more money! Boo to you!! 60 days pay for years of good dependable service is just plain sorry!! I know at my store all my managers have done a good job and they work hard! Wal-Mart use to be a good company to work for, but not any more! You s---!
That’s Wal Mart!!! Don’t turn your back or you’ll be the next one stabbed!!😡😡😡Former employee. Thank God I got out!!!!
All store managers should be evaluated also. Not just the assistant managers. Some managers are afraid to face their employees and just sit at the desk directing orders that don't make any sense to us workers.
No other store managers I know and speak too daily know anything about it. It would be a conversational topic with us if we had any info about this. I was not skipped in the informational loop in other words.
Again it might be a regional test program or even taking place within a division.
I’m Here trying to put input in from my perspective. Nothing more than that. These boards tend to benefit from different points of view if a true discussion if to take place.
Kmart was washed out because they couldnt control they mess hq. made.Walmart has began its spiral down hill.God help us who are trying to stay afloat.WHATS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.You sit all day and make this sh-- up.Hey wheres the big HQs now.Have sat down for any video home office telling us nothing.
That's Walmart- the harder you work the more it doesn't matter. They need to get rid of some of the store managers along with assistant managers who do not know what they are doing.
Its all about greed!!!!.. Wm is getting rid of the higher paid associates, asm included, and bringing in new associates that get paid min wage... That is y they can do a pay increase cuz they r saving thousands by all the higher paid being cut... Its the beginning of the end for wm..... Js
You let go everyone, who is going to buy the merchandise (you over buy) not us, no job no money no buy.
Walmart as a company has truly sunk to a new low. As hard as we try to be the best we can, corporate finds a new way to try to make more money with less associates. How can we deliver great customer service, clean stores and basic in stock with how they are coming up with way to do more with less.
Workday not "Workplace." https://www.workday.com/en-us/homepage.html Sam's Club is supposedly going with it, which everyone speculates is the end of their personnel employees.
Dear MR Store Manager who seems to know everything. I have a few questions for you sir? You say that you do not see any facts pointing to these layoffs happening? Are you blind that is my first question to you? Clearly multiple people have saw the rating form and the majority of club managers have been sent the form. It has slots in a pyramid where managers are rated high performer, subject matter expert, value contributor or talent risk. MR Store Manager is it possible that you are not being sent the rating form for your managers because your market manager has a sixth sense about you, and you did not meet the upcoming talent review yourself. Is it possible that you are being replaced by said regional selection? Sir you ask how this could be happening when we are having regional selection for new managers. Sir maybe you should ask the entire salaried manager staff from Sam’s Club and all of the Co-managers from Walmart because jobs were posted for both at the time that they were given the dagger this time last year. Is it possible sir that the selection process is to have managers ready to backfill the stores that are hit hardest by the cuts? MR Store Manager my final question to you is this: Why is a store manager such as yourself who is sure that layoffs are not coming surfing on the website THE WALMART LAYOFFS .COM?? Thank you for your time MR Store Manager.
Severance like they offered the co managers.
Wal-Mart is already stretching everyone so thin, putting more,and more on the hourly associate, and demanding more,and more out of the Management Team because they want to run the store on a sceloton crew. Every Day I see the Management Team having to do task that hourly associate's should be doing just because Wal-Mart doesn't want to hire people to get the job done. Less,and Less associate's is not the way to keep valued customers. Staff your stores for your customers, and value your employees, and their positions. I shop at Wal-Mart, and I am saddened by the way I see your Management Team being treated, and your associate's. I always feel as if your associate's are being rushed to do the job of three people, and aren't able to take the time to help me as a customer. Wal-Mart better open their eyes to the effect they are having on the customer.
As far as me bring full of it, time will tell.
I’m reporting real time what’s going on where I’m at as a store manager. A number of things posted in this thread as “facts” are just false as I have said. Be it mis information or outright lies I have no ideals why....
Of course major announcements regarding this could drop next week..but as I’ve posted nothing I’m seeing at store level suggest a reduction or major realignment of ASMs. In fact a reduction seems very unlikely as we are actively trying to promote more ASMs as a company.
I’ve been at this a longtime, and one gets a sixth sense when major change is in the wind. Not feeling or hearing anything right now that leads me to think major overhaul of ASMs is coming this month or anytime soon. A reduction is the number of ASMs seems extremely unlikely for a number of reasons.
Wow! Nothing surprises me with that place! A total cess pool!
Walmart used to be a wonderful place to work now it really s---s! Why would you even want to work for them?? Put in so many years just to be deleted!! I would never recommend anyone even my enemy to work for them!
I'm a PC and have been told on more than one occasion that personnel isn't being eliminated. Apparently I've been lied to again.
Pwv, you're full of s**t. Period.
Not a false flag. My store mgr has already been told our mkt is losing up to 15 assts. he has already decided which 3 he wants to go. I don’t know if he has any say in it, above the grading he gives them, but he’s already told some they’re safe.
This sure looks like a false flag to me. Nothing of real substance and “due” dates from November till next two weeks posted when these sheets were due.
Been doing this a long time and this rings of a baseless rumor.
Next week Market Managers and MHRMs calibrate Store Managers, a yearly process. Guess we will see what info comes out of that.
Then Week 1 is YBM. If any of this is going to occur it will be known by then I would guess. All I know is that the region I’m in is in full bore promoting and hiring of new ASMs, that does not reflect a coming ASM reduction.
Don't "pray for the best" if prayer worked, none of these struggles would be happening. Put on your big-kid pants and look for better opportunities. If you're stuck at Walmart, that's because you let it happen.
Dont be blind it is happening like co except they wont get the options co did because they are not downsizing hope throwing your co under the bus and laughing was worth it you are on the chopping block now and your sm will not save you when its time to replace you
2nd week of January is what we where told.
My store manager told me he had to have the talent sheet filled out by Dec 31st.
Perhaps in other areas they will do the talent sheet next week? Instead of a week prior?
That's what I'm going to assume because this is happening as a company..
One of my ASMs said he had to help our SM find that wire task with the Q&A about ASMs because the MD called and asked if he had done it. It would disappear if they didn’t complete it by a certain date. He said it linked to a 3rd party survey thing, like EOS. I think that was back in Nov.
Moving ASMs between stores happens every years, talent balancing is a regular occurrence. ASMs can be moved within 50 miles of their home address.
It’s normally handled at the market level, the MHRM and Market Managers normally make those types of moves with some input from store managers.
It’s based on staffing levels, talent balance between stores, personalities of the stores and the managers etc...various factors.
But as for a company directed restructure/reduction like what occured with the Co Managers, nothing is pointing towards that at all.
From the way my store manager has been talking about it, there will be “position changes” but no change in pay for those people, so they shouldn’t worry. But he also says that there is an addiction “realignment “ that they are supposed to wait for the 2nd week of Jan. He seems to think its just moving people to other stores and Regional hasnt decided yet. So that coult be BS they are feeding SMs for layoffs they dont know about yet.
Original post says all store managers have already received this form with direction to complete it.
Now the thought is this all breaks next week and then direction will be given?
Which is it?
Can’t predict the future but so far none of this makes sense based on what has occurred and what we have been told at the stores at this point. Seems like a lot of conjecture at this point.
Regional ASM requisitions are of course set up and organized at the regional level. I highly doubt they do not know what is coming up in the next two weeks at that level.
Perhaps all of this is a regional trial somewhere, not a company wide program in other words.
As of now your Market is short 9 ASM's and you have Regional selection but within the next 2 weeks, that all changes. The stuff is going to be announced next week to the Market Level and Store managers I assume.
Like someone else mentioned in a previous post the talent Diamond system will be used to decide who stays and who gos.
As a current store manager I can tell we have not received any such form nor any direction regarding this where I am at.
We have a regular ASM Calibration set up in two weeks (we do it every year) and also a regional ASM requisition this month where we will promote between 50+ hourly associates to the ASM ranks in the region. My market is short 9 ASMs they are trying to replace this month.
Not sure where your getting your info but I’m not seeing anything to back it up in anyway.
Sweet! When will this happen? This month hopefully??
If this is true, it will legitimately negate any possibility for anyone on an individual store level to play favoritism and keep some of these dirt bags who've been needing to go for years. Time will tell, of course. The politics in that outfit are so thick I believe the whole business would have to fail before we'd see any real change.
Don't tease me. You have no idea how intensely I hope this is true.
High potential
Subject Manager Expert
Valued contributor
Talent risk
Those are the 4 categories that you will be ranked in.
This is on the wire FYI if you search "Quarterly Talent Planning"
It's how they do ratings going forward just kicking it off with these cuts.
Thank you for the info. Any idea if Asset Protection ASM’s and ACCM’s are included in this calibration process and if so and are calibrated low are they included in the layoff or forced relocation to another facility?
This is what happened on the sam’s side last year. Very few of the stores in this area came through unscathed. Word is that sams will be doing this again; as calibrations on club managers and assistant managers have already taken place ahead of a meeting planned in a week with market managers.
Thank you