Cafe going 3rd party McDonald’s or Subway based demographics Eliminations of Cart Attandants will have carts like Aldi. Memberships Desks will go to automated machines reducing staff by half. Based on new staffing alignments Will open clubs 24 hours... — read more
Fresh off the press
1) Maintence 3rd party April 1st 2) 600 meat cutters will be cut because of packages being sent like walmart 3) buyers will visiting bottom 10 performers in each state. Stay tuned for phase 3 on Monday conference call 8am Central Time.
If anyone could help, I'd appreciate it
I was a brand new employee (hired January 3rd) when the ax fell. I've gotten no response from my HR rep to inquiries I made about severance, etc. I've surmised from things I found online that I get nothing in the way of severance. However, I worked... — read more
BAD NEWS TODAY
Keep us posted here today. Conference call now in affect.
Conference call
So is there still a conference call this morning or not.
More changes
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-25/wal-mart-is-cutting-up-to-500-corporate-jobs-in-latest-shake-up
cobra packet
I got packet in mail today andue no one's talked to me yet???
Consider the Source
Everytime this site has been wrong for announcements. Everytime their was a restructure it did not show the correct information. It did after it was publicly announced. Please don't take this site but as an associate rumor page.
Conference call
Conference call for all club managers only tomorrow at 830 am
So I just got a letter from Wage works/Walmart
Information regarding COBRA, etc. Did they send this out to everyone or did I just get an early warning my job is gone?
Closing Time Sams is doomed
Market Mgrs will be back home Saturday, there will be a conference call at 10am central time. The Co Mgrs have find a position by March 31st, Optical is going to be 3rd party from a company Called Lazy Eye Care out of Winipeg Canada. As for the PTC... — read more
Hours fulltime
What's considered fulltime hours.... another words how many hours do you have to work for fulltime status and not get knocked down to partime..
Early hours
Can’t wait to go back to 10-8:30 all these folks with limited availability. This is gonna be a show to watch. Miracles will happen now they will be closing and mid shifts with the rest of us. Never was really a fair scheduling system if you had open... — read more
Done
This website is running my life. I am constantly on it and hoping someone tells us the truth 33 years will I make 34 with this company
Severance
Does anyone what kind of severance package mgrs receive?
More BAD News
So I just got off the phone with an unknown source, she said "Sams Club probably with close another 30 clubs by 2019" however this will affect the East coast due to bad weather closings are affecting the sales. Also by January 2019 you will only have... — read more
Alaska's holding a job fair for laid off employees
Here is the summary and source link: With just a few days left before Sam’s Club closes its doors in Alaska for good, the state is stepping in to help the retailer's hundreds of Alaska employees find new jobs. At least some of the employees will stay... — read more
Sams Club Optical going to third party?
Any truth in this? Thoughts? Thanks....
Schedule
My club manager is scheduled until midnight tonight. Can anyone else check their club managers schedule?
If it happens
If this does happen and the rumors are correct, I feel bad for the market managers and the club managers who have to sit people down and tell the ones who are being cut or there are going to be changes that will affect everyone. It’s not easy for... — read more
MM Return from Dallas
Does anyone know when MM are flying back to their respective homes from the meeting in Dallas? We should be able to gauge an approximate timeline from their return dates- whether it’s this week or next that we begin to find out our fates.
True answer
People are posting so many different scenarios on here. They say we will know something this week and then say we will know something next week. Does any one have a true answer as to when we will find out our fate with this company.
The future
Has anyone seen the movie the Net? It's coming true!!!!!!!!
When will we know?
Enough is enough!!! Can’t do this no more!!! The wait is killing me!! Anyone know?
Tech team lead
Any news on the tech team lead &positions in wireless/ photo?
Marketing team
What about the marketing team and membership team lead? Any news on what is going on with them?
This is Coming to Sams Club As Well
Happened at Walmart today. Performance based layoffs??? The company appears to have decided to do a pile of cutbacks and are claiming "performance" as the reason, not for any restructuring or realignments, HR said the federal WARN act doesn't apply... — read more
Starting soon major club change
Get ready for the major change. Night shift 3-12 Afternoon shift 3-midnight New club hours 10-8:30 Club pick up to expand and have members orders picked by 10am. Member able to pick up orders between 7-10am even with club closed till 10am. More... — read more
Secrets revealed, The News Y'all been waiting for.
Well they back and here it is the revelation revieled by a reliable source, Personel GONE, Night Crew GONE, Grocery Mgr GONE, Expierience Mgrs GONE, Fresh takes over Grocery and Recieving areas, Opticle and Communication will be taken over by 3rd... — read more
Home Office Layoffs Have Started This Morning
See this WM thread: https://www.thelayoff.com/t/Ro5gHms or @Ro5gHms
Bring it on rip that bandaid off already
If H.O is going to do something just go ahead and do it instead of hiding behind closed door meetings. Everyone knows cuts and changes are coming just do it and get it over with. The company only cares about there image and how they are going to... — read more
Changes happening next week
Anyone else heard about changes happening next week? From reliable source: Elimination of night crew. They will all have to reapply for the 4am to 12 shift. Elimination of receiving office and team leader on dock. Only 2 people work daytime... — read more
Sam's not the only retail company cutting back...
NEW YORK (AP) — Toys R Us, squeezed by Amazon.com and huge chains like Walmart, will close 180 stores, or about 20 percent of its U.S. locations, within months. Hobbled by $5 billion in debt, the company that once dominated toy sales in the U.S... — read more
We aren’t the death star
Hi it’s me again! Yes me the 28 year maint guy with a healthy 401k that posted about change a couple months ago and got some of you all riled up Ive continued to read through this board and I do feel bad and it s---s that people lost their jobs . But... — read more
Depressed Receiving Clerk
I just want to express how depressed I am. I really gave my all to being the best receiving clerk there was. My club managers would pass my name along to other clubs because I knew what I was doing. I took pride in what I was doing. I saved my club... — read more
Tobacco
Any word about tobacco going away
IF YOU ARE AN OPTICAL MANAGER TAKING THE SEVERANCE, YOU NEED TO READ THIS
All the Optical Managers were given severence packets stating they get 1 week per year. This is incorrect. The severance policy clearly outlines that “non-exempt hourly managers who are eligible for overtime” fall into the salaried manager guidelines... — read more
Any News?
Is there anymore news on the next round of layoffs?