Anyone hear about getting 2 raises for associates under 10 years? Some in my club are saying they are getting the November raise as well as other in February 2025? I’ve been hearing both.
Caps need to be raised
Getting sc--wed over once again …been with the company 37 years , been at my cap for quite a while without a raise and those of us at our caps don’t get this raise they are offering everyone else . Thank you Sam’s club for once again sc--wing over... — read more
Team Leader Acts Like A 3 Year Old?
My team leader comes in, talks, smiles, and laughs with everyone else, but she has aggressive mood swings. Usually never happy and always a frown on her face. She ignores me to the ends of the earth, won't speak to me, looks past me like I am vapor... — read more
Pay raises
They just announced bigger annual pay raises based on tenure
Who thinks of these changes
Who at home office is in charge the crazy changes with our systems, they obviously never worked in a club . Stock status is now on AP core, which is so hard to use on that little hand held. Ask Sam is useless as is so many other apps they have to... — read more
Getting Coached after an accident
I'm just wondering, is it common practice that after you have an accident in the club and report it that you get a coaching for not following safety procedures. Wouldn't that practice just make you think twice about reporting it if you're going to... — read more
Astalavista Baby
29 years I have dedicated to this company. Sam Walton, Helen Walton totally erased. I was raised on integrity, respect of the individual, service to our members, striving for excellence. I no longer recognize the morals and values this company... — read more
PPTO Going Away
rumor has it that PPTO system is going away or changing in November. Does anyone have the details?
Scan and Go arch
Does anyone’s arch work? Does it really prevent theft? I think we did better before. And there are still the same number of associates working the door.
VR CBL’s
Whose idea was VR CBL’s. I want the job at home office that gets to think of the stupid things for clubs to do .. we barely have time to do the regular cbl’s that are a complete waste of time , now we have the germ infested VR headsets to waste more... — read more
Merchandisers sick of working CPU
How many merchandisers have to work CPU ever single day ? We are getting pulled every day to do other people’s job, CPU, fresh or run register. Yet when we are short handed no one helps us out. It is getting ridiculous . We are getting yelled at... — read more
Any Clubs Have a conference call today?
Any clubs have a conference call this morning?
We Need Advice
So We need advise! After Inventory our GM decided to step down! We have call ethics many times to report A person that has been working in there for 18 years I guess, she has been bullying people all this years, our GM the is gone decide to give her... — read more
Too much freight
Anyone else get weekly soda and alcohol delivered but the HO seems to think that one week you should get 18 pallets of hard liq-or and 15 pallets of coke products?? Why so much one week and hardly anything the next 2 weeks!! Ridiculous!! Pretty sure... — read more
Teamlead test
When you take the test for teamlead does it tell you if you passed it? I just took mine and it didn’t tell me, but I thought I took it several years ago and it told me I passed
Virtual Reality
So I was asked to try out the new CBL virtual reality helmet after 4 other people used them. Um, I handed it back and said. I'm not putting that on! I don't care how clean you think it is I'm not using that. Covid 25 ????
20+ luncheon
Can someone please tell me does the luncheon for associates with 20+ years still exist?
Lead’s paid
Leads in the clubs should be paid hourly by length of service. It’s not fair for new leads making as much or more than 30 plus years of service. The company does not appreciate long term associates that has helped make the clubs successful.
New book display
We recently got our new book display. It looks great, but there is just no room for all the books we get in, especially the oversized reference books and numerous scholastic books. I was hoping with this display we wouldn’t get as many titles . We... — read more
Audits
In your club, who does the monthly audits for the floor ?? In my club it is whoever .. it is getting frustrating . These item audits are ridiculous . Why can’t we just do full audits instead of dropping the same pallets month after month doing... — read more
Cleaning Lists?
Apart from merchandiser's job to stock the store, answer calls, take care of front end breaks among other things, we each received a cleaning list. Every week, a merchandiser is supposed to clean a different aisle. You should remove the pallets... — read more
HR
Why can’t Sam’s have an HR department any more? Walmart has them! When needing answers and management doesn’t know…..????!!! Very frustrating!!!!
PTO and Protected
Is it me, or does it seem like it takes longer than normal to accumulate PTO and Protected Time? Anyone experiencing this? I'm full-time by the way
Work position
Does anyone know what specialty department is highest? Thinking of moving positions (tbc to optical) but don't want to drop in pay.
Scan & Go exit arch
Why does corporate think the new exit arch is going to cut down on theft?
Managers
I called the ethics hotline on several managers for being rude to the assotiates and sitting in the office all day, I'm done with the disrespect. Bonuses for managers that are useless what a joke
Managers
Who's training these new managers? Wow
New book racks
Anyone have the new book racks yet? We just got ours and even though it looks really nice , we still have way more books than room given. Anyone know is we will be getting less items in the new future ??
Confronting your coworker is wrong and unethical
I told my media team lead to have my coworker Ana work on the table and to please don’t make any mess around and he told me to go tell her my self , but I told him I have several time and to me this is confrontation and is un ethical, according to... — read more
Pto
If my merchandise mama get approved my days off can they be taken off and denied by the same manager or a different manager? My merchandise manager got in trouble for approving days off the club manager said he is the only one allowed to approve days... — read more
Weekly Pay?
I seem some people are saying their stores have switched to weekly checks instead of bi-weekly. Is this only for certain stores/regions or is this going to be eventually a nationwide thing?
I am just going to leave this here as they seem to be just starting (I hope less censoring too and non-layoff topics are welcome)
https://thebluetalk.com/community/sams-club
Karma to management
Karma is a B***H when you want to get rid of long term loyal associates and hire rookies off the street paying them as much or more than the long timers! Karma is well destroyed the management that fire people for no reason! One manager just got... — read more
Attendance
How long does my manager have to give me points if I used no ppto. It’s been almost a month and I still haven’t gotten a point.
Tombstones sign holders
Anyone know what's up with tombstones , we are not allowed to use them at all