Has anyone heard what associates are working Christmas and New Year’s Eve? Are they going to be scheduled till 1130 pm?
Open Door Policy
Do you think if I asked my General Manager to have a meeting with him, two other managers, and two team leaders all at once, are they required to let me? Really want to ask them about my team leaders responsibility and ask them to write down 5... — read more
Opening team leads
Just wondering if anyone else has the problem of opening team leads being late? Putting everyone behind. Just wondering.
Holiday bonus ?
Does anyone know if we still get holiday bonus ? Used to be a certain amount for years been here and in a December check ?
SUPER STORE....
Does anybody watch this? It is SO based on Walmart. The writers have obviously been affiliated with the corporation at one time.
TRUTH
A bad boss can take a good staff and destroy it, causing the best employees to flee and the remainder to lose all motivation.
I guess the word is getting out!
Check out this lovely article. It popped up in my Google feed. Someone is letting the cat out of the bag. Sam's Club S U C K S https://www.mashed.com/176079/workers-reveal-what-its-really-like-to-work-at-sams-club/
SAM'S SHARE COMING NEXT WEEK!!
Okay guys, can someone in the know explain to me: How Sam's Share is determined/how much we can expect. How, if at all, Sam's Share is affected by point system. How, if at all, Sam's Share is affected by coachings. How, if at all... — read more
Stock price
Someone tell Bentonville that while they were trying to be like Costco Targets stock price blew by Walmart. To late to look in the rearview mirror at the competition coming up behind you. Sad.
Club pick up lead
What is their actual responsibility? I know what I read on the wire but I'm wondering what mgnt actually is requiring this person to do. Nobody at my club has an answer.
New Open Time?
Herd the club will start opening at 9 instead of 7 sometime next year. Should help with morning stocking.
The New Generation of Workers
What we have here is a bunch of young spoiled kids who thinks they are owed something and wants everything there way. Thinks they should be promoted 3 months after being employed. Guess what your parents are not in charge at Sams to give there... — read more
3rd Shift.
This Block Scheduling is still not working and now I'm back on 3rd shift!! We lost some good people who couldn't work days. And even if it for the holidays this s—s.
Dumping Grounds unsafe
The cash office, claims and PTC offices have became storage areas, there's no one in the PTC office and personal information on the desk. I tripped over some boxes and cracked my skull In claims, these buildings are unsafe and danger areas
This is an ideal time to leave Sam's Club
Holiday hiring going on all around retail right now. This is by far the best time to leave all year if you are really sick of this place and what's been going on here. And yes, I know most of that hiring is seasonal, but every company keeps on people... — read more
Firing associate left and right
So yesterday they started firing associates, cause of absences and tardy. So if you got 5 points and not having ppto or pto then be ready to get fired. They fired to much associates today and yesterday. And it’s holiday why they need to do that?
Thank you Demos
Sometimes us employees and management needs to thank demos and the demo manager for what they do for us, they are usually the reasons our sales go up at times, been with sams 20+ years and always thank them.
Your new CEO
I am so so so sorry.... She’s going to make Furner look like Mother Theresa.
FREE TURKEYS FOR ALL SAM'S CLUB EMPLOYEES!! THIS YEAR ONLY!!
So co-worker told me we're supposedly going to get free turkey this year. Two questions. Is this going to be like a little package of sliced turkey or an actual whole turkey? Because they're giving us "free" ANYTHING, how many of our hours... — read more
Member Support (Formally known as Door Greeters and Desk Associates)
It finally happened. Our desk was moved to the door yesterday. We, now work the desk, or what's left of it, take care of the door, get club pickups out, and push carts. Just so you know what's coming your way.
Managers
Why we have a lot of supervisors? If we have 6managers plus GM. I don’t understand why they pay to much hiring supervisor but you just gonna see them seating there a– in the office eating while the associates are doing 2 to 3 jobs and only getting... — read more
Is it going to be even harder for us in 2020?
Are we in for more of the same in 2020, or will the leadership want to round up all the shifts and changes in 2019. I know that changes (and not for the better) are an ethernet category at Sam’s, but can we expect more schedule changes, elimination... — read more
Club closures
28 clubs listed to be closed in next 6 months.
West Coast Shakedown
Specialty Managers will be eliminated in the San Bernadino area. Dont be alarmed it's just a test! Email will be sent out this Friday.
The Purge Part 7
Packages will be arriving in January for Specialty Managers on February 1st 2020, with the option of taking another position. By June 2020 cart barriers will be put around the front to eliminate carts in the lot, just like Aldi you will have the... — read more
Salary marketing manager
Could anyone post how many hours are you working a week and what are you responsibilities with this job.
Former Sick and Personal Time
In a different thread someone asked if there were any lawyers in the group that could take a look at how Walmart effectively stole the personal and sick time we had earned. Here are my thoughts. it is indeed morally wrong what they did with... — read more
Bonus
Do you guys know when is the bonus? We ask two managers how much and when we gonna get it and no one can tell us.
Ppto not accruing
Anyone else having issues with PPTO not accruing at all... ?? Mine stopped 3 pays ago and payroll says a mgr has to do something in workday to launch an audit!!! Grrrrrrrrr
Parting thoughts
It has become fairly obvious to me that the company is well aware of my online activity and almost certainly also of my identity. They can't much like what I have been posting. While I don't really care about them or their concerns at this point in... — read more
November 9
Why managers did not schedule an associate if they know we have an event going on. We are short stuff all over. We work our a– so freaking hard to make our members happy then we have one manager just standing around and smiling at the door. Dude we... — read more
Holiday Week
Should we be getting 3 days off during Thanksguving week since we are closed and they will take PTO time for that day? One of my regular days off was switched to Thursday only giving me 2 days off.
Fortune One
Hey I hope this post finds you all well... i see a lot of doomsday in this site when checking from time to time to see what the rumors are about. I think a lot of people misconstrue the intentions of what this business is about. We are living in a... — read more
Raise
So if HO really sees this site then I want to ask them to just give us all our raise. Raise all the rest of us to 15 dollars. I don't know about other stores but at our store every associate works really hard and they deserve that raise. Most... — read more
Walmart name
Anyone else think having the walmart name on your resume, hurts your chances of finding another job?.
Optical
I’m just wondering what any other Optical people out there have to say about this reset we have to do Sunday. I have found 5 mistakes concerning UPC and Item numbers not matching frames and they don’t have all the lines we carry on the layout sheet... — read more
3rd Qtr Sams Share
Anyone getting a sams share for the 3rd qtr? Manager told us we will not receive one due to accidents. We had same number of accidents in the 2nd qtr and still had a $800 dollar one. ???????
Seriously, someone call John Taffer.
Maybe he can explain to Home Office why we need more than one POS at the desk. Or why we need more than 4 cashier run registers. What is wrong with you home office people?