Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

I was a twenty year plus assistant manager, no coachings, no bad evaluations ever. I never missed days, worked so many unscheduled days I can’t even begin to count them. I’ve had years where I lost more days of vacation than I took. Always was on the floor working hard beside my associates. At the end of February, my store manager called me in for what I assumed was going to be my evaluation, instead was told that I was going to be terminated for poor job performance and that they were told not to give the evaluations, so he didn’t even have to think up some bs for that. The only thing I can think of is that I came up as an hourly, always treated hourly associates with respect and care and that is not what they want these days. The company thinks in terms of teams these days (but they really mean machines) and every one is a team member (machine part). Having lead associates for over 15 years as an assistant and another 3 as an hourly supervisor I know that individuality was what made this “has been” company strong. Current leadership believes individual thought is counter productive to their team concept! I obviously must have developed some sort of squeak or rattle, that they forgot to tell me about, and they changed me out for a new part. If that can happen to me, anyone could be next!

Learn a trade or go to college, or else you will have to continue to work these no skills required jobs for no pay and no respect.

Im in the same boat. I was terminated but this year was my only develop needed evaluation. I was with the company for almost six years. Last year it was a tough year for me in my personal life. I guess I should of take a leave instead of trying to deliver my best.

Walmart no longer has any values left when it comes to associates. You are a number and eventually your number will go away . It is sad to see the Walton’s family to allows this to happen and see their father’s dream coming crashing down.

Maybe you just weren't cut out for the position. Why is that so hard to accept? I would encourage you to go back to school and get a degree so you don't have to work at a Walmart store. So many people I knew in high school spent their time getting drunk and playing video games instead of improving their lives. Now they work at Walmart and b–ch about it all day.

Such a slimy, horrible company.

I understand. I was there for a long time.
I made the mistake of feeling like they cared and it was a family.
It isn’t, and never was.

It’s a business.

They’ve made the mistakes they swore to never make.

The actions they are taking are acts of panic and desperation.

The cuts will continue to prop up the numbers.

It will crash. The Kmart they warned us they could become is happening.

The smoke and mirrors are a distraction.

They’ve past the point of no return.

The money used to prop up the numbers is evaporating.

They’ve lost the loyalty of their customer base.

It’s guaranteed that as more choices of alternative
Places to buy goods grows. Walmart will continue to be the place to avoid.

The top brass are trying to keep it going as long as possible to maintain their millions of dollars in paychecks.

It about their future now. Not yours. It’s human nature. Greed.

It’s predictable. It’s tried and tested. It repeats again and again.

This is the time that retail competition is expanding rapidly. They can see it.

Walmart is liquidating it’s assets.
It’s all an act to give confidence to keep the company value up and collect their millions in paychecks.

With the method they are using to prop up their numbers.

The stock value and company outlook will fall substantially. It’s on the way to the cliff.

How much longer until the greedy ones bleed the company dry and leave the remaining people to take the loss?

Soon is the answer.

Because their plan is irreversible now.

We will see the first significant drop in value by the end of the fourth quarter of the current year.

Sell your stock before the cliff.

The top brass is at the every man for himself stage.

It will collapse on itself. Quicker than people think.
Their smoke and mirrors are convincing.

Greed is predictable. Their actions are an open book to history. The longer the mike and mirrors the harder and quicker the decline will seem.

It’s like the frog in water on the stove. Turn up the heat slowly and it will never know what was happening around him.

Sorry to hear. Good luck in future endeavors.

On the flip side, let this be a lesson to everyone out there. Walmart doesn't give a rat's @$$ about their associates. It doesn't matter how much blood, sweat and tears you give it will never be enough. Just 1 'needs development' will destroy a career. Walmart doesn't need an excuse to terminate anyone so why sacrifice your holidays, family time, sanity, days off, health, etc.... for a company as $#!tty as Walmart.