Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

Dear loyal employees,

We can't afford to keep you employed because expenses are too high. But we CAN afford a shiny new HQ campus. It's magic retail math! Apparently new infrastructure built to keep up with the Joneses...err Amazon is FREE!!

Signed,

The F U executive leadership team

....is it just me, or did anyone else take the message about the new HQ this way?

This new HO announcement is like Walmart holding double fisted birds up high at the loyal employees they just laid off..hypocrites!

4rse,

Preach. The kids coming in get an attitude if they aren't EVP on day one. Little do they know Walmart doesn't care about their ideas.

Lipstick on a pig doesn't change the pig. And for all of those interns who came & left due to the disgust of even thinking of working at Walmart- well to each their own. All that glitters is not gold but if you have been in the dream world of a university, time to figure out its hard in the real world. A company is not made up of shiny pretty things. It takes guts & heart. Anyone who has started their own business knows this. And yep- the culture here is now fake. But at one time it matter & meant something. And individuals moved mountains because they believed they could. No one thought 15 years ago Walmart would be a "me-too" place to work. I guess maybe there were signs but frankly executives should have just leveled with Associates & said here is the road map & here are what is required to keep your job. Don't fit or can't fit - thanks & it's time to go. We are now like every other work place in America. We pay you every 2 weeks & that's that. No more culture is coming along - take it or not. I think we could have adjusted fine if they just were honest. Hope the pretty new pig i.e. Building will be enough to keep Walmart as a actual retail company. And sure hope it has enough toys & trinkets to peak the interest of those smug chart makers & data pushers who never have to touch an item or a customer or work in a store.

lol, attracting top talent... why would anyone want to come work for a company that is always doing constant layoffs/restrurcture and focuses on doing more with less?

1Snj,

Well if they went to Amazon, the treatment supposedly is not any better. BUT they aren't re-orging and firing people every five minutes. And if they have a good idea to improve the business, they actually have a shot at working on it at Amazon. Amazon still has the will to win.

All Walmart's leadership wants to do is to talk about how bad their current talent is while simultaneously not listening to a thing they have to say.

Who wants to work for a company where, the minute you join, you become part of the talent they think is their problem?

I feel like telling leadership, "It's not the building, stupid. It's the culture."

@ynz, yeah I heard from some recent grads that visited HO and passed on working for Walmart. The consensus from them, "Walmart doesn't act like they care about their people." The word is out, you are right. Some of them went to Amazon, ha ha.

Sounds like the layoffs are to get the long tenured older people out.

The new HO is walmart keeping up with the Jones'. If this had really been in the works for awhile then it would be 2 years away, not 5-7.

Amusing.

But I don't think the building is the problem. It doesn't help but when you talk to people, they say it's the way they treat associates that keeps them away. The word is out.

Also ironic that they're spending all this money on a new HQ at a time that they say they're having to fire people because expenses are too high.