We questioned the market team and were told a canned answer that a “fair and consistent system was used”. Well, what was it? It wasn’t evals, willingness to relocate, seniority, etc because I know many fellow cos with exceeds with evals, had open availability to move, were with Walmart 10 plus years, and we’re putting for store manager jobs. Does anyone know what this system was that was used????
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Or who you are related to!
Yes and I’m sure that’s what they are counting on!
Anyone who tries to challenge this legally will have their work cut out. Rest assured, Walmart's legal team devised this in such a way as to be virtually bullet proof. The main problem is that 40 states do not recognize the three major exceptions to at-will employment; bottom line, without a broken contract, there is pretty much nothing an ousted employee can do.
People may find a lawyer or firm that can finangle their job back, based on some overlooked technicality, but where will that get them? Back under the gun. That's no way to live.
Or the other option would be class action, and that usually requires at least 1,000 litigants. Let's say that actually works. What's the individual payout, after the 33% + taxes? P e a n u t s.
The blah blah post got dissappeared, which is to bad cause it was funny and we can use more of that, but they had a good point
It’s odd they won’t explain the system they used........
I'm curious myself..because all I was told was it was rated by ability.
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