Maybe this post is mostly speculation but the goon squad is taking out long term club managers and assistant managers. There is definitely a focus on driving those long term managers out through bullying, harassment and threats of termination along with coachings for minor issues. We’ve all seen how in the past few years, they’ve targeted the elimination of long term associates. The company has no moral compass and will continue to wreck lives to cut costs. There is never any applicable advice shared during goon squad visits, “we need more members” “aggressively merchandise...” there is never anything shared that will change the trajectory. This is the reason for the obnoxious focus on clean, neat and straight, no trash in carts, etc. They have no real ideas to share or applicable advice so they focus on the impossibly small things that can’t be helped when you have thousands of people in a building in a day.
Well, I think that @Ww4NCwr-1xlt summed it up well. This deserves to be a thread.