So with the way employees are being treated, do they even care anymore?
Here’s what I mean. If an employee sees a customer stealing or breaking merchandise, do they care? Or has the company treated them so badly, they turn a blind eye?
Curious on people’s thoughts and crazy stories.
DXN,
That’s horrifying. But that’s what I mean. The employees are currently being treated so badly that there is zero loyalty to the company anymore.
The company is for for sure not loyal to its employees. Instead of loyalty, Walmart employees get hour cuts, demotions, layoffs, and rank and yank.
That is going to be a huge part of the downfall of this company in my opinion.
I worked at store #2728 in south east Decatur, Il. for many years. And like the above poster described, the apathy from employees due to the lack of concern from management isn't new; here's a story to illustrate that:
In 2001 a people greeter out in Lawn & Garden chased down a shop lifter. The guy spun on him with a knife and slashed at his throat, leaving a gaping wound the doctors later said missed a major artery by half a centimeter. Thankfully he recovered ok from it. ... You would think some type of reward or even just an employee recognition statement would have been made, right? But nope: This guy, James, was denied any type of company compensation due to his having 'violated company policy' by chasing that guy , as he wasn't Loss Prevention.........and about two weeks later he was fired over 's-xual harrassment' of a customer. There's a happy ending for James, tho: He got a lawyer---and an undisclosed amount of settlement money from Sh!tMart.
T H A T is how much these people you work for care about you and your welfare, my friends ~
Care? They barely pay us to show up and work let alone pay us to care. They need to show they care about 'us' before we care about our customers or theft or anything else.
I don't believe this is really anything all that new. Going back 10, 15, or even more years ago what was the payoff for trying to make a stop? If you were right, so what - who cared? If you were wrong, your job was on the line. So unless you were AP was it really worth it then anymore than it is now?
lol no! Not in my pay grade to deal with any of that. Oh and people above me don’t care either.
We’re afraid to say anything because a bike tour is into the home office. I told a 10-year-old to quit climbing up the pop side counter, to get an item of pop and his mother turned me in because I told him to get down. I didn’t want him to fall and then we would have an accident problem. The problem really was the pop shouldn’t be so high that a mother can’t reach it, so she shouldn’t have to have her child climb the side counter to get her merchandise.