Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

Both AM and PM have different ways that the shifts will be difficult. The AM focus will be heavy on pulling orders because of all the orders that pile up overnight due before 10:00 am. Stocking will just be nowhere near the levels it was with a full 8 hours of no members in the way.

PM shift will get called to the register to run a lot more interrupting their zone and stock. Also a majority of the trucks will need put away and drop list picked on only 2.5 hours of time.

The worst part is that neither shift will ever see one another to communicate and it is going to cause a rift trying to do so over PlanIt.

jq1OXb-1mkh....you are right it likely can work if everyone involved engages 110 percent,,any less and it will unravel

now here is something I know . Folks defending this whole thing are very very likely in one of the following categories

1 you are a manager or teamleader and are used to blaming all those in your charge for your poor leadership

2 you brown nose one of the above people

3 you are naive do to lack of time with the company

4 you really believe it because you are swimming in the kool aid you are drinking

anyone with substantial time with the company sees that in the last few years it has taken taken and taken more from the workers. they have seen colossal bad decisions both from corporate and local management ,especially local management. they recognize more poo coming from having had it heaped on them so many times before. this change is no different. well yes it is. it is much worse.

most clubs are running poorly now and to think it will improve three weeks from now is a sad sad misjudgment. It is going to be absolutely disastrous. And we the workers are going to be blamed by our managers ..heck even HO knows this that is why the sams share is now tied to customer satisfaction. they will say the customers would be happy if we did things right all the while knowing it is HO causing customer dissatisfaction by the stupidity they rain down on us.

there may be a few clubs do OK with this change but most are going to suffer very much

For the people who downvoted my post, why do you disagree? I’m willing to go into more specifics of why I posted my thoughts as well as give detailed examples.

For example, there is a certain amount of pallets you are expected to stock per hour, yet many people move purposefully slow and do not hit their reasonable goals. Then those same people complain in the break room when they get scolded for not getting the basic minimum completed.

Also to 1jyh, why do you feel more is put on the 3pm shift?

Every club is run different but if anyone is truly interested on how to make the day receiving/stocking work I have some good suggestions from experience. Or do you all really just want to read things that support your preconceived negativity and nothing else?

The program works if you want to work.

Your not getting off at 11:30 pm. More is put on the 3 pm shift than the 4am shift. Club looks horrible and if you have one of those mgrs who thinks because they are a mgr and they dont have to do anything get as far away from them as possible. No need to worry about stock levels and empty pallets everywhere as long as every pallet and sign is laser beam straight you will be ok. Members will stop shopping there if your pallets are not laser beam straight and they have no problem waiting 20 minutes for 3 of you to go get a lift and fight thru members to pull down what is out of stock on the salesfloor.

Good to hear some honesty out of clubs that are on that program that confirm our fears. All you get is Club managers spouting off how great it is working.

Of course they will say that. Under the microscope you don’t want to be the one shedding any amount of negativity or truth on their multi million dollar risk to stay relevant.

Sounds more like a last ditch effort that could sink the company.

We’ve bee on day receiving for months now. Here is the blunt truth. If you have good people with strong work ethic, it runs well. Back in the 90’s when there wasn’t an overnight crew, people worked with a sense of urgency and teamwork. Unfortunately, there is no longer that strong work ethic, yet, everyone thinks they are the greatest worker ever. You have people who refuse to get forklift trained or stock certain areas and those people need to go, they are like a cancer.

The long timers don’t want it to work because they don’t like the change. It was better when evaluations had “adaptability” as a rating, because most would be below standard at this point and it would be easier to make them understand how their attitudes cause the failures.

thank you !! At last we hear the truth. We will have problems . Our managers just parrot what HO says and when it does not work the figure it must be the workers fault since HO always knows what they are talking about...gonna be rough

Most of our night crew quit. Team leads and managers are dropping stock, which sits in the middle of the isle. Holes everywhere. Not enough people to do the work. Place looks like a ratty flea market.

We been on day stocking for almost a year now and its going to take time to figure out what works for your club. They think all clubs are the same but that is far from the truth. How much freight you get in will play a big part and what the 4 am and 3 pm crew slots will have to be worked out. The night crew use to hear from day crew how they did nothing and now you have the 4 am crew saying the 3 pm crew does nothing and vise versa. Stock levels will be much lower and the reserve will be much fuller causing slotting freight to take longer. From what I have read and heard most of the 3 pm crew gets a little OT while the 4am crew can leave on time. If your CM cant except the fact that the club is no longer going to look the way it use to then you are in trouble. The training videos are trash don't bother watching, there plans and telling you what you will be doing each hour is never going to happen. They moved nightcrew to days for member service and now you have two skeleton crews trying to get everything finished and the club now looks horrible and very little member service which was the plan to begin with. Both crews have advantages and disadvantages but your club will never look like it use to. Lots of pallets with one layer of merchandise on the sales floor.

Wait...There are training videos???