For Walmart associates who have had their hours cut, please be mindful that you may be eligible to file for unemployment benefits even while still working for the company. Basically your reduction in hours must not be the result of a disciplinary... — read more 

Too much conflicting information, no one knows what is true. PC/TC to be gone in Sept, didn't happen, then posted gone in March obviously not happening. Stores cut to bare bones now if asm go who is going to run the stores. Managers and associates... — read more 

If Assistant Managers info is true, what is next? Where will Walmart stop in its "cost cutting" that ends up always being at the expense of employees (and as a result customers, who receive sub-par service?) Nothing is too big to fail, I really hope... — read more 

What is block scheduling? Heard sams is going to start that

Its all about greed!!!!.. Wm is getting rid of the higher paid associates, asm included, and bringing in new associates that get paid min wage... That is y they can do a pay increase cuz they r saving thousands by all the higher paid being cut... Its... — read more 

WM has in fact been laying off those with 20+ years along with a few sprinkles of 13-15 year Associates thrown in for good measure at HO for the past 6 years. It’s called getting rid of expenses. Cuts in the field have been more target to positions &... — read more 

Wal-Mart is already stretching everyone so thin, putting more,and more on the hourly associate, and demanding more,and more out of the Management Team because they want to run the store on a sceloton crew. Every Day I see the Management Team having... — read more 

Ok. Here it is. All store managers have been sent a form where they are to rate all of their assistant managers in multiple performance categories (not a yearly evaluation form, this is different). All of the assistant managers for the entire market... — read more 

So has anyone heard anymore news on the new attendance policy starting in end of Jan? As of now I know Monday-Thursday 1 point, Friday-Sunday 2 points, Holidays 3-4 points. Only 5 point system now then termination. 2 points for New Hires in 6 months... — read more 

I hope you all enjoy missing your family and friends during every major holiday! It's very generous of Walmart to pay all employees at their normal pay on all major holidays like Thanksgiving and New Years! We as Walmart employees need to start... — read more 

All companies and businesses change to maintain profitability. Why should Walmart be different? Do they want to end up like Sears, Kmart or any of the other retailers of the past? Of course not! And alllll employers cut hours and benefits from time... — read more 

Have anyone heard of any changes coming in 2019? Listed below

Heard this rumor today. In Feb 2019 will be the last PTO payout for unused hours. After that, it's use 'em or lose 'em. Anyone else heard this?

think we all can agree that retail should never have been a long term career option. The real issue here is that Walmart has somehow amassed into this country's largest job provider----I mean, you don't really need to take a poll to know that... — read more 

So for a good time assistant managers were approving lates if there was a legit excuse like car issues, told to clock in late, or shift not switched before the previous day. But recently some associates have had half points put back on.. are managers... — read more 

heard Doug announced in a meeting that WM was no longer and should not be planned on being a career job as it had been in the past. Sounds like loyalty is one way. Wake up.

I keep hanging on in hopes of getting something, but getting tired of putting up with all the C-ap and id--ts just for a few bucks?

People are not getting fired based on their availability to work. They are not getting hours if there are not demand hours in the system when they are available to work, but not fired. That’s false. In fact company direction is to not do that. If a... — read more 

So from what I understand there will not be any more Regional selections going forward. It will return to the old way of ASM hiring but there still will be a quarterly Talent evaluation done at the market level. So there'll be a big emphasis on... — read more 

I ran into this interview by accident, but I gotta admit that this guy had some good points. No doubt that Amazon will try to be a more relevant factor in the brick and mortar store sales and WM is trying to make a breakthrough in e-commerce. WM’s... — read more 

I heard a rumor at first that Walmart was gonna buyout 20 plus year associates. I am now hearing its 10 plus years. Which if all is it true? I have been with Walmart for 14 years. Just curious. Also heard alot of changes but don't know what they are.

Walmart announced, that along with its plans to boost e-commerce and online sales in China, it’s also planning to test and potentially implement the concept of smaller brick and mortar stores al lower-tier cities. Along with these efforts Walmart... — read more 

That's right-----for just this one brief time out of the whole year, let's forget all about Walmart's lay off problems and enjoy what we're supposed to be right now.........Celebrating Christmas!

I wish that a day would go by that don’t read in the news that WM is introducing some new form of automation aimed to replace its workforce. After Casihierless stores, automated distribution centers, robot janitors … now we have Flippy, the new... — read more 

Amazing, an old concept now new. I am confused. And grocery ordering and pickup has been around for over 40 years. Where is the real innovation? It comes from a happy workforce that is invested and appreciated for their efforts for progress... — read more 

Why do u think that is people

Isn't that what Walmart said? And yet, instead of giving us more hours, we got three more employees last month. What is that all about? They might not be officially seasonal, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them gone very soon. I guess Walmart is... — read more 

As we sit at home this holiday season opening presents and stuffing our faces let's hope we didn't max out our credit cards as we will have no way to pay it back as the Walmart greed mongers relieve us of our duties in January

a highly toxic and soul depleting environment, Filled with shallow individuals chasing the paycheck, In the words of a recently posted video, screw Walmart, screw management, screw this job

Not all companies treat their employees like sh-- like Walmart. Walmart is not a people friendly company. Okay, but which companies are those? Sears, Whole Foods, Lowe's... These are just a few companies I clicked on on the front page that have the... — read more 

After 20 years I finally said goodbye to the company I once loved. I would have done anything for Walmart. Bled blue - every holiday away from my family - encouraged my people to stick with it amidst all the changes because we were fed a lie that the... — read more 

Everyone ready for the annual Rank and Yank? It’s January soon. The Hunger Games have begun. May the odds be forever in your favor. Or to use the Walmart version, “I hope you kissed up enough this year and your boss likes you.” Anyone want to... — read more 

Healthy diversification of the e-commerce sector or another lousy attempt to appeal to wealthier customers or another group of customers that isn’t traditionally in WM’s range. My two cents it’s the second thing. This is so far apart from anything... — read more 

They will be cutting back on employees. I don’t see how they can avoid it. If Amazon automates and Walmart refuses to do it, Walmart won’t be around another 50 years. The only thing that slows this down is regulation. If the government levies taxes... — read more 

Has any one heard of the departments combining and what are they

The company officials can try to comfort the workers with this story that automation and robotics won’t mean a reduction in jobs, but the truth is very different, more robots equal fewer jobs. I’m aware that that won’t happen overnight but it’s going... — read more 

https://www.foxnews.com/world/walmart-employee-uses-intercom-to-announce-hes-quitting-nobody-should-work-here-ever

Substantial and extreme changes are about to be rolled out that will shake the foundation of the company and drive thru the moral of employees like a Mack truck on speed. Be prepared for a hunger games type purge where managers, salaried and hourly... — read more 

Very recently I'm reading here what looks to be some seriously legit information that I'm not scoffing at and dismissing out of hand. So with that said, does anyone have any real insights on what we can expect to see with the Assistants this coming... — read more 

Executive Mike Moore just quit the company sources close to the situation say that he did so to get out before the massive layoffs that are due during the beginning of next year. Tough scene