I'm all for employee empowerment, but how high does our starting pay need to be to actually get some competent people through the door? I started at $11, people who start today get $16 off the bat. How are we still not able to hire anybody who has any experience or even wants to do a good job?
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By all means, wonder how you're going to put food on your table and gas in your car while the Walton family lives in luxury beyond your wildest dreams. Be happy you are getting their crumbs. They do nothing, you do all the work. Be grateful they have destroyed your town and dreams of owning a business. Quote: "A study done by Puget Sound Sage stated that each new Walmart store decreases the local community's economic output over 20 years by an estimated $13 million. The research discovered also that each Walmart store costs the community an additional $14 million in lost wages over the 20 years."
No amount of money is worth the negative attitudes of management....nothing is every good enough....they want more....no positive feedback....meet their goals, they raise them higher. This rule no longer exists. 5. Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free – and worth a fortune.
Because you’ve clearly been on a low level for so long. Most of the jobs Sams is for is for people to work while they are learning a skill/trade or maybe in college.
You clearly don’t want to move up to management so you have to take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself if this job is the best you can do.
I left a while ago and I was there when the starting pay was at $10.
If you are honestly asking for experienced candidates for a job at the very bottom of the totem pole you are asking for a loser.
Because you’ve clearly been on a low level for so long. Most of the jobs Sams is for is for people to work while they are learning a skill/trade or maybe in college.
You clearly don’t want to move up to management so you have to take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself if this job is the best you can do.
I left a while ago and I was there when the starting pay was at $10.
If you are honestly asking for experienced candidates for a job at the very bottom of the totem pole you are asking for a loser.
@1dwc+1fziP8uL Wow I have no idea what you are talking about. "The company is investing in a hiring and managing training program for salary managers and leads designed to train on unconscious biases, how to conduct interviews, hire a more diverse staff not necessarily hire the most qualified candidate, manage with less aggression's micro and biases this in turn should help retain associates but you should look to promote within if you have a quality staff." Training? What a joke, there is no training. They hire people, put them on a computer to do CBL's, then put them out on the floor. We have had people work for less than a week and never come back. The reason, they were lied to regarding the job they applied for and the hours. I hear the complaining all the time. One gal wanted to work the front end, she ended up in clothing, she is miserable. We have COS's who don't know squat, they just stand around texting on their phones. They need continuity when it comes to training. When you have everyone training the new people it ends in disaster.
The company is investing in a hiring and managing training program for salary managers and leads designed to train on unconscious biases, how to conduct interviews, hire a more diverse staff not necessarily hire the most qualified candidate, manage with less aggressions micro and biases this in turn should help retain associates but you should look to promote within if you have a quality staff. It would be nice if the company added just an extra associate or two to head count lighten the work load that would be extremely helpful. Too many on head count production goes down so it's a fine difficult balance
The company hires sight unseen, right off the street. This is one of reasons we find ourselves surrounded by people who have no work ethics. We have one young man who actually complained that he had to work during inventory at night. He had a mid term the next day and was whining about it. Plan ahead people, talk to your mgr. Perhaps in this case he could have worked the day so he could get a good nights rest.
Nobody worth a damn would darken the door of Sam's Club looking for work these days.
The word has hit the streets to look elsewhere. Since there are more jobs than workers why would anyone want to start at the bottom of the heap?
there aren't a lot of quality people out there willing to do this type of work.
you must consider the manager doing the hiring... if losers are hired on a regular basis it is a reflection on the hiring manager..
11, 15, 20
What does it matter to children who have never been employed and have no financial responsibility