My deepest sympathies go out to employees at Chesapeake Walmart after the latest mass shooting. I pray all of those who are currently in the hospital make it, and I'll be praying for those who were ki---d. This kind of tragedy will not be overcome or moved on from easily. You are all in my thoughts.
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What ever it takes to wake la la land walmart corporate culture. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-walmart-sued-employee-over-195624355.html
The store manager should give a statement. The other team leads should give a statement. All the store associates should. The ethic committee has to. The district hr. The district manager. The marketing manager. The regional manager. I know they are all out of touch but they have to be nailed down. They never dropped the ball, they just sat on the court. I believe this is walmart's fault 100%. He was to far up the chain to not have been noticed. .....................Uvalde Survivors File $27 Billion Lawsuit Against Texas Officials, Officers Over Response To Mass Shooting
So sad, I hope things like that don’t keep happening. I know I’m not the only person who doesn’t feel safe going to work anymore. Management at walmart treats everyone poorly, lack of staff, high expectations to meet without tools to meet them. Home office has lost control of their stores and their leadership in their stores and field. It’s clear we need help, time to unionize.
And, TO CLARIFY, I was saying that I was glad to see that I’m not the only one witnessing the behavior of upper middle management being referenced by various posters here, and the inability of those upper managers to provide any sort of positive feedback whatsoever. It’s nice to see that we aren’t the only ones being treated this way.
However, Regardless of the amount of pressure and mismanagement from above, there is NEVER any excuse for what was done in Chesapeake a few days ago.
Good to see that this psychotic upper middle management behavior isn’t just an isolated thing. Never, ever told that anything is good. Was specifically told one day “stop focusing on what your associates are doing right, and more on what they’re doing wrong.”
When that was uttered, that upper management person lost what minor shred of credibility they had left.
In the last two months, four of the eight store managers in the market have quit.
It is almost as if this insane level of pressure, and lack of appreciation is intentional. Turn the screws and up the pressure so much that folks quit. There are probably mass store level layoffs planned for end of Q4 or beginning of Q1 next year, and the fewer severances and unemployment accounts they have to pay out, the better for them.
“Oh here’s a bag of chips.”
Fk off.
Omg this is 100% facts!! Truth. This is exactly what happens at stores.
I had to reply to this. I worked for Walmart for 14 years, as an hourly associate for 3 years and then to salary management. I went from winning awards, one being APM of the year to being threatened with my job every day. My store mgr told me she had nothing good to say about me. Our RAPM said his job was to make lives miserable and to fire people. We were tied to our phones. My vacation each year was spent talking to my SM and finding a Walmart where ever I was on vacation to put out fires. I finally had a nervous breakdown and went on LOA and found some help. When I came back it was worse. All freight to be worked every night and the store zone and looking like it was the first day it was open, all with a skeleton crew, My days off were spent being woke up in the morning with pictures from the SM about why something wasn't done and if you didn't answer you got a phone call, bitched at and told to get to the store immediately to fix it. Every day leaving the store was spent crying all the way home. We all have our breaking point, luckily mine was just to walk out. Not only me, but roughly 15 other managers and SM in our market. Sending down goals that cannot be reached. I have been gone 2 years, I now only make $13 an hour at my job, but I'm happy and not at all stressed. My thoughts are prayers are with all of the families and friends of the victims.
Absolutely agree!!
Walmart is to blame. I work at a Walmart. The pressure everyone feels with the stupid expectations. The Market Manager who thinks he is a god coming in the store and beating everyone down, making management and associates feel like sh-t. Telling them they should do better because of the processes....the processes the processes. And then the store manager who is new to the store but has been in a market level position for years thinks he knows how to run a store...he doesn't. He has no clue. And he is an as----e too. Never tells anyone they are doing a good job, he says he never tell anyone that because everyone can Improve. What a way to motivate. Walmart monitors these kinds of sites. So if anyone is reading this wake the fu-k up. I am 18 years in with company and the last 5 years has been HE-L. Wake the fu-k up. Get these market managers out who think they are living gods. Get these store managers out who beat there management team down everyday. You can't keep stomping people in the ground when we are the ones working like dogs in the stores while you get to come in and do fu----g nothing. This will keep happening as long as you have peices of sh-t market managers and store managers belittling people. I'm not far away from VA..just across state lines in NC. We have a fu----g peiceof sh-t for a Market manager.
Lets see two nights before Thanksgiving, store busy as can be. Store manager makes 100k+ and bonus 125%. He is dealing with the most woke generation of associates. That actually means clueless if you have been to a store lately. That training is a joke. They are expected to blow through the cbl's not understand them. Generally you have to work your way up to that position. That is of course if you are not buddy buddy to a buddy buddy. That's how it works now. Still that is too much being a ki---r without regard to the consequences. Now days they would release him without bail. Walmart is to blame , trace that guys career path. You dont actually have to know the mechanics of running a store if your performance is below unacceptable you get promoted.
Will be very interesting to see what his internal disciplinary record was. He's been publicly identified elsewhere as a person of color who frequently had issues with his colleagues and if Walmart let him skate on some things because he was a minority and a manager, they should be held fully accountable. Very sad deal, but Walmart has training on how to deal with people showing signs that has to be taken every year and if that process wasn't followed or people were discouraged from making a complaint about him...