Yeah, I know, you don't have to tell me: This is a waste of time, posting tirades about the stupid sh-t Bentonville does will achieve nothing. I fu----g know. Too bad, though, because I need to vent, so...
I heard that this was going to happen a few months ago and held out in the hope they would forget about us, and they had up until this past weekend. Good fu-k almighty this is going to be a brutal one to overcome for me, being the evening backroom associate in a store that has been racked with an insane level of turnover the last three and a half years and counting, particularly at the heavily forklift-oriented positions.
They blame an increased occurrence of accidents as the culprit for this particular move, which I fully understand. However, when you eliminated the overnight shift a few years back and totally sh-t the fu----g bed with how you were going to redistribute all those hours of productivity - while at the same time demanding the same results - how could you fail to see this as an eventual byproduct of the catastrophe known as, "Block Scheduling?" How did you not see that proper training was going to be negatively affected by the lack of delegatable time and the aforementioned turnover?
You took away double-stacking in the top steel for the same reasons, which is also understandable, but then you made no effort whatsoever to control the freight volume so that the obvious loss of steel space wouldn't be an issue. Then you followed that with a scenario where an unprecedented volume of freight has been dumped on every store in the country for the better part of the last year, and in the middle of all that, you demand that the long-departed practice of "billboarding" be added back into the to the equation. Does anyone making these decisions have a grasp of how this manifests itself at the store level? My guess is that they do and they really don't care. Whatever is required to allow the stores to operate just well enough to keep the registers going nonstop. The continued Walmarting of Sam's Club is the shareholders' wet dream. Wish it would blow up their faces just once. That would be better than a full $am$hare bonus.
Oh well. For me, it simply means that I have to adapt, but not, "shut up and adapt". I'll be miserable and bi---y about this one for a long, long, fu----g long, time. He-l, I still harbor a rather unhealthy level of vitriol for Block Scheduling. This fills me with the kind of rage that could easily get me fired, or to finally walk away. It would be one thing if they did this with the full understanding that it will ultimately come at a cost of not getting as much done, but history says they probably don't.
Regardless, none of these fu----g stores will exist in their current form in five years anyway...assuming any of them are even still open at all.