Wal-Mart is struggling to promote managers internally in my area. I've been asked to step up numerous times, but cannot work the schedule. Most people aren't in the loop with upcoming layoffs....so, I don't understand why no one is biting for a promotion. Input?
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I've been around a lot longer than most and I've worked with many ASM's and SM's, not to mention hourly sales associates with degrees. There are cashiers that quite frankly, I could hand a set of management keys to and they could and would do better than some managers with college educations. Just because u hold a degree doesn't mean a thing. Haven't you heard the quote, "a D is still a degree."? I've worked with brilliant sales associates and not so brilliant managers. We have a lot of hidden talent in our stores that are valuable to this Company! Now, the best managers are hourly associates promoted to managers. Give me any of them to work with any day! So, I do not believe that degrees are always the best managers. So, kudos to those of you out there that have no college degrees and are exceptional managers. People are still people, so the world may change but people don't. That is the one thing that remains constant. Don't be to quick to judge a non college educated person, I've seen many bachelor degree people in the world working at Mc Donald's.
To Same Page----yeah I know all that, in fact even included most of it in my text. I know school doesn't = smart. I've got a grandfather who started and became a millionaire with a trucking company, and he had an 8th grade education. But it's a differenct world now, and in a job market saturated with MBAs, it's of course expected companies are going to select from them first. We're talking same pay for better, pre-trained talent.
And Walmart is absolutely falling in step with that. They'd be stupid not to.
Just so we're on the same page, this high school drop out has been running circles around managers with degrees for years. Most of the struggling managers I've had the pleasure of working with over the years had zero common sense or sense of urgency, but they had a degree. Being a good manager is about heart, dedication and the ability to effectively motivate your team, not hours spent in a classroom.
And there ya have it.... the $1 a day education program
Coming up, one of the requirements to necome an assistant, I promise you, will be to have at least an associate's degree---preferably a Bachelor's.
As it's been, they've got cheese head high school drop outs in some cases running their business. How is that ok? I know there are very smart and talented people without college degrees, but come on. It's a different world now, and competitive businesses need to keep up with that.
Walmart is doing with their management what fast food does to its short-order cooks. I think it's hillarious
For they can do to me what they did to the Co Managers? You have to have confidence in the company you work for. That has faltered in my eyes. Look what happened at Sam's Club.