Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

My turn “at the flogging post”?

I’ve been doing this for a very long time and I’ve not seen WalMart enact a policy that took anybody to a “flogging post”...not even close. Poor field management has on occasion but not corporate policy.

Business changes, they have too to survive more so today than ever before. Change effects people, always has and always will. It’s a unfortunate fact, but to expect a company to structure itself based on nothing but it’s employess is foolish. Check out the Sears board, Kmart board, jC Penny’s board..see what a company is their death bed looks like for the employees.

Walmart is not one of those companies. What’s odd to me is the number of people on these threads who rip into WM and it’s practices but then say they would quit if they could find a different job. So they are attacking the only company who will employee them they are in saying in effect ...odd...

I work at a DC in WI and that's what we were told, not available to use for yourself, so pretty useless for most i of us

@1ovw ..just wondering where you got your info? One of my friends had a stroke and then several bad seizures and was off for several months. He used all of his old sick time for himself. He had to use up all of his pto first then was able to tap into his old sick time. He was one of the ones that had almost 200 hrs of sick time. Sedgwick gave him no issues. Maybe it has something to do with the stores mngmt or personnel being able to get it approved. Not sure but he was very grateful to have the sick time!

Not sure about your sick time but mine was rendered useless with the change to PTO. Basically it was stolen from most of us. To use remaining sick time...

1. May not be used for myself

2. May only be used to care for seriously ill family members

3. Must use up ALL PTO and any personal time first (no vacation this year I guess)

4. Must be approved by Sedgwick first and we all know how great they are to work with

5. May only use a maximum of 80 sick hours

So yes for a few the stars will align and after jumping through their hoops you may be able to use up to 80 hours of sick time. For most that sick time is now useless, especially the best employees who were stuck sitting on 200 sick hours. Great way to treat your most reliable and best employees! 👍

OP you do not get paid out sick time when you leave. Only vacation and personal. If you are still with the company you still have the sick time. I had to have 2 surgeries back to back and used all of my old sick time. I was off long enough to use all pto and old sick time. It's there if you need a very extended leave. You must use all pto time before you use the old sick hours and there is a 1 week waiting period between using pto and old sick time. That 1 week was the only time I didn't get paid for. I was gone for almost 3 months.

@ OP, I'm sorry that happened to you. I worked for that once good/now villainous 'business' for many years and watched a lot of nasty changes come down the line----but nothing like what's been happening in the last 2--3 years. People don't believe it, but Walmart really did used to be a solid company that supported family values and hard work. Schedules and department placement used to accomode what was best for the individual, which was best for the whole store. Not now. At all.

I've got friends still there caught up in this mess, and it's painful to watch them struggle.

hrr, my sick time was most certainly stolen. Oh sure it's technically there but I have no way of using it, so what would you call it?

@ hrr, you seem very well versed on the inside details of how and why Walmart works the way it does. That was an almost surgically anticeptic prose you used to describe how it's perfectly ok to screw human beings over like they're mindless mitochondria.

Please share with us similar thoughts expressed in the same bloodless way......when YOUR turn at the flogging post comes.

And it will. ~

Change is often harsh on those effected but it’s part of life and work. It’s what all smart businesses do to stay on a healthy path into the future. The O/N positions are not as integral to the company as before based on a number of processe changes.

Remodels are more important now in the age of eCommerce than ever before. Like many company programs they are in part paid for by saving expenses elsewhere. Smart business.

Your sick time was not stolen. It was required to be paid out by law or company policy.