Asst Mgr Update

There will be a lot of updates to Store Structure with Management. Most has to do with Asst Mgrs, Benefits and Store Hours so far.

A lot of Company savings in Changes to Asst Mgr headcount, Asst Mgr Compensation, and Benefits. Store Hours will be another savings area.

Here you go:

All Asst Mgrs have been evaluated and ranked in a talent review process.
Asst Mgrs were ranked similar to the the CoMgr rankings last year. Ask your Store Manager how they grouped you? If they are a good leader they will tell you the truth & try to look out for those that took care of them.
Asst Mgrs that are retained will be talent balanced throughout the Region and Market. You may or may not stay in your current store.
Asst Mgrs numbers will decrease due to future changes to store hours and store structure.
Stores were evaluated base on sales and surrounding areas whether to be kept open 24 hours or not. Several stores will be changed from the 24 hour format to closing overnight. Closing will be 10pm to Midnight depending on the store. Several stores will remain open 24 hours based on sales volume overnight.
Some stores could lose as many as 4 Asst Mgrs, due to the changes in hours of operation.
Asst Mgrs retained will be changed to the same format as the Vision Center Mgrs. Asst Mgrs will be changed to an hourly rate and be required to clock in and out. Asst Mgr benefits will change as they are converted to an hourly associate. ie bonuses, PTO, short term disability etc....
LOA policy is changing.
Attendance policy is changing as well and there will be a different point system, it will be stricter than the current program. Points will be higher for weekends and holidays and will tie to bonus compensation.

Still to come:

Supercenters, Divisions, Regions and Markets absorbing Neighborhood Markets. This is no doubt a future move that will be made at sometime.
Realignments of Divisions, Regions and Markets.
Asset Protection being consolidated or eliminated at Market level and above. Something coming on this as well.

Remember:

Always look out for yourself as NO ONE has more interest in you than you! Be careful in who and what you believe.
Always look to better yourself and grow with the changes.
If you are let go, and over 20 years w/Company or 15 years w/Company and age 55, you can apply for your longterm discount card.
Yes you are eligible to apply for unemployment.

Wishing everyone the best and no ill fate on anyone that has worked so hard to grow to their current level of leadership at Walmart.

It is not the same company as it was in the past.

Please add comments on what you may or may not know in regards to the upcoming changes.

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Some things are coming to fruition. Watch for the changes that are mentioned throughout this article. Wow, where there is smoke there is usually fire!

Walmart is nothing like it was when Mr. Sam was alive. Now instead of taking care of their employees with seniority they are getting rid of us, all in the best interest of the company. There lies the problem. Mr. Sam cared about family values not just getting bigger and making more money for himself. He truly cared. This company is no way what he wanted. I think he is truly ashamed of the way his company is being ran today. The Walmart that was is no longer, extinct. To tell the truth, Walmart acts like all the changes are for the employees when in reality they really do nothing for the employees. Except firing, i haven't seen their new policies do anything for our employees.

Don't blame being short staffed on personnel. H.O and Market tells us what areas are over staffed and tells us we are not allowed to hire for those areas.

I wish we'd go back to each fresh area having a salaried manager! I liked that and my my 22,000 bonus, we should with all the food safety regulations and now I have all the fresh areasand same bonus overnight ones get when we do all their freight in the morning while they sit and sleep in office!

I need to respond to this... I am an O/N manager who every week is a minimum of 300 hours short to finish the freight. Some nights 200 hours or more short to finish the freight - and that's just on paper. The freight is still sitting in the back room, the grocery truck is late, CAP 1 refuses to stock FDD though it is their responsibility, Fresh CAP refuses to help unload trucks, CAP 2 can't help with freight because they are Cashiering and their Supports are covering for CSMs that are cashiering and our personnel dept. won't call back any prospects because they say we are Over Staffed.

There will be no mass lay-off of Asst Mgrs.

It will come as described through the evaluation process.

If you get a development needed or below standard you will be deemed unfit for the needs of the business and you will be either terminated or go through a PIP (performance improvement plan) process to increase performance within 30 days.

If no improvement the you will be coached or terminated and deemed unfit for the needs of the company.

This way there will be no severance packages paid out.

That is it plain and simple.

Walmart will not make a major change to Asst Mgr structure at a meeting like YBM.

It will come just as the Comgr process last year.

It will happen within the course of 2 days, Mkt Mgr info day 1 and store mgr info and execution the next day.

Basic changes are only announced at YBM and Holiday meetings.

Everyone is safe for now.

Was told by my store manager after calibration meetings that they said no restructure right now but that a "restructure" was definitely coming ty. Take it with a grain of salt tho.

Also told that high performing assts are getting shipped to sh!tty stores to help with the talent gap. Didn't mention anything about terminating development needed assts tho.

Walmart already struggles to get good talent at the Asst Mgr level and turnover is high as well.

Walmart cannot afford this type of lay-off or reduction.

In our Market calibration we had we have 36 Asst mgrs at risk out of about 110.

The Asst mgr lay-off is not happening right away.

This does not mean it is not going to happen, but just at a later date.

It will be interesting to see the total outcome of this and the changes coming out at YBM.

Stay the course and will post updates after the meeting.

Reduction of ASM

technically not a restructure. however people will be losing jobs. So they can technically announce that there is no restrcture plans BUT we are still going to see changes to lay people off

same verbage as with the CO managers

Any new word? Besides getting more AM and CoMgr and cutting hourly associates.

Any updates in any stores?

We are down to 5 Asst Mgrs and 2 Co Mgrs

I was one of the displaced Co managers. Yes we did get choice of severance, step down and the unlucky few kept their positions. Nothing that was requested by store managers was listenered to. I have since gone to work for another company and let me tell you Walmart did me a favor, though I didn't feel that way at the time. Im happier than I've been in over 10 years. I talk to people still working in that environment and it's harder and harder. We all knew there would be more changes it's about the same time as it happened last year for the Co managers. It would not shock me if assistant managers were next. AP will be totally gone in the next couple years. So many people are now working for Amazon. Walmart's biggest competitor took a lot of its high level management. Honestly that's the way Amazon will win!! Good bye Walmart! I have always said after the apocalypse the only thing left will be Walmart and c---roaches. Probably gonna be Amazon....

Any changes to be reported, let’s keep them on here.

It is easy to decipher the changes coming if kept in one place.

I m hearing information coming soon and will be implemented quickly.

What is going on with PTO changes?

Think he failed journalism too! Media doesn't derive stories by share sites like this......you seemed up to speed on " legal consul" vocabulary so surely you know news stories have to be factual and stories/sources validated and collaborated! All posts are anonymous here.

Clark Kent go save Lois or your sh--hoke store

Yes you fool the ASM reduction is coming and later will roll out new titles not called ASM.

NO 1000'snot loosing jobs because more than 75% will take other positions since most have no other opportunities given geographical location and lack of work opportunity. Get your prying store manager a-- off this site and go figure out who really assassinated Kennedy.

Like all other posts we know more on here from being in the test stores, proof of concept stores and family-friends- and higher ups that do keep in touch with us and Comgr was NOT in media first and all on here was completely true.

Your just out of the loop by choice from everyone in your immediate work life that doesn't care to have a true conversation, trust you or want to give you the time of day!

More reason you should deflate that big head, ego and get to KNOW your people and customers sincerely on a humble level and get off your MATTER AS FACT horse!

Everyone else keep posting what you hear and know because the little glass house some on here live in have no clue how to look out the window and see the real world passing them by......oh wait a minute, forget that ....too busy playing those class action video games he gets every week in the mail !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The media did not release the information about the Co position until the day we received our conference call. Then were told not to discuss it, that you will know your fate in 2 weeks and carry on... business as usual. I lived it and found out more information on here that turned out to be correct. I hope these rumors aren't true but I am thankful that I didn't step down to a asm position and chose to take severance. Can't imagine having to go through this same situation again a year later. Best of luck to all.

More of the silly 5 ASMs per SC rumors.

So well over 50% of the ASMs in the company displaced, 1000s of people let go from the largest employer in the country. That is what this rumor amounts too. And yet not a single media story on it even though apparently a lot of people in the field for WM know about it....and people are leaking it all over the Internet. Perhaps because the media can smell a baseless rumor :0

We are part of the pilot and have the 5 new managers and I for one like not having 12 different people telling me what to do whichever never is the same anyway! We also have the automated pallet movers in receiving some how connected to the zone stickers we put on floor in gm and the penalty/audit ones in grocery. I like our Roomba getting carts, just what we call it and the stockmen just clean and do carry outsbut down to 4 only.

other store in our area has alphabot that is picking ogp orders and our ecom team just does gm stuff.

can't wait to see what else we get and have seen the blimp on road trip by Gastonia landing and flying above testing the drones coming out delivering.

All is online and you tube as well our st mgr said we should be getting the new handhelds with push notifications for unhappy customers as we already have smart carts and the end caps that use geofencing from customer cell phones to give them automatic discounts and offers as they pass by merchandise....no wonder we had app madness

our newest manager said she saw more stuff in her pickup class at academy on future roll out videos but I haven't seen those yet

Job title change, what you know now as an ASM will still be there and just new titles. Like they started as years ago when Area Directors....had A,B,C,D and hence the back office name of AD office (area directors)

No it is going to new names with "Business" in the title. Yes supers are going to 5 and yes neighbors going to one and there DOES NOT need to be salary mgr in building. Small and large format have had hourly supervisors run facility shifts with no salary for years..... just have to be a designated person of responsibility and less needed with reduction of 24 hour stores.

Those not around for years don't remember area directors or store director which is now your store manager titles so yes the reduction and restructure is coming just different verbiage. Later the department manager will have a RIF too and be like zone managers during the same days when there were only 7 hourly zone managers numbered 1-7. No it's not the zone supervisor ZS/ZM thing from few years back this is from the 1990's and plenty long term associates on here know what I'm talking about before some jackass tries to shoot holes in this post.

Co Managers did receive severance packages if they left the company. Had 60 days to decide / job search with pay if they wanted it. Could opt out and leave the company sooner and receive their severance earlier that way.

IF there was a ASM reduction no reason to think that would not be very similar in nature.

Of course change is coming but it’s not what’s listed on here apparently...that becomes more clear everyday as these rumors are shown to be just that..

I do see how there maybe some kind of reduction in ASMs but not completely doing away with them, for a few reasons:

*there are still postings for new trainees in different areas on the website, some just recently.

*A salaried member of management has to be in the stores at all times when it’s open-the store managers will still get their 2 days off and not all stores have Cos now so someone’s gotta be there.

*ASMs really don’t make much more hourly than Dept managers especially once you break down there pay vs the hours they work each week-but they’re salaried so they are guaranteed bodies there 50 hours a week.

Just my two cents. Good luck to everyone though!

Y'all have no clue what or how severance package/policy is administered. You DO NOT GET ANYTHING for a RIF(reduction in force) just let the c-appy ones go or red banded. Severance only qualifies for ELIMINATED job code/title.

That's what old district managers of specialty divisions got years ago, ZM and ZS, Invoice/UPC we're offered because they ended the job code. CO's were a reduction in force so no severance..... just "paid job search" which would have been the most PTO any could have had. Same will be with ASM when title is changed ....SOON

Someone does know more than that store manager on here protecting everyone while he plays his video games

I just did Google search and there is a stealth company CEO posted hiring the company and the class action lawsuit against them and Mike Duke family for SEC violation to retirement plan of Pontiac with millions plus settlement offer not to go too court

This is when it happened last year!

Co Manager Layoff Notification Letter (Scanned version)

Source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUfcyeWX4AUqeut.jpg

Full Text:

January 26, 2018 --- Walmart has recently restructured some of its business and corporate functions. The company used fair and consistent processes to identify positions that are no longer needed for the future structure., part of this process, the decision has been made to restructure the jobs in your area. The first employment terminations resulting from the re-organization that is affecting you will occur on March 30, 2018.

Your current position of co-manager at store xxxxx been eliminated or changed and is no longer available to you. Unless you are offered and accept another role with the company, your last day of employment with Walmart will be March 30, 2018. This action is expected to be permanent.

From today, date through March 30, 2018, you may search for and be considered for other open positions of interest within Walmart. This notice does not affect your pay status prior to your termination date. There are no 'bumping rights' in this situation, which means that you do not have the right to take another Associate, position.

Following your separation from the company, your eligibility for severance benefits is determined according to the company, Severance Benefits Policy. The Severance Benefits Policy can be found on the WIRE at under Knowledge Center,Policies>By Tale>Severance Benefits Policy. For more helpful information during your transition, please visit WalmartOne@walmart.com.

Should you have any questions regarding this notice, please contact the Associate Support Center at 800-622-3989 or ascinfo@wal-mart.com. Please provide your win and facility number in the subject line of your email.

By next week if anything happens on a mass scale it will come out. CoMgr changes came out the last week of the month.

The changes may take place over the course of the year.

Yep

store manager

guess he forgot T.I.P.S and F.O.E

shouldn't even be on here

You are a store manager and out of touch with your store/role! You solidify it by saying. Haven't you seen those ads on TV? YOU have to call to become part and no one gets weekly mail for them. Just like a store manager to make up BS as they go to justify their point alone. Remember your people are best idea generators and just because you hear them doesn't mean you are listening. Try listening to learn and not respond all the time. Bet you can't name all your pharmacy associates like my store manager because you never come by and have no clue what actually happens in there. Try that and you'll understand no medication company has access to who it is using their products and no damn law firm will either until you come forward in good faith.

Go play your Xbox or PS and leave this site for the people that know what it is and how to use it.

Message forum for us, we don't need a high paid baby sitter

What are you rambling about? Of course medication companies have to provide info of who took those medications to legal consul who are suing them. Nothing to do with HIPPA violation.

And car recalls don’t result in class action lawsuits? Are you kidding me? Happens all the time.

Playstation and Xbox have more class action than I can remember. Video game software companies (EA comes to mind) have class actions now. Your way out of the loop on class action lawsuits in the U.S.

Go flip on cable TV right now and watch the multiple class action law suit tv adds, dozens of them. “You or a loved one ever...” that’s a class action lawsuit ad...

They come in mail, email, billboard and radio form as well. They are everywhere.

You don’t get any? That’s good. Just fodder for the trash can.

None of this has anything to do with unfounded rumor about mass store closing or elimination of over 50% of ASMs that market mangers know about but that the national media knows nothing ..in a age where everybody has communication tools in their hands at all times.....but nice attempt at diverting attention from that dribble...

Chevy? Medication? You are a nut job.....no one gets class action weekly especially those.

Car recall is not a federal class action suit and never will get medication junk mail due to HIPPA and no access to pr-scrip-ion.... you would have to call 800 number on TV .

Think everyone can figure out now that you are the dude from movie SPLIT! Xbox and PlayStation....no wonder your on here because obviously you are out of touch with being a store manager

Yes class action junk mail weekly. Car manufacture, (Chevy) PlayStation, Xbox (we have both) Apple iPhobe, a credit card company/ bank, even a medication I once took. Those off the top of my head.

Pilots programs are not what the poster was talking about, she was talking programs rolling out across the company.

Can someone point me to a rumor on here that effected the stores that has come to pass? Anything in the last 6 months? I’ve not see a single one that I can remember. Lots of incorrect conjecture is the track record...

WTF......who gets class action junk mail weekly?

I was believing and following you till that one

Now you are a smoke blowin story teller!!!!

Just because you don't know something or heard about it doesn't equal baseless rumor, your just on home plate not getting pitched to so you have no clue about 1st, 2nd or any base let alone your called out baseless rumors.

I'm in a store piloting the new structure and we have 5 business managers and no ASM anymore so just because you don't doesn't make everything rumors.

we have FAST unload machine and all done on nights not 2 nd shift

Wake up and smell the coffee and realize you know nothing and in no position to defend dispute anyone on here.....information sharing site, not a judge-jury-trial site

Lawsuits against a company the size of WM prove nothing. It’s no different than any other company of any real size, muchless one of the size and scope of WM. I get class action junk mail weekly. I’m sure most of us do. Lawyers, what can you do about them? :9

As far as the ASMs, last week we heard about them being already banded and rated to stay or leave by all store managers and such on other threads......all that was utter rumor as we found out ...then we heard all the mess from the OP on this thread and those rumors...again not true....now this newest rumor monger on this thread changes that to this 50%+ reduction mess..

A trend there right?

I don’t work in Bentonville.

My interest is keeping baseless rumors from going unchecked and effecting associates as they decide what to do. Nobody should base that on internet rumors but they are.

Ain't none said they unhappy with job..... think u must be and on this site because u get no respect from your store

Wish we'd get rid of half our managers, they sit in office or don't even know how to do sh--

then I go learn at academy my job and my id--t mgrs don't know anything we learn or say we don't do that in this store, friggin mo--ns

Set up a rogue email address and share here home office dude so we can all reply to you when the ASM are gone this year

You are H.O so probably didn't get your letter from Louisville KY claims adjuster for class action lawsuit against WM and Mike Dukeeyfrom 2011 illegal stock swap. My letter has 1.5 million settlement for Pontiac retirement fund if I want to join and get payout or wait to join future ones that will be much more money to distribute.

Yeah with flipcart purchase and all other acquisitions company will get rid of mgrs to payout.

if People want to post on here that stores are restructuring down to 5 ASMs which would be well over a 50% reduction (i.e. job loss for ASMs) across the company and that multiple stores are closing (i.e. yet more job loss) then yes I’ll call them out for their attempts to drive baseless rumors and fear mongering. Even going as far as to post “yes you read that right” to really drive home the impact they are implying....that alone demostrates their intentions...fear...

And yet some on here continue to fall for this dribble...even after the previous dribble has been proven false..from this very thread..

Also why some on here seem to hate WM but continue to work there is odd...walk away...life too short to work somewhere your that unhappy at...

JPS should kick that beotch off from posting replies, we don't need a self proclaimed webmaster or moderator

Definitely a Bentonviller

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