Thread regarding Walmart layoffs

Dude plus up your TMobile minutes and get a real phone

You are too mature for trying a flashback emoji with colon and letters. ;-)

Store Mgr

sounds like mine, always trying to act intelligent and completely fake and a liar

Phil in AZ?

I would guess those serious about this can read the immaturity of those last two post and decide the validity of them based on that alone. :0

my vote is H.O.!

sounds like a high school loser on debate team wanting a sight to challenge each other

actually sounds like my corny a-- co mgr who always has to have last word and join all our conversation in breakroom and receiving when doesn't even have clue how to be cool

U want a challenge dickweed ? try the bird box while driving u would be great at it

we hear to find out the buzz

Wow he is a douche! Must be a c-appy store manager that drank the Kool aid or a home office blogger

blah haha

can't even figure out all u saying is don't make future decisions based on virtual gossip

I make decisions based on circumstance u know - cause and effect

any associates making job choice based on gossip here are working for you dumb--s or soon to be

I want a poll of the twenty plus thousand viewing this who think you are a home office goon

Start with my vote

HELL YES

ELM has two locations slated to close across the country. Anybody can check that on the WIRE. Two.......

You prefer a site where nothing is challenged? That’s what you want people to use to help plan their future on? More view point is a good thing....

And if you belive a MM knows this type of info but the company is keeping it secret from national media or the rest of the company at you do not know this company very well....at all...

Again look at all the bogus stuff in this very thread that has not occurred when it was already to have been announced. Trend...

Again people can believe whatever they find more believable but the rumor mongers are behind in their accuracy so far. I’ll let that speak for itself :0

What a douchebag arguing with posters on here. I'm in Illinois and had to transfer because our supercenter closed along with 65 other stores last year. Go into ELM or directory search....use search criteria on left side and just key in a state and go down to the open store drop down and changed to close status or closing in 12 months.

hope you didn't make promises to your associates that you cannot keep because my store manager said I had no worries when we heard rumors and 3 weeks later we all had to find and apply to open management reqs. My former CO was in New Jersey store that closed too.

Please continue to share whatever you hear bitsNpieces as some of us have heard none of this and media /news did not announce anything with COs last year till it rolled out to areas that did it first so I know first hand biggest company in world is able to hide the important stuff from us.

I spoke to two associate today alone who were planning based on these silly rumors. It’s effecting peoples lives.

You don’t have to defend anything, up to you. But when this info is posted I will continue to challenge it and call it out where I belive it to be false. Again people lives are effected. I’m not standing by silently watching.

Again if you market manager level source knew about it since before Xmas, the media would know. And when was the last time the national media did not run with a Walmart story they had? Why has it not?

And if “proof” of your posted change is the tech that Walmart is brining into the stores, you three years to late with that news....buying and merging those companies into WM? Your years late there as well. It’s nothing new at all...certainly proves nothing you posted.

People can belive what they want of course, but everyone should read all the other threads and post on here about these changes and restructure...How much of it has occurred or been announced? There is a trend there if anyone looks for it :0

Not sure why the need to defend my words but this will be THE last post because hopefully no one is making career decisions based on my post or any others on here that is foolish.

My ex is in a market with the pilot/proof of concept structure and you don't go to YBM to become these. His mentor is also on Innovation team and we are near store 8.

Yes.... you can Google the stealth CEO position announced hiring for....yes you can Google the 4,000 patents approved for WM and all the things coming. I only shared what's happening to him and the travel was not all out oftown and multi days for MM/MHRM and depending if rural or metro you would have been told or not told . Now I see why there is so much disgust from workers when there are folks like you cutting down people everyway possible when simply just sharing some info.

For everyone else Google the STEALTH CEO POSTING, automated cart retrieval system, airship warehouse, drone pilot jobs being tested in store8 , drone bees pollinating crops for food chain safely, customer facial recognition software on thise AP cameras in the stores that are building customer profile to sense unhappy customers and smart cart handles measuring grip and pulse that new customer experience team will serve and that will validate everything I've shared along with credibility to my posts that are now officially over.

Please do not make career decisions based on a 3rd party social media platform that has both good and bad people using with info to share versus negative people that think this is the WM corporate information hub!

Bits & pieces OUT!

I never said you mentioned Dallas, I referred to all the other BS post on here that says it was the meeting where all this was going to be released. Turned out to be false.

What was released in Dallas was that these were false rumors. Hardly confirms with your info from what ever meetings you say occurred before Xmas. They had none locally, we tend to know when how long our MM is out of town :0

Your passing baseless info which people are using to make career judgements from..its not accetable to do that or let it happen. I’ll be here to call out the baseless rumors until they quiet down.

Changes will occur, they do every year. But none of the mess on here is solid info as to what will happen.

People can believe what they want but again ask yourself....the spouse of a low level position like a market manager has this type of info but nobody in the media has it? About the largest employer in the country? It’s would be on every business website dealing with US business. It’s nots...why?

Unless your on stage at YBM or sitting in row 1 or 2 in the audience you do not have info of this nature when no one else does.

Market managers sit in the crowd with the rest of us :9

How is the LOA policy changing? This is the first time I have anything about that!

I NEVER mentioned anything about any Dallas meeting, he received this information prior to Xmas on the management structure, evals, 60 day action and push up of eval ratings before end of year. His regional as all other regions had breakout meetings locally covering this before the holiday and most any store manager would know the MM & MHRM did travel somewhere in their region for it.

Dallas was only the new HPC model, how we will transform this new culture of high performing candidate, progression path for future promotion and goals/ IDP being keyed in and remote working for some jobs as well as how to administer MIP multiplier on bonus which SM will do and need oversight from MM because the SM has sole power to key in % of bonus all ASM/CO will get based on eval rating.

Anyone can believe or just scroll on from my post and ignore it. The overtones of your reply to me and conspiracy theorist attitude is noted and completely ignored and I feel you may be one that won't be around after all the new roll outs but either way I want to be completely unbiased AND not emotional/personal on here so I just will refrain from sending anything else and have zero gain from lying or misrepresenting anything he has said.

To everyone else here, best wishes with your jobs and years to come. I will not post or share anything else I hear or from him.

Mama was right......,"1 bad apple spoils the bunch"

And here we go again...

So your ex husband is a MM and has this type of info?

That’s silly.

Market Managers would not be privy to this type of radical Info unless these changes were to be announced within the next two weeks. You vastly over estimate the level of info market managers have acess too. They are simply not that “important” In the chain of command to have that info provided to them.

You folks believe what you will but this poster is at best repeating rumors they have heard or just plain lying for their own enjoyment. Look at the other doom and gloom post on this thread, none of which came to pass at the Dallas meeting as predicted. Nobody is even trying to say they did get communicated in Dallas on here, that is how silly those rumors are...

Now we have this new batch....of mess...

You can believe one of two things..

The senior leadership stood in front of every market manager and MHRM in the company this week as engaged them about these rampant rumors. They brought up the subject, not the market managers...

They saud the Internet rumors were false. Clearly said they were false.

So either they lied which would destroy their credibility with the MMs and MHRMs or they were telling the truth.

Why would they bring up a subject that they knew they would have to lie about and lose that credibility? Makes zero sense..

Changes will occur, and this year...like every year...but these people saying they know what they are are just plain wrong...

No info on SAMS, my ex only knows WM. Personnel is hourly and all that is by region in separate rollouts over the whole next year. About a quarter or more depending on store sales will determine how many hourly supervisor you will have and all new names/job title. The good stuff for hourly relating to bonuses and merit raises will be at share holder meeting they attend in June. All immediate changes affect salary only.

There was a post of "Walmart should change......that's why everyone is leaving".......to address that from his mouth not mine since he (cannot be on here). They ARE changing because the world around retail is changing and you have to get out in front and there will be collateral damage along the way. WM is a for profit business and like EVERY business in the world regardless if retail you only remain relevant if you lead and give the paying people what they want/need now and what they don't even know about that will change in the future. If not you end up like Kmart, Sears, Carson's, elder beerman, bonton, food Lion etc......out of business. Also from him.....the "ones leaving" referred to in the other post should have never come and are why we have to globally reduce from all workers regardless of seniority since everyone wants to run to a lawyer and claim one of the 12+ National Labor Relations protected statuses.

I'll post anything else he shares that I can when I find out.

Awesome!!!

They need to change Wal-Mart it's no longer Wal-Mart. No wonder associates are leaving. They take away everything u get or earn. What the hell!!!

@Bits & Pieces- Do you have anything on what’s happening with Personnel?

@Bits & Pieces...what’s the word on Sam’s Clubs? Are they closing any this year?

Thanks for the last update from bits and pieces. I did a Google search on WM and saw today's news was they have opening and posted CEO position for a (STEALTH COMPANY) which will probably be that new small store thing once they are closed and reopened as online or fully automated like the new Amazon stores. We have Sam's here called NOW which has no cashier's and everything done on phone like the Amazon GO stores

Actually quite fun to read all the sleuths on here........some are going in the right direction of what is rolling out and others are SO far off. Especially love the post of, "where's corporate PR when ..." They are exactly where they should be doing what they are supposed to do! Not in the "break room" of the layoff spreading gossip like most stores.

Since my ex husband is a MM I can say some stores will be closed and not 24 hrs, new positions and structure for hourly and salary including ALL truck unloading on 3 Rd shift regardless of store hours. "Business _ _ ." new salaried manager titles by new areas and 5 ASM large format and 1 small for small format. (Yes you read that right). LOTS of stores closing and some rebranded as e-commerce sites like SAMS piloted last year. NO buyouts....ASM job title eliminated so only job titles eliminated get severance exactly like COs last year. Rating/Calibration was ONLY for Management Incentive Multiplier which is additional portion of bonus given based on your evaluation. ALL associate regardless of hourly/salary do not get future bonus unless evaluation rating is solid or above and OBW audit rolling out to ALL stores so if YOU or your areanot 100% to every OBW you get no bonus or annual evaluation even if others do. The old merit raise basically brought back the right way. New HPC culture of ABC's which is all on the toolkit if you click and read enough. 60 day action is only to improve and if not correct after 60 you are termed or you get 60 day paid job search which to cover all bases eliminates 36 PTO days given to long term managers so you will get no additional check/compensation on termination date. Yes 36 PTO days on a 5 day work week covers the 2 month paid job search.

Lastly small format will be first closings with facilities of $250K or less of sales per week.

That should debunk most of the misinformation on here but just found the site from him and reading some of the strings and sharing what he told me since he cannot view this with BYOD traced.

Buying out long term associates? That’s a new one to this thread.

Can’t remember a time that has ever happened in the stores.

Sounds like more rumor...

Buying out long term associates? Is that true or not? I keep hearing that

From what it appears the Dallas meetings were a replacement for the standard meetings MMs typically goto the day before YBM starts.

They are not having those day before meetings this year at YBM.

The items covered at the Dallas meetings are the exact type of items normally covered at that meeting.

Performance toolkit will be updated right after ybm watch and it will be the same "Decision tree" 60day pay out to avoid severance sign a sepration agreememt so at least in my state you cant get unemployment after.

The performance toolkit is under me@walmart and it does talk about performance and the process, but it’s only for home office. Field isn’t available currently and did say coming soon.

For 3rd shift to be surprised by such posts, maybe they didn't pay attention that recently in July, Walmart eliminated overnight FDD and Fresh Cleaner positions when they announced the Fresh restructure. Or maybe they didn't realize that for the last 2 or 3 years, more and more Super Centers across the nation have started closing at night.

The writing is on the wall. I'd agree with a handful of stores remaining 24hrs. It's just a matter of corporate analyzing cost-effectiveness and when they decide on implementing the change in your market.

Walmart People Division, HR or PR must have filled out the new post on Asst Mgrs Update.

Something is going on, Mkt Mgrs and MHRMs don't go to Dallas to do Store Manager calibrations. That is complete BS.

Get ready, all of you that have taken a chance on staying, everyone knew this was coming and will continue into the future.

In response Target will be going to $15 hour by the year 2020, google it. We just entered into 2019. Walmart will have to follow to stay competitive with talent.

Store managers are stretched to far to be able to run 2 stores, not going to happen. Talent is not deep enough to accomplish this process.

APMs and Asset Protection has been watered down over the years and there is no real mission for the MAPM and APMs should have really dug in to become part of the team, several isolated themselves.

MHRM roles can be easily consolidated to cover a larger area, most of the position will be outsourced to third party. It has been happening for quite a while now.

I hope all is wrong that is mentioned, but believe where there is smoke there is fire.

I agree with the person stating to always have an exit or backup plan, and it is not wise to wait, as this this will continue in the future.

The company has been moving away from AP for quite a while now. There is a disconnect between the higher ups in the AP field verses operations. The original plan for AP was to come in three phases. Phase one was to change the chain of command of AP and realign them to report the store management. Phase two was to change the job title to assistant manager, align the AP to mostly operational driven task and begin preparing APAs to transition to complete the majority of the APM Task. ( during phase two we have saw AP AMS be almost fully aligned to operations, APAS were sent to the academy to train for internal research, APAS were given access to secure, APAS roles were changed to be more responsible for safety and accidents in the facility, the store manager was put in control of the safety team vs the APM, the company rolled out that all assistant managers must be trained to do accidents and hazwaste audits.) which brings us to phase 3. Phase 3 is a mass restructure/purge where a high percentage of regional and market asset protection leaders will be cut. Most all of the AP ASMs will be cut: only certain high priority stores will be allowed to keep one. Automation and technology will take over certain monitoring and other AP roles and task.

The following is information is not fact. It is my personal opinion:

I am a leader in AP and these changes are very concerning to me. With an extensive background in this area, I know first-hand the loss that the company is about to incur from a profit and talent perspective. In a high percentage of stores, the salaried asset protection manager is one of the most highly skilled and talented, intelligent, and coordinated leaders in the building. With no salaried AP leader in the store, accident charges are going to devastate the stores: One file, form, statement or medical form not sent in correctly is a huge charge/cost to the store. Compliance audits will be failed due to missed hazwaste audits. Shrink for the company will increase at a larger rate. Organized retail crime groups will figure out that the AP division was cut to the bare minimum and crime will increase substantially. I am sure that the company has studied and assessed the cost/risk of these changes but artificial intelligence and automation cannot always surpass common sense

This is a load of barnacles

Store managers cannot run the single store they have, entirely too much talent lost at that position. A lot of store managers that are in position should not be there. Managers running two stores based on volume have been talked about for quite a while now. Cannot believe this will happen.

What ever happens is going to happen and there's nothing we can do to change it

Calibration happens every year to ensure ratings through a market/region are as fair and consistent as possible (yes I understand that is a subjective topic).. ex: is an exceeds asst. Mgr. In store A equivalent to an exceeds asst. Mgr in store B. If there is headcount reduction it would be based on your performance rating. I have been in these calibration sessions.. it's not about favoritism in stores and markets that do it correctly.. it's about having the strongest team possible. Typically when someone is given a "bad eval" it has been discussed at length and examples must be presented to support this {again based on my experience). Chances are if people are honest with themselves they will have seen it coming if they are no longer with the company during a restructure.

ASM year evals are complete. We have not ranked, calibrated or in any way coded ASMs as described. We calibrate ASMs yearly do doubt we will but it has not occurred yet. No ideal if we are coding them or not, we have not heard anything that on that.

Store managers are not lying if they say they have not done so, stop spreading false derogatory information. It’s not helping anyone.

There is no 60 day payout posted on the Performance toolkit. I looked at it. If it's there tell me exactly where it is. I went through every link.

To yig, you're not going to get any responses to these direct questions, because the people who make this stuff up don't want to provide answers they can't back up.

Were there any mention about the third shift stockers going into either 1st or 2nd shift Cap?

The ranking each asm is true (quarterly talent planning) and has already happened if your store manager says he knows nothing about it hes lieing to you. Has anyone seen the new performance toolkit on the wire? 60day payout is already posted on there pluse other information. I dont see asms going hourly they are not going to let us work only 40 hours and are definitely not giving out overtime. BUT this is Walmart and you can not put anything past them.

Everyone needs to take a breath. Some of what is mentioned above is based on old, unfounded rumors. Quite honestly, some of these posts contradict themselves. One says that severance packages are a thing of the past and then says a terminated assistant might get 60 days pay. Sounds like severance to me.

Today is January 17th. If these changes take effect on February 1st (start of new fiscal year), it's all pretty much a done deal.

What about NHM structure?