Vindictive Managers

I have a friend who was a WM assistant for several years. Prior to that, he did salaried management for Schnucks Foods. He had a combined total of 12 years in retail management, so he had solid experience; nobody was propping him up, he fully deserved his title.

But then he was targeted by the market manager. Tho his work was good, his numbers consistently up, never any coachings, she made his life a living hell and essentially forced him to step down to an hourly dept. head. I implored him not to cave into that bullying, but he was evidently more scared of quitting the company and trying something new than losing all that money and career perks.

I'd seen this MM's vinictive work on others before, and I've learned of more of it since. Does anyone here have similar stories about rotten Walmart management?

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All this sounds so very familiar. My MM decided he didn’t like me and that’s been that. Even though my SM says I’m doing a great job, the MM just picks me apart when he comes and has told me on more than one occasion that if I don’t like it, he can easily find someone else.

A fellow ASM said he cursed out loud when he found out I had married my same s-x partner.

He has made this the job from hell. I just want to stay nine more months to make it ten years and I’m done.

@ 2cxx: What you wrote was like a page from my last days there. I encountered a co manager who targeted me----my life went from 14 years in that place with no problems and no missed raises to all of a sudden being in a raging sea, one problem after another, constantly being called to the office, where this guy would either be at the center or off on the side lines. It was the most powerless feeling I'd ever had. By the time I realized how severe my trouble and tried recruiting help---first from the SM, then Market, then Ethics hot line----I found myself completely alone, all of them blowing me off like lint.

I did find a way to have an ethics complaint call returned, tho: threaten a law suit. BANG. SM was blowing up my phone within the hour. Swear, the only thing rich, powerful companies fear now are lawyers.

Yep, everyday. Not ok for management to scream, yell and bully associates. When you call the market, they deny it and say you are "disgruntled". B.S. When you call the Ethics hotline, they tell you "sorry, we cannot do anything". "You have to use the "open door" policy. OMG, seriously, why is this OK? Its not. Then, management "creates" lies about people and coaches them for things they didn't do just to get rid of them. Don't tell me this company is ethical because it isn't. its a joke.

A redbook investigation ( Robert Ludlum / undercover operative / expionagistic as it ridiculously sounds) is a process by which store management gets with market HR management and AP to investigate claims of improper conduct such as theft, s-xual harrassment, on property violence, and issues such as the one in this thread. What it really is is bullsh!t. It's a way the company can maintain plausible deniability and stay out of civil court, while they've already made up their minds what the outcome of this 'investigation' is going to be.

Which, on advice of the legal department, is generally termination.

What is a redbook investigation

Im going thru same thing myself. My asst is trying push me of my sp they can put her best friend in the position. Has gone as fsr to have a redbook investigation stsrted against me

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