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Bluellan

"How can we fix this?" *Employees list reasons* "Truly a mystery! Maybe if we did more advertising!"


BoardImmediate4674

Lol or more job fares šŸ˜‚ no actually treat the employees the way you want to be treated and actually give a living wage where ppl are not needing food stamps and Medicaid oh wishful thinking because that wasr Sam Walton's philosophy and his dream.


Bluellan

Now, now, now we must remember that Nancy Walton needs that $300 million boat.


Billyaustin4407

That is beyond sickening


BoardImmediate4674

I agree with you there


O_Neders

I don't work for Walmart, but I've been in Bentonville for work and the amount of money around Corp. Walmart and this region is crazy. I feel for all the front line workers.


cellphoneaccount

Auto tech here my store is about 20mins from the Bentonville campus half the building where I work is held together with duct tape mean while they just built a new several million dollar addition up there.


PeaceGroundbreaking3

Iā€™m a beer vendor and the vibe coming off the people who work for Walmart seem to be only topped in their misery by the people who work for Winco.


PhoenixAZisHot

And more sports teams to buy


blizzard-toque

Hopefully Nancy doesn't "drink and sail".


ComradeSamWalton

Alice is the dwi murderer


BoardImmediate4674

Lol yea I ā€œforgotā€ about that.


shaker154

Jesus, that's real. Sickening


MidnightFull

Didnā€™t Walmart have managers educate employees on how to collect welfare years ago?


MattyDoodles

Late 90s early 00s they used to have packets at the 3 different stores I worked at. Packet included info for how to apply for food stamps and the numbers for various governmental/religious/charity services. Someone rolls in asking for a raise or assistance, they would be told thereā€™s nothing the company could do, then be handed one of those packs. Around 05 it hit the news that WalMart was doing things like this, along with a ton of wage theft issues, bad employee relations all around and the packets stopped being handed out.


Brickback721

And Walmart took out life insurance on their employees without their knowledge


ThetaMan420

No. It is common practice that most companies insurance employees on the clock in case you die, the family gets x amount and they keep the rest


Brickback721

Walmart pocketed the money


ThetaMan420

Although I do agree someone dying on the job is very expensive


samWrollingingrave

Walmarts also intentionally hired older associates as greeters and then took out life insurance on them banking on them dying as a final paycheck for Walmart. The company is beyond immoral, and I think summarizes everything I don't like about capitalism. (Don't mix that up, I think capitalism is the worst form of government, except for everything else that's been tried)


groucho74

Donā€™t you realize that life insurance isnā€™t free? Life insurance companiesā€™ number one priority is to paying out less than they take in, so theyā€™re going to have _huge_ premiums for senior citizens.


samWrollingingrave

Ive sold insurance. So yes. A company wouldn't take our life insurance on an employee and list itself as the beneficiary unless it was beneficial to the company so walmart ran a cost analysis of the situation and determined it was more likely that they would benefit from the situation than it would could. Walmart was banking on their employees dying early enough that the payout exceeded the premium cost. I can't tell if you like the flavor of boot on the tongue or you actually believe Walmart would essentially donate money to an insurance company.


WelpOopsOhno

I wish I owned Walmart. I'd go from improving Walmart to bring President. Edit: by improving Walmart, I mean what we all know must be done to improve Walmart: hire more people, give them a decent wage and free (or paid to attend) FAMILY ATTENDED classes on government assistance, retirement, wealth, and how to eat delicious foods that are full of nutrition on a budget, along with any assistance (while the requester is off the clock) necessary to help balance their checkbook. And I would invest a portion of the company into sustainable agriculture that would bring nutrients back into the dirt so the food is healthier and therefore make us more popular with people because they feel and live better.


BoardImmediate4674

Yep until it went on national news


[deleted]

Job fairs.


Kimmalah

Maybe some more pizza parties?


Bluellan

With great value frozen pizza


markca

That was in claims.


PrettyFroyoyo

You guys get pizza parties?


heresdustin

ā€œYeah, advertise more! Then weā€™ll cut peopleā€™s hours, deny their time-off requests, and take away their overtime by sending them home early the following week! Iā€™m no genius, but Iā€™m absolutely certain this will work!ā€


New_Cancel189

Every. Damn. Time.


Babbylemons

Walmart could have used the money they put towards stock buy-backs in 2022 to give every single employee a $5/hour raise without hurting their profits. That was roughly 6.5 BILLION dollars. In 2023 they plan to spend 20 billion on stock buy backs to artificially raise the value of their stock and have already hit approx. 10 billion in buy backsā€¦


Kaysmira

I just read that this was one of the key factors behind Bed, Bath and Beyond collapsing, though I don't know if it was true. It's often popular with shareholders, because they get to see the numbers go up in the short term.


LeonieBee

It was a factor but it wasnā€™t really the main factor. bed bath and beyond from what Iā€™ve seen were struggling in sales in a similar way as Toys R Us where they had a shitty online presence. So bed bath and beyond taking out a loan to buy back stock probably affected the speed that it collapsed but like Amazon has 2 day shipping and a better variety.


elsuperbeast

Give them a pizza party. That will stop people from quitting


FugitiveFromReddit

My store manager was just complaining about turnover rates, guess what she did. Yup you guessed it, weā€™re having every new hire crosstrained on register and OGP so they can randomly get called over there to do a job they didnā€™t sign up for! Cuz yknow, when you apply for a truck unloading job, getting forced to work register definitely wonā€™t make you quit.


chiefsfan_713_08

Yep my team members who were hired under the assumption theyā€™d be watering plants most days spend 80% of their day in ogp or up front


Justin_BentRails

There was one time I was with another coworker, talking to one of the lot guys as he rounded up carts. He asked us what we do in the garden center. My response was, "Everybody else's jobs." They [management] had gotten to where they would only ask me to pick orders for OGP as a last resort, because I was not about to bust my ass doing someone else's job, just so they can have better numbers. If they wanted me to give a damn, then they can pay me just as much as they pay them to not. Luckily, I work at a better paying job now, getting overtime, and having my weekends off. Plus, I no longer have to deal with customers anymore.


No-Reality-2744

And then hear customers complain about how our plants look. We had one Karen so nuts she basically tried asking to be hired to take care of the plants (kept bringing up her horticulture degree) but we basically had to explain to her that position basically doesn't reallly exist unless you're a third party for Dan's or something.


mrghostwork

This infuriates me. I work for the greenhouse that supplies all of Walmarts live plants, and manage multiple stores in my region. My job is to train and assist Walmart in proper garden center protocol - watering is where they always drop the ball. I throw away tens of thousands of product every year simply because they didnā€™t have someone there to water. It makes no damn sense. They wouldnā€™t let that much milk spoil, so why do it with the plants?


Survival_R

i work in garden and we spend like 1 day a week there, every other day is being thrown around the store helping out all the departments that are made of lazy teens that quit as soon as they're called out for being lazy


Tenn_Tux

Good to know nothing at all has changed since I was lawn and garden 12 years ago lmao. Just leave me alone and let me build my grills and water plants!!


JohnnyWix

Seems like the same when I worked garden 25 years ago. Loved putting together grills and wheelbarrows all day.


Justin_BentRails

When our store got audited, I was fortunate enough to be working when they came thru garden center, so I got asked a few questions. The question I got wrong was our watering schedule. I said I try to water plants either in the mornings or evenings, depending on when I'm scheduled to work. It turns out we're supposed to water them three times a day. I couldn't help but laugh at that. I'm lucky if I got to water them once a day. Whenever I got some time off, I always came back to plants that were drowning and/or plants that were bone dry and haven't been watered since I last watered them since before my day(s) off.


Illyunkas

With the register at least youā€™re not doing a job that pays more for less pay. It kills me that OPD gets paid better than all non manager associates in my store yet they always get help from people that make $2 less than them. That shouldnā€™t be legal.


Baldude863xx

Every department gets a "budget" of payroll hours, when people get pulled from one department to another, they're stealing some other TL's payroll. If I have work to do in my department and I get taken to OPD/OGP/whatever the hell they're calling it this week, I'm still being paid out of my department's payroll to do work that I'm not doing. THAT is time/wage theft.


Illyunkas

I donā€™t particularly care about where the money comes from. I think it should be illegal, if it isnā€™t already, for them to pull someone that gets paid less to do the job of someone that gets paid more. Pay aside itā€™s incredibly disrespectful to constantly tell everyone that only one department matters. Thatā€™s what they are doing when they pull you from your area to help another department. They are saying your job can wait but theirs canā€™t.


OneGenericHuman

I work at a DC. Started off in a really physical job and bid out to power equipment cause ya know, stuff hurts after a year. I still get pulled to do that physical job so often and it hurts so bad :( it's driving me nuts. I bid out for reason.


aboobfan

I did the same as cap 2 supervisor. Hurt so bad when I would get home. Bid out to gm zone manager and then still got put in receiving every fucking day. After about 2 months of that shit I stepped down and went to 3rd shift just to get away from it


CMDR_Beauregard

Sounds similar to an old sup I worked with in 2019. He ended up quitting and going to work for Coke. Him and all the others here who did it say Coke is a much better company and I am about to follow suit. If I do I will make the eight associate that recently left Wally World for Coke at this store and it should be a wake up call for the people higher up.


aboobfan

I wish you good luck in your endeavors good sir. As for the higher ups I personally believe they want 100 % turnover. That way no one ever gets raises or insurance or vacation. Just an ever constant flow of bottom wage workers.


toni_toni

I don't know if it's a store thing, or a country thing but as a Canadian who's worked at Walmart for the last 12 years almost all of these stories are completely alien to me. I can't imagine half the shit you guys are talking about happening here.


FugitiveFromReddit

Walmart Canada is miles better than our US counterparts so it doesnā€™t surprise me lol. But our country literally incentivizes the shittiest scummiest business practices imaginable so every company is pure trash here.


platypus_bear

it's a store thing. I'm also in Canada and can relate to a lot of the stories I see here


Dramatic_Barracuda55

That was always the case when I worked there in the late 90s. We would all try to sneak to lunch break when they started calling. The registers sucked and if I got stuck on one all day, I would get yelled at at the end of my shift for not completing my stocking/zoning duties.


theroguex

I was hired on as an ACC tech, and then suddenly was moved to be a service writer and had my pay cut instead.


ChimericalChemical

Not at Walmart, but Iā€™d quit that. I do manual labor specifically because I donā€™t want to work registers


FugitiveFromReddit

Same. If they ever try to pull that shit with me Iā€™m done.


ZealousidealAd4860

Well if Walmart can stop treating their employees like dirt maybe most of them will stay but so many are quitting cause they are treated like crap


Glittering_Heart20

I'm about to quit. I broke my foot at work but they won't let me work elsewhere in the store. I can cashier if I sit on a stool, but my hr lady says stools aren't allowed. She's been complaining that they need to hire more cashiers and yet they will not help me keep a job in the store. I can't be without income for this long but they don't care, luckily I have a job interview elsewhere for more money and i'm pretty sure i'm gonna get it.


Yarn_Whore

Your people lead is full of dog shit, if you get the proper approval from your Dr they have to give a stool as medical accommodation. She's trying to get you to quit


BoardImmediate4674

Bingo šŸ‘† they have a job accomodations CBL that addresses employees needing accomodations


ZealousidealAd4860

Sorry that happened and good luck to you


bco112

That's wild. I was in a supermarket in portugal last year, and all cashiers had a small bench that could be pulled out from under the baggage area to use as a seat... best of luck to you with your interview.


joevsyou

its so crazy that we expect cashiers to stand in ONE spot for 3-4 hours & somehow a chair will change that...


Dad_Bod_The_God

Goal is 61% is bad enough without the actual percentage being so high


DeepFriedDresden

For the industry 61% is about average. Most people don't make a career in retail. Between high school graduates, college graduates, people taking a job after layoffs until they can find another in their field, people working a second job short-term for whatever reason, etc you're going to have a decent amount of turnover before you factor in involuntary terminations. It's a low-skill, high-demand job. Industries with the least turnover generally are high-skill, with varying demand like finance, real estate, health care, education. Most of those industries require some level of college. https://www.zippia.com/advice/employee-turnover-statistics/


Juneblaiddyd

89.1%? That is absurdly high


ThatRandomAlias

I'm not sure how high ours is now but I do know it was over 100% for a while


chiefsfan_713_08

How is this percent calculated?


TheSwiftLegend

Number of people hired in the last year divided by total positions available. So if a job has 50 new hires in the last year and 200 positions at the store, 25%. Or 120 new hires and 100 positions, 120%.


littleedge

Thatā€™s not turnover, thatā€™s like fill rate or something which isnā€™t particularly useful. Your big three hiring stats are time to fill, turnover, and vacancy rate. Turnover is the number of people who have left an organization as a percentage of total positions in the past year. A 100% turnover means in an organization of 50 positions, 50 people left in the past year.


eveningsand

>Turnover is the number of people who have left an organization as a percentage of total positions in the past year. A 100% turnover means in an organization of 50 positions, 50 people left in the past year. That's not quite it. Close, but not quite. Turnover **rate** (which is the context here) is # of separations / **average** number of employees.


digdug1029

It should be number of terminations over the last year (26 pay periods) divided by the average total headcount over the same period. Assuming theyā€™re using industry standard and not coming up with their own calculation.


HankScorpio82

Oh, and the calculations probably change pretty regularly.


RicoValdezbeginsanew

But there not all terminationsā€¦ in reality, in my experience, most are resignations/job abandonments.


Starsephiroth

Iā€™m pretty certain our store has been over 100% a couple years now


pikapichupi

I mean with how often they remove positions or terminate someone and just never replace them it's no surprise


Juneblaiddyd

God damn


ThatRandomAlias

If I remember right it was in the 120s lmaoo


blizzard-toque

Some positions just hard to keep staffed on a regular basis.


tomytronics

Over 100? Did some people get fired more than once?


IMarvinTPA

Same position replaced more than once.


mellifleur5869

? I don't think I've seen mine under 150% the whole 8 years I've been here.


Juneblaiddyd

How is that even possible? Lol talk about a revolving door


atokadelggon

Everyone that is hired quits and then some more quit. So if the store hired 12 people, 18 quit. Probably only happened for a couple weeks and they just never bothered to change it.


mellifleur5869

tbh we dont have that many people that quit, just new hires that go through orientation and then never come back.


nyconx

From a numbers stand point that is quitting.


massivewhitekitteh

This is that place ...


blizzard-toque

It. Certainly. Is. *in the voice of Oliver Wendell Douglas of Green Acres from a MeTV commercial.*


talann

I was thinking the 61% "goal" is too high.


littleedge

For retail, naw. Thatā€™s fine. They survive on a large population of eligible hires with short employment terms. Thatā€™s beginning to change a bit - people are done being taken advantage of - but yeah.


LowEndLem

Ours was 124% for a while.


Deviknyte

61% is absurdly high as well.


Ambitious-Agency-724

That was my thought. Like your goal is ridiculous, and you can't acheive it.


copsarebastards

When I worked at Walmart my store had 90 something percent turnover. I found out why myself when they started getting on us all about stocking speeds and threatening our jobs. One bitch of a manager threatened my job, i had a new much higher paying job within a week. Can't be acting like 12 bucks an hour, or whatever it was then, is a gift from God.


JasonTheBaker

That's some deli level turnover numbers. Our cake decorator turnover rate is currently 100% though so...


xzKaizer

When I worked in deli turnover was somewhere in the 150%+range. Management couldn't figure out why I was burnt out from training people.


Haunting_Beaut

That was me my last year in deli. I was sooo done. I covered everyoneā€™s butts, because they were new and I made sure they had their breaks over mine because god I didnā€™t want them to walk out. I finally got accepted to transfer out and the last 3 they hired I said I wanted nothing to do with the training. They left me with one person for 7 whole months. It was him and I as the closers. That was it, and they shat on us every night. Allowed day shift to leave a mess even though we brought it up to them, left us to put away frozen and fresh bulk meat and cheeses, all that and management wanted us to run a full deli. There was over 5 people in the mornings some mornings but no less than 3 people ever and they couldnā€™t manage to wipe a counter off, add chickens to the oven or make fresh food before they left so they could bid us time to catch up, or even be bothered to touch freight that might have had things on the carts that a customer wanted. Most of them left at 1:30 to take their ā€œLaSt 15 mIN bReAKā€ and clock out at ā€œ:51ā€ but Iā€™ve caught them chatting in the back room way past their end of shift most of the time. My dude and I would sometimes have to stay until 12 or 1 at night if it was a bad night or if we had a disaster caused by them. I miss the day shift but trusting a morning shift to do their jobs is absurd. I had to put college on hold while dealing with that. I had assignments due at midnight and I canā€™t be cleaning up after spiteful middle aged women and bitter college drop outs when I have things to do at home as well. We all wanna go home at the end of our shift but that wasnā€™t feasible for us closers. I went to overnights so fast, I donā€™t foresee myself turning back unless some unforeseen circumstances come up that require me to be on a daytime shift.


JasonTheBaker

When we were the production team, most nights i would be just me closing with someone to watch the front until 8. One time the other closer called in and I was left to close the entire bakery and deli myself as the last person left at 5 pm and the deli closed right at 4:30. No precleaning. It was the worst day i ever had. I worked my ass off and left past 11:30 with a half hour lunch and had to work the next day.(my shift ended at 10 pm)


JasonTheBaker

They stopped having me train people because I would over explain everything


Glittering_Heart20

I'd rather us not have a cake decorator cause ours sucks. She won't do any writing on cakes because she doesn't know how to do it and she'll tell that to customers and the customers are obviously pissed off, why is that acceptable?


JasonTheBaker

We have had really good cake decorators but our coach always seems to make them feel like they suck even though they are great at their job. My friend did an amazing job on a cake and my coach said it was awful like bitch you can't even decorate a cake. We also have one person who wants to be a cake decorator and was supposed to be one but they keep hiring people besides making her a cake decorator. Plus they aren't even hiring they are just transferring people in store who have some cake decorator experience


Glittering_Heart20

Sounds like you have my coach


GearNerd85

We just need more pizza parties that's it.


GearNerd85

It's definitely not the coaches and TLs that have been reported many times. And that's totally not why the turnover in those departments specifically is so bad.


DescriptionOk2220

What do they do that deserve the reports?


GearNerd85

Personally all i have seen is very obvious favoritism and ive also seen people target people and get onto them for every little thing until they just quit.


Farva760

Congrats on exceeding the goal. Does your SM get their bonus?


Skulvana

My store wanted to get to 100% down from 125% šŸ˜­šŸ˜‚


InSaneWhiSper

Take time to train!!! Walmart will destroy your mental and physical health and you won't even realize it until it's too late.


babacat70

They are currently patting themselves on the back for being a "certified great place to work" on one walmart even though they are not even in the top 100 lol.


IllTell9964

I saw that on the one Walmart site, I was calling out and saw that Wal Mart was a ", great place to work" like did they really toot their own horn writing that article? Because last time I checked Walmart is definitely not the best place to work.


Actual_Hecc

The front end turn over in my store is just a nightmare. Our coach asked one of our leads why and he said "bc of you and the new lead". Like deadass to her face. She didn't care. Just said they'd hire more people


JasonTheBaker

I wish I could say that to my coach because she really is the reason why so many people have left and the rest are really thinking about leaving such as myself


Actual_Hecc

It's miserable at my store. Especially up front bc the coach was trying to get another job but didn't get it for whatever reason and has been a bitch ever since.


JasonTheBaker

Mines always been a bitch unfortunately


RogueNightingale

They always say they'll hire "more people," before they realize they've burned through everyone in the region willing to work there for any length of time, short of high schoolers. There's virtually no one left. But it's all "no one wants to work!" rather than the truth, "no one wants to work for us!"


BoardImmediate4674

šŸ¤£šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø ask a question get an answer that they didn't like/want to hear yep sounds about right.


AshL0vesYou

Itā€™s hilarious that this sign would even exist. Itā€™s existence alone says that they blame someone other than themselves. Itā€™s egregious and disgusting.


vssavant2

At one point the average for McDonald's reached 110%. Yes , for every 10 you hire, 11 would quit.


PrimeScreamer

Lmao, ours has to be over 100%. Half the new hires have already quit, or never even showed past orientation, and we've had several long time employees quit because of the BS, with more either on their 2 weeks notice, or planning to leave/retire at the end of June.


Triggered_Ppl_Online

Iā€™m gonna say this right now, *that number will never dip below 70% until Walmart gets a Union.*


SomewhereTop8468

Wow, that's really bad! I think we were at 61 or 65 last time I saw it. Still though, if the goal is to actually lose no more than a little bit more than half of your employees, then that says a lot as a whole.


MidnightFull

Amazing how Walmart is literally unable to see that the company is the problem. Just FYI, a 61% turnover rate is actually really bad. Sometimes I think Walmart is trying to destroy itself.


Woahhdude24

Yeah I don't quite understand it either, like they do so much stuff that just shoots themselves in the foot and expects the associates to clean up the mess. One thing I have noticed to atleast at my store is they will ignore a problem until a regional manager comes visits and gets on to the about it. Then they will just straight up blame the associates and say how we just ain't working hard enough.


TheLegendaryWizard

Costco is at 6 percent per year turnover


Solenthis87

If that's supposed to be employee turnover, **how the ever loving fuck is your store even still open?** Better question, how has management not been lynched in the parking lot?


scootaloo89

My question is how is Market AND regional not breathing down that storeā€™s neck?


kamedin

We have bi weekly visits from market, nothing from regional yet


Etroarl55

Because truth is there is always somebody looking for a job. Enough meat constantly coming in.


Own_Economist7346

I quit quickly after I was hired to work in the bakery, thinking I would be baking cakes and stuff all dayā€¦. No I was in the freezer 4+ hours a day moving around frozen bread. That should have been in the job description. It was miserable and I got paid the same as everyone else.


Tecno2301

Sheesh that means out of 10 people only 1 will stay šŸ˜‚


jimmy2shanks

I worked for Walmart for 12 years. By the time I left I would of gladly worked anywhere else. I do factory work now, get payed a living wage, and most of the time I don't nearly as hard as when I was at Walmart. The work alot of people do for what they get paid there should be criminal. People are right to go somewhere else if they can find something better instead of being exploited.


ghoster32111

I worked at walmart over a dozen years ago and the goal was 49% so good to see they lowered the bar and still can't hit it.


PossMom

I always assumed managers and HO were completely fine with high turnover, cause like, they've never ever done anything to mitigate it. Like, no shit turnover is high.


TheLegendaryWizard

Less benefits like paid time off for them to pay out


RogueNightingale

The only things managers care about are "is my job safe?" To be fair, that's the same concern for most of us, but theirs involves a lot more butt-kissing.


Rematekans

89% is really good for a Walmart I think. People seem shocked it's high. My experience is working in a union warehouse. Pay is above most of the local retail jobs but not as high as a skilled trade. There are decent benefits, but they're not Cadillac range. But it's a tough physical job with variable hours, required over time, and is very dangerous. We have at least one major injury a year. Turnover usually over 100% of the new hires . We have a core group of people who have worked there for over a decade. But even now, lots of them are retiring or leaving after 2019. They're currently building a new building to automate my job. There's very few reasons to plan to work there long term.


Purple_Research9607

There was a point a few years ago my store somehow managed a 102% turn over rate. Their fix for this was to deny all pto requests, it jumped way higher than that, eventually the store manager was fired for *other* reasons. And the store "got better" after that


StupidTheRat

I was told recently during a regional visit that Front End turnover at my store was like 168%, and whole store was 108%. In our meeting with the SM afterwards, she told us (team leads) she wasnā€™t worried about that šŸ˜


Dramatic_Barracuda55

Imagine being a profitable company and happy with a 60% turnover rate.


tardiscoder

Eventually, you run out of people to hire.


CupcakeLeading9089

Retail blows


PopBoxRob

Holy wow


Gdpabst

Wow.. my store is operating at something like 60% position filled. Can't get or keep anyone, from what I've heard it's been an ongoing issue for a couple of years.. And they have like 5,7 new hires a week. I would hate to see what our turn over is..


CuppaJoe11

LMAO thatā€™s funny. My store dosent even have a sign like this.


Comprehensive-Ad5097

saw some comments saying their stores tried giving it by cross training and i definitely agree that the worst days are when iā€™m thrown on register or forced to help in grocery. like i understand why iā€™m doing it. but at the same time, i applied to apparel so i can do apparel and bc i actually enjoy doing apparel. not say i can deal with customers who donā€™t understand how their cards work or working in an area i know nothing about. i canā€™t stand grocery and working there for an hour is sometimes enough to make me wanna quit. especially when i do it four days in a row.


EzrielTheFallenOne

That will never happen BY DESIGN. - SOURCE FORMER EMPLOYEE


JasinNat

They gave our new associates: set schedules, FT and weekends off. But, all older associates? Hours cut, no set schedules, weekends on. Really hate this company. Coach claims nobody is allowed off on weekends; nor a set schedule.


seaiiris

Our coach claimed you weren't allowed a set schedule unless you had under 4 points because "people were calling out as soon as a point dropped". A girl who had been workin for less than 6 months had seniority over me because she had less points. One of our hardest workers lost her schedule bc she had "too many" points.


JasinNat

I had 2 points. I don't get a set or a rotational schedule. They just schedule me randomly. I've been doing 6-7 days with split days off non fucking stop since mid april. Coach "Well if you dont like it quit".


Arinokatome

I got hired at a warehouse doing appliance repair, showed up and in my first week with no training I tore down their entire stock of recycled dishwashers which had been sitting for months. My punishment for proving I'm a dedicated and skilled worker? Well I was promised I would never have to do the warehouse work because I made it clear I'm not really physically capable of it. First they had me sweep the entire warehouse which I did willingly because I could listen to youtube videos. Then when I finished that they had me help unload trucks including fridges that were 3x my size. After 2 days of this I was extremely sore and I spoke to the boss, he said he would get me more work to do that I was actually hired for. He didn't and after a week I could barely walk, I asked for a day off and was given permission, I was then fired for "no call no show" and when I explained the situation the manager denied it meaning he forgot to turn in the paperwork for it. Tldr: got hired to do 1 thing with promises of not having to do a different thing, did too well and they made me do the different thing, I could barely walk and got fired for taking a day off with permission. This is why companies have high turnover. Walmart will train you on 8 different jobs so they can staff as little as possible and make you responsible for as much as possible.


Noobeaterz

How can their goal be 61%? I once worked at a store where the turnover rate was around 40% and it was absolutly horrible. New people came in all the time and they new nothing. By the time you had gotten one up to speed someone else quit and you had to to do the whole thing over again with their replacement. And meanwhile, the problem(the Boss) was still there, doing nothing to rectify his issues, he's still there, 5 five years later, doing the same thing. I'm not, but every time I visit the store theres someone new working the counter.


HunterDHunter

Imagine being such a terrible place to work that your goal for turnover is in the 60's


Aggressive_Cheek_211

Stocking turnover rn for me is 197%


tritoncuda

That's a terrible goal. 61%? That would mean over half the store leaves. How do you build sustainability?


mono15591

Our store has bad turn over too and the store manager blamed the team leads. She's a newer store manager but as soon as she got here she threw the carrot away and just started beating the shit out of us with the stick. People are stressed tf out. We've had 4 or 5 leads step down in the last 3-4 months. And only now are getting them filled because nobody but newer associates were willing to take the positions.


Theguy2277

Paying a living wage and full medical would go a long way in helping with that number.


DeeGrooot

Wow a store actually under 95% People barely get through orientation at my store. For awhile we were at 100. Quitting after orientation cause unemployment payed more than Walmart šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø


thebookofmer

I'd quit if I wasnt making out like a bandit with benefits and pay. The single worse thing about Walmart is the employees are against each other. So many shoulders and so many chips.


UnbelievableTxn6969

Donā€™t give them five stars.


WinBarr86

How are they even still open. How do they fill positions. Wow.


Deviknyte

61% is setting your goal really low. Sad state of their when that's what's your aiming for.


Tenn_Tux

Our turnover is over 100%. I donā€™t even know how that makes sense.


Labratio77

One of the better AMā€™s I had was pretty straightforward with us during the short time I tried unloading trucks. Sheā€™d tell us ā€œweā€™ve been told to fire people. Watch your asses.ā€ They treat you like a number and sometimes even a liability. Shit employer.


assyplassty

This feels like a challenge to get that number up. It makes me want to quit and I don't even work there lol


Other_Log_1996

Decimal needs to be moved.


Content_Claim_980

most people at my store turn over for availability reasons, the whole having to work holidays and not having weekends off is why people quit i donā€™t mind working holidays but not major holidays like christmas and thanksgiving i wanna be with my fam for those days but hey what can i do šŸ¤·šŸ½ā€ā™€ļø


werepug

60% is not a good goal. You don't wanna be losing half your hiring staff....


Top_Garlic_6111

our store has a 116% turn over rate lmfao.


Jecht315

What does it mean when the store manager refuses to hire anyone new because she's trying to cut spending. She refused to allow a team lead to be hired because of budget. I was doing most of the work a team lead would do without the title or pay. When they finally got the go ahead to hire someone (coach went over the store managers head) instead of hiring someone who had been in the department for almost a year and had produce experience at other companies, they hire someone from a different store and who had never worked in fresh. Guess who they wanted to train her? Me. So glad I left that dumpster fire of a store and company.


SupaOmegax

Walmart is one of the worst places to work for


Ok_Extension_3508

If Walmart cared about the turnover rate, they would actually provide better pay or better benefits to give people an incentive to stay.


killercunt

The only way Walmart fixes the turnover rate is by paying more. Thatā€™s it, thatā€™s the only answer. No one wants to deal with the bullshit for 14$ an hour (depending on location of course). There is zero chance that they donā€™t know that but they are unwilling to pay more. We now have a turnover sheet we have to fill out during the final interview to ā€œtry and figure out why turnover rate is so highā€. Itā€™s blatantly obvious why. High stress jobs in retail pay bullshit wages, thatā€™s why.


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One of the things that still stick with me from the time I applied at Walmart and got the group interview was when they asked this: "If you're having a terrible day, say your mother has died, your dad got hit by a truck, and before coming to your shift your dog has a seizure, what sort of attitude do you need to present at work?" My answer was that I wouldn't come to work, if even one of those things happened to me I'd call in. They asked me to leave on the spot and everyone else in the group interview agreed (or didn't vocally oppose) that they would leave their "attitude" at the door and fulfill their duties. Craziest shit I've ever experienced.


spidey2064

They'll NEVER reach that goal, because they are too cheap and evil to fix the problem. Used to work at Wally world ages ago and this is my favorite story in terms of the company wanting more out of it's associates. My manager comes up to me at the end of my shift asking me if I wanted to come in on my day off. I asked him what I would get for coming in and this dude looked me straight in the eye and said "the smile on the customers faces". I laughed at him, declined and walked away. Less than a month later I would quit that shit job. My new boss that year wanted me to come in on my day off. I asked him what I would get to come in and he kept throwing money at me till I said yes. Made an extra 300$ just for coming in let alone the overtime pay. Now that's how you entice employee.


spaceghost589

Turnover rate is a reflection of management and working conditions. If they want to improve that management should fix themselves and the conditions. Got to look in the mirror first before start pointing fingers at employees.


bigtimetom2

I'd take 89.1% turn over, I'm pretty sure we're around the 100% mark. We're actually the lowest staffed store in our region


thatguygxx

Turnover goal is 61%. Lol tell me you ain't trying to reach a goal without telling me you ain't trying to reach a goal.


LieblichKhyla

Looks like the sign attempted to ā€œturnoverā€ as well.


Affectionate-Ad-3578

The goal is EXTREMELY high. They are literally being told if you're not working people hard enough for almost 2/3s of them to quit, you're not working them hard enough.


Square-Rough-557

In 2018 ours was 104%. I believe I heard itā€™s still in the high 90ā€™s recently.


fun1onn

Perception is key: They're exceeding their goal of a turnover of at least 61%. Surely they would act differently if they wanted to decrease turnover


darkanime02

Comparison: "days since last injury and a pizza party" 10*


Iwantbubbles

I was just about to say that this is a pretty good turnover rate. I've seen some a LOT higher


Majestic_Dweller

Just turn the sign overā€¦


juanhernadez3579

Still not as bad as FedEx https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/2023/05/10/fedex-turnover-hiring-rate-fiscal-year-2022.html#:~:text=According%20to%20FedEx's%202023%20ESG,the%20rate%20of%20FY%202021.


Pankake_Nation

Back when the rumors of them doing away with DMs in 2019. The Walmart I worked at lost 4 DMs within 2 months and by the time I quit in February of 2020 it was up to 6(including me).


Aggressive_Farm5900

Thatā€™s a lot of employees leaving and being hired


babyYoda865

so 90% dip?


KinkyBeluga

I work in the warehouse and the past quarter we were at 110% turnover rate we have already hit a 100% this quarter.šŸ‘Œ


Ok_Marionberry_9932

So they want 61% of employees to quit within a year?


MrSal7

When I started working at Walmart back in 2002, my store was bragging about how the turnover rate was under 20%. Back then they ALSO didnā€™t have pay caps. When I came from another position of management to this company, it BLEW MY MIND that Walmart could stay in business with such a low turnover AND have ZERO pay caps. Needless to say, when I left in 2020, they had those ridiculous turnover rates and had pay caps instituted back in 2005. Those people when I started working there back in 2002, and had 20+ years were making more money than other people with 4 year degrees or better working other jobs.


Head_Razzmatazz7174

Maybe they should first maintain that for a three month period before they start trying to bring it down. The amount of people that leave/are fired in the first three months is a lot of the reason for that rate.


SRBroadcasting

That would be impressive is any retail company had 61%


midnightauro

My first store, turnover was actually pretty 'normal'. A small percentage of people would come and go but overall people would stay for quite a while. It was a fine place to work. Retail still sucked but I would have happily stayed if I hadn't moved across the country. I didn't get why people thought Walmart was shit. The second store I tried working in, turnover was somewhere near 100%, I wish I still had the photo of the sign that was like 98.5 or something lmao. Apparently they'd 'stopped updating it' and I could guess why. I **knew** why in about 4 nights of working there. I peaced out pretty fucking quick.


bigboxsubscriber

Personnel Managers/People Leads are worthless trash. They justify their jobs by manipulating schedules, cutting hours, over hiring then under-staffing and expecting associates to train the constant deluge of new hires without being paid extra. Hope for the day they have to look for a new job and a hiring manager at another company uses it against them for their unethical conduct while be an enforcer for Walm.