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Quality over Quantity
I guess I can chime in on this a little. I was employed by WM (hourly) for 12 years, 10 years full time and the last 2 years part time.
My wife went to work for WM a week after we got married. She still works there 2 days a week and our 40th wedding anniversary is in May.
Much has changed over the years when Sam was alive. He truly cared about his employees and his business.
Here is a small part my story. I have worked in retail most of my life, with 40 years in working grocery stores. I enjoyed the work and enjoy helping people. I am a people person and take pride in my work and being a good employee. I have never been fired from a job and every yearly evaluation I had at WM I was given "exceeds expectations" for my work ethic, customer service, knowledge and quality of work. I was given a 4-5% raise annually. They changed that policy about 4 years ago and began giving basically everyone a 2% annual raise if you met their standards. This was when they raised the starting wage for new bites to $10/hr and the following year raised it to $11 for new hires. What they hired was mostly young kids who wanted to make money, but not have to do any work for it.
A year ago they were re-structuring and were giving grocery employees a new job offer which required a person to work in all grocery departments on demand and they gave a choice of working 4am-1pm or 1pm-10pm. They never gave me a new job offer and just quit scheduling me. I asked why I was not on the schedule and was told I wouldn't be on the schedule until they made me a job offer. They never gave me a job offer. No reason given. I am not aware they did this to anyone else, but this is what they did to me. Pretty crappy deal IMO, but not really a big deal. I began drawing SS a couple of years prior, so I still had an income and I spent the next 10 weeks getting paid my accrued PTO and nearly 200 hours of sick pay. Once that was gone I went in and quit so I could get my retirement account and invest.
My wife still works 2 days a week and they keep cutting her hours back to 8-10 hours a week. She also draws her SS, so it's not a big deal.
WM used to be a decent place to work, once upon a time. But no longer! They no longer give a shit about their employees (both in store and corporate) not their customers. They want the customers money, but do as little for the customer as they can get by with.
Management, from co-managers up to the President of the company do everything they can to make their HUGE yearly bonuses as big as possible by treating their employees like crap, not paying them a living wage and hiring mostly part time help. Staffing the stores with minimal help and offering no customer service to assisting its customers while management get massive yearly bonuses for executing the screw job.
Getting rid of door greeters does not surprise me in the least!
Rant over!
My wife went to work for WM a week after we got married. She still works there 2 days a week and our 40th wedding anniversary is in May.
Much has changed over the years when Sam was alive. He truly cared about his employees and his business.
Here is a small part my story. I have worked in retail most of my life, with 40 years in working grocery stores. I enjoyed the work and enjoy helping people. I am a people person and take pride in my work and being a good employee. I have never been fired from a job and every yearly evaluation I had at WM I was given "exceeds expectations" for my work ethic, customer service, knowledge and quality of work. I was given a 4-5% raise annually. They changed that policy about 4 years ago and began giving basically everyone a 2% annual raise if you met their standards. This was when they raised the starting wage for new bites to $10/hr and the following year raised it to $11 for new hires. What they hired was mostly young kids who wanted to make money, but not have to do any work for it.
A year ago they were re-structuring and were giving grocery employees a new job offer which required a person to work in all grocery departments on demand and they gave a choice of working 4am-1pm or 1pm-10pm. They never gave me a new job offer and just quit scheduling me. I asked why I was not on the schedule and was told I wouldn't be on the schedule until they made me a job offer. They never gave me a job offer. No reason given. I am not aware they did this to anyone else, but this is what they did to me. Pretty crappy deal IMO, but not really a big deal. I began drawing SS a couple of years prior, so I still had an income and I spent the next 10 weeks getting paid my accrued PTO and nearly 200 hours of sick pay. Once that was gone I went in and quit so I could get my retirement account and invest.
My wife still works 2 days a week and they keep cutting her hours back to 8-10 hours a week. She also draws her SS, so it's not a big deal.
WM used to be a decent place to work, once upon a time. But no longer! They no longer give a shit about their employees (both in store and corporate) not their customers. They want the customers money, but do as little for the customer as they can get by with.
Management, from co-managers up to the President of the company do everything they can to make their HUGE yearly bonuses as big as possible by treating their employees like crap, not paying them a living wage and hiring mostly part time help. Staffing the stores with minimal help and offering no customer service to assisting its customers while management get massive yearly bonuses for executing the screw job.
Getting rid of door greeters does not surprise me in the least!
Rant over!