Hmmm...
http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-m...trategy-2015-2
Like many management initiatives these sound good, but I bet they don't give the stores the budget or people to actually do them right.
Minimum wage $9/hr - I want to believe this is actually a step up, because I'd like to stop seeing stories about WalMart organizing canned food drives for their employees who can't afford to EAT on what WM pays them. But it conflicts with the 'moar-money' goal of management, so I'm guessing they'll cut hours to make up for it?
Training - That would probably be nice. Though I suspect that they'll use the 'training' time as a way to keep the initial salary below that magical $9, and that a lot of people will never 'complete' their training, and I suspect that actual management in a lot of places. won't bother to train anyone, because they'll be even more harried due to dropping available hours.
Checkout promise - yea, and given that they are supposedly paying more per employee at this point, they are going to allocate more hours so that the checkouts can be manned properly? Why do I doubt this.
Digital integration - wow, that sounds like a whole lot of screaming SCs to me.
Good luck to all of you WM employees - I want to hope that things are going to get better. The cynic in me thinks they are going to get worse, and I hope you come through OK.
http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-m...trategy-2015-2
Like many management initiatives these sound good, but I bet they don't give the stores the budget or people to actually do them right.
Minimum wage $9/hr - I want to believe this is actually a step up, because I'd like to stop seeing stories about WalMart organizing canned food drives for their employees who can't afford to EAT on what WM pays them. But it conflicts with the 'moar-money' goal of management, so I'm guessing they'll cut hours to make up for it?
Training - That would probably be nice. Though I suspect that they'll use the 'training' time as a way to keep the initial salary below that magical $9, and that a lot of people will never 'complete' their training, and I suspect that actual management in a lot of places. won't bother to train anyone, because they'll be even more harried due to dropping available hours.
Checkout promise - yea, and given that they are supposedly paying more per employee at this point, they are going to allocate more hours so that the checkouts can be manned properly? Why do I doubt this.
Digital integration - wow, that sounds like a whole lot of screaming SCs to me.
Good luck to all of you WM employees - I want to hope that things are going to get better. The cynic in me thinks they are going to get worse, and I hope you come through OK.
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