Stores in my area are badly understaffed.
It isn’t the local managers here. Even shift rosters are directly dictated by Bentonville.
Before you bad mouth the manager at any particular location it behooves you to see if they still have any real authority, since we are talking Walmart.
To the matter at hand:
Stores in my area are badly understaffed.
Our graveyard shift was always 20-30% understaffed but they told us they couldn't find enough people who passed the drug test. One story was that 32 applied, 8 passed, 3 showed up for work and they all quit before the week was out.
It isn’t the local managers here. Even shift rosters are directly dictated by Bentonville.
Temperature control in the stores as well. Both employees and some customers complained about the heat (AZ summer) and were told that fact. We were all incredulous. Shift rosters were under the supervisor's control, with the rule-of-the-week being to cut hours. If there was a paid holiday during that week, they paid for the holiday but only gave you four days so you never got paid for over five.
Before you bad mouth the manager at any particular location it behooves you to see if they still have any real authority, since we are talking Walmart.
I will continue to bad mouth them (some anyway). I felt like our store was a Gulag where they sent the managers who screwed up elsewhere. In the three years I was there, we had four of 'em, each determined to redeem himself. If they did so, it was at the employees expense - financially (no raises or bonuses, even when they were allowed) as well as cutting hours. Morale was shot to Hell and, after recently talking with some of the 10 years later, it still hasn't improved as people are scared for their jobs and won't say anything - except in private.