The reason we all left a few years ago is because we could see the writing on the walll. We could see that this is where it was going. OTS was the final straw for most of us. It’s too bad but those of you left behind but you are in a situation that will never improve. The harder you work to make the new systems function the worse you are making it for the future. The old Whole Foods is gone for good. Part of it is Mackey’s fault sure, but not for the reasons you probably think. He actually believed all that conscious capitalism stuff he was spewing. Where he went wrong was arrogance, he never should’ve started down the path to buy out Wild Oats. I’ve heard him say he regrets taking the company public too. Anyway at this point every out of stock scan you do, or Kronos generated schedule you use, or report card or clip board or landlord walk you fill out is just dumping dirt on the grave. Those aren’t tools to help you, they are tools to inform the software that’s going to replace you. Don’t waste your time thinking about the Union either. It won’t help even a tiny bit. People used to build cars with tools for good pay - till they with the Union’s help priced themselves out of jobs. It became way cheaper to get robots to do things. Look around it’s coming your way. Cashierless checkout is first. Automatic ordering is right around the corner. Either learn to accept it or get out and find something new. But if you really want to stir up some s**t and slow down the change, don’t do the scans. Don’t fill out the clipboards, or better yet do them wrong. Inflate everything one time then deflate the next time. Keep it going like that but without any pattern. It will take weeks for the regional people to figure out something is wrong and much longer to figure out why.
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If you live in dmv area dont go to glover park. Even with $25 gc, they using all that data to replace you all eventually. No cashiers, less floor people, less team leaders. The longer they take to figure out the glitches the best for all of you. Its not going to stop it but it will slow down the change for all new stores. So dont go, let them suffer.
for the previous replier asking what happens if long term TMs dont quit: they will push them out. its not really up to them. they can enforce points and overschedule until people get burned out and leave or cut benefits or just make it not worth it somehow. theyre already doing it!
Whole Foods ruined my life. Give them enough time and they will yours.
What I wonder about is how they will replace people.
Will there be mass severance packages handed out?
It’s a obvious that they would love nothing more than for the old time/higher paid TMs to give up and quit.
But what if they don’t quit?
Anyone who was around when the last layoff fiasco went down knows that they were less than thrilled that so many took them up on the offer.
I’d love to know what they have up their sleeves.
great post...i said this from the beginning of OTs that is was only a way to make data of what a TL /order writer performed as job duties..the back of the house organization and maps a way for robots to be the receivers...etc....i never understood why TL bought into ots so much....too much kool aid....and i agree with the parts of wild oats and selling us out to venture capital...since the early 00s we have really been catering to the wall street whims....our benefits always getting cut for those fat cats....ever wonder why that PWa credit card we received back in like 2002-03 with the maximum of 1800$(now 1300,thanks bezos.) never went up in the annual allotment while health costs and deductibles grew exponentially???