Is anyone else noticing the recent attempts to get rid of long term TM's either by forcing them to PT or frivolous write ups? I was terminated for performance and written up 3 times in the last 3 months. That is equal to the the amount of write ups I have had in may entire employment with WF! something is definitely askew. Maybe it was nepotism or a personal vendetta against me but this never happened before over the course of my employment. I deduct that it is a ploy by management throughout the company. as I feel I was not given much of a chance when the new TL took over and after the layoffs late last year. Guess they thought they could save more money by not giving me severance then and get rid of me another way. I am kind of relieved as I have kept up with the posts since the layoffs and the forecast does not look good for WF. The main knife in my back was that, after of 17 years of dedication and not even a thank you or a hand shake... so much for TM happiness!!
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Coming from the restaurant industry, I was shocked on my first day as a tm @ wholefoods. There were all these "supervisors" not really doing anything but bagging groceries or other entry level tasks. Turns out they are all making near max pay. That is not sustainable! The majority of the long term employees @ whole foods (and I have been at 3 stores) were (are) on easy street. My TL I would guess barely has a high school education and it shows. She has been there 17 years and can't work the computer, and isn't the "leader". If you s---, you can depend on your ATL and if you don't break GIG policies you will NEVER be fired. That is all about to change, y'all better be dusting off those resumes. Whole foods doesn't have a grip on the market anymore, everything is about to change.
oh, yeah...it's you. Hey, be honest, you all rode the wave. There were way too many team members doing way to few things. Now that people are being held accountable, it's everyone else's fault. What were you written up for? Petty things like not wearing a cutting clove? not cleaning the drains? over ordering? ordering the wrong product? not properly recording shrink? fail an audit? not rotating product? tell us...what? All these things are part of your basic job responsibilities. Unfortunately at whole foods, there was no accountability, never, nada...now it's coming home to roost and for all you clowns who have had it soooo easy for the last 5-10-15-20 years as you s---ed on the teat of whole foods success. And you're all taking it really hard because you had it so easy. How dare they! They need to get rid of the overzealous and over abundant assoc coordinators next, but they need to start somewhere.
I also had this experience. I was never written up for performance in several years and then I received 3 write-us in 4 months that were completely unfair. Basically our new Grocery ATL didn't want to take responsiility for his communication failures and even despite my best efforts to improve communication they kept coming. I've made no changes but somehow avoided a third write-up in 6 month, although I feared for my job the whole time (like a lot of my coworkers do right now). The write-ups were of course used as the reason not to give me a raise this year. Many of our teams are being combined and thus the TLs are having to compete for the remaining TL positions. The people getting the TL positions seem to be the newer people (probably lower paid) not the people who've been with the company the longest. It's all about cutting corners and saving money now.
-1pdr, not to be rude but what are you smoking? Actions here speak WAY louder than words. Mis-management can say all day long how they're just conducting 'business as usual', but their actions belie those words, straight up. My store in OH and several stores around mine are seeing this happen. TONS of long-time and full-time TMs are being fired for goofy-assreasons. Reasons that would have been laughed at a few years ago. And they're replaced by? Yep, maybe one part-timer, it's wretched.
Say all you want, what I'm observing are your ACTIONS.
They aren't trying to get rid of long time tm. Why don't you list what your write ups were for? 3 write ups in a few months is a lot.
If your not family, friend, or brown - nosing you will not be there much longer
@former PBS- my lawyer friend told me it isn't legal for a company to fire people so they don't have to lay off/pay severance. But it is so glaringly obvious that leadership is being instructed to "flex the gig" and invent write ups. As a former PBS-, do you have any further insight or advice about this?
The post from :Anonymous | Post ID: @IjScyp5-rly _: sounds like was written by a STL/ASTL or a member of TMS. Please share more behind the scenes information about this situation. What is their plan to continue lay-offs with no severance? I don't see how "the consultants" can make this a legal move.
This happened to a really wonderful co-worker with over 15 years of loyal service. A very hardworking dedicated TM who was dismissed in the recent past. Folks they want to keep the union out. As long as they have more part-timers the chances of unionization is minimized. Without the union they can do as they please. There is very little that you can do with no-voice. Maybe we should peruse the angle of approaching this company from an investor standpoint, after all long serving TMs receive stock options. Or maybe report the issue/s to the local labor dept. Better still look for something better or even re-invent yourself and get out of this hell-hole.
It's happening in every store in every region! They are all trying to get rid of the long time team members! They are rapidly ruining this company! I'm still here because I love what we USED to be, and am hopeful for a positive change am slowly realizing there won't be... 11+ years of service and I'm just a machine to them as is everyone else, the amount of terminations and write ups I've seen in the past few months alone outnumber the amount I've seen over the past 11 years it's really sad... They will learn they will realize the long time team members built this company and now they are trying to hand it over to tons of part time "I need a check" employees!!! Good luck to you all
you should go for unemployment. having years and years of a good track record and then a few months of write ups at the end makes the company look bad and is in your favor to get unemployment. i know this from experience with a fellow TM who was in a similar situation and they were able to get unemployment.
Take heart in the fact that they too, will soon be out of work with no real skills since they were talentless to begin with.
The same is happening to me also. A write up, harrasment, bullying, Wholefoods used to be a great place to work, happy and positive enviornment. The company is sinking quickly and they are grasping for straws to keep it afloat.
their core value'Team Member Happiness' is a f---in joke!!!! they don't give two sh--s about us!!!
they have sh-- for store mgrs. My store mgr. is a fake, fony and a fraud. oh and i can't forget C***
SHe's sucking someone's cock because she's getting away with so much sh-- it's ridicoulous.