Thread regarding Whole Foods Market Inc. layoffs

I just wish someone would be straightforward and honest with us. With everything happening in our country right now, playing "Monopoly" with people's lives isn't very funny. Some of us have invested on average 10+ yrs and if you're not part of a two income household, the average pay is just enough to keep your head out of water unless Jaws comes along and gives your leg a good jerk. OH WAIT, that's happening now (mortgage tax break cut, health care repealed - btw, don't think for one minute WE'RE not gonna feel the sting of that). Yes, I am very thankful I have a job that affords me a roof over my head, transportation, food in my belly etc. At least 50% of WFM employees are above the age of 25yrs old. Please discontinue speaking to us like we're fragile little children who can't handle the truth. Are we not your investors as well? Do we not keep the wheel of WFM moving? Complete "glass door" transparency is a daunting idealistic concept, this I understand but due to the fact that my (and thousands of other's) livelihood is staked in this company, do we not deserve the respect of complete honesty? Is their a fear of a revolt? A walkout? I assure you those things will not happen, at least not to the scope where anyone's "bottom line" will be remotely affected. All I believe anyone wants is understanding. To know that they are not seen as simply a cog in a wheel. That numbers on a ticker are not more important than the individual's ability to maintain a way of life we all have a right to be afforded. That at the end of the day the corporation isn't sitting in their office saying "...let them eat cake."

Do we still recycle. All the new TMs need to be trained. How we handle waste will be the next thing we get hit for. Smoke and mirrors.

I feel ya, 4 hour shifts blow

Right now I get 4 hour shifts and less than 20 hours per week. If I get 8 hour shifts or FT, I promise not to complain about not getting the other.

If they want to retain employees,try giving them ft??? Also scrap that kronos/open availibility crap that is torturesome and leaves tm tired or working 4 hour shifts....team member happiness,remember????remember?? Its on the wall above you

So if ur a corporate troll then get some ky jelly for macky to do u good, if ur a TM that doesnt buy into mirrors and smoke tricks then get a resume, simple!

so 2 out of 3 stores are performing poorly, that's a .333 average for success...that's great if you're a baseball player, not so much as a retailer. And Silver Lake was supposed to get a Whole Foods...it was downgraded to a 365 store, so the area already enjoyed pent up demand for a whole foods market....so which is the anomaly? the 365 stores performing poorly? or the 365 store doing well? I'd hardly call that store a massive success, Jeff that community had been waiting for a whole foods for 3 years.

We was told in our store this year new employees will start off at $11 a hr, they didnt say anything bout the rest of us getting a pay raise

Hey, Anonymous. This company is a horrible shell of what it used to be so don't pretend that correcting the OP fixes anything.

Some of us understand the reasoning behind the slight pay increase.

We don't understand why we can't get our work done because we're constantly being called up to bag groceries. Why people who are not FE TMs are being forced to run registers (again, while not being able to keep our cases full and grocery shelves stocked), why we're being lied to about gainshare (no, RPs, one team/one store gainsharing does not increase the take for the average TM...thanks for screwing our holiday bonuses you ahats). Funny how my teams $5000+ labor surplus for the Christmas/NYE fiscal period is going to net us $12 in gainsharing because the STORE was in deficit. My team has never missed labor for a single fiscal period in the 10 years I've been a TL. F*. This. Noise.

I hate what WFM has become and that I have given so much of my heart and soul to a company who's founders have allowed investors and new management to treat us so horrendously.

I already make $12! Hate when this happens!

By most 365s you mean 2 out of the 3. But you conveniently fair to mention the massive success and daily sales of Silver Lake. $12/min is to retain TMs to save money on constantly retraining and hiring. Anything else I can casually explain to you?