Come one come all, please tell me about fellow employees who contribute nothing yet get paid highly. Let's do this. $25/hr to work behind the customer service desk? $19 an hour and gets p-ss-d bc they are asked to fill the drink box? Whatcha got?
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Yeah pretty sure no one is making $25 an hour for working the CS desk
Hmmm, if you are running a successful company that has a golden reputation for being ethical and transparent, and the class action lawsuits are starting to build up over overpricing, misleading labelling claims, food safety, inaccurate animal standards, discrimination, labor skimming, and bad financial reporting practices, and you think some ugly truths might start to come to the surface and damage the brand, it might be a good idea to tank the company for 12-18 months to drive down value, make it an attractive target for take over, and then sell off to the highest bidder.
Whether you work off the clock or through breaks has everything to do with the Store Leader and what you are threatened with. Don’t say call the Help Line or any of that. They take the info and send it directly to the store leader with names. If you work for WF stay a tm. Not much is expected of you. TL and ATL is much different depending on the store leader.
I often wonder what the hell stores do some of you people work/worked in. I’ve been doing this for almost a decade and never had to work off the clock during my break to get my work done. Can’t say I’ve ever really seen anyone in the two stores I’ve worked in do it either. I work hard and fast and get everything done on time. Whether I was a TM, TL or any of the steps in between. And I run a Produce team that comps well and does more business then it ever used to, so you can do it and not kill yourselves by working off the clock. Use every dollar your labor budget allows and train your team to work properly and efficiently.
I get it that there are a lot of issues with the company and some of the people that work for it but in the end it’s not hard if you don’t over complicate it. We sell groceries. Bust your butt for 40 hrs and then go home and forget about it all until you punch in again.
Maybe I’ve been lucky to work in stores that are run fairly well and for a department where the Regional team is pretty competent but everyone talks on here like they work for an entirely different company than I do. Sure it’s not perfect but it’s not that different than most other companies if you focus on earning your paycheck and not getting wrapped up in the rest of it.
I was there 13 years of no breaks and off the clock. Sizeable amount as well. And Mackey says he was too good to us. We definitely gave back and helped to keep his company out in front of the competition.
Yep everyone use to do it and I only saw one person ever written up. The only reason they were held accountable was a serious work injury to another team member caught on camera... while off the clock. I’d calculate WFM owes me right around 150k in overtime to be conservative.
If there ever is a class action lawsuit please post it. I will join. I worked off the clock and never took breaks. It was fine with store leadership as long as I didn’t actually tell them. Then they would have to do something about it and the more that got done the better they looked. What a sap I was. I thought what I was doing would be appreciated.....
All WF cares about is a body good bad whatever. Nobody is held accountable anyway since they can’t hold onto people anymore.
I am one of those long term Team members that make good money. I bust my a$$. I don't take breaks and many times I have worked off the clock while I see Specialty and Whole body employees walk around and talk to people all over the store or hide in the back. They get a higher percentage for labor for guest service and production in Specialty but they are never in the actual department. Produce, Grocery, Prepfoods and Front End work their butts off with a short staff. These teams are not making labor and are in trouble all the time, stressed out, over worked and we all work on more than one sub team to help out. My TL is a great guy and works very hard too. I agree that labor should have been cut because too many people were standing around and wasting time but they cut from the wrong teams. REGIONAL IF YOUR READING PLEASE GIVE A LITTLE MORE LABOR TO THE HARD WORKING TEAMS AND TAKE IT AWAY FROM WHOLE BODY, SPECIALTY, MEAT, RECEIVING AND BAKERY. Our standards are falling and we are embarrassed. I am tired of working my tail off and still being told I make a good wage and should do more while I see many others just standing around. Like I am being punished for being a good worker and they are so happy the part timers just show up for work that they just except whatever they can get out of them. This way of thinking is going to finish us off.
Every store is bound to have a few bad/funny/wild/crabby apples, but don't forget that that TM chopping pineapple all that time a.) usually knows what they're doing without constant babysitting b.) have bothered to show up for their lousy retail job that whole time and c.) can't hit even $40k/year in most cities despite all of that time dedicated to wfm.
I don't think it's productive or constructive or worthwhile sh--ting on our store level peers who aren't at least TLs, and even that is somewhat pointless. It's the regional and global teams that drove a booming company and exemplary place to work into the ground and lit the remains on fire. They are pushing OTS, they opened and continue opening lousy stores, they oversaturated the marked, and they lost sight of our differentiators. They drove the company into a situation allowing for the Amazon sale, and continue to drive our pre-Amazon customer base away from our stores with out of touch and off base intergration of prime.
Yes, there are overpaid and c-appy TMs, but would you really want to cut pineapple for a decade to get to $18?
All the off-the-clock workers should get an attorney for a class action. It has been going on way too long- the id--ts at Regional and the STL's that make you do it are getting bonuses on your back- any lawyer trolls out there want a big class action??
How about the people that make $18+ because they have been chopping pineapple at the same speed for a decade?
Let's talk about all the team members who work through their lunches and breaks to get the work done. Let's talk about all the team members who work off the clock to get the job done but save on labor. Let's talk about all the TLs and ATL's who cut their scheduled hours down to make labor, and have to use their own paid time off. These are the people that made Whole Foods great at one point. They are not the people who tanked the company with poor business decisions. It used to be a company built on trust and teamwork. Too bad the people that do the real work don't get much respect in this new model of WFM.
Wait, what your STL wears a apron!!
STL that walks around with his hands in his apron pockets!!! Makes me what to work as slow as a snail or simply walk out.