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Here it goes: Summary: New 1-Minute Increment for PPTO (Paid Sick Leave Locations Only)
Effective Date: April 30
Who is affected: Hourly associates in locations with a paid sick leave law
What’s changing: - Associates can now request PPTO (Protected Paid Time Off) in 1-minute increments instead of 15-minute blocks - This change applies when submitting requests via Global Time & Attendance (GTA) desktop and Me@Sams
Why it matters: - Provides greater flexibility and accuracy for covering time off - Ensures associates can use exactly the amount of PPTO needed
GTA system update: - GTA will auto-authorize attendance occurrences if all missed time is fully covered with PPTO
Note: Regular PTO (not PPTO) requests will still be submitted in 15-minute increments
What Associates Need to Do - Calculate the exact PPTO needed, considering grace periods - Submit the request for the exact number of minutes
What Managers Need to Do - Communicate this change to hourly associates - Help associates understand how much PPTO is needed to protect absences - Refer to the [Management Guidelines for Hourly Paid Time Off Programs] for handling attendance occurrences
Why do these members always blame you for the prices? What am I supposed to do? Fix the economy? Tf did I do like why do you even get mad at me?
What if there was an electricity problem? We haven’t experienced one so far but what if we did? What's the plan? I’m sure as hell not going to work in this place if the AC aint working.
I worked for Walmart 2 years and after my 2 years at Walmart, I started to work for Sam’s Club. I always thought the customers at Walmart were rude people who didn’t appreciate anything you do for them but that changed when I started at Sam’s Club.I gotta tell you, some of these members are a threat to society. There is no way a person that this rude and cocky is a good and useful person in their community.
... read moreThe best sams club jobs are the management ones. It's like they specifically designed a pay structure so that only the managers are getting paid enough. The job that you do and the pay does not match and I hate the sams club for this.
... read moreDo you ever have one of those members saying "I'm never coming back to this place" to your face because apparently you treated them poorly? Yeah bi^^h, you better don't come back. Byeeeee
There was this member yesterday who was on his phone for the entire time that I was scanning his items at the register. He kept looking at his phone all the time and when I told him the price he decided to stop and look dead in my eye to say I was wrong and I should scan the items once again. What's wrong with these people? They should put in the sams careers section that the job includes dealing with customers who are extremely irresponsible and delusional.
... read moreSo here’s the thing about working at Sam’s Club: some days are good and some days are absolute he^l. But today? Today was something else. I’ve been working at Sam’s Club for a while now, and I’m honestly fed up with how things go down sometimes. I’ve been busting my a^s, making sure the shelves are stocked, customers are happy, and I do everything they ask me to do. I even thought about Sam’s careers as a future, like maybe moving up in the company, but after today, I’m not so sure anymore. So my manager comes up to me and tells me I need to take care of a few things. Cool, no big deal. I’m used to taking on a lot, that’s part of being a good associate. But then she drops this bo^b: she wants me to cover another department that’s supposed to be handled by someone else. The problem? That someone else wasn’t even there today, and apparently no one bothered to let me know. Now I’m stuck running back and forth, trying to get all these tasks done while keeping up with my regular job. Meanwhile, my manager just watches me struggle like it’s some kind of joke. It wouldn’t have been so bad if she actually helped out. Instead, she’s just walking around, checking off boxes on her clipboard, acting like she’s doing something important. Look, I get it, managers have their own thing to handle, but come on. At least pitch in when the team is clearly drowning. If I wanted to do the work of two people, I’d apply for one of those high-level Sam’s careers, not get stuck with everything in the store on my shoulders. So I’m running around, trying to make sure I don’t miss anything, and my manager comes up to me again. This time, she’s all about how I need to do things faster. Faster? I’ve been working like a damn robot, and now she wants me to pick up the pace? There’s only so much a person can do, and I swear, she thinks I’m supposed to be some kind of superhero. Honestly, it felt like she was just waiting for me to mess up so she could call me out in front of the whole team. It’s like she was setting me up to fail. By the end of the day, I was exhausted. But here’s the kicker—after all that, she still gave me some lame feedback about how I could’ve done things better. Really? Maybe I would’ve done things better if I wasn’t trying to juggle a hundred different things at once while no one else seemed to give a sh^t. Now I’m sitting here, thinking about whether Sam’s careers are even worth it. Like, do I really want to keep busting my a^s for a company that doesn’t care about its employees? I’m starting to think I can do better somewhere else. It’s hard to stay motivated when you’re constantly getting thrown under the bus. I know I’m not the only one who feels this way, and I’m sure a lot of people working here are going through the same cr^p. I just want some recognition, you know? A little bit of appreciation goes a long way. At the end of the day, I don’t know what the he^l I’m doing with Sam’s Club anymore. Maybe I’ll stick it out for a while longer and see if things change. Or maybe I’ll start looking into Sam’s careers somewhere else. Either way, I’m done working myself to the bone for a manager who can’t even be bothered to help out when it counts.
... read morei think sams club jobs are much better than the jobs at walmart
Will they be removing Ship from the club?
For the clubs that still have it, how many items are selected, and how many people handle picking and packing?
Is this causing issues from inside (assuming the volume is high and you are short on people)?
... read moreI work at Sam's and in my 2 years as a Sam's Club associate I have never come across a TL that is qualified for the fu^^ing job. I think they do this just to fu^k with the associates. Because I don't have any idea why would a company that's worth billions of dollars hire stupid people like these. I mean it's either become a billion dollar company accidentally or just like I said, they just do this because they want to fu^k with the associates and make their lives even worse by making them deal with these fu^^ing idiots.
... read moreHello everyone. I've been a Walmart associate for the last 2 years and I'm loving it! The only problem I have is the location of my store and I can't find an affordable place to stay in the area. Every day, I have to drive for like 2 hours in total, just to come and go back home. My wife, on the other hand, is a Sams Club associate and she's also loving it too. I'm planning to apply for a job there because it's much more closer to our home. It's like a 10 minute drive and she has a much better life than I do 😀 I don't know how I'm supposed to go from Walmart to Sams Club though. I mean if I want a description of a job I can always go to Sams careers, I know that. But I don't want just that, I also want to read about people's experiences there. So if there is any people on here who work for Sam's Club, can you please tell me which positions at the Sams would make you say 'This is one of the best Sams Club jobs!' PSA: My wife told me I should go for CPU.
... read moreHey ppl. I'm a former Walmart associate who became a Sam's Club associate 3 months ago and I'm here to help you guys gain a perspective of what it's like to be a Sam's Club associate by publishing this post. I've seen some of the Walmart associates are interested in Sam's Club jobs so I decided, why not help the associates who are curious to know what's going on at this place? So let's start with this, working at Sam's Club is not much different or better than working at Walmart. Let me repeat that again for the people in the back: Sam's Club jobs are extremely similar to Walmart jobs. This might sound pretty obvious to so many of you people but I've seen a lot of people who worked for both, and they exaggerate Sam's Club so much, that it got to a point where it started to bother me. They are just selling untrue dreams to people and giving them hope for no reason. It's not like we are chilling in this place for the half of the shift and we are helping extremely kind, caring, and understanding members for the other half. No. People are rude and stupid here too and you will face very very similar challenges that you face at Walmart. I can't lie, I thought dealing with people, and when I say people I mean the customers aka members, would be a lot easier. I thought that because people actually pay to get in here. So the membership should decrease the number of people that you deal with, and since you deal with fewer and fewer people, you would get better and calmer conversations with customers aka members. But unfortunately, that was not the case for me. The arrogance of these people is hilarious. I'm gonna be honest, I thought the customers at Walmart were arrogant just because they bought the most buyable items, but I realized they were nothing compared to Sam's Club members. I swear these people make you feel like you are working at a 5 star hotel. Cause they expect the same service level of a 5 star hotel. Just because you pay 50-100$ per year, you don't get to be a billionaire you id^^t. Anyway, let's stay on track. I also thought I would be in a more well organized working environment in terms of not mixing the duties of one associate with another. For example, I never wanted to do anything that wasn't in my job description but that wasn't the case. And I realized I was naive to think that it was gonna be different. So if there is any of you who are thinking that the problem is actually your Store Manager or your Team Lead, they are not. It's the same at other stores and other companies as well. I witnessed it personally.
... read moreThe communication between managers and associates at Sam’s Club is so bad that it’s actually the number one factor that hurts the company the most (in my humble opinion). I can give you so many examples, but I will give just one. I’m a meat cutter at Sam’s Club, and I love my job. I think it’s one of the best Sam’s Club jobs if it’s not the best. It doesn’t feel like a burden to me that I have to go to Sam’s Club six days a week. The associates that I’m working with are the best and I fortunately haven’t had any problems with members so far. So, it sounds all good right? But no. At the beginning of the last week, I cut my finger a little bit and I couldn’t hold the kn^^e properly as a result of it. So as you can imagine it affected my performance and the meats that I cut looked slightly different than usual, because you know, it’s not easy when you can’t hold the kn^^e properly with your preferred hand. Anyway, the club manager at my club loves to just inspect different areas around the club, and boy does he love to talk. He can talk to you for minutes, and those minutes can become hours easily. He doesn’t even have to know you, you just need to exist and act like you listen. That would be more than enough for him. As you can imagine, when someone loves talking this much, gossip comes with it automatically. He is the type of person who would talk about a problem with everyone but the source of the problem. I’m telling all of this because this time, I was his victim. He saw the meat that I cut and didn’t say anything to me, but he walked around the entire club talking bad about me. Complaining about the shapes of the meat, saying that we need high quality people who know how to do their job etc. He was also kind enough to complain to my meat lead about me. Thank God that my meat lead is actually a decent human being who already knows all the stuff that I just told you about, but still, he had to come up and check me out. At first, he didn’t see my finger and he said I should be more careful with cutting because recently I didn’t cut properly, and he continued with me not being in any trouble, he just wanted to give me a heads up about it. Then I showed him the status of my finger and he spilled the tea. He said he mostly doesn’t care about what the club manager says but this time he also noticed a difference, that’s why he needed to come talk to me. But I kinda disagree. Because no matter how much you don’t care about what someone says about your associate or your friend, you are eventually influenced by the negative words. Anyway, he apologized, and he said I should have just used PTO. So the moral of the story is, just talk to the person that you think causes the problem, and your problem will stay much smaller.
... read moreI didn’t know it would make this much difference but it did. I was a former walmart employee and I quit because of the treatment that I was getting there. On the other hand, my wife is a cashier at the Sam’s club in our city, and she’s been telling me to apply for one of the sams club jobs obsessively. I always told her no because what difference would it make right? It’s just another company of the waltons. It can’t be good. Anyway I eventually got depressed as a jobless man after a few days (as you normally do) and I wanted to give it a try. I started 2 weeks ago as a stocker and I couldn’t be happier. The associates that I’m working with are the best people that I could work with. My wife passed the message to me, and I’m passing it to you, if you are someone struggling at your job at walmart because you don’t feel valued, then you have to apply for one of the sams club jobs.
... read moreI’m at a point in my career where I feel suspicious about people being kind. Today, I helped one member with SCO, and she acted like I saved her from a burning building. I felt weird about it, and then after I felt strange about feeling weird about it. It’s a rude world we live in y’all.
... read moreMy friend started at Sam’s Club because she needed to lose weight. She gave af about anything people put online about these places. She just went for it and got it. I don’t know why but ts inspired me a lot lol. I realized that I take life too seriously.
... read moreWhy are sams club jobs so mixed with each other? Whoever has time to help other associates has to help them even if their departments don’t have anything to do with each other.
I work as a Sam’s Club cashier and I enjoy my time there. If you want to learn more you need to check out sams careers. That would be a formal explanation of what will you do and you can also check out platforms like this one to get more insight into what’s going on here. I worked at Walmart before and I would say that dealing with members here is far more easier than dealing with customers at Walmart.
... read moreThe general pay increase is scheduled for November this year, and the next one won't happen until 2026. This means our usual raise is simply being moved up by three months.
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At least 5 members today pulled up to my club, complained to ME (A Sam’s Club associate) about the prices and left. I’m sorry but I don’t set the prices or I’m not responsible for the inflation. Go cry somewhere else.
... read moreThe cooler broke down at my club, and I happened to be right next to it doing zoning the whole time it was out of service. Every time a member walked by and realized they couldn’t grab their favorite drink ice-cold, they got mad at me like I was the one responsible for it. I don’t know what’s wrong with some people.
... read moreI've been working at Walmart for two years and I've hated every minute of it. I recently applied for a position at Sam's Club and I have my interview next week. I'd just like to know, since it's basically the same company, are associates treated any better at Sam's? I don't want to change jobs and find myself in the same situation I'm in here. I'd rather wait for an opportunity somewhere else and stick with the devil I know until it pops up.
... read more....that mostly rides the cos' whenever an associate is doing something they dislike, micromanages, hardly ever smiles, is the main reason why good workers will leave (and why security personnel won't do any extra tasks because of lack of appreciation from them), is overly critical of any self expressive ways of working thru any shift etc??? Naturally that person has been there since that club opened but has not ever been handed the keys to their own club. Are there others like this out there?? I swear I need to bring holy water sometimes!
... read moreWho knows how to complete this? I took the assessment, but it’s still showing as incomplete. Can anyone help? I'm really tired of these annoying CBLs...
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