One thing I hate about Sam’s club
The 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.
How come anybody didn’t punch your CM in the face yet?
That’s a good question 😂
Some people just need it bro. And he is one of em.
Why didn’t he just fire you then? Why does he have to talk with anyone when he could have just fired you and gotten it over with?
That’s what he does. He doesn’t like to fire people. In my 7 months at Walmart, I never saw him firing someone personally. If there is someone who needs to be gone, he always uses other people to handle the job. And even with that, not a lot of people have been fired from my club.
He is a sick individual.
He definitely is. He loves the drama, it’s like he feeds himself from it.
I think it’s pretty obvious that he lives a miserable life and he needs to drag everyone to his misery.
Exactly
Well, it’s kinda his fault too if his associates are this bad. Because they were hired either by him or someone who’s been hired by him.
He can never be wrong :)
U kept going with a messed up finger? Hats off man. I wish the managers could learn something from people who work as hard as you do, doing this in a job where they don’t get any form of love or appreciation
Thank you.
If I was you I wouldn’t bother coming to work at all.
he^l, if I was you I would quit the minute I realized the person that your club manager was.
Thankfully I have great associates and a meat lead who make it easier for me to come to this place.
Why face your problems when you can just run away from them right?
He is not man enough to do that.
I don’t understand you and all the people in these comments man. I’m not defending him in any way, what he does is unacceptable but did you even try to clear things up with him? For example, did you approach him and tell him that your finger was hurt and that was the reason for your poor performance? If you did, I would love to read about his reaction. If you didn’t, with all due respect I think you are part of the problem as well.
I didn’t even know until the moment my meat lead talked to me about it. Then I started to talk to other associates from different departments about it and they said they knew the story, but also they knew him so they didn’t care that much. I mean after all this drama does it even make sense to talk to him and tell him that I was actually hurt? I don’t think so. In the end, it’s just who he is and it’s not the first time that he talked bad about someone from their back, and it’s certainly not the last time. I know that everybody knows that, so we just move on.
Nevertheless, I think you still need to talk to him.
Let me also add to that, has anyone ever talked to him about this habit of his? And told him that they didn’t like this behavior?
I don’t know.
Then the problem isn’t only the manager.
I never said it was only him. If you read the beginning of this post, I clearly stated that the problem was the communication between associates and managers.
Why r u yappin about all this then? 😂
You don’t need to read all about my ‘yapping’. If you don’t like what I shared, just scroll down and move on with your day.
Yeah buddy it’s time to call it a day because what the fu^k?
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I think these types of people should never leave high school. Because you can see that high school didn’t leave them.
Exactly!!
I heard associates do the gossiping but this is the first time I’m witnessing something like this. It’s kinda remarkable when you think about it. He changed the pattern. Why let the associates do the gossiping when there are managers who do nothing all day and already don’t give a fu^k about their associates. So it’s a matter of time that they talk sh^t about you behind your back.
You didn’t hear any managers gossiping because you’re not in their league. I bet they would say terrible things about some of us in their little group chat.
Yeah that doesn’t make any sense. Why would anyone spend their working hours talking sh^t about their associate like a high school girl? You think they care about you THAT much and you are actually the agenda of today? GFOH.
Cook.
Freshly hired ones talkin i see
Just give it time yall will come to his point
Ummm, no actually I don’t think I will.
Just because one manager is like this it doesn’t mean that the rest of them are like this too, id^^t.
People need to stop acting like they work in the worst place in the worst conditions.
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That’s a wild story