We have inventory tomorrow. They said "no overtime, get it done."
Every store in our area has shrunk more than 1%. They will not let the dept. managers have enough time to get done all that is needed. One of the dept managers had to take a leave of absence last week due to a nerveous breakdown. One of the stores in our area shrank more than a million dollars. Wonder if upper management has realized that part of that is no lose prevention and part is due to no coverage during all hours.
I am a lowly associate, once a dept manager that stepped down. My poor dept manager has already worked 40 hours this week. She is the only one that has ever been through a inventory in our whole area, soft lines. One dept. manager, who took my place has known that her child need tubes in her ears for 2 years. She decided that inventory time was the only time to do it. One dept manager has been on the job for 2 weeks, one has been filling in for 2 months.
What is Wal-Mart coming to? Dept manager take off at inventory time? When I started as dept manager we would have been forced to step down if we could not work inventory time. It is now who you are and how much pull you have, and who you can call to fill a unjustified lawsuit.