[montag813]

Instead, they learned that their store would be closing when they found the store's doors locked and a notice announcing the closure

That is really traumatic for many people. Not a decent thing to do.

[Red Badger]

Bezos is smiling..........................

[Responsibility2nd]

Say What Now?

This just after WalMart announced they are increasing minimum wages (including Sams) to $11.00?

[HLPhat]

But But. They just gave everybody a raise. Uhh. Didn’t they?

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3621481/posts

[Dr. Zzyzx]

Maybe thats’s what enabled the pay raises touted in earlier headlines today.

[Darksheare]

Funny thing is, there are laws that say you have to tell employees within a certain timeframe that their job is going away.
Don’t know off the top of my head if it is national or just here where I am, but there might be some issue there..

[DoodleDawg]

...and we’re committed to working with impacted members and associates through this transition."

If your "associates" find out they've lost their jobs only when they show up for work and the store is closed then it doesn't sound like you're all that eager to work with them.

[trebb]

In some cases, employees were not informed of the closures prior to showing up to work on Thursday.

Wonder what "in some cases" actually stand for as far as how they did it.

Shame if they opted to not notify but "some" may have been unreachable for various reasons.

Years ago, the wife was a waitress and showed up for work one Monday morning to find the place closed and stripped....

[bigbob]

I’m betting you’ll see all that stuff available thru Walmart.com with free shipping to the nearest store. Sam’s Club is redundant nowadays and membership stores have always been stupid anyway.

[TBP]

Handled terribly, and very bad news for the employees adn for teh economy.

[CodeToad]

Wasn’t the Sam CEO the one who claimed she hated white males??

[kaehurowing]

Too many illegal employees.

They raided 7/11s across the country yesterday.

[Kalamata]

Not surprising. Several years ago, Sam’s CEO, an African-American female, gave an interview where she PROUDLY proclaimed that she DELIBERATELY discriminates against better qualified white people and instead hires what she herself admitted were less qualified candidates. After reading that, we decided to drop our Sam’s membership, and haven’t missed it at all.

[commish]

This was a piss poor way for employees and the public to find out, but Sam's is following the WARN act.

The stores are CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC effective today. Pharmacies will be open for two weeks to allow customers to transfer to another pharmacy.

Employees will be employed until March to assist in processing the store inventory. Management will be employed until mid-April to process all closure and separation paperwork.

SO - NOBODY WAS FIRED TODAY. ALL WILL HAVE JOBS FOR THE WARN PERIOD.

[tennmountainman]

Terrible that Sam’s Club did not give notice to employee’s.

[mewzilla]

4 from Upstate NY. Wonder how much the minimum wage had to do with this. That and Upstate depopulating.

[RightGeek]

Don’t forget the SJW Sam’s CEO Rosalind Brewer. She got her butt kicked in 2017 and now the chickens have come home to roost. http://fortune.com/2017/01/06/sams-club-ceo-costco/

[iontheball]

Capitalism at its finest, which means you have to be fleet of foot if you want to run with the pack. It's hard nosed reality, survival of the fittest. Walmart has Amazon breathing down its neck with automated merchandising/marketing being the new wave. While it is tough on the workers, they can thank the President for creating an economy where hopefully replacement jobs can be had much easier today.

[Rebelbase]

Best I can tell Sam’s Club is pulling out of Alaska completely.

[SaveFerris]

[ In some cases, employees were not informed of the closures prior to showing up to work on Thursday. ]

Supplies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB2GboGOuTI