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I just embarrassed myself in front of Corporate and now I fear for my job.

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I was a DM at Walmart, and Corporate was coming in today. Some very high up executive, some senior vice presidents, the regional vice president, the market manager, and the store manager all in today.

I work in Toys and we were slammed for holidays and despite the fact we had almost nobody in our department, I still managed to turn things around and get it properly organized. I wanted to boast to corporate how I turned this shithole department around and made it pretty. First thing they do is ignore me. They don't even look at me. Instead the executive is talking to everyone else and pointing out things that are wrong. i follow them as they tour and it's just a feeling of dread sink into me that I've fucked up.

The tour is finished and they want to talk to me. The guy named "Bob" looks at me and says "So you're the DM here? Tell me son why this place is such a mess? It's the worst Toy department I've seen in the region" he began ranting about all the things that I fucked up, things that had to be changed, etc. The entire time he was talking down to me, barely even acknowledging I exist. I'm just in awe, a week ago the Market Manager told me it was impressive how I turned the place around and now it's terrible? I'm being thrown under a bus for this shit...

I have no idea how mad they will be. I left at 4 but, I got a text from my manager basically telling me to clock in and go to the office for a performance meeting. I'm assuming this means i'm getting canned.
 
I'll tell you a variation on a thing I was told when I was fired from my job as Warehouse Manager/Delivery Driver at Circuit City over a decade ago:

Nothing bad ever came from being fired from Wal-Mart, man. Nobody ever looks back at their life and says "Man, if only I'd stayed at Wal-Mart just one more year."
 
It's a Walmart toy department after the holidays.

Of course it's trashed. It's not about you, it's just how it works. Kids are incredibly powerful when it comes to making a mess in there.

I hope you're just overreacting because I don't think you deserve any shit for that.
 
Your Walmart is ran shitty. Most are.

I was DM of the Deli at mine, and corporate always acted the way you describe.

I never got fired for it.

Shit rolls down hill and anyone under anyone gets thrown under the bus.

It's the wonderful country we live in!
 
Go around to other Walmarts in your area to see if they were really being facetious. I doubt it's as bad as you're describing.

I've worked at one before, and I doubt there isn't a single Walmart that isn't lacking in at least one department.
 
It's their job to criticize everything to hell and back. I work for Sam's and hate out touring team because it doesn't matter how high our profits are, how low we cut our wages, how much we got done and how good it looked, it's still their job to make us feel like shit about it more often than not. Sometimes it is good but when they kept coming to visit during the holidays it was infuriating. Busiest time of the year, guys, kindly piss off back to Bentonville.
 
Never worked at Walmart but Im guessing where I worked at with Target is similar enough. Never seen anyone fired in that instance when it wasnt a prior documented issue. Maybe you get a writeup or something?
 
Corporate fires and doesnt hire enough employees to get the job done properly but expects it to be done properly anyways, bitch at employees for not doing it property, and then blame employees for their stupid laziness when profits go down and not their own stupidity.
 
That sucks, probably shouldn't have tooted your horn, especially with out knowing how they felt about your department, and with people way more senior than you. It's Wal-Mart, though. The manager position pads your resume and opens some more doors. You can easily walk into another retail place and have a legit shot at a supervisor or manager position. I know a couple people who took their retail management experience into decent entry level office type jobs, depends your personality, though.
 
Walmart is shit. They tell you what you do is shit so that you fear for your job.

When I worked in the Dunks inside a Walmart, they would have corporate come every few months to take a tour of the place. The results were always the same. Everything was wrong and everything was shit.

If they really cared about making things right then they would hire more manpower, but Walmart is not about that. They are about getting by with the bare minimum, and if acting like a shithead gets it done then so be it.
 
Did he actually call you "son"?

I'm sitting here laughing imagining the "SON I am Disappoint" guy telling you the toy section was the worst in the region...

Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. Seems to be the way Walmart does things. Making up issues to show everyone how important they are, when in reality, everything would run fine without them...But for their own job security they MUST find fault with others...
 
Nassor, thought all this time you meant District Manager by DM!

As a former employee at Wally, I know how crappy it can get, but that sounds ridiculously heavy with those big wigs. Just try and focus on the benefits that you can bring to the performance review. If it really wasn't as bad as you say, maybe the dude was just throwing on airs and they can say you were "corrected". I always thought it was pretty hard to get fired there unless you did something completely inexcusable like steal (at least that was the sense at my store).

Retail is bad enough without this shit, so I feel ya.
 
Piecake said:
Corporate fires and doesnt hire enough employees to get the job done properly but expects it to be done properly anyways, bitch at employees for not doing it property, and then blame employees for their stupid laziness when profits go down and not their own stupidity.
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The "do more with less" philosophy. Something only corporate shitfucks believe in.
 
OP are you a communist? Do you disagree with the American ideal of shitting on lesser employees that have been blessed with a job by the 1%?

But seriously its a shitty job look for something else.
 
Used to be in charge of the freezer at Wal-Mart, and yeah, no matter how good of a job you did under absurd circumstances you were just shit on when corporate or whoever came through. But no matter how many complaints they had I never got fired

And if it does happen, honestly, you're better off. I quit and I'm making double the money at a desk job and being treated like a human being. Better things are out there for you
 
there's no way i'd take a department manager position in retail. they put so much on you for not nearly enough pay. good luck man, hope they don't kick you to the curb, but if they do, fuck 'em. plenty of retail jobs to go around. never except a dm position again.
 
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Was this the corporate manager coming through? Disappoint with your toy section..Worst in the region...toys out of their boxes, feces on the floor...someone urinating on a Monopoly box.
 
Piecake said:
Corporate fires and doesnt hire enough employees to get the job done properly but expects it to be done properly anyways, bitch at employees for not doing it property, and then blame employees for their stupid laziness when profits go down and not their own stupidity.
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Pretty much summed it up which is why:

metamonk said:
there's no way i'd take a department manager position in retail. they put so much on you for not nearly enough pay. good luck man.
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Corran Horn said:
Never worked at Walmart but Im guessing where I worked at with Target is similar enough. Never seen anyone fired in that instance when it wasnt a prior documented issue. Maybe you get a writeup or something?
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Dude, this is Corporate. The guy who yelled at me is some very high up executive. He had a suit on and a person assistant.

Karl2177 said:
With the amount of threads you make complaining about Wal-Mart, why the hell do you still work there?
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It's close to my home, and the only place giving me full time+benefits, and with people my age or way older. The grocery store near me has a bunch of HS kids...and aren't hiring for any supervisor spots.
 
My condolences. Wal-mart is truly shit and I work for it too.

Fuck the company, man. Fuck the higher ups, all they care is about making their higher ups happy.

xxracerxx said:
Eehhhhh this isn't like he is the ceo or anything. And hahahaha at wearing a suit.
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Each region has a DM. These are the people that report directly to the guys on top. To you, they are nothing but gunk on their shoes.
 
From your other threads, it seems like you hate your job and should look for other work even if they give you a raise and a high five tomorrow.
 
BobbyRoberts said:
I'll tell you a variation on a thing I was told when I was fired from my job as Warehouse Manager/Delivery Driver at Circuit City over a decade ago:

Nothing bad ever came from being fired from Wal-Mart, man. Nobody ever looks back at their life and says "Man, if only I'd stayed at Wal-Mart just one more year."
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Bullshit. Money is money. And in a job market where you can search forever and not find a job, getting fired can be devastating for one's life.
 
Did you just sit there with your mouth agape while he was talking shit?

Was he that much of a fast-talker that you couldn't get a word in edgewise? How old are you btw? What is a DM? Are you just in charge of the Toy Department?

Edit: Holy shit, he wore a suit? (I've worn a suit a few times, it has that effect on people, for sure)
 
ZackieChan said:
Did you just sit there with your mouth agape while he was talking shit?

Was he that much of a fast-talker that you couldn't get a word in edgewise? How old are you btw? What is a DM? Are you just in charge of the Toy Department?
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DM is I guess department manager. I thought he meant district manager but I guess not.
 
Nassor, unless you had prior write ups i don't anything bad is going to happen. I use to be a TL at Target and for 3 years one of my departments was Toys and the lousy TL that ran it before me was way over his head when it came to running the Toy department and he actually got kicked out of it and i was asked to run it. Very first Christmas more specifically Black Friday i was literally left alone in the whole department while people came bull rushing me when the doors opened. I thought my heart was going to burst through my chest at being left alone in that moment and i was furious the managers would do it to me. Somehow, someway i kept my department from bursting into flames that morning and later that day i as i was slaving away in the basement to grab as many toys as possible my lousy STL(Store manager) came up to me and told me the news.

You see, every black friday big wigs from corporate visit the stores in the rush of BF and my STL told me that corporate was amazed at how well my department had been kept stocked and how organized it was because of the chaos and that they said the Toy department was the best in all of the district and they left mighty impressed. That was my best moment at Target in my career with them, it literally my whole weekend knowing that the same STL left me to rot in hell by not giving me help and that no one could take credit for my accomplishment except for me. Chin up Nassor, things will be okay!
 
OP, I quit Walmart back in 2001 when I signed up to join the military. No matter how hard you bust your ass, corporate will never be satisfied. Expect to get thrown under the bus when the shit hits the fan, which seems like today is the day.

It's not you, it's them. Fuck em.
 
Valnen said:
Bullshit. Money is money. And in a job market where you can search forever and not find a job, getting fired can be devastating for one's life.
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Bullshit. Money is Money and the job market isn't that shitty that you can't take your years of experience as a District Manager at Wal-Mart to any number of big box soulless corporate instutions, as well as smaller (probably more amenable) retail outlets or other, similar management opportunities. The money is there. You can get it from any number of places. You don't have to hang onto your shitass Wal-Mart job to keep it coming, especially if it's fairly obvious that you being allowed to take pride in your work is forbidden.

Getting fired from Wal-Mart is only devastating if you've bought the shit upper-management is selling you as a means to keep you compliant and working for less than you're worth: That the job is more important than it really is, and that your value as a human being is only worth as much as your job allows it to be.
 
BobbyRoberts said:
Bullshit. Money is Money and the job market isn't that shitty that you can't take your years of experience as a District Manager at Wal-Mart to any number of big box soulless corporate instutions, as well as smaller (probably more amenable) retail outlets or other, similar management opportunities.

Getting fired from Wal-Mart is only devastating if you've bought the shit upper-management is selling you as a means to keep you compliant and working for less than your worth: That the job is more important than it really is, and that your value as a human being is only worth as much as your job allows it to be.
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But he's not a District Manager though. Department Manager is the OP's position.
 
The One and Done™;147689111 said:
Fuck retail sales
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Came here to say this. And on top of that, fucking Walmart? It's like winning the jackpot in the shit lottery.

I'm not knocking you for working there, OP. Beggars can't be choosers. It just sucks.

I hope you make it through, and if you don't, I hope you can find something better.
 
You're a DM as in Department Manager? Or District Manager? When I worked at Walmart we referred to the District Manager as DM.

Where I worked, a Department Manager was basically just a slightly higher paid floor associate with way more responsibilities. I would never go into that position unless I thought I could move up. I don't see why they'd fire you though unless it really was that bad. They might have just said it was the worst they've seen thinking it would make you work even harder I don't know.
When they were explaining the things that were wrong, did it make sense? Were there problems?
 
BobbyRoberts said:
Bullshit. Money is Money and the job market isn't that shitty that you can't take your years of experience as a District Manager at Wal-Mart to any number of big box soulless corporate instutions, as well as smaller (probably more amenable) retail outlets or other, similar management opportunities. The money is there. You can get it from any number of places. You don't have to hang onto your shitass Wal-Mart job to keep it coming, especially if it's fairly obvious that you being allowed to take pride in your work is forbidden.

Getting fired from Wal-Mart is only devastating if you've bought the shit upper-management is selling you as a means to keep you compliant and working for less than you're worth: That the job is more important than it really is, and that your value as a human being is only worth as much as your job allows it to be.
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Department Manager.
 
Sounds like they talked shit to everyone. You won't be fired, you have just realized that you work for a place that doesn't value your contribution.
 
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