200 Worker Layoff

[Grunt]

Wow, 1800 jobs lost this month. Come Feb, more distribution realignment, with many merit folks to be displaced. All the out of control merit headcount’s - time to pay the piper. It’s sad, but honestly about time
the powers in charge realize how out of control and inflated some of these teams are. 10-12 in HR, 25 or so in ICQA, TSS that sit around and do nothing, OMs that have no teams to lead, all making a minimum of $30 hour. That is a lot of waste, the only merits worth a damn are the LWW that actually support working teams. But these won’t be layoffs, as they will have the option to return to WW/WA roles. Its happened before, when the economy was eerily similar to today, and sales were slumping.

Are you just making things up or you have a solid source?

 

[DC Diva]

Ask anyone who was in distribution 10 or so years ago what Target Network optimization was, and how it impacted entire merit based teams. That is when they went down to just a handful across each building. Before that rolled out, merit teams were similar to how they look today. And because those teams were not considered operations, they were included in the corporate layoff numbers. So even though they were lost site specific, they were treated as corporate wave 2 losses, not distribution.

 

[Johnyj7657]

Ask anyone who was in distribution 10 or so years ago what Target Network optimization was, and how it impacted entire merit based teams. That is when they went down to just a handful across each building. Before that rolled out, merit teams were similar to how they look today. And because those teams were not considered operations, they were included in the corporate layoff numbers. So even though they were lost site specific, they were treated as corporate wave 2 losses, not distribution.

What merit teams? Up until icqa , leads and problem solvers came to exist within the past 5 years there had never been more than a handful of merit positions in a building. Stop being vague and name what large merit departments used to exist.

I've been around for alot longer than 10 years and the only departments that were ever slashed was security.

 

[Dcnewb4now]

Ask anyone who was in distribution 10 or so years ago what Target Network optimization was, and how it impacted entire merit based teams. That is when they went down to just a handful across each building. Before that rolled out, merit teams were similar to how they look today. And because those teams were not considered operations, they were included in the corporate layoff numbers. So even though they were lost site specific, they were treated as corporate wave 2 losses, not distribution.

Distribution is different than hq. Distribution gets an allocation of merit roles based on headcount and forecasts each year. This allows them to year over year decrease numbers in roles. These roles have been decreasing the past couple years already

 

[targetdude1]

What merit teams? Up until icqa , leads and problem solvers came to exist within the past 5 years there had never been more than a handful of merit positions in a building. Stop being vague and name what large merit departments used to exist.

I've been around for alot longer than 10 years and the only departments that were ever slashed was security.

I have to agree with this and I also have a lot longer than ten years.

There wasn't a ton of yellow jackets prior to about, covid or whenever it was that came about (I cant even remember if actual yellow jackets were a thing). Just at all. No LWW. no ICQA, Heck TSS didnt seem formal even (I think that came about with the hack), I'm sure inbound had some type of rework people but I dont think they were paid more and called IBPS. And of course trainer was just an completely unpaid volunteer function. Whereas now it's yet another yellow jacket function that gets extra $, if only a buck or two from what I know

It's used to basically just be two Om per shift (sometimes less, the mid shit OM cost cutting experiment and all that) and a bunch of workers all on the same level and paid the same. There were a few clericals but I believe they made less.

 

[Luck]

What merit teams? Up until icqa , leads and problem solvers came to exist within the past 5 years there had never been more than a handful of merit positions in a building. Stop being vague and name what large merit departments used to exist.

I've been around for alot longer than 10 years and the only departments that were ever slashed was security.

And security was only slashed in name, because they split the team into "true" security, and truck gate workers.

Only to then hire an entire second team of security (TSS) whose sole job is to wear a security badge at the truck gate. Lmao.

 

[DC Diva]

What merit teams? Up until icqa , leads and problem solvers came to exist within the past 5 years there had never been more than a handful of merit positions in a building. Stop being vague and name what large merit departments used to exist.

I've been around for alot longer than 10 years and the only departments that were ever slashed was security.

Let’s see. Each DC, depending on size, had a Logistics team (6-10) that scheduled inbound loads, dealt with problem freight, managed special promotions and events, and scheduled backhaul freight. A Dispatch team (5-8) that managed outbound BOL, created BOL for carrier and vendor returns, managed store sweeps, and tracked/managed all trailers in the yard. MBP had clericals (2-4) that managed street dates when music and movies were still a thing. And they dealt with casepack issues for Packing. And there was another team, can’t recall the actual name (5-8), that managed all reporting for the building, including team specific payroll costs, and also handled all building communications, such as newsletter, table talkers, and display cases. All fell victim to the Optimization plan back in 2015. Not to mention TSS cut in half at the same time, which is all you remember. And in the months before, they were allowing attrition without backfilling, in hopes they could find a few spots for some of those displaced workers as those teams were eliminated.

 

[targetdude1]

MBP had clericals (2-4) that managed street dates when music and movies were still a thing. And they dealt with casepack issues for Packing.

Yeah, those where the ones I dealt with. We just had 2, one mean one that tried to get you in trouble and one nice one that was on our side LOL. But it was known they made less $ than warehouse workers. They also only came in on days. The rest of that stuff I'm not familiar with, but clearly theres been an explosion of yellow shirts. If they do reorg to cut down on yellows I feel it's needed. But, it's hard to say. IBPS sure doesnt seem to do much, they sit at computers for hours a day looking bored. ICQA should be cleaning mini racks IMO, the mini racks are atrocious but they dont touch the surrounding mess, just whatever box theyre after i guess.

 

[Maggie2]

Is this just happening in Indiana?

 

[Maggie2]

Yeah, those where the ones I dealt with. We just had 2, one mean one that tried to get you in trouble and one nice one that was on our side LOL. But it was known they made less $ than warehouse workers. They also only came in on days. The rest of that stuff I'm not familiar with, but clearly theres been an explosion of yellow shirts. If they do reorg to cut down on yellows I feel it's needed. But, it's hard to say. IBPS sure doesnt seem to do much, they sit at computers for hours a day looking bored. ICQA should be cleaning mini racks IMO, the mini racks are atrocious but they dont touch the surrounding mess, just whatever box theyre after i guess.

💯

 

[Johnyj7657]

Let’s see. Each DC, depending on size, had a Logistics team (6-10) that scheduled inbound loads, dealt with problem freight, managed special promotions and events, and scheduled backhaul freight. A Dispatch team (5-8) that managed outbound BOL, created BOL for carrier and vendor returns, managed store sweeps, and tracked/managed all trailers in the yard. MBP had clericals (2-4) that managed street dates when music and movies were still a thing. And they dealt with casepack issues for Packing. And there was another team, can’t recall the actual name (5-8), that managed all reporting for the building, including team specific payroll costs, and also handled all building communications, such as newsletter, table talkers, and display cases. All fell victim to the Optimization plan back in 2015. Not to mention TSS cut in half at the same time, which is all you remember. And in the months before, they were allowing attrition without backfilling, in hopes they could find a few spots for some of those displaced workers as those teams were eliminated.

You're talking administrative roles that were eliminated. Not really the same as the current merit roles.

Leads, icqa and problem solvers all currently have job postings up on workday. If they were getting rid of these positions in 3 months they wouldn't be filling vacant spots today.