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.