How Walmart Trains Managers

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7. Not surprised.

Other company's do this like United Parcel Service. I worked for them in IT for over 6 years.

They had a "cheer" that was done at certain company functions and their
Asst. Mgr. course was a big ra-ra gig although it did work on team building also.
Not much "Management" stuff. At UPS you did it "their way" and that was that.
Back when I was there, they thought they could promote a lot of field people into IT Mgt and that was a disaster as IT folks weren't going to stay when some moron who could barely turn on a PC screamed at them.

To UPS's credit, they did weed a lot of those people out, in time.

I would never have wanted to be a Package Center Mgr. or a Regional Mgr. Those guys were under tremendous pressure and a lot had booze problems. I was happy in the data center up in Mahwah NJ.