I’ve been working at Walmart for almost 3 years now (3years in September) and until March of this year I was working upfront and knew how to do every job on the front end. Well, I decided I wanted to promote and branch out so I decided to go for the open Apparel TL spot.

We got a new GM coach over there since the old one became the new AP coach and everyone said she was hard to work with but I figured I could get past that.

Anyway, I was a TL for 3 months, and in that time failed to fix 3 departments that were a mess and so they’re demoting me. I feel like I learned nothing from my coach and most everything I learned was from the other apparel TLs.

I also felt like my coach plays favorites or cares more about other associates more because they actually “have a reason” for not feeling well. Recently another TL was having issues with their health and our Coach would ask how they were feeling. I was also recently having trouble with frequent dizzy spells and bad anxiety. I even got super sick and pale one evening and had to go home 2 hours early. The time I worked a couple days later, the first thing she did was give me a task, not even bothering to ask if I was feeling any better.

She claims to have been doing everything to help me but it doesn’t feel that way. I’ll also mention that the new TL in home lines which she’s also over, recently stepped down as well. They were also new to management and new to being a floor associate.

Everyone else in the store also thought of the both of us as good TLs.

It’s also worth mentioning that when I started I was fairly assertive as a TL and good when it came to delegation but she would then tell me how to do things and redelegate the things I told my associates and treated me like a normal associate which was upsetting. She also always questioned my actions which made me timid to make decisions.

Anyway, I’m pretty sure they’re planning on keeping me in position until the end of the pay period, which I’d rather not be but oh well, and any plans I had on improving the department or proving myself is out the door. I’m still gonna work but I’m not going to make the job easier for the next TL to take my spot. It’ll just make them look good and me look bad.

I had my faults as new TL but I worked hard to fix them and was making steady progress over the last 3 months especially having little training from my other TLs and little to none from the person who was supposed to be teaching me.

The old apparel coach thinks I should take a mentee role and I probably will. Thinking of going back to the front where people actually respected me and the management was good.

TL;DR: I don’t feel like I failed the department since the other TLs and my associates thought I was doing well and last month my departments sales were in the green, but I do feel like my coach failed me.