New product flow requirements

Anybody else's managers tell them during the store meeting that Product Flow is going to start having register #'s and assist with front lanes if they need extra help?

And on top of that, they're raising the paycap to around 22.50-23.00 and hour? But the caveat with that is, you have to do all of these certifications to obtain the pay raises and they're doing it in a form of merit pay increases.

Anybody else's management inform their product flow team of this information or is our store just choosing to do this? I didn't know if this was a best buy wide thing or not. But it definitely feels like a giant-

"Fuck you, here's 10x the work requirements but you have to EARN the right to be paid more"

After being here for almost 5 years, this is by far the dumbest fucking unproductive move that they've ever made, product flow wise.

What's your opinion?