1493 met their fiscal year goals but still hours got cut. An email got sent out today and over 15 team members got all their hours cut for the next two weeks. The managers will be running the registers and shipping. The cut is ‘temporary’ but staff is only to get 7-14 hours a week after that.
Anyone know why?
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OK "do your job", I'm thinking that your store is probably not as big as you think it is. Maybe you don't need all those team members but the bigger stores do need them, and cutting payroll like this means things just are not going to get done.
It’s about to end me. As Vonnegut said, ‘so it goes’ I guess.
1 he by your self might not k–l you but 10 hrs alone every day you work might. It's a safety hazard both mentally and physically. 10 hrs with one person is basically what home office wants from my store
The massive layoffs, in 2013, we explained as necessary so the company could better service customers.
In this post m—acre utopia, not one word written about the customer.
What a scary corpse of a company.
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If all the rest of you lazy bums would work harder like this (mythical) store the family would be even richer!
Too funny!
To the cashier whining about no hours.. sales=payroll...
Hogwash? I work in a very large store with a crazy floor plan and we manage just fine because we know how to manage our time and our payroll efficiently. We do not sit in an office all day and we don't sit on our butts all day. We do the stocking, receiving, shipping, efollett, text returns GM. How many stores have you been in where someone actually has the audacity to say "that's not my job"? Nobody in our store says "that's not my job". If you work at our store everything is your job.
Im not a manager but a cashier that’s been working for three years part-time. I just wanted to know why I’ve suddenly lost my hours
This is nothing new. Few years back it was a manager and 2 part time employees who got 14 hrs each per week. It's the Follett way.
Seriously...how do you think those of us in small stores get these tasks done?( I appreciate larger stores have a greater volume of stock, potentially, to be dealt with so do need more staffing hours.)
They're dealt with in exactly the ways the other poster said.
We don't have the hours half the time & some days you're pulling, boxing, shipping, & watching the store on your own!
(Hey! Stick a broom up my a$$ & I can sweep the floor too!)
On a serious note, though. It would be awful if one were to have an accident because who the heck is there to find you?
Yeah, sadly this did happen.
Take care, people.
Hogwash to the last reply, obviously someone not working in a store.
If your back room and text shelves are organized the way they should be, one person can pull... the other can pack while watching for customers at the register. Sure the sales floor looks a mess with all the boxes layed out but its what you have to do this time of year. Small stores do it all the time. There are ways around everything. You just have to get out of your comfort zone.
Many stores do not have a text manager, whose going to do the returns? Can’t watch the floor, pull books, pack books, etc with 1 or 2 people.
This is company wide. No team members, only full time staff. We were told if you have hourly employees and you can't make your payroll, cut until you do... that includes managers. Managers are not guaranteed 40 hours, that's a limit... Not a goal. Let's be honest, you don't need all those team members. Working the register this week I realized just how much payroll we waste by scheduling an opening cashier when the opening manager can handle an hour on the register. Half the managers around Follett don't do a dxxx thing but sit in their offices or at a desk and don't actually interact with customers unless there is a problem. The only manager that actually has a lot of stuff to do this time of year is the text manager. Because they have to do adoptions and get those returns out. Department managers can stock when it's not busy. Let's be realistic. It's not going to k–l you to be on a freaking register.