Y'all are trying to convince yourself something drastic is coming and making s#@t up. Yes, just like every year, there will be some store closings. How can there not be based on all the dead malls we have stores in? Put on your big boy or girl pants and go do your job. The world is not ending.
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Wow reading through this is crazy to see corporate and stores turning on each other. Hope everyone fairs well with whatever happens. The silver lining is if your store closes that’s at least 3 months notice of still having a paying job until you need to figure out what’s next and if you’re high performing you’ll be offered a transfer if available. Hope it doesn’t come to that but with the inevitable few closures every year I’m sure someone is affected. Best of luck to all.
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What’s everyone talking about with corporate employees having a good day and tuning in equipment?
It’s time to turn in your work equipment and ID badges. There will be specified times and dates to enter the building.
Hopefully, today will bring good news for Corporate employees.
you might wanna ease up with insults, forum's administered. mods can ban you and nix your post if it has too many swears or insults. posting names and personal details isn't allowed either.
I spent many years on the corporate side. Yes there was some wfh post covid but there also were calls at all hours of the night, calls on vacation, calls at family functions, nights and weekends and vacations with whole days spent on calls for system issues. It came with the territory and we were proud to be a resource for the stores and other corporate teams. But it wasn't all bubble baths and bonbons.
It is sad to see store and corporate turning on one another. What was that parable about the parts of the body? All have a purpose and all are needed to make the whole.
Just my opinion.
Myself, and my whole corporate team did Black Friday at our respective stores, and then did helping hands several days, so don’t sh-t on corporate for not wanting to help when we can
Someone just delete this thread.
Big mistake letting go of your in house Tech support over 4 1/2 years ago. The people who went to NCR and the few that are still there are decent. NCR let many of them go without hesitation thinking their salary was too high. This company in general has always paid their Execs pretty well. This Holiday Season one of the slowest I’ve ever been a part of. New registers plus slowdown in business contribute to this. If you don’t offer an experience and good customer service then you will end up like Sears eventually
They were begging corporate employees to sign up to work in busy stores on Black Friday. How many do you think volunteered?
2 just bit the dust
Although I work in corporate, I came from very humble beginnings and have worked my a-s off to get where I am. Most of my family lives pay check to pay check, and I can assure you that losing their job (especially in an area with failing malls) is not as simple as just transferring to a nearby store. Not every Macy’s location is blessed with good public transit or bus routes. The entitlement is real in here, but we’re all potentially on the chopping block. One way or another, we all depend on our paychecks regardless of how big it is.
There are no corporate jobs without the stores, and there are no stores without the corporate jobs. It’s an incredibly tense time right now - for us all. Anyone losing their job anywhere is just horrible. Whatever the next chapter holds, it’s going to be a bumpy one. If you’ve been with the company for longer than 5 years, we’ve seen way too many of these moments than a human being should. Let’s all try to remember that at the end of the day, we are all human beings on other side of this screen. It’s bad enough what the powers-that-be have planned, we don’t have to turn on each other in the meantime.
Ya’ll want to go on hating corporate employees that’s fine. Everyone is allowed to be fearful right now about losing their jobs. I feel for anyone who is worried right now.
@ooi+1qt3R2BK Lifestyle simply means your way of life as it stands today and we’re talking about losing one job and being able to quickly replace it with the same pay elsewhere to not affect people and their families well being. You’re complaining about things as they stand right now and that’s not the subject at hand. On that topic, literally everyone in America has a chance to better themselves if there is an issue with their pay rate, location, etc. You have no idea who you’re speaking to accusing them of privilege. No one handed me a corporate job anywhere, I worked my a-s off for years and worked my way up from minimum wage to something better that supports my family. There are also plenty of non-corporate jobs that exist that make a ton of money because those people worked hard and got them. If someone is struggling that bad working in Macys stores and can’t live or afford benefits, I would hope they can find somewhere better to support themselves and their families better. If that’s you don’t wait for a store closure or layoff please try and find somewhere better that you don’t have to suffer as much.
Lifestyle?
Are you seriously suggesting that working a job barely above minimum wage with cr-ppy and inconsistent hours, benefits you can not afford and needing to rely on iffy public transportation is a "lifestyle choice"?
Be careful, your privilege is showing.
@hjy+1qt3R2BK there are less corporate jobs available. You make no sense. If there’s no corporate employees you don’t have a job either dude. Who maintains all your tech and devices in stores. Not you
@jce+1qt3R2BK So are you cool with that corporate employee who gets canned with little to no severance who lives in high cost of living New York and now loses their house while they’re working at Kohl’s to feed their family and find another comparable job? You feel worse for them than the Macys employee whose store closed, has guaranteed work until the store goes out of business officially in a few weeks or months, and can find a comparable job in target or old navy or another large store close by and secure the same wages and same lifestyle they had before?
Since it’s so easy for the store employees to find a new job, I’m confident the corporate employees can find a job at their local Kohl’s until they find another work from home gig.
@zrn+1qt3R2BK If it takes months for the 100K corporate a-holes to find a new job and the hourly store minions can easily find a a new job, sounds to me like one is paid more than their value and the other is woefully underpaid. I'll leave it to you to figure that out.
@zrn+1qt3R2BK And how hard is it to replace the minimum wage job versus a job that $100k+ and used to support an entire family’s life?? You could have a new local job in a week or two, could take months for corporate employees to replace that type of job with comparable pay and some may never. No one is saying losing jobs and stores closing aren’t horrible for the people it affects but truth is the store colleagues will have a job for a set amount of time more to officially close it and have plenty of time to find something comparable if commuting to another store doesn’t work. Sorry but 20 miles away for a commute is nothing. You’ve got corporate employees who commute an hour or more for their jobs. If it’s nyc it could be 2 hours one way for a commute. Stop acting like those people losing their jobs with NO notice or grace period isn’t going to be severe in their life just because they’re “corporate middle managers” or whatever insult you’re trying to spew at them. You sound very bitter.
Get me the world's tiniest violin for Tyr corporate middlemen. Oh, the minimum wage peasants will be fine if their store closes, they can relocate twenty miles away where their bus doesn't run. Corporate folks with all their connections are far more important.
Looks like productivity is down at MTech, with job loss concerns.....The big boss is demanding you do your job.,..at least until he taps you on the shoulder and gives you your pink slip.
Being concerned about your job and future= thinking the world is ending….,,…….REALLY?
I agree this is a horrible and insensitive post. As much as we want to know what is going on, this is not a reliable source in the least. I would assume anyone in the know of what is really happening has signed a Non Disclosure Agreement. As hard as it is, we need to wait and see and hope for the best. I keep reminding myself that the poor business results at Macy's do not reflect the larger overall economic picture. Unemployment is remaining low and the economy is in a slow rebound but on the right track.
Yeah this is really rude. This is not business as usual with buyout rumors and declining retail business and tech layoffs becoming the norm. The average corporate employee is now worried about if they’ll have a job next month with a lousy extra paycheck to cover them and their family through months of job searching. I think everyone is rightfully so on edge worrying about their job that they’ve poured everything into and depend on to live. Store closures su-k yes, but the reality is a lot of those individuals can be relocated to other stores in proximity or find work in a similar type of store should it happen. It’s not as easy for corporate employees to find comparable jobs and the reality is if this happens we will be searching for months competing with all the other tech company lay offs. Have some freaking empathy. If you are a people leader I am horrified because you lack the skills required to be a good one.
“You work in a declining business, people are of course going to lose their jobs… calm down and do your job!”
There are going to be corporate cuts. People are rightfully worried, especially this time of the year with buyout rumors circling. Take a course on empathy, people are going to lose their jobs.