After many years of blind devotion...

I am a current Salaried Retail Leader with many years of blind devotion to what I now believe was a hoax! I too have watched as the organization praised unrealistic programs, initiatives, and ideas that couldn't possibly have made my job any more difficult!

These programs (BLUEPRINT!!!) were designed for an environment without deviation from the task. The company spent millions implementing and failing to provide enough technology to ACTUALLY stabilize the program. I spent more time conducting these 'walks' than it would have taken to just ask someone directly. What really upsets me is that nobody in any position of leadership would allow for negative feedback about the program, NOBODY!

Those that did were "encouraged" to "buy-in" to the program!! Talk about nepotism, when just about everyone in a retail store expressed discontent yet the company continued wasting money to roll this out.

Now.. I do not blame those who implemented the program... when it was the ELT's fault it wasn't squashed sooner!

So.. after my many years of declining job opportunities, often times upwards of two emails a week, from outside Recruiters.. I find myself now looking forward to getting them! I have ABSOLUTELY no ambition to advance with this unpredictable mish-mosh we call a "family" company!

What's worse, 5 years from now (MARK MY WORD!) we will have not learned from this crap and have hired 600 new people before realizing we "need to make cuts for our long term success". Seriously folks, for those who've been around long enough, you should all recall how we fail to learn from these mistakes and suffer the same dreadful scenario yet again! (Specialists, Regional Directors, LTR Teams, Specialists AGAIN, and so on!)

As someone who has ALWAYS prided themselves as being trustworthy to my teams, and now I can't get the same from my CEO, I honestly can't wait to get the F out of this place and never look back!

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After many years of blind devotion it has been made crystal clear that loyalty is a one way street. Save yourself the trouble of wondering, they do not care about you. They will use you as long as you let them.

Those in charged hired a Bozo. He sold them what they wanted to hear. If you really want to get back on track, dump these ego inflated over educated idiots and listen to your veteran workers. They know what it takes to get the job done, why because we have bee there before, and we are here for the duration. Remember, long after they leave your company in ruins. They were only using you as a stepping stone to their next conquest. Egos !

They're selling period.

This is by far the best post I've read on this situation thus far. Thank you for expressing everything I feel on a daily basis and putting it into actual words. Good luck to you on your future success away from this sinking ship.

It's all about compliance. They see the sales dropping. Employees getting increasingly disgruntled. Stores severely understaffed.

I had someone try to tell me that GE has thos high price stigma about it when most of it's items are reasonably priced. That's a load of crap. Their prices are higher than everyone else's and keep getting higher. You better offer something amazing in return for it. But their fuelperks are losing the glimmer. The quality and customer service drop. So there is no reason for GE to keep charging outrageous prices, but they do. Customers realize this and are shopping elsewhere.

To fix this drop from profitability, they want to make everyone compliant towards what corporate thinks will lull customers back. 1/2 of each day spent on this compliance website and mandatory schedules. Compliance is fine, but you bring all of that down on already low moraled workers.

When it starts going worse than expected, we start seeing downsizing of departments and layoffs. All pretty much temporary band aids that even further lowers the morale. Unless something drastic changes with executive visions, the writing is on the wall.

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