Most of the real downfall started when they had to immediately fund $1,000,000,000 into the underfunded retirement fund. The CFO Michael Schlottman that should have been held accountable and fired was allowed to retire with full benefits and other compensation. The board of directors has let the poor management continue and be rewarded. Then they bought into an expensive scheme with Disney that said it was for uplift, but part of it probably was also for procedures to implement to be able to find reasons to get rid of senior middle management for "cause". Having checklists and metrics with too little competent help to do everything meant there were always ways to find reasons to remove more expensive employees. Some managers were below par I'm sure, but there was very little real attempt to help them deal with the overwhelming number of issues they had to deal with especially after the removal of the asp's. Coordinators don't have enough real store experience to help or empathize and they would rather they not have any real empathy so they can spout out company demands with no problem.
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Yes, it will be pathetic to see these coordinators flounder as managers while they try to implement the company standards that they enforced on subordinate store managers. The real world limitations of labor challenges/restrictions are much different than what they see on a clipboard. And, they wont have the extra co-manager's to finish the trucks! Trouble ahead folks!