Not sure how I should feel. I was a Senior Merch/GM with the company for over 30 years (South Jersey Market). I traveled to multiple clubs to do resets and gave my life to this company. After the recent restructure I was offered a position as a night manager for about a 30k paycut......
I understand companies need to restructure, I really do, but to essentially eliminate 25+ Senior Managers in one swoop........ Ouch. Talk about freeing up some payroll.
Bjs is a ticking time bo-b since April it’s only continuously gotten worse. You are a SLAVE and that is not over embellishing it at all. People don’t get lunches they said the cuts would lead to more help and hours in departments and it has not, they want payroll cuts every week and some employees haven’t been paid certain weeks since they switched their payroll process. The company is trying to steal from their “Team Members” but customers will see the writing on the wall soon because for a company that eliminated so many people for “restructuring” to save money, but they sure do have a lot of money to open up a bunch of new clubs this year…. Let that sink in their employees are NOT respected by any higher up. I watched first hand as a manager was moments from having a nervous breakdown and continued health issues from there.
This is disgusting I don't know why it hasn't made the news ( my guess just because it's east coast store) but to boot they have a new home office being built complete with gyms/and a chiropractor on staff
30 years, Sr. Ops and was offered nothing. Humiliating. Start my new job with a new company on Monday. Can't look back, too painful.
I feel for everyone here on this forum and their stories, as I know they are all true from my own experience and can say they are actually all being kinder to BJ's than they actually deserve. Our club lost it's OPs manager positions, AP manager, produce supervisor, MARM, both night merchant supervisors, our HR person was forced to take the new Front End manager role as they had no recourse. This doesn't include all the night crew members and other hourly team members who were pushed out because they couldn't afford to accept the new job descriptions offered them for either financial or family reasons. BJ's used "semantics" to say they eliminated jobs and then turned around and offered the positions/work out in the same form and offered people 50 cents an hour extra to do a lot of it. At the current time the only roles filled at our club were the GM spot, the new Co-Manager role and the previously mentioned Front End role. The Co-Manager is acting as night crew manager at this time as no one wants the role. And the GM has to open/close as no one has accepted any of the PIC roles. I'm sure the "Center For Excellence" will be able to fill all those roles easily, just as soon as they can find somebody who can wear a belt!! Our store was a well run unit and the people who left us had a ton of retail experience and easily certified "Gold" on our walk In February. To make matters worse, the severance was disgraceful. 8 weeks for 25 plus years of service was the high point and none was what many got. This in an industry where the norm is usually 1 week for each year of service and the classier companies give out 2 for each year, even though it is not required by law. And it gets worse!! I mailed my severance package the day after Easter certified mail and was told it would get there Thursday at the latest on the 8th. Guess what? Checked my bank account this morning and there is no severance deposit!!! How is my family and everyone else's supposed to live and pay their bills now that BJ's left them high and dry without even 2 weeks notice? You all know what BJ's does when a team member leaves them without 2 weeks notice, they mark them ineligible for re-hire. Yet it is ok for BJ's to tell thousands of employees on March 22nd that their final day is April 3rd! That is not 2 weeks last I added it up. And the Lee Delaney thing just adds to the pile. I don't believe for one second his de–h was "presumed natural causes" or a "medical emergency" while on a run. BJ's is desperate for all of what has happened to not reach the press right now. There is a lot of dirty stuff going on behind the scenes and I can't believe the media is not on this story like ugly on a monkey. If you Google BJ's insider trading on the net you'll find that in the last few months almost every higher up within the company sold off stock to the tune of millions of dollars. Chris Baldwin made $10,000,000 in October and you know he knew this was coming! Bob Eddy, Jeff Derouchiers etc., they all made huge selloffs. Notably absent from the list I saw was Lee Delaney, which tells me he could have been uncomfortable with the direction the company was taking. They screwed thousands of team members out of millions of dollars and had the nerve to line their own pockets while doing it and call it "restructuring" after reporting record sales/profits across the board!!! Everyone needs to quit talking and get this out to their local media. My local paper tried and was stonewalled!! Wake up people and make them pay for what they have done! The good part is that their new structure is guaranteed to fail and BJ's as an entity has probably just destroyed themselves by going too far. Too bad. At one time it was a great place to work but since being acquired by Leonard Green and Associates and, particularly since the hiring of Chris Baldwin it has become the most toxic work environment in retail, bar none. I don't know one person who is actually genuinely happy there anymore and that is sad, as I worked with a great bunch of people.
Any word on the tire supervisor position being cut? This is awful after all of our hard work through the pandemic
Deli manager produce supervisor bakery manager gone. Replaced with 1 fresh manager. Senior merchant gone. Ap manager gone. Hr manager gone. Pay cuts to managers and supervisors. So basically 1000s of people got screwed in one way shape or form. But its ok because now they don't have to pay out as many salaries and bonuses all so they look good to the investors! Well played!
Exactly what positions were eliminated in this (transformation)
My husband was a Gm and had been with the company 35 1/2 years. For the past year his new regional created an extremely hostile work environment. He harassed insulted and threatened my husband on a daily basis during work hours and when my husband was home on his time off. Ultimately falsified accusations poor performance writing him up enough to terminate him. Conveniently just a few weeks before bonus checks were cut! Yep, stripped him of a well deserved $55,000 bonus he sacrificed his life for during covid! Working 50-60+ hrs a week! No Severance! Well the final P&L proves the false allegations! A stab in the back after Zone HR assured No Retaliation! They they fired the strong long term tough skin’d Gms & Sr Mgrs who were tolerating the abuse. They hope to abuse them long enough so they quit, resign or have a nervous break down! Many do!
It's sad but it's a lot more than 25 seniors, more than 100... some clubs lost their ops and merch. I was the sr merch at my location, they offered me the overnight manager also, I did not take it. Felt like a slap in the face with that kind of pay cut. I should have gotten the assistant manager roll. They gave it to the ops manager who doesn't even know how to do his job. He has no clue about anything, he's been in that roll for 2 years now and still doesn't know how to do anything. Good luck to them.