To former merchants do you like the new pilot program? How are your schedules? What are you duties? Cuz my store announced it to us this week and there were a lot of looks especially from sales and support announcing the program. My Ovm came to me and said I have to teach the sales team how to merchandise half of them don’t even recovery or do fitting room
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Absolutely not.
Been with the company 20 years and I’m leaving. Can’t do the hours , Macys does not care if you have a child
People are dropping like flies in my store. They can only open a few registers and put signs on the closed registers directing customers to go to another department for service.
Fulfillment is four or five days behind on packing.
The kid managers just walk around with a dazed look not knowing what to do. But they do have their IPads trying to look important. Hers am idea roll up your sleeves and do some work.
Whenever they do hire someone they usually leave within a week.
It’s most definitely changing starting June 19th.
My store processes the truck starting at 8 and everyone on the dock, fulfillment and merchandisers (who sign, price, place product) come in at 7am. I can't imagine that changing.
I was a merchandising lead for a pilot store. we didn't exactly follow the pilot correctly, so it was a joke. I had to quit from the stress. Most people who worked in back of house positions did so because of the early hours and not having to deal with the customers/registers. If it continues according to the original plan, there are no early morning shifts and everyone is going to do everything (except the dock and fulfillment). They can say that front of house merchandising/signing/pricing, etc., won't have to run the register, but with the current lack of colleagues in most stores, I doubt this is true. IF your store has competent management who is willing to truly oversee their dept, it has a chance to work. It's basically old school retail (each dept maintains itself). But if your managers were like mine, had no idea even how to print a sign or set a sale or how to do price changes, you are in for a wild ride. If you have the feeling you're a rat on a sinking ship, jump.
I am also interested to know how this has affected merchandisers. I switched from fulfillment, which I loved, to merchandising because the workload was so light that we were getting everything before 10am picked and packed before lunch and the OVM at the time decided fulfillment needed to help with merchandising instead of picking the rest of the day. There was also an open position in merchandising because a lead took a sales manager position so I wanted to try and get a lead position... they told me the 2nd lead position was cut but 6 months later, the ex lead decides she didn't like being on the sales floor so when a FT in merchandising left she came back and they gave her a lead position.
I am torn between waiting to see how the new system works, and grabbing a BOH position while I can. I went to fulfillment because I could not stand being stuck on the register for my entire shift while my associates disappeared for HOURS to "do go-backs" that never got done (I was a captain back then too!). Unless the sales managers and captains are on the floor and not sitting in the office all day like they think they can do, I don't see this working out.
Haven’t been told anything yet like that but I have heard about it. I’m looking for a new job.
time to quit..