We had quite the snow storm in our area today. I have a long drive to work and decided it wasn't worth my safety to go to my store so I called off. I am not a person who calls off at all. Later in the day I received a text from my store telling me we were closing early. This was at the peak of the storm. Visibility was practically zero on the road. Really Macys is this how you treat your employees. If I would have gone to work I would have been stuck there. But this company cares more about a dollar than the safety of its employees DISGUSTING
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We got told it would hit reliability, because most of our workforce area lives further south and didnt get hit as hard. our roads were sheets.
The problem with the second poster ripping into me about my stores decision to close early . It was the fact that they waited to close at the time the storm was at its worst. It had been forecasted ALL DAY. Those who left work at that time were faced with unplowed roads and poor visibility. At that point who gives a damn about a sale. Maybe you should be asking yourself why you live on the layoff site
In theory, as far as the company is concerned, no one should be pressured to come in when they feel unsafe in a storm. Or when they ask to leave when the weather gets severe. But in the real world, managers do indeed give push back in those circumstances.
Hold on, you considered you safety and called out. Others (maybe that live closer) decided they could safely make it to work and home. At any point in the day, those employees could decide it was getting bad and opt to leave the store. The choice is left to each person. No one would be in trouble for calling out or leaving early when weather is involved. The store (a business) opens as scheduled in order to make money and service customers that need items from us. Maybe someone needs boots in order to deal with the snow later or heavy clothes so they can go out and play with their child and make a wonderful memory. What if the snow didn't get that bad? Would you want the store to close any time the news reports a chance of snow? If that was the case they would be closing 600 stores, not 66. So the company does care about making money, but also cases about helping people get items we sell, and they also care about YOU... if the store (a business) closes, you no longer have a job. Again, the choice was yours, which you took without issue... and you still complain... no wonder you live on a layoff site... lol.
Don’t forget to deny the reliability in a few days for calling out 😁