If you’re in corporate or work at any of those stores that were included in Tony’s meeting that all corp employees had to be in, you’d remember how he opened that waste of time with that tone deaf anecdote about the steakhouse in Miami. Before he wrapped this waste of time that should’ve been an email, he pulled a coin out of his pocket. He said everyone was getting one. He wasn’t lying.
Those corny metal discs he was harping on “I keep this in my pocket every day” actually got made and sent to everyone.
Instead of spending money on this golf plated gimmick here’s some things they could’ve done instead:
- Give employees a living wage?
- Give better bonuses to the employees actually doing the labor and keeping this company alive among this “hospitality” joke
- maybe clean up and give better resources to the stores that are struggling and might close so then more employees don’t lose their jobs during a time that’s already really fu---d up economically??
I’ve been with Macy’s for 5 years too long at this point. I work in the corporate marketing sector. Sharon Otterman, Jason Holzman, and all of their other little execs coming up with this new plan are all from NBC. They have never worked in a retail space before. They were nepotism’d in essentially because their buddies were already execs so they got their jobs with little expertise. Sounds familiar. Now regular employees are suffering because they do not know how to plan and then shove 8 projects into one week all due on the same day. Their failures to plan are becoming our emergencies and we’re drowning because of it. I cannot wait to deliver my sh---y, boot licking manger my resignation letter at the end of the week. If you have the opportunity to abandon this place before it sinks like the titanic, please take it.