Wow! Yesterday we were told we have no extra hours. No more 6 days working, no more clocking in early and leaving layer than your schedule shift. I'm not sure about then entire company, we were told it's for the Long Island Metro area. As it is we are short staffed with multiple calling out daily. Is this happening elsewhere?
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I agree. CXMs get treated differently now a days. Maybe the company doesn’t expect more from them because they don’t believe in them or want to train them? I can’t explain it. It’s so different than it was 10 years ago. Now, the SMM is the one putting in the 70+ hour work week and the CXM does the bare minimum. I hope that ISM evolves to give them a bigger role next year. It worries me because there is no talent in the pipeline for these more senior store roles and the CXMs are simply not equipped to do anything related to maintenance of floor standards, much less merchandising and pricing.
It’s weird, I was looking at the schedule for my department which is At Your Service and it was so bare for the week of Christmas. We have been so slammed with so many returns, it’s just a nightmare. Under staffed and then the manager gets mad that’s it’s a mess.
Salaried execs at Macy’s have it made. I’m my store they come and go as they please. Our so called store leader is out more than he is in. The Sm’s come in late and are running out the door at quitting time. To be complaining about a ten hour Saturday is a joke. You are salary that does not mean you only forty hours. The problem is most execs at Macy’s are inexperienced and LAZY.
Extra hours in abundance for salaried execs who are not overtime eligible! How convenient. I’m being forced to work 2 more 6 day work weeks in addition to mandatory 10 hour Saturdays leading up to Christmas when I already did that the whole month of November already for free! The comp week we get as part of PTO does not make up for it, sorry.
It boils my blood that there are still stores out there overspending like they are running double digit increases over plan (which they are not) and the rest of us have to stay right on hours or even cut to help compensate for their irresponsible expense management. I don’t get it. Everyone is hurting. There are a lot of stores out there overspending by thousands of hours, but the rest of us get stiffed? Why are they not being held accountable? I think it’s unfair.
Same in my store we were told last week no extra hours and follow your schedule. The store is worse shape before it’s going to get worse. I could only imagine what inventory is going to be like
Overtime still allowed in my MI store
No extra hours anywhere. In fact, I’d go so far to say that they cut planned budgets for the month of December too and that’s why stores are already starting over at the beginning of every week. It’s because business is so bad. Now we’re all suffering the consequences. Macy’s did it to themselves with all these poor decisions they’ve made. Not to mention big stores going thousands of hours over week after week. If we can’t get goods to the floor, keep the floor clean, and we don’t have people to sell these goods, how do you expect to make plan? Macys needs to realize that piles of gross picked over merchandise don’t sell and customers don’t want that. Wake up Chief Stores Officer!
its calling not making plan and its in a death spiral .. its over.. go to lunch and dont come back
Yep, they don’t have hours but they hired a gazillion people for the holidays. Go figure.