From what I am hearing, VC's in the larger volume stores are getting severanced or not going forward. Can anyone clue us all in.
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Visual Manager 70k salaried executive
Visual Captain 20/hr
Visuals Captains That were Once Visual Managers Should Automatically Get their Job Back! As a Visual Manager in their Store. Cheaper Cost. they know the Store. It Shouldn’t be up to the Store Managers to Decide it Should Come from Higher Visual Level. I can’t imagine the Stress Level that the Captain have to Endure..
To the new VC below, I hear ya. If you like visual, it's a shame that you didn't get into the field a few years ago, when there were TEAMS of visual merchandisers and visual managers who would actually teach you the job. The way they watered down the visual program thinking that "everyone can do it" is insulting. Obviously it didn't work out, because the stores have looked like cr-p for the past two years. Now, they're being forced to bring back managers now, which they never should've gotten rid of in the first place.
You should go to Target. The pay for visuals starts at $26/ hour.
I find this whole situation fu---d up. I’m a recently hired VC who will keep their job because I’m in a smaller store, but the vast majority of the stores in my division are >20m and this, my peers will be required to reapply.
While on one hand, I know that I personally would likely not have the opportunity to pursue this path had the captain position never been established (on account of my own lack of experience and education in the field), I can objectively agree on the whole that trying to oversimplify the work that Visual Merchandisers do just to have an excuse to lowball them was pitiful and disgusting.
I love my job and I’m glad I was able to gain some practical experience, but any desire I had to grow here is basically gone. This is incredibly insulting to the people who should’ve never been downgraded from Managers to begin with and it’s also a slap in the face to people who joined the field as Captains and had to struggle with nothing but TIPs guides and prayer because they refused to offer us any REAL training to do our jobs properly (because, again, they ASSUME oversimplifying it meant “anybody could do it!”).
Complete and utter disrespect for this work and the people who do it.
I'm a former visual captain and I agree with this. Visual captains dress mannequins and change sale signs and provide support for floor moves. Visual managers LEAD floor moves, do floor plans, fixture placement, schedules, general planning. Unless they are former VM, I can't see any visual captain being promoted. But I also cannot see a visual manager doing all the mannequins, either, so I wonder how that's going to work.
Not every Visual Captain is qualified to be a Visual Manager. There's a big, big difference in the two roles. Some Captains will not get it if there's a qualified SMM losing their job either in that same building or another one within 25 miles.
Ahhh Macys……they tossed so many talented ,committed visual managers to the curb after the pandemic. They thought anyone could do “visual” . Oops….then they slapped up graphics in stores saying “Own Your Style”….with mannequins having zero style! What a waste of corporate dollars. If mannequins had any clothes on and no shoes….that was fine. Pathetic compared to what this company once presented to inspire and educate our customers who wanted style direction. If wallscaping and fixtures were not to any standard who cares. If bathrooms and carpets are dirty ..whatever. If sales managers wear dirty t shirts and a knit cap…oh well. If the store manager dumps 2.99 men’s underwear on t stands or banquet tables with dirty table clothes at the register…it’s fine…..even the district regional won’t call it out. Hello Macys ….to be “America’s department store” you’ve got to climb out of the hole you created for yourself.
Yes, anyone interested needs to apply regardless of prior experience as VM or VC.
This is an executive level job. It requires business acumen and prior experience. Yes, anyone can apply for it but it’s up to the STM.
I have to apply for it. Despite the fact that I was one for 10 years before Covid. I’m on pto this week so I don’t know who else in my building was impacted, so I have no idea if I’ll get it or not. Even though there’s no one else in my building that can do it. Kinda su-ks