I know many at my store are planning to leave Macy's as soon as they can. I'm curious, is there anything the company could do to make you want to stay? Maybe a change in the way your store is run or something to do with the staff you work with? Or are you just done with this place for good?
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The left hand (corporate) does not communicate with its right hand (stores) properly. The policies that they create and implement lately have not been working. They just don’t make sense. Most things work in theory but not in real life situations. I’m not sure how they expect us to work efficiently with minimal management coverage. The store manager never leaves the office so if someone is on PTO you are running the floor by yourself. If your job is an MBA,SMM, or OOM you are running the floor and then staying until close to do your primary job. Not to mention they take the lowest bidder on contract work so something is ALWAYS not working. Dead links on the store portal, wifi and systems going down like clockwork. It’s not even high holiday yet and I am burnt out. This is not good for our health! Macy’s wants us to be magicians. You have to spend money to make money. Macys is spiraling and I’m afraid we are past the point of redemption
Macys needs to get their act together period. I see how things are run at Macys versus Bloomies and definitely a difference. Support those who run the stores and use some common sense please.
Having to watch more than one department, being shuffled from department to department because people don't show up for work. Cleaning out fitting rooms and having no time to put it away. Managers allowing certain employees to take every weekend off without ANY CONSIDERATION for the other workers in their area. I don't have many yrs left im just biding my time. I do not let the credit cr-p bother me . If I get one great but I will not force people into credit cards. The pettiness in my store is ridiculous and just getting worse.
The autonomy post said it best. At the end of 2019 we finally got rid of the bloated, top down region/ district structure and stores for a short period were able to function as they had previously, more autonomy and much less conf calls and top down structure. Now we have slowly morphed back to the old structure, lots of conf calls, lots emails from all district partners daily about what they want you focusing on.
what i never understood about macys is they have you close alone and you have all these chores to do before you close which is impossible while dealing with their horrible customers
Leave now unless you like to close by yourself without help every day.
Giving autonomy to the stores to decide how they want to work and sell stuff. Endless top down mandates without clear reasoning is the #1 workplace ki-ler.