Thread regarding Sears layoffs

I assume you were talking about me the pizza guy MOD. Listen, I am a leader and not so much a dictator. This is not the first time I have been a manager. Some managers have a power thing in their own minds going on. Some children trauma? Who knows? I am not always in a bright and cheery and I use sarcasm with my people. The idea is that we are all in this mess together. That lightens the mood because you can get people laughing. That goes a long ways towards morale and so does a full belly on a Friday. It doesn't matter that we have to work the next day. It is a brief period of time where we blow off some steam and tell a couple of joke and get some b--ching out in the open.

Anyone in management needs an open environment to be able assess morale. That is what I look at and I am right there with them. Just because I am a manager doesn't mean that I don't make mistakes. I might not always be correct and I admit that. When I was younger I had some managers/bosses who said things like "You are idiot for doing it that way". I remember that I was never told exactly how to it in the first place but that was before online training. All I know is that when EMPLOYEES are given a nod of respect they are much happier.

A manager is just a title. A leader is what you can be. Managers are often not leaders. Leaders must take chances and question authority and sometimes they must take a stance. The buck must stop somewhere.

Is it really the employees fault for Sears poor financial shape? I don't think so.

I wish I had you as a manager. Our store is becoming a miserable place to work. The last mandatory meeting we had there was nothing provided to the employees by the store or the manager. There were a few boxes of doughnuts that were brought in by one of our minimum wage comrades. When I saw the manger shove a doughnut in his mouth I wanted to tell him to take his hands off it. How dare he take one of the doughnuts and not offer to pay the minimum wage employee for them or reimburse her for the cost from the store.

Last xmas party Sears provided a couple of buckets of fried chicken from a local grocery store and told employees to bring the sides and desserts. My xmas gift from Sears was 2 greasy drumsticks.

The latest rule ticking people off....When they come in at 6-7:00am to do work during hours when there are no customers in the store they are no longer allowed to bring their coffees or sodas with them on their cart. The company is miserable to work for to begin with but managers and supervisors can do a lot to make it an enjoyable place to be but this new wave of management we have is rotten. I miss our previous manager and lead.

Violence is never the answer although I do like an occasional curse word for effect. I agree that it would be nice to have more posters. I do not do Facebook or any of that for numerous reasons. I like writing about what I see and hence the way to really see what is going on is to put myself in harms way. Call me the Edward R Murrow of Sears. I am however a libertarian and my degree is in science with some economics, business law and English. I am of the smallest generation known as Gen X. I have seen both sides and have a unique perspective in that I have seen both sides. I know the difference between a rotary phone and smartphone.

My hobby is writing. Write what you know. I needed to see the trainwreck that Sears has become and I think I have a fair determination by now. There is not anything that we can do about Sears other than pick it's carcass. The question is why and how did it happen? Only you folks who are associates can tell the sordid story. It is always to point a finger and say that this witch or that witch did that and they are to entirely to blame but it is much more complicated.

I like this place because most of you folks are real and I appreciate that fact. No violence, no fraud and maybe some inside smart alec fun.

Being an assistant manager is kind of sh--ty but I ran our shop today and I often buy pizza for everyone expect when the manager is actually there. I was MOD today so I asked everyone if they wanted pizza because I had f---ed Eddie six ways from Sunday with his SYW sh--. I know can expense that but I pay out of my own pocket because f off with the paperwork involved. Associates love that sort of thing once in while because Auto is never not busy. I demand the work but I don't overbook them like the manager likes to do.

If your employees are pissed off all the time then that means that you are a sh--ty boss. Pissed off employees do not work as fast and they don't do as good of job. There is fine line to being Mr. Nice Guy and being a complete dumbf__k prick. I know better and I know that people, not associates or employees or members, respond better to being thanked for the work they do by their manager.

I hate morale issues and I move right away to address any issues. When is the last time any of you were told that your were doing a good job? Never? I have never been told that I am doing a good job by anyone internal.

You folks all keep your chins up. Thank you for your tenacity.

There were a couple of comments referring to things like "I'll mess you up" or similar - semantically, it's a threat, a benign one nonetheless. Anyhow, all of that was deleted promptly - they do monitor the site and they do delete posts. The best thing is to read rules below and you should be fine, it's straightforward and keeps things civil and clean which helps us all here (it's seems that we have a nice small insider community here - it's a pity that we do not have more folks participate)

I don't see any calls for violence here. Mostly it has been reposts of financial media news and some people asking fair questions about what is going on or posting observations. I posted under my real screen name some time ago and if you can figure that out you figure I am linked to some pretty dark outlook financial websites as a blogger.

I don't always believe what I read and I know my way around finances and corporate policy. I decide to take a poor paying management job with Sears just so I could see everything from your side. In other words, I asked for it but I had a plan and I have almost accomplished it but it did cost me some money. I study everything about what I see going at the Sears I work at. I have noted the structure of the organization and how it's management works. I play the little games just to see what is going on. I still am per my SYW post from tonight. Someone hasn't noticed what I am doing yet? I notice if people are right or left handed immediately.

I feel bad for the long time Sears employees who took pride in the company and what it was. No Millennials want to work at Sears. Sears is a simile to what the United has become. It is land of broken dreams and sh--ty jobs and every one up to their ears in debt. We live in a zombie economy.

OH, yeah, that would be a PR nightmare for SHC. Just imagine SHC suing employees who complain and tell the truth. JUst don't make threats or get to angry

This is most likely a threat from corporate- or 9055 posting under "anonymous", to shut people up because they are panicked we are onto them and sharing information, lol. In order to obtain a subpeona, cort order, etc., there has to be cause, i.e, something relevant to a criminal or civil case. There haven't been any posts that I've seen that contain terroristic threats, death threats to another poster (how you anyone even know who they are threatening since this is an anonymus board?) or proven proprietary information about the company that could be considered "insider trading". It's people offering their opinions, sharing what is going on in their stores/district, sharing things they have read on financial websites and speculation. SHLD can't so a dang thing about this site and the posters here. Years ago Walmart tried to shut down a WM employee complaint site, tried to find out who was posting there but failed to accomplish either because they had no legal standing. They eventually paid the owner of the site millions to get him to shut it down and make it go away.

This is either corporate intimidation attempt or a troll, like the person who supposedly had info that Thursday's meeting was about closing 130 more stores when it was really about asst mgrs going to hourly pay grade.

Employees, people, are allowed by first amendment to voice their displeasure and relate their true experiences. No one has used any personal names or fabricated any lies about the company. I haven't read any posts that threatened anyone. It also isn't illegal to ridicule Sears. Stop trying to intimidate people's free speech.

My opinion, anger is allowed but keep it in check, don't over do it. Sears would look absolutely foolish going after employees who spoke ill of them. Imagine that publicity?!

If by mentioning names you were referring to my comment that 9055 must = Eli Wexler, I will elaborate. Eli Wexler is not a real person (well somewhere there probably are several Eli Wexlers, but besides the point for this reference). Eddie Lampert used the pseudo name Eli Wexler to post/argue and generally spy on discussions in the company's Pebble (in-house social media app) discussions. Once this was outed the profile disappeared. 9055's pro-company stance just seemed familiar to that.

IF you weren't referencing to this, no harm no foul. I haven't really noticed people outting names of others.

one small thing on the subpeona- you'd have to go to court and youd have to pay for lawyers and sears doesn't have 2 cents to rub together.... also a lot of posters on here are international good luck with your illinois law in europe and asia ..... lol

Sears Holdings can subpeona anything on here. They have that power according to Illinois law.

So far nothing I have seen here warrants that, unless names were mentioned or illegal activities were alleged.

Finally, I was getting sick of all the stupid cussing and anger. Let's get back to a board that shares information not a bunch of trolls trying to get a rise out of people

I haven't seen any recent posts calling for violence or personal or property threats. Were they removed?

some posters are totallyout of control, i've see threats b4 here and layoffs .com should do what they say they will do below - especially when posters metnion names etc - its stupid to behave this way

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