I don't think that Staples thought the layoffs off through very well. There is a market manager with only 5 stores in my region and two general managers who do not have stores but are acting as market managers who all still have jobs. That is $300,000 going to waste.
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If anyone is confident in their sales skills, they should quit staples and work at my company. We are looking to hire now.
Not true. Some meetings are today. I asked my LP and they don't know anything yet. Thinks it is still being figured out.
"There are a lot of unknowns right now."
Most have the districts that had a DM let go have been absorbed into an existing district and stores were notified and most contacted by the new DM.
You must have info no one else has because the new alignment isn't out. They don't know what their role will be...GM, DM, told to relocate, no job due to realignment. There are a lot of unknowns right now. But it appears YOU know them.
Why are they still there? It's simple and sad, THEY HAVE NO WHERE TO GO, and their job is to provide a cushion for those above them who can still fire them later on as things get worse, and claim they were doing something to "save" the company.... thereby buying themselves another few more months...because they too have no where to go!
Of course they're letting the "wrong" people go - that's what the worse companies do. Staples falls in that category. Staples is like any other failing company and will only focus on draining every last cent that's left, instead of focusing on people (associates and customers). There's a mindset that useless, amateur leaders keep; they convince themesleves that it's all about the bottom line (the wealth of top leadership, shareholders, etc) and they are there to make business decisions, not worry about the associates' success or well being, or customer actual needs. But the reality is that it's all about people (top leadership, shareholders, associates, customers) and it all dies when it's treated like a non-people based machine. A company serves no purpose when it doesn't serve people.
The reason that Region 1's RVP is still there is that he's part of the dying machine. He fits in that culture perfectly.
Exactly. Best advice I ever got from a rich man. "Learn to play golf."
It's Staples. Things are not done logically. Job performance has little to do with anything.
I have seen awesome GMs that ran very profitable stores fired or harassed out. They get replaced by idiots and yes-men that make $20,000 less but drive their stores into the red. Managers that come in early and stay late to make sure the store is staffed and things are getting done are fired while ones that barely work 30 hours a week keep their jobs or are promoted to market manager.
Those people you refer to are probably "protected" by someone senior. I know a total idiot of an RVP that only knows how to bring people down and can't lead to save his life, but he still has a job because he is buddy buddy with a certain SVP.