What do we know about Sears Simple Store Concept? Reorg impacts? Layoff impacts?
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Yes. It's over. Just delays.
We got our closure announced weeks ago. Been thru the crap you guys describe already.
Now. Try to close a store the same way with a huge influx of customers, freight still arriving. What few you have walking out. Mgmt that doesnt care anymore. Disgruntled customers and associates and you wont belive how bad it is.
Kicker is if you quit you lose severance if you are fulltime and unemployment if you qualify.
Total mess and totally s---s.
And...they want to hire 30 people till close.
Nutz!
I know how you feel (bdzm-ork).
At my store they are giving people positions that have no clue what they are doing. We have 1 data person that has to ask where things are all of the time and the 1 that trained her was just given data and pricing because she is best friends with our HR. The one in the store with the most experience was passed over. We don't have enough people for our trucks. Last week there were 2 trucks and only 2 people to unload.
We have someone who has worked for 2 months given a lead in softlines and has to have other peopke show her how to do her work. Kmart has always been a crazy place to work even way back when we made money now its a struggle every day to deal with the stupidity in this company.
No one in our store know how to do cash office, not even the managers. All we have left are a few people who have been here for 10 years or more and they are leaving in two weeks. The rest are just new hires within the last year and all they know how to do is stock because that is all they have been doing with the one touch program. No receiving person, no backroom, no cash office, no 605, no pricing, no reset person, no jewelry. No one knows how to do anything and few know how to use an RMU because all they have done is stock or run a cash register. I have done most of the jobs in the past but I'm not saying anything because it is above my pay grade.
The whole concept of replacing people who actually know what they're doing and maybe even care about their jobs with those who are often the bottom of the barrel if they so need a minimum wage job with little hope of a raise is a tired one that almost never works. If by some chance one of the replacements is actually a diligent worker, they'll usually be smart enough to take what little they can learn here and get a better job somewhere else not too long after they experience how this company treats its rank and file employees. As for the rest, it's just one long (but shrinking) march to the bottom.
Its just a streamlining of certain departments. However they are laying off people. Backroom Lead, Pricing Lead, Shoe lead are just some of the full time positions theyre eliminating but I think theyre creating part time ones to replace them.
We had a store meeting about this nonsense and were already aghast at how all of this was supposed to happen with as few people as we already had. Then we lost half of that number today. There is now literally nobody in our store who knows how to process the warehouse truck.