Anyone hear about any coming up this week ?
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The are moving to eliminate all AP (asset protection) positions. They do not care about external theft by customers, members. They care more about internal theft, employees. That is why they are going to remote monitoring. Keep an eye on the employees. Are they stealing, are they taking too long of a break, are they talking too much, do they have on the correct uniform, are they following the 10 foot rule, are they working hard enough. This is what they think will make a difference, make the employees more fearful, more angry, more paranoid that they will be written up for some obscure rule they make. They will already make you sign up for SYW so they can get your personal information to sell--they can't sell information from a personel file.
Scott Glenn posted about some of it this morning on Pebble. Mostly market, zone, and field safety managers gone so far. Markets/Zones will be blended with both Sears and Kmart being covered by the Market and Zone managers. No risk level changes or payroll details released yet. Sounds like Kmart took the bigger hit.
Combining Kmart and Sears AP departments.....would have district investigators that would work both formats
When you say combining APP what does that mean?
Of course the Rumor of combining APP for both formats is still out there. I'm a APM for a level 3 Kmart and see this as a real possibility and then to remote monitoring only. The ORC groups, everyday shoplifters and dishonest employees are going to be mighty happy! Corporate is giving these folks a free reign and the shrink numbers will be astronomical. With all the cuts, I'm surprised store level AP wasn't eliminated during the last go-round. They keep cutting but haven't done a thing to get more folks in the door....but, I don't think they really care about that.....all resources and efforts are directed at online sales, SYW, and that crappy 5,3,2,1 credit card. I just wish I knew when I'll be unemployed!
@1cvh -- Makes me smile to read that you have a better job now. I'm very glad.
There's only so much 'working harder' a person can do.
I'm starting to think a layoff might be a blessing for me. Force me to look seriously elsewhere. The pressure of reduced hours keeps me from fully committing to an all out job search since I still have to be there but not enough to fully meet my bills the way I would like. It feels like purgatory.
You're an excellent example of movin' on to better things.
@sxt-No experienced LP person will take what Sears pays for the AP positions. They can entice warm bodies, but they soon grow up into better companies doing less for more. (I was an APA let go last February and was doing a lot of APM tasks because my APM was multi-unit. New job has a fraction of the paperwork to do the same LP job for more pay, basically.)
I have heard it will be more widespread than AP. Footwear leads and softlines leads, possibly even cashier leads. Remember, they don't care what the impact is in the stores. Remember what Eddie said last year at this same time when they did the layoffs? Everyone has to work harder and smarter. Lol. Except HQ, of course.
Thank you. I thought it might be the office assistant job which I thought would be a small category to target. I mean they would target it but it only affects a few folks.
We call it LP or just "security" & could actually use more. I work in a high shrink store. I think a 5 out of 5 or whatever the highest is. I don't want to offend anyone but we could use better caliber help in this dept too. It's just is another way to feel demoralized.
@kmp - Asset Protection
Is AP accounts payable or something else?
I've noticed they usually do things on Thursday or Fridays. It still gets out in the media all the same.
More layoffs will be announced by Feb 2nd. Some Ap jobs are included in this