Thread regarding Giant Eagle layoffs

I was let go after 16 years right before the mass layoffs along with 13 others. The oNE employee now runs his own store. Another is somewhere higher in the food chain. The last one became a sea food lead, to manager, to I don't know where. I know his ties wanted to pull him up the latter the lasT I talked to him.

That definitely s---s. Where are you now? What became of family member in seafood?

In corporate, you can trace many high paying/high title jobs back to the original families. The last names will obviously be different, but it doesn't take much to figure it out. I suppose some nepotism is expected, I just don't think nepotism should trump competency (look no further than who was responsible for the 20 million dollar loss with the bottling plant fiasco as an example).

Please post names, I’d love to see the correlation and who their related to!

I can give you one. When I first started with the company 17 years ago, I was told I was management material. One exception, I needed a college degree. I even was trained as a manager while going to college. Seafood manager position opened up. He retired. I was over qualified. At this time I had done this position for 3 years. Fully trained as a manager etc. Boom nope. A higher up corporate son starting working. No experience what so ever took the spot. Heart ripped out. Went to the deli. The kid got promoted at the position opened back up. I applied only a week later another higher up corporate son took the position. So the deli position opened up. I applied at this time being assistant for a year. Nope the cousin of the seafood manager took it. Never got the position ever. I still owe $20,000 in school loans for nothing. I can give more examples and the names of all the people :)

Any specific examples?

My experience was the same. I was with the company 9 years. They are bloated with corporate positions and now that the market has changed and people need to save money GE is frantic, but they are only really worried about the ones at the top not the hourly worker.

That was my experience, and one of the reasons I left after 10+ years. There is a small pack of mgmt favorites, and they just churn through them without even considering anyone else. Then, when you witness positions being created just to keep those few favorites occupied, you really lose morale.