BUt they don’t fight for hours for the workers that really need the hours.
So we are suppose to delay any vacation plans, surgeries, any other plans til August because sears doesn’t have enough employees?
The employees are supose to care when holiday pay is taken away?
It was bad enough when they took our discount away showing how much the employees really mean to sears
Just tell your manager to stick the "METRICS" were the sun don't shine; If you don't have the gumption, then just hide in the stockroom and get paid.
@2npx "16 weeks in a row" sounds like they have pleeeeenty of time to give part-timers enough weeks at part-time hours to avoid them getting bumped up to full-time status. That is a massive margin, nearly 4 months straight. And yet they have implemented this policy as 'no part-timer can ever have even one single week with 30+ hours'. Typical mismanagement.
Another strategy to get people to leave so that they are off the hook for final severance package .
@2npx. We are only talking about the month of July being blacked out for requesting time off, 7/1-7/21
Inventory is 7/21
If they are cutting hours this current week, where are they getting hours for inventory and since inventory is only 1 day, why is July 1st through July 21sr blackout ..
Inventory prep is a joke when you can’t even print a scalable barcode for Regis to scan since the printer batteries are useless
We as employees should be able to evaluate the store manager and it go into their file because ours is failing his duties
@2fis If you schedule part timers for 30 or more hours 16 weeks in a row they automatically become full timers.
@1lqj - not necessarily so. Our store support team, which used to have five part timers and a full time lead, is down to two people, both part-time, and both usually get no more than 25 hours apiece, even with the reset going on. They might get extended a couple hours over 25 but they never go near 30. It's no surprise that the reset isn't even close to finished, by the way. The store manager just "borrows" people from other departments if there's down time to fill the gap.
Apparently HR says to schedule part time people below the full time hours, which is considered to start at 30 hours a week. It has something to do with having to offer benefits required by law if someone works "full time" for a certain number of weeks and they don't want to have to do that if they can avoid it.
So with July blackout and no time off approved that must mean all part timers will get 40 hours per week in July!
We just had 2 employees stand up for themselves and give their 2 weeks notice last week because Sears would not give them time off in July. That Department is now down to 2 employees total and they are scrambling for help. Sears ultimatum didn't work last week.
It helps to be a high-performer in your metrics, a "Million Dollar" sales associate and/or someone widely recognized for performance in sales, PAs, recaps and credit. Then you could manipulate and leverage your SGM and ASM into giving you time off, regardless of blackout dates. If they don't budge then they lose you and the store takes a dive in metrics.
We all know what happens when metrics go south, so your manager will happily oblige. Otherwise, they will get a typical high school student or someone trying to milk unemployment benefits to replace you, people who aren't as skilled or could care less about what their numbers are. After months of plummeting metrics, the DM will be on the manager's case and soon their jobs are on the line because no amount of coaching or PIPs are going to fix the ineffectiveness of the sales associates who replaced you and the other top performers.
The "we can't find good salespeople to make the numbers" line isn't a valid excuse to give the DM's and regional managers when they confront your managers about metrics. Take it from me, a former hardlines ASM.
So, unless your manager is clinically insane, they will do anything to keep you if you are good. You have more leverage than you think, especially if your peers aren't performing as well.
The advice by @cpb is certainly good to heed, too, but if you just need to milk a few weeks or months more out of the job and you are a high performer, why not?
Yes. You either stand up for yourself or you do what the corporate wants. Pick one. You cannot have both. You and your fellow employees either band together and stand up for what is right or you be a lemming and follow SHC to the bottom. Your choice but I would encourage you to stand up and fight. There are plenty of jobs to be had in this economy so be brave, be courageous and be a hero.