How many people have quit at your store within the past couple of months?

In just two months, my store has lost:

6 HA sales (we now have 3)

7 HI sales (we now have 2 including myself)

12 softlines support (we now have 5)

1 softlines zone supervisor (still open)

5 store support (we now have 3)

1 store support lead (still open)

4 OA's (still open)

These people all put in their notice, walked out or just stopped showing up.

And, today at the morning rally, our store manager announced to us that she will be leaving in two weeks. She wishes us "good luck", whatever that means.

The hardlines zone supervisor is the only manager after our store manager leaves and he is going to probably throw in the towel. I don't know what will happen then. It's going to be just him and one employee from softlines on key carrier duty doing all the opening and closing the store and doing all the MOD duties. I've been approached to be a key carrier but turned it down when I realized that I won't be getting paid extra. Nobody else has bit yet.

Out of about of dozen newly hired employees, only two are still with us, and they're both store support and the warehouse is a mess. Nothing is put away or stock located. They are constantly mixing up store stages and go over the five minutes very frequently. They haven't been trained properly.

Softlines has just one person who's been there longer than six months and she's only been there "almost" a year, so nobody knows how to do anything there either and they are constantly calling for help. Our adset is in terrible shape and ever since softlines lost their supervisor four months ago, they've been putting things wherever.

I guess the good thing is that nobody is below 25 hours except for the employees who are students.

Still waiting for a start date somewhere else so I can leave.

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In six months we lost about 50 people, I kid you not. I was constantly seeing new faces one week and never seeing them again the next. We've even had assistant managers come and go in a manner of weeks. We are on our third store manager in a year. The one that hired me about a year and a half ago was in the process of leaving and left a few days after I was hired. Every single department and position in the store is such a revolving door. Nobody knows how to do anything because everybody is new to the job.

Those of us who are "long time" associates are expected to show everybody how to do things. But they don't understand that we don't know everything! I have only been here for about 1 1/2 years and yet I'm considered a long-timer. The person who has been there the longest has only been there for four years and she's a cashier. I sell tools, fitness and lawn and garden. One other sells appliances and has only been here two years. We don't know "everything" about the store.

The ones that quit are the ones who no longer want to put up with the lazy associates who do nothing but are favored by management. Assistants who have no regard for anyone but themselves. Assistants who lay their butts in office or break rooms. No desire to work and put the load on others. The hard workers are ignored and given more to do. Lazy ones quit when things don't go their way but are hired back in a flash to do nothing once again. The stores went to hell in a hand basket fast and it's sad. Quit is the only thing to do, the smart thing to do.

Our store has lost an ASM and two leads along with several full timers....all of them longer term associates with at least 10 years of service each.

With the way the stock is, the writing on the wall is becoming far clearer to most people and employees will continue to move on at a higher rate

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