I worked on the district and regional staff in the 1990's and early 2000's. At that time Sears had thousands of stores and over 300,000 employees. Today we have or will have 400 stores and 50,000 employees.
No one talks about those 250,000+ employees that lost their jobs. The end has been coming for years. Please start looking for a new job. The odds of Sears surviving long term are almost zero.
The headquarters people sure don't have a 'golden ticket' in liquidation. The Toys R Us headquarters was gutted to a barebones skeleton crew and started selling off furniture and decorations long before the final stores closed.
If you’re still working at one of the go forward stores or HE you’d be a fool to leave now, you’re one of the lucky ones who made it and you’re about to get paid!
It’s like having a golden ticket!!
anal retentive
One who is excessively insistent upon the smallest detail of something, usually through ignorance or taking things too literally.
"Sears itself never had "thousands of locations"...they never cracked 2000"....
Uh...."thousands" is plural of "thousand"....2,000 is therefore "thousands"......so you contradicted yourself in your own statement.
Attrition and turnover was a way of life at Sears since the mid - 80s . With very few exceptions , folks who should have been ending their careers about now we're ushered out in droves until they were all gone. Folks that are left today are the result of the workforce being turned 3 or 4 times in the last 35 years . Not too many long term employees were left to warn them that they'd never see the retirement that they were promised .
Most employees at my store are working 12 to 15 hours a week.
You mean Sears Holdings, because Sears itself never had "thousands" of locations, they never cracked 2,000. Kmart did though. Together they had roughly 500,000 employees at the merger, and about 450,000 positions are now gone 15 years later.