Thread regarding Cabela's Inc. layoffs

Wow,. I am always amazed how when a topic is posted one individual proceeds to hijack it with his scattter brain nonsense about how we need to provide a fund or what ever for the relief of everyone affected.

What started out as a simple comment concerning what the previous ceo is doing, has turned into the normal accusational and belitting diatribe of one individual.

Who claims to have the answers to problems that are being taken care of already.

As well as claims of having direct contact with managers and corporate officers,

To this poster, please please stop this nonsense.

We do not need your help, and consider seeking help for your Messiah complex,. It is not healthy.

Hey Mister, don't listen to these guys. We'll take anything we can get. We love charity. See if you can get some of that government cheese or some old WWII g rations. Also for jobs we'll take any kinda work, maybe they could bring a toxic ware dump, slaughter house or radioactive facility to Sidney. Or maybe Sidney could be a giant sewage treatment for Colorado. We will trust what you think is best.

This dude has a Messiah complex. He's proposing federal expenditures, setting up foundations and generally running corporations, all from from his double-wide trailer. Why not wait for your invitation to Maro Lago before you ask for the really big handout package for Bass Pro. BP is so lucky to have doing all this behind the scenes work, is must really make their lives easier.

You finally got!

Sidney doesn't want or need your charity! We have pride.

Now get back to your game of tiddly-winks

In the proposal for this plan there was a provision for community assistance to assist communities which has suffered damages due to the merger. Sidney would be in line to received a sizable amount. However it is good to know Sidney doesn’t want any of these funds and doesn’t need them. The community of Sidney has been crossed off which will really help other communities . I am going to talk to a United States senator about the current situation in Nebraska and I am sure he will be happy to know federal spending can perhaps be cut in Sidney.i will still work to obtain assistance for bass pro employees in Sidney who may suffer a hardship due to the merger. You may speak for the city of Sidney but you do not speak for bass pro employees.

Way to funny

Ha ha this. is gust one poster posting to him one self. I know I can save Sidney by helping all the layedof workers with ther differcult times. I worked 30 years at the DC and can meet with the derctors and have them contacr shareholders to give money back to the poor workers. The hater want this to be socialism but it is jest getting money from the secutive that belong to the hard workers that made cabals great.

Why does this poter keep saying Safeway and Applebee’s are closing ?

Also stop insinuating that this community has their hand out. We don't need welfare or food boxes from Mr Cabelas-do-gooder. Just keep attending your regular (imagined) meetings with directors of Cabela's. (Even though Cabela's doesn't have directors anymore.)

Let me ask you this.

What situation situation are you alluding to the needs to have a special fund in place to help the populace currently as I look around our around our community I see signs of hope and optimism,. We are growing beyond the past situation,. People are reinvetimg themselves. Moving forward. All without your input and guidance!

The purchase/aquisition/merger, what ever it was is behind us now. The initial shock has worn off,

I do not see people going hungry, living on the street as it seems you are making it out to be.

Many good people have moved on to other opportunities, while some are making opportunities here for themselves and others.

All this with out your help and your mythical fund to help those displaced by what has happened

It is going to be two years here very soon since out world imploded and we a a community have picked up the pieces without your help and are starting to forge a new future for us and for future generations to come after us. Agian without your help and guidance.

So I am going to say please STOP talking like you are the only hope for our community's future.

This so called meeting you mentioned never happened unless it is in a alternate reality concerning this lone dissenter who has single handed destroyed Sidney and Cabela's as you like to think . Please provide proof if you are able to validate and substantiate this claim.

I end this with this though for you,. You are not as important as you make yourself out to be, your opinion meens little if anything to most of us in the community, and your have moved from comic relief to substantial liability with your retoric, diatribes , conspiracy theories and false accusations.

Have a good day

Wow just wow,. Just reading your posts you need to seek professional help,

The tangent and direction you went with your last three posts are bizarre at the least, and concerning considering the content and context of your verbage.

Do you really think anyone would agree with you nutty post about a proposal set up to assist Cabelas employees is socialism. I respect the directors and I look forward to working with them and others to see what we can do to help with the differcult situation.

How about this solution you try to get a fund set up to assist people who may be llaid off or face differcult situation due to the merger which could resemble the Cabelas foundation. In the future I think we should realize one poster on this site his posts should be thought of good humor and should not to be taken seriously.

I also went to Cheyenne Wyoming and Denver Colorado and even in these communities may not hate in with passion like a lot of Sidney residents but so many people does like you continually basically hateful lies you post on this site.. do you still stand by your comments Safeway and Applebee’s are closing . Do you still stand by your statement bass pro will fire every Cabelas employee in two weeks or two months or three months after the merger ?

You are such. A Nut posting to your self . Again You comment as usual is rude as nothing to do with the discussion. We are talking iof people perhaps losing their insurance not having food you start this nonsense about .socialism. You are without a doubt one of the hated peoples hated in Sidney due to all the lies you have posted on this website. At a meeting of close to a hundred employees your at Cabelas your comments and what could be done about your lies. The director stated he is hateful ex employee and management just choose to ignore him. I went to Safeway and Applebee’s andyou hated with passion for all the lies you have posted on this site. The last two post summed up just out of touch with reality you are:

well said

Hey buddy. You are talking socialism here...plain and simple socialism. Let's redistribute the money from the rich directors to the poorer workers. You are cracked!

"it is important to help each other as family and to speak with one voice for everyone." LOL...Right after they told you that they said there will be massive layoffs...and you home value has plummeted. No thanks...the Cabelas family thing is a HR sham.

Speak with one voice for everyone?

Really?

Nice utopian thoughts I would say. (Donating to a fund that is.)

Yet in all reality those individuals who make the millions in either compensation, or the stock market. Rarely and I do mean rarely do they give a hoot about anybody but themselves.

Oh they might say they care to put on a bold front of fake human kindness, to put forth a caring persona in the public realm.

Yet It is a hard truth, a bitter pill, that the little guy in the end ups with the short end of the stick.

As to your innocuous comment about hate for Sidney, Cabela's or Cabela's employees, have a care when you accuse others of what you cannot prove, all you are doing is causing dissension. You cannot change how others feel no matter how pragmatic you become.

As to your other comment about family, Cabela's ceased to be a family when she went public and was more concerned with the stockholders than the individuals who help pur her there.

Ta

If an employee at Cabela's like myself making around thirty thousand and when a director suggest I give around 300 dollars to the employee foundation a year and I end up giving around 200 dollars a year I would hope some one making 15 million in the merger agreement or a stock holder selling stock for a billion dollars could give something to a fund set up to assist people who devoted their lives to build this company , In all honesty I sincerely believe these people appreciate the people who worked for them and they will contribute to this fund. I think they are in their right mind to.

wow did I hit a nerve with you. You are letting your hate for the Cabela's, for Cabela's employees and the town of Sidney gets the best of you as you always have. You now claim you speak for all the ex stockholders and all the residents in the united states and as you say any one in their right mind. Isn't it time you follow your own advice and get on with your life instead of worrying and hoping other people lives are destroyed as much as they can be? I guess I am not in my right mind because I I listened to the directors at Cabela's and I have contributed to a fund called the Cabela's foundation which was set up to assist people who face crisis in their life. Because as they said at that time (Also In discussion involving the merger } it is important to help each other as family and to speak with one voice for everyone.

This all fantasy...he's not going to do anything. And no one in their right mind is going donate a fund to give charity to nameless folk who get laid off.

I have an idea for you,. Why don't you go hat in hand and ask, ex stockholders worth billions, for a donation to your cause.

Or set up a go fund me account.

What are you waiting for? Get it organized.

We have ex stockholders some just in this area worth in the billions of dollars who I think might contribute something to a fund of this nature. What is there really to lose?

You are delusional. I am a former stockholder and would not contribute a dime to your mythical fund. BTW...why ask this question...if it is such a great idea, just do it.

Is there anyone who can think of a reason not to set up fund which ex stockholders and others are not urged to contribute to assist in working with bass pro to help employees which may be laid off in the future due to the merger.

yawn

Bass pro has really stepped up during this difficult time to try and provide a severance to those effected with layoffs and I think they will make every effort to continue to do so. I also agree with several high level people who have suggested perhaps a fund be set up where stockholders and directors who collectives received in excess of five billion dollars perhaps could contribute perhaps a half of lets say one percent to help make up for the severance funds at the time of the merger which a confident board of directors would have set up for the Cabela's employees and I am sure would had been approved.

Everyone is acting as if this is the only company that has ever done this. This happen everywhere and every year in this country. You know what others do? They are angry and concerned for a couple months and then make a decision and move on and get another job, and yes, some have to relocate.

They don't sit around for over a year and a half and still say "poor us".

I felt sorry for everyone for a long time and wished it didn't happen, but now this is just pathetic.

It is humorous as well as sad to see the postings on this site, the sale/merger whatever you might want to call it is done, thousands of lives are in shambles and disarray because of the greed of a select few.

Yet we have an individual who is still calling for severance funds to be returned to help those who are affected. The idea is ludicrous at best, first of all, golden parachutes are a by-product of the good ole boy system, asking for them to return these payments are akin to asking the wind not to blow in Nebraska.

The damage is done across the spectrum, not just in Sidney, Many have already left the area in search of opportunities to provide for their families and their future..

It is time to let this go, learn from the mistakes and move forward. The heady days during the Cabelas years in Sidney are forever gone never to return.

The road to recovery for our community will be a long one and many of us will not see it to fruition in our lifetime. We cannot move forward when we have individuals who are constantly dredging up the past looking to bring back that which was taken from us.

We will have many opportunities to reinvent ourselves, so we learn from our past mistakes move forward and put the past behind us.

What is done, is done and no amount of complaining, assigning the blame or accusations will bring it back.

Why does anyone still care about him or Cabelas.

Move on.

I disagree 1000 percent. Tommy and the director are suppose to look after the employees of Cabelas and the stockholders. Tommy in the merger agreement gave himself and the other five directors a sevenance of around thirty million dollars and the other thirty thousand employees nothing. I do not tommy was looking in the best interest of Cabelas and therefore should give back the 10 or 15 million he received in the severance package.

That's old news. A quick google search shows that he is living comfortably in Georgia in a nice 5 bedroom house located on 45 acres that he picked up for an easy $1.1 million.

Tommy was not the problem, he was given a job to do and he did it. If you are looking for blame, look to those that hired him.

He landed another sweet job back in 2018. TrackingPoint, Inc. announced today that it has welcomed Tommy Millner, former CEO of retail giant Cabela’s, as a special advisor to TrackingPoint’s Board of Directors.

IMHO who really cares, He made his millions, on the backs of those of us who made the company our lives and what it used to be.

He is set and we are not.