Thread regarding Sears layoffs

@2dyz Wow... This is BS like really hire a bunch of seasonal and basically share the hours everyone getting a few hours a day. What the point of being a damn veteran if they are going to cut your hours I don't know if its just your DM if my manager does the same think I am going to have a serious talk. Honestly its just pathetic you know lots of this seasonal will end up leaving a few good eggs will try to stay. In my department hours are cut to the bone. We barily get enough hours with the 3 workers we have right now (we use to be 6 workers once upon a time and got good hours) now we are 3 and hours are semi ok being 3 if we get seasonals can't be that many because last year we didn't get lots of hours like years before.

Seasonals are their to me as back ups get the left over hours and basically close. Showing them task and teaching them is a waste unless they their to stay in the long run if not just a waste.

I don't know if this is happening company wide, but I've heard that our DM is demanding that all part timers be cut to a ridiculously low number of hours in order to make room for the a supposed wave of new hires. I would assume that these new hires would of course be restricted to the same number of hours. So not only are we going to have to contend with people who know what they're doing having even less time to do any of what they're doing, but whoever they manage to s---er into working here will barely even have enough time to receive enough training to ever know how to do what they're supposed to be doing.

Having seen what our HR is going through, I don't pretend that we'd actually be able to attract any significant amount of new employees though. From what I saw of one week's efforts, there were actually over a dozen matches from various recruiting methods, of which only a handful ever passed the assessment, (let's be honest, how terrible would you have to be to fail it?) and of those, only a couple ever even showed up for interviews, and the one who was hired never showed up for their first day.

If our SM actually follows through on cutting everyone's hours, we then risk losing what few part-timers we have left. Even before this we've had over ten people quit in the past two months.

When I worked as an HR Lead for Kmart, people realize pretty quickly that other retailers pay more, and usually have more hours than Kmart. It got to the point that the only people applying didn't have previous experience (high school/college kids) or were recovering from being terminated at another company.

Of course, once they realized how work Kmart requires and how little we pay, they would leave for Meijer, Kroger, Target or Walmart after a few months. Our people were either there for 10+ years, or under a year... There was no in-between

Sad when our store closed we needed to move the hr boxes out of storage in the loft. I was tasked with moving the boxes out. Some people's wage and reviews were sitting out in the open not in a box. Since kmart and sears care about private information as much as Eddie spiffy up the stores with needed capital improvements. He's so smart. My curiosity got the best of me and I saw what certain people make after 20 years dedication to the company as an hourly full time employee. No raises for years and certain people making as much as the veterans. Such a great company.

Walmart pays 14.00 to start here. Menards around 12.00 to 15.00 and unlimited overtime at our store as they can't find workers. Why work at sears/kmart for 7.25? Sad. But we are in the upper midwest where the economy is better.

Some people make a lot more than minimum wage they just may not tell you that they do.

Because most of the employees have been with the company for 20 to 30 years

I was trying to ask an open ended question in regards to why do people stay at Sears while other companies pay more?