That’s suspicious.
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So many people will be taking the rest of their PTO after inventory (our store will be a ghost town) that there are concerns about having enough people at the store. I have a feeling that is part of the reason why the holiday hires are staying on through the month.
Former ASTS here. I never had anything to do with inventory except scheduling many years back when we had access. My Ops Manager and MTM ran it. They are OVM’s now and they are handling it. We’ve always had pretty good inventories. So I give the OVMs props for this. Maybe some of the current OVM’s had totally different roles and are learning this process now.
And I am currently the MBA, because I was an excellent ASTS who in no way kissed anything. To the point where my store manager had nothing bad to hit me with on my reviews for job performance because my results were always stellar. So he bashed me for not being an “engaging” leader in the store (eye roll). All because I would not drink the koolaid and kiss his butt. I have my job because I get result for the store.
OVM are a joke. Literally, they don't what they're doing. They are lost with inventory., everything was run by the asts before and some stores decide to keep somebody else in the business manager which was a big fail. The ones who stayed there were the kiss asses, period. They are afraid of their own shadows.
Good luck to you, I'm happy I'm not working for a company that doesn't care about their employees.
I see some stores bringing in RGIS for inventory. One store in particular here in NJ does not have the staff to run the store and do inventory. Will be interesting to see as the store has made plan and indicates they are making it work to stay open. I guess will know by February.
It's an opportunity to have enough staff to prepare for the onslaught. Oh boy!
Its the 'get rid of the old' and keep the new hires conspiracy!
Oh wait, it's just inventory and some stores only hires 12-15 new hires anyway. Dam it, I love conspiracies too.
Again, this is absolutely nothing new at all. Former AST-S and currently an MBA. Many people have not been scheduled for inventory is because we were all basically on the sales floor and ringing on registers non stop every day the past month! I had no time to do my other responsibilities nor did my colleagues. They need to give me names to schedule. Heck, we still don’t know what days we are even doing inventory. Store needs to walk with RGIS. So no, there’s no conspiracies to replace incumbents with seasonals. It’s no one person has time to do 4 peoples’ jobs. Just sayin’
Seasonal colleagues have stuck around until the end of January-early February for the past handful of years. This is literally nothing new. There are less colleagues in the stores from the last layoffs so they need a few more hands to help prep and get through inventory within the company. Everyone just enjoys making a mountain out of a mole hill and it shows.
Our seasonal employees do not wish to work inventory so they are not scheduled. The very people who I feel are being groomed to replace us long time, dedicated and loyal employees. They will use us for all 5 overnights and then most likely hand us our walking papers soon after that. Sad to see it go this way but I think it’s inevitable.
Its definitely because of inventory. More stores are doing it internally this year.
we are all seasonal to corporate.
We have done this every year. Last year they extend seasonal until feb. we do quota balancing every year it’s nothing new.
Even before it was known that seasonal help is being extended I got the feeling that they are grooming these employees to take the place of the more tenured employees. If they can pay someone 6 or 7$ an hour less and not have to worry about full time 40 hour people then they definitely will. Loyalty, hard work and commitment will go out the window in lieu of cheaper labor.
The higher ups pretty much treat us like pencils, work us till the last led and toss us aside for a new pencil. They don't care if you've been extremely loyal and hard working for the company for years as long as they know their $$$ is safe and can find a newbie willing to say yes and accept the cult initiation of "THE MAGIC OF MACYS" at a lower cost. They have absolutely no shame in their Scrooge like greed.
might just announce store is done... so if you wanna quit now do it...that why they keep seasonal till Feb.
I think it also might be to replace long standing associates who made this cut..
think about it we get rid of Mary in handbags making 14 a hr for a seasonal making 11 or less.
should be interesting to see how it plays out
I would not be surprised if they turn all neighborhood stores into dark stores for fulfillment and order pick up purposes only. They could get rid of most permanent employees and keep the seasonal associates to literally just process orders. The dark store concept allows them to get rid of the merchandise through online order processing rather then selling everything during a traditional liquidation. I got out last year right before they made the cute to a neighborhood store and i just knew in my gut it was time. Seeing what happened to the location and others like it, it’s clear they don’t plan on keeping them past this season. I hope i am wrong for the associates’ sake, but i fear it is happening now
I don’t really think it’s because of inventory. They haven’t extended seasonal before if I’m not mistaken and inventory is every year so. I wonder if they don’t want to hire because they’re gearing to announce store closures and it wouldn’t be worth it to hire new people.
They’ve never done that before! Get ready for mass layoffs!!!!!!!
Stores need coverage for the sales floor since colleagues tied up w/inventory for much of January.
OVM position frozen until February as well if your store doesn’t currently have one.