With so many stores losing manager positions through attrition, our region (West) is pressuring stores to transfer managers from locations that are over budget to ones that have an open position. These reductions are supposed to come through attrition, meaning that stores can run over until somebody leaves. My manager explained that she has to be on weekly calls and explain why she can't get one of us to move to another store that is 30 minutes farther from where live, not to mention a mess of a store with a brand new store manager. Anyone else getting pushed to go another store they don't want to transfer to?
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Layoffs would have been preferable to these "through attrition" tactics. Why make these reductions through attrition and then only allocate payroll plans based on the reduced headcounts? Does our CEO not know that our region, district, and store leaders are all a bunch of people with a high drive to win and succeed, which is the reason most of them are in their position. What kind of new culture are we really trying to create when we set teams up to fail unless they force through reductions and facilitate this "attrition"? Perhaps this is a strategy to make the reductions happen without the liability of paying severance.
Feels like the new culture is more like hostagatality than hospitality when we are being pressured into taking jobs we don't want.
We have a top 50 door that has a CXM position open and they are unable to fill it . We are all being asked if we want to grow with the company and it’s a great opportunity. This truly makes you feel like just a body to fill a spot if everyone is being asked since our store is over by 1 manager . I thought the top 50 doors hand picked only top talent. Meanwhile we have a store closing within the area however all the managers at that location are taking the severance. Makes you think !
Want to save money, Stop paying people six figures trying to go over schedules to save money. Don’t pay people lots of money to sit in an office to figure out how to save money.
MBA here, our STM asked managers to leave hours open and unfilled until one of us find a job at another store or leaves. She said that budgets will be based on our staffing plan, not the managers we actually have in our store. That means we will be running over budget every week by a manager salary so we are going to try and save hours to offset the overage and still be able to make profit. Running the store with so many open hours is probably a good way to make sure one of us leaves.
Yes my STM called me in the other day and was telling me the same thing. We are over owned by 1 manager so 1 of us will have to go . She was looking for someone who wants to go if not we might not have a choice.
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