I think we're all in agreement that this steaming dung pile of a company is going down faster than the Hindenberg. I just need to understand something from another perspective. I work at one of the DCs, in Retail filling. We are overworked like you wouldn't believe. I haven't had any less than 100 hours on a paycheck since I don't know when. We're forced to work 10+ hour days, Saturdays, holidays, etc. but all I hear is how few hours the stores are getting. What is going on? Are we being duped? Where is the product going that stores evidently have no staff to handle? Are you guys sending it right back to us? I assure you, we are not told ANYTHING. We're only dumped on every single day, with no end in sight, and told to get it done. If it sounds like I'm oblivious, it's because I am, and so is everyone else in that warehouse. Good luck out there.
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Is it possible the company is being gutted for the benefit of the insiders? Again, the outfitters will not be told anything if they plan to go private or something else. I find it interesting that they will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy back shares. How about boosting pay a bit for employees to retain the ones with good work ethics?
I actually think the store its contents and warehouses are a write off for the credit card we were forced to watch a video about how millions of card holders will be barely making the minimum payment by 2017 and how the company will be rolling in the cash just from the interest . The greed is unreal we work with about 25 percent lighting and no air conditioning its like a 3rd world country,, which again points to the credit card and greed. I just cant believe noone in the Cabelas family cares about the legacy these greedy corporate fs are destroying hourly. Have they actually gotten rid of all the people at corporate that have any kind of access to the family, It all just sems so sad when you think about the years and decades of their lives they basically wasted for greedy corparate fs to come in and destroy .
It truly saddens me to see these replies. And unfortunately they echo the same problem in our store.
Only enough labor budgeted to just get by. The few outfitters we do have are asked to get product to the floor plus expected to give an excellent customer interaction. It is hard sometimes to keep this going without getting worn out and losing that drive to care. An outfitter that gets burnt out, it seems, the pride in service and merchandising goes out the window. I guess it is ok if you are a thrift store and customers like to dig through things and don't want to be bothered. But that should not be the standard and not what our continued customers deserve. Cabelas Customers, the ones who give us the ability to keep our doors open. The ones who just want to come in and get what they need, or learn about the exciting products we offer from knowledgeable outfitters. The ONES who gives use their money FOR that fine knowledge, are the ONES who are really getting the shaft. It is humiliating to face customers and have to ask them to wait their turn. It is truly disheartening that any retail corporation would ignore this major key component especially from THE WORLDS FORMOST OUTFITTER. l can only hope that this major focal point will prevail and come back into play from our future leaders. But for now I can only hope that right will prevail even though it brings a tear to my eye and saddens my heart. I care about this business and I will continue to do my job, setting the example and hope I can keep up a good front even though deep down I feel let down and disgusted.
They keep threatening to cut our hours for full timers, and I am already struggling to make ends meet. Rents/housing costs go up, price of fuel goes up, costs of food go up, and yet they keep us at wages that are just above the minimum level in most areas of the country. "Well if you want better pay, get the sales up!" Perhaps they should have limited the number of store openings, and limited how close they are to another store. What was up with the idea of the Outposts anyway? They seem like a big waste of time as customers come in expecting the 'whole Cabela's experience' and they don't even have a deli. How can they expect sales to be up when they put us so close to other stores? How can they tell us to get jobs done when they don't give us the manpower or hours to get them accomplished? Then they have the unmitigated gall to judge us as not performing up to expectations, so then our raises are even less. How can they justify a 2-3% raise when the cost of living goes up 7 or more percent in nearly every city where they have stores? (here it has gone up 8-17% every year for the past 10 years) When was the last time they actually practiced what they preach about this being a 'family' business? Feels pretty dysfunctional to me.
we at the retail level are being hit with the same crap.,, "we're filling the staffing needs", "no overtime available, but here are some more things you need to get done", "don't worry about the restructuring, it doesn't affect you, only management", "your job is being changed to a part time position, are you still willing to work it?".. blah blah blah.. and we have been told the restructuring model was taken from a page in k-mart's so illustrious history, (didn't they file for bankruptcy and then get bought out by Sears?) Looking at the business history of our leader Tommy Milner, he just about ran remmington into the ground til they let him go as their ceo.. oh wait, it was just a mutual parting of the ways.. so yeah, i feel your frustration, and i feel like i need to quadruple my efforts to find something else..
Yes, we have tons of freight, pallet upon pallet. Days behind, no staffing to do it and the ones that should be are getting pulled to do other things in the warehouse. Overtime was allowed for about two days until they decided our lack of sales were not justifying the overtime. Well, when the product is sitting on the dock for days, we cannot sell it. Part timers must stick to the 28 hour rule if they even get that. Moral is at an all time low, workers are stressed and overwhelmed and now really have the 'oh well I don't give a shit' attitude.
I heard from a friend at corp that the top guy over supply chain was fired.
We get a bunch of freight that sits in our store's warehouse. Don't have the help to get the freight put away and don't have the department space anyway to properly organize and display the freight. So, customers come in looking for stuff advertised in the latest sales flyer and it is in the warehouse stuck in a Raiders of the Ark maze of unmarked pallets. We lose sales and have to try and order stuff for the customer from the catalog or another store. Meanwhile, we are reminded to concentrate on the customer. We don't have the product or if we do, we sell the 1 unit allocated to us and have to tell the other customers that we will have the item in a few weeks maybe as it is on order. Christmas will be here before we know it. There is a backlog of getting good workers into the store to deal with the upcoming season. I imagine applications will come in from people looking for seasonal jobs, but that is quite a few weeks away. And those new hires will have zero experience in dealing with the workflow and will be let go after January. IMHO, the company is not paying enough to attract people who will want to do more than have a seasonal job with no concerns about the company's long term growth.