Has anyone heard what the pay structure will be for the new zone supervisor positions at Sears stores that replacing the current ASM positions? I cannot believe that they will be the same pay and benefit package that current ASM are receiving, if so what would be the point if changing the job? In the employment job description there is no pay information given. Anyone know what is being offered to current leads in the now leads positions?
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Most likely if it is like the last cuts or downsizing, you will make the same but with more hours which means less hourly but you have a job. More stress, more responsiblilty. Take it or leave it.
To the ASM who posted the last entry,I am sure the current two softline leads at my Sears store would be thrilled to be making over $20 dollars an hour to equal $43 k a year as a zone supervisor since they are lucky if they now are making $12 an hour. I don't know about the single ASM if she will be taking a pay cut it to what positions she will be given,operations supervisor I would imagine. Although the last backroom lead was not anywhere near $20 an hour. Wondering if this is true in other stores?
I am currently an ASM who is affected by these changes. When I was sat down and given the "your job has been eliminated" talk by my SM, she told me my pay would stay the same because I made under the new cap. Yay for being underpaid!?! The new cap for Zone Supervisors is supposedly $43K (paid in a hourly rate). The other ASM in our store makes well beyond that, so he is looking at a huge cut of nearly $10K a year. We still have not heard what will be happening to us - we all reapplied for our jobs and was interviewed, some even applied for the same job at another nearby store. I do know that there is a lot of behind the scenes scheming going on by the SM and market leaders and no one feels safe. There is only two weeks left until the changes go into effect, can someone let us know if we have jobs or not??
Our ASM sits in her office from open to close. Hope she doesn't fill out for one of the other positions. We need people that get things done on the floor, not on her phone all day.
I do not know what store the last response is from but it could be my Sears store a medium size B store. Our two softline leads do everything you listed,we have no hard line lead at all the jewelry coordinator also opens and closes the store alone sometimes. I do wonder what position the current ASM will be applying for since I will find it hard to believe it will be providing the same pay scale and benefits that they are currently receiving. I guess it is a big secret since no one is saying what the new jobs are paying or if it is the same pay they are receiving now. Does anyone out there know what cuts ASMs will be taking to stay with Sears?
I am a softlines lead earning $11.20 an hour. I was informed of this change earlier this month. I really wasn't planning on applying for the "zone manager" position anyways, due to the fact that I haven't planned on staying with Sears for the long run (if there is a "long run"), and the $11.20 with no promises of a raise for what the job requires is ridiculous. This job is a resume builder, nothing else. Endure it and run to something better. I can't see how a Sears lead or manager could stay with this company for more than a year without burning out or getting carted off to a psychiatric hospital. I'm almost at my year mark and I've came close to both of those results.
As it is now, I work with another softlines lead. Both of us are full time, 35-40 hours a week. Between the two of us, stuff STILL does not get done. We have three MCAs we have (which, by the way, only see 10 hours a week on average). They are wonderful hard workers but can only do so much when they are given 10 hours or less a week. Half of that time is spent at the CAC ringing people out.
The stress and the list of things to do is enough already. Losing the other full-time lead would be devastating. Our stock room is loaded with carts of freight that we end up putting out to the floor because we DON'T have the manpower to do this because of the few hours the store is given according to the staffing quotas (LRQ). Most of it sits back there for a week or three because we DON'T have the HELP to put it away properly.
Planograms, resets, and MSP is just something we have to put on the back burner because we have to fill in for MOD for the whole store for several hours each week. We both have to pick up where store managers/ASMs leave off when they are not there or are busy with their own projects. We have to answer the bulk of the calls for manager assistance, Code 4's (registers out of change), phone calls of customers requesting to speak with a manager, sending off emails to district managers every three hours regarding metrics, and so on. We sit on hour-long conference calls at least twice a week. The calls are usually pointless and waste our time when we could be doing something more constructive.
We are frequently stuck at the CAC for hours because we only have ONE cashier on shift at any time of the day (two, if we're lucky), even during peak times. The store is a mess but the responsibility of cleaning and straightening the store is laid on us, the two leads that have so much to do with very, very little help and time.
So, just out of curiosity, I asked the store manager what the pay was for this position. I wasn't given a dollar amount, just "it's pretty good". What is "pretty good"? I also asked if the staffing allotments would be increased to absorb the loss of the second softlines lead position. "I don't know" was the answer.
I'll just take my ability to list supervisory experience on my resume and run, thank you.
Don't be surprised if some of the leads go also. In feb. at kmart the assistant was laid off and the 2 softlines leads. The area supervisor position was given to a part time associates. Those that have been with the company for several years are the ones they let go. It is to cut the payroll dollars in the stores. The stores become a junk hole, and it you weren't laid off, you will wish you were. The stress is unbearable. To cut these people as you are going into christmas is ridiculous. Eddie is just grasping for anything to make it last til June 2017, so he will have the reit, free and clear from bankruptcy. He will probably bankrupt what is left.
I worked at a B size Sears about 10 years ago. Our SM was shared with another small store. We had no ASMs. So yeah, leads can run the show. Keep in mind this was a 50,000 sf Sears.... I can't see how it could possibly work with a larger store. Our only problem was the DM who would come in and micromanage when the SM was at the other store.
I am glad the hardlines ASM is getting laid off, she is a b--ch. She just wants a warm body in this store.
Oh, at this Sears store, they have no SM, then they will have no ASM's after the layoffs. So the store will be run on lead employees. Wonder how well this store will function with no ASMs and no SM? Only zone supervisors running it? This will get very interesting.