Rumor has it that Eddie is well aware of this board, and receives regular updates on the posts we're making, if not checking the site himself when he can pull away from island life. So, why not take a moment to tell them what we really think? I'll start.
Eddie: Face it, you failed at running a retail company, and you taking over as CEO was a direct result of failing to keep anybody decent at that position, and now nobody even wants the job. You've failed at being a CEO too.
Your failure to invest in store maintenance and upkeep is embarrassing, appalling and flat out negligent. Your insistence on constantly cutting positions has led to so many departments - in FLS, corporate and even your call center ops, being forced to take on more and more work to make up for layoffs/unwillingness to fill open positions with absolutely no help or relief in sight.
So many people perform multiple roles knowing that we have to be a lean, mean machine - yet directors, VP's and other executives are paid handsomely while delivering NOTHING to help improve the bottom line. These people are overworked, underpaid, stressed and at their wits' end. And you don't care one bit.
How about Leena takes a pay cut and makes a store manager's salary until we reach profitability - that is, if she legitimately wants to help SHC turn around and isn't in this for the almost $1 million salary she receives for doing zero to lead us beyond shilling your pet projects that quite frankly s--- in town halls. Relay? Stupid. Shopbolt? Stupid. Neither does anything to drive profits, and half of the company doesn't even know what these dumb ideas are.
And SYWR? Data mining is the only reason this even exists, and rolling out the horrible "associate discount points" policy just shows how much you truly don't value us. You can spin it anyway you want, enough of your employees have taken to Pebble (another absolutely stupid waste of time and money) to call out exactly how we benefit less from the new policy that it should be clear - we're not stupid, and we smelled your BS the second this garbage policy was announced.
In closing, please just sell the company to someone that actually cares about Sears and its rich, storied history and legitimately wants to turn it around, will ya? Too many good people have given their all to be a part of the "great turnaround" of Sears and Kmart, it's time to get those people the truly engaged leadership they desperately need.