Thread regarding Sears layoffs

Worked for Sears for 20 years. It wasn't too bad at first, had a great store manager and it seemed like I was working for a company that cared about its employees. Then the sh-- hit the fan when they mergered with the low life entity K-Mart. Things went down hill fast. K-Mart customers started flocking to our store because their store had closed down in our area. Products were dropped from the shelves, pressure was put on the employees to push credit on customers. then shop your way rewards came into play and more pressure on us to get the numbers up. They set impossible goals for us to reach, cut staff and hours and still expected 125% preformance from their staff. Always felt threated if I didn't make my daily quota. There were no pay increases for us after the merge either. Huge employee turn over in our store which resulted in more stress for the people who remained loyal to the company , getting used to a constant slew of new faces and personalites that the store expected us to train. I could go on and on about the horrible envirinment that Sears has created for it's peopke to work in but that would take a whole afternoon to type. Needless to say, I got out. Have never been happier! Sears has dug it's own grave and I just hope that more employees will realize this and go on to something better and stop letting Sears make their lives a missery.

everyone in our store is just doing whatever they want, managers included. Each person in the store is down to 3-6 hours per week so no one has any time or inclination to start anything becasue we cannot get it done in a month with those type of hours. The managers have gone from salary to hourly and they are just doing there time each day until they can clock out. Yet. the people on Pebble and corporate still act like everything is ok and that we are the "worlds greatest integrated retailer". So much b*tt kissing and self congradulations you have to wonder if we work for the same company.

The "commission" rate is ridiculous. They sold the job to me as $11 to $18 an hour based on commision rates but the base pay is less than minimum wedge. There are not enough people who come in to make commision so I get paid minimum wage and have manage chant about getting more apps for a few more bucks at the end of the month. They also want warranties sold. Those are getting harder as more and more of my customers I mean members have expressed to me their grim out look for Sears. One person tolde I was great and to get out before Sears Holdings closed all sears and kmart locations, flooding the market with people needing work.

Very well said, you hit the nail on the head! I am a Kmart employee and it is exactly the same at our store. It's sad very sad to see employees let go (1 of them after being a loyal employee for 23 years) because their position was "eliminated". In reality their position wasn't eliminated they are just being replaced with a minimum wage worker who knows NOTHING about the new position. It seems to me that Eddie is doing everything in his power to make Sears/Kmart the worst place to shop as a customer ooooops "member" ever. It is sad all the way around.

Thanks OP.

I needed to read that today. I'm going to work on my resume. :-)

Nice post, a sincere and accurate reflection as to what is going on. Good luck.

Do the bare minimum for Sears. Stop caring, show up for work and do the bare minimum, that's what they pay you, and they get what they pay for. They can talk all they want but they cannot physically force you to do anything. The whip is just talk. Let them talk, but stop caring and stop worrying.

Good post and all the very best luck in finding something else.