While regular employees sit on pins and needles fearing for their below-the-poverty level positions, the Macy's National Hiring Event took place late last month across stores. Literally, anyone with a pulse who passed the initial computer screening was hired on the spot (in fact, I think that was an HR directive). Everyone needs to eat, and eating costs money - we all need to make money to live. And everyone deserves a chance to have a job. But there is something really nasty about a company who will throw regular employees under the bus without hesitation when it comes time to make budget cuts, yet turn around and hire in all comers for the season.
Half of the seasonal people hired will not even show for their training, and the rest of them who do will call out on shifts that do not please them, or put their plans into place to perpetrate their seasonal theft schemes. Meanwhile . . . folks who are loyal to the company are targets during open season.
Example: Last season, SMs were on the chopping block and were forced to work a grueling Macy's season hoping against all hope that their position was one of the ones eliminated when the final decisions were handed down conveniently at the end of the season.
Something dreadfully wrong with this business model.
If Macy's "loyal customers" really understood the dynamics of this corporation, they would be so turned off that they would just stop shopping there. Oh wait - that's happening.