Thread regarding Sears layoffs

@1the; That seems to be about the only thing to do of late. Our store just keep hemorrhaging employees and our HR seems unable to retain many new ones, though not through lack of effort. The backroom is just piling up with months old freight, and just unloading the trucks has become a sort of demented game of musical chairs. The best we can do is shuffle pallets that are too high to fit out the door into some relatively clear alcove in the back and hope we can make enough space for the new stuff. We've even had weeks where there weren't enough people to unload the truck so we were forced to do it gradually over several days or outright wait until the day before the next truck arrived to just madly move everything somewhere in receiving. Meanwhile the DM is mouthing off to everyone on how they're terrible because they can't each do the work of five people and are each single-handedly bringing our store and the company down.

Interesting comment on corporate. I don't see it as toxic at all in my department. There are some negative associates, but that is to be expected in a corporate environment. Considering how tough business is out there right now, I would actually expect the environment in corporate to be bad, but in our area it isn't. We all work hard, but for the most part all of our leaders are good people.

I do what is expected of me, not a damned thing more. I am good in PAs, credit, shop your way, but I will not stay late. I will not volunteer to do jobs in the other parts of the store. I will not come in on my day off. I will not put merchandise unloaded from the truck away. I will not do MOD duties and not get paid for it. It's like software, more capability is coded in to the product you purchased, but you gotta pay more to unlock it.

Sears is not a charity case, I don't do things out of the goodness of my heart. I do things to get paid. I'd be more inclined to help out if I were paid better and valued when I did work hard and did give a damn. Alas, that is not the case, so I do exactly what the job requires, nothing more.

It's very toxic at corporate too.

O.P. is right. I worked there for 39 years. At the end, it was unbearable. The poison that is spread by ownership eventually trickles down. You could have one associate where there should be five, and you would be expected to get the entire workload done. Like 3 people on a replenishment team expected to process - stock shelves and deal with excess - a 3500 pc truck in under 8 hours. In addition to running registers.

You are not paid to care. Go to work, clock out, and go home

Feels to me like someone just trying to "stir the pot" so to speak. Doesn't really feel like an associate who is the OP. I don't know. I go back to I just go to work, make money, and go home. If the job goes away, I will look for another one and move on. Don't let a job environment change who you are. Do what you can and then just go home. There are "toxic" environments everywhere.

I feel like that was a good response to the thread it was in, but I think it should be obvious to everyone who reads here that wages aren't sear's only problems. Not really worth its own thread but ok..

We all know the biggest problems with sears are lack of good business decisions in the past which are coming back and biting you in the butt now, as well as lack of funds now so you can't actually fix the problems those decisions created.