Word came down through District Manager at our Kmart that as of December 26 there will be no full time positions or Assistant Managers, operations. Hardline and softline supervisors will be the only full time and the salaried store manager.
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Our store has no leads. They let them all go over the last two years. The ones that stayed were converted to what they call a "salesfloor supervisor", which means they have all the responsibilities of a lead along with taking on all the other departments in HL or SL or SD. They got a nice paycut also. they do everything an ASM would do but without the pay but with all the stress. Our store is also eliminating our ASM position.
As I have been saying, January is going to be a hell of a month for both Sears and Kmart. Lots of proverbial blood is going to be spilled.
@4ccq Thats just disgusting they basically pay minimum or a few more dollars to the lead to do more work. Its just bad how they eliminate the ASM's and they throw it on the leads (not like the ASM's did much either). At this point in time I don't know why anyone would want to stick around with so much responsibilities not worth the stress with little pay. I am just so curious what January 2018 is going to bring to Sears stores I can just see so much cutting to the bone (its already cut enough I guess they will just start taking parts of the bone at this point).
In a store in our Sears district they actually laid off the ASMs and kept the Leads. Unfortunately they made the Leads directly accountable for all the metrics the ASMs had been accountable for. The stress on the Leads was crazy and led to some leaving. The Leads were actually called out by name on district conference calls for not meeting metrics in their departments. Ouch!
Do not worry... You will not left behind... You will be laid off just like everyone else - you will NOT be forgotten
Someone with info reply!!! What happens to the lead position??
So what happens to the lead position?
Ok so if this is true... what does this mean. Leads will be cut as well with the other full time associates?
Would like to see at sears ASM’s in Ou store are the layest people just sit in office and are not fair managers.glad to see them go!!!!
Just FYI, how it works is that your ASM position is eliminated and you are allowed to post for the new supervisor position along with everyone else in the store.
The starting pay is around $12-$13 per hour which translates to around $25-$27k. Overtime is rarely approved but you might be able to bring up to $30k.
If this is true, it will be welcomed as an ASM i would love to be paid for all this overtime we aee working,
Talk to any store manager. They've already been told.
Ha ha. That's Sears and Kmart. Anything to set you up for failure is the move they will make!
@1vzv At my store the only changes that have happened recently was eliminating 2 lead positions (that happened when it was posted middle of the year when they had some cuts). So can I assume big cuts than this January? The only full timers we have left are the remaining HI (1), HA (5), Mattresses (1), FJ (1), Softlines (2), BR (2), Cashier (1). Seeing the majority of them go would be just big I can't wait to see what positions are getting eliminated.
@1rdf Sources or is this just an assumption? i am just curious if Sears is going to get the same treatment as Kmart with all the positions that are getting cut.
Coming to Sears as well.
They have already basically done this already in my Sears store. Outside of a SM, an ASM, and two leads I am one of only three full timers in the whole store and we never get more than the minimum hours for full time. What few people who get hired are only part time. We are prohibited from hiring anybody full time. They would love it if we three full timers would leave so they could hire part timers.
Is this going to be a Kmart wide thing?
Any news about if Sears will also follow up with the changes Kmarts are getting?
This is sad seeing part timers will not get anything accomplished and they don't care. Our store has only 3 but they carry their weight and more..Cut costs somewhere else and leave the full timers alone, for they are the brick and mortar......
We know they want to kill the stores, and that's certainly the right way to start going about it. If they pull that in my store, there will be nobody left to actually do anything. The SM, even when able to get out of the pointless metric busywork, doesn't really do all that much on the floor. There IS no hardline supervisor, and the softline supervisor goes out of their way to avoid calls. We were already at less than half of our recommended PT hiring before half a dozen people bailed for higher paying but still retail jobs.