Thread regarding Sears layoffs

I'd totally wear a shirt with Mr. Bluelight on it!!!

WTH kind of dress code is this. 1980s I guess still in that timeframe maybe that’s why the company is dying

Since we're closing I guess we're not affected by that, thank god. Esp considering how before Christmas I was told we were allowed to wear other clothing, IF it was brands we carry, including jeans. I'd be plenty mad if I'd bought a bunch of stuff only to now have the dress code changed on me again AND forced me to buy all new different things.

But I see what they're back to being anal over stupid stuff customers don't give a crap about, huh? Just like how they (like most any store I'm sure) were always anal about, for example, keeping the counters cleared off when it's where returns are put... as if we have enough people to handle it all the time.>.>

And cleared off for what? For the sake of how it looks for the customer? Let me tell you... my store is closing and we're no longer using a register upstairs, though one counter still remains that we work returns, etc from. Now it's like Black Friday all the time... That counter can be covered with stuff and BLOCKED by bakers racks full of returns we're trying to get put away, making that counter clearly inaccessible and those customers STILL won't stop asking if they can check out there! (They also fail to even notice that there is no register monitor, etc anymore...)

They do NOT care about this crap. They do NOT care about our clothing, if a shirt has a collar, if a light jacket or sweater has a hood, the style or color of footwear, what kind of pockets you have, and so on. They only care that what they want is available and that they can check out in a timely manner. The end.

Focusing on such anal stuff is pointless. It's what people do when they want to feel like they're making important decisions but fail to ever make the ones that will actually MATTER.

@kqp; Oh, we get plenty of that too. If it was at least sensible micromanagement, it might be tolerable. Unfortunately, our DM has been known to task people with very specific projects, only to change his mind the next day after somebody wasted an entire day doing his bidding. He's even demanded to know why people did something he told them specifically to do. Meanwhile, our RM has literally yelled at certain associates for doing things that their job description explicitly states they are supposed to be doing, things that, regardless of how bad the company is doing, are still meant to actually benefit stores through proper unit integrity and such.

scr-sears doesn’t give us anything except more and more responsibilities micromanaging at its finest

At Kmart they used to actually give us blue polo shirts with the Kmart logo and Mr. Bluelight embroidered on them. Now all we get are some stupid blue T-shirts with stupid sayings on them.

avj- so true

Look at Kohls.. no dress code and the place is swarming with customers

Sears just picks and chooses who they want to enforce dress code on!

What a waste of resources to focus on collard shirts/blouses

How about those district managers be creative and get the customer back in the stores

It’s kind of funny when you think about it. Micromanagement and a focus on the wrong things is what has brought this company down. They never learn. Now the Titanic only has a tail above water and they come up with “solutions” like a new dress code. It’s all lipstick on a pig. Who cares what the employees look like when they are in the middle of a store that is cluttered, janky, and falling apart?

Maybe you should take the NUMEROUS hints and get a job somewhere else. People, realize the more people they get to quit, the lower the cost when (not if, when) they close the store.

Also the signs...they did that here long before the store closing was announced.