Thread regarding Macy's Inc. layoffs

AP Ops Managers - Exempt or Not

ny other Ops Managers out there who now have the new OAPM job finding it challenging to try to do the work of what had been two people previously? I heard that all of the other executives that moved into the new role got a raise, but none of the OPS people did. We didn't even get an option to take a severance package, just told that we now have to catch shoplifters and do all of the AP job too.

My store is only planned for one detective and the job has been open for months, that means that I am the only AP person in the store. I don't even know if it is legal to pay me as an exempt manager when I have to do all of the detectives work and then do all of the OPS work in the store. Between audits, floor walks, bag checks, watching monitors, and having to help the support team with all their workload thanks to the huge staffing cuts, I really spend the majority of my time doing tasks and not supervising people.

Add to this that my new boss expects me to complete all of my AP training at home on nights and weekends so I can start making apprehensions, and I am working 70+ hours a week for the same pay. Does anyone know if this is legal? The old HR person who was let go last month tells me that based on the new expectations of the job, I should be paid OT since I don't really qualify as an exempt manage anymore.

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There is no way that an OPs manager is complaining about pay.... additionally the fact that you're complaining about the workload? I've been a 1.0 FHE since my detective hours were given to a diamond store 3 years ago: you get creative, become an innovator and make the most of it. Listen, long story short: if you don't like the job you need to get out and let somebody else come in at the boatload of money that you're making. Also, if your attitude is like this consistently I am praying that your DDOAP is working on getting you out of the position. If you would have had to interview for this position like the rest of us who work and don't sit around complaining bc we actually have to earn our check, you wouldn't have gotten selected to continue. I know this for a fact. S--- it up or leave.

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Glad I got out before the merger. I was an APM over 50 mil dollar door and I NEVER had a free moment unless I cut my phone off. Between my a**hole District AP director hounding me about interviewing 10 internals a week, shoplifters and grab and runs, managing a huge LP staff, taking care of another store that didn’t have an APM, the alarm center calling every night about something and the store manager griping about everything, everyday. I was done. All that for $45k a year. No thanks, as I watch the OPs Mgr walk around with his tablet and work 30 hours a week and go home..... and be off every weekend and he was making $65k yearly. Get ready now, Macy’s is about to drill it to y’all!

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Post ID: @4wev+RTOUcqq

kinda funny seeing an ops mgr complaining about pay. The ap managers got a pissy 10% increase when most of us were making $50k or under a year. Ops managers walk into this company making at least $80k a year. My ops manager was making 6 figures and I was making less than $60k with 20 years experience. If they aren't bringing us up to at least $80k to do your job why the heck do you think you should get extra money to do my job???? And I hate to break it to you but apm's are working 24/7. Our phone never stops ringing. It rings on vacation, days off, 3am, 7am, 11pm.... even when we're in the freaking building. I'm usually in court on 1 of my days off and if you're lucky you have to be responsible for a furniture store that you don't even get paid to baby sit. Shut your face!

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Post ID: @3rno+RTOUcqq

LOL!!!!!

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Post ID: @1eyh+RTOUcqq

These jobs are Exempt. No OT. It is legal. Job classifications are based on FLSA guidelines and this job is one that is Exempt, just like the APM and the multi store OPS Mgr jobs were before they were combined. Why combine two Exempt jobs and make the new job cost more by changing it enough to make it Non-exempt? Think about it....Defeats the purpose of the merge. The HRM was wrong. Probably didn’t care about the misinformation they spread as they were walking out the door.

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