Has anyone received a severance letter yet?
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At least you got an email from your DDAP! I didn’t! Ha!
I'm in the AP department on the east coast. I haven't even been told when my last day is by anyone. My DDAP bailed on their job today, haven't seen my DMI in months, my HR manager bailed 2 weeks ago. I've asked my store manager, AST sup, Ops Manager. Nobody knows anything. I'm off my dept schedule as of the 31st just in case. I too am assuming that my last day would be at the end of a payroll cycle but I'm tempted to keep showing up for work after that until someone tells me otherwise. Then I'll fight for the additional pay. They really didn't communicate any of this very well
If you think the stores will be hiring again in 92 days, think again. If you have been promised you can come back in 92 days, they are empty promises. This is just bait to make you feel better. They only way there would be a job is if someone else quits and after all this layoff the leftovers aren’t going anywhere for awhile,
Yes this is my understanding also. You are a new employee, starting over at a probable lower rate of pay and no pto.
Has anyone from the AP dept receive their severance paperwork?
This is what I know, anyone else with better information, please add. After 92 days is the time period when you can re-apply at any Macy's or Bloomingdale's when they start hiring again. If you are hired after 92 days, you don't have to give back your severance check, but you no longer have the tenure you used to have, you start as a new associate, day 1. Read the severance packet carefully, it includes your 3 months of health insurance (Cobra) paid by Macy's.
I have five years with the company and was given my severance letter on January 17th with my last day being February 3rd. Later was told to reapply in 92 days if I don't find another job.
The store has also lost a jewelry manager, several cosmetic people and quite a few part-timers.
she previously was the captain in jewelry, then bumped up to the supervisor in the jewelry complex. Now she is going back to captain. Very long time employee and valuable; she is not going anywhere.
I don't know how they are keeping us there an extra two weeks - maybe they realized that they don't have enough people to handle Semi Annual Jewelry presell and sale and also Valentines Day. I am just going along with what they tell me...the whole thing has been handled so very poorly.
How is your date pushed back? The goal is to get those selected off of payroll before the new FY starts - February 4th.
how did they get away with "bumping" a sales supervisor to a captain? That's not a comparable job and can't be offered to an hourly executive! Who is making this big mess in your store? The captain job should have been offered to another full time associate being displaced.
I have not yet received one. We were all told that our end date was pushed back by 2 weeks; manager also said that there has been some back peddling in some of the departments and that some jobs may be saved. It took 11 days to notify the people affected; it was painful to watch everyone on pins and needles waiting to see if it was them. Everyone should have been told within a day or so to get it over with. In my store, in the jewelry complex, there are 8 people affected - 3 full time and 5 part time. No clerical or support were affected, only sales people. Our sales supervisor was bumped back down to a captain but still has her job.