Thread regarding Sears layoffs

@5hht- Yes, I do have and education and I have worked for this company for more than 30 years. I have given up vacations, family time, raises, and my health for this company. Could I have gone somewhere else---yep, but you know since this company used to be a great place to work and I did enjoy the benefits, and i believed in this company---I stayed. Now I stay because I am close to retirement and I dont have many options. I have made the right choices in life. I have raised a nice family, I have some money in the bank. My only bad decision was to believe that this company was going to transform, be something greater than what is was. Yes, I drank the Kool-aid.

But as for you and your education all I can say is "good" job. Way to take your education and ruin a great company. Way to take your education and put it into destroying peoples economic well being, towns and the reputation of one of histories great companies. It is the hubris of people like you that have made this company the laughing stock of the retail world.

And just for your high, exalted, information--many people at HE don't have that great education either. Many are just starting out or have worked at HE for a long time. Many are just working people trying to live their lives and pay their bills.

And lastly, whether you have and education or are a high school drop-out. Whether you work at HE or at the store level, in the end we will all be in the same place--not dead--- UNEMPLOYED. See you at the unemployment line

@5txb You know that is just one opinion. There are many of us at HE who don't feel that way at all. And quite frankly, the person who said that probably doesn't even work for Sears.

@5hht - Your hubris is the epitome of the corporate culture at HE that has decimated SHLD!

@5hht - "but if you don’t get educated" and "that just shows your ignorance." Well, well, aren't you the brilliant one! You and your "educated" ilk at HE have managed to destroy a storied American company with your overwhelming genius; how magnanimous of you. Please, oh please, demonstrate some more of your amazing brainpower that is driving SHLD into oblivion.

Well, tell me Store folks, is your lot in life FIXED? You are there because of your own life choices. I’m sorry it s---s, but if you don’t get educated, valuable experiences and a good network, then it’s on you. You don’t have to be anywhere, do anything. Life is what you make it.

And for the one that says HE people get bloated salaries for the same stuff Store people do - that just shows your ignorance. Standing around, ringing a cashier machine, stocking items, helping customers are not hard tasks to do. Those are minimum wage skills. My 10 year old can do that. No, we don’t do that at HE.

So tell me HE people. As I read on Pebble. Do you have stores at He. Or places where you can see new products or shop? Do you have things delivered to you desk or office from stores? Do you have a place to eat within the building or a place to go where you can sit outside and enjoy the sunshine or fresh air? Do you get party or special days where you have a party or celebrate something or some special occasion? Do you have mice and roaches crawling under your feet? Do you have no heat in the winter where you can see your breath or no A/C in the summer where you are covered in sweat?

Do you have overflowing toilets? Do you have a copier, a fax machine, more than one working computer? Do you have a working fridge in your break room? Do you have ceilings that do not leak and no mold in the building? Because if you do then you have more than any store every had

@4ipf Don't let what the one poster said get to you. We understand that there are very few positions to be promoted to in the stores....very different than it used to be in the stores. There is a wide variety of salaries in HE too and in some areas you can be promoted and in some areas, you can't be promoted. As I keep saying, I don't know why anyone from HE is complaining as it isn't that bad here. Perhaps the ones who are complaining have never worked in a store. I agree it is much more difficult to work with people 24/7 and in today's world people are not nearly as polite as they used to be.

@4ybk- What is this promotion that you speak of? We at the lowly store level don't get these things. Just more work, less hours and the same pay. Been with SHC for 7 years and I make the same as someone starting today---minimum wage. No other jobs to go to in the company since the leads have been cut and there are no more full time positions being offered. Couldn't advance if I wanted to. Just letting you know what it is like at store level.

@1zzg That must of been nice for you, then. And no, he wasn’t a janitor or cafeteria worker. His work was more administrative.

And I left there after 7 Years making what they pay college grads just starting in inventory. (Not to mention, I had a master’s degree). But it was because I initially started out minimum wage at the store, which affected every increase I eve got (which only happened with promotions).

This thread tells everyone why all employees not at HE hate the people in HE. Bloated salaries to do what we at the store level do but for one quarter the pay. Bloated salaries for people who dont have a degree or even a skill set to do what they do. All the perks at HE.

What we get at the store level is more work, no raises, more stress, blame for everything, DM's who want us to email some metric that has nothing to do with customer service or sales and then wonder why sales are down.

HE executives have no idea how to run a business. They will soon be looking for jobs and no one will hire some exec who ruined a company. For all the departments and teams that come up with the most ridiculous things to justify their existence, the end is coming for you.

@xdl 28k a year? What did your husband do? Janitor work or food court i assume. In my area the lowest salary was $57k. I made six figures and got a nice bonus each year. I wasn’t even in an executive position.

APM risk level 2, eastcoast, 65k. Been with the company for six years, came from non-security background.

Big salaries! That's why they have a lot of security when they do layoffs.

In a few months the average salary will be zero.

I can't understand why people are hanging on when those being let go are getting the run a round collecting their severance . Do they really think they're that special ?

Iceberg has already been hit, lifeboats are full , hull is split in half. One man band is playing on.

@xdl That is true for most companies. The biggest raise you get in when you start a new job at the new company.

Not everyone at Hoffman makes a lot of money. Stop guessing on what they make, you look like a fool.

I think the range goes much lower than that. Especially if an employee has been there a while, sears under pays. When my husband was laid off from corporate a couple of years ago, he was only making 28k. I left of my own volition, but I was way underpaid there considering my market value in the career I chose (about 20k underpaid). This was because I originally started out in sales in a store, moved to corporate, essentially worked my way up while I figured out what it really was I wanted to do career-wise. If I had been hired from outside the company with the same amount of experience, I would have been making quite a bit more. I know others in similar situations that were way underpaid because they had been at the company for a bit.

It’s a wide range from 70 k a year to 150 k for most tech positions.

Certainly not minimum wage like the front line associates!

Wtf? $60k apm? What state you in dude and how many years?

from my days, i remember financial loading was $ 67 an hour. some of the online engg folks much more than that.

i left in early 2017

About 80k salary but figure about 125k when you throw in health insurance life insurance vacation and other benefits

Way too f---ing much.

Hope more than me. I’m a single store apm risk level 4 and I make 60k.