Your market probably does have a timeline as all timelines have been set as of a week ago. This move started a year ago with 3 testers for the pilot program. Back in Feb I posted about these changes, briefly and vaguely on this site, because it was still confidential.
As for photo, most photo departments are going away. Many more we’re going on I’ll clubs saw photo was not in their remodel plans and questioned it (slip on the companies part as they didn’t want to notify anyone of this change yet). There will only be a very select few that will stay (and for how long is not known).
As for wireless, if you are full time you have the option for severance regardless of what anyone says. If you are FT and have no plans on staying the delete all your career preference (current and future). Some markets have been using your current preferences to offer jobs at the time they notify a position is being cut. If they offer you a position in your career preferences and you decline, some markets have been using this to void severance (not saying it’s right or within policy but that’s what’s been happening).
The setup for wireless is the same as when clubs closed. Two month employment from the date of notice. You should be asked if you will stay two weeks of your two months to help train. Pay to train should be in addition to the 2 months pay based off your last 2 months avg but is not overtime unless you exceed 40 workable hours a week during the two weeks you are training.
All wireless kiosk should be converted no later than October (or a few weeks before iPhones next launch which ever comes first).
So basically that is what’s going on. I backed off posting on this site because I am one of very few who know about this and didn’t want to give myself away but a lot of people on here poked fun and played it off as troll or fake post. For those who did that, here it is, just as I said starting back in February (just as I said it would) and moving more rapidly in the past month.
As for PT associates, unfortunately severance is not a benefit offered to PTers. FTs make your choice now and quickly. You will need to withdrawal all your career preference options before they pull them (which will be the day before they tell you if they plan on being sneaky). Print off our severance policy and print off you preferences after you clear them for your records. Also remember our ethics Deparment phone numbers and any contact info Incase markets decide to be sneaky about severance offers. Not saying they will but protect yourself.
Good luck to all of you. We all knew when device payments were the new thing for all carriers except us cellular that kioks would become less profitable and we knew when the TSMs were let go that the kioks would become even more less profitable even though we knew some GMs were ignoring TSMs wishes and advices.