Thread regarding Macy's Inc. layoffs

It's a sad situation. Over my many years at Macy's, I've seen a huge decline. There is no positivity. Barebones coverage. One associate handling an entire area alone. Some with no Associates. Since corporate decided to make all of the cuts this year, the decline in customers has gotten worse. Sometimes, there may only be three or four customers in an entire day. And I mean just walking in the door not necessarily buying anything. Multiple associate ending in resignations on the same day. I have left and moved on to better things. What a relief.

It’s ridiculous when you don’t have any staff to take care of the customers. Also customers are robbing you blind. I guess gone are the days when you had an associate to help you shop. It’s gonna be like Walmart with self checkouts. Macy’s is all about the magic. Get rid of all underperforming stores! Keep Best ones in prime markets. Everything going to online anyway. Writing on the wall

I'd say the OP is non other than Hal himself. It's just a guess. Posts like this one started shortly after he joined. But, I would say the OP, whomever it is, is giving you good advice. Walk away. Macy's is dying but not because of Amazon. It's dying because of extremely poor management. I've read most of the posts here and a pattern of cutting where expanding is needed, automation and technology when they need a more human approach, and spending money recklessly when they need to be misers is very obvious. You guys/gals see this everyday. You're hoping and wishing they will change. They won't. I walked away and haven't felt this good in a long time.

The older managers are the best. The younger managers just sit and look at their phones. The best thing is that the younger managers never stay

Amen! Finally somebody that did not drink the Macys Kool Aid ! How managers get away with this old school harassment it’s beyond me! In my store the older managers are all on power trips. Fear tactics all the way. Can not wait until they are all eliminated one by one! Start treating your employees with respect! Thank God for this site

Once more.... I agree with the poster below me in his response to the original poster.... perhaps the original poster is the one who has benefited....

Correction.... it is the poster BELOW me I was referring to in my comment.

I could not have said it better than the poster above. I agree, the disease is management. Maybe you. Maybe you have benefited off the backs of faithful, hardworking frontline sales associates. I do agree with you and the other posters......get out. Get out because you deserve better.

To the person that created the original post....this site is not filled with complaint's entirely. Concerned associates is more like it. Integrity is what they are looking for, not lip service. So, I suggest you get out from behind your desk and see the real magic of Macy's in the store's. Not the wall paper or the fixtures...... Look at the staffing and the environment. My question to you is who spread the "cancer"? Not the dedicated employees, who I might add are worried about their jobs. It is management that is diseased.

"Buy in" Buy into a toxic work culture, motivated by fear-inducing cult-like mentality.

Holding your breath week to week for the sales numbers. Hoping your location meets those numbers so you can count on having a job from quarter to quarter. Living a life with no stability from year to year. Totally at the mercy for a group of fossilized shareholders.

In that case, I agree! Get out, run and don't look back!

Leave those how are so willing to bow and scrape, so that their management get those numbers up and cash in, while they toss you pennies for your efforts.

There is no help in the stores...I agree hire more staff or close them.

Let them hire more help ,or close them!