Especially since we are hiring too, or at least there is a box out stating we are hiring
But with close to 200 stores closing this year that hours wd be a bit better than 7 hours!!!
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@TkUdHCt-2izv It is sad in my 6 years being in the company not once did I ever get a raise. Even after my hard work nothing came into it. Now its like I do my job at my pace. If it gets done it gets done if it doesnt times up.
Thats what I don't get why not take care of the people that know what to do. Nope they don't they rather assume giving the job to someone else and he will know its just so stupid its why lots of the stuff is going down hill in the company and in some stores fast.
Dont forget no raises no matter how hard you work. We dont do half of the processes we used to do because no one know how to do them. Many full timers left and the management doesnt know how to do their job and no one is there to train the new employees. The new people get discouraged because they are resposible for something they were never to do, so they quit.
@TkUdHCt-2nzd I hate those crap meetings they are a waste of time. With all the damn limitation of hours I don't even know why they even bother. I wish my managers/supervisors were more like that cut to the chase and stop being fake whats the plan (and do it on the PA) and end it their.
@TkUdHCt-2poz My SM loves to do the stupid a-- meetings to basically gloat it up and hear himself since hes full of himself. He will just talk and talk how great he is at times (he has a huge ego) and will put people he doesnt like on the spot.
I just don't know why they don't focus on the veterans and give them the most hours since they are most productive oh no give the hours to the favorites as always. In my store if your a favorite your good to go.
I'd rather go without the rah-rah rally meetings. I have the fake, forced, happy smiley elementary school story time crap. You MUST participate even if you are trying to be productive, you know, doing things like getting registers open, finding web orders, finishing up adset, doing last minute RAD/RAN that yesterday's closing crew neglected to do/couldn't do and so on.
We know what's going on, we know what's expected of us, don't try to sugarcoat anything, let's just get the lights flipped on and the registers opened. This isn't preschool! We're goddamn adults and most of us, myself included, know the expectations and where we are at for metrics.
Our softlines zone supervisor doesn't even bother with the stupid rallies when she's the opening manager, she just cuts to the chase and announces the goals for the day over the intercom while everyone is getting their departments ready for opening. Good enough for me and a smoother start to the workday.
@iqtl At least you still have rah rah meetings. In our Sears store we don't even have them anymore. Our store management just doesn't care anymore. They don't even pay attention to the DM anymore. When he comes in it just goes in one ear and out the other. And hiring? Forget it! Nobody wants to work for minimum wage (it's $11 an hour here in California) and put up with all the stress, pressure, and uncertainty of hours. Everyone else is paying $12 to $12.50 and hour with less stress and decent hours. We just do what we can as best as we can under the circumstances. Oh and by the way, I will be out of here by mid June. I'm not sticking around for this any longer.
@1ovf lol I should call off on ad day
@1hsb thanks for the great information.
Sears also runs on favortisim too!
If you breathe a hint of dissatisfaction about a shift start time out of your availability and a company mole or management hears it, seems like they retaliate by reducing your hours
I feel for the young people that work here that really depend on a certain number of hours if they are not in the “ click” getting fewer and fewer hours or not scheduled at all.
My biggest gripe that I can’t ask at store rah rah meeting is why full time people constantly get 40 hours and are never cut to min hours so those extra 10 hours or so from each full time people could be spread around to part timers.. fair is fair right? It’s always the part time hours getting chopped
I thought back in Feb 2018 when all the changes went into effect with the cross training and title changes that full time people where going to 30 hours max!!! Not at my store
I was consistently getting 16 hours week until then and we got a new manager!
They shd not be able to cut part time people below 20 hours in my opinion!
I just don't get why they would do such stupid thing. We have very little veterans left (including me ) in my store that know how to do processes and they just cut the hours to the bone. They rather higher new people that can take years for them to understand the system. This is why the company is going into crap at an accelerated rate.
They are hiring to absorb the elimination of full-time employees. With part-time employees working such low hours, we are not required to pay certain benefits. We also lower (or eliminate) their liability for unemployment when the time comes to lay them off, close their location or the eventual folding of the company. It's sick and twisted, but that's the way they run things around here, and it's too bad because we lost some dedicated people.
We are also hiring because SO MANY people are leaving. As people come in, people leave. We must be the certain winner for the highest turnover award. It's hard not to see the writing on the wall that the company isn't long for the world. I mean, this layoff site is pretty well known that just about everyone at my store, myself included, have at least acknowledged its existence. I'm sure just about everyone at other stores are well aware with this site. In fact, I first heard about it from an associate during a rally meeting. Everyone piped up about how they have learned so much that "they" (upper management) aren't telling "us" (associates and managers at the store level). This site has actually underscored the bad things unfolding for Sears and has pushed me to get out ASAP. If everything goes to plan, I'll ride through the end of June and I'm out.
Is Walmart or Target closing 1 or 2 stores A DAY in secret? No! Even the struggling retailers like JCPenney isn't puling off a secret liquidation like we are. Anyone who isn't a student, totally desperate for a paycheck or oblivious to the dire situation here will not be applying to work at Sears or Kmart, because aside from the certain death of this company, the pay and the amount of hours are lower than average for many positions elsewhere. I conduct a lot of interviews and when we get to the part about pay and hours oftentimes the candidate expresses their disinterest. The company is self-defeating because it says it wants to hire people to replace the vacancies and the fulltimers they let go but they don't wanna pay the prevailing wage that other retailers are paying for similar positions.
Existing associates have told me that they can work at a place like McDonald's with no stress over metrics or being fired/laid off for the same pay they earn here, with more hours to boot. Even though that remark is slightly smart-alecky, I can't be inclined to disagree with them, and some of them went off to a job with fewer responsibilities and, ironically, get paid a bit more with some level of stability in hours and the fact that the company they are working for will be around for some time.