I am a manager and we had a morning meeting as usual. Our sgm was off yesterday, so our zs did the meeting. Right now it’s business as usual, and store managers know just as much as the rest of us. Leave everyone out of the loop until the last possible minute. Only changes in the interim: no 3rd party GCs, RRC and DDC trucks could be delayed (FLS mail told us to contact the DC directly and not to pebble—sounds like controlling the spin of the story to me), and Simmons/Serta has a “temporary supply disruption” meaning we can’t sell 50% of the mattresses on the floor. I wonder why that could be. I’m trying to be optimistic, but I know the writing’s on the wall. I really don’t know what to tell my people. It’s ridiculous the way they keep everyone in the dark. I’ve only been with the company for five years, but some of the people that I work with and even the people that work under me have been with the company longer than I’ve been alive. I hate this.
This was posted on another thread by @VCkWQV5-hrt . I know they want to prevent mass panic, but at this point, the“business as usual” story doesn’t calm anyone down and is more of an insult to the injury for the workers. It’s about time someone from the company management addressed the workers.