Our store manager called a storewide meeting about "fake news" and actually mentioned this site. She didn't want anybody to pay attention to the news or read/participate in any discussions on the layoff message board. She didn't want anybody discussing anything negative about Sears, even in the breakroom or outside of work (I did, however, agree that nobody should be talking about Sears' problems within earshot of a customer, but AFAIK, that was not the case, it was just talk in that she overheard in the breakroom which prompted this meeting). She then brushed off Sears' problems being bigger than they really are and that "these Wall Street people" were blowing everything out of proportion and didn't know what they were talking about. This was said by someone who only had a high school diploma.
She held a closed meeting with those of us who were managers under her and said that she was losing too many people so fast because of the "rumors" scaring people away. Well, she was only telling half the story, she didn't take into consideration that 1/2 the store was scheduled for less than 10 hours a week (hard to keep people on so few hours!). She didn't take into consideration that even though our consultative salespeople averaged 25-30 hours they had nobody to sell anything to (they were not making any commission at all!). She didn't think about the all the stores closing around us or all the different changes that were made in the stores, like simple store. She basically wanted us to do damage control, including writeups and pep talks. I refused.