Who is most likely to get cut first?

If you want to speculate, I would say the order of operations:

Troublemakers and underperformers
People in redundant or non-critical positions
People in departments that won't be needed during Chapter 11 proceedings

Those will likely be the first to go. So if you rubbed people the wrong way, did not "fit in" and were largely unremarkable or if you were in a stagnant position, generally passed up for promotions or even lateral moves or are in a position/role that could be cut without any impact to the day-to-day running, one of those boxes is probably yours.

Survivors for another day would be folks that perform well, or have a good reputation with upper management, folks in roles critical to the day-to-day or will be needed for the bankruptcy.

This is pretty much Survivor end-game, as Sears management makes the call on who will be part of the skeleton transition crew to help transition from bankruptcy to restructure or bankruptcy to liquidation.

As far as I can tell this post that I took from another thread is not based on any official or insider info, not even rumors, and is pure speculation, but I have to agree with the OP’s ( @W8YoYjp-tjj ) logic on what categories could be impacted first

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"Not true. After the last few rounds of layoffs at Hoffman, there were some smart, hard-working employees that kept some critical functions going but the large majority that I saw still employed were those that did the most a-- kissing. They were the ones that did the least amount of work because they didn't want to make decisions or do anything that might be considered controversial putting them in the spotlight. They parroted back what the leaders said and what they wanted to hear. So, the organization was left with a lot of top-heavy individuals sitting like larger paperweights in meetings all day."

You just described store #1171 in Springfield

MO perfectly.

Sour graps. you were the dead wood and you just don't like hearing it snowflake

Not true. After the last few rounds of layoffs at Hoffman, there were some smart, hard-working employees that kept some critical functions going but the large majority that I saw still employed were those that did the most a-- kissing. They were the ones that did the least amount of work because they didn't want to make decisions or do anything that might be considered controversial putting them in the spotlight. They parroted back what the leaders said and what they wanted to hear. So, the organization was left with a lot of top-heavy individuals sitting like larger paperweights in meetings all day.

" unbelievable amount of VPS the company still has "

Its only a title, doesn't mean they got's to do actual work 😄

Most barely know whats going on anymore. The company is so mis-managed (besides the top floor) that it will not come out of this. They are disorganized, they have 0 marketing direction, 0 products to promote and few vendors to supply their empty stores. Its a dead ship in the water with a massive hole in the boat...todays people got pushed off the boat but its still sinking.

As far as who got cut yes your right...but cuts were so bad today that the boss's favorites are being cut.

Funny I didnt hear of any VP's losing their jobs.....want to save the ship?? Start with the unbelievable amount of VPS the company still has.

Not just the trouble makers. Top producers in Commercial Sales are getting let go tomorrow.

In fact, the most of those staying are the under producers.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sounds like every Sears employee

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