Sears Holdings Social Media Policy

Here is the text of the recently talked about Sears Holdings Social Media Policy:

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In order to ensure that the Company and its associates

adhere to their ethical and legal obligations, associates

are required to comply with the Company’s Social Media

Policy. The intent of this Policy is not to restrict the

flow of useful and appropriate information, but to minimize

the risk to the Company and its associates.

Prohibited Subjects

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In order to maintain the Company’s reputation and legal

standing, the following subjects may not be discussed by

associates in any form of social media:

 *Company confidential or proprietary information

*Confidential or proprietary information of clients, partners, vendors, and suppliers

Embargoed information such as launch dates, release dates, and pending reorganizations
Company intellectual property such as drawings, designs, software, ideas and innovation
Disparagement of company's or competitors' products, services, executive leadership, employees, strategy, and business prospects.
Explicit s-xual references
Reference to illegal d--gs

* Obscenity or profanity

* Disparagement of any race, religion, gender, s-xual orientation, disability or national origin

Source: https://employerlawreport.lexblogplatformtwo.com/files/2013/09/Advice-memorandum.pdf

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Ups, someone’s gonna get busted for posting social media policy on social media.

So basically everyone should be fired. From reading this policy, it is not that you are not suppose to post about SHC, or say anything negative about SHC on here on any social media. It also says that you cannot cuss, talk about illegal d--gs, s-x, or any vendor that SHC does business with. Not that there are many left. So if I said that some product was horrible or posted that my whatever TV was a piece of junk on any social media, I would be in violation of their policy. Good luck in trying to enforce that.

Yep, never signed it lol.

Not a company shill just someone who knows how to find information that has been talked about in this forum recently.

Years ago, there was a legal inquiry as to whether or not this "Social Media Policy" actually silenced people's free speech. Here's a link to where I found the info: https://employerlawreport.lexblogplatformtwo.com/files/2013/09/Advice-memorandum.pdf

"A big executive saw something he didn't like and threw a fit"....

Yeah, he probably does not like the fact that Sears is being criticized for wanting to pay millions of dollars of retention bonuses to executives that are driving the company into the ground.

Meanwhile, front line workers in the stores who interact directly with customers are losing their jobs as stores close while these highly paid company executives keep getting these bonuses even after the company filed for bankruptcy.

Yeah, the front line workers at store level have a reason to be unhappy.

Eddie and all of his toadies can take their Social Media Policy and stick it where the sun doesn't shine! Of course, that would have to be after they pull their heads out of there first.

@Wc3H1Vh

( crumples up the policy into a ball, shoots it across the room, and into the circular file for an easy 2 points )

It is a joke and that's hilarious. They should value the honest employee feedback they're finally getting here instead of the useless sycophantic flattery they always got on Pebble.

Yo OP

Run right out and buy yourself some crying towels cuz' NOBODY is listening to your spewing the COMPANY B. S.

I know some will think this is a joke but they recently did a big investigation at our store to find out who was posting here. A big executive saw something he didn't like and threw a fit. Another reason this company is failing. Instead of fixing problems let's cover the truth up and continue the corruption.

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