Is it true that store facilities people are being out sourced?
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I don't think anyone can compare department store operations 20 years ago to today. I think those guys can kiss there a$$'es goodbye, they outsourced MST, they can outsource anyone in my opinion.
If network IDF'S are in the electrical rooms, which some are, could have been NCR that out sourced MST. These guys came through our store scratching their heads trying to fix something they could not find the right room to go to. Left with out fixing it and closed out the case we generated.
Our Engineer was walking a group of unknowns through our store's electrical rooms.
Cost cutting is the goal to be profitable and competitive. Don't be surprised if more consolidations come up again soon. How many other departments were merged in the past two or three years, e.g., Operations one team on the selling floor, another in the stockroom to pull the shoes? Watch out, more to come!
Cost cutting is the goal to be profitable and competitive. Don't be surprised if more consolidations come up again soon. How many other departments were merged in the past two or three years, e.g., Operations one team on selling floor, another in stockroom to pull the shoes? Watch out, more to come!
20 Years ago was a different animal and you did not have "out-source Hal Lawton" running the show. He is out sourcing just about everything that is back office sales support. Start planning now, as it more than likely will happen.
They did it once about 20 years ago. It lasted a few years and then they brought them all back into federated again.
Who is in charge of the store music? It s---s. Same stuff day in and day out, its mental torture! I could do that job way better.
You think not, look what they did to MTech. They had a handful of people covering many stores. They will save money by outsource. The work will not get done, just like now with NCR trying to cover doing a low ball job. Company does not care anymore. Store Manager will be painting walls.
They will never outsource the facilities team as paying an outside contractor to do all of the work that our in-house engineers and painters do would cost the company twice what it pays our own people. You can tell how low the facilities team members are paid based on how many open facilities jobs there are in the company. Not only can we not fill open facilities positions, we can keep the people we hire when they find out the workload that is expected of them.
Add to this the crazy leadership who have to justify their jobs by always inventing a new "floor move" that is going to magically make the business better, but just ends up costing tons of payroll, paint, and carpenter work, and I am surprised anyone stays in facilities.
Way too many people in district and regional roles, all trying to justify their existence in the new world of cost cutting, while we continue to eliminate jobs at store level. What would be do without all of the mediocre leadership visits where regional leaders come to the store and decide they know everything and make huge floor changes that our customers and associates all hate, and that facilities has to try to figure out how to pay for and get done along with the rest of their job.
The have a handful off ppl covering dozens of stores. I rarely see our guy in our store.
They fix any maintenance issue in the store.......toilets leaking pipes, electrical issues, paint walls, move registers, etc. Each store has an assigned facilities person.
They’re electrical and painters and so on.
I m just an associate at a store...what are "store facilities" people?
Would not surprise me after outsourcing MST field services earlier this year. The facilities dept in Ohio area area are a mess anyway. At least three retired and were never replaced.