- "....Over the past six months, we replaced two of our three merchandising Senior Vice Presidents, [and] we replaced 11 of our 13 Merchandising Vice Presidents. ... However, as we transition from legacy merchants to new merchants, there was much more disruption in Q1 than we anticipated, and this disruption was primarily driven by a lack of visibility in our pricing ecosystem. Our new merchant simply did not have a clear line of sight to the cost increases that were accepted by prior merchants as we transitioned. Based on the assisted -- really limited system visibility, we could not quickly analyze and offset these cost increases with appropriate pricing action....." --- Marvin Ellison
What exactly was the reason for all these people to be laid off? Why the hell would you let go of so many of them and not expect you wouldnt have a flipping clue what they had been working on.!!!!! Does this not speak to how men like these only see you as a number. they never have a flipping clue what it might mean when youre let go...the knowledge or ability that suddenly disappears. Letting all these people go was clearly reckless whether they were good or mediocre at their jobs. He literally blamed these people for why they messed up...these people have no ability to defend the work they had done. these werent outdated systems that got blamed..they were defenseless people!!! there had to of been a boatload of paperwork that showed these increases...he acts like it was all verbal...and with the person being fired so went this information.
- "....In closing to improve staffing and better leverage our payroll spend, in the second quarter we will continue the rollout of our new customer centric labor scheduling system. This system will better predict customer demand by time of day, day of week and department, allowing us to align our labor hours with peak traffic, providing better department coverage and customer service, while ensuring that we're using our labor hours efficiently and reducing our overall payroll expense. This new system will replace our curve staffing system that doesn't effectively capture and predict sales and customer traffic patterns. We will have this new system fully rolled out in the second half of this year. Though we are in the beginning stages of change we are excited about the early results we're seeing and committed to the work ahead to fully capitalize on the healthy demand in our sector....." -- Joe Mcfarland
So the customer centric scheduling that is code for simply cutting hours as much as they possibly can will be rolled out to the rest of the stores in quarter 2. gotta love how they say theyre testing something but never intend to actually see if their idea works or not. His language is so orwellian.....he talks about staffing when customers are their...he makes you think that means MORE staff at the busiest times...and then he drops the truth if youll pay attention to it "reducing our payroll expense" THEY SEE YOU AS NOTHING BUT AN EXPENSE TO REDUCE!!!! theres no investment into the employees....all of what he said didnt mean more....its all about how to eliminate the employees. Dont understand these employees that can stand side by side with these twerps and have their pics taken with them....if it was up to joe youd be homeless.