i work at the dc in canada they are laying off all 300 of us in dec thru march. they have out sourced the distrabution to the stores to a company in calgary named excell.now thats big bussiness for you. thats cabelas nature.they lost the concept of... — read more 

Yeah, this store is so understaffed that customers are walking out or not waiting to check out because of ridiculous lines and not enough front end help. Peel and Goad must be on Pinterest instead of working on staffing the store. What a waste!!!... — read more 

The senior managers now give us veiled threats about firing us if we don't meet our club card goals. They do this at every meeting. They keep telling us that we got such and such number this time last year. Yeah, we did, then the company... — read more 

Now that's it's been a couple months since I got restructured, I realize, it's the best thing that happened. I am less stressed, have my nights and weekends off and am enjoying life more. No rude customers or lazy co workers to deal with. Anyone else... — read more 

Anyone get the email they're now building a new corporate building?! How convenient, cut tons of jobs and then build a nice new building for yourselves. They really ARE clueless. I'm sure that won't make anyone in the "field"upset. What a slap in the... — read more 

Now the deli hours are cut back. Guess soon they will do away with that whole department to cut more. Part timers are also leaving in alot of departments due to lack of hours. Good job management team!!!!!! Maybe you need to figure out how to... — read more 

What a joke this company has become. Seeing your friends get let go after busting their ass for 7 years. Seeing your friends get cut to 20 hours a week. How are they suppose to feed their family? Pay their medical bills? Pay their rent? Save for a... — read more 

We have a smaller store, but still almost 20 people were let go. Almost all of whom were either there since the store opened in 1999 or the hardest workers. I didn't get let go in Firearms but I would of definitely let one of those guys have my job... — read more 

Let's be real here. Do you really think that a few posts here matter? They do not. Tell your "Friends and Family" and ask them to tell their "Friends and Family" to Boycott Cabelas. Management, Shareholders and Company Officers are laughing at you if... — read more 

Let's fire the good full time workers, then a few weeks later post several seasonal openings!!! What a bunch of jerks.

Anyone who believes this is still the Company that Dick & Jim founded is not really paying much attention. The current management uses the reputation that the Cabela brothers built to mask the true nature of the company today... run by a bunch of... — read more 

Anyone else hear that after the spring rush they are going to start the "restructure" again? In my store there were a lot of depts not effected...such as fishing and camping (ya know the spring time depts). It's been about a month since all of this... — read more 

The jokers in upper management must have gotten their "business" degrees from a Cracker Jack box. Does anyone else at their store have a ton of discontinued merchandise after the newest role?! What's really rich is they don't know what to do with it!... — read more 

It is so unfortunate that so many had to pay such a heavy price for the poor decisions of a few hogs - what was once the darling of the outdoor industry is now looked upon as a joke - what was once a company founded on active participation in the... — read more 

Close to one of the people laid off, not a new person at Cabela’s so the last in first out is incorrect. This person also had one of the highest customer feedbacks in the store. Well like by returning customers. Went from Full time to "Seasonal" with... — read more 

Corporate said they will no longer give X-mas to employees, stated the majority does not get them. Yet the department managers on up through management still receive a bonus each year, majority does not rule here! 1/31/14 deadline to sign Arbitration... — read more 

Cabela's has learned they don't need to provide customer service like they used to, customers will still buy what they came for because they drove 200 miles to get to a Cabela's store, and after receiving little or no customer service they will still... — read more 

Having the company ask us to sign an arbitration agreement is one of the sleeziest things I gave encountered in my working career. This was all planned out to screw the bottom employees so the could add district managers and justify it. HR at this... — read more 

Richard passed away and now Cabela’s is trying to quietly lay off employee’s around the country only a few days after his death. Cabela’s has not issued a press release or talked to any media about of this story. The new management is horrible.

Has anyone heard of Cabela's contacting the recently laid-off employees about coming back part-time? I know it wouldn't include enough hours for most, and the loss of medical benefits is a big issue, but I'd hope the stores would seek a continued... — read more 

I was up buying some stuff the other day and someone asked me if I had "signed the form"? He said it was an agreement not to sue. Sue who I have no idea and he didn't have time to talk. I don't go back to work for a while and would like to hear any... — read more 

Cabelas lost a lot of good knowledgeable people with a lot of time in the company....bottom line is they don't care about employees or customers anymore...

The job eliminations were not about last in the door, take a look around, who's missing? Highest paid hourly, most have been around since the store opened.... Most are full time who take cabelas medical benefits. District meetings were all about... — read more 

Managers were blind sided along with the effected employees. Many good hard working people gone, while slackers remain. Was never about performance, we were only a number. Funny how a couple weeks ago all employees were asked to sign abitration... — read more 

Does anyone know at what level of management the decision was made on who to keep and who to let go? Some have said on other forums that their own manager did not know they were going to be let go. Cabela's is also getting ripped on other forums and... — read more 

I told him that I had been in the department since the store opening and actually the only remaining fulltime person trained by store opening merchandise team. He then had this look of shock in his eyes as he realized that what he was understanding... — read more 

According to press reports from Cabela's they fired full time employees according to seniority. But at the Allen store there were exceptions to that, they fired some good sales employees who had been there since that store opened, yet kept some butt... — read more 

Well it was a rough week in Richfield. Watching friends and what I would consider family get walked out the door! The way they picked the people was wrong and nust immoral. Keep the garbage employees and fire the good ones! Makes no sense to me! It... — read more 

The real Cabela's culture from an employee's standpoint is to push their Club Card credit cards above all other priorities, followed by pushing add-on extended service plan (as in ripoff), and for the cashiers it is also pestering each and every... — read more 

There has not been any Cabelas Culture for years. It's all about management trying to increase the ever shrinking bonuses and corporate focusing solely on stock pricing. Every decision made right or wrong involves one of those two things. Employees... — read more 

Because they are opening way too many stores way too fast given this economy, and also a major strategic screw-up in getting into tractor sales. They spent millions on those tractors and adding sales and support for that and those tractors are just... — read more 

About 30 layoffs at Allen, TX store. Mostly full time. Many good sales people were lost. Pattern seemed to be to get rid of full time staff that had expensive insurance/benefits, replace with part time positions that receive no benefits. There has... — read more 

http://www.southernminn.com/faribault_daily_news/archives/article_b91b47ee-633e-58c0-bf10-153e754e5fe5.html

So, am I right here, one of the brothers just died. Now that the recreation market is squeezed is the other bro going to bankrupt and loot or sell to private equity to loot even more?

Sorry to those outfitters who were recently shown the door and horrible "big box" business practice of Tommy. I started while the company was privately held and the "Culture" was very much outfitter driven...service, service his millions of shares... — read more 

They are restructuring because some stores had 8 full-time employees in a department when they maybe only need 2-3 with all the budget cuts. And as far as how they're letting people go is they look at who came in last and theyre the first out. If you... — read more 

36 and counting in Fort Worth alone. Said to be 700+ company wide. Chosen by seniority, out with the oldest employee numbers by store. Dark day for the loyal employees!