WOW! Corporate nailed it! I've been with charlotte for over 5 years and boy this team at HO leaves something to be desired to say the least. I do how ever finally have an amazing DM and a fabulous team and honestly the only reasons I stay.

Better said, if it wasn't broken, why break it. Lets recap the Old Navy experience. Refuge sucks, design our own! Oops, we were wrong, bring back Refuge. But deep. Oops our girl went to F21 and stores are buried in markdowns, change how deep we buy... — read more 

do me a favor- don't lump all dm's into the catagory of "never calling back and never getting back to you" and I wont lump all sm's as "lazy and blaming". you will find talented and "less" talented in every company. Some of us have worked their butts... — read more 

There weren't any ipads

Just remember when working this weekend on base hours that there is a 20% chance your store closes on 1/31/2012.

Leave in to a DM to try and iron everything out with no success. I understand what the iphones and ipads were meant for. Never said that they were meant for recreational purposes, however, the message was meant to show how money is just frivously... — read more 

Haha! Yes well said.... Quit blaming people and do your job. We are in our store and yes other retailers are leaner and working on less payroll out there I've got a lot of peers in this field, Charlotte is actually doing better then most. Get over... — read more 

To the new RM, watch your back, some of your partners commnets are nor extremly flattering of you. I assume you visited recently, because comments about "what you need to learn" have been noted and jealousy. Good luck to you.

Some good call outs, but you are blind if you think all the Regional Managers are in stores like Helen. Some of us have had multiple RM's and know the difference of a Regional to visits and gives constructive feedback, to one who threatens in email... — read more 

To the long essay below: you are correct on a few things (example..conversion and merchant buys)but new "Iphones and lap tops"- not really a benefit since the lap tops are the same and for work and support to the stores and the phones also are for... — read more 

Well said thanks for representing the field.

Jenny, read below and hire a head of stores. You have no clue how a store operates!

First and for most this company is completely screwed up and lacks the know how on what running a strong and successful company is. I understand that companies all across the board see their fair share of ups and downs but come on Jenny and team... — read more 

You have got to bd kidding me?

Thank you all for cutting hours and working like dogs. You will be happy to know we saved enough money to have our San Francisco Holiday party on December 15, 5-9 at the Cigar bar. It is a formal occasion, and you will be toasted! Thanks

I believe you get yelled at, our old DM would and would put us down and now he is not here thanks to the hotline:)Im over hours this week by 40 and next week the same, they can yell at me all they want i dont care. only 2 managers in our store and no... — read more 

and really? you get "yelled at?" i have a hard time believing that. yelled at? or is it brought up for discussion??

you get 2 hours per extended hours- and you should make a case and request more if you are at that sph. and no one asked anyone to cut after the fact. They simply did not do that. They asked us to cut in our existing week and in week 2.

Also I am planned at 50,000$ with 218 hours that is a 229 sph! Way over your 150 request

I am work an average 47-50 hours a week, my team is the most tenyured in our district and possibly in region, I continue to motivate my team although they have been with me, going into second holiday with no raises and no incentive. When I bonus I... — read more 

I have the same RD as "somewhere in the south" and yes we have an amazing RD, and an amazing DM. As far as running your store on 218 hours black Friday week you have no volume. All you need to do to get hours is drive volume and run a $150 sph. We... — read more 

To " somewere in south" than did your hard working RD and smart DM explain to you how we cut payroll after the weeks are over? That's the question and how store are running on 218 hours for black Friday week? Please help the rest of us out! We want... — read more 

well- our RD works her butt off (even on her off days) and our DM is pretty smart and helpful so i'm not sure where you are located but here we are in good shape and highly supported. I believe they appreciate the fact that we are not complainers and... — read more 

The question I have going into this weekend is if I am going to be able to keep my comps better than a down 20%... yay! another down 20% weekend, let's celebrate!

Your lucky she works six hours a day mine hardly works 3 days a week if we are lucky

My RD told me to figure it out. I have to translate that to stores working 12-14 hour shifts. BTW, she works 6 hours a day and shops in between. Reality, the product is bad, we are tasking to much and have no hours to service.

For the comments regarding the finance person, she has no control over how many hours the stores are getting. She simply inputs the decision the RMs, Jenny and Jason make to save money. If you don't think our fearless leaders (RMs) have say in the... — read more 

our dm actually approved my sm to do open to close shifts all week to save hours for black friday. i think the asms should be salary so we can help bare the load and i think there should be an hour cap for salaried employees because allowing a sm to... — read more 

There is a girl in finance that has no clue what she is doing allocating the hours, she may be the dumbest employee at the company. She has no clue how the business works. But I guess its tough to understand how to allocate hours when you only work 7... — read more 

They cut ur payroll because we have to bad collections that aren't selling! We look like spring! I think all the people people buyers and corporate executives need to come help in stores and help us out to see what a day is like for us. I suggest... — read more 

They cut ur payroll because we have to bad collections that aren't selling! We look like spring! I think all the people people buyers and corporate executives need to come help in stores and help us out to see what a day is like for us. I suggest... — read more 

Can someone explain to me how going into week 3 I was under 8 hours in payroll now I'm told I am actually over 45!!! I was told by my clueless DM that the company cut payroll AFTER the weeks are done? Huh!!??? Now the only way to make payroll is work... — read more 

Another terrible weekend of poor sales and getting in trouble for payroll too high

I understand what yours saying, they cut my hours and want us to work on 2 part coverage til black friday. but i dont care if i go over hours im not going to stress about it anymore. what are they going to do yell at me for going over hours.

Our RD told us it was OUR fault we did not make plan, so we caused all the cuts. Apparently, it's our fault we manage 45-50 customers with 2 employees. We get no shipment one day and 40 another, and it's our fault we can't get it out. Our tasks and... — read more 

2 weeks ago we heard how we were going into holiday strong. Now we are cutting more store hours, hiring freeze, and canceling meetings. Here we go into a repeat 2010 holiday. I left that meeting a believer, seeing through the hype and smoke now.

I have never worked for a more unprofessional, disorganized and sad company in my 20 year retail career. CR doesn't care about their employees. The RD group have no discretion and the People team is a joke. If you think this company is not a sinking... — read more 

at least we are educated

If the buyers weren't a bunch of retards, this company would be doing a lot better. I hate working for a company that has so many bitches working at corporate that have no clue who the customer is. They need to fire the buyers and get good ones from... — read more 

I love all the elitist "on the invite only" page blah blah blah.... Just another example of what's wrong with this comp - even after people leave or are soo over it, still need to keep others in the dark. If the info is so great, then why not post it... — read more