Anyone else have their DVP jamming the Big Give Back down their throats today? I transferred into a new division a few months ago and our Store Manager who's pretty cool just told us that we needed to have all of the colleagues complete the Big Give Back donations in our store by today or tomorrow and she was almost crying and looked super stressed. She was going to donate a ton of money just to help the store meet goal and we were calling people at home to get them to go into Insite to do donations this afternoon and evening when store was busy, but leaders were on the phones calling hourly people on their time off to press for give back.
Half the people that work here are paid minimum wage or just above and our DVP seems to think everyone makes what he does and feels it's OK to tell us that we have to all donate to hit the super high goal he assigned to our store when the company doesn't even have goals. We were supposed to have completed our goal on the first day and have every employee donate but we were busy and couldn't get around to everyone.
This is just like everything since I transferred here, get all of the compliance training done in one week when the company gives us six weeks, complete all of the chats with colleagues in a week when the company gives us a month, now we can't have fun or make charity donations optional and take the full month, he wants it done in the first day so we can be #1 which seems to matter more than the people who work for him.
Clearly he isn't aware that the survey is coming up in a couple of weeks, can't wait to see how the rest of the team feels about it, I am looking forward to the survey and being able to share how I feel about how the company is doing. I am going to suggest that Macy's have a giving month where colleagues are the charity since many are paid so little and could use the money to feed their families. We have so many people that are on some form of government program like food stamps or medicaid because we don't pay enough, when we buy cheap pizza for the store, many colleagues take home 10 hour old leftovers to feed families and we are going to pressure them to make donations? How about: Would You Like To Round Up Your Purchase for underpaid Macy's workers? for our next charity event.