Thread regarding Sears layoffs

We knew how to pivot and change in order to preserve our jobs for many years

I get it. I was laid off in August after many many years. It is awful, but I knew as you did too that with far fewer stores, they would never need all of us. It is hard because many of us worked at Sears for forever and remember a different company. That company has not been around for years and most definitely not in the last 5 years. Be thankful for the time you had and all the great people we worked with over the years. It is what it is. Anyone who worked at Sears for multiple years and made it through all those layoffs also has a marketable skill set for "working through transitions and turmoil" which many companies appreciate believe it or not. We knew how to pivot and change in order to preserve our jobs for many years.

Bumped this from @120FpmHW-qzk for being on-point

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Comment! It's anonymous!

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Go to hail! I lost everything after I was laid off!! Because I got no money I couldn't pay the rent, got evicted which caused my fiance to break up with me! I lost everything, because I was laid off! If it wasn't for family, I'd be out on the street with nothing to my name!

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Whoa.... I thought during the BK proceedings that Oakbrook was held up as an example of the new Sears! It shows they were never committed to it in reality. You don’t spend a year renovating something and show it off as things to come, then decide a few months later not to acquire it as part of Transform Holdco. Was this just a pawn to get sympathy from the BK judge?

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Oak Brook closed because it was losing money hand over fist. That said it was due to the incompetence at the top and lack of a real strategy.

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Working for Sears is like being in an abusive, violent marriage.
You can see That’s why people stay for hope of change

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It would have been true if employees hadn't been constantly lied too and things were obviously run so incompetently and at odds at each other. It's obviously complete chaos at top and the Office of the CEO has no idea what's going on, because there were so many contradictory goals while at the same time being secretive two faced liars and counterproductive demoralizing control freaks. The shuffling around of inventory is a perfect example of this. Closing stores in the middle of renovations is a perfect example of this. Closing down the Oak Brook store, the future of Sears just months after its grand opening is a perfect example of this. Losing $2 billion over the holidays is a perfect example of this. Giving themselves $25 million dollars in bonuses while laying off tens of thousands is a perfect examples.

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I disagree with the sentiment, it's backpedaling and looking for excuses on behalf of the company. The stress of are we next for a whole lot of people is very real along with always feeling like you are walking a tightrope. The long-winded liquidation is far more unkind than just shutting it down. It's far easier to hear "OK, we tried, we failed, it's over" than to have some mo–n DM threaten "Your store will be next on that closure list if you can't get people to take credit cards {from a bankrupt company}" . Living in limbo crazy land, pretending everything is swell isn't good for anyone.

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