Thread regarding Hy-Vee layoffs

If you haven't been in this situation, dont pretend that you know what these people are going through. You STOP THE HATE toward the people that have the right to be bitter!!!

I wonder who is paying for Randy's personal security.

You wonder why people are being hateful???
You take a 15% to 20% pay cut or be layed off and how would you react? About $600 a month on average at $20/hr. The overtime would have been 5 X $30 or $150 a week or $600 a month and thats not figuring in vacation lost or Flex time lost.
If you and your spouse work for Hy-Vee and both took a 15% to 20% paycut that's $1200 a month on average if you made $20/hr. The overtime would have been 5 X $30 or $150 X 2 or $1200 a month not figuring in vacation or flex time.
That's a LOT.
What did Rangy make last yr with salary and stock options and did he take a 15 to 20% cut in pay ??
Though it still not apples to apples if you make 10 million and you get cut 2 million you still have 8 million. How many of us would love to know what its like to have that?
Now you wonder why the HATE

Stop the hate?
If you expect employees to stop the hate then employees except you (Randy) to stop the lying to us.

That’s pretty rich lecturing us about our “moral compass”. Oh the irony.

Stop the hate? Do you know what it's like to have your CEO come in to your store shake the hand of every employee and have the art of calling you by name down perfect cuz I do. Do you know what it's like to have excitement hearing that corporate officers are in town hoping they come to your store cuz I do. Do you know what it's like to have huge conventions for employees with hundreds of music and sports stars to celebrate your companies birthday cuz I do. Do you know what it's like to actually have a smile in every isle cuz I do. Do you know what it's like to put the customer ahead of any dollar because doing that makes you earn that dollar cuz I do. Oh fyi if you had your face out of Randy's a– you could see this was way before any robot puppet yes sir pull me by my leash spinless corporate officers of today. Oh yeah mic drop

I understand most of your are angry, but my God, some of you are just downright hateful! I find it comical that some of you (current employees) have the nerve to share these news stories and hate-filled posts on your personal Facebook pages — just adding fuel to the fire. Your store directors should have a company handbook refresher so you can polish up on social media rules. Keep pounding the keyboard, anonymous warriors. There is a layoff.com Facebook page, I challenge you to share all this BS there - as yourself!

I think people would be surprised how well they can do outside of Hy-Vee. The fact remains that a very, very small percentage of Hy-Vee employees are high income people. I am not saying that Hy-Vee execs and Store Directors did or do not work hard. But if you are stuck in an Asst Mgr job and the District Managers or Store Director are not getting you ready for your own store, you should leave. And it sounds like the pay is worsening for Store Directors.

This is going to hit sales pretty hard as word of mouth spreads on how they handled this "restructuring". As a recent former employee I have now switched most of my shopping to Aldi. Still had to go to Hy-Vee, but purchased items that I know they lose money on. Best part is I still got my employee discount lol. Lowered my grocery bill and doing my part hitting Hy-Vee where it hurts!

I think the hates just getting started hun. Better bring back your staff. Honor your long standing staff.

How will they right the ship of the captain that ran it aground is still making the same bad decisions ?
He’s cutting his money making staff leaving shelves empty destroying moral and hoping to have a better outcome. Still believing he knows best even though his history has shown he has no idea what he so doing ? Randy has to go before we can make this company better. I’m pretty sure with his level of greed we will all be gone before him.

Then quit letting go the people that help you build this company. These people stood by your side and cared so much. Is it really good idea to hire 22 year olds to be managment? Bad idea. Do whats right. Give these people thier jobs back and no more layoffs. Do you want your customers to shop elsewhere? Thats whats going to happen.

Stop the hate? Are you serious and blind? Since your corporate and overpaid i guess you wouldnt understand what people are going through. How does it make it okay to do this to people. Bye bye hyvee. No one will shop there anymore.

Until leadership is honest with employees and the public – until leadership shows a willingness to LISTEN to what people with 20, 30, 40 years of experience are saying – employees are going to be angry about what has happened to their company and co-workers. Yes, Hy-Vee needs to make some serious changes. The company has lost touch with the culture, mission and values that made it great. It has become bloated and sluggish, chasing bright shiny object after bright shiny object, adding people, building palaces and spending tens of millions on fads and celebrities before losing interest in them in a matter of months. And who made these calls? Not the fulfillment center employees, not the Market Grille employees, not the veteran department heads who worked harder and harder to carry out a dizzying array of contradictory edicts from a revolving cast of corporate officers who weren't even in their positions long enough to visit all the stores they were supposed to oversee, let alone learn anything about the PEOPLE there. Yet these front line employees are the ones paying the price for what has become - let's face facts here - a failed vanity project. In any public company, the person at the top would lose their job for this string of bad decisions. Where is the accountability? If you can't see that this is why people are so angry, you need to quit spending those long hours at 5820 and get out and talk to some real Hy-Vee employees. That's what Dwight did, what Ron did, what Ric did. Ric used to say that it didn't do any good to work hard if you were working hard at the wrong things. Hy-Vee has been working really hard at a lot of really wrong things. Instead of burning ships, maybe consider righting them and getting back on course. A change at the top would send a signal that you are serious about doing that.

You are correct to almost all of your points. But you forgot to mention all of that was before Randy took over and all you yes sir people were left. You see this company was great when it was the right people in the place at the right time. Unfortunately Randy has ran off all of those people. When Dwight Ron and Ric had those people they listened with trust and allowed those men and women to be influential. That's how this company became so great. Until you had to put a person in charge because of any reason besides they earned it. We all know the ones I'm talking about. Hey Randy by the way I'm the one last year as you were walking into the Wells Fargo arena yelled from my vehicle to go f@#k yourself. If you didn't have your private security and opened that office back up to the public we could all come tell you in person what a sh–ty job your doing. Good job king Jack ass

I feel for all of you affected by these layoffs. As a former dept mgr and 15 plus year employee it breaks my heart. I got out two years ago, missed enough of my kids lives with constant weekends, holidays and overtime, and below average pay. When store bonuses were not even enough to buy a tank of gas, enough was enough. You all will land on your feet and there are better jobs out there! Best of luck and shame on you HyVee for ruining a once great culture of family. It was always a matter of pride to say “I work for Hy-Vee”, not anymore. You always preached the “Hyvee way” loyalty, family etc.... what a crock.

If HV is such a wonderful company, i am sure they would understand if your name was listed instead of under the "cloak of anonymity " since you are one of the few posting positively. Like i said before, have some empathy and put yourself in their place. It's a wonderful feeling (sarcasm) having this happen to you when you have given your life to HV, moved many times for them and always been a loyal employee. You will understand when you have 33 years in and are costing HV too much in benefits and this happens to you.

My store chose to keep the employees who always got in trouble and hid in the rpm office hours instead of actually working. Good employees like me were demoted to part time. I can’t afford to pay for the insurance I have to have because I’m sick. I can’t apply for unemployment. I worked most days through my break and went above and beyond. How is that acceptable to this company?!?!

Ironic, sure. Humorous, not really.

I’d tie my name to the post if I thought that would do any good. I’m not looking to fall victim to more hate from the keyboard warriors out there...just trying to put some positivity out into the world.

Have a good night.

Demoting good quality directors and cutting their pay isn't the high road. They weren't all underperforming.

Laying people off with 2 weeks severance isn't the high road. We didn't start the fire.

Does anyone else see irony and humor of this person posting as anonymous but calling out people for using these sound-off boards and hiding behind anonymity? Lol. Typical.

I beg to differ, no false accusations at all. If it is so hard to get good employees, then why are they letting the good ones go? You shouldn't talk about something you obviously know nothing about since you are not affected by this. You are the one being a bully. Try to put yourself in the place of someone who had 33 years in and let go with no severance, no notice and immediate termination of insurance benefits. When this happens to you, come back to this site and tell us how you feel about it then. Why dont you go to your safe place. I would get some rest if i were you since you work so hard. Keep working hard, you'll be rewarded for it just like other people on thus site. You have a good evening.

Employees around the globe are laid off everyday. The one difference between this and those? Hy-Vee didn’t do it with transparency. They lied and continue to lie. They have done unethical things during all of this and have been lying to the media.

• yet, here you are.

I don’t work at HST, but I know lots of great people who do. They’re hardworking individuals, working in a field that is hard to obtain good help in...especially in the Midwest. And, unfortunately, although I’d like to, I don’t have time to jump on the treadmill.

You are being a bully. Your post has several false accusations and hateful comments. Do you think your light burns brighter in your attempt to stifle someone else’s?

I wish you the best, and hope you learn to treat others as you’d like to be treated.

These are real people with families. I notice you also posted anonymously. If i were you, i wouldn't work so hard because those are the people getting let go. Come back to this page when you are out of a job, probably sooner than you realize.

You’re right, I haven’t been. But, I’m not going to fall victim to the fear that I might. I’m going to keep working hard to help improve the company. If I am let go at some point, I will hold my head high and move on. Hy-Vee has provided me with opportunity to grow and learn and I have met so many great people along the way. Many of which, at the corporate office, worked their way up from the store. Hy-Vee was my first job, 18 years ago. I have been with a handful of companies in the years since, but I believe it’s as good of a place to work now as it was back then.

I hope you land on your feet and are able to let go of whatever is causing you to be a bully on the Internet.

Amen!

So an employee who gave their life to Hy-vee and one day is shown the door with nothing is supposed to cheer the company on? Does Hy-vee realize they are creating anywhere from 50-100 (family and relatives) never-shop-Hyvee-for-life customers every time they lay someone off? This does not include the word of mouth customers they talk to for the rest of their days. The Hyvee business model will end in bankruptcy or selling the company (Kroger), most likely both given how stubborn Randy is. How can you price way higher than the competition and stay in business? ..oh thats right, you pay for service... that same service you just showed the door and replaced with a high school part-timer. The writing is on the wall. No amount of 'hard work' is going to fix a broken business model and catastrophic corporate decisions.

Tell that to the 30+ year loyal store employee with a family and a mortgage who was blindsided. I'm sure he'll understand.

Obviously, you haven't been downsized. ....yet.

I’m not a board member and I don’t have a fancy title, I’m just another hardworking Hy-Vee employee who is standing up for what I believe in.