The days of a DM having 3-5 stores will be a thing of the past. DM’s will soon have up to ten stores reporting to them. Obviously less DM’s will be needed so you know what this means??? This is a fact and mark it down. Confirmed !
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Wait til January when UIA resets. I don’t really know my DM nor director. I get lied to and treated disgracefully by them. It’s not funny. Run it up however you need to. Those roles need to find importance with front line workers.
As much as I like my DM, I struggle to see what that title actually contributes at a store level, especially now, with all the obstacles 2020 has placed in front of us. Must be nice to sit at home all day on zoom calls micromanaging the folks at a store level, with no real knowledge of how to actually run the store or use the systems. Our retail director is regularly seen driving around town, but never comes to help although we only have one manager and a handful of reps, and are drowning.
Past time to remove pointless levels of leadership. Those of us in the rough, wading through the inflated quotas and hateful customers, know who works and who doesn’t. Call outs are at an all time high, stores are having to close because employees are getting sick or just don’t care to come to work. There’s a lot of irony in the stores closing for lack of staffing yet DMs and above are still sitting at the house, getting paid, micromanaging us like there isn’t a whole pandemic going on.
DMS have been jumping ship ever since the last spring and they have been putting acting people in to fill the void. Also what do ops people really do everything in terms of ops is so streamlined now there is no need for that role they have made themselves not need. With all the photo complaince and ays service streamlined they have taught us how to do there jobs. The money the company will save by getting rid of ops and redistrict the dms makes alot sense and should have been done years ago.
I would say the whole entire leadership structure has fallen apart within the retail stores. The biggest failure is training and development. In the new environment the SS’s get very little help from managers. It has all come down to tech support and clerking. I don’t see anything rolling down from the DM that changes what store management and reps do differently.
The position of DM, was the the second most useless job in the whole company.
With the advent of email, their job is effectively pointless.
When you factor in their salary and perks, you realize that we are not getting an ROI at all.
Sadly OPs and DMs should be the same job and in many areas cover lots more stores.
Mine is already running two districts with no real discussion about our new replacement DM.
There will be a shuffle with dms and RD called it over a year ago. OPS is next to get hit what do they really do at the end of the day.
From what I hear it's going to be significant. Think 3 districts going to one dm
@uvf+17XflDGa OP is not talking about DM’s temporarily covering multiple districts because of attrition. There is a permanent change coming .
I mean there are very few DMs with small teams anymore. Some but few....They haven’t backfilled dm jobs in over a year so dm covering two districts...that’s already a thing bud
Long overdue tbh. A DM’s effect on store performance is significantly less than they think it is.