My SM has been on a firing spree for the last few months over the strangest reasons in my opinion. But honestly….if you terminate a bunch of coworkers within weeks of each other it would be a good idea to hire others to replace them, right? But nope, as far as I’ve noticed we’ve had no one new, and work just keeps piling up. After weeks of this I’ve stopped asking her to hire more people. I figure sooner or later she’ll get the hint when customers start to complain on how terrible the store looks, or better yet - how they aren’t getting the assistance they need in a timely manner.
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DM = District Manager in previous post, not dept mgr.
Our DM was recently fired, guess it’s not just the associates that get hit. Would love to know more about that one, didn’t seem like a bad guy.
Same at my store, never seen so many open positions. Our SM puts people on final for the most trivial things, then fires them, leaving critical positions like cashiers open. Can’t ring up without cashiers. So he makes anyone fill in even those that make their money/commissions from selling. Putting them at cashier reduces their pay immediately. It’s INSANE our SM gets away with it. But lower overhead means more profits. Who cares about the impact to the associates that are left??. I finally adopted the approach of others that I found appalling when I started a few years ago - hide out in your dept and never leave it (except for breaks, and then avoid main aisles walking to restroom, break room).