Lately, apart from the general insecurity and worries when I will lose my job, I am most stressed by special treatments for selected few, without any justifiable reason. It may not affect everyone the same, but personally it really bothers me. Of course, there are many more sources of stress (other than job insecurity). Which one is your biggest?
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I also think it has to be with your age and race. They need a mix of associates..
I was laid off this past summer and throughout my many years of working at Macy’s I always received recognition and awards for attendance, top credit production, repeat sales from clients, etc. I still don’t know how they chose the layoffs.
For me it's definitely the cuts. It's around this time last year that I got a call from one of my GMs and she gave me that "what time are you scheduled till I would like to have a chat with you" talk. Right there and then my heart started racing and being the straight forward person that I am I just asked her to be straight up with me and if it's about me getting laid off. She told me yes I'm sorry about this and in a joking manner but also serious on the inside I was like "AWW DAMN". Before the bad news my other manager was telling me and my co-workers throughout the month that the lay-offs were based on how many points you got and your attendance and both of those were perfect on my behalf and then I get the cut based on the fact that I have low seniority. How about that....