Any OVM managers here? How is the position treating you? Yes or No to go for it?
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We are a 2 OVM store and both of ours look overly exhausted and are being bled dry. I feel so bad for them they are trying to do 5 jobs at once with little to no help because they don’t have even a team with all the job openings.
As a sales manager i try to do whatever I can on the floor to help. Assist with markdowns, recover the floor before a move or whatever else I can do to help them save some time but also takng into account what I’m able to do with all on my plate. It’s become to much
With elimination of HR we are now that as well.
We are all over tired and stressed from a store manager to a part time associate. Keeping Macy’s family in my thoughts and cyber hugs to all.
I took it and I hate my life, should of listen to you all. It’s impossible to get anything done, a lot of workload plus no help!! Im about to quit!
It won’t be needed in 2022. They will have associates do everything for $11 hr. In my store when they had ops/ loss prevention mantas one job they offered the guy a package in June when everyone was cut. Instead he took the new ops/ vs job with a pay cut. But my thought was they try to cut you once. It will happen again
Question is will that position be around in 2022?
Too much work for one person. They are setting us up for failure!
Gotta agree that we are now doing the job of what used to be the Merchandise Team Manager, Operations Manager, Visual Manager, Receiving Manager, and sometimes we are also covering selling shifts, so also the Sales Manager job. This is not a six figure job, no amount of compensation less that six figures is worth the workload, stress, and crazy expectations. We are salaried but spend well more than 80% of our time doing physical labor, this is a leadership role BUT NOT an executive role. If you are qualified to be an OVM, you can make more and work much less in a better environment if you apply elsewhere.
Last year, as we know….Macy’s eliminated visual managers, operation managers, merchandise team managers, receiving managers, loss prevention managers, fufillment and more. HR was eliminated prior to this. They then created the OVM role and lumped all those responsibilities under that one job. It’s a bargain for them…..paying one or two people in some stores to do a job that was done by several. Three OVM’s I know in 3 different stores have quit. The others are miserable. Being bled dry.
We get 5 weeks because they know we will never be able to use it all. Every time you plan to use them, some type of unnecessary visit is scheduled or some type of floor move that needs to happen. It’s all an illusion to lure us in.
Why do managers get at least 5 weeks of vacation per year and other levels of employees won’t get that much pto until they’ve been with company for 15 years?
It is totally not worth it! Do not fall for for the good pay or the 5 weeks vacation that you will never be able to take. I speak from experience. This job will suck you dry!
Definitely not worth it. Too much work and not enough pay! It’s extremely hard on your body with all the movement in the store that goes on everyday. If you do take the job ask for a $10.000.00 bump in pay. The position pays up to a max of $80.000.00 a year.