It’s sad that they re-hired these dedicated people a 2nd time to lay them off again.
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All full time associates in the non closing stores were offered part time positions with no benefits or leave.
Layoffs happening in stores for full-time associates and leads today,no severance package!
@1hot+1l6Neqsz your message is extremely insensitive. Makes those that lost their job wonder why someone like you deserves to have their job. Serves you right if you lose it.
I guess now corporate will get to experience what the stores have been going through-not enough people to do the job being asked of them.
Hard to have sympathy for the complaints that the teams are being thinned out when the stores have been working through it for years.
The DM's are too busy bullying stores for reward+.
Do you really think any company can run without a strong corporate team? I’m talking about HR, Finance, Security, planning, merchandising, Marketing…. These are essential to the business. And many of these people aren’t highly paid either. DMs and SMs earn much more than a lot of people in corporate, so not sure why everyone thinks corporate means rich fat cats. It’s a very bad sign when this is the 5th or 6th corporate layoff in less than a year, only a month after the last one. This truly means the company is dying. More corporate layoffs will lead to even more store closings.
Good luck to everyone laid off.
I hope everyone can put the poisonous culture that this company became behind them and find new opportunities that offer them solace. It was not always this way. Tomorrow we will kick low more low paid full time associates to the curb. It would have been better to give up last year. I am glad they got fools to give them some cash….without that all the people that had their severance paused for 2 weeks would have not paid. They only paused because if the did not get cash to avoid bankruptcy they would have lumped them into creditors in the bankruptcy process. Take care of yourself and your people best you can a s you finish the end game. I loved this job for years I will not miss it at all when it is over….
The biggest problem with the hate / boycott / bulls*** is that the people who deserve to be hurt are the ones who end up coming out the least scathed. But that's how the corporate good ol' boy network rolls.
We’re any bed bath dms let go?
Been in the stores for many years. We’ve already felt the layoffs at corporate tremendously and this will make it even worse. The information we used to get vs what we get now is night and day
It is not the people's fault they were part of a useless bloated pig. If you work for a retailer aybe you should work where the actual business is the store. How can you make a business successful if you never analyze the business from the ground up. Always top down
That is why we are broke
This is an unpopular opinion but, so many of these people were integral to store operations. They were there to support the stores and answer questions and keep things running and to ultimately make processes easier for the stores even if it didn't come about as quickly and smoothly as we always would have liked. No company is perfect but they are still people and it was swift, unexpected and the stores will feel the loss of many of them. I get we are all waiting for the other shoe to drop because of uncertainty with the longevity of the company but some of us stick around because we would like to hope that there is still a place for this business and some of us haven't left because we're still searching for other employment and it's not easy. I will never understand how people can comment on here and forget that we are all humans and large number of them just lost their jobs. Be respectful.
Number of 150 gone being mentioned on reddit. By an employee, I assume.
Understand that those in corporate are not all executives. Many are low-mid level workers that have family to support as well. Some are also the sole providers. So just because they're in corporate, them losing their jobs are every bit as hard as the retail workers. The only ones that will ever walk away with money in their pocket are c suite level because they have a "golden parachute".
Thank god they trimmed the fat in marketing, we can all agree they do a terrible job !
40%?!?!? How many corporate employees are there?
A bunch in marketing too
Yes, my team was nearly cut in half.
I heard 40% was let go, not officially confirmed...
It's going to be at least a few hundred or more by the end of the day.
A handful did. I know of about 20. Construction, PPM...