In fact, our regional came in the store and pretty much told the managers anytime we say anything negative about the job to turn it into a positive.
If you want to know why Belk is failing so spectacularly, here's your answer. No company can survive if the management decides to ignore complaints and/or advice from people who do the work directly. Sweeping things under the rug is what brought us here.
So if I said to my RVP he was an A__hol-, that would be negative.
But if I said he was the biggest A__hol- I’ve ever met that would be a positive since he’s being compared to other A__hol-‘s and I consider him to be the biggest.
"What do RVP's do exactly?"
Whatever their relative hired them for: Collect a check. Complain. Behave like a Karen (or Darren!). Display an uber-Alpha sensibility. Drive expensive cars. Enjoy lost of lattes and Christian chicken (a-la that over-priced Fil-A joint). And, mainly, just have an opinion. That's what they're paid for! And the lowly workers are expected to kowtow to that behavior.
What do RVP's do exactly?
There is no singular greater waste of money than that which goes to RVPs.
A group that doesn't contribute anything of value and in fact is quite duplicitious in action and communications.