Layoffs coming that will affect corporate on Monday
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There is no Di_k Stack - it is Ed Stack.
Di-k Stack is the emperor with no clothes on (just like his hero DT). He surrounds himself with people who tell him what he wants to hear and his minions get rid of the people who try to tell him something different.
The first thing that I noticed when they hired Vlad the Impaler was that he never asked "what do you think that we could be doing better". Every presentation was about what he wanted to do.
I thought, at the time, "This is not going to end well!" and I was right.
This is what I have been screaming from the start. Get rid of the upper management that made the bad business decisions instead of a lot of the people let go. Management can bash us now and say we were bad employees (never told this when I was there) but they are the ones that are running the place into the ground. Reading these comments are the only thing making me feel any better about this. I hope the company goes under from all the stupid decisions.
Have dlpms focus on operations and process, wtf is the dm doing? How many under performing dm's are going to continue to have a job? We don't hold anyone accountable for performance, we don't have basic routines in place, core is a joke, we put brand new sm's and dm's in broken districts/stores and were surprised when they flop, and we can't get teammates to service and sell because we're behind on trucks and they're still operationally focused. Sounds like an identity crisis and now everyone's suffering because of it. Ray's getting paid 650,000 a year to figure this out. Maybe he should've gotten his 500,000 sign on bonus after the company saw results...and if your a regional leader sipping coffee and reading these you know the backrooms and standards are subpar. Theft happens in your stores and teams have no idea because theyre processing freight and hiding from customer's. If your a SVP reading this, maybe walk a store and self reflect of what you did. This has been a problem for years and it will continue to be a problem. Your growing the company way to fast to keep these stores staffed with talent and if there was talent, you demoted or gave them a severance package. Your dsglife LinkedIn posts are a joke at this point. Everyone is nervous about the future and can see right past the bs.
I really believe blaming theft was just to cover story to hide the terrible business choices. Yes, theft is a problem but then they cut how many DLPMs??? Are now rebranding loss prevention as Operation and process department and i heard will no longer be charging shoplifters. This doesn’t sound to me like a company that believes theft was the reason they tanked in Q2
How about the new 50ks we're dumping money into? Can't even go into a store and get a teammate to say hi to you and we want to blame Q2 revenue loss on ORC..how about telling everyone we ran out of necessary product our buyers didn't buy enough of. How about all of the clearance apparel in the going going gones, which represents poor product receipts. Complete margin loss and a waste of resources to move all of that product. What a bunch of sh-t..theres no trust from your teams, your store manager incentives going into the next two quarters are bs and just a way to drive sales and save face, Lauren has no clue what she's doing, Ed's a complete liar, and Ray's completely disconnected from How to actually operate our stores- hence the poor backroom standars and broken freight processes. Draw a stick figure of that, di-k!
They are gonna undo everything Paul did. It doesn’t produce revenue. There’s no money in it. Everything will move to managed services. Rak and Co. will begin tearing the IT department down to the bone very soon.
Paul acted like an entrepreneur. The appropriate successor would have been someone who had executive experience in software development since that is what DSG became.
If Stack had an ounce of vision he would have spun IT off into a wholly owned subsidiary that focused on software for the retail business. Instead he let retail drive software development which was a losing strategy.
So now we have Mickey Mouse as our leader and TCS knocking at the door which, if experience is anything, means that the pendulum will swing the other way and all these management id--ts will be gone. But it'll take about 5 years.
Just like last time,.
@crgs+1obeSoyg
Hello Paul. How's that lawsuit going?
By the way, anyone thinking that work-from-home is an employee perk should look at this article by our very own personnel management resource.
https://www.kornferry.com/insights/this-week-in-leadership/how-do-you-lay-people-off-in-2023
Speaking of Paul G, both Home Depot and Kohl's are advertising for DevOps people and both are hiring remote workers!
Go for it!
Is anyone aware of any statements made by management in any forum that indicates that DSG prefers hiring or values younger workers over older workers for whatever reason?
Paul G (who was a terrific CTO and leader) came in and set the Tech org up to own their opportunity spaces and generate real value...and when he left, it all went to $%&*. Sounds like a return to 3rd party software licenses, terrible integration, etc. Well done, DSG, you're a dinosaur again.
The service desk will be completely outsourced eventually. The NOC is being outsourced after Xmas and that’s when the service desk will likely go. I would also bet most functions of IT Security will be outsourced especially the SOC, vulnerability management and the WAF team. A lot of in house application development will stop. They don’t want to be a “technology company” anymore. They want to focus on brick and mortar again. You’ll see product team after product team cut loose.
This was very strategic and it’s not over. They spent the last year getting ducks in a row. They didn’t do that just to eliminate 250 jobs.
The tone-deafness continues across LinkedIn, with those who kept their jobs posting lame photos of "DSGLife" barely a week after a major layoff. I need to hide more of these people from my feed, before the next hackathon or pickleball tournament or forced posting of how great it is in tech...
https://www.kornferry.com/insights/this-week-in-leadership/reassigning-has-become-the-new-layoff
Im still he but lost some of my people. One of them turned me onto this board. Vlad just said the other day that we arent losing headcount, just moving them around as needed. Acted like everyone let go was their own fault. We lost a ton of good guys and what company drops 3 people from a Service Desk?! You know how hard it is to find people for that group?
They are wiping out the department formerly known as loss prevention next. They will no longer charge shoplifters and turn their entire focus on backroom processes as they are now an operations department.
Anyone over 40 planning on suing? I think they could just lie for the reason you were let go. They will never admit their fault.
All the surveys. All the career development plans. All the Korn Ferry analysis was planning for this. More are coming.
I have a hard time believing the ages dismissed vs kept. They kept people 10-20 years older than me who apparently have a “future” at the company but I don’t at 40? It’s like they just made up those ages to make it look like mine wasn’t age discrimination. My lawyer said it could be hard to prove because they can just make up any reason for letting me go. And I was never told I was a low performer or needed to improve. This whole situation just seems lose-lose and is shady.
If anyone is considerding a class action suit for age discrimination, don't sign the separation agreement until you have talked to a lawyer.
Why wait to find out if it’s true? If you can’t see through the lies the executive management tells then don’t be surprised when it happens To you. It’s coming.
@bpuy+1obeSoyg How do you know that?
More cuts are coming, this is far from over. More layoffs are to come at all levels at the CSC, you may have made the first cut but there is a second and maybe a third wave coming, a second at the very least this year.
Ray is tearing everything down, every area and work group at the CSC is not safe. The plans are in place. He doesn’t care about seniority, loyalty, honor or decency. He is a fake. Everything that comes out of his mouth is either a lie or for his benefit to cover is master plan of dismantling DI-KS and starting over. No one is safe under his regime.
The worst part is more are to come as the 2023 year ends. He doesn’t care if you have a happy holiday season as long as he does. The plan is to cut more work groups at the CSC, some work groups will be dismantled as a whole.
Lauren, Ed and Ray have all played their roles in this plan. This plan started as far back as the end of May. Good people have been threatened with their jobs if any of their plans are leaked. This, as everything in this post, is a fact.
Remember this post when Ray or one of his colleagues announce the next layoff. He is heartless.
Anyone having an update on this rumor about stores being next ---> https://thelayoff.com/t/1ofUv6q4 ? Can you chime in here please ---> @OP+1ofUv6q4 ?
Yeah, if I were offered a demotion or a layoff I would say goodbye in 12 different languages and laugh on my way out.
Demotion??? Wow cruelty is the point. I hope that place gets a mass exit of the remaining employees.
I've now heard multiple stories of people having to make the choice of a layoff or a demotion. WTF?
One week ago, right around this time, I received the news.
The past 7 days have felt like the longest, most confusing days I’ve experienced in quite some time. I have had all the emotions.
I just want to say I hope everyone is doing okay. I wish you all the best of luck and I know something better is on the horizon for us all.
1* vs 2** -what does that mean?
Anyone notice the 1* and the 2** on your building's age paper?
So glad for all the SVPs and VPs that were able to announce their “retirement” and do a victory lap. Must be nice getting a golden parachute. It’s also hilarious how all the SVPs and VPs still at the company are signed up for LinkedIn Premium…they know the ship is sinking!
In fact, I wonder if the whole Korn Ferry reclassification wasn't done precisely for the purpose of terminating older employees.
Too bad Di-k Stack wasn't one.
'According to the "Older Workers Benefit Protection Act" age range they provided, most are older or the oldest in their job title.'
Bingo! Insofar as I am aware, they are required to provide the statistics for any terminated employee who is over 40. The problem would be if they used CDP structure to do this. For example, a team might consist of 12 people, plus the Lead and the Principal. If they classify the Lead and Principal as individual positions in individual disciplines they can claim that this was a "re-organization" and that the positions were eliminated.
They aren't comparing apples to apples, if this is what they are doing.
I don't know everyone that was let go, but the people that I've heard have exclusively been white males. According to the "Older Workers Benefit Protection Act" age range they provided, most are older or the oldest in their job title. So the directors made that decision, not HR who have only pushed for acceptance culture in the workplace with programs for everyone except white males?
"Decisions were made at the Director level?"
Yeah, right. So what happened to "The Buck Stops Here"?
Again, a sign of a narcissist! It is always someone else's fault!
Decisions were made at the Director level?
So directors knew who the under performers were without any input from managers? (Even director Neal B. who was let go?)
Maybe that's why so many good workers were let go, because they didn't know?
Or was this a HR decision?
Were the people let go vaxxed?
Were they not "woke" enough for the "diversity" that DSG has been pushing for the past few years?
Did ESG have something to do with this?
Did you answer the anonymous survey questions a little too honestly?
Last thought - if you use the employment service, I'm sure they will let DSG know promptly if you have been hired somewhere which will stop future severance payments. I won't be using them.
"Gets $1M in total incentives a year to do be a poor performer and lie."
The first time that he opened his mouth in the All Hands meeting I thought to myself, "we'd have been better getting Mickey Mouse as our CTO than Bozo the Clown!"