The more i think about it the more angry i get. I worked with my team for over 10 yrs. some of them get a huge pay cut. We all understand why this happened and that labor does have to be realistic. You cant have a team with 5 supervisors. We should have had rules in place before it got here. Someone should have told some tls that just bc a tm works at wf for yrs and is maxed out, not to just make up a position in order to pay them more money (if maxed out).
But now that shit hit the fan, we hopefully have a new strategy in place. I'm hoping that Our coordinators a looking into better deals, lowering prices, maybe even lowering margin targets in order for sales to pick up again. The worst thing that can happen now is, that team members and customers are starting to boycott the stores. Lowervsales = less labor to guarantee ft hours.
Personally I believe that this whole f*** up happened through upper leadership. Not store leadership. I'm talking about Our coordinators. Those are the ones that are supposed to be dealing with better costs on products, good sale items, getting good deals in place. But what do they do? Raising prices to make up for poor margins, autoshipping you shit that doesnt sell, half-assing hwds etc.
Store openings shouldnt be done by coordinators and tls and astls only. What a waste of money in all directions! Or, as fast as wf opens stores we should just hire a crew from outside to do this under supervision.m