I don't think the original poster here has a clue. Everyone associated with Cabela's knows it's "Sidney", not "Sydney". Idiot.
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I too work at Cabelas. when we first opened they were pumping the kool-aid and everyone was drinking it! Then they started cutting positions and laying people off. we limped through the year and now all of a sudden they have hired tons of new faces! how is this going to work? another layoff soon? where they choose who they want to keep? since they have rolled the gun counter and nics into one our errors have gone through the roof. Our guys at the gun counter were hired for their knowledge of firearms not their ability to do 4473's. They are having them use the ipads to do the background check and then the fso is doing their portion on another one. The problem is they don't know how to use the ipads and they haven't been taught the legal ramifications once we hit a certain number of critical errors. The ATF came down and said that now we can cancel ntn numbers and have them redo the form. They didn't realize that they were gonna have thousands of cancels! Now we can't even cancel them we just have to accept the error. For a few of us who know what we are doing it has become a nightmare. We are shouldering the majority of the work while the gun counter guys keep bring the customer over to nics with a screwed up form that we have to figure out how to fix. I've heard but I have no proof, that the gun counter guys are actually telling the customers how to answer the question! Cabelas looks like its going down the drain. They keep expanding store locations before they ever fix the problems within the stores already built. This is not just in Sidney. I have personally seen it in Tenn, Coloado, Ohio, and Kentucky!
The previous poster summed up the summed up our situation pretty well. Not knowing what is going to happen has damaged our community deeply on all levels.
Any bit of information to help calm the masses would go far, but according to rules and regulations in the business world there will be not any such comforting words forthcoming in the foreseeable future.
Mistrust of the business on the hill is at a all time high. The City of Sidney and her fine citizens, both native and those who chose to relocate here who helped make Cabelas what it was, and now the community and surrounding area as a whole has to suffer the consequences of the multitude of poor decisions that were made.
Outside forces seeking to make changes in the interest of their shareholders have not a care what happens to us or our community. We are of an inconsequential matter to them, ' the 'little people'.
Sadly so many people have left. many more wishing the could. Small business closing up and leaving the area, all in order to provide for their families and hopefully have some semblance of a future.
So many dreams and hopes crushed by the foresight and decisions of those in positions of authority both on the hill in the city and county. As well as outside of our community.
One other time in my life have I seen our situation this dire, and we survived and rebuilt from then as well. I am afraid that this the recovery this time will be extremely protracted and painful.
What is on the horizon for our home is uncertain especially when a majority of it it tied to one major employer ,
The future and fate of Cabelas is out of our hands, 'the little people'.
What ever the future brings it is my hope and prayer that our community will heal and rebuild, and learn form the mistakes and the past.
Listen, let's be honest. It's all propaganda. None of us know if it's selling to a private equity, or Bass Pro. But we do know that has been nearly one year since the beginning of layoffs. One year of watching homes go up for sale, people moving out. One year of Cabela's employees showing up and wondering if they will have a job at the end of the day. Twelve months of upper management trying to keep mid-management motivated and worker bees excited to show up for their jobs. And all the while, the other businesses in Sidney are suffering through the mess too. We lived in a bubble when Cabela's was still private. Protected by the family who formed the business. And we've lived in a bubble since it went public because the "real" world still didn't exist in Sidney. Now we have the "real" world up in our grill...It is time to allow the people of Sidney to move on with their lives and the other businesses that are holding on by their teeth to take a breath. We don't care what the answers are. We can adapt, reinvent, move on...but we want answers. Is it too much to ask?
Some say the heaviest coaching is to HR. That they are trolling this page like they do on Glassdoor with their fake reviews, trying to "change the tone" so people give up trying to share the truth.
Don't believe it go to Glassdoor and filter to just the Sidney reviews. Take a look at the past 12 months and say thats actually crap that people who have worked here would say. Who are the ONLY people who would take time during the work day to post fake positive reviews on Glassdoor? HR and managers. Happens all the time. Look it up. And now they troll here.
Wow drink much
Hmmmmmmmm. A troll trying to stir the pot perhaps? Please provide some substantial prood
This is a false article
Sydney,Sidney.... you're all @&$# up the a-- by Tommy, Mary, and Jim. Good luck!
S I D N E Y.
We are not in Iowa or Australia
Hard to believe they are showing compassion towards outfitters now, since they have ruined so many over the past year. But this is Sydney, could just be the "good ol' boys" looking out for each other.