Commissioned associates will shortly be being recoded to hourly so that they can be used as cashiers and merchandisers in the stores due to lack of hours. Hello pay cuts. No way will they be paid what they are currently making.
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Gradually, getting rid of commission positions. They will cut commissions until people leave on their own and the rest they will cross train to do other jobs. Eventually, they will eliminate whatever job those people were doing and everyone except a few will all be on the same pay scale (minumum or a little above minimum). The simple store process will make most jobs obsolete and most management positions obsolete. You will have one manager working two or more stores. AP will work only high risk stores and the rest will be remotely monitored to look for employee theft.
This ship will go down. There is life beyond metrics. Best of luck.
The cross training is definitely the new thing but I see some problems coming to jewelry & HA.
For jewelry, you traditionally needed a higher level clearance to even be behind the counter and those employees are there to make sales. Commission sales with protection plan incentives.
In HA, those folks can SELL. They aren't going to want to change their commission structure and quite frankly they should leave if asked to.
There will probably be a scale for associates based on PTO, just like when they stopped commission for electronic associates in 2015. It'll just have to be higher. It may work out for some associates, but time will tell.
This is going to be horrible if they continue to use the same payroll model... stores must remain below 13% payroll to sales and because commission associates (HA) didn't have an hourly wage they could schedule as many of them as possible. If they now decide that commission associates will be on that side of the payroll bucket this will drop hours even more. Best of luck to you guys
Good luck to them in selling the all important protection agreements if salespeople have no incentive. The company is genius at losing dollars to save pennies. One more nail in the coffin. And it's not going to take too many more.
Good luck to them in selling the all important protection agreements if salespeople have no incentive whatsoever. This company sure knows how to lose dollars in order to save nickels. One more nail in the coffin.
Can'take say, I'm not surprised. They never have a cashier upstairs so we end up working in other departments for free, especially since we are straight commisson.
Word is it is happening on the 23rd, but I don't know that for sure. But the word is that everyone in the store will be cross trained to do every job so that they can use you and pay you however they want.
I am on commission but there is so little traffic that I cannot count on anything but minimum wedge. I am looking for something else and with the hour cuts I think a lot of people are also looking.
When? I won't do this.
I will give my two week notice and walk out the door. :-)
Is that the 23 or the 13?
Honestly been expecting this. Circuit City did the same thing dropping to $15. They went bankrupt 6 months later from trying to save a few bucks. Destroyed to effort their salesman used to display.