Thread regarding Sears layoffs

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to it. We have to deal with them this coming Sunday and the following Monday. So after it's hard to get hours anymore, I for once have a lot of hours this week, tomorrow (Tues.) through Friday, inevitably for inventory prep so I can bust my tail burning myself out for the next five days trying to get the place in order THEN I highly doubt there is any chance I will get out of inventory, so I'll prob be there for that, a full week's worth of consecutive days after burning myself out in prep for it this week, and... as you say, they will tear the place to pieces and we don't have enough people to put it all back together. We're also a large store and so far unaffected by plans that have shrunk others down, with quite a bit of stock, but understaffed like everyone else.

Doesn't help that those inventory people also suuck to work with, or at least their people did last year (my first year of it). Most of them aren't very nice, and the stupid "sku check" thing when there aren't enough of us, are busy counting stuff, and I have NO idea who even said it, no one looking up or trying to get attention, just sitting with their faces in the clothing, like I'm supposed to be some stupid psychic dog to come running... Ugh.

Funny, I worked for Sears back when we did our own inventory, and in later years I had a job with RGIS for a while when my son was little...it was very flexible hours so perfect for a SAHM.

There used to be a RGIS blog where the longer term employees complained about how the company deteriorated--hiring anyone with a pulse, treating long term workers badly, emphasizing speed over accuracy, and the pay rate going down--I think they pay about the same now as I got when I worked for them in 1991. RGIS was family owned then sold out, which is about when things went downhill.

Some of this probably sounds familiar, but the main thing about RGIS is that the workers are paid primarily based on the amount of stuff they count. And if you aren't prepared by having all your mdse SKU'd and sorted, they can't do much except ask for help.

Doing our own inventory when I worked at Sears took WEEKS of prep and a 12 hour day of counting, with teams of two; one person counting and the other writing stuff down ON PAPER. The good old days!

does you transformation store have many customers. I was on one recently and there was no customers, none.

Yeah we had RGIS at our store for inventory a couple of days ago and they trashed the place. The tables were ransacked. Everything from shoes to soap was tossed on the floor in the softlines stockroom. Towels and clothes were rolled up in wads. Empty cardboard boxes (which formerly held back stocked product) were piled up in the corner.

Don't get me started on the amount of errors that we caught. It seemed like every other fixture was off by 5 or 10. Every time I brought it to their attention they looked at me like I had twenty sets of eyes on my face.

Hygiene was not a priority either. Lots of the RGIS people smelled of body odor; one smelled of m-r-j-a-a. One other RGIS employee smelled so bad that two different customers made it a point to be vocal about it.

Regis is paperless now so they hand you a tablet that shows all the inventory tag numbers then you verify til the color turns blue. In ours purple was to be done first then blue

I found so many errors done by Regis and had to correct myself!! Didn't hear too many "SKU CHECKS" but did have a Regis manager ask me (as I'm verifying) if there was another person to do "SKU CHECKS" so their people didn't have to walk to far!! The audacity!!

Told her she wd have to seek out the store manager!

All in all the day went fast for me but this group of Regis people didn't seem as speedy as years fast but certainly just as messy tearing up the store!!

Ours is next week. We were one of the first transformation stores so we don't have any apparel, no footwear other than work boots, no jewelry, no electronics. We are the future of Sears stores. Ours should go fast but we have virtually no staff to verify counts or do sku checks. We will be able to adjust counts ourselves but again we have no staff to do it. They also cut hours this week and next week.

Ours is coming up and I dread hearing "SKU check".

Regis would do that to the store i use to work at. We get the store nice for them and the store looked worse after they left.

Be grateful you had inventory ours got pushed back until october, the way it looks you will have a job come january of 2018