There seems to be this automatic assumption that its not bad at HE... for most it is, aside from the ones at the top. I feel your pain at the store level, because I felt it at my level too. People get laid off or quit and they shift that work to others. I've worked at store level, typically at the end of the shift you are a bit pissed off but get to leave and forget about it until the next day. At HE if you are salary you don't get that option. I've been there until after 11pm trying to catch up, had directors breathing down my neck to fix problems they created, my only savior was that after a certain time the batch runs and nothing I could do would matter anymore anyways .... but I still had to stay an extra 2 hours after I couldn't do anything more to see how many of my changes went thru.. luckily that was only a 13 hour day. The running joke was always about the emergency at 4pm on a Friday, typically when the higher ups left early but would send an email causing chaos... all because of lack of planning and lack of accountability, who knew 4th of July was in the beginning of July this year, but we have to make these last minute changes.... that we could have done weeks ago.
I'm not saying things in the store are easy, I'm just saying HE s---s for most people as well. Fighting between Stores employees and HE Employees gets us nowhere and that's exactly what upper management wants.
OP at @OfB3322-1gxj.