Thread regarding Macy's Inc. layoffs

Will the Mtm and Sm become one again?

Did you write “major cuts to HR” and a “focus on the people piece”? Sounds like an oxymoron to me, but I believe you are 100 percent correct on the 2018 strategy.

Ast not important. Vault, replenishment, customer concerns, filling open shifts, ordering, engagement, fixing registers, training, new hires, payroll questions, work orders, vendors, star daily, food for events, endless spreadsheets, walk report, inventory, audits, recognition, nope not important to the success of the store.

I have had to do the vault before in the last 6 months due to no AST coverage. I am an SM. I also close the cash office every evening I close. I am sure more is coming and we are doing this and are not a test pilot district. About the last year or so SM, SS and leads have been doing some part of for cash office process and vault for past year.

I don't think just ringing puts an AST to 8010 because many times an AST will have to ring when going about the store on an errand. Rather, if the AST picks up the selling shift, then it transfers the hours that way.

But if SM's are really doing the vault in test stores, then that's a scary development. I'm not sure if I even believe it, but it sounds plausible. Can someone verify this?

yes. i heard about some of the same cuts. many hrm's know that the position is going away. i believe when an ast associate rings on the register, that it activates them to be charged to the 8010 budget. i think there will be changes in the ast role as there is more focus on the supporting the sales floor.

We are testing the opening and closing sm opening and closing the vault.

I'm sure the 2018 cuts will be brutal. I don't know how you can eliminate anymore SM positions, but I guess they might and anything is possible.

I've heard the following

-SM will be turned into an hourly position. Your schedule will be done by DMET and you generate one just like our associates do based on availability you put in the system.

-HRM position eliminated will be centralized to corporate and ASKHR button on Insite

-DM positions for each FOB eliminated. Each district will have a DVP and Visual DM only.

I expect 2018 cuts to be deeper than 2017.

I read that the hours will be billed to the relevant account. AST duties are not to be performed during those shifts. I don't think this is a pilot. Check out this week's documents.

If they are picking up selling shifts, are they working on the floor? That is two different budgets. Is your store a pilot store for something? How do some of the work get completed? Vault? Ops? HR?

Now AST associates can pick up selling shifts. I foresee that next year AST's will get a base of like 5-10 hrs and will have to pick up the remainder... No way they are allowing AST's to pick up shifts as a favor to help the AST's..

Yes. I think I heard there is a plan for BOPS. And I have seen a couple of the pilot stores that have a central checkout, and it seems it is well received.

That doesn't bode well for AST - in the last year AST hours have been cut, jobs eliminated and most stores now are functioning on a skeleton AST crew. In our store, this has resulted in: no bags in which to place customer purchases; no copy paper for the Star Daily and other SM reports; no register tape; no name badges; no vital parts for the leased central copier; broken equipment languishing out of use. We've even had to go outside the company for paper towels and toilet paper.

Also heard that Connect will be almost eliminated with associates being responsible for BOPS.

And, the Kohl's central checkout and digital price tags . . .

Soon, a typical Macy's store will have about 8 people manning it during any given shift.