Most of us find out tomorrow what our fate is. I keep checking this message board in hopes of some kind of answers..... however I know I won’t have an answer until the meeting is over tomorrow. Unfortunately Tommy made his millions and then ditched out on us. I have nothing but the most respect for Marry, D--k and Jim Cabelas. They built a foundation, for stores like BP, Sportmens and Shields. Unfortunately the clock ran out for us at CAB. We all knew changes were going to come, there is a reason JM bought us and there’s a reason why CAB are not the ones buying BP. JM is doing something right, I read an article that had JM talking about BP vs CAB, CAB had the same amount of customers last year and spent nearly double in pay roll vs BP. I think we can all agree that payroll CAB spent was not on the sales floor where it should have been. Our customers in my store were pretty much left to find things on there own, because we didn’t have the payroll to hire outfitters. But yet there was a group of 3-6 people in each division flying around the country going on fishing and hunting adventures when they were not in the stores criticizing our VOC rating for customer satisfaction. And wanting answer on how we were going to get our rating up, and our payroll down even more!! Or how about the people in Sydney you have to call when your heat or AC needed adjusted or the 15 middle men that you have to reach out to, to get pushes done so you could have product in the store for our customers. It seems like we are forgetting about the horrible support we had from corporate and blaming everything on BP and JM. Tomorrow, if I walk out no longer an employee to a company I will still have nothing but the upmost respect for JM and BP. Because if they wouldn’t have stepped up and bought CAB this small amount of people that will be losing their jobs could of have tens of thousands of people when CAB had to shut their doors for good. I hope everyone effected tomorrow the best in their new adventures and maybe they will find a new job that made them twice as happy as this one.
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God Bless you for seeing the big picture. It is painful to lose people here and there, but it is worse to see the complete decline of a once strong business. Restructuring and keeping it going is important to our economy-- no matter what that business is.
What ideas? We need some good news about now. This company is nothing special now.
BLAHHHH BLAHHHH BLAHHHH. I am now a bass pro employee and have been impressed with policy and procedure.
To bad no one else at cabelas knows their policy and procedure or ideas they have about the future because LITERALLY nothing gets communicated.
Look the reason CAB went down in flames is because they took the company public. The family got rich but it wasn't enough so they kept selling until it was out of their control.
I would like to dispute one point of the original poster, or maybe just add some color. BP may have had the same number of customers but I can assure they did not, in any way, shape, or form come close to CAB in sales. I wholeheartedly agree that those dollars were mismanaged by leadership but it irritates me to no end that the work every CAB employee put into to driving and fighting for huge sales is seen as less than BP because of those in leadership decisions.
I have a feeling that corporate cuts are going to happen in the next few weeks. No one will be safe at corporate, outside of the few accounting and IT people.
does anyone have a number for total jobs lost today?
So once again the stores bear the brunt of cost cutting and layoffs while the Sidney corporate office baggage goes on as usual.
Bass Pro HR is going to get "Mr 30 years." He knows he's not supposed to be on here...but he couldn't resist.
Excuse me for sounding stupid but what is a distributed employee....Sounds painful, ha ha, maybe that is why he/she is mad? Greed is blinding and will cause weak people to do things that fly in the face of their values. Have faith and this too will pass!
meetings have started anyone know anything yet
I know that I am being laid off today. The leaks are all true. It is business and guess what - business is about profits. The employees are cogs making sure that profits are made. Yes BP spends a lot less on cogs but Must be doing something right to acquire CAB at an inflated price. Think back 10 years ago - stock was not even $20 a share. Sold for 60+.
Stop it already with accusing posters of being an ex Cabela employee!
Prove to us please that most of if not all the negative posts are from one single individual,. If you can. Which I doubt you will be able to.
He's back Mr. I have worked at Cabela's 30 years. No a dedicated Bass Pro Employee I was beginning to wonder when he would show back up with his tripe and his diatribes.
Welcome back we missed you
To the poster who posted the comment it is what it is . Your no bass pro employee you are the laid off ex Cabelas employee who post most of the negative post on this site.
I would like to apologize to bass pro for this site. Most of the comments on this site comes from one very distributed ex employee of Cabelas. The poster post over and over to themselves pretending to be different posters. Always with the same basic message that Cabelas employees are going to be ruined along with the city of Sidney and you have to accept it because that is the fair thing to do. I now work for bass pro and I have been so impressed with the policy of bass pro. I am in total agreement with the mayor of Sidney and the owner of bass pro on the policy of severance in regard to the merger agreement. Hopefully this situation can be corrected in the future.