One moment I hear there are some RVPs who were laid off, the next- not.
What’s really the truth? Who remained and who got cut?
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While we took big cuts at the store and district level, the company's solution to maintaining productivity was to actually add positions in at the region level. I can only think of the Ops RVP in the Northwest that actually got laid off. The OVP's and APVP's in the other regions all kept jobs, with the OVP's in the other regions keeping the new AP/OPS VP job.
The company also added in AP experts at the region VP level which is where the VP's of AP went in the other regions. The new VP of Ops and AP now also has a region director of Ops and regional director of AP to help beat up the district directors who are now expected to do the work of both the AP director and the Ops director positions.
I expect these extra AP jobs at the region level will be temporary to ensure that the company doesn't lose too much AP expertise too quickly. The OPS VP's who took over the new roll are pretty clueless when it comes to AP and most of them are simply waiting until they are ready to retire as most of them are long tenured executives.