a thought to consider (my opinions on observations) - once TRU and / or BBRU does its layoffs / closings, the HR team will be welcoming and actively pursuing those folks, undercut their old pay and save a ton by replacing existing workers, save on health benefits while they are in the waiting period, kill off any stock vesting you may be participating in (vesting takes forever -corporate folks get stock awarded when they sign on and at annual reviews).
Corporate is a revolving door, due to the fact that the higher ups do little then grind the newbies to death and underpay. What the upper management is made of is people who have been in the company 15, 20 , 25 years, some of them never having worked anywhere else, so the knowledge is inbred. They pride themselves on being entrepreneurs and innovators, but every idea is copied from competitors.
The products are a season behind, the prices of everything are higher on the shelf which scares shoppers, until they think about the coupon- IF they think of it, and IF they can figure out the math (which really, come on - most can't) so the stigma is they are too expensive to shop in.
The mid to upper management and executive staff are old school, myopic and work out of their league so they make a lot of costly mistakes, and blame the lower folks, brush it under the rug, or it doesn't matter because its one if "us" that made a mistake so its ok.
I took the revolving door out rather quickly, like so many new hires, as I saw the writing on the wall that the ship has gaping holes in the hull.
There is a reason the profits are down, the stock is down, the stores are closing and the layoffs happened and will happen.
And there will be a reason why BBB will try to recruit TRU staff.