Why is this site just filled with people who hate sears? Why do you come here? Did you get kicked off of yahoo or seeking Alpha? Seriously? You bury the threads that have info for employees so you can bash sears.
Yeah, we s---. We’re trying to get it together. Some of us work here and come here for info not to hear your incessant sears bashing go back to your “moms basement” or wherever it is you lurk from and please leave us alone - get a life, grow up - something
@WRXd9TG-2hgx No lol , I figured out that I could make more money selling grilled cheese sandwiches in Grateful Dead parking lots than I could ever make at Sears. That would also be a whole lot more fun, and I would be under far less stress. Turns out I was right, on my way out the door people asked me what I was going to do without a job. I turned around and replied, Nothin left to do but smile, smile, smile.
Quit before you were fired eh?
@WRXd9TG-1ztp I left of my own accord when I figured out the job wasn't worth my time or trouble. Couldn't cut it was not the issue. I understood that my time and efforts were worth far more monetarily and as a human being I deserved to be treated better than I was being treated. It is my hope that those 68,000 people find better situations in life than being enslaved to Sears. If you choose to work within the framework of hell on earth with a high school level drama component than that's your style I guess.
"Great brands....great prices"......
This is no longer the 1970's.....You sound like a Sears commercial from back when it was indeed #1.
As time goes on and things get worse and worse for this company, Cheerleader posts look more and more ridiculous and silly when compared to the reality of a once great company now being stripped to the bone.
The brands have been diluted to c-ap as service has gone to sh-- with techs leaving in droves or laid off, and vendors have stopped shipping product and parts. People? Read the reviews of any store. Service is sh--ty by design, in order to meet stupid metrics as we shove SYWR down customer throats with 1 checkout line per floor. Maintenance techs were all laid off and stores are literally falling apart, and hadn't been updated in 20 years anyway. Face it, the Sears you knew and loved is long gone.
“Why do you want Sears to survive?”
Great brands, great stores, great people. They deserve the best, and rooting for 68,000 people to lose their jobs because you couldn’t cut it is truly gross.
Sears was doomed the minute Eddie Lampert took control of the company a decade ago.
Eddie knows as much about successfully operating a retail company as an automobile mechanic knows how to do brain surgery.
Eddie destroyed this company....and there are people out there that somehow believe that by him bidding and buying the company, the same man who drove the company into bankruptcy will now somehow turn it around.
If that is not insanity, I don't know what is.
I have a serious question. Why do you want Sears to survive? I am an ex-employee, and I am watching and waiting and I will be more than happy to see Sears die. The company has been on a slow march to the graveyard since the mid-80's and it's now time for the jazz band to fill in the parade and start playing when the saints. I will go to the bar, raise a toast and not miss Sears at all when it goes away. I will never be sad to see a company that treats it's employees SO badly die. There is life beyond Sears, get out now, all that work there should leave in the same 2 weeks and sink the company yourselves, that's a real employee movement.
This "go forward" plan nonsense is nothing more than a continuation of the "transformation" drivel that we have been hearing about ever since Lampert took over the company over a decade ago.....We know how that turned out.
Now, "go forward" is apparently the new "flavor of the month" corporate speak.
This is nothing more at this stage of the game than putting lipstick on a pig.
When big ticket associates started being told in our store by management that it is better to let the sale walk if the customer will not buy the PA, (protection agreement) this proves that the company is no longer serious about selling and more concerned about pure profit.
When associates making big ticket sales of their own get pulled aside and scolded for not buying the PA on it and when the associate in anger tells the manager that they will cancel the sale and go to a competitor to buy it instead....and the manager responds " Go ahead"....this also proves that Sears is no longer interested in selling merchandise....only profits.
Sears has lost business from retirees and its employees due to its pigheaded thinking.
When a company alienates it's own retirees and employees and drifts away from its core values, it has nobody to blame but itself when it tumbles toward bankruptcy.
Sears has done so many things to shoot itself in the foot and drive customers away, it is no wonder that the company is in the shape its in.
I've worked there a little over two years as a sales associate and currently work there and it's obvious that there is no turn around in sight.....every 3 months or so since I started it's gotten worse and worse and never gets better.....they're just focused on micromanaging metrics I've seen 100's of thousands of dollars of sales walked because people weren't getting a protection plan and managers basically condoning it because it helps the stores "metrics"....piece of sh-- employees praised because they were above par on percentages of protection plans sold even though their sales per hour and contribution per hour were terrible, it was hilarious when they put a stop on the sales of protection plans for a month after bankruptcy when how cult like the company was about their protection plan percentages they never said sh-- about anyone's sales or contribution its all about protection plans and credit card apps never
Yeah, the armchair analysts who have never worked in retail know what SH and the banks should do. One wonders why the brilliant geniuses aren’t making millions advising SH and banks rather than gracing us with their “insights” here.
Oh well. With Go Forward, we will be reading their hate posts for decades to come. ;-)
You clearly don't understand logistics. Sears and Kmart are dead, it's only a matter of time before it happens. There's no chance in h--l they're going to be able to keep costs down, especially now that it's going to be farther for shipping products, and that's if they can even get vendors to give them products! If you supposedly work for Sears, take your rose colored glasses off, see all the empty space? See the products that are NOT coming in from vendors? The vendors are having the final say, and they say it's over! You can't sell what you don't have! That simple.
Anybody other than me work for Sears?
WHY SO TRIGGERED PRINCESS?
It's the cheerleaders like you and this post that push the real threads of interest down the page. SEARS and Kmart are bleeding a billion dollars a quarter now.
Sears and Kmart are now only regionally represented as they have abandoned most American markets.
The remaining stores are rundown and will continue to deteriorate.
Lowes IS the new home of Craftsman tools as more and more Craftsman products are now being manufactured by SBD and offered from sale. The SEARS Craftsman offering is getting worse all the time in both quality and quantity. ACE and Lowes are the future of Craftsman....not SEARS.
People aren't saying negative things about SEARS because they hate SEARS. People are saying negative things about Sears because those negative comments are the truth. Things are really bad and won't get better.....
Yessah blessah....this site has turned into a forum for lonely basement dwellers...as associates to a sinking company we read this site for information that are company doesn't provide. But now it's full of ignorance and salty wannbes. Get a life.
Good luck OP and the rest of us still loyal employees.
Hahhahahahahahah!!!! The paid shills have been cut from the payroll, so now the high-paid yes-men (sears regionals and districts) are heroically shilling online..... but who are they trying to convince, us or themselves???
Boy the haters are angry! The Sears Go Forward Plan is in full swing, sales are improving, margins are up, and all their predictions of doom and gloom have failed.
Major banks are backing the Plan, investors are lining up, and customers have expressed their love for the retailer on the internet.
They’ve been dead wrong, all they can do is hope for suffering for Sears employees, suppliers and customers that will never come. All that failed short selling must hurt. Or maybe they’re working for Lowe’s, who are learning that people are smart enough to know the difference between fake Lowe’s Craftsman and real Sears Craftsman.
What's with this r----ded short seller narrative the trolls have been pushing suddenly. No one's been talking about that since the bankruptcy since everyone knows the shares are worth nothing.
Someone got upset with the "moms basement" comment. Guess the truth hurts! Now get the crumbs out of the key board and finish your
homework. To all employees best of luck in 2019.
You're mom's basement. That's your signature phrase. What a dick
Most of the haters are short sellers or work for competitors. You can tell by how little they know about the turnaround and the strong reception it is receiving with members.
Don't forget that there's probably lose to 10,000 legal professionals working the Sears case in some capacity. We're here too!
Sears was the top story on the Drudge Report yesterday. It's the Drudge Effect.
Agreed, anyone who has anything but hatred is a “cheerleader”. We hate Eddie too, and this company isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t mean we want it to die
I don't work for Sears. I've been going to Sears and Kmart since I was a little kid. I hate what guy's like ESL do to companies. I posted the Net Loss post below because I thought people might be interested to see what happens in the middle of the night. The employees I have come in contact with have always been nice to me despite the ordeal they are going through. The stores left by me do the best with what they have.
Amen to that !
Hi Kenny!