Merchandising Service Supervisors are next to go. They are trying to get the In store merchandising employees to work off an app. It will all be coordinated from the MSM. Be prepared, writing is on the wall. Corporate communications don't even mention MSS in them. Its obvious they are bypassing them. After MSS hire up and train new employees they will terminate them.
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The sad thing is that if they lost their position it would have a zero impact on the stores. Area staff is the biggest waste of payroll there is
yeah i have read elsewhere their is a test going on in like 12 stores...but it was already a foregone conclusion what was going to happen. same thing HD does....they were just working on the kinks before rolling it out company wide. guess there was a corporate guy working with them on it and it was up to store manager discretion for how the RTM used up the rest of their time each week.
RTM is already gone in my market. They let them chose what other CSA position in the store they wanted. So they do the RTM scanning thing for a little bit in the AM then go to the sales floor.
ohh wait...fyi guys...whatta a waste of payroll
problem is its pure speculation. you have made this topic before and gotten pretty mixed comments...even some suggesting HD had just as many layers if not more to their program.
if you want to talk about which group is next its in house appliance delivery drivers. source: marvin in the last townhall right at the end of the video! and they have been slowly rolling these layoffs off. if you want to SPECULATE then you might also say RTM too based off the same source and time in same video. whether or not that position is going away is questionable as he said technology would replace alot of their task, but left it open to interpret that theyll either be given a new job description to include new task or the position became part time.
The danger of speculation often involves thinking you're apart of every communication, email and meeting when in fact you are not. for all we know you are on to a small "tell" that might play into their long term goals and thinking, or you might just be reading too far into things. corporate executives love to give tells, they cant help it. so if i were you id follow the trail and try to uncover something more concrete.
the belief that they will "fire them after theyve gotten their people hired and trained" doesnt hold weight. turnover is a constant. no call, no shows always high in retail. youll never reach those plateaus. i know "management" always is a dirty word around here...but like it or not corporations see them as the "better paid fall guy" as in when we pay everyone else c-ap wages and they are thusly unreliable we will have it all fall on those managers who are paid just well enough to take on more and more work.
your right bs...they dont train anybody...they are usless anyway
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