THere is a new group of people running the corporate office. Tom Stemberg is not there anymore, this changes things. It used to feel like a family, we were a team. Everyone wanted to help everyone, so - it was a TEAM. Now w/out Tom Stemberg here anymore, his replacements are running the business like they plan to only work there for 5 years then move on, which is probably true - they want to jettison with all bonuses and shares they collect. They allow their District Managers to toss out job threats over not selling enough Service Plans, Tech Services, and this anti-virus, SOPHOS, that they pretend is a tech service. It's not a tech service, it's an antivirus. But they are pretending that they are growing the stale business by pretending the SOPHOS is a Easytech service. The job threats come 5 a day in email over this metric and that metric. The hate-mail goes on to "promise change" Well you already told us you were eliminating all the assistant managers, so why keep threatening us? Pouring salt on a wound - making it much more worse?
They announced "Restructuring" (READ layoffs), which is a fancy term for firing as many hard working Assistant Managers as they can. They will let most of us go in 2014 time frame. We will walk in for our shift, walk into the office, be told we are terminated, hand in our keys and be escorted out.