Please continue to do no work and also document a large viable company self-destructing out of denialism.
Sounds a lot like Staples before I left it to go to "greener pastures" elsewhere. I worked at a place that used to staff 3-4 people in my department when I first started. That slowly dwindled down until I was the last one. And it was hell. The expectations that I had for the amount of work I had to do were totally unrealistic, yet since I more or less managed I think they just accepted that this is how things were going to be. And it got worse with the pandemic. I legit thought I was going to have a breakdown at one point because of how much I had on my plate. And was always told the same. "we'll get someone to help you." Never came. By the time I quit they had shifted to " we'll find someone to replace you, give us just a little more time before you leave." But it was the same. They never hired someone to replace me.
Pay increases were always pretty minimal too. The largest ones I experiences were from whenever I changed departments or moved up to a different position. Otherwise year to year increases were just a few cents. I always used to hear about bi-yearly reviews where our pay would increase each time, but it was always just a once a year thing.
It's so weird to hear about this kind of hollowing out at every retail store, in every office. It seems like management understands, at some level, that the level of understaffing they're maintaining isn't survivable, but at the same time they seem helpless to do anything about it. Like literally just hire three warm bodies, but somehow that is insurmountable.
hedge funds buy them and cut costs like crazy and eventually the company dies but they make shitloads of profit in the few years that they own it while the company reputation slowly goes from decent to awful and people stop going and it shuts down. capitalism is eating itself.
Pretty much this. Staples got bought out by a private equity firm for its online business, which is apparently very profitable. In my last year with the company we were told that the brick and mortar side had actually become profitable as well, yet we never saw much c change in so far as budgeting and labor hours. As a matter of fact labor hours were cut.
Like literally just hire three warm bodies, but somehow that is insurmountable.
the people above the store managers will literally fire all of the store managers and come in and basically Pinochet the place up with military discipline if they do this lmao
like a lot of my managers at work seen frustrated by the lack of staffing but it seems to be a combo of "if I go over labor whole scheduling this week I might lose the only job that pays a living wage I've ever had" and just no one wanting to work
Management has an idea of what a warm body "should" cost, and they refuse to update it as the market changes (or they can't adjust it and still make the necessary amount of profit)
you will almost always get bigger raises by moving companies compared to staying with them. Loyalty does not pay.
3-5 years, and if you haven't changed jobs you're just leaving money on the table.
I legit thought I was going to have a breakdown at one point because of how much I had on my plate. And was always told the same. “we’ll get someone to help you.” Never came.
those are the worst jobs. RUN FROM THEM!!
Do steadily deteriorating work. Shut down the store to go get lunch, there's no one to stop you.
yeah if the manager is gone time to start going out for smoke breaks every 30 minutes lol
Depends what industry. I got a raise recently along with the rest of the company, but that's because the company is hurting for employees and the CEO knows it.
The revenue is so cushy that they could easily afford to pay us all twice as much, but they're passing out the bare minimum.
I worked at a JC Penney for 7 years and looking back I really regret staying there as long as I did. At the time my thought process was similar to yours, I thought that even though it was a shit job I was relatively comfortable and I wouldn't be able to find anything better until I got a degree. But then once I left I realized that job was actually hell on earth and there are much better jobs out there.
The reality is that working in a department store is probably one of the worst jobs you can possibly have for your life long term. So long as you're working there you'll never, ever get a decent raise, you won't get a promotion and you're not really learning any skills that look good on a resume and could help you get a better job somewhere else (I know dealing with customers and shit takes skill but managers/capitalists don't see it that way).
There were a few older people who had worked at JC Penney for much longer than I had and they were still making basically the same rate as me, and they were some of the most miserable depressed people I've ever met.
When I started at JC Penney I was making $7.25 and hour, and when I left 7 years later I was still only making $8.35 an hour. The job I had after that was a construction/manufacturing job that started at $9 an hour, and when I left that job 6 years later I was making $18.
Retail is a trap and I would recommend getting out while you still can.
like some days you work day shift (9-5), and sometimes night shift (12a-8a) etc. i think. which is basically a form of torture i believe.
yeah they'll have to clarify. didn't mean to assume. worked 70 hours this week and my brain is fried.
just apply or look for other jobs, it's good to do even if you don't get another one. then you may stumble onto something better. retail is dying though.
like lmao my store has like 4/6 full time positions open now, they can’t get new people to show up to orientation and the people that do keep quitting. the store manager is quitting to go work for starbucks, the week before black friday, l m f a o
Heroes of the proletariat.
Anyone got suggestions on Union information to leave around stores for the employees?
It sounds like they're doing so badly that you could go read Das Kapital on a megaphone and they wouldn't have the morale or staffing to remove you.
I left kohl’s 6 years ago. I feel better about it every day. Strangely enough though, when I was working there I was happy. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was.
I'm surprised they've limped along this far given that their entire business model was built on gambling ("Kohl's Cash").
I remember Kohl's. With the way mine was ran I'm surprised any are still in business
What are they currently paying you, and what benefits do you get?
Are you sure there aren't other full-time jobs in your city you could easily switch to?
Oh yeah especially if you’re moving in January there’s no reason to leave now unless it starts being unpleasant to be there, it’s not like you can get another job for that time
hey @PootrKrobuttkin have you considered making anti-Kohl's posts in r/antiwork?
(don't mean instead of here, just a random thought since the kohls subreddit is controlled by mgmt)
