They said that we lost an estimated $1,000,000 before the last two departments (Flooring and Paint) were tallied up, so there is suspected shady stuff due to those departments being barely worth $500,000 with all of their inventory. But needless to say, everyone of importance was losing it. Our district manager was talking about our store manager in a very ticked off manner on the floor to his assistant, and our store manager was punching s*** in frustration.
And nobody in the store is surprised at all considering we run on a skeleton schedule, Mexicans repeatedly come in to steal stuff from us, and our store is f***ing lazy about keeping with the rules on returns and mark downs. In perspective, the next closest store in our district to reach that number only lost $230,000. The other stores were much lower. Needless to say, it's looking like our store manager may be getting fired.
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$230,000 is also a signficant loss. However, anything under $150,000 is usually okay.
See, a major part of it is that they don't schedule a hardware guy until 8AM when we open at 6AM. Mexicans comes in groups, swarm, steal tools from our tool coral, and peace the f*** out. Nobody can see them or stop them. It's completely ridiculous.
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Just about every retail store is feeling the same right now. They don't realize how stupid a cycle they're getting themselves into by skeleton booking. They cut hours to a bare minimum, people get demoralized and don't care about the job. Stuff gets stolen, crappy service, returned items go unchecked, managers getting extremely pissed off at employees, who then go and do even less work. Until companies start giving employees proper hours/pay, they should expect terrible losses like that every year.
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From: JDTAY | #010 Invisible Mexicans? Damn, I knew it was only a matter of time. Time to whip out my Apocalypse Preparedness Kit!
Nah, it's just that our tool coral is boxed in, we don't have anyone in the department to see them take stuff, and the closest people who can stop them are all at the pro desk, which can't see inside.
What they do is buy a few things, sneak out the good stuff, and if we catch them, we're supposed to call a manager. We can't stop them ourselves.
When we DO catch them in the store, we don't call the police. We have them sign a loss prevention paper saying that they tried to steal something.
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Yes, because terrible employees should be rewarded with MORE MONEY
You get what you pay for.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted... From: JDTAY | #010 Invisible Mexicans? Damn, I knew it was only a matter of time. Time to whip out my Apocalypse Preparedness Kit! Nah, it's just that our tool coral is boxed in, we don't have anyone in the department to see them take stuff, and the closest people who can stop them are all at the pro desk, which can't see inside.
What they do is buy a few things, sneak out the good stuff, and if we catch them, we're supposed to call a manager. We can't stop them ourselves.
When we DO catch them in the store, we don't call the police. We have them sign a loss prevention paper saying that they tried to steal something.
... What does the paper do? Are there any actual consequences for the thieves?
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Uh, obviously the terrible employees ought to be disciplined separately. But not giving good workers the chance to have more hours is ridiculous.
A lot of times, good employees turn terrible because of terrible work conditions. I'm going by my store (Toys R' Us) as an example. After Christmas, a "full time" employee will get 32 hours a week. A veteran employee (one who has been there more than 2 years) will get 20 hours. Everyone else will get between 4 to 16 hours. Every year it's the same thing. No hours because we didn't sell enough, even though we received a record amount of product in our store (we usually get 1 truck a week in dead months, last year there was a minimum of 3 a week, with close to 7 during the lead up to Christmas). Every year the annual raises get cut back because our inventory is terrible, and every year more and more great workers yell at customers/managers because of all the stress they get for working minimum hours for minimum wage.
I know it's not the same everywhere, but I guarantee just about every major retailer/grocery store in Ottawa is in the same boat.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted... The consequence is that their day is ruined because they got caught stealing.
It is our hope that they won't do it again.
Wow, seriously? That's terrible. I worked LP for Sears and we'd actually restrain people and call the cops. We'd press charges and everything. It didn't matter who they were or what they stole.
From: XxSoulxX | #018 A lot of times, good employees turn terrible because of terrible work conditions. I'm going by my store (Toys R' Us) as an example. After Christmas, a "full time" employee will get 32 hours a week. A veteran employee (one who has been there more than 2 years) will get 20 hours. Everyone else will get between 4 to 16 hours. Every year it's the same thing. No hours because we didn't sell enough, even though we received a record amount of product in our store (we usually get 1 truck a week in dead months, last year there was a minimum of 3 a week, with close to 7 during the lead up to Christmas). Every year the annual raises get cut back because our inventory is terrible, and every year more and more great workers yell at customers/managers because of all the stress they get for working minimum hours for minimum wage.
I know it's not the same everywhere, but I guarantee just about every major retailer/grocery store in Ottawa is in the same boat.
I was actually so miserable when I was in Lumber because literally one person in there worked and did not have the s***tiest attitude about working. I had to constantly clean up after the crap everyone else didn't do or the messes they would make and got so bogged down with it while I was student teaching. This was after three people who actually did stuff peaced out by retiring, quitting, or changing departments. I was just sick of it all, especially since doing Lumber is about five times amount of the work you'd have to do in any other department for the same pay as everyone else.
So I told them that if they didn't move me, I was going to quit. They took two weeks and then started to shift me over to Hardware. Since then, I've enjoyed my job sooo much more. I'm not dreading going in and miserable all the time.
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