Another day, another dollar...

The nickel and diming continues, folks! The "company" is revamping stores, but instead of having labor do it, they are making the store managers (most are middleaged women} do the work. On top of that, they've taken away at least $300 USD of labor costs (pay dollars) from each store in this particular region. Ok, who at the home office got a big raise and they have to skimp the stores to pay for it? It is to the point in these stores that they can only afford to have one person run the register and the other person is running around the store catering to all those "fine" customers. How on earth is anyone supposed to get all the stock out, clean up after all the "fine" customers, do markdowns, do all the archaic paperwork that they keep generating (save a tree, will ya?), move all the merchandise from here to there at some geniuses whim, and still be treated like your a lazy a**? Why in Gods Name does a company have to be so confrontational with ALL their employees? And why are the same egoistic people still in charge of this company? Well, listeners, these questions and others answered as they become available.

Little bit about myself.

My name is Ed. I live in New Jersey...ya know...the Attitude state! Enlisted in the US Army in 1964. Went to Germany...loved their beer and Oktoberfest. After the Army I tried college...Business Management. So if I seem to harp on things retail, there's a good reason for it. I have a Business background. And about thirty years retail experience.

Recap

I was recapping events since the first day I became employed by Tuesday Morning. Started out helping the wife get the stock out in her store. Seems she was not finding hard working individuals in her immediate store vicinity. I started working part- time but that soon became full time due to lack of staff. Seems that particular store is not in a good area to find labor. Also it didn't help that the work was so labor intensive that kids quit within a week, too sore and tired to continue.
And therein lies the problem. Labor. The stores are given unrealistic dollar budgets for labor that make it totally impossible to cover the store as required by the company directives. Gee, would you think this spiraling down of monthly payroll dollars wouldn't lower morale. Why do corporations insist on wasting money at the top and making up that waste from the bottom...oh, the federal government does that....doh!!!