The End Is Near
I received an e-mail from someone who works in a southern state closer to Texas, who reports that they are experiencing the same cruel treatment as those in the northeastern states. The corporate has ordered all stores to be remodeled by store level employees, they are harassing them into carrying out this task in one weeks time. This remodel includes new shelving throughout the store, new layout of the merchandise bins, and rebuilding the checkout counters...all done by women who have been injured unloading truck after truck so that the warehouse is empty for inventory purposes. This is actual proof that the physical abuse of middleaged women has been ordered from the Corporate office and not by a Zone manager, knowing that the southern state in question is in another zone. Now OSHA will respond...now lawyers will jump on board because there is now proof that the corporate heriarchy is pursuing age and sex discrimination. They could have used the waste they have, with their bad distribution system, and used it to raise labor at the store level to maintain a higher level of employee retention (meaning high enough wages to attract male employees) to alleviate the stress and injury causing culture that is evident today at Tuesday Morning, Inc. . Am I missing something here or is the "store level" the place where they dispose of the merchandise they have "scoured" the world for. How can any company think they are going to be perpetually successful if they abuse their lower level employees who are someones mother, wife, or girlfriend. As Tuesday Morning will attest, the preliminary boycott is working. While most retail was on the upswing at the end of 2004, Tuesday Morning was showing decreases in sales across the board. Word gets out quick, doesn't it?
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It's about time. I didn't have the energy to take such action when I ran my store. 10,000 sq. ft. and the same old story. We shared the same Zone Mgr., Ed so I know the abuse level. After two years of exhaustion, I finally gave up. I'm working for another retail store now making more money and advancing quickly. It's amazing how much support is still out there if you still have the energy left to go after it. When I gave notice to TM (traditional two weeks) there was a "temporary DM" in place. All she said was, "I'll get back to you." Never heard from her. Then on my last day, I got a call from the Zone Mgr. and all he said was, "Is it about the money? Sorry to lose you. I guess there's nothing we can do." Nice exit interview, huh? I've found out since that the entire staff left after that. Now there's another "manager" there that does nothing and apparantly no one else does either. Some of my old customers have come to my new store and say they won't go there anymore because my once impeccable store is now an absolute disaster. I, too, remodeled the store in July with my assistant (also female) and two other p/t female employees. We had to move around bins filled with merchandise, rebuild fixtures, upstock to the ceiling because we lost space, install all the new "convenient" merchandising crap they sent us (old, rusty bin rollers, stockroom doors that looked like they came from the side of a packing crate, and a lovely do it yourself kit for bag handlers). Women should not do this kind of work, it's inhuman. Pushing around 400 lb. bins? Are you kidding? I just set up my new store. The company sent us a merchandising fixture team, merchandising managers, sign installers, and a ton of support. Please tell the girls in NJ that there are still companies out there that won't kill them.
I also work for TM in Texas but at this moment hurt on job, not getting WC payments because was denied. Getting teraphy and still waiting for approvals. I was management and still got in this mess. No money to pay bills and no help from nobody on HR.
Have anyone look into our free benefits from LIFEWORKS? I WAS HOPING TO FIND A SOLUTION TO MY FINANCIAL PROBLEMS BECAUSE it mentions this . IT HAS NO USE FOR ME EITHER AND LEGAL PROBLEMS I WILL NOT TRUST THEM EITHER. HEALTH INSURANCE PROBLEMS? I THINK I WON!!!surgery for my husband approved by Bene.... and then denied after surgery performed.Was mislead by people in Dallas and my credit ruined.
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