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Sunday, May 22, 2005

Another Reprint

Let's not forget, that some of the stores are now being "TESTED" by staying open later on a Saturday night now. They normally closed at 6:00pm on a Saturday. Now it is 8:00pm. There is no increased payroll to support this extra two hours either. Yet, the chosen "test stores" have to do this. One person told me that they only found out their store HAD to do this at 10 minutes to 4:00pm on a FRIDAY. Their Regional had been at their store that day even. Nothing was mentioned that they had to do this until he went back home and read his e-mail. There was their store listed, so he called them up and told them that their store was to be a "test store." That is some kind of GREAT notice isn't it? What about planning? What kind of planning goes into such RASH and SUDDEN decisions that affect people's lives on a daily basis. Tuesday Morning, runs it's company by the SEAT OF IT'S PANTS! Or skirts. This would never happen at a "Mall" store or even more organized stores like Big Lot's or Walmart, & Target. Now you can see why Tuesday Morning is on it's way DOWN and OUT. There is very poor planning at the top and bad leadership brings companies down.
They are the most unorganized company I have been around.


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Posted by Anonymous to Tuesday Morning at 5/22/2005 09:30:06 AM

5 Comments:

At 10:10 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.forbes.com/home/free_forbes/2005/0523/210.html
Check out this article that just came out in FORBES Magazine.

Ms. Mason says a few things in this new article that we employees need to hear.......like this:
Mason is her own target customer: a middle-aged, upper-income woman willing to pay good money for a great deal.

Mason's goal is to have 1,000 stores by 2010. To get there, she'll need to recruit a lot more customers ages 25 to 40.
Hummm........sounds all good and well doesn't it? But the "proof is in the puddin, darling" and things aren't really going so well for T.M. as you would like the people to believe. Why wasn't that 18.3 DECREASE in T.M's first quarter sales mentioned in that article?

 
At 3:48 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

We know Mason and Maschetti have a "good" record. We also know that they brought down their last company. As long as Madison-Dearborn is making money, M & M will rule. There needs to be a very public law suit. In the past all the suits were not very public. There needs to be a massive money loss. We all know that M & M are good at hiding the truth.

 
At 8:14 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Some of us need to write these places, Forbes, etc. etc. who keep giving their "RAVE" reviews on T.M. and tell their investors the TRUTH. We employees get dumped on conintually, we have the crappy wages, and the payroll sucks and isn't there only because all the HEAVY SALARIES at the TOP of the Corporate ladder. Ms. Mason, didn't mention in that article that "she didn't recieve her bonus this year" that may have shocked the readers. And if she didn't, (this is according to the Stock holder information packet) maybe she can explain to everyone, "why not" and "why aren't the managers getting their's either"........no one has answers, but they sure write some lovely, loaded, articles. Which we that work for the company know......is packed full of lies and inconsistancies. Someone tell the TRUTH.
Re: "Code of Conduct?????"

 
At 6:15 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

In relation to the "Forbes" artcle that Kathleen Mason, just did. I came across this the other day. It is something Tuesday Morning Inc. DOES NOT practice. They should read it and weep. Shame on them!!
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"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those
who can do nothing for them or to them."
-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher

 
At 9:55 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

As a person employed by Tuesday Morning I am shocked that they have continued to allow a Manager to conduct unfair labor practices such as not allowing breaks unless you work 6 hours or more and then its just one 10 minute break, I have seen others who work more hours than that with no breaks at all. She gets upset and rolls her eyes if you dare ask her to take a break. Then there is the unsafe conditions for example: placing heavy merchandise weighing 50 lbs or more on very top shelves, cords at cash wrap exposed in foot traffic area for employees to trip over, and the stock room piled high to ceiling with freight that boxes have fallen as employees try to get the boxes down.

Don't get sick or heaven forbid if you hurt your back at work that's not allowed. If that happens she suddenly cuts your hours or gives you all closings. Then makes comments that you better hurry up and get better in one day.

I know corporate has been notified about these measures and nothing is done except praise for this manager. It just happens that this store has very high rankings in sales. So they leave her alone. Money talks, employees are a dime a dozen.

 

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