Dust Storm
Message to Investors...save your corporation, it's being run into the ground. You have employees leaving at an alarming rate, the bottom line is getting smaller, and Tuesday Mornings current reputation is at the bottom. TM is coming across as one of the poorest run companies in America and it's getting worse. The people in Dallas are reacting to things with an apparent panic. They are not professionals, unless bankrupting companies is a profession adored by the retail industry as a whole. Changing your sales day from Tuesday to Saturday only has customers scratching their heads thinking there's something wrong with the company, so they won't buy because customers like to know they have somewhere to return the crap they buy. Most of these customers are shopaholics whose husbands make them return it the next day. They think Tuesday Morning is going out of business because their stores look like no one cares and there's not enough help in the stores...it appears like there's a skeleton crew selling out the junk, then the doors will close. Stop worrying about the return to the investors for a while and fix your company, or it soon won't be a company but a memory. It will be another "great" entry to Mason and Marchetti's resume...another one bites the dust!!!
posted by Ed @ 1:11 PM
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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.
Open your eyes people!!!!
In California, unlike the rest of the US, a manager or assistant manager must earn double the minimum wage to qualify for an exemption from overtime pay. If your title is "Manager" or "Assistant Manager", but you spend more than 40% of your work hours performing the duties of a regular worker, you may be entitled to overtime wages.
Typical Problems(TAKEN FROM FAIR LABOR PRACTICES)
Problems arise when employers fail to recognize and count certain hours worked as compensable hours. For example, an employee who remains at his/her desk while eating lunch and regularly answers the telephone and refers callers is working. This time must be counted and paid as compensable hours worked because the employee has not been completely relieved from duty.
THIS SOUND VERY FAMILIAR TO ME BUT WITH A LOT MORE THAN SITTING ON MY DESK.
Your right about the "SHOPAHOLICS" that invade our stores. First the rip the fire out of the products on the shelves, tearing open the sheets, pillow cases, comforters, bedskirts, etc. Then they buy not one, entire set. But say TWO. Then they take all that and MORE home. Then they "try them out" that's fine. But usually they've had company over or a party. Then after that event, they bring them back. How do we know. We can smell the smoke on them, amongst other smells. Not pretty. And then BIG DADDY tells them to bring all that stuff "Back to where you got it!" I've heard it and I've seen it. I've been there when a woman buys several hundreds of dollars of stuff then has to go through several credit cards to get one to go through, because they are all maxed out. Then she has her "maid" bring some of the stuff back later. Yeah, we love that. Kills our numbers, especially WHEN it's from the other stores in the area. That's a great one. Your dying, trying to hit your huge sales forcasts, then you have to take back all these other stores returns. Makes for a great day. Oh well. Some one at Tue.Morning had that ingenius ideal to make the returns your store has to take back count AGAINST your store or any store that takes them back. Even when the stuff didn't come from your store. WHY don't they do like other retail stores and make it count AGAINST the store where the stuff was bought at. Because they don't have updated computers to keep track of stuff like that.They run old cash registers and they aren't equipped with programs to make the sales go against the stores in which the product was bought at.
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