For Real, The End Is Near!!!
Hmmmm, 129 openings in Tuesday Morning stores...the majority for Store Manager...and a few regionals, also. That was on Monster.com, which Anonymous was clueing us in on...thank you! It seems the exodus has begun from Tuesday Morning. They had this blog to show them not only the problem, but employee based suggestions on how to fix it. I'll bet they have a team of lawyers or are trying to figure out how to stop this blog instead of being responsible adults and fixing the problems, or at least talking to people in their stores. We said here it was a nationwide problem in all their stores and they ignored it. Now they are paying the price. Their own employees expressed their dissatisfaction with procedures and the treatment of store level employees and corporate chose to ignore it. We know for a fact they have been monitoring this blog because their own northeast regional has posted here, and he's just as ruthless and uncaring as the rest. So, we have established that they do not care about their employees, only the bottom line. I saw an article in the Washington Post that stated that the business formula of worrying about investor return above all else is a path to destruction for any company nowadays because the public is becoming wise about this and are reacting by not shopping at those enterprises, and the ill treatment of employees is giving them a bad reputation to boot. So, keep up the good work, Tuesday Morning Corporate. Hope you make it until the end of 2005, but I don't think so!!!
posted by Ed @ 10:56 PM
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The Saturday Green Card, event will be very interesting. Especially for those of us on the Gulf Coast. With the approach of tropical storm "Arlene" this is going to "DAMPEN" the big sales that they are expecting. Many shoppers will be busy trying to stay dry,and save their homes, and won't be out shopping this sale. Last year the hurricanes were a problem, but this was later in the season. This year it's starting early. This DOES affect Corporate, don't think it doesn't. They hardly let us close down for hurricanes last year. Even when the employees could NOT get to the store because of the approaching hurricanes, and the maddness that goes with that, horrible traffic, mandatory evacuations, etc. etc.
Well, here we go again.
OK! everyone Green Card is over!
How did everyone do?
Our store (North East) was busy but did not meet quota how about the rest of you?
We were steady at our store in the Deep South, we didn't hit our numbers here either in our store, not sure about the rest of the region yet. Fill you back in later if we hear anything. This wasn't a great sale though. We all know that. Frankly, I was SHOCKED to see how slow the store was. It was like a normal Saturday for us. We only sold out of three items I think it was. The big selling item for us was those R.L. pillows. Wonder if they are fakes too? Oh well, it's too later now, we can't pull them off and box them up to sit in our offices, like the rest of that stuff we had to do that's STILL sitting in there.
I am a customer too:I went to many stores not TM and found out that everybody was selling those poker stuff games and golf stuff also. Then yesterday I went to a mall and people were looking for other stuff.TM is for womens stuff mostly and for fathers day is not a good place to find a gift.
That poker stuff has been "out there" in various stores since Christmas. It is old news, because T.Morn. had it THEN too. Why they sold it this time in this ad, who knows. But they do that. They keep that stuff stuck away in a warehouse then bring it out again in 2-3 months. We that work there have seen this pattern. That is why we have the same old stuff over and over again, towels, suitcases, comforters, coffepots. EVERY ad. Boring. Customers are sick of it. The employees are sick of it. There is nothing new and exciting any more. LOTS of stores have what we have and they are cheaper most times, is what we are hearing from customers. We see this too when we shop at other stores. So what's the point. The flyers look nice though. But then so do Dillards, and J.C. Penneys, and they have the stuff in stock. We didn't even have some of the items for the ad, yesterday, and we have limited amounts of other things. Yet we didn't sell out of much at all. So things are getting bad. Those of us who have been there for many years, are seeing this and we DO see the difference in the sales and the products and the prices and what the customers are reacting to now, as compared to years ago.
Many are being transfer,switch around to make them believe that they care. Other smart enough or had luck finding a job after being ask at the interviews the reasons to quit at current job were able to brake free from TM. To the transfers this will make you quit soon because this situation will never change and guess why the others left their positions in the first place.Think about it.
Just a joke:
The owner of a large corporation decided to make a surprise visit and check up on his staff. Walking though one of his stores the store, he noticed a young man leaning lazily against a post.
"Just how much are you being paid a week?" said the owner angrily.
"Three hundred bucks," replied the young man.
Taking out a fold of bills from his wallet, the owner counted out $300, slapped the money into the boy's hands, and said, "Here's a week's pay -- now get out and don't come back!"
Turning to one of the supervisors, he said, "How long has that lazy bum been working here anyway?"
"He's not an employee," said the supervisor. "He was just here to deliver a pizza!"
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