Eureka!!!
Here is the day I've been waiting for. There is no one in my family or circle of friends that work for Tuesday Morning any longer. I have been encouraging them all to find other employ because no one on this planet is going to change the 'big ego's ' at corporate headquarters. They are there for the investors only and this should be a warning sign to everyone. If a company depends on investor return for their success it IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE FRIENDLY COMPANY.
As far as Workmans Comp is concerned, the system is broken and no one is interested in fixing it because it is broken towards individuals but in favor of corporations and insurance carriers.
My daughter announced after she came home for the last time that there is absolutely no difference with what me and Nancy experienced and what you are all going through to this day. The only difference is that the corporation is covering their ass better with daily directives, yet they have not changed their treatment of the lower rung employees. And they are trying to install 6.50 an hour employees nationwide. It won't work, morons, because the cost of living differs by region around the country. Not one person in the northeast can afford to work at low wages because our rents and mortgage payments, not to mention the cost of food and even electric rates are some of the highest in the land. So, Marchetti, you keep cutting those payrolls and you keep experiencing lack of labor in all of your selling markets, keep denying people help with the injuries caused by your lack of compassion and caring for your fellow man (or woman in this case) and above all else make sure you have at least a half million dollars worth of stock for sale every six months so that you don't suffer like you make your present and past employees suffer.
The key to success for Tuesday Morning lies in a person who knows how to treat humans fairly, not someone who cherishes derogatory statements toward the very people who manage the stores that sell your "crap". You don't single out an individual, make a derogatory statement toward them ("She isn't worth a 'crap' (not the actual word used) so get rid of her") and expect there to be no backlash from this. So, M. Marchetti, did you puff out your chest while throwing your weight around in Dallas? My family is done with Tuesday Morning, none of them nor my friends, nor anyone else in my area now shop at Tuesday Morning. We prefer Target, HomeGoods, or any so called reputable retail outlet, but you can bet we check out the corporation behind the outlet now. Thank you so much for the education into how unethical and greedy most companies are nowadays. And, by the way, Kathleen Mason DID NOT MAKE THE FORBES LIST of the top one hundred most powerful women in the world. She's just a poster child for investor owned companies...someone who takes all she can get because she feels entitled to it (Filenes Basement?). Of course she is well known in retail circles...she runs businesses just the way she is ordered to do by her investor overlords. She is on the board but not chairman...that distinction goes to someone from MADISON-DEARBORN. This leaves the question...Who's bright idea is it to continually run the help in the stores ragged until they all quit in frustration? What a wonderful legacy you are leaving in your wake! You people at TM corporate are members of the Chaos Club and until there are new people with a clue running the show this will all continue unabated.
posted by Ed @ 9:47 AM
18 Comments:
I am proud to say that 10 people left this company because of what they did to me.Keep spreading the word.
They are a very nasty corporation in regards to their employees. We ALL know this now and they make no bones about how much they DO NOT want to pay them. This is now becoming very common knowledge not counting the FACT that they DO pay MEN more than the WOMEN. Just heard this recently that they PAY certain MALE mgrs MORE than the WOMEN mgrs in one of our areas who DO the exact same work, (the women do more actually and everyone knows it) this is unfair and AGAINST the law. I can't wait to see this played out. The Women know it and will and are taking action. This is what Tuesday "user" morning wants though......men managers. No skin off my nose, but it's not a fair practice, at some point, we are all leaving anyway, I just stay for the discount and the paycheck. Those things can all go away, there are a million more places to work in this world. It's just like a bad habit and hard to quit is all. We are seeing me and my coworkers, that it's time to make career changes for all of us.
http://www.workingwounded.com/lectures/
Go check this out!
"cheaper, more, productive, people" that is their aim. That way they can keep the "big bucks" at the Senior levels.
Can someone explain what's going on? Are they going to fire people just because they make more that $6.50 . Since I remember Mrs. M , I will use this as her name , comes after opening and works only at the register and does a great job and leaves after 4 hours because she makes $9.00 and worked for this company since they open a long time ago. Is not her fault.
Everybody go to this site and get the message out here too: type Tuesday Morning on the space.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/search.asp
The lady that makes $9.00 an hour and works the register is basically "toast" before long. They did this to a lady in our store not long ago. Cut her hours to NOTHING at all for no reason other than "there is no payroll." This lady made less than the one mentioned above too yet was targeted because of her higher hourly wage and age. (Age discrimination is rampant at this company which is totally against the law)
She had been with this company for over 10 years and was a kind, helpful, faithful, trustworthy, hardworking, and loyal, employee for this company all those years. There aren't many more like her out there. They are a dying breed. It doesn't matter to Corporate though.
Loyalty is not known to these savages, even if M. Marchetti's Grandma, worked at a store and made $9.00 an hour they would chop her out too this is their trend. It's the "down trend. Get ready it's coming to a store near you.
Them $9.00 grannies aren't all that you want to make them out to be. My experience has been that they are slow, can't do truck, complain too much, and can't remember more than one thing at a time. Also, they are so stuck in the old ways... well we used to... well we don't anymore, get on with it grannie or get the hell out. Lastly, all they do is shop on the clock. Sure there may be exceptions, but if they are gonna be making 50% more than everyone else, they need to do 50% more work. This ain't the welfare office.
>Anonymous said...
Them $9.00 grannies aren't all that you want to make them out to be. My experience has been that they are slow, can't do truck, complain too much, and can't remember more than one thing at a time. Also, they are so stuck in the old ways... well we used to... well we don't anymore, get on with it grannie or get the hell out. Lastly, all they do is shop on the clock. Sure there may be exceptions, but if they are gonna be making 50% more than everyone else, they need to do 50% more work. This ain't the welfare >office.
If granny were still alive, she would come there and kick you a$$.
Yeah well if the do it to the expensive grannies, they will do it to YOU!!! Wise up. There are some exceptional women who have earned the right to make that kind of money. The ones we knew didn't act that way and had specific job duties. Just because they are slower doesn't mean they don't work hard and weren't sharp still and ours did/could do trucks.
Strong as a mule. Some people are lazy at any hourly rate. There are women that are much younger that are lazy in the stores that shouldn't be there but have "rights" so that helps protect them. We can never put them out doing certain jobs because they shop and don't work fast and they make good dollar amounts. We will all be old one day too. Don't ever forget this is how people were picked for extermination in days past, if they were too "old" or "weak" or "handicapped" or a different "religion" etc.....I'm not buying it even if Corporate America chooses to do so. Cheaper, YOUNGER, more productive, right???
I don't think so. Esperience, and wisdom DO count for something. Keep bringing in the younger ones with no experiece to be Management, because they never last, we've seen this over and over.
Our almost 70 year old has to empty the baskets and run the register because we try to use the two lazy young guys and they keep putting the soaps at the candle section, drapes at the bathroom section etc, etc. They are so lazy they do not want to read and think at the same time.
Update!!!One of them lazy guys quit because got upset because was never put as a third key when the third key was send to another store to become an assistant manager in a hurry. So they put someone else that had less time in the store and this same person months before did a return by itself without an approval. How he did it? he was watching the third key's fingers and was only verbaly reprimended by the manager. To me he violated a rule to be fired on the spot but this manager in Texas to our surprise left the guy there and now is a third key.Mr. regional did you know about this ?
If your employees are lazy then why don't you get rid of them and hire someone new? Duh! There are plenty of people who will work at any price. If treated with honesty & respect they will work for less than at a grocery store or McDonalds.
And what's with all the man hating women? I think it's highly unfair to make a blanket statement that women do more work than men. It all depends who the individuals you are comparing.
Re:If your employees are lazy then why don't you get rid of them and hire someone new? Duh! There are plenty of people who will work at any price.
This is funny because I was the Assistant Manager -not anymore( that is suppose have the power to hire or fire people and I never had any problem with power struggle until this lady was sent to our store .I complained this situations about this two that she hired on many occations and she did nothing.Everybody including the older employees mostly women knew about this and she acted like nothing happen.I ended up out the door before all of them due to an injury related to this two lazy guys.So to me is too late.
Re:If treated with honesty & respect they will work for less than at a grocery store or McDonalds.
Honesty is not on this lady dictionary.Bully is her name.Sorry.Not all men are lazy.
Your all right. Not all men are lazy. I will say this, the reason WHY stores are forced to keep some of those lazy people, wither they be men or women, is because you do get "locked in" at times with them. IF the manager doesn't get rid of them before the 90 days is up in the very begining, they are in. Plus, it is HARD we hear, to get people that will come and work such hard jobs, (unloading trucks, etc) at such low wages. When the managers do their interviews with possible new employees, they tell us that when they tell that person they have to "unload trucks, be able to lift 50 pounds, and work all kinds of crazy hours, and make FIVE dollars, and whatever cents, and hour" then they laugh and leave. This is no lie. That is the case in point why there are so many teenagers working in the stores.Mgrs, can hire them for minimum wage. $5.15 an hour. They do less work in many cases than the adults, but they are kept on because they are "cheap" I've heard this over and over at several stores. This then DOES frustrate the older workers, who if they have job ethics, work their butts off because they do make a bit more money and know how to work, and how to think ahead. Example: when you work at the register, you have to re-fill the bags occasionally when you run out. It's best if you do it "ahead" of that point.
This goes for the change in the drawer too, then you don't have to hold up the line and yell for help to get more change.
There ARE reasons why these managers are forced to keep the cheaper, "lazy" help. We have had that sign up for a fun, part-time job" looking for new help in our window for months. But no one applies, so in a case like that, we have been told that "you have to at least keep who you have or you may end up with no one." I think the working public is "on" to Tues. Morning so they do not want to work there. They've heard the news about how badly their employees are treated and for lower wages than most places so why work there? Lot's of people don't care about that great 20% discount (most stores out there offer 40% to their employees)so that isn't a big drawing point. Don't forget, they at Corporate still claim their workers as "Seasonal, and Part time" that way they don't have to offer employees any benefits of any kind, except management, and they can use them like slave labor.
It is true that it can be hard to terminate EE's after the 90 days & even before the 90 you need 3 strikes. They can be different strikes. I document everyone's bobo's (except my own :), that's for my boss to do.) However, rarely do I need to ever reference this information. If someone turns out to be a bad apple I can go back & say on these dates you did the same thing & we talked about it, now I am going to write you up. I will give you that it is a balance because you may lose the person before you have their replacement, but actually that is just more impetus to hire someone new. Retail in general is too stressful to have to always be worrying about a bad employee.
I do not know where you all are from but in the south the wages are a lot lower than they were up north, however we aren't paying minimum wage. We do pay less than the fast food place & the grocery store nearby, but who wants to work there!
I don't know how your managers schedule, but when I first started at a store they had all these crazy shifts. We sat down as a store & worked out a basic schedule and that was when everyone worked. Sometimes people had things come up and we'd have to change things up some, but otherwise it was a set schedule. People could plan their lives & they new what to expect.
Truck is the hardest part of the job hands down. I don't whitewash truck, but I don't dwell on it either. In reality the hardest part of truck is only a short duration. With a normal crew you can unload a whole truck in 3 hours. I have had 3 of them in the past 2 months & it was 3 different crews. We talked, we joked, we took small short breaks, but we got it done & moved on. Truck is actually one of the most fun & exciting things anyway. It's like Christmas morning & you never know what you'll get. You can either look at it that way, or the normal, "Oh God, another truck for which we have no room." You choose the attitude with which you approach the situation & the employees will follow.
I personally do not hire pre 18 year olds anymore. It seemd that as soon as they turned 18 they quit. I do have some college kids now though & they work out fine. When you say young, how old are you talking?
My cashier checks bags in the morning before the day starts & we keep a box upfront. With all of my newbies at this store, I've been having problems with them remembering to change the paper in time!!!! Argh! I don't seem to encounter the change problem as much, I don't know if that is a function of the way I set the drawers up in the morning or how we check change levels when we count drawers out between shifts.
Part of the problem may be the management & store itself. I insist that my store is organized & shoppable. As for clean that is pretty basic & shouldn't even come into the picture. There is an energy in my store that both customers & employees sense. I do not hide in my office or in the back room. I am on the floor joking with customers, running to get them carts when their hands are full, opening the door for the ladies with strollers & old ladies who otherwise have to contort to get into the store. My store IS a fun place to work.
Most retailers may give a 40% discount, but their prices are much higher, you have to factor that in. Plus, we get our discount on top of clearance.
Not to oversell this all and sound like a stooge, but we do give the workerbees access to the 401k after a year. That is at least a benefit & they do offer a match. Again, I am not overselling it, but you said we don't offer ANY benefits, but that isn't totally true.
I hope some of that helps
When I read this last message It reminded me of my happy days with TM. I was a happy person very cheerfull I would unload the truck with a happy crew too no complains even on the old days without the rails we had fun. I worked two jobs one full time and TM was part time then I was promoted and I quit my full time to become and assistant manager after my regional beg me for almost two years to start my MIT.I was just like you I can almost see it. I was in love even with the 72 plus hours on a week .Then one day I was transfered to another store to replace someone that it was going to get fired without me or her knowledge I was told that they needed another assistant an I was very good because I was almost a manager to them. Then the new labor cuts memo in 2004. I still have it as a reminder that that was the beggining of my end. -Save $5.00 every week etc, etc.One thing happen in our store that they sent someone to be at my store while my manager when on her vacation and this person that they sent went over the budget $400.00 on labor. When my manager came back from her vacation she though I had something to do with this. Guess what they did? They fired my manager.She was framed! a few months later I was put into the slave department as an assistant manager.To this day.Out of a job and discrimination to me is a small word. WC denied, disability denied. Maybe you will have better luck.
Ed,
You do realize don't you that most large companies are investor owned even Target & hoegoods, through a parent company? Your demonization of TM for being investor owned is silly.
Anonymous said...
Ed,
You do realize don't you that most large companies are investor owned even Target & hoegoods, through a parent company? Your demonization of TM for being investor owned is silly.
*Investors are truely in control of these companies...no investors...no money..no profit. If the "investors would open their mouths and speek up, then maybe some of this corporate "greed" would subside. What ever happened to making an "honest" buck?
Don't hurt the employees who are making you money....it's silly!
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