sears, and how they treat their employees. SAD!!

[toggleswitch]

My all-time favorite is their DEBT RECOVERY UNIT, that was attempting to extort funds from customers who were LEGALLY & FEDERALLY declared bankrupt. These customers/consumers had their credit-card debts (including their SEARS card debt) eliminated/"forgiven".

How DARE they try to usurp the Federal government over such a small and simple thing.

 

[whirlpolf]

HR aka human resouces

Seems pretty much the same over here, companies sucking out the last drop of life power from their employees, no matter what. A sad fact indeed.

But think of it: Language is what forms the mind: "Human Resources" was once called "personel office" or "employees desk" -
Today it is "human resources" (resources like oil or gas or anything that could be exploited at will), mind you: "human" like "2-legged animal work horse that can be exploited/done away with" (think of "Soylent Green", the old SF movie)

We are no longer "personel" but merely a "stuff", a living substance that can be drawn powers off - or read it this way: That can be exploited until useless, then discarded (as it is done with all that nature has to offer).

Language can be so revealing....
(Just my 2 ct to it).
Hopeless Joe

 

[seeitrun2006]

I fell at Sears also

The weedeaters displays they had were stacked up next to the roof per say. I alway had to a get a step stool to reach them. Considering I'm only 5'7" I had to reach a long way to get one of them down when a customer wanted one. Once while on the stool I stepped down, missed the bottom step and down I went. I fell backwards aboout 4 feet. The corner of the counter poked me in back. Lucikly I was not cut or injured. Scared the poor customer to death! One of my full time co-workers told me "if management saw me climbing I would get written up". They want you to sell it but how do you get it down if you can't climb up!

I have stories that I could on and on about!

 

[bleacho]

a/c in sears,,, HA HA!!!

this store in particular, where the woman passed out has had an inoperable a/c for years.. never worked properly.. its all about ."where working on it" as they hold on for a break in the weather. its just about enough time to pass, talk bout what theyre doing to repair, nothing happens.POLITICS- theyre all concerned about pissing the "above them" bosses off.everyone walkes on eggs. get the president or big wigs in their stores, and see whats its like to make 7.25 an hour, and have no choice but to work and make the best of the beating up- the conditions. see how they would feel aafter a full day, or even by lunchtime. they are calculating, and simply do not care about their employees, LET ALONE THE CUSTOMERS COMFORT, and the sears enviornment..... they say they care about their customers? baloney.. they want their sign ups for 22% interest credit cards. theyre are collectively never enough customers that make enough of a tink about the heat.. they can leave at their free will and stop their shopping.. employees are left behind, earn their pay, and get berated for not doing enough..
DISGUSTING...

so Mr sears, you talk about the culture? CULTURE THIS!!!!! YOU MORON

 

[partscounterman]

Sears- like working for Hitler...

I grabbed a job at Smears back when Dennis and I first got to Maui. Same thing-didn't matter how much product you sold-you were browbeaten if you didn't sell the rip off service contracts with the machines. I was there from 11/03 to 05/04. A poorly run organization!

 

[sudsmaster]

Service Contracts

I shop a fair amount (sometimes way too much) at Harbor Freight. I get tools for my job and also for the home and car projects there.

The staff there are mostly pretty young or very old. They all do their damnedest to try to sell silly extended warranties or whatever they call it. I always say no. One of them once mentioned that they had a contest and the one who sold the most contracts got a flat panel TV or something.

My current boss has a certain way of dealing with such sales pitches. He'd say, "You mean to tell me this product is so unreliable I need a service contract?" I don't have the heart to use that on the young workers at HF, but if one doesn't take no for an answer I just might give it a try, and turn around, leave the checkout line, and put the product back on the shelf, lol.

As for the way Sears treats its employees, it sounds like par for the course in the machine shop trade I now work in. Biotech and high tech were different, with much better employee relations, but not above laying off the most highly paid and experienced workers in favor of younger, lower paid workers. I learned early on that no matter how worker friendly the company, though, that Personnel or Human Resources were there for one primary reason: to serve the company's interests and avoid getting sued.

 

[whirlcool]

Ah, I have usedyour technique on salespersons who insist on selling you a service contract before.

"You really are pushing that service contract. Maybe you know something about the product that I don't know. Maybe I'll just go buy another product from a different store". That always shuts them up.

 

[lordkenmore]

One thing that irritates me about service contracts are those ones that appear to do nothing but take my money to pad the store's pocket.

For example: I bought a cell phone a while back. They pushed a service contract. Which seemed pointless given how cheap the phone was (we're talking prepaid, the cheapest choice in the store, which was even cheaper thanks to a good sale).

Furthermore, as far as I could tell, the contract was apparently only good for a year. Which, interestingly enough, was the length of the phone's warranty. The contract didn't cover accidents, either, like falling into water. So, what did this $15 contract do? Apart from making some CEO a few dollars richer?

 

[sdlee]

as newly divorced from WALMART, the king of corporate feeding you a line of BS I can tell you that what is right here in this forum should be sent to all CEOs. I doubt that it would make any difference But I am willing to concede that we the American worker are a big part of the problem. WE do not stand up for ourselves anymore. ...When I made complaints to other employees I heard either well what do you do with a company so big or I heard just be quiet and be thankful that you have a job in this economy. BS!!!! Our forefathers would have formed a union and striked thier asses.But nobody wants to cause waves now. Where are WE headed with this? Whats it gonna take to get us all together and say NO MORE. I dont know , when I spotted problems at walmart I couldnt get any support from anyone. Everyone thinks they are beat.

 

[lordkenmore]

"I can tell you that what is right here in this forum should be sent to all CEOs. I doubt that it would make any difference"

I also doubt it would make any difference. Frankly, the only thing many large corporations care about is the bottom line. As long as sales are good, and the CEO is making his or her 20 million a year, they'll take the "who cares?" attitude.

I also think increasing union presence could help. Something Wal-Mart probably recognizes, based on what it says in this linked web page:

http://wakeupwalmart.com/facts/antiworker.html

 

[lordkenmore]

I know I'm dreaming when I suggest this, but another thing that I keep thinking is that it would be nice if more people considered ethics as a part of their decision of which product to buy and whom to buy it from.

Or, in plain English--does it really serve our best interests in the long term to buy something Chinese from Wal Mart or KMart?

 

[laundryshark]

Do We Need to Start a Grassroots "Wake Up Sears" sit

Just like wakeupwalmart.com, somebody outta start a similar thing to wake up Sears. What do you think.--Laundry Shark

makingchangeatwalmart.org

 

[steve1-18]

Health care is following suite

That's why I left University Hospital after 27 years. Not that University is any different than any other hospital. It is profit driven. The insurance companies, as well as Medicare / Medicaid, are sitting in their ivory towers making medical decisions for us and they are clueless. The insurance companies are taking each illness and disease and make cookie cutter treatment decisions.
If anyone out there works for the medical insurance companies and you take offence, good! If you are a health care worker, you know what I mean.
So many corners are being cut. I was one tech running a blood bank in a 750 bed hospital and was written up for not working fast enough. I bit my tongue the last two years I worked there and f*%ked with management as often as I could.