One Name....
Eddie Lampert.
I read this fascinating expose in Bloomberg a few years ago, and I just found it again:
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/article...-warring-divisions-model-adds-to-the-troubles
Eddie Lampert, who took Sears and Kmart, smashed them together, has turned Sears into some kind of queer, internal Ayn Randian "utopia" where all division managers have to beg for money and attention, at the sacrifice of the brand and company as a whole.
I applied to a few engineering jobs in Hoffman Estates last year.....and luckily I abandoned that. I heard from others that management has turned into a backstabbing hell hole coliseum. There's no resources for anything. Heavy spying, nitpicking, back stabbing....and it's running all the good people away.
Pretty much the only people left are the ones desperate for a paycheck, and those few who love the blood sport.
Sears is a zombie. It's sad. It used to be so great. And they could've been an interesting mix of physical and online retailing, before Amazon ever came on the scene.
But Eddie boy blew it with his weirdo ideology.
Eddie Lampert.
I read this fascinating expose in Bloomberg a few years ago, and I just found it again:
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/article...-warring-divisions-model-adds-to-the-troubles
Eddie Lampert, who took Sears and Kmart, smashed them together, has turned Sears into some kind of queer, internal Ayn Randian "utopia" where all division managers have to beg for money and attention, at the sacrifice of the brand and company as a whole.
I applied to a few engineering jobs in Hoffman Estates last year.....and luckily I abandoned that. I heard from others that management has turned into a backstabbing hell hole coliseum. There's no resources for anything. Heavy spying, nitpicking, back stabbing....and it's running all the good people away.
Pretty much the only people left are the ones desperate for a paycheck, and those few who love the blood sport.
Sears is a zombie. It's sad. It used to be so great. And they could've been an interesting mix of physical and online retailing, before Amazon ever came on the scene.
But Eddie boy blew it with his weirdo ideology.