If the store doesn’t continue improving over the next thirty days, then our store director will be fired, but for now, his (and other) jobs are safe. It took a Herculean effort - two coworkers staying until 1 am and my boss staying until 2 am - to get the job done, but the rating corporate handed down to the store, a three out of ten, was good enough. (That doesn’t seem very good, but to put it in context, last month the store received a -3.)
While I am somewhat disappointed that the shakeup didn’t occur, I am not surprised. It seemed like a struggle just to get the store to a 3/10; I don’t know how the store plans to achieve a 7.
Another interesting tidbit is that there are two store director meetings in July, one on Tuesday. This makes me believes that firing season may be coming to us yet again. Last year at around this time, a fashions manager, one or two GM managers, and a third-shift manager position was cut (these are the ones I know). In addition, many received salary cuts, and an overall restructuring of management occurred, which included a new second-shift director position. This year, more cuts could occur as forecasts for the holiday season already are looking gloomy. It will be interesting to see if anybody will lose their jobs (only a couple from my store actually was fired/forced into retirement), and if so, who will not survive.
I agreed with you