My wife hired on for Sears and is the Asset Protection manager for the mid west coast district and she handles all the K-marts. She said that she cant hire anyone for more than 20 hours a week and $7.50hr. They give her a budget allotment and she tried to hire this one woman for $9hr and it was declined and corporate dropped her back down to $7.50hr making my wife look like an ass for promising $9hr. They said her division's Matrix wouldnt support it. Such BS.

Hurst

 

Yeah, Sears as a whole does not care about asset protection so I could definately see that .

Best Buy are like Eagles we keep our product on lock down with sweep intervals and undercover security as well as door security. People still steal crap though. The Asset Protection average about $10/hr too.

The thing about Sears is they are not used to paying alot of wage even if it's in a K-Mart store, they are primarily comission base.

 

$10hr for asset protection hires? Thats retarded. K-mart (Sears Holdings) hired my wife at $42k salary as an in store AP manager and 45 days later (2 weeks ago) they shit canned the regional AP manager in her division and she was offered the posshared_session with a $12k salary increase and bonuses based on how the stores shrink out during their audits. Now she's almost making what she was with the sheriff's dept.

As far as Best Buy is,.. I've personally watched people razor blade packages and shuv product in their hand bag or under their hoodie and walk out the store. The one here in New Port Richey is a thief's dream store. They just grab what they want and walk into the mall.

People who steal at k-marts are just nuts. I sat in the room while we watched (On camera) this lady with a cart full of crap just walked out the front door and no one stopped her,.. I mean a cart full,.. 32" LCD TV, 2 document shredders, 10 different MP3 players, a dozen electric shavers,.. all kinds of crap. My wife had to go running after her in the parking lot and technically k-mart's policy is not to chase once the thief is out the door. And worst part is,.. I can not intervene or my wife would get fired. The other messed up thing is that 30% of the theft at K-marts is done by store employees.

Hurst

 

They have to make up for low wages

 

A lot of truth in this.

 

Especially when they see the cash registers going non-stop.. they keep getting asked to work harder and weird hours.. see no raises.. then have to keep working less than 20 hours per week so thye dont fall into the benefit problems.

Go to any McDonalds and youll see employees buzzing around.. they have it where instead of having 12 full time employess they have 24-30 part timers.. all with different schedules week in and out. Recently my wife's son got a job at a McD's.. they sent him home early becuase of sales not meeting the hourly target. Manager said if we dont sell X per hour, we have to send workers home. His schedule is "on call" meaning they call him if they need him.. So if you ask him will you be working on Thursday.. there is no answer. What a crazy thing.

 

No, the crazy thing is they are forcing your son to work there. We should change the laws so that if someone doesn't like the policies at their job, they are free to quit that job instead of being forced to work there. This way, if enough people are unwilling to put up with the pay, scheduling, or work conditions, the employer wouldn't be able to fill those jobs and would be forced to change their practices. Maybe we should have a government run agency to handle these issues?

 

You know, the looking at this from another angle.. The more grief you get from your working conditions.. two things are going to happen. One is you get fed up and make something out of yourself so nobody ever has you in that position.. or two.. you put up with them shitting on you.

My Niece got a job a few years ago at a Claires in the mall.. they required she show up at least 15 minutes early to start her shift. Her shift was 5-9 shared_pm. So she would get to work at 4:45 and clock in at 5. Then at 9shared_pm they would shut down the registers meaning that everyone needed to clock out.. since time keeping was done on the registers.. but the employees needed to stay after 9 shared_pm to straighten the store out and inventory every piece every night. So she would leave the mall at 10-10:15 when she worked. meaning she was paid until 9 shared_pm but worked till after 10. If you didnt like it.. they had a bunch of other 16-18 year old girls beating the doors down for the position.

I try and tell my step-son to get off the stupid video games and get back to school... learn a trade.. even tho work is tight.. by the time you get out of school.. the economy will be better... instead of making a shitty mcdonalds job a future. I wont even get into the day care he's paying while going to work. 125 per week.

Two things always happen..you put up with your situation.. or you move on. hopefully he doesnt wake up 20 years from now at a minimum wage job.. because he was too lazy and complacent. But thats on him to figure out. I stopped a long time ago telling someone what to do.

 

I agree totally Razor. I learned early on that nobody gives a shit about your best interests but you. When it comes down to it, your spouse, kids, parents, ANYBODY. We can't expect a business to care about your best interests. But you have it right, if you don't like your current situation, change it.

I'm quitting a full time job at the end of this month to go back to school full time. Why? Because my full time job is tied to manufacturing and construction, neither of which will rebound in the near future in this area. I could stay here, worried about getting laid off again from a $14/hr job (big pay cut from before), or I can go to school for a career that should pay significantly more with much better job prospects.

 

loss prevention's job is really to monitor employees, shrink levels, inventory. Its well known in the industry not to worry about the shop lifter as to worry about internal theft.
ex: old Lp manager has the best apprehension numbers in the district but zero with internal decided to leave because he didnt feel appreciated enough. ok he stopped a bunch of shop lifters, avg take about 50-60 range (Sports Authority). New Lp manager comes in and after about 6 months catches my 2nd man playing with the cash registers. Making some cashiers look bad, voiding sales etc. We stopped counting at 15,000.00 in a 6 month period. (he worked for us about 18 months, nicest guy you could meet. He would give you his shirt off his back type of guy. 2nd catches head cashier passing merchandise to his father and family, we think we got hit for about 25-30 ths. So we use to say yeah let the punk kid walk out with the jordans and worry more about internally.