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Joined: 10 Jun 2008
Posts: 11
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:57 am Post subject: Who here has left the company? | |
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I left the company a few weeks ago for good and have never doubted the decision. I don't know why I still read these boards. I guess maybe I'm just waiting for Sears to completely fall on it's face.
I have never had such a dislike for a former employer to this point. Does anyone else feel this way? |
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Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 491
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:02 pm Post subject: | |
| retired 3 years ago. there are probably about 10 people left in the store, who worked there when i did, including management. the place is empty. i cant understand how anyone makes a living there. | |
Joined: 09 Feb 2008
Posts: 1292
Location: Brand Central
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject: | |
| Short timer, grad student. I will be leaving in about 2 years. | |
Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Posts: 7085
Location: Central CA
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:37 pm Post subject: | |
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I left five years ago. I've stuck around here partly because I've been involved in this board and the one before it since their inceptions but mainly because I feel that there are messages for EVERY lower echelon worker, retail or otherwise, in what's going on at Sears.
Of course that makes for periodic "assessments" (roughly every six months or so) by newbies of either my right or my motivation to be here, since I can no longer address important subjects like the color of the new washer/dryer sets or the position of the cash wraps and have to dig a little for my little tidbits, but I just sit over here in my little corner and do my little thing. 
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Joined: 04 Mar 2008
Posts: 136
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject: | |
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Long Gone- Here to see if my pension money will be there.
And to encourage anyone left behind that success can be had outside of the Brick and Mortar walls of Sears. |
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Joined: 17 Apr 2005
Posts: 1023
Location: EAST COAST
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject: | |
I'm gone, but have not forgotten  See my eyes still twitch from working there. 
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Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Posts: 33
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject: | |
| Retired-July 2005 after 30 years | |
Joined: 08 Mar 2005
Posts: 54
Location: somewhere in the southwest
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject: | |
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fired after 29 years - supposedly for not using tear sheets. No doubt the real reason was below average PA numbers, combined with vocal oppostion to staying one hour after store closing to assist in "recovery" while working on a straight commission basis.
oh, and being a FT-40 probably made me a target as well. 
Guy |
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Joined: 13 Nov 2007
Posts: 22
Location: FL
| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: | |
| after 36 years, I retired Nov 2007, turned 55 and took my money and RAN... | |
Joined: 13 Jul 2003
Posts: 266
| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:13 am Post subject: | |
| I'm a lifer.......not proud of it, but that's just the way it turned out. I'll stay till the last light is turned off (which I think will be within the next 2 years), and then I'll move on. | |
Joined: 09 Feb 2008
Posts: 1292
Location: Brand Central
| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:33 am Post subject: | |
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ya knowwwwww....
I was curious, and a while back I asked the the same question... and was lambasted for it *chuckle* |
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Joined: 22 Jul 2008
Posts: 204
Location: HELL
| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:23 am Post subject: | |
Could it be your vibes coming through? 
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*chuckle* Good catch there ! |
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Joined: 08 Sep 2004
Posts: 97
Location: Alaska
| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:34 am Post subject: | |
| Retired in October 2004(just before the Kmart take over) after 35 years of service. Sears is now a broken egg shell with all of the nurishing yolk dried out of it. I seemed like the beginning of the end came in the late 80's with the major shift in compensataion. | |
Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Posts: 7085
Location: Central CA
| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:51 am Post subject: | |||||
Ah but you couldn't just ask the question, could you?
http://www.retail-worker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9341
You want to be careful throwing down those gauntlets... somebody's liable to pick them up now and again. |
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Joined: 04 Jul 2003
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Location: A little bit sideways!
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Damn it Nofs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcEAzvwKRn0&NR=1 But at this point I'm trying to keep a low profile. Lam it as they say. ~GoodFella |
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Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 7
| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:05 am Post subject: | |
| I quit after 16 years... FT40. So glad I did !!! Went to another company, been there almost 3 years. Make more money (still commission). Can sell the whole floor, not give 2/3 of my sale away when they want a range or refrigerator. No pressure on PA's or credit. Good to go !!! | |
Joined: 25 Mar 2008
Posts: 146
| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: | |
| Yup getting out of Sears has been heralded as the best career move one can possibly make.... I still have to drive by the S-Hole on my commute and each day I hope to see chains the doors... that is if sears would go to the expense of chaining up the doors when they go belly-up | |
Joined: 17 Apr 2005
Posts: 1023
Location: EAST COAST
| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:44 pm Post subject: | |
A whopping 2 people so far as lifers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sears is on a roll. BE very careful though, most of the the lifers I knew were fired. 
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Location: Brand Central
| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject: | |||
seriously... take a little joke in the spirit it is intended. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject: | |
| Quit 1 1/2 years ago, got another job, In Engineering,(my actual career field) havent looked back, worked for sears for 6 years, all in commission, I was pulling money out of my 401k from a previous job because I wasnt making enough at Sears to pay the bills! I value the friendships I made there but will never go back | |
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Posts: 224
Location: east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio
| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject: | |||
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Who here has left the company?
Sears left me on March 25th, 2005
I retired at the end of 2005 after 33 years. LT 
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: | |
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Hmmm. 700 views of the thread and only 36 have answered. I've been out for awhile. Numerous things keep me interested. As Nofs mentioned Sears seems a great example of more general issues in this country. For whatever reasons the company still seems to attract people who are more intelligent than the company deserves. And I can't say I don't enjoy making predictions and being right more times than not...
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Joined: 06 Jul 2003
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Location: Central CA
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There's that too.
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Joined: 26 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:50 am Post subject: | |
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Best thing I ever did was give the middle finger wave Dec. 2003.
13 years with Sears. Once upon a time, it was a not-so-bad place to earn a living. |
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