Joined: 10 Jul 2003
Posts: 88
Location: Texas
| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 5:15 pm Post subject: Sears sales down again for July | |
|
Ft. Worth Star Telegram 8/8/2003 Gap, Wal-mart, J.C. Penney
and a variety of others all up 2 to 4%. Sears down 0.8%. Isn't that 2 years straight or have I lost count since leaving? Holidays aren't too far off. Most people don't give appliances or lawnmowers for Christmas. What else will you have to sell? Tools, I guess and maybe some Lands End. Question, since selling the credit card, are associates still under pressure to open new accounts and sell account care as in the past? Also, have maintenance quotas gone up? Just wondering. |
|
Joined: 04 Jul 2003
Posts: 1378
| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 11:30 pm Post subject: | |
| Hey! Good to see you again! As our sgm reminded us today, credit applications will still be very important. Also stressed account care. Don't know about the maintenance quotas, myself. | |
Joined: 04 Jul 2003
Posts: 1378
| Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 11:37 pm Post subject: | |
|
By the way, (artist formerly known as AmenBrother), since you are newly employed elsewhere, this might interest you... reading from my copy of the S magazine that was in my mailbox at work...
Full time hourly associates hired on or after Aug. 1, 2003, will begin earning vacation time six months after their hire date. For example: A full time hourly associate hired in Selptember 2003 would start earning vacation in April 2004. The associate would earn 9/12ths of vacation between April and December 2004. In 2005, the associate would earn a full two weeks of vacation. I don't think they'll have too many people complaining because I'm not aware of any full timers being hired! 
|
|