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6 years ago
TLDR, got a raise at work at the price of other people losing their jobs.
Basically the owner of my company sold to a new owner and terminated everones contracts on July 31st. While devastating to all of the staff, the new owners came in with a positive attitude and seemed to want to hire everyone they could and keep things going as it was.
That's when shit hit the fan. The Franchise owner (Richmond) basically wanted to come in and take full control over our location. They complained about our payroll being too high and how we opened up for more hours and the amount of staff we had, even though to our knowledge our productivity and revenue was still doing well. We do know however that the Richmond location is floundering and that the other franchises are concerned about their buisness.
This last week was a busy one. Sending them all our things from designs, revenue each month how many staff we had and our pay. We were informed that Richmond was gonna be bringing staff in from their location to train us and getting rid of some of the staff members. The biggest thing was that the manager who had dedicated her time and hours building that location when the owner sat back in another country and way hed it grow was certainly was gonna be on her way out.
Well we were informed today with an email from our new owners. I was able to keep my position. And even got a pay raise which is nice. However the manager was correct and they didnt keep her on staff, which is a huge bummer cause I know her personally. This was going on for a couple weeks and has stressed me the fuck out over fear of me keeping my job.
I vented in other places. I'm doing a bunch of art on my alternate account
tyne_amstutz so feel free to watch and follow me there.
Basically the owner of my company sold to a new owner and terminated everones contracts on July 31st. While devastating to all of the staff, the new owners came in with a positive attitude and seemed to want to hire everyone they could and keep things going as it was.
That's when shit hit the fan. The Franchise owner (Richmond) basically wanted to come in and take full control over our location. They complained about our payroll being too high and how we opened up for more hours and the amount of staff we had, even though to our knowledge our productivity and revenue was still doing well. We do know however that the Richmond location is floundering and that the other franchises are concerned about their buisness.
This last week was a busy one. Sending them all our things from designs, revenue each month how many staff we had and our pay. We were informed that Richmond was gonna be bringing staff in from their location to train us and getting rid of some of the staff members. The biggest thing was that the manager who had dedicated her time and hours building that location when the owner sat back in another country and way hed it grow was certainly was gonna be on her way out.
Well we were informed today with an email from our new owners. I was able to keep my position. And even got a pay raise which is nice. However the manager was correct and they didnt keep her on staff, which is a huge bummer cause I know her personally. This was going on for a couple weeks and has stressed me the fuck out over fear of me keeping my job.
I vented in other places. I'm doing a bunch of art on my alternate account
tyne_amstutz so feel free to watch and follow me there.
The same thing happened in working at Rite Aid. I was in line to become an assistant manager after working up through the jobs from a part-time clerk. Rite aid split up Longs Drug stores in California with CVS, (who eventually bought Rite Aid), then Jennifer Grandholm the republican turned democrat governor of Michigan decided to reimpose property taxes that 25 years prior Miliken had ended to get companies to build in Michigan. She also was charging penalties plus accrued interest sometimes called usury (usually only government agencies or the IRS can charge Usury), so that all the companies that had come to Michigan left and laid off all their employees before moving to another state. Parker/Davis/Kline moved to Texas and laid off the 155,000 employees in Rochester Hills where I was. Rite Aid did not need as many locations anymore so I decided it was time to relocate to another state since I could see which way the wind was blowing!
I went to California to escape the purge since Rite Aid had bought all those stores a month earlier. Rite Aid in California was union only and I was not allowed to finalize my self created transfer in another store. The original store I worked part-time at was a Union store and the hiring manager in California took a dim view of me working at any of his regions' stores because I left a Union store to go to a non-Union store!
I found a welding shop that was hiring and went back into working in my old trade starting at the bottom again! I got another job after that company went out of business (the owner had a meth addiction). The new company I was doing pretty good at and was moving up quickly in the company until Obama was elected president and forced all companies in America to lay off all the workers above a fifty employee limit, so I was laid off from that job before I could promote into management, (and would have been immune). Ever since then I've had nothing any good.
If the company you work for lays off people as if it does not matter they will do it again, and you will lose your job to the vice president's son. I'd start looking for someplace else to go in the same industry if I were you.