Count on being treated like garbage...

Wow! All I hear is a bunch of whiny babies. You got fired, Big Deal. Let it go and stop obsessing over the past. Maybe LP just isnt your thing

Someone who knows in Georgetown, Kentucky said: I to worked at Sears and they do treat you like your a number. I gave them 70+ hours a week and a 18% profit in sales for the year plus a great inventory number and what did I get? I got fired because I did not know of a policy that was never explained to me nor was it in the 64+ hours of online training. I wasn't even given a warning. Sears is a horrible company to work for!!!

Sears let me go with no reason except I was no a fit for their company. Last I recalled with 15 years of management experience and worked as a District Manager, not to toot my own horn; I could be a fit at most retailers. But if you have no work ethics at you are one step to being brain dead and could kiss the store manager's behind, yeah buddy, you are a shoe in! This was a Lafayette, LA. #1347. The store has bad shrink, horrible customer service, and is plain messy. This let go was the best thing for my career. Like my old manager at Sears would do for a morale booster "the one courtesy clap." How lame. Good luck with those PA's. LOL!

I currently work LP with Sears & I get treated like s***, I do the job of the LPM, do my job, plus be a gopher for everyone else. I was told me the DLPM that I deserve & will get a full-time slot (I'm part-time but wrk 40+ hrs) & guess, what... hasn't happened, I work on my days off & breaks, come in when nobody else will, get yelled at when I want a day off but switch "shifts" & days with my LPM so he can 'chill with my family' whenever he wants to. For a very long time we had 1 guy who only works weekends, me & the LPM. Which I'm sure you can tell made me work a WHOLE LOT more. My LPM comes in late, leaves early, stays on his cell & wants me to do everything & get no credit for what I do, but if something goes wrong I'm first in line for the backlash. I recently put in my resignation & the GSM actually called the LPM & told him to fire me. Then the LPM got suspended & there's unoffical talk of offering me the job. I told HR I'd think about it & the GSM congratulated me on staying. Sears wants you to work hard for little money then act like you're a waste of air & space, but smile when they need you again. The new LP we hired asked why there's such a high turnover rate in LP & I told him to give it a month & he'd know. TRUST me a month is WAAAY too long to work for Sears LP, or Sears.

My opinion: Sears (or any business) could benefit from hearing out employees on suggestions, concerns, ideas, etc. Any manager not willing to have an open mind or make their employee(s) feel that they can't express simple concern over something such as that, is not a good one. You should always be able to confide in your manager about business-related issues. Not punished for them. And Sears (or at least the one I am at now) are doing a poor job at properly training their staff. They do a few days PC training, then toss you out on the floor and expect you to fend for yourself. Your manager does not train you on anything, it is your co-workers who train you their way, NOT the store's way they expect things done. Now I don't know the person Mistreated that started this thread, nor do I know the other side of the story, but I do know there was no need to stoop to that level and comment on their intelligence. You can't possibly base someone's "smartness" by what you read on Indeed.com. If you think that way, then I think you guys trash talking belong on Craigslist.com in the Rants & Raves section. And that's my 2 cents :) (By the way, I doubt I will even check back on this reply so feel free to trash me if you like, I could care less, it's the internet. Have a great day!

A few days later I received a subpoena from the Salem, NH Police department for this case. On the 18th of July, after I returned from court, Salem, NH Loss Prevention Manager Chris Massey fired me for.......Not for having issues with my attendance, no code of conduct violation, no performance issues, but for "Having a strong personality." and for "Having ideas about loss prevention that are different from Sears."

My guess is - um, your personality is too strong and you are intimidating. Not good. Were people actually trying to walk out the door with merchandise, or just moving to another department? You got a subpoena from the Police Department. Why??? For trial or deposition? RARELY, does shoplifting go to trial. My guess you confronted people with shoplifting. Those people go to jail. They got an attorney. And they looked pretty credible. Their attorney talks to the State Attorney, and those people looked pretty credible to the State Attorney. If that was the case, aside from employees complaining about you, you look like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Sorry, but that's probably why you got fired.

I have worked for Sears part time as an LP Associate for two years now and havent had any problems like the ones described. I am thinking that it all has to do with who your management is.

Try having a loss pervention manager who thinks he's a real cop. In our store he would hold employees for hours, force them to make false statments, not allow you have water,or med's. Then he lies because he was called to hoffman estates and comes back and is dumb enough to tell another lp associate that they are worried about KIDNAPPING charges.The 17 year old female DETECTIVE, wittness who sat in on the interview was very smug until she was fired. Too bad I could told her that was going to happen. Oh by the way the store manager also quite, something about KIDNAPPIND. But sears did what they always do The lp manager got promoted to dist. manager in Los Angles.

Charlie in Atlanta, Georgia said: If that is true then tell me why Sears declined? I have worked in retail and I know how the LP function operates.

Law enforcement is any function that involves enforcing the law and theft involves breaking laws. You are telling me you are in loss prevention and don't even know it is a type of law enforcement position? No wonder you guys are getting fired. If it wasn't a function of law enforcement you'd just slap the purp on the back of the hand and not have to contact the police.

You should run as fast as possible away from Sears. They have no respect for anybody and will do anything to get rid of you wether it is legal or not. There are no rules there the only time rules apply is when they want you gone. Corruption is a way of life at this company. It seems like people will do ANYTHING to save there job at this company. I can tell you that alot of those people need to be in jail. If you can't find a job anywhere else get food stamps or beg on the street corner you will be better off.

Someone who knows in Georgetown, Kentucky said:

Yep they try to make you clean up crap because you had a weak lp mgr that didnt want to stand up to the store mgr and say my people are not janitors. Besides that he just wanted a yes person that would put up with any kind of treatment. Your better off not working for Sears period. The pay sucks and the raises are even worse unless your in good with the store mgr. They can do whatever they want despite the lies they tell you . I can't give you more money it's out of my hands. Don't do any more work than you have to because it will get you no where. Go out drinking with the store mgr.and you will get promoted quickly. Walk around with a piece of paper in your hand for a few minutes then go hide and do nothing. Hard work will get you nowhere at Sears

Liz66 in Collinsville, Mississippi said: I currently work LP with Sears & I get treated like s***, I do the job of the LPM, do my job, plus be a gopher for everyone else. I was told me the DLPM that I deserve & will get a full-time slot (I'm part-time but wrk 40+ hrs) & guess, what... hasn't happened, I work on my days off & breaks, come in when nobody else will, get yelled at when I want a day off but switch "shifts" & days with my LPM so he can 'chill with my family' whenever he wants to. For a very long time we had 1 guy who only works weekends, me & the LPM. Which I'm sure you can tell made me work a WHOLE LOT more. My LPM comes in late, leaves early, stays on his cell & wants me to do everything & get no credit for what I do, but if something goes wrong I'm first in line for the backlash. I recently put in my resignation & the GSM actually called the LPM & told him to fire me. Then the LPM got suspended & there's unoffical talk of offering me the job. I told HR I'd think about it & the GSM congratulated me on staying. Sears wants you to work hard for little money then act like you're a waste of air & space, but smile when they need you again. The new LP we hired asked why there's such a high turnover rate in LP & I told him to give it a month & he'd know. TRUST me a month is WAAAY too long to work for Sears LP, or Sears.

Sears is all about butt kissing the right people. The old days of working 40 hrs. a week and being considered full time are gone. Now you are full time advantage so they can cut you to 32 hrs.per week. If you are salaried then you are full time 40 hrs. per week. Sears is a sham and most of the managers are crooks anyway. They beat the system and get stuff for free or almost free.

To Murphy
I worked at SEARS for over 25 yaers(it really WAS a good place)was GRANDFATHERED in at 40hrs but one by one the director of stores and the LPM found ways to retire or force and if need be fire us. This LPM forced me to wright six pages of lies and kept saying nothing will happen just wright it the way I want. I fought him and his 17 year old LP female "witness" four and a half hours. I held out the longest of everyone they fired or forced to quite. Did you ever hear that this was Sears's new way of getting rid of employee's?? He got rid of so many grandfathered and full time thenthe store manager that he got promoted to DLPM nothing like stomping over other peoples lives to get what you want. Hope it comes back to BITE him. Please reply would really like to hear from someone who was LP. THANKS to everybody that tells what SEARS has become.

Call me Charlie in Louisville, Kentucky said: Oh give us a break! That is absolutely childish. "Well, Mom, he started it!"

The other poster is correct. You DON"T seem too bright.

BTW, if you are ever asked by an employer to do something that you have not been trained on, it is up to you to ask for the training. A floor with a puddle IS a part of loss prevention in a business. If a customer slips and falls, the company can lose a lot more than a couple hundred dollars in a lawsuit. The LOSS due to theft is minuscule by comparison.

Besides, your peer type person (the poster who says he/she is in LP agrees you are not cut out to do the job. How can you argue against that?

The so called "assumptions" are based on what you have said here. If there is additional information, then post it, but so far, it appears you were justly fired for "having a strong personality" (which you admitted)and are displaying that now in a childish manner.

If the merc associates and you were such great pals, then why do you refer to them as having to "bang" on your door? That indicates you must have been ignoring them to some extent and thereby were ignoring customer needs.

Your complaints to management about the way things were (no matter how well you put it) indicates you either did not understand the job or disagreed with management's directives.

If this was my forum, I would have banned you for the "corn kernels and peanut chunks" remark alone. In other words, in my opinion you should be "fired" from this venue.

SORRY CHARLIE BUT YOU GOT YOUR HEAD UP YOUR A**. Have you ever sat in on a manager's meeting? The crap they talk about is B.S. They talk about their employee's and make fun of the customers.

You think you have a story LOL. How about having to hear every other day how they want to get rid of you after 20+ years. Yes Sears used to be a good place to work but Walmart and Target forced them to turn into a corrupt retailer. Either compete or die which meant cut cut cut. I happened to catch the operations mngr. in the safe putting something in his pocket and looking around as he did it which in l.p usually means tour doing something shady. The store had a new digital camera system and holds video for up to six months. Well out of curiosity I looked at that days video and saw the store manager was in the safe earlier looking at the same thing in the safe with the ops. guy. Well they both had transferred in from another store and they had been seen kissing (mouth to mouth) on property so they were VERY close. The lp mngr. pulled the tapes and hid them and covered for them and shortly after I had mysterious break ins at my house and I was so sick to my stomach that I was done. Russian corruption at it's finest. I can't say anything because when I look for another job who knows what those jackasses will say. And by the way yes my mngr. was a skirt chaser hiring ex girlfriends and worthless people that will cover him in his dirty deeds. There is so much more but my fingers are getting tired.

Your LPM was probably scared that you were going to relpace him/her. Spill kits should be at every cashwrap and associates should clean up stuff in there own area. Big spills need cones and may require lp associates to detour customers but it's b.s. that l.p cleans up spills period. Lazy managers should do there share also

Murphy

Sorry to hear they did you that way, and may sound nuts but I saw and heard sooo much in my 25 plus years. They will do what ever they can to screw you. I don't even put sears down(last store I worked in)on any app's. I keep in touch with people that are still there and you can't believe what they did to cover up what they did to me. Did your LPM ever force a statement out of someone they wanted gone? I know that they distroyed tapes if someone fell and got hurt and it was the fault of sears. Some of the LP "guys" made a special video of close ups of female customers and employee's. The LPM even had the nerve to have signs put up in the changing rooms that they were being watched by the loss pervention department. This is just a tiny bit of what I could tell.

No my lpm never made an associate write a staement b4 they got fired that I knew of. Quite frankly if I knew that I was going to get fired I would tell them to shove there statement. Or i would call the district and tell them what was going on with that. Sears does have an ethics line you can call but if your store manager is dirty you must insist on having your phone statement sent to the district or somewhere else in corporate. I would even call if you don't work there anymore because you can remain annonymous. I would call and tell them all you know. I can't post the number here but call hr and they will tell you. Why not give them hell