Hello fellow employees or by the time you read this my fellow ex employees. My GM told me today (in all confidence) that we will soon be told to look for a job. Not just me but all retail associates in the store. This is not her/his doing and to the best of my knowledge no one in my store received a low rating.
We are a $2,000, 000 plus store that grew at the rate of over 20% for at least 5 years. Well that growth came to an end. We employees are going to bear the brunt of the fix the fix is not here yet but it is on the way.
We will be called in one by one and told to find a new job. To encourage us in that direction our hours will be cut from week to week. This will continue until we reach zero hours. Meanwhile new hires presumably young people with little to no optical experience will be brought in to replace us. I am not going to train them are you?
This in my GM's opinion will allow Lenscrafters to hire for very little $ and not have to pay benefits.
In addition in most states as you left the job instead of being laid off or terminated they will not even have to pay unemployment compensation.
When this happens to you request everything in writing including all of your reviews. Ask them for a letter of recommendation. Got performance records? You in the top ten percent in the region for months at a time like most of the people in my store. Request those performance records too. * Right after you hire an attorney. * I repeat * Hire an attorney. * I was at one time listed as being in the top ten percent in two stores at the same time in the same month. Yet I am scheduled to feel the axe. Not bragging but if it happens at my store no one is safe.
If you read this pass it on to everyone you work with.
Frankly I would not be so pissed if Lenscrafters would as they say in Texas, Cowboy Up and let us go with a shred of dignity by allowing us unemployment benefits.
It mystifies me how they want to do away with the people that make them the money. You hire someone off the street and how long will it take to get them up to speed? I know some people that have been with OTHER firms for years that cannot put a screw into a spring temple. There is a reason that it takes so long to become licensed. I am proud of the people I work with at Lenscrafters. They are as a whole much more intelligent than any other group I have been associated with. Wish I could say the same about upper management.
To the major shareholders of Luxottica sorry $10,000 does not buy as much fuel for your boats and jets as it did a few years ago. Suck it up!
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