Originally Posted by
animallittle3
Well now my colleagues and myself have had time to digest yesterday's news the mood has changed significantly .
I can't name my company but one or too do know on here anyway because quite a few people don't yet know and are overseas or sick and I wouldn't want them to find out on social media out of respect to them .
It's not a happy camp and now the inquest has begun .
In the two years I've worked at the company it didn't take long to figure out our sector was the runt of the litter so to speak .
Compared to our other operations , food and funeral care for instance are the best examples we have we never received the same marketing as those two by a long way .
No TV adverts , no digital advertising not even a mention in our supermarkets , kin zilch .
We aren't even on the first page of google if you type in electrical retailers , which isn't great for an online company and within a huge billion pound operation behind it .
All these concerns were raised at various management / operations forums , repeatedly in fact given the minutes of these forums I've read tonight .
Ideas were put to management who were then tasked with following that up with the big guys in Manchester , all of which fell on deaf ears .
The website itself wasn't great in this day and age and that was raised too , lots of times .
Just bear in mind we are not in an industry that's had its day , people need washing machines , freezers , fridges , tv's etc and always will till the end of time .
Another issue raised was why we didn't offer PC's , laptops and tablets , indeed why not in this age especially when young people can be attracted who then also buy other things they need , a huge mistake I feel even if the profit margin wasn't too hot , you need to appeal to all age groups in this day and age .
We feel let down and the first sign of a slow down they've thrown us under the bus .
Not even tried to have a rethink on strategy or looked to scale down a little , many of the long service lads would have taken the severance if offered and we could possibly have lived to fight on .
It may have proved to be in vain but now we will never know will we .
It's also come to light that the website is often closed down for periods because we haven't the sub contractors to deliver the goods and they didn't want customers let down and unhappy .
Why wasn't that addressed when you are clearly turning revenue down , it's clown trousers logic to me .
I'm fairly positive Amazon don't pursue this practice .
The company have a great workforce who pull together , our bosses don't sit behind desks when we are under the cosh , they come out and get stuck in with us and that gets our respect , the culture is fantastic .
This isn't right but there is nothing we can do , they haven't even tried to sell it as a going concern , nothing even ventured according to the pack we received yesterday .
They've thrown us under a bus at level 10 when in fact level 2 is the time to shut the place down .
Definitely not sitting right with myself and colleagues I can tell you .
As ever the big wigs in Manchester will no doubt be redeployed in other sectors of the business .
We on the other hand face an uncertain future .
Then again when was it any different .