Pros
None besides work from home Fridays
Cons
In May we were told we would return to the office on Mondays in June to push the “apprenticeship model” with our assistants and to increase productivity (???). We were then told we would all have a “business review” meeting with our planning teams every Monday. While this meeting already seemed like a waste of time because planners do not roll by class ladders until Wednesday , all buyers and assistants manage their own businesses, and quite honestly, planning isn’t much help to begin with. Now, after 2 months of the meetings, they have turned into best seller meetings or meetings spent recapping markdowns we already took. We send out a best seller report and fill out markdown recaps for a reason. There is no reason to waste our Monday discussing what is already done and what the buyers jobs are to handle. Planners do not even make relevant call outs or have questions, they just put their entire meeting on us. On the other hand, If buyers have issues that they need bubbled up during the meeting nobody has the authority to make any decisions. “We can’t do anything about that” is said countless times. It’s so clear that management is grasping at straws to find a reason to have us in the office on Mondays when there truly isn’t one.
