I was employed at the Rue21 DC while the furlough and terminations were happening, it was devastating to see my friends and co workers being escorted out not knowing what was about to happen. I put my 2 week notice in the day before this all started happening, I started applying for jobs before this because of uncertainty. I feel so sorry for the people I worked with that they had to go through something like this. Josh Burris is definitely the worst human being , not even having the guts to show his face through this whole process. Leaving these people after years of dedicated services with not a damn thing and just throwing them to the curb. What a coward!!!!
"The last year rue21 was in operation, the company was in complete shambles due to abhorrent business decisions." The poor business decisions began much earlier....we doubled the size of the DC in 2012 in order to accommodate ecommerce. Then about after 2-3 years, they outsourced the ecomm to a third party, who absolutely botched orders at every turn (see any number of facebook posts for the last decade). Meanwhile, 50% of DC was empty It's definitely a shame for so many of the long tenured DC workers who now have to look for jobs...I wish them all luck.
In 2016, the eComm business had outgrown the Weirton WV facility. We were processing orders with printed picklists and packing was slow due to lack of modern technology. We were forced to go with a 3PL vendor that worked with our Private Equity owner at the time which was an absolute catastrophe. Shortly after go-live 50% of my job was reconciling systems and making sure order updates made it from their system back to ours. Within a year we moved to another 3PL where the quality and service was drastically improved, but overall the business strategy was never oriented to maximize profitability and growth. We spent years hyping up "omni-channel" while never taking care of product assortment and inventory planning to actually make BOPIS or SFS a good and successful program. Lord knows the good people involved were forced into trying to make the best with the limited resources available to us.
I was employed at the Rue21 DC while the furlough and terminations were happening, it was devastating to see my friends and co workers being escorted out not knowing what was about to happen. I put my 2 week notice in the day before this all started happening, I started applying for jobs before this because of uncertainty. I feel so sorry for the people I worked with that they had to go through something like this. Josh Burris is definitely the worst human being , not even having the guts to show his face through this whole process. Leaving these people after years of dedicated services with not a damn thing and just throwing them to the curb. What a coward!!!!
Thanks for sharing your story, Chris. It's important that we all read it.
"The last year rue21 was in operation, the company was in complete shambles due to abhorrent business decisions." The poor business decisions began much earlier....we doubled the size of the DC in 2012 in order to accommodate ecommerce. Then about after 2-3 years, they outsourced the ecomm to a third party, who absolutely botched orders at every turn (see any number of facebook posts for the last decade). Meanwhile, 50% of DC was empty It's definitely a shame for so many of the long tenured DC workers who now have to look for jobs...I wish them all luck.
In 2016, the eComm business had outgrown the Weirton WV facility. We were processing orders with printed picklists and packing was slow due to lack of modern technology. We were forced to go with a 3PL vendor that worked with our Private Equity owner at the time which was an absolute catastrophe. Shortly after go-live 50% of my job was reconciling systems and making sure order updates made it from their system back to ours. Within a year we moved to another 3PL where the quality and service was drastically improved, but overall the business strategy was never oriented to maximize profitability and growth. We spent years hyping up "omni-channel" while never taking care of product assortment and inventory planning to actually make BOPIS or SFS a good and successful program. Lord knows the good people involved were forced into trying to make the best with the limited resources available to us.
Wow! Just Wow!
I think what he really means is "value for shareholders."
Yes.
Heartbreaking and important reporting. There are so many levels of employee mistreatment to this story. It NEEDS to be told!!!!