u/GlassFlyTrap

Our store manager has been out on leave for months. Nobody can or will comment on why or how though I've heard plenty of theories. He left sometime before the big store walk so my leading two theories are that he either got walked out or used all his vacation time before they could get him. I never paid too much attention to him or his work but I think he ran the store well. Anyway, we've had no sm for months. No replacements just regular walks from other sms pointing and barking orders. It's been stressful to say the least.

Yesterday both AP and some district higher ups came into the store and looked around. They took out merchandising asm upstairs and fired him. I watched them walk him out of the building. A few minutes later they fired some other oslg csa, walked out by AP. Anyway today is mother's Day weekend so it's slammed, our opening oslg csa catches wind that our asm is gone and walks out on the spot. We have at least 5 other call outs for the day last time I checked. The store's morale has plummeted, nobody is happy and everyone is overworked and stressed out. I'm already hearing chatter about job searches. They never gave us a fill in sm so I doubt they have plans for our asm replacement. The situation here is already bad, I just can't believe how willingly worse the higher ups are willing to make it. The store is being run by department supervisors.

Has anybody else seen things like this happen in other stores or their own? I don't understand what the bigger picture is. We're a smaller low traffic store and I know theft if awful. I'm not sure if they're just trying to purge management, the whole store, or if they really just want to burn out everyone willing to pick up the slack.