Manager had no idea how to manage a team and had no idea or concept of merchandising. The 2012 Christmas coupon project had unrealistic deadlines and was very badly managed right from the start. We were treated like robots and expected to be available for work 7 days a week, and to work beyond the 9-5 hours and not get paid for it. I was glad when I was chosen to be part of the mass layoffs in the department because we could no longer be productive with the direction the manager was taking it. Everything was done last minute and always resulted in us missing opportunities because of bad planning. Never any consistency we were always reacting but were always to late costing the company a lot of money in potential sales. Supervisors were forced to buy in to the managers system even though they didn't agree with it. This department really was like a bad STORM with lots of damage done! Cleanup will take a very long time!
