Myer to shut shop for 4 weeks

[Autocon]

Myer is closing down for 4 weeks.

[1AZRAEL1]

Sorry, but let em sink. They didn't even tell The workers, they found out from the media. What a joke.

[Fungal Infection]

That might not necessarily be the fault of management, I work for a retailer and the social media/marketing department released a COVID-19 update prior to it getting the go-ahead on it because someone jumped the shark. The GM then sent out an email 30 minutes after it had been released and apologised profusely to all saying that the news was supposed to be broken to store teams first before the media release was supposed to be completed.

[Bumblebee2000]

On one hand this should hurry along Myer's inevitable death

On the other hand they've really screwed over the majority of their workforce. 10k out of 14k apparently and I feel for all of them. The ones in the toy department have always been welcoming personally and that's a lot of people screwed over without pay.

[reillyd]

Luckily they've doubled Newstart, because there's an awful lot of retail stores following suit across the country. I don't know how people managed on Newstart before, though, and how long the Corona supplement will last. I can't see Myer restarting back up and rehiring these people- it will probably file for bankruptcy because they're not going to get a white knight buyer.

Like Bumblebee said, the staff at Myers were really quite helpful, and a model for other retail stores to folllow. They deserve better.

[1AZRAEL1]

Even if on restart, alot of businesses are gonna collapse because of this and no jobs to go back to. It's gonna be a tough.

As for someone jumping the shark and releasing it to the media, that to me that higher ups don't care for the workers as much as they should. Being in a job where our management are saying they're doing things to keep us safe, but failing at that, I don't have alot of faith. I could be wrong, but it's hard not despair.