Highest Turnover Amount

[daleduke17]

Reading bean's thread about how many people your store has employed, another question came up in my mind: What is the highest amount of people your store/dept has lost at one time?

For me:

First Grocery Store (situated on the north end of a campus area for a major university): about 10 front end associates in one month. Two graduated, one took a better job and the other seven were one-week wonders (this is the highest, not counting when the store closed).

Second Grocery Store (situated on the south end of the same university): I think it was around 4-5 with in about a month. My wife left, then I transfered, another left for school and I think one got fired around the same time.

Third Grocery Store (across town from the university): Relatively low. Maybe one a month or so, but it was weird as it wasn't consistent. The store kept a good core group of people and never had the need to fire anyone and no one really quit.

What's your "record"?

[JustADude]

My record? 1-2 a week, every week, in perpetuity.

It takes a certain, special kind of sleeze to run a telemarketing operation, especially one operating about 2 choices of phrasing away from being fraud. 90%+ of the people there lasted maybe a month or two before being booted or quitting.

[KellyHabersham]

Two of the full-timers in my area at Macy's quit/were fired (I'm not sure which it was) around the same time, but that's about it......not sure if seasonal hires getting let go would count or not. But speaking of high turnovers, only one person who's in the Fashion Jewelry department now was there when I'd first been hired.

[CancelMyService]

When I worked at Circuit City, it was pretty much the same people for the whole 2 years I worked there (except for the music dept, which was a rotating carousel of college students), but once they dropped commission and went to a flat pay rate pretty much all the people I worked with are gone now. Certainly all the people I worked with in the computer department are long gone, none of them would have been able to afford the cut in pay. The last time I went there, I think there were maybe 2-3 people max that I recognized

In my current job, there were 11 of us who came out of training together. Now, about a year and a half later, there's 6 of us left and 2 of them now work for different departments. It's kind of funny, I still have the "class photo" we took before we left training stuck on the bulletin board on my desk. When I look at it now I mentally subtract the people who are gone like the end of an episode of America's Next Top Model (shut up, my wife makes me watch it ).

[powerboy]

The most for me, was when I was just starting at Walmart. Their was going to be about 8 people for the Cart Crew. 6 left. Those bastards. 1 came back and got fired- he was helping me and a customer & the customer complained to management that he was harassing her. I gave my story, but I guess it didn't matter

[daleduke17]

Two of the full-timers in my area at Macy's quit/were fired (I'm not sure which it was) around the same time, but that's about it......not sure if seasonal hires getting let go would count or not. But speaking of high turnovers, only one person who's in the Fashion Jewelry department now was there when I'd first been hired.

If you take the entire time I was at my first grocery store (about 2.5 years) I went from being the least senior and youngest front end associate, to being the second most senior (by years of service,most senior and rank) and third or fourth OLDEST front end associate. Yeah, a 21 year old was the acting head cashier, second most senior and one of the oldest cashiers in the store. Gotta love working at a store in a college town. :-p

[Broomjockey]

Hmm. I think the most we lost at any time at my first theatre was probably 7 or 8 in the weeks running up to Christmas. Which represented probably almost 10% of our workforce, as ideally we needed about 100 or so on the payroll to adequetely staff etc, but we often had troubles getting more than 90. And it was pretty much each year too. Usually lost people at 3 major points in the year, start of summer, end of summer, and Christmas. And it would also cycle as to whether it was vetrans or newbies that left. One year we lost 4 supervisors in 3 weeks , and a few other seriously senior staff.

[bean]

Usually, people get fired in their probationary period when they do get fired in my store. There's a few exceptions, but it's usually for major stuff like theft, giving employees a discount, or harassment. In my old department 3 people all got canned pretty quickly during their probationary period - 2 for being jerks, 1 for being late all the time.

I really don't keep up with actual turnover amounts, but I've seen a handful of people come and go on frontend - probably a dozen in the year I've been there. We always lose a couple of seasonals when school starts as well. My old department had 2 people leave the company in the 10 months I was there - a couple of others either transferred departments (like me) or got a management spot in another store.

I know some stores in the company have pretty high turnover, ours is pretty damn low for retail.

daleduke17, we have 2 frontend supes that are 20. One's been working there a year and a half, the other only since March. Hell, the frontend asst manager is only 25, though he's been there 5 years now. Another frontend supervisor is in her 60s, so there's a pretty wide range of ages.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

The most turnover I can remember at my store is three people being let go in the same week.

One because she was a superbitch who told off a customer, another who also told off a customer using an F-bomb (but she was kind of mentally imbalanced), and another guy who was fired for fudging his autopulls (even though the autopull system is generally so cocked up we have no choice but to fudge a bunch of pulls every day)

[blas]

People I work with may argue this and say it was the "house cleaning" this last summer when about 30 or so people were let go...

Where I work is literally a revolving door of turnover. Every week the same ad is on the radio for the temp agency for openings at the factory. EVERY WEEK two or three groups of 10-20 new temps are brought in for orientation. Every week at least 5-10 temps quit OR get fired (half and half I'd say. Out of those 5-10, 2 or 3 of them don't show up their first night or quit after 1-5 days).

A coworker and I calculated 1 out of every 10 temps is actually worth our time and effort.

[drunkenwildmage]

When I worked in a call center, for some reason, they keep a running total of the number employees that worked there on the schedule. In a 2 week period of time, that number dropped by over 100.

That was same place and week that that they randomly changed employee's schedule 2 days before the week started, switching allot of them from days to nights.

Overhead a manager telling one employee that if he didn't like his new schedule, he should start working at the McDonald's in the parking lot.

[cinema guy]

We had around 40 staff at the cinema over the summer, once college started we lost around 25, including all 3 team leaders. At the same time a manager transfered away and the admin girl left. Fortunately management had been recruiting so it wasn't too bad.

[Kara]

I don't know the actual number, but we lose about 90% of our new-hires within 90 days of employment. The average training class starts with 12-18 new hires, and there are usually 3-4 training classes going at a time. I was in a class of 13. There are 3 of us still working here.

Now, we have 700+ reps in our call center. The reason we lose so many is that most people come in thinking it's going to be an easy job just sitting around talking on the phone all day. Then they find they can't take the emotional abuse every single day and just stop coming in (of the people who quit, most are no-call no-shows).

When I came in for my interview, they flat out told me that this was not an easy job. That I would be dealing with angry, unreasonable, demanding people every day and that if I thought I couldn't take it then I should turn around and walk out the door right then and there. I enjoy it, but I've literally seen people stand up, throw their headsets down, and walk out the door never to be seen again.

[smileyeagle1021]

When I worked at Carl's Jr. we got a new manager, and within a 2 week period all but 2 of the people who had been working before the new manager started had quit. The 3rd transfered to a new store after a month, and I quit 2 months later. Where I work now there is something of a rotating door. I've only been here 6 months, I'm on a team of roughly 60 people, and I'm already 33rd in seniority (i was 34th last week). 3 people dropped out before we even finished the 6 week training.

[GolfCart34]

I think the highest turnover I've witnessed was when I almost worked for Busch Gardens. I knew quite a few people, including myself, who left after their four hour beer advertisement... Oops, I mean 4 hour orientation.

Where I work for now probably sees the least amount of turnover. I think it's because they actually pay their employees decent wages (I think our bank pays the highest for tellers in the immediate area), offer full training and benefits, and the hours rock! Colonial Williamsburg wasn't bad either, but the work hours there absolutely sucked at times, especially if you weren't a building attendant (I sold tickets and I had no seniority which means I got the shaft most of the time with my schedule).