Re: Dillard's wants only men to manage mens dept????

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On 8/26/08, jane doe wrote: Join the crowd the same thing
happened to me. Sent back to manage the shoe department. The
reason: Have to be transferable to work in the Mens Department.
A man was moved to Mens funny thing though.. he's not
transferable. Burt Squires needs to go! That is the rumor with
that man. Everyone in upper management is scared to death of
the guy. Those asskissers are all afraid of losing their jobs.
The women in our store haven't had raises in 5 years because of
course our sales are down. No Kidding! Can't find people to
work for us either. Imagine that maybe because we take their
money away from them!
> On 6/24/08, D wrote:
>> I am an ASM for Dillards and about a year ago I was placed
>> in another area after manageing the men's department with 2
>> years of increases because management said I "needed ready
>> to wear in my experience with the company" in order to be
>> promotable. a week later the position was filled be a
>> man. I started to hear comments from associates about how
>> VP of Merchandising for Dillard's Burt Squires wanted only
>> men to manage the mens departments. Then, out of the blue,
>> my mother tells me how a sales associate at a different
>> store across town told her the story of Burt Squires and
>> how he wanted men to run the mens departments. Funny thing
>> is I never told my mom the stories I was hearing. I went
>> from managing a 7 million$ yr business to a 3.8mil$ a yr
>> business. Plus, when they transferred me with 4 months
>> left into the year the area was down by 15&37;. They
>> basically, and I am using a phrase that Burt often
>> uses "eased me out". So my question to anyone out there
>> is...is this sex descrimination? Is there anyone else at
>> Dillard's out there that this happened to that would like
>> to talk? Should I talk to a lawyer? Should I just forget
>> about it and become barfoot and pregnant? any insite would
>> be great!