Posted by: Regional Manager | October 6, 2007

IMPORTANT NOTICE To All Employees

To: DM-Chicopee Employees (Current & Pending)
From: Kath0321, Regional Manager
Re: Branch Transfers

I’ve been getting a number of emails from people saying they were transfered out of DM-Chicopee and to another branch without their consent. Please know that is the doing of DMI Corporate. The Chicopee branch has NOT denied employment to anyone that has applied. I’m not sure what is causing this to happen but I have alerted DMI Corporate.

Update: I spent 2 hours last night and this morning accepting employees. Unfortunately I just logged back in and all the employees I recently approved have landed back in the pending employee file.

Pending Employment Issues
Within the first two weeks of this branch opening over 700 applied. A manager can only approve 12 employees at a time and it takes over 5 full minutes to approve those 12 employees (and usually the site times out before they can be approved). So during the first few weeks I spent a number of hours approving each employee. This past Thursday I sign in after watching the documentary about our friends in the Scranton branch to see that I have over 800 new employees to hire in my “pending employee” file. Upon further inspection I realized that the majority of these new employees had actually been approved in the past. Another technical glitch at DMI Corporate. I notified them of this issue last Thursday and have not heard back yet.

I haven’t approved any new employees since Thursday as I am hoping DMI Corporate will get back to me with a solution on how to fix the issue. The thought of spending hours approving employees again does not sit well with me. But there are so many newbies that I can’t distinguish who has already been approved and who is new as of this week. I’m not sure but this may have something to do with people be randomly reassigned branches.

Next Steps
If you have been reassigned to another branch, please email DMI HR at: HR@dundermifflininfinity.com and let them know you would like to be transferred back to the Chicopee branch.

I’m sorry that I can’t give you an answer as to what is going on. I’m increasingly frustrated with this situation and can only hope that Ryan Howard and his team figure out how to fix these MAJOR issues or they’re going to see a mass exodus to Staples or Office Depot.

Please leave all questions in the comments section and I will address that as best I can.

Sincerely,

Kath0321
Regional Manager, Chicopee

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Responses

  1. I was one of the people transferred “against my will”. The branch I was transferred to was one I applied to after Chicopee when I hadn’t been accepted yet, but once I got accepted, I was all 100% Go Team Chicopee!

    Anywho, I emailed HR, and will hopefully get back to Chicopee soon.

    By: pam1374 on October 6, 2007
    at 8:45 pm

  2. I had the same issue- while waiting to be accepted here I applied to another branch and was just NOW hired and transferred over there (and their way of business is SO not working for me!!).

    Kath, if we leave this comment as a “request” to you, is it possible to sift through the crazy # of applications to find our individual one? I’d still love to be in this branch!

    By: chelibelle on October 6, 2007
    at 9:44 pm

  3. I got transferred out too. :/ I reapplied to this branch so I’m probably one of the names you notices.

    By: stargirl1785 on October 6, 2007
    at 9:45 pm

  4. Thanks for all the hard work, kath. Sorry it is so time-consuming! Hopefully they will get all of these glitches worked out soon.

    By: sare81 on October 6, 2007
    at 10:23 pm

  5. I’m another… It happened to me stories…. hopefully they will get this all worked out….

    By: mickeyrandy3 on October 6, 2007
    at 11:19 pm

  6. i think if you provide the transferred employees with a branch hiring code to enter when we apply, it will cut down on a lot of the re-applications. i’m not sure, but i believe that the code automatically hires us into the branch.

    By: Lindsey on October 7, 2007
    at 12:06 am

  7. I got transferred out, e-mailed HR and just got at e-mail saying I was hired back here. So maybe e-mailing them really does help?

    By: katayla on October 7, 2007
    at 12:22 am

  8. just got transferred back too! Whoo! I was in the Peoria branch for less than 24 hours and I hated it! So much less organized than this one. Kath, you ROCK! :-)

    By: chelibelle on October 7, 2007
    at 1:28 am

  9. I was transferred as well. it won’t let me reapply here on the DMI site, so i’ll send an email to HR now. hopefully this will be resolved soon. *fingers crossed” go chicopee!! hehe

    By: Spencer on October 7, 2007
    at 8:13 am

  10. the code didn’t work after all… :( thanks for trying. i sent HR a message.

    By: Lindsey on October 7, 2007
    at 8:23 am

  11. So I’m back at Chicopee this am per the email from Corporate. I didn’t use Kath’s hiring code as I couldn’t re-apply, so either Kathy worked a special brand of Regional Manager (perhaps it comes with the water?), or Corporate responded to the email to HR.

    It’s good to be
    At Chicopee!

    By: pam1374 on October 7, 2007
    at 8:37 am

  12. i agree, pam.

    By: Lindsey on October 7, 2007
    at 9:27 am

  13. on another note, is anyone else’s desk items missing? b/c i bought a computer, keyboard, mouse, phone, sticky notes,, and a chair last week, and theyre not there anymore!

    By: DorkyDancer1 on October 7, 2007
    at 10:03 am

  14. I just wanted to say thanks for dealing with this craziness of hiring/rehiring! You doing a fantastic job of keeping up with it, and letting us know what’s going on. (I’m back at Chicopee now!)

    By: Katina on October 7, 2007
    at 11:07 am

  15. ahhh! NO they moved me to the canton, oh branch. when i checked this morning, i was still in chicopee. and my desk items are still not back! i emailed HR about both of those so hopefully it’ll be fixed

    By: DorkyDancer1 on October 7, 2007
    at 1:45 pm

  16. Thanks so much, Kath! I don’t know if it was you or the e-mail I sent to HR, but I’m back in Chicopee and posted this to show my appreciation. Everyone, head on over and throw an item in the BB(V)GB for Kath!

    By: Lani on October 7, 2007
    at 3:02 pm

  17. Oh, crap. I screwed up the link to the BB(V)GB. Here’s a better one.

    By: Lani on October 7, 2007
    at 3:03 pm

  18. I was also transferred out of the Chicopee branch to the Toledo branch. I had originally applied to the Toledo and then came over to Chicopee and got hired. I re-applied to the mass. branch and also e-mail HR, so hopefully I’ll be back soon!

    By: Katie on October 7, 2007
    at 9:16 pm

  19. Kath, did posting the Branch Hiring Code help you at all with the applications? I got transferred out AGAIN, e-mailed HR, but don’t want to crowd your inbox unless it’s going to work this time. Can you repost the Hiring Code?

    By: chelibelle on October 8, 2007
    at 1:38 am

  20. No!!! I’ve been transfered out. I want to come back to my family!! I feel so lost. I’m going to reapply to Chicopee and hopefully, this nightmare will be behind me soon.
    Please Kath, take me back!!!
    Now where did I put that branch hiring code?

    By: ShruteBeets on October 8, 2007
    at 2:36 am

  21. Kath, can you please send me the Hiring code again, the one at GMMR is apparently invalid?
    What to do?

    By: ShruteBeets on October 8, 2007
    at 2:47 am

  22. I didn’t get moved out of the branch until literally an hour ago, to Erie- which is actually in my real state, but still.

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    at 6:29 pm

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