The only time they would actually pay the bill, and it would just be for a month paid at a time, would be to get the machine up and running again so that they could continue business. Like we had licenses on one of the main frames that was critical for a majority of the shipping functions. "The only time they’d pay was if something was shut off. "They quit paying their vendors," he said. The environment became extremely stressful, he said.
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About four months into his new job, Fritzler attended a meeting telling IT staff how to respond when vendors called to say they weren't getting paid. Then other issues raised awareness that Payless might be in financial trouble. I was, 'OK, maybe they're having a rough time. "We were supposed to get bonuses, incentives. "Not even four months after I was there, they violated the employment agreement," Fritzler said. In addition, he was told by chief information officer Phil Giusto that the information technology department would be outsourced to Cognizant and 20 of its positions would be eliminated. That raised a red flag, and within three months in his position as a senior network engineer, he discovered a bankruptcy filing was in the works. Within a month, Fritzler said, he became concerned about the company's future after the CEO stood up at an all-company meeting and said Payless wasn't interested in innovation. I was hired by a recruiter, and it sounded great." "Six months is all I spent at Payless," Fritzler said. He and his wife face an uncertain future that he feels leaves him with two options: a lawsuit - with no money to pay an attorney to fight for his rights - or bankruptcy.
He is angry and nervous about the future, and he created to tell his story. He packed up his family of four and moved from the small town of Sidney, Neb., to northeast Kansas into a situation that a year later has become a nightmare.įritzler recently was served a court summons notifying him that Payless is suing him for just over $30,000 to repay the relocation costs of his Nebraska move, as well as a $5,000 signing bonus he received. Erik Fritzler received an excellent job offer in June 2016 from Payless ShoeSource outlining bonuses, vacation, salary, relocation reimbursement and benefits.
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