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LockedSears Holdings: Cooking the Books

posted on February 01, 2009 at 12:15AM Inappropriate?
To anyone who terminated their employment with Sears Holdings in FY 2008, check and make sure your W-2 amount matches up to what is on 88 sears.  I found some interesting stuff when I compared numbers, a definate case of "cooking the books"
replies: 50 latest post: February 05, 2010 at 04:23AM by AdamO
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posted on March 08, 2009 at 01:06PM
 
I noticed a discrepancy as well, but I forgot to factor in my pre tax insurance deductions. This made my year end wages total different from what appeared on my W2. This is not cooking the books, it is the correct way of reporting the information. Pre tax insurance deductions do not count as income in the eyes of the IRS. Hope this helps.
posted on March 08, 2009 at 11:22PM
 

Cook Books

That's a GREAT idea. Maybe sponsored by Kenmore.

They used to have Craftsman books on various Tools and Shop Procedures.

The Sewing Machine has a basic book on Machine Sewing.

There used to be a book on using Multi-meters over in the Electrical Department.

Books and various pamphlets would be great value-adds for the stores to offer to Customers.

No one is BORN knowing all this stuff!

:)

posted on March 09, 2009 at 09:40PM
 
In response to AdamO's post from March 08 2009 11:22PM
ce93 is that you?
posted on March 11, 2009 at 09:13AM
 
Cookbooks and how-to books are now a thing of the past. You can go online for recipies and now even view a how-to video. I couldn't unstop my tub drain. Tried everything. went online. watched some guy's video and whala!
posted on March 11, 2009 at 11:28PM
 

What a swing from Cooking  the financial books to cook books.

 I still us my old cook book from the 60s and 70s. There are great old recipts passed down from generation to generation. Some recipies  cannot be duplicated like ones Grandmother's home made biscut. I asked my grandmother to write it down and I got was what she put into the biscuts etc but a pinch of this and a pinch of that. My home made icecream that I make in a churn is a some of this and a some of that until the taste is right before I put the ice around it and turn the churn on.

posted on March 28, 2009 at 03:40AM
 
In response to goodole312's post from March 09 2009 09:40PM
goodole312 said…
ce93 is that you?
hahaha that'd be hilarious
posted on March 28, 2009 at 08:28PM
 
You know, now that I read all of this... I'm shocked Kenmore hasn't come out with a cookbook.  Considering all the stoves, microwaves and grills that Sears sells you'd think this would be a perfect marketing tie-in.
posted on March 29, 2009 at 01:01PM
 
In response to rstinnett's post from March 28 2009 08:28PM
Great idea!
posted on March 30, 2009 at 10:56PM
 

To tie in with that idea, I think it would be a great marketing event to have nice, homemade recipes sent in from Sears shoppers nationwide to make those cookbooks.  The winner can win a Kenmore appliance (or appliances) for the major kitchen cookbook and the grill cookbook winner can win an amazing Kenmore Elite grill!

Sears wins by having amazing recipes and the customers can win recognition and perhaps a fantastic prize!

posted on March 31, 2009 at 09:31AM
 
I second that idea! 
posted on April 05, 2009 at 10:18PM
 
In response to rstinnett's post from March 28 2009 08:28PM
Perhaps we can send in some of our favorite ways of preparing and cooking food.
posted on May 01, 2009 at 02:36AM
 

I used to LOVE them little party weiners they cooked on the George Foreman grill, during the VIP nights, at the other Sears store...

Did I mention having usually worked a full shift at the store, before doing any posting here?

:)

posted on August 29, 2009 at 02:35AM
 

Why would anyone cook a "book"?

That's just unappetising...

posted on August 29, 2009 at 02:37AM
 

I got a simple BBQ cooking technique for corn on the cob:

Just cook the whole thing in the leaves.

The silk just melts/steams away, leaving tender, well-cooked corn, that is not burned.

And, with less work (and butter) than the tin-foil method!

posted on August 29, 2009 at 11:56AM
 

have you submitted the 'idea' for the kenmore series  cookbooks?

posted on August 29, 2009 at 12:55PM
 

Awesome Idea! thatmanguy!  We do get requests for recipe cards and boxes. 

posted on August 29, 2009 at 01:16PM
 
In response to SHC-LukeM's post from March 11 2009 09:13AM
lmerkel said…
Cookbooks and how-to books are now a thing of the past. You can go online for recipies and now even view a how-to video. I couldn't unstop my tub drain. Tried everything. went online. watched some guy's video and whala!

Digital Media while gaining popularity will NEVER fully take the place of print.  I'm sure there will always be books.

posted on August 29, 2009 at 02:57PM
 

There's something special about handling paper.

It can be an old stained favorite recipe page or a decades old Craftsman catalog.

Anything electronic is inheritantly transient.

A broken link, a new "event" (recipe) and the old version is gone...

I'll stick with books, magazines, and catalogs a little longer.

posted on September 01, 2009 at 09:53PM
 

How about a range, cook top, convection oven, crock pot, microwave, induction heating cook book?

Including a chapter on the George Foreman type grills - of course.

posted on September 02, 2009 at 07:11AM
 

Hey guys, I HAVE a Sears Kenmore microwave cook book from 1981, from when we bought our very first Kenmore microwave. I is a hard cover, yet spiral bound book. Cook books are easiest to use when they lay open flat.

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