Well, I won't be buying from

Well, I won't be buying from any virtue signaling business. You tout your politics, whatever flavor, I shop elsewhere. I'm sick of politics infusing everything.

Do they need "follow the sun" support?

Dear Jeff,

Do Caboose need "follow the sun" support/customer-service coverage? If yes, I'm available for immediate start...

Happy Modelling, 

Prof Klyzlr

Caboose Job openings

https://www.facebook.com/CabooseHobbies/posts/3598840376812132

Note: these are going to be abbreviated, see the link above for the full listing

JOIN THE CABOOSE FAMILY!

We're now hiring for the following three management positions:

1. Cultural Curator and Cultivator of Community

Caboose PBC is an employee-owned public benefit corporation, where our purpose is to serve the worldwide community of train enthusiasts in the enjoyment of our shared passion for trains.

We are seeking a Cultural Curator, responsible for developing an employee-owned conscious culture as we relaunch post-COVID and progress toward B-Corp certification. The preferred candidate possesses a background of supporting successful organizational development within the employee ownership, conscious business or B-Corp communities, and will hold the following responsibilities at Caboose:

• Cultivator and curator of the ownership culture.
• B-corp certification and compliance.
• Internal communications and celebration.
• Caboose Cares community outreach program.
• Human resources regulatory compliance.

2. E-Commerce Channel Manager, Facilitator of E-Commerce Success

Caboose PBC is an employee-owned public benefit corporation, where our purpose is to serve the worldwide community of train enthusiasts in the enjoyment of our shared passion for trains.

We are seeking an E-Commerce Channel Manager, responsible for fully developing our e-commerce channel as we relaunch post-COVID and progress toward B-Corp certification. The preferred candidate is a train enthusiast with an attendant depth of model railroad product knowledge and experience in online marketing, data management and integrity, and will hold the following responsibilities at Caboose:
• Software/app functionality
• Data management and integrity
• Advance reservations and special orders
• eBay administration
• Shipping

More specifically, the E-Commerce Channel Manager will have direct responsibility for and oversight of the following initiatives:
• Implement a robust, integrated omnichannel retail app.
• Utilize an engaging customer interface.
• Develop the Caboose website as a resource.
• Facilitate simple, easy navigation and transactions.
• Provide personal customer service concierges to assist customers.

3. Accounting and Administrative Manager, Arranger and Counter of Beans

Caboose PBC is an employee-owned public benefit corporation, where our purpose is to serve the worldwide community of train enthusiasts in the enjoyment of our shared passion for trains.

We are seeking an Accounting and Administrative Manager, responsible for basic accounting activities and administration support for our conscious business as we relaunch post-COVID and progress toward B-Corp certification. The preferred candidate possesses a background of accounting and administration with a strong preference for those experienced in administrative support of an employee-owned, B-Corp or conscious business, and will hold the following responsibilities at Caboose:
• Accounting
• Cash management
• IT systems support
• Facilities and systems management

All positions are in Lakewood, CO.  - sorry Prof. 

So what's the big change at

So what's the big change at Athearn, other than Chris not working there? Who's going to fill his shoes?

Change at Athearn

Well, as far as I know, Chris has not been replaced. So that is a pretty big change for Athearn. It's actually pretty significant that a month after Chris left, there has been no announcement about this from Athearn. 

Horizon going?

Heard Horizon Hobbies (Athearn) may be sold soon. 

Politics is a poor choice for a business

Showing one's politics is generally a poor choice for a business.  It drives off more than it attracts.  That's what I will go hungry before eating at chik-fil-a, or go without rather than buying from Hobby Lobby...but Dick's is off the beaten path for me, so I am not inclined to go there unless other similar places end up with politics I can't stand.

This kind of posturing makes

This kind of posturing makes me want to vomit (that's not a statement of agreement or disagreement with their politics; it's a statement of extreme distaste for the "jumping on the bandwagon" approach to luring customers).

I was considering visiting the store next month. I guess I'll save the trip to the Denver area.

Oh Ick

Not another one of these threads.

Oh the horror

of employee ownership and community cultivation?  What you'd rather see them be? ....DaveB

Phase One

I agree  with the posters who cry "Give me a break".

Caboose Hobbies, like any other hobby shop, is a business NOT a social services agency.  I refuse to do business with any entity who intends to lecture me about the latest trends in morality when I want to buy from them.

All my life I've been told that racism doesn't belong in American culture. Now we're sickeningly awash in it to the point where an institution that ought to be doing it's best to service it's customers would rather join the brainless throng of lemmings headed for the cliff.

Lon Wall

There's not a thing wrong

There's not a thing wrong with employee ownership, in fact back in the 1970's Ronald Reagan suggested that it was the future for many good companies. That's not it, David B and you probably know it.

I repeat - I WILL NOT buy from a company that pushes trendy race division. Maybe Caboose hobbies is afraid of the marxist revolution, maybe they think this is a clever "out of the box more"  to save their bacon. Quite frankly i'd be more impressed with a statement like this-

"Caboose Hobbies wishes to state that, in these controversial times, we stand with all our fellow model railroaders without regards to their cultural differences. The love of trains spans all across racial, cultural and sexual divides.

The enjoyment this hobby provides reminds us that we have much more in common. Despite it's faults this is a great country that has made nearly all of us flush enough to engage in in a hobby like model railroading"

Grow a pair, Caboose Hobbies.

  "Caboose Hobbies wishes to

That is what they are saying, just worded a bit differently. 

"Now, more than ever, we as a society are called to true community, one that works for all of its participants. We at Caboose therefore stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters of color, firm in the conviction that Black Lives Matter, in calling for an end, once and for all, of systemic racism on the part of our public institutions and individual citizens."

I got no problem with either wording of their stance. It shows they are trying to do the right thing so might do right by their customers too. .....DaveB

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