If your doors are closed to customers, prepare for your entire team to be fired except the salaried mgr.

I can’t wrap my head around it. Why can’t we work from home? So many companies are allowing their workers to do this. What is the harm???

Quite a few businesses in the state are still going to pay employees while the Govs "Stay at Home" declaration is in place. What is Follet going to do? Most of us have no vacation or sick leave left since it's the end of the fiscal year. Are we just... — read more 

All temps being let go today. Communication went out this afternoon. What’s next and are more layoffs coming?

Did you know that Follett is CURRENTLY spending many, many millions of dollars on consultants for discretionary work - this is optional work for projects with no payback? Work that could be deferred until the future is more clear. In the middle... — read more 

Effective April 1st

Is the McHenry location open? Are they seriously making people work at that beige decaying corporate office right now?

Do you remember the time right after we moved from South Archer Avenue in Chicago to Woodridge, Illinois and RMM got up and gave a speech?? It was February,1999 . He said " This building is a testament to us and should be kept immaculate! " . — read more 

Is your bookstore still open?

For the five to ten who regularly pursue this unfortunate graveyard of lost careers and sanity, April 2nd is the new boogie man. Sometimes sadism and the idea of making others miserable can mean false rumors, for all we know HR has someone on that... — read more 

The highly profitable division gets no bonus while those losing money get bonuses. Only Follett could come up with this plan. You deserve a talent Exodus.

I'm curious, how many people that post or read this blog are still current employees? I've only been with the company for 3 years so I don't see any dramatic change in the culture. But I do see that the company lacks a purpose. We don't serve our... — read more 

Just heard that Father CorePOS was laid off. He was responsible for 100 million project that is now obsolete and unsupportable. Responsible for many layoffs. The chickens always come home to roost.

As a person who was ruthlessly driven out of this company nearly 7 years ago, (after more than 20 years in service to the company), watching the torture that follett had become flower and spread is somewhat satisfying. I do feel bad for all y'all... — read more 

Massive layoffs at the home office. 75-100 employees gone. More to come April 2nd. Terrible place to work.

They just don’t care. It’s all about the money at the top and the bonus that they make. Of course they’re going to cut payroll that is how they make their bonus this year and pretty much every year. So once The busy time is over they are willing to... — read more 

1493 met their fiscal year goals but still hours got cut. An email got sent out today and over 15 team members got all their hours cut for the next two weeks. The managers will be running the registers and shipping. The cut is ‘temporary’ but staff... — read more 

Can anyone spill the tea on this new vacation policy?

So long long long time employees have raised a theory that caught my ear about the excessive (even from the ears of a local regional) returns/labor reduction that Follett may be getting ready to make a bid to be the only horse and buggy manufacturer... — read more 

Laid out during the last RIF fest (February is the other RIF party,) Follett's strategy was to eliminate Course Materials Managers for stores falling below a certain sales volume, with the restructuring allowing for an Assistant Store Manager hire. ... — read more 

Tuesday's Town Hall showed the employees a "re-focus" on their business model. According to CW there has been an "accelerating decline in textbook sales" due to open source, Amazon, and students simply not buying the books. By trying to force... — read more 

Heard the Sr. VP was let go. Is it true.

I don’t know anyone who is happy at Follett. Maybe we should decrease our sales further by making stores do more with less of a labor budget during the most lucrative time of the year. Let’s throw in some extra tasks, just in case everyone isn’t... — read more 

Layoffs last week at home office. Surprise townhall on Tuesday. Vegas odds are 70/30 more layoffs are on the way.

For 2 - 3 weeks of full weeks & the rest of year sc-aping for hours. But tell me again why & how you expect loyalty. Bull!#&% No wonder there are so many jobs posted online & you can't even hire temps.

How many are getting behind in shipping out MO? Does anybody have a suggestion on how to get caught up when you’re so understaffed??

Wondering if they'll go external again or try to promote from within this time? The region has been more or less rudderless for the past year and a half with the RM that was.

Where's Scooter? No longer listed on the Quad?

Follett’s evil plan to get rid of me?!? Pharmacy just called insulin is no longer covered???

I really wish people would stop with the "if you don't like it leave" attitude. Some of us Love our job, our staff, our schools, we just don't like what Follett has done to us, how they have treated us, the lack of respect and appreciation. I am an... — read more 

95+. That’s how many. This company has 95 VPs in their title and not one business unit is winning. Think about it! Let’s say, just for laughs, that each makes a min 150k salary. Which we all know they probably make more than that, that is $14.2... — read more 

On Wednesday there is a Follett holiday lunch at a local hotel for all the corporate folks. Based on how they have been squeezing expenses, laying off administrative assistants, ASM's, and others, it's hard to imagine that they are spring for a free... — read more 

After 5 long years...... can you save us from crop tops and overpriced tees?

It seems that despite the "favorable" reviews on Indeed certain stores are still having difficulty attracting managers. The new store that just changed regions, for instance? What happened there? Due to open next month officially and still... — read more 

So many store level managers have jumped ship due to lack of support staff being taken away, continued increase in expectations with no possibility of reward, fear of being layed off, lack of pay increase and bonus and benefit cuts, oh I could go on... — read more 

In a fear-based workplace, everyone is focused on their daily goals. They have to be because if they miss a goal, they could lose their job. You won’t get collaboration or innovation out of people who are scared to death! In a fear-based... — read more