DC fired, eased out, or resigned voluntarily? PC singing his praises today.

I have noticed a steady stream of store manager openings since Fall 2018. An average of 50 per week. I was wondering if this is from a culling or feed up managers quitting. What ever one it is, it’s a good sign that things aren’t promising. We... — read more 

Management and above and i cant get anyone to look at me. Is there a trick to your resumes? Want to get out. Please help.

Anyone feeling the pressure on collecting minimal amounts of money that is simply not worth having a heart attack over? Pressure, pressure.

So it's that time of year again & what a difference a year makes. This time last year everyone was off to Florida and now it's back to Illinois. Any predictions for the conference?

I haven't checked employee reviews in a while. I was disappointed to read so many thin, fake reviews. follett's management team must be pushing student employment. Many, many posts about how working for follett is a great student job. If you haven't... — read more 

Where's the incentive? We need to stop calling this "merit" as job performance is irrelevant. We can't even call it a "cost-of-living adjustment." The Social Security Administration announced the COLA increase for 2019 is 2.8%. Meanwhile, the average... — read more 

Remember when we moved into Westbrook? Nothing could be taped to the glass, nothing could be piled up on cabinets or tables. Look around and some floors look like storage areas. Stopped by finances on 9. OMG!!

Who’s getting a bonus this year?

Has anyone heard from HR on the comp pkgs when Indiana stores close. No word to the folks involved yet?? Are they just waiting to screw everyone?

Are there going to be new regions? If so, does anyone have any details? New RMs etc?

If they moved the text business to online, cut out all the expense of housing text in stores, the company might have a chance of competing as an online business. GM has consistently shown growth but there is so little focus there.

The ‘salvation’ and ‘bright future’ according to regionals, Access is a neutered IncludED that takes the adaptability away. The bit about saving up to 30% doesn’t inspire confidence. In all honesty this looks like it was put together by bean counters... — read more 

It is hard to change the culture of an organization. With so many folks from failed (or failing retailers), they bring the "keep your head down to survive" mentality to Follett. Unfortunately, that doesn't help front line management. I am sure JH is... — read more 

I don't know and I don't care!!!

Has the Quinnipiac university store signed a new contract or not ? Old 10 year contract expires this summer. What's up ?- I am hearing nothing about it. This store has been in the Follett orbit since the early 1990s- almost 30 years. will they be... — read more 

It is hard to do a job when you constantly feel that you have a target on your back. And before someone says, then why are you still here? There is more to a job then culture. Yes, it’s important, however, other aspects can out way culture. It’s... — read more 

The long-time employees know you work until the job is done. 6 or 7 days a week, 12+ hours a day if necessary during busy times. New external SMS think if they have to work a special event or a Saturday, take a day off during the week. That's not how... — read more 

I believe this company is going under. Where to start? The culture has gone from decent and fairly trustworthy of the lower management to paranoid about everything. It’s like working for a dystopian novel. In reality, the higher ups are out of touch... — read more 

hmmm

Good to see that someone still believes in hiring from within. Way to go KP!!!

For a long term employee that has not had more than a 2% increase in many years you would think this company (r.m.) would at least take the time to tell me your doing a great job, you work really hard, you are loyal and reliable, and a trusted member... — read more 

Contracts in the Midwest are dropping like flys. Ivy Tech and now Wisconsin. Long time clients being lost to B & N. Maybe the WI RM should actually visit campuses and engage the administrations before the contracts are in jeopardy. Missing In Action... — read more 

What is the purpose of getting one? Our manager can tell us, hey, great job, or you need to do better at this, this, and this. We aren't going to reward you with a bonus worth your success, or a raise for job well done, we are just going to tell you... — read more 

Has anyone heard if we are getting raises this year? Cost of living is k--ling me.

I have seen the extraordinary changes over the past several years and it has been quite disheartening. The big layoff resulted in the loss of some good employees. There was an additional loss of talent by many of the folks who had to deliver the blow... — read more 

I mean, I do stress over layoffs - but that's because I enjoy my job and want to keep it. I'm really surprised to see so much Follett hate here. Everybody I work with seems happy - or if they're not, they're not showing it. Anyhow, I wish good luck... — read more 

A little more than 5 years ago follett purged experience. Many of the senior managers, who administered this assault, were from the "good ole days" of follett. They went so far as to claim they had to layoff more than 10% of its workforce so they... — read more 

I think it's becoming more and more obvious that Follett will continue to go downhill until it's no more. There were plenty of opportunities to right this ship, and every one of them was missed or ignored. That should be enough of a warning to all... — read more 

With the loss of two more contracts, is this a sign of things to come? How many stores have theirs up for renewal?

How many of you got letters with CDs from the VP of human resources talking about benefits. How much was spent on that. ?Been here 13 years, vacation, holiday, sick time were taken away about 5 years ago. How does the VP of HR not know that a huge... — read more 

Ivy Tech announced today they will be going with Barnes and noble ... I hope your resumes are up to date get out while you can!!!

Congrats to all on a fresh new budget. So exciting!

There was post this regarding changes on April 1, where did it go?

What day will the college stores see the RIF?

The campus store business is changing. The Follett leaders from 10 years ago would have been hard-pressed to find ways to keep up and evolve. We needed new leadership. Unfortunately the leaders we got came from a brain-dead organization called Sears... — read more 

Has anything new surfaced or are we still in a waiting pattern? This stressing and anticipation is worst than anything...

RIF’s expected at those stores. Under $1M, correct?

Can anyone confirm they have been told this is happening to them? Or is this just heresay?