Initial impression is positive. Was growing tired of Neebo antics. Is Follett okay or are they just another book company blowing smoke up our asses?

SW is gone.....to pursue other opportunities. This is a SS hire.

This board has dried up while Follett takes a victory lap. Don;t worry, when these new crapheaps cost mot than they earn, you'll have to find another way to grow. We all know same-store sales aren't growing.

Text book sales are trending down each of the last 10 years in the industry. Amazon has entered the text book business which makes the sales pie shrink. Text returns continue to cost margins. States are beginning to apply pressure to reduce textbook... — read more 

I think everyone is taking advantage of Follett now and sending them their junk books that nobody else will buy . I hear the warehouse shut down due to no space to receive more books . Too many junk books in stock , wow K-Mart and Office-Max all over... — read more 

How many people think DG would be better off doing Arnold Schwarzenegger impressions?

Barnes will now call you out as a competitor to your own stores so don't give in and give the school a higher commission or if so--why make the investment to purchase NE Book. These are the same schools that after the renovation is off their books... — read more 

So I am reading an article entitled "Kmart Sales Have Fallen Off a Cliff". It appears the management wizards have seen an unprecedented sales decline. In 2000, sales were $37 billion. Last year, a lusty $12 billion. Just think...those management... — read more 

Hire female CEO to do all the dirty work - layoffs, benefit cuts, terrorizing of employees. Let CEO take all the blame. Get rid of female CEO, replace with male who immediately makes popular announcements. Board and new CEO hope employees ignore the... — read more 

And of course another layoff. The hits just keep on coming. Although the piece meal approach to laying off employees sure does cause a lot less public waves. They have learned their lessons from the first two years.

Past two+ years, this saga has been going on. The only words I heard on the floor, cafeteria, cabs, lobby, elevators were "layoff, package & resignations" and uncertainty. How can you then expect employees to give their best, when the atmosphere is... — read more 

Bonus payout due by 6/15.

It's so worthless I could SCREAM!!

The five pillars of IT success - don't offshore. IT is a competitive advantage. #1# Focus on the customer. To Smoley, this first pillar is all about creating a customer service orientation inside IT. “Every IT employee needs to ask, ‘Who is my... — read more 

Will they be replacing the people who left?

So sad....back in the day I really thought this company was going places...great teams...great employees. ..having a second family at Follett made working 50+ hours a week bearable...we got the job done and not just that.. we were PROUD!......it's so... — read more 

Anybody else heard the rumor that SS is creating a list of IT employee layoffs for June/July?

Imaging the lost productivity at with the removal of experienced Follett employees. Now add the lost hours from the month FHEG town hall meeting, brown bags, corporate town hall meetings and weekly huddles. In my old team alone, 16 hours is lost... — read more 

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Dear former colleagues, I enjoyed working with you. Most of my colleagues have quit or they have been laid off. Some of you remain. To those few, if you had an opportunity to leave and you decided to remain, you're complicit. You have passively... — read more 

Excerpts from emails submitted to EEOC as if I don't have the ENTIRE thread. Follett, get weak, dumb, UNCLEAR leadership out of your company. You are suffering because of these people!

As the ladies in the musical Chicago said, " They had it coming, they had it coming".

The home office's favourite hatchett man needs to step back, preferrably out of the company. Bullying does not go down well.

"Corporate venture capital is fraught with short-term outlooks," explains Mary Lee Schneider, CEO of the Follett Corporation, a nearly $2.6 billion privately held educational publishing and software company based outside of Chicago. "There can be... — read more 

Former family CEO in the office today, family is getting restless.

Who is lead counsel for Follett Corporation?

So! how much has the executive branch shifted their problems onto staff and blamed them for failure to deliver? Being told to 'own' your numbers? Have you been blamed for your campus's low enrollment as though you had a hand in it?