checks dated today and sent.

I work in the accounting department and rarely does any new application work as designed. Instead we spend months cleaning up issues. Look at Hyperion, what a giant waste of millions of dollars, it should be scrapped.

anyone hear anything about the severance checks?

At my store the entire staff looking for employment elsewhere.

As a store manager who has been around for more than 5 yrs, I can tell you that I am actively looking to leave Follett. The company continues to betray the trust of its long time (much longer than myself) employees and doesn't show any signs of... — read more 

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/05/clever-10m-sequoia/

This is not just an IT issue but a Follett issue. When an industry is declining and there is disruption in the marketplace companies try to do too much to remain relevant. Follett has been doing this for years, and it accelerated over the past two... — read more 

Infosys is already working on the two most significant IT projects started this year and soon to be a third. Management is clear that Infosys will be performing coding in the future. Ask your manager point blank.

Guys - what's your prognosis about Infosys at Follett? Are they on they way out?

There is so much wrong with how Follett does I.T. that it's difficult to know where to start. No or poorly run project management; the design phase is pathetic (and some I.T. people don't even understand why you need it); no change management... — read more 

What kind of lies?

have to be the worst run dept. stores. smh

what went down with gary? anyone know?

Looks like all new development is going to Infosys - ecommerce, POS and others. Old employees will continue to support the old systems until they are phased out. Couldn't take the risk anymore as I have a family to support and decided to get out... — read more 

VP Finance and VP of merchandising are the only two left at retail. Unfortunately they were all replaced with higher paid KMart talent. They are looking for attrition now to save severance costs. The smart employees are actively looking. As they... — read more 

Great news everyone. There is a new Senior VP at Oakbrook HO. He has a dozen or so other VP's reporting to him. Guess where he is from - Sears/KMart. Any savings in cost have been wiped out.

@Anonymous1150 - I wish you all the best

Manager and RM Made up stories to get me fired. They considered my salary too high for store.

Manager and RM Made up stories to get me fired. They considered my salary too high for store.

In the end, it is the desire of this company to tho through self-inflicted attrition. They talk a lot about how grateful they are for years - in some cases DECADES of service, but the truth is they don't want people with 970 compa ratios, not even... — read more 

Much like the business, they have no understanding of successful IT practices. They just want to pound their fist on a desk and scream "why don't my stuff work?". Go find some companies which have successful deployments and stable systems and tell me... — read more 

Why do you feel that way? We have VERY limited resources over here and ever changing business reqs. The deadlines are crazy and we are forced to scarify quality to hit the dates. Imagine you are building a house and I tell you, a week before you move... — read more 

The systems in place will not work once again. Enjoy your December and January.

FHEG used to be awesome, we lost our edge somehow. It's time to go... The current situation is horrible and the writing is on the wall. DO NOT WAIT, MORE LAYOFFS WILL COME.

As a former Senior IT person with Follett, I can tell you it's very rough doing any IT projects within Follett. Requirements gathering is a half-assed process. The business gives partial requirements and asks how much money with a predefined... — read more 

Two senior IT employees on our team have given notice. Two other from other departments have given notice. Writing is on the wall.

Region 40 manager gone.... Herschel...........twd

MyHR is a nightmare! Another system that has more problems than OMS. What a nightmare to create a req and then to hire an associate..good luck with that one. New system is supposeed to save time, maybe when Follett gets all the kinks out This is no... — read more 

More home office layoffs this month is the rumor.

On Sat 11/23 Follett, fresh from chopping 10% of their workforce (and an even larger percentage of its full time hourly, benefited employees), hosted a catered party at Stanford Stadium. Gift bags were handed out to attendees. Follett executives and... — read more 

Is "DOWN SIZE" a real project name? hahaaha, very creative... do they have a project id? 007? hahahah....

The goal is to have 2 or 3 max full time employees with benefits. Manager, Text Manager and GM Manager. It won't happen until after Spring Rush. So if your full time start looking for something now. Because like November you won't be given any... — read more 

after spring rush. definitely more layoffs to come.

Since April 2013, Follett has laid off close to 850 employees, or more than 10% of its workforce.....and they are not done.

So this black Friday sale is something special? All they are doing is pushing clearance items. It would be nice to get rid of some of it since who ever is buying some of this crap (promo tees, did anyone like them?)really should be asking other... — read more 

Bad IT systems make my job more difficult so the end result is the same regardless of the reason.

I don't think it's IT's fault. I think they do the best they can with what they have. I imagine all Follett online operations as them trying to build a house, but not in the correct order, or with anything that actually goes in a house. They rough... — read more 

First they eliminate headcount making the hours much longer for employees that are still in our store. Now the IT systems have been down most of today and ticked off customers could not rent a book from Skyo, eFollett or in store. Had to send them to... — read more 

It is so frustrating to be doing double the work and 50% more hours and no one cares. RM's and GVP's are in self preservation mode and can't or won't do anything to help. MyHR does NOT work and has become the new OMS.