It’s not going to work, Issac. Most employees/stockholders are more frightened of you than they are of our current leaders. You can try to stir it all up if you want. No one with half a brain will ever trust you with the reins.

The CEO of MGA is constantly posting emotional, personal and childish posts on linkedin and threatening emails and in media appearances. Impressively unprofessional. How can a guy with so little emotional restraint or common respect expect to... — read more 

So in the last week, Mattel: Had the most embarrassing Showcase at the Licensing Show. Not only did they drag our Masters of the Universe with a "star" named Noah who no one in the crowd ever heard of never mind didn't recognize with this buff bod... — read more 

Anyone know about any layoffs at Mattel, FP, AG or Mega?

OMG... delusional Wu & company think they can charge $6 now by adding a free anti-theft sticker to a dollar car. Oh, and now the kid needs a $40 piece of track to read the car. And a smartphone. And Bluetooth. Our clueless management team is in... — read more 

Let's finally overhaul the Board of Directors, management team and the insane number of highly compensated SVP's. If Hello Kitty and a bunch of movies that will never hit the screen is the best we can do we don't have a chance. The $11 share price is... — read more 

ZERO ethical standards with CEO and COO and HR! They all need to be investigated for unethical business practices!

Upper management strategy in a nutshell. Cutting product cost is panacea. Force fit new technology into product is innovation. Bottom-line, ship products on schedule. Only to find out that no one want to buy it.

MGA may buy Mattel hostile.

If you had to use only three words? Would even one of them be positive?

From what I see most have given up. They don't even care if everybody can see they're barely doing anything - and I can't blame them. Mattel has made it clear that everybody over 50 (maybe even people in their late 40s) has no future here. So why try... — read more 

No One Ever

A company going nowhere. The incompetency grows every year. Too late to change. Best to sell to Hasbro and maybe give some of the brands other than Barbie and Hot Wheels some hope. Pretty much what exactly what @Zktalry-3xhv said. We need to accept... — read more 

Sell the company ynot

https://www.newsadvance.com/news/trending/how-fisher-price-created-rock-n-play-without-safety-tests/article_c21555b1-6794-54ed-abb2-6fcc9670ee77.html

Moody's negative on Mattel Moody's says its B- rating on Mattel's (MAT) long-term debt and Negative Outlook reflect "execution risk" in the toy company stabilizing revenue and growing EBITDA from depressed levels. "Mattel continues to face revenue... — read more 

Talk in the tower late last night about this being a possibility. Apparently Amazon pulling out dropped rents and the options for a new satellite HQ is needed for sales and trade shows. I cannot imagine anyone willingly wanting to transfer out to NY... — read more 

Mattel does a terrible job fostering young employees and does not provide opportunities for career advancements. It does not reward success and hard work. It does not value it's employees. This is why you see so many young and talented employees... — read more 

Could it be? Are we in the mythical "no layoffs to worry about for undetermined time period" age?

Just curious - do any of the younger workers or newer hires feel like a long term career at Mattel is a legitimate option for them? Something to strive for? I personally don't see it and can't wait to get out of here, but I'm sure my experience is... — read more 

If I hear design led one more time I'm going to toss. Design led companies have frame changing break through talent not a bunch of arrogant wannabees who have grown up at Mattel. If you've worked for a true creative boss or company you know what it... — read more 

You can’t get anything done. No one has a sense of urgency for anything. People don’t want to help you. Everyone is in their little space and really don’t care one way or the other if you need something from them. No reason to work hard? What for?... — read more 

Is it as bad as I hear?

So many people complaining here, yet I bet majority is not looking for a new job. Why? Does anybody actually think Mattel will still be here in four-five years? This company is going downhill so fast that I wouldn't be surprised if we went the way of... — read more 

http://www.toyhobbyretailer.com.au/licensing/mattel-to-bring-branded-entertainment-centres-to-world

There's little to no factual information here, but the drama, venting, b--ching, emotion and tirades here are epic. The potential entertainment value is off the charts, and I hope the IP of the content here is up for grabs since it's anonymous. I'll... — read more 

Great way to end the week. A long painful Friday and our stock plunges. The new normal. Enjoy your weekend. Thanks Ynon, Mattel is swell!

In the last town hall, it struck that there was basically nothing good to say about American Girl, and it's been like that forever it seems. FP will survive their latest issues. Mega is even on an upswing. But, I'm just wondering how a high end... — read more 

We have a new manager, and he keeps asking us to be more agile all the time. He's like a baby who's discovered a new word and can't get enough of it. So there you go folks, we all need to be more agile and all of Mattel's problems will be solved... — read more 

https://variety.com/2019/dirt/real-estate/ynon-kreiz-house-beverly-hills-1203198265/ looks like Mattel is doing better and the stock options and pay is doing well for YK? times are good.

https://variety.com/gallery/ynon-kreiz-house-beverly-hills/

Time for a PE firm to buy Mattel and throw out RD and ST and SG and fix this business once and for all.

We could not find a simple minded enough VP that we can manipulate, so we will Bring back one just let go of a few months ago, lets make him and SVP to help him out a bit. Onward.

Time to reveal the fruits of your labors at 2pm today, Ynon. Come to Jesus! :) https://mattel.gcs-web.com/events-presentations

Why do we keep losing some great sales people? They may have tough goals but we all have tough areas of our jobs, but we work through it.

Just want to leave this here and start a thread! Post if you can contribute.

My money is on ES using this to scapegoat EA FP, downsizing the workforce if not shutting down our campus completely and selling off the property. It’s a pure cash grab for them and we get left dangling.

Are there any layoffs coming or is that just a rumor? Anyone heard anything?