I left a little over 10 years ago and I could never be happier. Never second guessed my decision and never once considered going back. Unless you're in love with El Segundo for some strange reason there are a lot of other and better opportunities out... — read more 

http://www.edd.ca.gov/jobs_and_training/warn/WARN_Report_070114_032015.pdf (Do a search on "Mattel")

We have forgotten the "ABC's" of making toys!

I got let go despite the fact that I dedicated my LIFE to this place, so I'm gonna go ahead and speak my mind about this ridiculously self serving company full of blowhards whose only interest is to line their own pockets. The same company that one... — read more 

For Mattel, the acquisition of Mega Bloks brings nothing good. You ask 100 people what LEGO is and 100 people what Mega Bloks is? Yes, exactly, Mega Bloks what??? If Mattel had bought mega 5 years ago, that might have meant a bit but now with 8 other... — read more 

I left a few years back. I hope that things are going to get better. It's a great company.

I wonder when a three year old last asked, what's the margin, and is it hitting the price point?

A great read for anyone who doesn't want to subscribe to SA to read it: Summary Mattel’s employees are becoming increasingly disgruntled according to sites like TheLayoff.com and Glassdoor.com. Bryan Stockton is back as a consultant, making more... — read more 

Twinkle twinkle fading star Mattel how did you fall so far? CPG tricks just don't work - And those bosses play like jerks. Now prepare your resume, You will see a brighter day.

Just asking, I was checking the execs out now, if you and I would to start a lemonade stand we'd end up with a better website. Just saying, I know it's not related to layoffs but had to ask. Can we find someone in IT to make it look professional?

I heard that there may possibly be an announcement next week from uncle Alan Kaye. Has anyone else heard anything? Does anyone know what it could be about? Could he be disclosing his achievements in retaining talent? Maybe another SVP announcement?... — read more 

People are doing scandalous things to keep their jobs. They need to be exposed. Stop thinking it's ok to act the way she does. If I say more this thread will be deleted in seconds.

When people were happy, we were successful. As employees became more and more disgruntled, financial situation reflected this. Happy people work hard, make good products that sell. Miserable people with the same old white male leadership don't help... — read more 

That's pretty cool, we can spit on the company that pays us and feeds us.

That's pretty cool, we can spit on the company that pays us and feeds us.

So... Fifteen years and then "hey, you got a second - why don't you come to my office" says the (new) CEO. This was a short time after our company went through one of those wonderful acquisitions that are in vogue lately. A lot of my comrades saw the... — read more 

how is it possible that the SVPs who "ran" the businesses are still there? cota? mazzocco? swisher? who headed up PLM? goodman? and we just hold on to the likes of zalzman to do what exactly?

Whoever authored that bit of genius should get a promotion or at least a bump in their severance package

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Check it out at Seeking Alpha.com. - Mattel trouble in Toyland - http://seekingalpha.com/article/3014786-mattel-trouble-in-toyland Any comments in bad taste or inappropriate will originate from our senior mgmt. from this point on to sabotage the... — read more 

As we know, the temporary employees are some of the hardest working employees in the company. In an effort to cut money, they are ending ALL temp contracts. Surely to make room for more VP's. Some managers are working hard to place temps in permanent... — read more 

Leadership wants idiots to post ridiculous comments about clothing and sexual orientation as it will make this board unvaluable and also change peoples views of the actual layoff/leadership comments. Keep the posts focused on hammering leadership and... — read more 

I would like to apply for a position with Mattel but I am straight. Do you think I stand a chance here? Thank you!

Please people. Mattel has followed the same pattern explained in the book by Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall. First step is hubris. People up and down the ranks have been thinking for years they were unassailable in their number 1 position. The... — read more 

Somebody find out how Tim Kilpin's son Jordan survived the ES layoff. Are you kidding me? Maybe Stockton can get his wife, kids & dog on the payroll for a cool million each too. It's Thunderdome, anything goes. No rules, just wrong.

I know reporters at the WSJ and LA Times and am going to give them this site to read. You all should do the same! Maybe through the power of social media we could actually affect change in some way. Not just here but at all the companies where the... — read more 

Not only has this guy been hiring his friends into management positions since he started, traveling to asia dozens of times a year on Mattel, but he's also hiring his agency friends (with personal kick backs, no doubt). Hello?! Is the MLT that... — read more 

Anyone has an idea? e.g., would FP have a different bonus plan?

While I'm from the other Coast, I always admired the way FP fought back and showed that D&D can be done better at home than in Asia. That with the right discipline, Talent, and technologies, they could make things faster, better and cheaper than the... — read more 

Everyone I talk to in Design is looking for a way out of this nightmare. The best people will offer to take voluntary retirement or severance package. Others are searching elsewhere for a job. Before long, Mattel will be nothing but new CEOs... — read more 

Just read the post about the NY director's inquiries regarding this site. Regardless if true or false, I am sure that many of us found it totally believeable and that in itself says so much about the state we are in. Now I get up feeling sick about... — read more 

My director approached me this morning asking if I was aware of this site and told me that he has been tasked with going around to each and every person in his charge and asking if they were aware of this site and to inform them that we are not to... — read more 

Been with FP for over 20 years now. There was a time when FP was the leader in preschool toy design. It was our passion to do it good and do it right. No detail was over looked, breadboard models were built to prove out a design. Models were tested... — read more 

The truth is times have passed Mattel by. What we here at Mattel need is a move toward the creative toy. Anything that is considered entertaining is dying under the digital wave that swept so many companies by... just like it killed Eastman Kodak... — read more 

Another announcement today... After one yesterday..,about more VPs, SVPs etc. This one from Geoff Walker about HIT. Just what everyone wants to hear... More people with big salaries and benefits in my place. Still no vision communicated. When are we... — read more 

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Pat yourselves on the back gentlemen...while you have ALL done an absolutely phenomenal job of DRIVING a once well-respected and proud company called "Fisher-Price" straight INTO THE GROUND with YOUR greed and incompetence, PLEASE now do the same... — read more