Time for all of us with a conscious, self respect and respect for your fellow worker to leave. Do not continue to work for this company that cares nothing about you and your needs. Look around at all the vacant offices while the abundant VP's scurry... — read more 

I may be relatively young but this is not my first rodeo and I won't tolerate terrible leadership - and the consensus I've heard among other young talent; they won't either. I don't want to be a part of a company where veterans get canned like... — read more 

Can someone please explain what the "velvet mafia" is?

Any shareholders here, or are we all Mattel employees gambling with our lives? Mattel Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) dropped about 2.8% on Tuesday to post a new 52-week low of $24.34 against a 52-week high of $40.79. Shares closed at $25.05 Monday night. Volume... — read more 

Vidler's is looking for people in the East Aurora area.

Hasbro is looking for people in the Burbank area.

Besides this and a few other rinky-dink websites, there's no mention of these layoffs in the news. Google it if you don't believe it. How does Mattel manage to quash these rumors, and how can we get the word out to tell the world the truth about what... — read more 

This is 100% true. Mattel came to FP and drained all of the creativity away. Slow at first, when our office was more autonomous - then as the Mattel culture began to infiltrate our office, this doomed the sense of freedom we once had. Before Mattel... — read more 

Would Mattel just relocate its worldwide headquarters and consolidate other offices to a cheaper place? Look at Toyota, pulling out of Torrance and moving to Plano Texas. They own that town. I thought that was impossible when I heard it, but it... — read more 

Hi, ex Mattel here. What about the european mattel offices. Have they been hit as well?

The commercial lease was broken and the plan is to relocate D&D to HK except for a tiny R&D hit squad in ES. The "Handler Team Center" didn't last too long.

If we do I bet we'll be losing a lot more people than we already have...

Here is a ton of positive things about our company: http://www.glassdoor.com/Benefits/Mattel-US-Benefits-EI_IE428.0,6_IL.7,9_IN1.htm

Yet on their watch, Mat-Hell became a looney bin of arrogant, narrow-minded, uninspiring leadership. Innovation and creativity became insignificant buzzwords. Corporate culture went to hell, decisions and approvals were hard to get, only motivated by... — read more 

As I found out the day I was laid off, the management team was well aware of ongoings of this page....and not happy about it. Scared as a matter of fact. If they truly want to get sincere authentic feedback, this page is it. There is no need for an... — read more 

All you guys have done are packaging changes color changes and cost cutting. I see the same toys on the shelf from ten years ago. The only time is a good product come around is when Mattel buys a company then they claim the good products as there... — read more 

You can't continue to sell crap and get away with it. The exec's salaries (and bonuses) can't sustain the numbers. I say get rid of them all and start over--if there's anything left to salvage which is doubtful. Rumor has it Williams Sonoma is... — read more 

Nothing else to say.

I'm sure this will sound bitter but, I'm not trying to be. Walker definitely lacks the Polish. He has the trashiest vocabulary I've ever heard in an office setting. Absolutely inappropriate. The man doesn't even make eye contact when I pass him in... — read more 

Left in 2008, the writing was on the wall then and it's not going to get better. Every quarter we had a management meeting where we had to rank every employee in the department. You knew you were signing a death warrant for anyone at the bottom. What... — read more 

What's killing Mattel is your product. All you guys have done are packaging changes color changes and cost cutting. I see the same toys on the shelf from ten years ago. The only time is a good product come around is when Mattel buys a company then... — read more 

Sesame Street made sense to lose - the only toy that ever made money was the feature Elmo doll. I'm sure if you look at sales of feature Elmo vs. feature Mickey, it wasn't a loss. Disney princesses was a bigger loss, and that's from the arrogance of... — read more 

Mattel is very skilled in layoffs. They get an above expectations. They identify months ahead of time exactly which worker bees are candidates. Man, you know they talk about it. VPs are gathering feedback at one on one meetings with managers... — read more 

Reported in the Madison, Wisconsin newspaper this morning that AG let 15 employees go across three locations in Wisconsin. But ... what the newspaper didn't report is that earlier this year AG offered VERY GENEROUS retirement packages to a large... — read more 

The worst is still in place....Mattel will not recover. Checking things out, the core reasons why Mattel has fallen are still in place. Take note all surviving employees, retailers and remaining stockholders....the VP's (too many to count let alone... — read more 

First off I am very sorry to those who got cut, one who did is a good friend of mine. We had a saying in the Mount Laurel office for Mattel lay offs: L.O.P. time! It stood for Lay Off Pizza. Every time Mattel ML had a lay off they served hot pizza... — read more 

If I had a way to charge the company for the hours of sleep I lost stressing over the last 20 years I could probably buy Bryan Stockton's boat.

Cip it to the point of cheapening it so no one wants to buy it. That's todays goal, and look where it got us. It doesn't matter if it breaks, it met cost target.

Here's a true story about Salisbury Cathedral: after five hundred years or so the roof had rotted out and needed replacing. Conveniently the guys who built the cathedral had also planted new oaks around it. Five hundred years later those oaks were... — read more 

Mattel culture in a nutshell - if you've got the polish and the "executive presence" (matpics ;) then you are golden - ie Stockton, Dickson, Walker (ok maybe not so much that last one lol) but you see the point. This is prob one of Neil Friedmans... — read more 

It is truly amazing a company like Mattel - who is last time I checked, still in the business of making... toys! - is run like a capital investment firm. Zero thought to what an actual child would like to play with and a parent who would consider... — read more