BN still has 679 retail jobs available on their website. I find this very hilarious, as they are obviously in peril. Why not just stop hiring now? To hire a new employee and fire them later is horribly cruel. Yet again, those who apply are fools anyways.
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“I'm glad I left on my own terms, being laid off would have traumatized me. As it did so many in Feb. 2018.”
Traumatized a lot of our brother & sister booksellers. Many put in 10-15 plus years and we’re lied to that their futures & careers were safe. Then led out the door like criminals!
Many told me “don’t blame the Mgrs or the DMs” I DO blame them as well ! They knew months in advance ! Many mgrs and DMs shifted people out of positions to preserve their jobs. Others- they just say back and let good, conscience, dedicated employees get humiliated and fired.
Anyone let go from here on out shouldn’t be surprised!
Anyone seeking a job at BN must be pretty clueless about how the company treats loyal employees. The pay is bad, the management is poor.
“Just my family alone , holiday 2018 AND 2019 spent a couple thousand at Amazon and Books A Million, in Tennessee. Instead of Barnes. Who would continue to support a company who fired you ?”
but ALL my hardcovers, blurays and pop figures from Books A Million & Amazon, now, also.
will NEVER give BN another penny !!!!
Just my family alone , holiday 2018 AND 2019 spent a couple thousand at Amazon and Books A Million, in Tennessee. Instead of Barnes. Who would continue to support a company who fired you ?
I haven’t stepped foot in BN since a family member was fired in Feb 2018.
This past Christmas I spent $780 at Books A Million and Amazon that I normally would’ve spent at BN.
Think of the thousands you fired. And all the family members and friends. THAT’S a lot of mine you lost this holiday season.
“ Is barnes & Noble still in business ?
Thought they were long dead !”
They are. To a LOT of people!
They know they are, too.
Is barnes & Noble still in business ?
Thought they were long dead !
“I'm glad I left on my own terms, being laid off would have traumatized me. As it did so many in Feb. 2018.”
Traumatized a lot of our brother & sister booksellers. Many put in 10-15 plus years and we’re lied to that their futures & careers were safe. Then led out the door like criminals!
Many told me “don’t blame the Mgrs or the DMs” I DO blame them as well ! They knew months in advance ! Many mgrs and DMs shifted people out of positions to preserve their jobs. Others- they just say back and let good, conscience, dedicated employees get humiliated and fired.
Anyone let go from here on out shouldn’t be surprised!
Retiring after several decades was a hard adjustment for me, I miss books so much, but my mgt. position was technically no longer supposed to exist. I'm glad I left on my own terms, being laid off would have traumatized me. As it did so many in Feb. 2018.
I wonder when that happens to them, how many will cry about it, after they sat back ,and watched what they did to their fellow booksellers ?
“ Anybody who applies at a company known for firing 3000 plus employees ,isn’t too bright”
Anyone who stays after they fire 3000+ employees ,and does not think it will happen to them, are even less bright !
Anybody who applies at a company known for firing 3000 plus employees ,isn’t too bright.
All the part timers hired to replace the dedicated career employees who were fired, will soon experience what those who didn’t deserve it, got.
Enjoy !
“Yet again, those who apply are fools anyways.”
Yes they are !
So are those who stayed, thinking they were safe after Feb2018.
This is pretty much normal; a lot of companies, at least in retail, continuously advertise jobs, even when all the positions are filled. I'm told they do this in hopes of a gold nugget or two responding, shining through the rest of the dross that apply. More likely this is to keep applications more or less current, so when some poor bookseller finally smartens up and takes a walk, it'll be easier to fill the position.
It was a fun place to work when I first started in the early 2000's. Lots of happy full-timers and plenty of coverage, no ridiculous micromanagement down to 15-minute intervals, no freaking earpiece radios with jackhole useless ASMs barking into them about selling memberships every 10 minutes, etc. It started to go downhill when Steve Riggio (Len's brother) stepped down as CEO (understandably so, he did it for personal family reasons) and they started with a string of CEOs who proceeded to start mucking things up (the Nook push being the biggest disaster). It's funny, one of my old managers had told me as long as Steve was around, the company would be fine. How true that turned out to be. The last 4-5 years I was there I always felt like telling someone walking into the store asking about a job "you don't want to work here, you really don't."