I understand the need for deadlines, but we get absolutely pummeled with them. I don’t have high hopes, but I wish to see changes regarding excessive due dates. How can we possibly meet all of those without adequate amounts of staff?
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More tasks and being tightwads with the money and hours equals Follett is going to lose A LOT of people. Don’t continue to be that company.
It's going to take a major overhaul in systems, culture, executive suite, processes/policies and in people's attitudes (at all levels). It's going to take getting a backbone and stop letting campuses and publishers walk all over our contracts. It's going to take leadership that sees as more than a big box omni channel retailer. It's going to take changing the business model. It's going to take being willing to drop accounts that just don't make the cut. It's going to take a major paradigm shift.
Unfortunately, too little too late. The damage has already been done. It is going to take way more money than anyone will be willing to invest to right this ship.
No. The question is can the new management team be profitable enough so liquidation isn't the best solution. The investment company knows where it will make money. It doesn't know if the business can be run well enough to justify running it.
Previous ownership isn't at issue. They're gone. Good riddance.
So the question is will the new owners find enough people to work like fools so the investment company can show a profit or will the endeavor fail and the Follett Family have the last laugh having divested itself of the white elephant?
Don't worry, guys. The "revised" April hours after the feedback they received this week earned me THREE additional hours for the entire month. Oh, joyous day!
Meet the new boss same as the old boss.
The alternative is just... not to do the stuff. 90% of these directives are pointless and don't really affect the running of your store. Work your 40 hours and if stuff doesn't get done, oh well. That's the only way upper management is going to realize that cutting staff is detrimental to running the business. If you work 60 hours a week to do all this extra work, they will continue to take advantage. They need to see that cutting staff has real, tangible consequences. Stop bending over backwards to appease these people. You don't owe them anything. Stop letting them take advantage and steal your time. This job is not worth that.
Re-evaluate if the New Follett is where you want to work.
If working 60 or 70 hours a week and getting paid for 40 is what is being ask of you and you are not seeing any future then it is time to move on.
Do the math, if you are are getting paid $40,000/year for 2,080 hours (40 hours/week) of work ok. You're making $19.23/hour. If you are working 3,120 hours per year (60 hours per week) you're making $13.82/hour. Less than your PT help?
New owners are looking to make a profit. Don't let them do it out of your pocket.
Remember, Follett stores is a job, not a career.
Start getting used to working more than 40 hours a week and doing stuff after the store is closed or before you open. Not having enough staff is not an acceptable reason for not getting things done, unfortunately. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.