This board has dried up while Follett takes a victory lap. Don;t worry, when these new crapheaps cost mot than they earn, you'll have to find another way to grow. We all know same-store sales aren't growing.
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To @Anonymous108867: I recognize that the best talent has left Follett or was laid off. I also recognize that many employees that remain no longer care about Follett the same way and thus their performance has deteriorated.
You do realize you just implied that you (and everyone else on this board) aren't "good talent", right?
With such calm and rational responses on a board like this, I'm sure youre a great co-worker.
Follett quit being the supposed "Something bigger" when they continued to raise margins, make it hard for students to getbook lists (i was nearly written up in 2004 for telling a contact at a school that we could provide ISBNs), and when basically the students' financial aid became an ATM for a company with declining revenue. The answers were always to make it harder and more expensive for students.
Da Troof was with Follett for nearly 10 years and was a store manager and regional. Left about that time Follett was sued for its price raising tactics in Florida.
Follett takes a victory lap? You call what the family (via MLS) has done to this company a victory? You NEED meds!
I agree.....this house of cards will collapse and it will be sweet. The good talent is gone.
Deep inhale.....hold it......exhale! Take your meds.......relax.
riiight...smug ass hole!
When did you start? something bigger when people were productive. Follett was that. That's what most of the people who have posted miss. Being part of something that is reliable, productive and successful despite being handicapped by top heavy, micro managing benign management was where we were. Management stopped be benign. Productivity took a hit. Good people who had sunk decades into this business were brutalized and crushed. That's why this board has persisted. We miss what we had. We want to see what remains crash to the ground in a glorious heap of stinking failure. .Vindication won't put money back in the check book and it won't make the hurting stop and yet it will still be sweet.
Moved on to something bigger years ago.
Its an honest evaluation of the new stores.
Riiight....
Seriously, stop with the negativity. Maybe you'll learn to be productive and learn to be a part of something bigger.