Cruising home yesterday at 10am after being told my services were no longer needed so I turned on The Loop to de-stress. First song I hear is a favorite from my utes called your time is gonna come by Zeppelin.......Lyin' cheatin' hurtin that's all you seem to do.......Do want you want, I won't take the brunt......It's fadin' away, can't feel you anymore........don't care what you say 'cause I'm goin' away to stay,
Time for a clean start. Up early to update resume, send a few out and go file for unemployment. Living off the man for a while.
Seriously, there were some great employees for a while at Follett, and very few remain. I wish you luck but be realistic about Follett and its role in a dying industry. You can dream about the old days of growth and Follett respecting employees but they are not coming back. This is going to play out as it has for other booksellers and college booksellers and it will be painful to employees each step of the way. Follett only has one strategy which they have demonstrated over the past three years, employee reductions - short sighted perhaps but no other options. The internet changed the game as it has for any commodity retailer and unfortunately like many other retailers Follett missed that opportunity. Marketshare is where the customer mind share is. Ask Follett employees where they buy/bought their sons/daughters textbooks and the response is seldom Follett or the school bookstore. They buy from the cheapest source because a textbook is a textbook. Wait till Amazon expands its distribution centers throughout the US and Follett's single distribution center reverts back to manual processing (bye bye Kiva).
Signing off, we had a good run of 15+ years. Going to stay positive.