Thread regarding Follett layoffs

For a moment just think of how many laid off, forced out, fired, and career sabotaged former Follett employees contemplate suicide every day you arrogant ignorant disease. Especially as time goes on, and they start costing their family more than they feel like they are worth. I personally can't even get an interview in my own area of expertise because of my former "leaders". Leaders is the wrong word...definitely doesn't fit the top tiers of Follett org charts.

This is the most arrogant group of leaders I have ever seen. They look at employees with complete disdain. Lets not forget, for the first year they made fun of employees and their process that had been in place for many years at each town hall. SS still makes fun of his employees, TH and DG does the same. They treat their employees poorly and talk about them publicly. They don't care about you. They deserve no loyalty or respect.

if firing was the only thing that was done, that is one issue. Firing and is part of business. No one likes to be on either end of those conversations. It is business. In follett's case it was poor business. They hurt themselves by firing and demoting.

There was a quiet pattern of abuse against long time employees that was truly evil. Why? The company didn't want to extend severance to people who worked there for more than 15-20 years. It is that simple. They manufactured incompetence. They manufactured job abandonment. They tried to trap people. It was horrible. Any director who remained in their job knowing that this was happening is complicit.

Leaders...what a joke. This company doesn't have leaders. Leaders build, leaders inspire hope, leaders look out for the best interest of all. Bosses destroy, intimidate, only does what is in their best interests. Let's start with RG. A few weeks ago he comes to us and tells us the company is struggling and "we" all need to start doing more. Well RG, we are doing more by having our teams slotured....what about your worthless team? I see you kept your team and they kept their teams in place so you/they wouldn't have to do more!!!! A true leader would have started at the top and worked their way down. Let's start seeing some cuts in upper management. How many VPs does it take to tank a company?

Obviously no sympathy here & well deserved. Heartless corporation who actually care more about part timers who know how to work the system & HR, they call Hot line because hours had to be reduced, than long term employees who have busted their butts for Follett working for nothing & slapped in the face over & over.... If I wasn't so close to retirement I would run, fast

Layoffs happen, but not the way Follett did it. All those Sears employees are a slap in the face of the existing employees and those let go. Talent coming in from Sears was nowhere near the talent leaving.

Firing people is proven to be almost as stressful as being fired. There has probably been some people who agonized over what happened. I'm not defending the people who made the decision, but this board has seen people obsessed with directors who let them go when a director has never had a say in a layoff. So yes, the original poster has a point. It doesn't make up for the many poor decisions management has made or the good people who lost their jobs though.

I have zero sympathy for the leaders at Follett. In my case, when confronted with their own bad decision, a senior vp confided to me that they had made a mistake. When I countered that it wasn't too late go back her response was that it would make them look bad. So they didn't care about the company, they only cared about how they looked. Another vp started yelling at me that I had to fix it (his bad decision) and told me that I owned it (his bad decision). These are the gutless executives running Follett today. *How would you feel if one of them committed suicide because of this site? * I don't know about anyone else but I would feel fine. Knowing that they openly violate the code of conduct while sh--ting on those that put their heart and soul into the company I would say they got what they deserved. But don't worry, these people would throw their own mothers under a bus if it kept them from looking bad. They have no souls.

You all have it wrong. There are no more true leaders at Follett. They have been pushed out and found better jobs they can utilize their skills at. These are bosses and pansies who do not know how to make decisions and costing the company millions. It goes back to the board. They selected MLS, who was then seen to lack innovation and brought in a senior staff of dimwits and those with no accountability and put blame elsewhere instead of manning up. Once she was released, Follett replaces with a new individual who has failed to clean up and remove those in corporate and higher Ed and worked getting schools back on track. However it costed the company over 2500 jobs over the last few years. The company is tarnished. It is sad.

In an organization that has abused long term employees (fact, not hyperbole) and cut salary and jobs and benefits in a campaign that hurt people who had helped the company, the lesson needs to be learned by management. We may be numbers to you, but we have lives and families who depend on us. We worked very hard for you and you betrayed us. You chose to balance your books on our backs. You didn't want to pay severance to those of us who had worked here for a long time, so you chose to abuse us until we quit. THAT WAS YOUR CHOICE. If you were in management and failed to object, you're complicit.

No, if you fall under scrutiny on this board, you'd best find a way to come clean to those you hurt. You made the choice to start this process. Now, the choice belongs to us. We may choose to forgive. We may choose to criticize. We may choose to hate you for the rest of your life. We may cheer your failure. We may find a way to influence your future (we know folks, right? We can write to presidents of universities, contact faculty, build resistance against you and your brand). We have truth and right on our side. You chose poorly. Live with it. Better yet, resign and forget you ever knew us.

Sorry, not buying it. Good leaders struggle. Heartless Follett leaders don't.

(Sarcastically)... oh cry me a river... how would you feel if someone committed suicide because they lost their job and couldn't provide for their family knowing that individual gave his or her 110% day in and day out on this board simply because the company couldn't turn a profit??????

Boy this is self pity at its best....

Spoken like a true leader who are getting PAID THEIR BONUSES AND DIVIDENDS!!!! GO SPREAD YOUR PATHETIC CRAP PREACHING ELSEWHERE YOU SPINELESS, HEARTLESS FOOL... LEADERS HAVE IT EASY ALL THEY DO IS DISH OUT COMMANDS AND TAKE THE BOWS AND ACCOLADES AT THE END... AND IF THEY FAIL... WELL THE LEADERS AREN'T FIRED IT'S THEIR SUBORDINATES THAT SUFFER!