I've been reading the post of all you disgruntled employees and am wondering, if Follett is such a bad place to work, why are you still there? I'm sure they are an "at will" company meaning you can leave wherever you want and they can terminate you whenever they want (which they have been doing to most). Some of you boast about how great of an employee you are and Follett just sh*ts all over you. If you're so great at what you do, why stay? I'm sure another employer will value your work ethics if you are as great as you say you are. In my opinion (which I'm entitled to have), all of you that are complaining either like the abuse and need something to talk about because your lives are that boring OR you aren't as good at your job as you say you are and you have to stay because another company will notice your incompetencies. Either way, keep writing your posts so I can have something to read while I take a dump everyday :P
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Wow what a shirt this person is. your life so great that you read these posts everyday.. you must be bored out of your mind or just part of the higher ups at follett. I too was forced out but sh--ty management. I gave this company my all for many Many years. so if we want a place to vent so let it be..some of us understand it more than others especially we that made this our career by choice or not.. being told your service is longer needed right before the holidays is one of the worst things anyone could go through.. so why don't you go read the national enquirer, it's probably right up your alley.. Happy Holidays
Wow, I get it now! You're a winner and the rest of us are losers. Gee, I wish you had taken the job with Follett and straightened us all out. All the dedicated associates that gave 10, 15, 20 years of to Follett and were riffed so the family's dividends were bigger but also hastened the downward spiral company, we're just whiners. RG would have made you a SVP right out of the box!
OP is clearly a zit faced punk with no life. Not all of us have that choice. We have lives with our stores and campuses and not all are in such an easy place to just go find another job. Go somewhere else dude.
I'm reading cause it's amusing. I'm sure you're one of those that sticks around cause you are incompetent and don't know how to "move with the cheese." Ain't it time for you to punch that clock you hourly store manager? LMAO
And this is the funniest thing of all, the OP "I don't even work for this company." Why are you wasting your time reading a board for a company you know nothing about. Pretty sad really.
JH in a higher position may help someday. Here's hoping she continues up the ladder.
I get that you loved working for Follett. That Follett is dead. You have been in an abusive relationship for more than 3 years now. Management won't change. Actually, the faces may change, but the behavior will continue. The family and the board are happy with how things are going. If they were unhappy, significant changes would have taken place. No significant change has happened.
You may want to hope there is fairness or justice. There isn't. It is unfair management are allowed to treat employees the way Follett treats us? No, but It's legal and permissible. Has anyone successfully sued Follett? I doubt it. The labor lawyers I spoke with wouldn't touch my case (and it was fairly blatant age discrimination).
If anything, management's behavior will get worse. Why stay? Pull your resume together. Find a good job. That is your only best option.
I agree. Why should we be forced to leave jobs we enjoy just because overly staffed unfit executives don't know what they are doing? Follett leadership is playing a dirty game. A game that proves they no more care for you as a human being. They consider us a drain on payroll and to their bank accounts. They are desperate and will rot in hell for their actions.
We enjoy our jobs, the campus we serve, our staff/co workers, and even our direct management (r.m's and gvp's). This used to be a great company to work for, especially for a work/life balance. CEO to the Presidents and VP's knew your name, and were approachable. Now, I wouldn't know any of them if they walked in my store, it is a revolving door at the upper level of management, And, they wouldn't know me or my campus, or the great job I have done in all my years. So, we are either waiting for another change at the upper level of management, for the family to step back in and run the company the way they used to (People first), or wait for a severance package.
Many of us have been here for many years, and changing jobs that you expected to retire from, can be very difficult. You get to an age that change is more difficult than you realize.
It's the faint hope that management will be replaced by someone actually able to restore the past glory.
And the stronger hope that I will be included in the next round of layoffs and get paid to leave.
It's a valid question asked in a way that Follett management would ask it. Ask yourself, why would anyone work for me. You have your answer.
There is no better time to leave jerks, like the original poster in your wake. Find another job. Make it your top priority.
Some of what the OP said is true. But what a few people have responded is also true. Many of us are loyal to the campus we serve. Many of us love working on a college campus and working with educators and administrators (even if they can be difficult to work with).
I totally agree with you. It's different when you are on campus, but some people wouldn't know that. I suggest some should stay out of this if it doesn't involve them.
Because most of us don't work "at" Follett. We work at our respective college campuses and we're there for that connection.
I may be a douche bag but at least I know the difference between "affected" and "effected". I don't even work for this company. I googled it after a got an interview in Westchester but decided against the interview after I can across this website thinking this has to be the worst company on the face of this earth. But now that I keep reading everyday in the "think tank," I see you all just want attention. If the work conditions were that bad, there's no way a sane person would stay and just continue to complain to DEAF EARS (this website)!!!!
Only if things were that easy, but then again I'm assuming you are one of those Douche bags that didn't get effected.
There are lots of potential reasons. I can give a few. This used to be a good company to work for, so there is a lingering sense of loyalty and a hope that the company will turn itself around. Employees close to retirement may have difficulty finding other employment. Skillsets may be specialized and hard to move to another company. There may not be comparable jobs available nearby necessitating a long commute. It is a difficult situation.