This will not be the best week for you. Get your resumes in order, get your desks ready for a quick clean out and remember that you should sign up for unemployment the first day you are fired.
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An odiferous lot and just ask anyone about restrooms on 7 & 10 yikes. Unusual levels of arrogance and pride in the misfires CORE and WEBCTS.
What a bunch of arrogant people.
Can't be bothered to say hi are the first on and off the elevator even if it means blocking others.
Just plan rude.
AC Academic Consultants a group that is a waste of space
Please stop with the India references. Your animus is misdirected. Your anger has been earned by management. By calling out India you're simply sounding ignorant. India has done nothing to you. Indian nationals have accepted jobs offered by Follett management. If Follett management can't manage to grow, and instead they're firing good employees to replace them with employees who are unknown and untested, it's management who took your job.
Second; great piece on honestly accessing where you are in your career, industry and company. If the company fires you, you weren't being honest about what was happening around you. Had you paid attention and acted rationally, you would have found another job and quit.
Mark was a survivor. Until he was fired in 2012, six months shy of his 50th birthday, he’d done everything right — rising through the ranks of the book publishing industry, from editorial assistant to associate editor to senior editor, then into management as an editor-in-chief. But as e-books and Amazon destabilized the industry, and waves of consolidation contracted available jobs, Mark (not his real name) admits today that he hadn’t “paid attention to the writing on the wall.” He confessed that he’d spent the 18 months prior to being fired living in denial as his team was reorganized. “Despite that,” he says, “I clung to my job rather than start thinking about how to leave. At that point, I couldn’t conceive of a life outside of the confines of corporate publishing, of not being at the center of the club I’d been a part of — and a star in — since the age of 21.”
Mark’s story is a cautionary tale for us all. In my experience, Mark’s kind of wishful thinking — that things will sort themselves out on their own — rarely works out. Not taking action has costs that can be as consequential as taking risks; it’s simply less natural to calculate and pay attention to the “what-ifs” of inaction. In today’s marketplace, where jobs and job categories are being destroyed and invented at an accelerating rate, I’d argue that the riskiest move one can make is to assume that your industry or job is secure. Just ask former employees of Countrywide, British Petroleum, or Newsweek if you doubt me. Former Chief Talent Officer of Netflix, Patty McCord, says that companies should stop lying to people about their job security, because there’s simply no such thing.
Research I conducted in 2012, 2013, and 2014 with the global advertising agency J. Walter Thompson for Risk/Reward
Whats an AC? Is that accounting. Not much left to cut in IT. It is already little India on floor 7 and 10. Follett will learn the hard way that consultants working for the cheapest possible rate, with little skills will never be loyal to the success of the company.