Yeah, still angry, still hurt, compounded by several things happening at my old store. I hope this stupid company goes down fast and hard. Say what you will about my anger, my un compassionate state of mind I really don't care. I feel for the people that have to put up with this corporate bs at the lower levels, couldn't give a sh-- store management . But all the woes of the store have been caused by mismanagement of the corporate offices . So when it goes down, they go down too. Your stupid district managers are the worst. Followed by your lying store managers. This company cannot be saved at any level. You all have till February........then POOF you're gone. Please keep your stupid a* comments to youself cause I really don't give a sh-- .
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What are they saying on the B&N Booksellers FB page?
At one store (18th and 5th in NYC, the flagship store), people showed up one day for work, and there were signs on the building saying the store was closed. No notice, nothing. This was several years ago.
It seems that they just keep making it harder and harder for people to stay. They also cut the cafe discount, laid off maintenance staff a few months ago, laid off all their head cashiers (leaving managers to count tills), laid off long time leads, etc..
It's time for everybody to start moving to the lifeboats. It's not going to get better, just worse, or one day you'll show up to your store and the front doors will be padlocked.
If you've been with the company for some time (like I was), you'll have to come to the mindset that the old days are over and that it's time to move on. It was a great company once, but that was a while ago. There's no point in wishing ill to the company, or your managers or DMs or the people in New York--do that once you're out, if you want, but right now is the time to realize that it's over.
You're absolutely right, they never asked for our input, especially when we kept seeing mistake after mistake.
Our DM had some of the dumbest ideas I've ever seen and all the managers had to kiss her fat a-- or they were out. Even customers would say to us, "Who is she, she doesn't know what she's talking about, does she?" Then she'd bombard our manager with threatening emails to get our member card numbers up. It made for a battlefield type of atmosphere.
Not to mention she managed to get rid of all of older workers, it's too bad someone didn't file a lawsuit.