Anniversary of Black Monday next week.
Any predictions on another go around before end of February?
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Find a company who really appreciates their loyal workers!
Don't invest your time with this sinking ship!
Some of us still love working here.....I had many friends who got screwed by the Company...But please tell everyone here how you are so sure "the DM's and Managers all knew." That's a lie and you know it.
Never believe someone who posts with:
Former manager here, still in touch with B&N insiders....
My guess would be around the Fiscal year/April, if anything.
My manager told me not to read these kinda pages, because any actual SM,
would not be posting this stuff or wouldn't be lurking around if they'd left the
company.
She said it's a lot of folks posing as managers because it's upsetting to people
still employed by the company, and anonymous.
A lot of people pretend to have "inside information," but she said, in actuality, it
does not go down like that.
This was
On another thread
Former management here....
Still in touch w/ DM, corporate workers, industry insiders.
Last February affected many more than was reported to the news. Booksellers and leads didn’t see it coming. Your DM and mgrs knew. Another wave is coming soon. No severance will be included this time.Talk of bankruptcy options being discussed.
I doubt anything will happen this month (assuming there's not a sudden death/Chapter Eleven of the company). With the anniversary of Black Monday, the optics would be pretty bad, and while BN isn't known for wise business decisions, I would think they'd wait a bit before chopping another large batch of booksellers.