Follett Corporation! Congrats, the company is exceeding at something.
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Nope, pretty sure I'm seeing at a minimum 200 views per post, most over 500. Woo!
Look at the number of views. On average they have 20 people looking at each comment. Very low participation for the company but a few active people. Follett is very high view rates/participation.
If they want to get rid of employees, all they have to do is offer a voluntary severance package. Many employees I know would take the severance and move on. They don't need to damage employee morale who stays, cheat long tenured employees etc.
Based on what I've heard, that is correct. I know personally of long tenured employees with fairly decent records suddenly documented or 'written up' for trivial matters. Whether or not that was part of the official 'scope' of project blue or just downward pressure is a different story. That said, like most worker bees, I depend on my salary so prefer to remain anonymous.
I'd love to find a way to talk with you about Project Blue. Specifically, what were the first steps (in Training and Development, according to your entry). Concurrent with the execution in Training and Development, management targeted long tenured employees for severe abuse. Successful employees became suddenly stupid. They were assigned to over see store departments where they had no experience and they were given no guidance on how to run the department. They were cited for over emotional reactions and their store manager claimed they couldn't work with the employee because their emotions interfered with business objectives. Does that match Project Blue, as you knew it?
Project blue was the internal name given to Follett's 'restructuring' in 2013. The aim was to provide -better- customer service through a greater focus on labor expansion during Rush season for fheg stores. This however meant 650 stores lost long term full time employees in a half assed manner. Stores affected (including top earners it should be noted) were contacted Thursday afternoon via a conference call where Paul D read in monotone the 'exciting' news followed by instructions that involved notifying security to escort terminated employees out of bookstores the following evening when they would be laid off over a teleconference call with no prior notice. They would then be -immediately- escorted off the grounds and 'invited' to reapply as part time non-salaried employees. Yes, many were given a termination package, but the hamfisted manner of carrying out the downsizing is what left many with a very bitter opinion of current leadership. Many (I am amongst them) were forced to take part in this pogrom, and it was a slap in the face for a firm that until the reign of bloody Mary began, was about treating staff with some modicum of humanity. The pay was always bad, but we took comfort in the fact we were accorded some dignity. The same 'project' appears to have then been executed across the company. It's worth noting that Project Blue actually began at the Home Office with Training and Development that previous summer. Since then though, the executioner's been busy.
What was project blue?
Follett has the most views as well meaning 1k employees reading this site.
as non-HO Management I approached Vice magazine after the Project Blue fiasco with the details but they weren't interested in that or the nepotism in hiring of execs that followed. There are those of us who will carry survivor's guilt for a very long time.
----at that one national meeting, they actually had an original song performed for us, "You're the Difference?"
That was über-stupid.
Clueless is one thing, but these folks took action to hurt the employees who cared the most for this company. They abused long term employees until the employee could be fired for cause or the employee simply quit. So, the managers who helped carry out that brutal campaign are scum. Managers who looked the other way are equally complicit. Until members of the management team step forward and expose what this company has done, they've earned the contempt of those they hurt. The scum were the only one's who made a choice. The consequence is they've grown bitter enemies who will call them names and expose them for what they are. It's not pretty. Abusing dedicated employees until they reach this point isn't pretty either. It's time to come clean management scum.
name calling is inappropriate no matter who does it. I agree that there is a serious problem with Follett management and I am very tired of some of the attitudes. I don't agree that everyone in management is a problem, but I do think there are a number of unbelievably clueless people in upper management.
Incompetent, failure, stupid,inadequate are the names slung at the workforce by the management scum. the name calling, the failure to communicate, the desire to abuse, have become hallmarks of the scumbags who run this failed company. They have stolen the sweat equity earned by long tenured employees. They have earned our disdain. Save you petty lecture for the boardroom. Follett management=scum
You need to wake up and realize that there are a lot of people dissatisfied with management. Name calling is not only immature and unprofessional, it is a symptom of why we are unhappy. Grow up. Maybe then you can try for a productive conversation.
follett sucks
They are responsible for most of the words and 100% of the inspiration (of the words they didn't actually write). Scum!
Follett can't be #1 at anything to save their lives.
Uhm this previous post looks like it maybe from mgnt. Question of the day id if mgmt believed 3 or 4 people post to this website why does Follett mgmt watch and immediately post their opinion even during Rush?
The 3 or 4 of you who actually write 90% of the posts have been putting in overtime. Congratulations!
Corinthian Colleges board has by far the most posts.