There is an old Japanese saying that goes "The Nail That Stands up Gets Hammered Down." Remember that you work here at their discretion. That's not a threat, the rest of us also work at the discretion of a bunch of incompetent toadies, but there are... — read more 

Age and handicap discrimination, I don't blame the Store Managers...It's the CEOs at the top.

Hello All, A long time ago in management 101 we were taught about the dangers of group-think and how a corporate culture can miss the blatantly obvious at times and stand amazed at the fact that they didn't see what everyone else did. The phrase... — read more 

I'm not here to trash Follett. Instead, I need help from one of the Follett Old Timers who may be reading this board, who wouldn't mind anonymously answering. Forever and ever, Follett has always bought all the new editions that come out. You know... — read more 

would someone explain all the "kmart" references? I've delved into this board's complaints, hoping to find the correlation through my backtracking, but still don't understand. Is the CEO of Follett someone from Kmart or something like that?

https://www.follett.com/about-leadership They've got about 2 years total experience in this business combined...bunch of tools

I thought this board was for laid off Follett employess. Looks like there are many posting that are still employed. The massive lay off in November of 2013 we were told we could NOT post or say anything negative about the company. So as long as you... — read more 

We need to flood Follett boards directors mail with threats that we will go to the media if they do not hear our complaints. I plan on sending a letter with my real name and address to the board this week. I have also talked with a lawyer and there... — read more 

When you have gotten rid of people and can't prove they have committed misconduct through your own lack of competence, through your own lies, etc....just drop it after the first round. You idiots make the company look bad pursuing frivolous matters!... — read more 

Follett gives zero f***s about your loyalty. You will either be laid off or the school kicks out Follett and then everyone is out of a job. It's a lose lose either way. Leave now before you are escorted out. And if you think because you are in a big... — read more 

When are the CMM's going to be cut? I'm a new CMM having started late last year and this centralization of CM tasks--the spreadsheets, forecasts, etc., make me feel like I do not have a future in this company. Anyone heard anything?

This company has turned into one unethical pile of shit! I am ashamed to admit I even worked there.

Of hiring all of the Kmart/Sears rejects... should the stores prepare themselves for "blue light specials"? and hiring celebrities that were famous long before most of us were born and have since faded out of the limelight to promote our products?

I do not know how managers like LV have made it as long as they have in this company. All they do is piss on their associates and managers and yell when they don't even know what us going on. She can't even turn off the store alarm much less open the... — read more 

I WILL BUY YOUR TEXTBOOKS, at the Follett Rate + 25% commission! I'm an independent buyer, NOT affiliated with Follett. With all the "issues" (changes, closings, layoffs), there are undoubtedly stores with overstock and you are probably scrambling... — read more 

Enough is enough. Time to stop chatting and stand up. Monday April 18th is the day that our field and home office employees stand up. Let's send a simple yet clear message that it's time that our innumerous amount of VP'S stop and listen. At exactly... — read more 

When is everyone going to have guts enough to stand up and fight back instead of cowering behind this board????

The repeated failures of course materials centralization have not deterred the army of window lickers (read; VP legion) at the home office whom, having heard Google became wealthy through the mastering of algorithms, decided to press ahead with their... — read more 

The last announcement said the two new VP's were replacements for old VP's that were laid off. Looks like ML is learning what we in the business already knew - the new IT was not working. Failed POS, ecommerce and on and on.

Do you think we'll be declaring bankruptcy within next 24 months?

Never let it rest until your bad is your worse, and your worse is your worst. Thx DG, right on target

It takes senior level professionals to get things half way right and get details together (although it takes forever). Shameful. Seems like HR and leadership should be trained as phenomenal gate keepers. You messed up and we all know it. It's... — read more 

Well whadya know- a new VP named today. Anyone want to take a stab at his most previous place of employment?? This is becoming laughable!

Just curious, haven't seen any posts on how the mobile POS is doing. By now, it should be paying for itself right? How's the back office project going?

College to Take Over Management of Book Store Posted April 3rd, 2015 at 11:05 am. The College will once again manage its own bookstore beginning in May 2015, right after graduation. “An independent store will provide better service to meet the... — read more 

The course materials department being fixed and making money is about as real as the seven dollar bill. They are worse off than ever.... and look at the management team have... one went to school studying agricultural engineering, the other speaks... — read more 

I wonder much longer the senior leadership team thinks they can keep on fooling us about how well the company is doing... when we all know its sinking faster than quick sand???? Do they seriously think they have a bunch naive, gullible 3 years old... — read more 

Where to begin... for starters great way to begin another new year already in the red... but then its been like that for the past 5 years so we should be use to it. Oh wait the so called "talent" you have working at the company have been there for... — read more 

Mary- wake up and help us out. We are getting our butt kicked and yet we continue to have the northeast marketing Rep live in The Midwest. Keep your head in the sand until we lose half of our market.

You may have heard, but the new leadership team (DG, ML, TH etc) calls themselves the A team/players (and not surprisingly the existing Follett team as something less). When I worked at Follett they used to have 360 annual reviews. Based on the... — read more 

With FY16 beginning the process of assigning FHEG stores their budgets is in high gear. A curious phenomenon has been observed this year, at least for my area. From those I've spoken with, whether or not you hit the targeted sales set out in FY15... — read more 

Do yourself a favor and stop what you are doing and update it today. New year will mean many changes in resources. If you are in shared services of any type - this is the year for changes. BE PREPARED.

More home office employees pushed and removed. Long termers with more to come.

I don't know why you store managers are working so hard to get your shrink numbers down. It's not like you all will be receiving your bonus. Hell you'll be lucky if you're still a Follett employee come April 1st. HA!

Where there is no vision, the people (company) will perish. We are not talking about management slogans like manage up, manage down and others but a solid vision that employees can drive forward with.

Michael Huseby, Barnes & Noble’s CEO, said in a statement that spinning off the company’s college arm “will create an industry-leading, pure-play public company with more flexibility to pursue strategic opportunities in the growing educational... — read more 

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Hey why not get a new company name in honor of the new fiscal year? Like "Fmart" (in honor of Kmart) or "Fears" (in honor of Sears) or Follett Max ( in honor of Office Max).... why not since we hired all there useless talents?