So how did everyone's rush go?????? Mine was cr-p.
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It just proves that JRC is not interested in saving this company or they would be getting rid of the current executive team. Starting with EK, RP, SB, BM. They are all running this business into the ground. And it's not the industry. In the pass 2 years, there have been several companies that have entered into the industry. Which all have found a different path and do not claim to be a retailer. I knew we were doomed as soon as I heard SB call us a department store that just happens to sell textbooks. And you have seen where that thinking has gotten us. AGAIN - WE ARE NOT TRADITIONAL RETAIL!!!!!!!
Wow. Getting VOLUNTEERS!??!? I am sorry, but I would never do that just to bail JRC out. They won't lower themselves to come and actually work in a store to help out.
I would have just done what I could and when students and instructors start to complain, give them the email to your RM, GVP, or someone higher up at corporate. This is in NO way the bookstore manager's fault that there is not enough help. This is 100% on follett and JRC.
Volunteers.... judas h christmas..... *insert eye roll here
If you want to do charity work you would be better off lending a hand at the local homeless shelter or food pantry rather than help the wealthy JRC LLC investors make more money.
Just saying.
If I was in charge of the school and had to get students to volunteer to help at the bookstore because the Ivory Tower are a bunch of cheap a-s people and cut payroll so there was no help you better believe I would be sending them a bill for labor . I've heard some schools are going to take over the bookstores and work with the publishers to supply there books.
Maybe the new standard from the Ivory Tower?
Cut labor dollars more with the expectation that talented managers will get the school to provide free labor to the store.
More profit for JRC LLC investors!
probably the worst one yet in all my years with Follett.
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WOW, so free labor from the school so the big shots in the Ivory Tower can get their big paychecks and bonuses?
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
My campus contact was a great help for rush! He convinced ten from the school to volunteer and help us with shelving, bagging, and receiving! That left cash for me to handle with a student or two. Sales and comfort . Great team effort. They will be available for shipping texts as well!
Cr-p
Payroll for higher ups will always be there. They will just cut more hours on the store level- you know, the ones that actually MAKE the money for the higher ups.
I think they just keep hiring people looking for a genie in a bottle that will magically make everything better with just a blink.
Guess what, it isn't working. There is no such thing as a genie. Just throw in the damn towel already and put us out of our misery. I don't work for the higher ups to make a cr-p ton of $ and get bonuses they don't deserve.
But hey, here's a pizza party...ope... just kidding...here are the scraps from the corporate pizza party...
It just amazes me how the leadership of this company are still employeed. It is just a damn shame what they are being allowed to do to this company. We too will soon be the likes of sears, kmart and other retailers of the past. What a embarrassment this executive leadership team is. I did see that we added another VP. If payroll is such an issue, why another VP? Folks running the stores can't take a lunch or go to the bathroom, but hey, we have enough payroll for another VP.