We have lost probably three of the best workers at our store. I know it will not be long to start feeling their absence, simply because they were the driving force behind so many things here.
What was B&N's thinking on this? Why not target unproductive employees instead of positions?
Talk about digging your own grave.
It was in a layoff it was a total firing yes I got fired as well I was a head cashier in New Jersey and one of the best in the district for getting new memberships
@kgf More expensive employees, as in, according to Barnes & Noble store standards. I know everyone in every store is/was severely underpaid and expected to do multiple people's jobs.
But corporate didn't even want to pay the HCs and RMs the little amount above minimum wage that they DID make, even if it was only a few dollars above MW. They'd been at stores longer than most people, and any company tends to fire the most hardworking and long-term employees way before they'd even consider firing rich people from corporate. That's the sad reality.
Corporate runs everything, regardless of they know anything about actual, physical stores, and they will not fire themselves and give up their giant paychecks. They're all greedy f--ktards.
It's the little guys that suffer...
Yes the "more expensive" employees, let's totally ignore the fact most of them were running around doing the work of like three people due to understaffing and NOT getting any additional compensation for it. Then those corporate vultures, who barely (at best) even understand how the stores function at ground level decided it was more expedient for them to can all the "unnecessary" full time people than to actually do their damn jobs and figure out why their business model s---s and doesn't work.
Maybe if they hadn't felt the need to pay the old CEO nearly $5 million just To Go Away, hadn't decided to hire on two new multi-million dollar executives, and weren't still paying $5 million dollar salaries to TWO former executives they wouldn't have felt the need to fire all the people make like $2 over their preferred wage.
I'm a little bitter. It's been like a day; I've gone from in shock to pissed off.
They have no idea what they're doing, so they just got rid of some employees who made more money than most other people in stores. Every plan they've tried so far has failed, so they're trying to use cost-cutting as a way to save themselves. Demos Parneros is a f---ing dumb a-- from Staples (Staples went under). And this new guy from GNC will help run Barnes & Noble further into the ground. Neither know how to run a company successfully.
They're about to start closing entire stores down. Prepare yourself.