Thread regarding Follett layoffs

I was let go on the 20th of March thanks to all this c-ap. The store I was at had been training a new manager & the one who was filling in (cool person by the way) had let me know ahead of all this that the campus was closing to the public. It took me two weeks to hear from the RM & another week to get my "hey thanks for everything, but we're letting you go" letter. Shame, cause I actually enjoyed the people I worked with.

BS hours, BS wages. I'm glad I'm out & I hope this pandemic drags the company to hell.

If you've been laid off and management is calling you, they're asking you to consult. Consultants get paid. They get paid a premium because the company doesn't incur any employee payroll taxes. Mark up your wage, and offer to sell them the information they want. Oh, you may want them to waive their non-disclosure agreement. Seeing as you're going to be sharing information you learned on the job and all.

The appropriate thing for you to do is forward their request to the HR person you are directed to ask any questions... My former manager keeps calling me with questions, how should I respond?

@5zfi+149wyLI4 I agree. SM called to ask me a question I only know the answer and I played dumb. I'm not getting paid so figure it out.

@5zfi+149wyLI4 agree 100%. RM or GVP will give all that are left ALL the answers. They are the best and the brightest!
You owe Follett NOTHING.
NOTHING!
Hopefully the family will keep as many of the useless folks on the payroll as long as possible.
Watch their dividend checks flow into the pockets of those that never generated a dime for the company! Ha Ha Ha!

If you get called with questions about how to do something, you should not provide an answer, as difficult s as that may be for you. You’re not getting paid, you technically don’t with for Follett right now, don’t do it for free. Direct all inquiries back to the Regional Manager.

If we are out until the end of April, and if we are even offered a job at that time, the amount of work piled up will be enormous. SM will be trying to do everything but there is no way to keep up. What happens when thouaands of rental books start getting shipped back? Who checks them in? Incoming receiving? CT? GM? EOY? The SM knows basics but not details of most tasks. What if he calls me with questions?

In response to an earlier question...

While I didn’t ask about the grand scheme of things, when I specifically asked about myself, my RM said I wouldn’t lose my seniority (I just made 5 years), nor would I lose my pay. He didn’t have an answer as to how we would be rehired, but that home office was working on a process to get us back in the system after the orders were lifted and we were able to reopen.

Not surprisingly, but the SM left in charge has already reached out about how to do something. It’s really tough trying to remain a “friend” or team player when you don’t feel as valued as you should.

manager at my store barely knows how to log in to fill orders. Follett is a nightmare and they deserve to get flamed for how they’re handling this.

When you login to ESS. Go to legacy HR. Look at your personal profile. It should say suspended. If we were truly fired, it would say Terminated.

You can access ESS, you just have to do it as an alumni. https://my.adp.com/ registration code: FollettHCM-ess (case sensitive)

If we weren't fired, just laid off, why can't we access ESS anymore? If we want to come back, do we have to reapply and lose any seniority we had and get paid a lower wage?

Meanwhile home office folks continue to try putting lipstick on a pig and claim this was necessary and had to happen. Not to mention the every 2 hour recruitment posts being put up to hire new people. It’s sickening.

I was let go yesterday. I put nothing past this dreadful company and I’m looking elsewhere. I put no stock in their claims that they may take people back.

"the amount of work that is going to be piled up almost makes me not want to go back."

Told my SO today that it would easier to stay fired than go back because we won't have any employees but 2 managers and 1 Team lead. (The team lead being completely useless.) The amount of product waiting at FedEx, markups... just hope our team members want to come back because I dislike hiring people.

I’m at a store that’s within a multi-unit. With the recent organizational shift I went from an SM to an ASM and now I am subsequently laid off. The relatively new interim SM is expected to travel 20+ miles between campuses because they’re the only one left. Exceptions should have been made for multi-units and stores over a certain sales tier because the amount of work that is going to be piled up almost makes me not want to go back.

Per the call we had with our RM yesterday, this is only until we're allowed to reopen based on those state-specific circumstances. No employees (except for temps) were actually terminated in the system. FT and PT team members are still active in the system, they just can't work. They're temporarily laid off, but not fired. They're telling all these people to apply for unemployment, and Follett will accept all of those requests.

This could all change but that was the situation as of yesterday.