Thread regarding Barnes & Noble layoffs

p-ss-d off A LOT of customers today with the annual sell all your collectables Funko pops to the first 3-4 people ( who’s only “job” in life is to resale at 4 times the cost on e bay)
By not setting realistic limits this joke occurs constantly.
NOTHING at BN changes.

The main guy James Daunt YES will absolutely save this company. He is amazing!

“ You think these new owners are going to “save” this company?!”
That’s what those who are still working there, think !
Then ,when they lose their jobs: Theyll be angry and talk about how they’ve been wronged.
The thousands who were blindsided were wronged & have a right to be angry. If you stayed after the company that did that- you get no sympathy when it happens to you.

You think these new owners are going to “save” this company?!?!

“ For many ex employees ( their friends & families) BN is already dead. “
True ! And a lot of ex customers who couldn’t find books or magazines ,sitting in boxes, in receiving. Strict on sale books not on the shelves on release day. Dirty bathrooms, new part timers who have no book knowledge,etc.
“Doomed”?! Barnes and Noble accomplished that already.

No amount of CHANGE will save that DOOMED company.
For many ex employees ( their friends & families) BN is already dead. For those hangers on, not doing anything to save themselves, hard to feel sorry for them when they’re fired also.

The Riggios showed no brains, running the company into the ground. They showed no loyalty to the employees ,on the front lines, making the money for them. No honor.
This new company? Also shows no brains. For buying a company brand that’s been tainted and now has a reputation for treating employees & customers with disrespect. A lot of loyal customers, seeing the lack of loyalty of the company, will no longer put money in their pocket.

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Fly them all to the conference. Tell them they’re all fired. PAY THEIR BAR TAB, go to their rooms, pack their things, checkout is in TEN MINUTES. Your store’s locks and alarm codes have been changed and To recoup some of the revenue your incompetence has cost the company,Your plane tickets have been turned in for bus tickets !”

I WISH !
Then , maybe, just maybe, I’d have some respect for this hedge fund who spent all that money on a sinking( make that SUNK!) ship !
It’s like someone buying the formula for “New Coke” thinking “ if I pour money into it,all those people will come back and drink it !”

“Well, the rest of any full timers will be gone or told 2 things:

1-Hours reduced to part time
2-All benefits gone.”
First replace ALL the managers of the filthy Cafes !

“Speaking of change, the managers are freaking out because word on the street is there are BIG CHANGES coming. They won't be announced until the store manager conference this week. STAY TUNED”
Haha
Fly them all to the conference. Tell them they’re all fired. PAY THEIR BAR TAB, go to their rooms, pack their things, checkout is in TEN MINUTES. Your store’s locks and alarm codes have been changed and To recoup some of the revenue your incompetence has cost the company,Your plane tickets have been turned in for bus tickets !

Speaking of change, the managers are freaking out because word on the street is there are BIG CHANGES coming. They won't be announced until the store manager conference this week. STAY TUNED

When WATERSTONE takes over FULLY and checked store conditions, and employee stats. Well, the rest of any full timers will be gone or told 2 things:

1. Hours reduced to part time
2. All benefits gone.

This thread has BN, HOT !
We were told to not come on here and don’t pay attention that BN is “doomed”.
Hahahahahahahaha 😂😂
Keep posting the truth, my Friends !
Because Barnes and Noble CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

“We are doomed”
?!?!?!?!
TOO LATE !!!! the irreversible damage has already been done !!!!
Some company may have been foolish enough to buy it. Doesn’t mean those wronged, are foolish enough to forgive how they were treated.

“They lost a year and a half ago when they let all their seasoned employees go, who took with them all their families, friends and customers who were loyal because of the service they got from those employees. Just waiting for the implosion to happen now. Honestly I can't hardly wait for it to happen. Yep....still angry.... moved on and over it but it still pis*es me off the way they handled that whole situation. Karma is around the corner.”
Well put !
BN did not think through what went with the employees they fired. The business from friends, family AND regular customers!
I too have moved on. And I, my family , my friends, customers I became friendly with and friends of friends who’ve read it on my social media pages- NONE of us give BN , a penny anymore! Don’t care who buys it or runs it..will NEVER patronize a company that treats their foundation , long term,career employees, the way they did.

They lost a year and a half ago when they let all their seasoned employees go, who took with them all their families, friends and customers who were loyal because of the service they got from those employees. Just waiting for the implosion to happen now. Honestly I can't hardly wait for it to happen. Yep....still angry.... moved on and over it but it still pis*es me off the way they handled that whole situation. Karma is around the corner.

“To prove a point to a friend, we went to Barnes and Noble yesterday ( Saturday) . There were twelve customers ( we counted) not a single employee said hello to us. They looked miserable. Then went to our local Books A Million . We were greeted by EVERY employee we passed. The employees were laughing , interacting with customers and each other. We counted thirty one customers.
Where would you rather work?
Where would you rather shop?
you LOSE Barnes and Noble”
we ONLY shop at Books A Million !
Spend a couple hundred a month !
Barnes and WHO?!

At my BN the management team actively breaks up any time employees talk to each other. They tell us to get to work. They hate seeing us interact with each other. Some of our regulars have picked up on it. NO TEAM atmosphere at my store, Yet they can talk 15-30 minutes without doing a thing. I saw my Asst Mgr spend 25 min talking to another bookseller (Her "Buddy") at Customer Service and do nothing else. Yet there was recovery to do and magazines needed to be straighten. Yup everyone is miserable and tired of the double standard.

They will get their Karma soon. You don't spend 700 Mil on a company and keep management that can't run a profitable store.

To prove a point to a friend, we went to Barnes and Noble yesterday ( Saturday) . There were twelve customers ( we counted) not a single employee said hello to us. They looked miserable. Then went to our local Books A Million . We were greeted by EVERY employee we passed. The employees were laughing , interacting with customers and each other. We counted thirty one customers.
Where would you rather work?
Where would you rather shop?
you LOSE Barnes and Noble !

“All the people they’ve wronged ( employees and customers) will NOT return. There’s nothing they can do, to undo, the horrible treatment of career employees or the poor customer service that resulted from the desperate, greedy move to take away health care from full timers ! ”
AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY !!!!

All the people they’ve wronged ( employees and customers) will NOT return. There’s nothing they can do, to undo, the horrible treatment of career employees or the poor customer service that resulted from the desperate, greedy move to take away health care from full timers !
No moves by the new owner with deeper pockets than Let’s save a buck Riggio, can save this disgraced company.

I've been here a long long time and it's been a steady decline into stupidity. It never gets better. Something worse is always around the corner. Get out while you can.

“TOO LATE Barnes!
The way you fired thousands of loyal employees, lost the business of them, their families & their friends and how it effected customer service, you DOOMED yourself!
You’ll NEVER get those good people back !”
The once great company was doomed on February 12,2018.

TOO LATE Barnes!
The way you fired thousands of loyal employees, lost the business of them, their families & their friends and how it effected customer service, you DOOMED yourself!
You’ll NEVER get those good people back !

Even if BN drastically changes, it’s already lost a lot of previously loyal customers!
BN can “change” all they want but it will all be surface changes to deceive those remaining customers to stay.