To be announced on March 31, effective April 1. E-Commerce only.
36 replies (most recent on top)
Just checked Glassdoor reviews for follett. This site enables YOU to review the company (I recommend you post your review there). follett pays people to write positive reviews. Almost all of the fake reviews are for student jobs. Several posts from "students" saying it's a great student job.
If you were wondering the direction the company is taking rehiring. Now you know.
follett is and has been a terrible company for the past 7+ years. If they pushed the risks of shutdown onto you (by laying you off-BTW if you had PTO were you paid out for it?), look elsewhere for employment.
Meanwhile all the FHE posts on LinkedIn are career opportunity posts! “When you apply at Follett, we already consider you family.” Absolutely sickening. I’m so glad I left and am with a company that is actually taking care of its employees with emergency time off and other benefits.
BM on LinkedIn reposted a post from RM about Follett values. Everyone should comment on it. Disgusting. I’m sorry, peers. I got out a few years ago, and somehow lucked out and work at a place where they swear they’re not doing this. I hope that’s the case, and I continue to be appalled at what’s going on.
If you were laid off let your university know what sort of company they are contracted with. While RM and BF and JH publicize how the great company is responding to their customers the untold story is how they treat their employees. Diversity and inclusion what a freaking joke... If you’re still defending these people or this fractured family tale you should consider counseling.
Happened today in our store. Laid off. If your store is not a 3 , 4, or 5 you’re gone
Be interesting to see how fast the best and brightest at HO get thrown under the bus?
No stores operating, what are we paying you guys for?
Replying to lzo+147uAErE
Just been told the same and in the same situation.
Updating resume & LinkedIn ready.
Wishing you all the best!
Good Luck!
I applied for unemployment last night when I got the notification from my RM. I was told I was going to be getting more information today but I really don't care. I have updated my LinkedIn account and started looking for other positions. Obviously looking for a job right now is moot since we are pretty limited at the moment. But I'm also not waiting for SM to call me and ask me back.
Good luck applying unemployment, ides website swamped.
Follett got what they wanted. They were going to lay off a bunch of people April 1st and they used this as an excuse to get rid of everybody. Half the people laid off we'll get their jobs back. But at what cost?
After limping along for years, shrinking in an expanding economy, torturing employees with death by 1000 cuts, management caught a break. Everyone is laid off equally. The least paid might be brought back (or not). The high priced professionals are finally gone in one stroke (and it's buried by greater crisis).
Sorry , folks.
Maybe the Follett family can not accept a check this year or the overload of VPs at the home office could take a pay cut. Of course, that would mean they actually cared about their employees up in the ivory tower.
Being laid off is the same as loosing your job at Follett, you are not being called back.
Job market is not as great as they say, take it from someone who is living it right now.
Stores that are closed for business, all except salaried are played off until store reopens.
Completely understand this, every company is doing the same.
Unemployment helps but it’s not what you’re making it sound like. I’ve been on unemployment before and what I previously made in 2.5 days is what I got paid for two weeks. The job market is being flooded and sure, managers might be able to hire people back in a month or two or three but really, who would want to go back knowing what awaits them? And when those job requisitions open, they’re going to be at the bottom of the pay scale. Watch how the powers that be are going to use this to permanently close stores and “restructure” others the way they wanted to previously but it was going to be a legal nightmare. Now with stores that have only one person on the payroll, they can make the org charts look any way they want with no repercussions and tens of thousands of people looking for work that won’t know any better. There were other options that didn’t require these layoffs but none that gave the company the freedom to make sweeping changes after the fact like this one does. Hell, this layoff was probably code named “Reset Button”.
There is life beyond Follett!
Follett used to be a good, maybe a great place to work!
Remember We value each and every associate?
Now it's just a job and you work for a family whose greed it the company motto. This is not the end of the world.
In each end, there is a new beginning and each new beginning there is end.
Have faith in yourself. YOU made Follett great. YOU used to be appreciated.
Find a new place where YOU will be valued and it ain't Follett!
People First indeed. In times of trouble the true values of an organization rise to the surface and become visible for all to clearly see. Follett values in action FY20 style, close all stores and lay off everyone. Don’t borrow from your division that is booming in to stand by your loyal staff. Don’t offer assistance in any way to hourly people who may be immediately impacted by this. Instead, from their million dollar homes, Ken and Barbie are all over social media, selling great offers to customers during this unusual time. Congratulations worker bees, this is who you have been loyal to and defending as they make decision after decision that does not consider you.
You are not losing your job. You're being laid off. You can file for unemployment. It's temporary, not permanent.
My friend, you sound s–c-dal. Please call the s–c-de line for help. I know these are stressful, trying times. But not worth not going on. Things will get better. Your job does not define who you are. People care. Please get help.
Feeling a lot stress and despair. Between this and the way the world is going, I feel like I can’t go on. If SM’s end up loosing their jobs not sure I will make it emotionally and financially. At that point it will be the end of the road for me.
If your store is a status 2 store and the SM is still working, will the the salaries SM be laid off too?
the last poster had it right; if you are hourly, be it part time or full time, and your situation was on a closed campus, even if you are filling online orders, you will be affected, this comes from Jhat and co. Stores which remain open are unaffected at this time; salaried employees will have to work through some as of yet un-established network to keep up to date as the VPN cannot handle the load of the whole of the home office being at home and regionals in the field. This impacts all locations in shelter in place states.
Salaried SM are required to report to work. Full-time and part-time employees laid off until the stores open back up. All the work that is gonna build up. Sigh* Half the clothing department is being marked up.
Not just part-timers. All full-time and part-time hourly staff are laid off until the universities open back up for business.
Okay, so what happens to the stores that are fully shut down in that case—aka, can’t even come in to work while closed to public? RM’s have to drive to each store to collect keys from SM’s, then the store sits empty with nobody going into it? Sounds unlikely.
All part timers ‘temporarily’ laid off until further notice. Going to unemployment tomorrow.
100% of staff laid off at any store that is not currently open to the public.
What exactly was said on RM conference call this afternoon?
Ah but they did.
What conference call? No way the RM’s would leak that to store managers this early.
You say unimaginable but you weren’t on the conference call with an RM this afternoon. Brace yourselves. Good luck. I feel for you all.
Someone’s trolling. Not all stores are closing. The legal fallout would be unimaginable.
the contract fallout and litigation fees would be a nightmare. While I wouldn't put anything past the jackals at this point, a little alliteration goes a long way.
The OP should say where they heard it or the admins should delete this post.
I doubt someone knows this for sure and is leaking it here, but would anyone be surprised? This is death of Follett’s stores.
Source?