Given the chaotic situation in this company now, I can’t even imagine that this company used to care about people. That would be my question for those who are long time employees here - have you ever felt respected and valued here? If there was any respect for people before, there is certainly no trace of it now.
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BN never cared and never will. I was a receiver and this horrible assistant manager at my old store made me climb to the top of a ladder, then reach farther up to remove 50 pound boxes for shipping. I should have put a stop to it right there, called OSHA, something. But that store is now closed and the people are spread out at other stores. Karma works in wonderful ways. One employee claimed he was transferring to another store nearby. I have not seen him at any of the stores in the area. Hopefully he got fired for being the slacker that he is. And yeah, somehow this guy made it through every round of layoffs since 2018. Down with BN, Daunt, Riggio. You all deserve to be fired without cause.
Companies don't care. They can't. They are not people. People care. The people who own the company have changed. The people the new owners picked to run the company have changed.
Should they care about you? They haven't met you. It's like caring about some kid in Zimbabwe you've never seen even though you bought clothes that he made himself. They probably care about getting paid so they don't lose their jobs. They care about the people they report to, and the people they talk to immediately under them. Everyone else? It's not really their job. Other people are hired to care about that, all the way down. You are paid to care about your own little kingdom too, even if it's part time at a notch above minimum wage. Do you care about the owners and CEO? Invite them out to birthday parties? Of course you don't. You don't even live in the same area code, and don't know them from Adam, Shiva, or Muhammed. If your immediate superiors and colleagues don't care about you, well maybe it's their problem. It's definitely yours.
CARE is such a specific word. A better question would be, has the company ever treated employees decently?
Looking back, more so when books were actually selling and B&N was a place to regularly visit, managers were nicer and corporations weren't only about pleasing the investors! The Regional Manager wasn't a backstabbing B and the store managers didn't scheme with them to get people to quit.
But all the pleasantries have gone to he-l over the decades. Back then, you didn't have to beg and then get denied to get time off. You weren't threatened you'd lose your job if you didn't sell 5 rip-off member cards a day. You didn't get snapped at for the d-mbest things. Believe it or not, it was a more decent place to work.
Now, you'd have to be really desperate to put up with the as-----s in charge.