A lot of has been made about the retail staff at Barnes and Noble but anyone have any experience with the corporate staff? We briefly had an individual from corporate acting as our cluster leader but he left the position for personal reasons seemed okay but didn’t have the experience to deal with the losers at our store and I think he knew he could not do much for us without major changes to our staff so he left. Does Barnes have a good corporate culture, is it cut throat do they hire well and generally what do they think of the retail staff?
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Corporate is the worst. They either have no clue or intentionally make decisons that sabotage the company. Our regional manager is a useless, vindictive witch who should have been fired decades ago. Everyone hates her. To make matters worse, she hires and promotes other bad managers who spend more time gossiping, reading trashy magazines when they're not on their cellphones all day long and then when they come out of the office, yell at the hard working skeleton staff. I've always wondered why they manage to drive the smart managers and employees away and promote the worst.
And I think it's funny that new hires are complaining about the pay. The smart ones quit quickly though when they realize this company is impossible to work for.
The corporate stooges I know think they know it all and have nothing but contempt for the store staffs.