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also i cant believe the company spends money on monthly (monthly!) secret shoppers who grade us on whether or not we say thank you or have 3 cheesecakes per plate or write names on cups or whatever but they cant keep loyal employees who do actual work around
“A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” - Jerry Seinfeld
Sadly, the people of corporate Barnes & Noble are not thinking and laid off hundreds of full time, hard working employees.
The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble
“Whether the Andrea Gail rolls, pitch-poles, or gets driven down, she winds up, one way or another, in a position from which she cannot recover. Among marine architects this is known as the zero-moment point – the point of no return.” –Sebastian Junger, “The Perfect Storm”
Posts like this aren’t my usual fare, but there’s a lot of readers on Tumblr. So y’all might be interested – or, if not, you really should be.
On Monday, this went down:
That’s the bloodless, matter-of-fact, ho-hum business event way of describing it. Let me paint you a different picture.
On Monday morning, every single Barnes & Noble location – that’s 781 stores – told their full-time employees to pack up and leave. The eliminated positions were as follows: the head cashiers (those are the people responsible for handling the money), the receiving managers (the people responsible for bringing in product and making sure it goes where it should), the digital leads (the people responsible for solving Nook problems), the newsstand leads (the people responsible for distributing the magazines), and the bargain leads (the people responsible for keeping up the massive discount sections). A few of the larger stores were able to spare their head cashiers and their receiving managers, but not many.
Just about everyone lost between 3 and 7 employees. The unofficial numbers put the total around 1,800 people.
People.
We’re not talking post-holiday culling of seasonal workers. This was the Red Wedding. Every person laid off was a full-time employee. These were people for whom Barnes & Noble was a career. Most of them had given 5, 10, 20 years to the company. In most cases it was their sole source of income.
There was no warning.
But it gets worse.
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At least 17 friends or co-workers got laid off today and just reading the thread about Barnes and Noble in Twitter made me cry. I’ve been out of the company for almost a year and the 18 years I was there was filled with ups and downs but it’s heartbreaking to see people who were the store’s best resources get unceremoniously fired without a word of warning. And it’s like, it doesn’t affect me personally, I shouldn’t take it so hard, but my heart physically aches for everyone all over the country who went to work today and found out they weren’t going to have a job anymore
I’ve been at my store for 9 years. We’re all like family to each other. We care about each other, we look after each other, we babysit each other’s kids…
Yesterday they let go a man with a pre-existing condition so now he’s just lost his healthcare. Another man who has been with our store since the doors opened. A woman who has worked a collective 25+ years with the company. A woman who survived breast cancer and just lost her mother a few weeks ago. And a man who has a baby on the way.
There was no warning. Just an email with a list of names. Effective immediately. The store manager was vomiting and a complete wreck. The other managers were emotionally shot by the end of the day. Meanwhile my coworkers and I were sobbing through our shifts, unable to stop thinking about what this meant for the people who were let go, worrying about what they’re going to do now. Angry that the company would repay their loyalty, their hard work, and their commitment to the company with the most heartless firings imaginable.
And given how this was handled by corporate, we not only now know they don’t give a shit about us and we’re all just numbers, but now we know at any minute there could be another email with our names on it.
I wept through yesterday, and today I can’t even cry anymore. Just emotionally shot. This was so wrong and disgusting. And my heart breaks for my fellow booksellers nationwide. Those who lost their jobs unfairly and disrespectfully, and those who still have their jobs but now have to live with this.
Corporate caused so much hurt and anger today and I can promise you they don’t care. If yesterday confirmed anything, it’s that they don’t give a shit about us. We’re all just numbers. Not humans with lives and families we need to support.
Eat the rich.
Barnes & Noble Laid Off Hundreds of Employees
https://www.wsj.com/articles/barnes-noble-cuts-jobs-following-poor-holiday-season-1518538613
I have never had a strong social media presence, or actively used tumblr. However, I’m hoping that as many people as possible find out what B&N has done. On Monday, February 12th full time receiving managers, digital leads, and head cashiers were told they were laid off with no prior warning. Many great people lost their jobs because of corporate greed and stupidity. Great customer service was the only thing that set B&N apart from online shopping, and now that is gone. For the part time employees left behind, they will have to do double the work with low morale, knowing this company does not care about its employees and knowing there is very little room to move up in the store.
Do not become upset with the store managers, employees or local stores, but show Barnes & Noble how much they screwed up with your dollars and your voices on social media.
I will miss my coworkers, and I will miss loving a company that I work for.
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/02/13/barnes-noble-confirms-job-cuts-expects-40-million-in-cost-savings.html?__twitter_impression=true
Barnes and Noble: Our sales are down. What can we do? employees: maybe cut back on corporate pay, decrease spending on new signage and secret shoppers, invest in better website design, reduce part-time positions so we can bring back full-time section specialists to handsell-- B&N: LET'S FIRE EVERYONE WHO UNBOXES BOOKS employees: no, wait B&N: EXTRA POINTS IF THEY'VE WORKED HERE TEN YEARS OR LONGER employees: that fixes literally nothing B&N: THEN WE'LL TELL EVERYONE IT'S AMAZON'S FAULT, GIVE OURSELVES MILLION DOLLAR BONUSES, AND CALL IT A DAY employees:
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