Barnes & Noble – It has stolen the best years of my life. It becomes very soul crushing to watch people leave for bigger and better because BN only serves to make them hate the place, | Comparably

Barnes & Noble – It has stolen the best years of my life. It becomes very soul crushing to watch people leave for bigger and better because BN only serves to make them hate the place,

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Barnes & Noble, a multi-channel distribution platform providing access to trade books, textbooks, magazines, newspapers, and other content. read more
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It has stolen the best years of my life. It becomes very soul crushing to watch people leave for bigger and better because BN only serves to make them hate the place,

What are some of the best things about your team?

Despite hating the job, everyone still really cares for each other.

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

There is nothing positive about working at B&N, the only plus is that coworkers are usually nice.

What's going wrong and how can it be improved?

The store managers are in charge of setting up the store, but it should be left to the merchandising managers that actually know the product and what customers want.

What does the leadership team need to get better at?

The store manager is an incompetent child that wouldn’t know how to merchandise if his life depended on it. They fired anyone with any sort of experience and have never been able to bounce back from

Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?

The raise between levels of work is a joke in comparison to how much more work has to be done. From bookseller to lead it’s only $.75 raise and they want you to do. 3000x more work. Managers are about t

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Everyone is amazing

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What do you like best about the leadership team?

My managers care about us

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