assistant store manager

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Follett Corporation

I would go to many universities in Quebec ,Ontario and The Maritimes at the begining and end of every semester. I would deal with book store mananger to develop quantities of books needed. I would set up computer enter in quantities buy for book store and Follett wholesaler as well. I would buy used books from the students give them cash(great incentive). I would balance funds at the end of buy prepare reports confirm shipping for books,organize shipping and then travel to next location. Length of buys varied from a few days to five weeks. This taught me networking with managers, report classification, balancing of funds, while being completely autonomuus. Field support was always one phone call away. I was usually able to work through any unforseen circumstances, thinking quick on my feet and being resourceful.

On paper the company looks great, however once you start, you will notice that there is a lot of work that needs to be done to make sure that everyone gets the training they need to succeed. There is little to no training on how the computer systems work and if there is any training on anything, it is usually a training module from 10 years ago that is outdated and will not go over the way the systems have been updated today, so you are forced to figure things out on your own without a clue on what to do correctly. Benefits are pretty good but you are better off finding benefits outside of what they can offer here. 

I was hired as temp worker for the busy season. It was however not communicated to me that the busy season would last all but two weeks. I was called in for 4 days despite giving complete availability and never called back again. I wasnt even given a way to contact the manager and was expected to show up as told. Every time I came in, a new person who wasn't trained and didnt know what they were doing was there. So why did they hire so many people if they clearly needed none of us?? Management was also a mess. Never knew what needed to be done or what jobs to give all the workers they hired. Terrible place that taught me nothing and an absolute waste of my time.

Love the students , and  staff of niagara college.


The training provided at this place was severely deficient in terms of hands-on experience. They relied heavily on outdated videos and binders for learning, which made it quite challenging to fully understand and grasp the job requirements.

It was really disheartening that whenever we had questions, we were met with indifference or even rudeness. It created a negative learning environment and made it challenging to seek guidance and clarification.


The management seems to be petty towards staff and HR was offsite and offered little to no help.



Management cares less about the employees and their concerns, they never regard students working for them. They are lots of gossips going on between employees and management, no understanding, racism is on-going in this place, I had a bad experience. You don't get enough shift to pay up your bills and the management doesn't care. I believe the ideal language at a work place is English, but the full time employees speak bad of someone who they know doesn't understand their language, and when you complain you get mocked at.

We had really good managers at first and an amazing team dynamic but when they all quit, Follett brought in new managers from other stores they have. These managers were terrible and completely ruined our the dynamic between employees. They threaten to fire you, yell at you, and expect you to do the impossible.

Overall, it was not a bad experience working at the Uwinnipeg bookstore while going to University. I was hired as a seasonal worker to help with peak hours usually during the start of terms. At my time, there was an excellent store manager and she was quite friendly. I heard, later on, that she is not working anymore at the same location. The job was not hard at all. Usually, you are Stocking books or reorganizing the bookshelf.  however, when it gets busy then you jump on to cash tills to assist.

Outstanding support from management and other Follett employees globally.
My typical day was managing my assigned territory of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and North West Ontario. I visited schools, specifically library staff, IT staff, administrators and department coordinators. Our job as Educational consultants was to promote the library software application called Destiny, support, and sell new book titles to  school libraries.

If it wasn’t for the people I worked with I may not have lasted that long. 
The work is long but easy, but when things go wrong follett is fast to brush it off and you’re left trying to fend for yourself. 
Recent change in the hiring process makes it difficult to know what’s going on. When training material doesn’t work the help number doesn’t help. 
But my manager and some of my coworkers are the reason I continue to work for Follett.

Even though it was seasonal, it wouldn't count as seasonal. They recruited 10-11 people just for 2 weeks. The work environment was really enjoyable but they didn't even notify us properly that we're done. Sent an email containing schedule without the name of the people who wouldn't be required to next week. And that's how we got to know we're terminated!

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