Barnes & Noble Reviews in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Pros

Great Benefits and Wonderful Working environment

Cons

hours, pay, quality of life

Pros

Customers and co-workers are always offering new worlds to investigate for a book lover..

Cons

Employees are considered disposable. Professional dedication is not considered a valuable performance item. It is all about memberships.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop targeting senior employees for not being able to move as fast as younger employees. There is value in experience as well as moving slush quickly.

Pros

The discount, obviously, is a major pro. There's decent communication from Corporate HQ all the way down to the newest bookseller, which is something you don't really see at a lot of places. Comraderie among co-workers made the store a second home.

Cons

Employment and customer experience varies from store to store. Inflexibility of institutional sales program led to job losses. No direction announced yet for shrinking music departments.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to provide more transparency into the company's performance and Corporate's decisions. If you're going to lay people off, be honest about it as opposed to telling everyone that everything's fine and then axe 100 store positions without blinking.