Follett Corporation, including subsidiary Follett Higher Education Group - which back in 2012 took over the University of Denver Bookstore, where I had worked for 28 years - has been sold to an investment group led by Jefferson River Capital. When the University of Denver outsourced the store, without offering alternative employment to its employees, Follett agreed to keep all bookstore staff for at least one year. And after that year was up, they got rid of everyone who was making a living wage. During the year I was there, it was just a miserable environment, and those who stayed told me it just got worse as time went on. Now that the company has been sold, and top management replaced, will things turn around for the better? Let's hope so, for the sake of all those poor saps still working there.
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