Many changes ahead.. - Book Fair Consultant Scholastic Employee Review

3.0
Jul 3, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Scholastic used to be a great company to work for. They now have huge competition in the book fair division. They are now like many companies all about the bottom dollar. I was always a loyal employee but was let go for not meeting my sales numbers after 25 years with the company. My manager was great, as well as all of my co-workers. They lost a great employee when they terminated me.

Cons

some lack of communication between sales, marketing and operations. The next few years will be interesting to see how they fair against the new competition.

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Cons

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