Anyone want to share where they may or may not have hid their "stash", I would be shocked if a lot of employees didnt "find" some product for themselves at the very end when it went down to a dollar ( Read more... )

So how long do ya' think this board will remain active? Certainly a great place to vent but now that the company is OOB it all seems kind of moot.

Borders Books - R.I.P.

It's Over.  Just lock the doors. 
The landlord wants the lights left on.

LATE UPDATE:   Barnes and Noble appears to have acquired Borders.com internet business and other intellectual property.  Click here for report.

According to a report on  Ann Arbor.com  Borders has filed with the bankruptcy court a motion seeking court approval to pay Mike Edwards and his top three cronies $125,000 each bonus.

The final insult.   Such a disugsting company.  Such disgusting low-life people.  They have no shame.

Ok well it seems its close to the end with all the 90% off signs and the "fake" 4 days left weekend over. So whats the timeline ( Read more... )

Hey everyone.

So I've moved twice since the begining of this year and when I started to collect my things for unenployment I realized I can't find any of my old W2 copies. Does anyone have a copy of the website they used to hang in the back where we could go to get another? Anybody else run into the same problem?

Borders employee sues company.

Details here:  http://news.yahoo.com/ex-employee-sues-borders-over-mass-layoffs-233100427.html

We'll see if anything comes of this.

I finished killing the computers, servers, thin clients and network that rand the California Distribution Center.  The building is empty, all that is left is the empty racks and machinery and the liquidators.  It's all over.

Citizens Financial Group would like to reach out to former employees of Borders and encourage them to apply to retail banking positions at our two brands, Citizens Bank and Charter One Bank.

We operate in 12 states (NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, DE, PA, OH, MI, IL) so many Borders ex-employees are probably already familiar with us.

Because we are ( Read more... )

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