Final Daze with Handleman

Just thought I would chime in with ya'll from up in da great white north once again. It's been a while.

First I must say - HOLY COW!! Lynette??!!!!?? It's sooooooooooo nice to hear from you!!

And as some of you may have figured out from my totally awesome subject...I am in my last days with Handleman. Ok...let's all say it again...Haaaanndlemaaaaaaannnnn. :) Got the news today - my last day is May 5. (Dang...I haven't even told my parents yet) The outlook for HDL is not good at all. Hopefully they have a little bit more of a clue as to how to make money with this "plan". It certainly will not be with selling stock. Ooooouch! Low blow :)

Lynette was right when she said we are a family. In our own quirky little way, we are! Over the past 2 years it has not been that way. They stopped caring about making the employees happy right around the time they made us stand up and applaud the new reps logo. (ahhh - good times...c'mon - who doesn't remember thinking "they're gonna call us what?!) Let's see...what happened 2 years ago? Oh that's right - "we" bought reps. And Patrice knew better and headed inland towards Chicago & Dyson. (is she hiring by the way?)

A few of the people I know are gone or are being laid off - Mark Brechler (done 3-28), Toni Popilek (done last week), Steve Young (done last week), Rich Mont (done last week). I'm sure it will be an interesting week next week to see who's stayin & who's leavin.

That's all for now. I will certainly direct people to this site!! It's so great to see info from all the goofy people I used to work with. And even those goofy people I don't know :)

Jeff Seymour

EAST COAST CHIMES IN FINNALY

Hi Everyone,

It is great to see the pictures and hear how everyone is doing. I am fine living the dream in Detroit in the Automotive Industry as a marketing analyst hoping to get back into training and development. I think of all of you as family and even have more photo albums with you all than of my own family! I am still trying to find the job that has the same level of great people like you all are. Hope to hear from you.
Ex-SFA trainer
Lynette
lkreich@sbcglobal.net

yeah ! robert i remember

I remember they had the rolling bars in the banquet rooms. beers and jack daniels o.k. maybe I was the only one drinking jack. I remember the girl that fell in the bathtub with the beer and ice in it. i actually have a picture of that but cant post it . or eating those runny eggs when already feel like throwing up. I talk with dennis powell about this stuff all the time. even though it was political i still loved that job. this job opened alot of doors to get me backstage.you would be surprised who i hung out with .i'll post some of those pics.talk to you soon.

no worries

ok guys i'm not going to put any incriminating pics up but if you did something wrong who's at fault:) so l.a. branch is closed? thats to bad .my son is 16 and already has a heavy metal band. and he is touring. i told him if he gets famous to buy me a golf course. got my fingers crossed.still looking for more pictures,talk to you guys soon. ps, denise said she spoke with willy feliciano if anybody remembers him.

Another sad week...

As I'm sure everyone has heard by now, this week has seen another rash of layoffs at Handleman/REPS. I'm not sure there are more than a couple of people left that I still know. The stock has been officially delisted...just a really bad week.

Those of you who check in here once in a while - please help spread the word about our little blog so we can maybe stay in touch with this latest group of X-HDL folks, okay?

I can say all the platitudes - "it'll all work out for the better", "more opportunities ahead", blah blah blah; but right now it sucks.

It was mentioned in an email earlier today about a 'Las Vegas' reunion...while I LOVE that city, I'm not sure it's centrally located for the majority of our folks. I'm thinking Minneapolis this summer... :-D

Pam

Head Ache

Okay big jimmie those pictures are bringing back some really good and some really painful memories, the Alcohol and Aspirin meetings from the days gone by. We should have sold sun glasses for the morning after.
Now anyone from the east side (coast) want to contribute!
We know your out there!
Come guys and gals have some fun share!!!!!!
Robert Attanasio