Left Staples 3 months ago for a better opportunity, love my new career path. Though it literally took about 2 months to get over the effects of the micromanagement endured during my 2 years working at Staples doing sales. My new coworkers had to... — read more 

New York: Stefan Kaluzny has made a ton of money—and drawn his share of critics—buying down-on-the-heels retailers using lots of debt. Now, Kaluzny’s Sycamore Partners is under scrutiny again, after completing a deal that left even seasoned... — read more 

Best of luck

So Staples kicks me to the curb and the new inside sales rep calls me for help on an account ! HELLO DIP-Sh– figure it out yourself ! How do you call me with “hello with the new restructure I have questions and need some help”. Call your... — read more 

I was at Staples Canada head office in Richmond Hill, Ontario for close to 15 years. For the most part, it was a pretty nice place to work...they actually seemed to care about their employees. They had their issues, but figured I'd stay there until... — read more 

I see comments about playing golf, poor management, etc.. I get it, the list can go on and on about how employees feel about their manager. When the dust settles and these "poor managers" as some call them have their ticket pulled and that last... — read more 

I remember back when Tom Stemberg was still in charge, it was great back then in the '90s and early 2000s, then when Ron took over and CE was purchased that is when the spiral started. 0001110110111 0000111111001 0110110000011 Who knows maybe... — read more 

Why do I feel like I have checked myself in to a looney bin that gives me a paycheck to stay and act like everything is fine?

I have a premonition that I will be laid off, and honestly, and I’m more than scared, but I comfort myself that it won’t be a big pity. That’s why I’m in the process of job hunting and I’m interested in whether someone from Staples moved to Amazon? I... — read more 

Tried to reach my manager this morning for help with an account. The guy answers the phone and I can hear someone talking in the background about tee times and who is up first. Then he quickly says "call — and see if he can help you, I'm... — read more 

Is anyone have problems with their access card to get in the building? Weird, left for lunch and can't get back in the building. I called my manager but just get v/m. It's not odd for him to never answer or return phone calls. But I have never... — read more 

Get ready. Don’t be shocked when they come for you.

WB Mason, Office Depot, Grainger and other supply chain provides have staff out making sales calls working hard to bring business in, capitalize on neglected Staples opportunities while BIG RED (STAPLES) sales staff is sitting on a worthless TEAM... — read more 

Lets do the math. 12/10/2015 Sycamore acquires Belk, INC. We all know the store where the majority of Americans purchased school clothes in the fall. So fast forward to Jan 26, 2021 just under 6 years later and what do we have now???? Anyone wanna... — read more 

Anyone have a manager who makes fun of you but in a cruel way? My manager mocks my speech, I have told him constantly that I want him to stop but he says he’s just playing with me. It’s even escalated to where he does it in front of coworkers and I’m... — read more 

Let's all face reality. Sandy Douglas provides nothing more than lip services to staff in hopes of keeping this sinking ship afloat. My thoughts.... gut the worthless upper management first that do nothing more than conduct worthless meetings... — read more 

Any news on what is happening over at Staples Canada, specifically around SBA? Marketing and Merchandising have been merged together (no news on layoffs yet) - but what is happening to the rest of SBA, especially sales? Do we think they could fold in... — read more 

After promoting myself to customer and getting a job in a similar but different industry I can say I don't miss Staples. When I left my boss was even wanting to leave all he does is worry and cover shifts for people who can't make it in that... — read more 

If it helps, there IS life after Staples! I was let go last year, the last BIG layoff, and got with a new company a few months ago. I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to attend an All Hands where the news isn’t dire, where people are optimistic... — read more 

I read posts on this forum and came across the confession of an author who boasted that shortly after his dismissal he moved to a new company where, as he says, he encountered a super positive atmosphere and people full of optimism. My experience... — read more 

Does anyone have a manager that does nothing but collect a pay check.....And go.

Saw this on the news today. Ready the resumes. https://www.cbs46.com/news/department-store-chain-belk-filing-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/article_4226f4ba-4bd2-5d24-84f3-3f34822b0c60.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share — read more 

Staples is “dated” as well as the management and their ways. I’ve never seen sales people have so many meetings and training sessions? No wonder why your sales teams have poor numbers. THEY CAN’T WORK A FULL DAY SELLING! You can “rebrand” all you... — read more 

This place is done. Maybe there are ways to turn it around but with this management everybody knows that's not happening. No, we are stuck. We are stuck in a company that will be hemorrhaging employees in hopes of staying afloat for the foreseeable... — read more 

What areas were affected?

Office Depot is a no go, what's next?

District Manager wants to know why the morale is so low in our area. Of course the answer is to cut hours and find someone to blame it on. I'm too scared to say that my team is doing awesome but having to scold them every five minutes about ESP... — read more 

Anyone else think its bonkers we are expected to rate 10-15% of our agents as "does not meet". In a year where everyone had busted their Butts to take care of our customers and each other is obserd.

Office supply chains Office Depot and Staples could soon be one and the same as far as shoppers are concerned. The company that owns Office Depot and OfficeMax disclosed Tuesday that it had rejected an unsolicited takeover offer from the company... — read more 

CNBC reporting this morning.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/staples-seeks-to-buy-office-depot-parent-in-2-1-billion-deal

Is anyone else highly concerned about the number of COVID-19 cases coming out of the Staples headquarters? How do you think Staples has been handling the situation as a whole... do you think that we should have as many people back in the office as we... — read more 

Any word yet? Keep hearing of sales needing to hit their numbers and managers limiting ot and various bad signs...does anyone have any info about any upcoming layoffs?

We just received word that our 2021 budget increased by 200%!! WTF!!!!!!! As nice as my ASM is, she’s hopeless and doesn’t have a clue how to manage. Pray for us all.

Here come the store closings 1536 in NYC is a goner

I've never worked in a place where everyone gives so many excuses for why things are okay to be chaotic and disorganized. From safety to behavior there is a very apathetic sense to everything. Usually associates are more professional than... — read more 

Huge chunk of hours cut over the next couple weeks, already squeezing all part timers out of schedules. Not even under any lock down here and we just hired a new part timer that will not get any hours. All that training for nothing. Don't know how... — read more 

When we could post here freely, share information without being bullied, criticized and ridiculed? Without being told we’re whiners, id–ts and losers. There is a reason why we are here. The managers and employees that come here to troll are the... — read more