Otis, is a blowhard jerk. Demos an arrogant fool. Ron long ago checked out. Remember "From Good to Great"! More like from "Fair to Footnote".

Management is a giant Jenga game. Keep pulling out experienced managers and eventually it will fall. Question is who is the real winner in the end. I can't see one.

When is Staples going to announce the next round of layoffs/closures with the SDOs? We are almost in April now and I thought there would have been more new/movement. I think they were suppos'd say something last month but it never came out.....so... — read more 

I lost a $1000 order yesterday because the kiosk and the dot com PC at the tech desk were not working. Customer did not want to wait for a reboot and said they'd order the item from home. Good job Staples..... Take the hours, it just proves that... — read more 

Associates and managers need to tell what it's really like to work for staples on sites like glass door etc. if people knew how it really is they would not get people fast enough to replace managers they push out and you might save someone from... — read more 

If you think you are saving the company by pushing out seasoned manager to save some payroll you are wrong. All you are doing is getting rid of pillars that are holding the stores up and replacing them with toothpicks. What you don't realize is that... — read more 

I think it is ironic in a new Staples commercial there is a Staples Delivery Driver featured delivering product and breakroom supplies. This infuriated me since I lost my delivery job position several months ago when they closed my SDO.

264 hours a week divided by 85 open hours equates to 3 ( 3.1058 to be exact) associates working each hour the store is open. Then there is a GM and maybe an assistant, who's pay do not count against the 264. If there is no assistant, then the... — read more 

They are setting stores up to fail. They want to drive out long term management through PiPs and stress to avoid severance, and then close the location. I have seen this exact method used repeatedly on 5 of the best GMs I have ever worked with in any... — read more 

Don't wait for them.......get your resume out there....every company out there. Is aware of staples and layoffs and cuts...make it a priority to make the change. You might make it through the first cut,but you know you might be on the next list, it's... — read more 

Has anyone heard anything about more layoffs. Need to know if I will have a job to feed my family. Going through enough stress with all the pressure from the DM to make store perfect, but the uncertainty is making it worse. Where is staples going... — read more 

Unions are money makers. No union has any want to be part of one staples store. Wages are so small and turn over is so high there is no money in it for a union to make. You need 50% of you store (hourly) to sign for a union. In one year if the store... — read more 

Anyone else told by their GM that theyre not doing the MT program this year?

Mist of you nay have already heard this, Staples new name will ge an acronym of the office store it comprises. S for Staples OD for Office Depot OM for Office Max and Y for you. The bew name and the way they treat employees and cudtomers. SODOMY.

Stores are not run properly. ...its chaos from open to close...I am drained. .the employees are disgruntled. ..customers suffer....a big company like staples should be able to see this...just look at your managers face!...sad...they beat you... — read more 

Staples is killing so many jobs across the country yet they make the public try to feel all warm and fuzzy on the co FB page. Staples is being ran by a bunch of corporate bastards who can care less about placing people to the unemployment lines.

Any of our inside people have any new information regarding the SDO closings? Would love to see a list of what locations are slated for closure. Does anybody know if the plan is still to close ALL SDOs in 2015?

How can you hold two managers to different standards. Ignore faults of one and write up the other.

So today we are told unless we get a $1000.00 a day in Kiosk sales we loose store hours? WTF. I guess Staples fiqures less employee hours will firce more customers to the kiosk. Anyone else here this nonsense.

Big American corporations have no particular allegiance to America. They don’t want Americans to have better wages. Their only allegiance and responsibility to their shareholders — which often requires lower wages to fuel larger profits and higher... — read more 

Staples plans to close Office Depot/Max. 1700 store closures in 2016. Official overheard comparing the over taking to when NEC purchased Packard Bell just to gain market share by killing the name brand. Staples, the worlds #2 ecomerce website, plans... — read more 

We all see, live and are affected by what is happening. But what can we do besides run. Investing 14 years in a company and being 60 years old isn't a great time to be venturing out into the world looking for new employment no matter how qualified... — read more 

The Farmer and the horses. Where the farmer is the corporate boss and the horses are the employees. In a land long ago and not so far away there lived a farmer who had a wonderful farm and ranch. He provided many much needed products and necessities... — read more 

Another manager gone. Manager worked in almost every store in this district. I guarantee they will feel the loss. Associates in every store remember and love this manager. This manger was so good people from all over went out of their way to visit... — read more 

Qualified and less pay to do my job.....that way everyone gets what they want...cause its time to move on.......anyone have any idea when bonus should be paid out?

Staples will continue to squeeze every penny out of the stores until they keep losing sales and eventually are closed. The only growth Staples is seeing right now is Online ales and thats because they are screwing their stores over so bad that... — read more 

Tier 4, cut hours, tasks impossible to complete. We barely block anymore. They just work us to exhaustion with out the hope of actually being good. Poor thing over at copy center had 5 people waiting with no time allotted to actually do any... — read more 

Attention all Drivers who are losing jobs. Those retention bonus check to stay till the end is hardly anything when they combine it with your first check. I think a better bonus would have been to shove my handcart straight up CEO Ron Sargent ass.

I'm sure staples can expect many lawsuits from this round of layoffs as I hear employees are already consulting attorneys to go over any options that they may have in such a situation, even if there are no lawsuits long term employees will be leaving... — read more 

does anyone know if they can fire you if you go out on stress leave. Do you get disability if you go? My doctor wants to take me out.

Staffing vs. customer traffic is out of line at every tier. Framingham just does not get it. Bitch and moan and threaten jobs because of bad CSATs, bitch and moan and threaten over store conditions, bitch and moan and threaten over staying within... — read more 

Just been transferred to a tier 4 store about a month ago. Now, just got solid conformation that my store will be closing by the end of the first quarter. My thought would be, that would've the same for other tier 4 stores. There just isn't enough... — read more 

Staples is trying to eliminate these positions. The higher pay (compared to Team Supervisors) and the mandated 5 hrs of OT a week have painted a target on these positions. It used to be easy/common for DMs/GMs to tell AMs "don't leave until XXX is... — read more 

I believe it is scheduled for Friday 3/6. Anyone want to guess if bonuses will be mentioned if EPS is not met?

So our store was cut to only 268 associate hours a week. I suspect many more of you are in the same boat. So is this just Staples intentionally pushing these stores to closure? Certainly looks to me like they are setting us to fail.

It's amazing to see that Amazon is testing out delivering its own packages to have better control over the shopping experience. But Staples is getting out of this when its so clear having your own fleet deliver your products is what the consumer... — read more 

Anyone have any guesses on how long before Staples begins the wholesale slaughter of all the tier 4 stores?

They should get rid of the BLACK BELTS. Waste of time and our money. What a joke nobody's telling us how to do our job.