Thread regarding Staples Inc. layoffs

Layoffs in Corporate IT too

From: , Thomas Tom.Conophy@Staples.com

Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 3:23 PM

Subject: Global Tech Update

I want to make you aware thatthis week Global Tech managers notified approximately 60 associates that their jobs have been eliminated. Please know that I did not come to this decision lightly. After careful analysis and exhausting all other expense reduction avenues, this action was necessary. These difficult workforce reductions will streamline Global Tech in alignment with our priorities, as well as reduce our cost structure.

The associates impacted reside in multiple locations and across GT departments and jobs. I ask that you respect and support our colleagues during this difficult transition, we value and appreciate their contributions and they will be missed.

Please note that the leadership team and I are very committed to ensuring that all affected associates are supported. I also realize that even those not directly impacted are touched by such change. Please contact me, or any member of my leadership team, if we can support you in any way.

At our upcoming Tech Talk meeting on August 19th, we’ll answer your questions and also talk about the work and priorities over the coming months. We have a full tech agenda ahead of us, in which our associates play a key role as we transform our technical environment and enable Staples growth.

Thank you for your support.

Regards,

Tom Conophy

EVP & Chief Information Officer

Staples

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Anonymous171871 - I think you might be correct about Katherine Stuewart. she can really be a B*tch, or Butch. I haven't seen her around much, maybe she got the deserving ax and not just us in the delivery side of the show. Staples really screwed us over, and I for one am not coming back even if ronny boy begs us to come back on his knees. The trust in the company has been blown.

Does anybody know for whom Katherine works, and if she is still around, her management kneads to know about her if she is that bad!

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Post ID: @12gal+CQVIhw9

The only CS that I know of here in SoCal is possibly Catherine Stewart? Is that he you were talking about? She does tend to look out for herself and gives a rats backside about the rest of us. Her brother is a good guy though. He has helped me on a few occasions. So if one should stay I vote for the brother.

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Post ID: @X8Vq+CQVIhw9

Get rid of the project managers! When these layoffs hit, out I the field, I heard of, besides me, that one Senior Manager, and a bunch of us Sr. Technical Analysts got the boot. What about people in the project management side? supposed we all didn't have enough to do, but what about people like CS, works in la mirada I think, who was recently promoted into project management? In all fairness a PM should have gotten the boot besides us.

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Post ID: @Vp49+CQVIhw9

It is really hard to believe that a company like Staple would lay off people just because of budgetary needs. But yet I was one of them. Severance sucked!

Get rid of the higher ups who have the salaries that would really make a difference! There were people out in the field who really held the fabric together of the staples network, shame on the sr. managers who didn't stand up for their employees and just handed out the firings as if they were talking about the weather. Just remember sr. managers, that if you lose the associates below you there is nobody to catch you when you fall. STOP SHOPPING AT STAPLES

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Post ID: @U9Mf+CQVIhw9

Hey Conophy you left the country yet. GET OUT! you don't belong here anymore. asshole!!!!! YOU TOO Sargeant get out f this country, you are no longer consider Americans...GET THE F OUT!

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Post ID: @ffqf+CQVIhw9

Money Hungry Staples has destroyed their, commited workers lives.

Now NO HEALTH INSURANCE, loss of all $$ paid into LIFE INSURANCE,

They should be ashamed to call themselves AMERICANS when they are

feeding the mouths of their outsourced workers in INDIA

Shame on you CONOPHY. Get out of this country. YOU and RON SAERGANT ARE NOT allowed to call

yourselves AMERICAN!! GET Out of this country you don't belong!!!

Why not ask INDIA for help YOU GREEDY IDIOTS!!! YOu think our kids can sleep tonight knowing shortly they may not have a lace to live. BASTARDS!!

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Post ID: @36HX+CQVIhw9

Surprising an email announcement, they usually try to keep it secret and under wraps.

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Post ID: @25rf+CQVIhw9

I had heard rumors about this happening. It has been a shame to see all the SDOs being closed. It has been a shame to see that money for the company has been put over and above people, their families, and their lives. A few years ago when asked if I would have stated that Staples is a good place to work, well back then I would have said yes, now I would advise people to find another company where they can work and make a career, for as the last few years have shown, careers can't be made when trying to "Make More Happen"! All the best to the people whom have been affected by these poorly thought of layoffs!

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Post ID: @2Dyc+CQVIhw9

Meanwhile, over in India 60 jobs just became available.

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Post ID: @1cRN+CQVIhw9

Tom is not my favorite person

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