Thread regarding Staples Inc. layoffs

Lead Position/Management

After 11 years of watching Staples make mistake after mistake I had to leave, they just let go of their training department and plan on automating customer service and letting even more people go.

The management at this location is abysmal. They promotion from outside and even the top teir people came from unrelated jobs and walk around clueless most of the time.

We lost MILLIONS on price matching and Fraud just that I personally witnessed. They management claimed we still made money.. no When products are $250 cost and you pricematch them for $90 after coupon and less 10,000 of them.. no thats not profitable no matter how you look at it.

The Management comes up with this crazy off the wall ideas and then try to implement them costing the company ever more money because.. they dont work. Then they push it off on a lower manager who eventually gets fired or has to leave.

They left a near 20 year well respected veteran go and kept a women that walks around talking about shoes all day and spends most of the rest of it looking at shoes online.

They then brought a Human Resource secretary to be a call center manager, which would be fine if she knew what she was doing in her last job.

Everyone expects more house cleaning soon, they did pay decently but after 10 years my retirement never changed. Mostly because the stock has been around ~15 for years now. Check out the yahoo financials CONSTANT CEO dipping into the stock and then selling it.

This company is destined to fail its employees get out while you can.. At this location until the CEO looks hard at it and actually seems to care it will be bleeding the company dry.

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The morale at my former store was very low. We had a 20 something General Manager who would openly discredit, swear and scream at employees. This would be in front of customers and associates every day. However that was the culture at the store I was working in. The atmosphere deteriorated so much that I just decided to walk out and never return.

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As a former employee, I have to agree. The entire service plan policy was a bad idea. The techs in the store had little to no knowledge of how to repair or maintain computers. The managers would push the service plan which a lot of customers purchased. However if you went to the store to get a simple computer repair, the tech would improperly diagnose the problem and make things worse. We lost a many customers due the the fact that the techs were not properly trained. It was very disconcerting to know people with real tech knowledge stayed away because the pay was so low.

That was the problem. There were qualified employees in the store that avoided the tech position because it wasn't worth the aggravation for such low wages.

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