Me to GM: "Hey is there any way we can get replacement wheels for the u-boats? The rubber is completely off them, I'll fix them myself, I just need the parts."

GM: "Did you check that pallet of u-boat parts by the back door?"

Me: "What u-boat parts?"

GM: "We got them when we got those two pallets of Alpha boxes from the store that closed."

Obviously that's why I was unaware, I was under the impression it was more shelving and those Alpha boxes were a pox on my existence for a week. So I go check put this pallet of u-boat parts that had been pushed behind a pallet of shelving when they came in.

It's not a pallet of parts, it's six basically brand new u-boats with full undamaged rubber. I've been fighting these shitty u-boats for months.

I wanna look at my latest pay stub but where do I find it? Is it on the portal somewhere?

last thursday was my last day at office hell (what me and my friends/coworkers call it) just wanted to make the famous promoted to customer post since i see so many and man can i say this day couldn’t have come sooner. this is gonna be a post of me complaining and ranting so thanks for coming to my ted talk.

i have been with the company for about 2.5 years and have really only stayed that long because of my coworkers everything else sucks. i started out as just a cashier and got promoted to a key carrier after about 5-6 months. i had expressed my unwillingness to be a print associate or want to do anything over there because i know how hellish it is and they were fine with this. well we got a new GM and he decided i didn’t get a choice and i had to “learn the basics” so i can help out in a bind or cover lunches. fine i learned and then 80% of my shifts were print associate it seemed like. my manager knew i hated it and tried to find replacements but the turn over rate at my store is actually so awful because the print center is so so awful. only certain employees follow policy and everyone else bends the rules and babies every customer and will drop everything they’re doing for customers in print. i’ve never met so many stupid entitled people in my life than i have in the print center. i didn’t hate life when working on queue orders but walk ups really killed the mood everytime.

i especially got sick of how pushy they are about rewards paper deals and “select”. so many stupid things in this company and i am so relieved to be leaving finally. loved my coworkers but the customers are absolutely the worst people in the world 90% of the time.

don’t even get me started on TSA. how is it possible to have back to back tsa appointments and one person in print until 11 or noon? and then they want someone on the floor as well, not possible. this company is a mess and understaffed in every way shape and form and they expect 3 people to do the amount of work that 5 people should be doing it’s absolutely ridiculous.

i’ve been at my new job for less than a week and already love it so much more and im not depressed everytime i have to clock in and it’s not just because it’s new and exciting it’s because the company knows how to actually run itself and properly staff itself and values its employees. i get an hour lunch and 2 15 min breaks every shift. i would be LUCKY if i even got a 15 min break at office depot

another thing is im actually getting benefits for being full time which office depot couldn’t do because apparently only so many people can have benefits at the same time? i found that to be so weird and messed up.

i’m glad i left when i did because they just implemented the shipping updates at my store my last week. how is a print associate supposed to do their job handle walk ups and do all the shipping? good riddance office hell !

Ngl I just want to rant to ppl who understand. Im getting to the point where I dont understand why the store i work at doesn't just grab ppl from other stores and have them hire new ones(For context im small store). My store we got like 7ppl total 1 guy works print mornings mon-fri but the only reason he is there is bc no one else can work cpd then. I have to redo his fucking jobs minimum 2 times a week and we can't fire him because we have no way to replace him. Then there's the fact that bc we need coverage we had to grab a girl from another store who supposedly has been with us for 2 years. And cpd rant but if you been here for 2 years and in cpd the whole time why the fuck did you put grommets on a banner on the horizontal side when the image was not made that way. And no with their prior experience they couldn't even think maybe I should call the customer to be sure. No she fucked up the job I had to rush it in the middle of 3 other jobs and having to deal with more customers. Why are people in this company even on the most basic level dumber than a fucking twig

Lost my job last year to the AI apocalypse. Got a job at OD for (what I assumed) was a few months until I found something else.

It took me 11 months to find a new job.

Holy SHIT. This company is a mess, top to bottom.

I was a store supervisor. My GM, ASM and Print Supervisor were all terrible. I’ve been employed for nearly 25 years. Never had more drama than from three 40year old women who clearly hate life. Everything was dumped on me. Everything was blamed on me. Training? WHAT TRAINING!? I once had a manger SCREAMING in my face because I missed one stack of price changes…20ish tags out of NINE HUNDRED. Zero chill. Zero remorse. Zero clue of what the job actually is.

And OH MY GOD staffing. Anytime anyone quits, the replacement that is hired lasts less than a month and leaves. We still had holes in the staff 4 months after, GM couldn’t care less.

The entire upper management/sales team has lost their fucking minds with AI psychosis. We had a sales manager send an AI sales report to the entire district…with the Staples logo on it. CLASSIC.

This company is a sinking ship. A rotting bloated retail corpse.

Run away as fast as you can. How anyone CHOOSES a multi-decade career at this place is completely beyond me.

i hate tsa precheck. that’s it. that’s the message

These backpacks were already marked 50% off but he wants us to give an extra 25% off on the register basically making the backpacks 75% off.

With the new FedEx memo that went out saying we can now scan or codes how do we find out store specific location number label to scan before we can accept it. It just say look on the reporting part of the portal and my store manager is no help ive spent a couple hours just searching but no luck lol thanks

Looks like Paper and Select are paying the rent and all the costs?

Our store is removing a register. Is the "slice" the pc part?

Like nobody will tell us other than oh we got bought out by a new company but when we ask who they said oh we don't know either we just met with the new CEO. So does anyone have any idea who exactly bought us out and what changes are gonna be expected in the future for our stores?

I'm so sorry/that's super awesome for you thank you got creampied and have now decided to make my life a living hell because you need diaper raffles and baby shower bullshit, but that is not my problem. I don't care. Submit your order the right way or fuck off. I do not have the patience for your cuntiness.

We had a new guy think they were trash and started throwing some away and I would like to make more but I couldn't find them on the portal myself. I wasnt sure if it was on there or if my store made it themselves.

We get one truck every week on Tuesdays. Today we got eight pallets (ugh!). One pallet had several bags of packing peanuts stacked and banded. As I looked at it a thought came to mind. A little fun with a black marker.

did yall see spot change to a completely ass insurance now? bcbs texas in my area. Google it before electing. it is atrocious and the company often makes you jump through hoops for coverage approval

Is anyone else having issues applying the 40% off and their employee discount to this?

There’s an announcement in the portal in regards to creating a Halloween Display Table; but not only is there no other resources (even where it says there should be), we barely have any Halloween esque items for sale to begin with. Am I just missing something? If you guys actually have a Halloween table please let me know and show me what’s up.

Hi. I work in a store and I am trying to update the hanging signs in the store. The ones that hang from the ceiling that says where things are located in the store. No one knows where to find these in my store and the signs are outdated.

I would appreciate any help.

will we have 10 dollar mcafee this holiday season?

hey y’all, my SM tried ordering the grommets and washers and it told him they were no longer available to be picked? and the other stores in my district are also out!

are anyone of y’all have these issues? or are we doing something wrong?

tysmia!!!

For the past week, our Epson printer has not been printing off a true red color like it used to

I've changed the maintenance box, I've changed out the ink cartridges, I've done nozzle checks and head cleanings

Idk what the solution is and afaik its a pain in the ass to get these things serviced on

…that district managers are allegedly telling general managers to start scheduling full time employees only 30 hours a week. They’re not pushing it (yet) but are apparently gently nudging GMs in that direction.

Has anyone else heard anything about this? I know that payroll is continuously getting whittled down, but if there is any truth to this, wouldn’t that affect people’s benefits?