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 

i was just let go but staples is so gooood. i love this place. management is so good to our people. do not worry. they will bring you back.

Anyone seeing a drastic cut in store hours? More than usual after Christmas or is it just here in the Southeast?

Checked my year end 401k total and it looks like staples quit matching contributions this year. No notice and the recruitment website still says they match contributions. Guess I did help pay for those employee appreciation lunches this year. ... — read more 

Managers with weekends off before Christmas. Business must be tough

Everybody I work with is unhappy. Not just unsatisfied, but utterly, profoundly unhappy and hating their jobs with a passion. It was never this bad before. So I ask, how long can morale stay this low? How long before the productivity suffers so much... — read more 

Hope for the best but expect the unexpected.

I've been looking for a while now but I've had no luck so far. There simply aren't that many available jobs, and those that are available can pick the cream of the crop among the sea of candidates. I wasn't that worried about the possibility of being... — read more 

SP hoped to pick the bones of a dieing Staples. They brought zero innovation or change, not because they had no ideas (they didn't) but because that wasn't there intent. Rescuing Staples was always too much work. The last best chance might have... — read more 

What's your prediction as it relates to the possiblity of Staples Layoffs 2021? Any news or rumors?

Any news on what is going on with marketing and merchandising for SBA and Staples Canada? When do we think the announcement will be out?

I recently left Staples, but I stopped by this forum to see what was going on. So I came across a post on one of the threads here in which someone says that it is noticeable that workers put in minimal effort. The lack of interest in Staples`s... — read more 

Go ahead, I dare you. I see people complaining about how bad Staples is, how it’s going to go down in smokes. If you hate the company so much why don’t you grow a pair and leave. No one is forcing you to stay. The company doesn’t need you. There is... — read more