How many of us will be threatened brow beat into traveling in the upcoming storm to keep our stores open. We all need to stand our ground and not travel during a blizzard for our own safety and that of those who need to be on the road. Office... — read more 

Reddit has several threads going about Staples cutting part time associates hour again, this time from 25 to 20 hours per week. Any one heard anything concrete about this?

Next month Staples will announce the closures of many SDO's across the country and in the coming months the remaining being closing before the end of the year. The savings to Staples will be millions and will help appease stockholders eager for a... — read more 

Oh Ronald the decisions you continue to make, as if no one can see through your hollow lies. You are not taking your "raise" but continue to collect each bonus. One bonus in particular comes to mind...a 15 million and change bonus in such a time the... — read more 

I have been through this before. The writing is on the wall. What did staples want with corporate express? Their book of business and that's it. Staples needed CE'S cash and customer list to stay afloat. Now they have it but are losing money. All the... — read more 

Im taking the severance simply because I don't want to demote with a paycut and I cannot stand my GM lack of leadership skills. Will be finishing school with in the year. Taking my experience elsewhere.

A brief Googling this morning made me wonder why Staples' stock fell a bit yesterday. Seems it was in result of this: http://fortune.com/2015/01/20/starboard-staples-office-depot/ So, as predicted, the Starboard investor that has bought a lot of... — read more 

That was my life at Staples for six years. Closing each and every night I was scheduled. Being designated as a "Key Holder", yet not being given the pay that was given to other employees in that position. It's why I left after being told year after... — read more 

soon to be announced: the Westerly RI store will be relocated across the street to a 12,000 building.

Gm's are putting themselves working 6 to 4 Monday through Friday, while forcing the SM to close every shift and also work every single saturday and sunday. I was told a total of 43 Sales Managers are trying to find other work. This isn't right, our... — read more 

Staples is closing Sandy Springs. Buckhead is closed. Milton and I believe Alpharetta

Otis just delivered an email to all stores announcing SVP Steve Liotta is leaving the company. Thanking him for is years of service. Yada, yada. Smells like another force out ?

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February or March? all SDO's or in phases....

To any employees that are going through all of this I am truly sorry, you are witnessing the end of Staples retail, the retail division is failing and online business is all that is keeping the company above water, they don't care what employees lose... — read more 

These are the changes in structure. If your budget for next year results in a Tier change, that is unrelated. There are also pilot and test programs coming to an end, e.g. Tech Center Supervisors, Prime Techs, etc. Tier 4: $<3.75m Team Supervisors... — read more 

So staples is cutting even more hours for stores and cutting more employees, they might as well close the stores entirely because we already can't get anything done with the amount of hours we are given. I work on a tier 2 store which will now become... — read more 

So, since alot of us quit last year, if we cannot access associate connection for our W-2's, where can we get them from?

Just spoke with my GM and found out that the PT Team Sup has officially been axed. This confirms that layoff post yesterday. What he told me the reasoning was, was that it somehow allows them to shift the payroll around and allow smaller stores to... — read more 

Lower a lot more stores to tier 4. Tier 4 stores loose both a full time sup and the part time sup but gain an assistant manager. Everyone is notified sometime next week. More to come. Ron retains his bonus.

Does anyone have any news on the restructure announcement that went out to GM'S today?

Just wondering if anyone knows or has heard anything regarding any stores closing in Arkansas? Thanks

I was with a mall retailer when they closed a bunch of stores and was in a weird assistant regional management position. I was one of the people that had to break the news to about a dozen stores. We gave them anywhere from 3 days to a month notice... — read more 

Check out what Wet Seal folks did as they closed the store today: Wet Seal - Birmingham, Alabama http://i.imgur.com/JCAdGv4.jpg

Heard some stories about major restructure. Elimination of SMM in under performing tier 2 stores, PT Team Supervisor to go, ET Supervisor in smaller stores as well. Can someone confirm?

May our cloudy future meet sunshine in 2015... Best Wishes to ALL... Do not let this define you.. we will be better in the long run...

New York state is raising minimum wage to $8.75 per hour. We were told to expect ink cartridge price increases to offset the wage increase. Hoping this is not the last straw for sub $4mil stores.

Has anyone heard if our jobs will be impacted as well?

So let's fire innocent associates at the store level for something they have no control over. Announced that 434 stores were involved. But is actually in the 600's.

We have a mandatory meeting 12/30/14 @ 6am.. They say OCHA.. a normal start day is 7:30am.. another day we were told our DM is moving to a FC position.. Gary A. will be available to assist.. but DM position won't be filled until after peak.. well if... — read more 

The Damn Devil is now completely over my FC. Can you believe this bunch of horse shit? Would anyone like to take a guess?