Staples is trying to fvck me over...

[fr]

Your managers suck, but they are probably under a lot of pressure to meet their sales goals and just aren't doing it the right way. They also seem to be fairly lazy or stupid.

It sounds like you are getting sh!t from your managers because you annoyed them by helping our your customers too much and making both them (via bonuses) and the store lose potential money. From what you have told, I guess you probably have done this many times right in front of them. You do more than you are expected to for $8 and I don't know why you haven't told them to shove it and walked out already.

 

[MAME]

It sounds like High School drama to me...it's like the entire store is a slutty whore and you're the unknowning boyfriend who's going to get AIDS from her. Just find another job asap, then leave Staples. On your last day, make sure and mess up their inventory or mis-label some stuff. Then have a friend go in a buy the products, return them at another store for full price and split the profits.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: VTEC01EX
The situation will NEVER get better. That's how retail works, no matter how hard you work there, you will always be the scum of the earth as far as your manager and your manager's manager are concerned. Go work at a job with real opportunities for advancement that knows how to treat (and compensate) their employees.

I work hell desk at a mortgage company. Last weekend the entire hell desk was taken to Disneyland. Each of us was given $50 in DisneyDollars to spend too.

In November the company took over Knott's Berry Farm. We had the park to ourselves. No lines!!!

Plus I make a heck of a lot more than $9 hr. No college either.

Get out of retail!!!

 

[JoeKing]

is the website hole the one where you can fake order the site into thinking they have 0 inventory of x product?

if your work enviroment is that bad quit, but find a replacement job first before you quit.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Here's a thought, PM a few of us with your real name & store #, we'll email corporate via the website, telling them what a great employee you are & how helpful you've been to us...

I've done it 2X @ my local store & corporate instantly contacted the manager, one was an atta boy & the other was to raise hell with an assistant manager.

Haven't gone to Staples much lately, they tightened up on their coupons & I have so much crap now I really don't need any more stuff, except I need a good 3 hole punch...

(I'll do one of the emails for you BTW)

 

[TheAudit]

If it's that bad then just hang on for as long as you can and try to get a job somewhere else. You said they were after you from day one so it's not going to get better and who needs that kind of hassle? Either you can put up with the BS or you can't or don't need to. If I were you I would look for something else, meanwhile just keep doing what you have been doing.

 

[IGBT]

USE them as a springboard into another job.

 

[Squisher]

Yes leave, but not before you have another job lined up.

It's human nature to resist change, but you have overcome it.

The trick is finding an employer that realises that they're employees are their greatest asset.



If all you're paying them is peanuts then all you'll get to work for you are monkeys.

 

[kranky]

Regarding telling people to buy a new printer instead of the cartridges - I think that's a mistake. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a good salesperson as much as anyone, but the fact is that you work for the company and they expect you to balance their interests with that of the customers' interests. What you are doing is stopping a customer from buying something that earns $30 for the store, and selling them something that might earn $5 - or might even be a loss.

The manager probably sees it this way: there aren't very many items where they make a lot of money, and you are sabotaging sales of one of them. If a customer asks whether buying a new printer is a good idea, then you are entitled to answer honestly, but it's not appropriate to derail a purchase that the customer would have been perfectly happy with.

On the other hand, I'm surprised the manager hasn't directly told you to stop doing that. Perhaps it doesn't bother him as much as I think it does.