Anyone else scared?

The reason they are offering you a position at Staples is so they can find a reason to fire you rather than lay you off and have to pay severance.

What is the likelihood of Office Depot layoffs in Boca Raton in 2016? Please let me know if you have any information.

Bitchin*'s fine, but what you really should be doing is this - WRITE YOUR CONGRESSPERSON - tell 'em that the "top dogs'" salaries should be slashed to save the "peons'" jobs. I'm making it easy for ya - here's the numbers, now get to dialing!!!... — read more 

Everyone is leaving main office in droves. We have been given notice that there will be mandatory meetings at the end of the month and early into next month. No one is talking about what these meetings will be for but in HR we have been told to bring... — read more 

What does everyone think ?

Class action lawsuit against OfficeMax for misuse of exempt labor for non-exempt tasks prompts Office Depot to layoff assistant managers in most stores. Stores in employment at will states given no reason for the layoff.

Our district is seeing ASMS being let go left and right. Anyone else seeing the new staples "synergies" realignments.

25 days until Staples takes over....

One step closer to the buyout. Just waiting for Canada, EU, and the US. Will be crazy to see the immediate shatter of OD. Staples wastes no time "synergizing" when it takes over a company. Hope everyone has got their exit plans in place. 4 minths to... — read more 

Office Depot, said Tuesday that it is accelerating its store-closure plan and expects to close about 175 stores this year and at least 60 in 2016, for a total of at least 400 closures by the end of 2016. Smith said he was “pleased with our... — read more 

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Found my golden ticket out... Dont have to worry about any of the daily crap anymore. Goodbye office depot, max, staples or whatever you want to be called. I wont be around to see you get bought out or go bankrupt thankfully.

School toolbox says it plans to put office supply stores out of business. Schools in our area are doing this program. Basically teacher tells website what supplies are needed. Parent logs on and buys items. Then they are delivered.... Wait for it... — read more 

There is a lot of talk on the web about the merger, and how it nay not happen. had anyone heard anything?

I hear a lot of Staples ads on the radio, but nothing for OD. Are they even attempting to have a successful BTS season? Any exclusive product or pricing to try to compete with Staples or Walmart?

What happened today??? Really? The vote for shareholders was announced that 95% of shareholders voted for the Staples buyout of Office Depot. As a share holder I never received an email, a phone, call, snail mail or anything indicating that today... — read more 

Stores getting less and less inventory, staffing hours / payroll severely down, employees leaving in hoards. Has anyone else seen this happening in their stores? It's a madhouse in our district many key players have left, are leaving, or working hard... — read more 

Only 6 months till Office Depot is dead. Has anyone started looking or ound new jobs? I hear people from main office and in the retail stores are leaving in droves.

What stores are closing in Florida.

Has anyone heard about any updates to the merger or brutal take over? I don't think this is going to be pretty for most everyone from the Depot side of things.

From a customer's perspective, the Office Depot-Office Max merger is a disaster. Shelves are empty throughout the store in my area. The manager said it's because the company wants to sell out Office Max branded items. However, the inventory has not... — read more 

If your store isn't open easter Sunday you can guarantee it's on a closing list and the fate is eminent.

We have 4 stores slated to close in next couple of months. The district manager has assured them they all will have a job. I have heard sometimes they will severance a manager from non closing store and have the manager of the closing store take over... — read more 

http://www.thelayoff.com/staples/post/5720161067728896

More stores in our district and the neighboring district have been salted for closure. How many others out there are seeing more closures already? I am thinking that it's only going to get worse since these were "pre-planned" closures I assume. If... — read more 

Where is this company headed? Any thoughts? What are your concerns right now?

I have worked for all three companies now. Two of them I have been in the management seat. OM was a good company, Staples was terrible, and OD was by far the best. Now that OD is having "hostile takeover" by Staples things will only get worse. The... — read more 

All districts and/or markets now have "closure captains" to help stores with the closing process. If your store isn't announced as closing yet I would expect it to be forthcoming. If they have designated people in your district for this that means... — read more 

What is the general feelings going around at the Boca HQ with the news of the Staples bid. If it goes through there may be no need for that office anymore. Will the state even be able to give enough tax breaks to entice Staples execs to bask in the... — read more 

original number was $5m.

On top of the 10% from last period.

Polish up your resume. The company just went through talent assessment. It plans to keep the best talent available. PIPs will come hot and heavy to those that didn't score well. Plan is to have enough vacancies that no severance will be paid out... — read more 

How do I log into depot gmail from home? I am in a Max store. Thanks