Operations director and manager got fired including one more director today from staples corporate office, They deserved to be fired long time back., but it is never late for good thing to come

Have there been reports of any layoffs at Quill in Lincolnshire? If Staples is cutting than Quill could be having cuts too.

Hearing rumblings that the layoffs started today...any details?

Corporate should start with the trans analyst team aka. T.A. That's an expense that staples should have never kept. You have a T.A. doing the routing for a route driver that has been doing the same route for years. In every sdo there is coverdrivers... — read more 

What is the deal with everyone in red shirts now? I am sure this will turn into the typical staples sh*t show. Plus Any info on the rumors of tech supervisors or Sales Managers getting the axe in stores under 6 million? Also, any truth to the talk of... — read more 

So, we are in the last week of January. When does everyone expect the other shoe to drop and corp. to announce end/beginning of year layoffs? From what I recall corp layoffs have usually been announced the last week in Jan and store cuts the first... — read more 

any additional updates on 3rd party take over. I'm hearing announcements end of month but quite lately. Any info??????

The decisions this company has to make are being protracted so the people at the top can get the most and the associates at store level get nothing. There is no doubt in my mind that measures could be taken immediately to rip off like a band aid the... — read more 

I have been hearing rumors of more store restructuring on or around February 1st such as cutting back on techs and tech supervisors, does anyone have any inside info about these rumors?

Our store lease is coming up this spring. The building is listed with a realtor for lease/sell. Nothing has been said. Any chance that we won't close?

A NLRB administrative law judge ordered service to be discontinued after a complaint was filed by the postal workers union. That case finally wound it's way through the system and the judge made a ruling.

Happy New Year staples associates all of you should leave, get resumes ready and move on. THIS IS THE YEAR THE COMPANY CLOSES MOST BRICK AND MORTAR STORES, unless they can strike a deal with Amazon. Prediction down to 350 stores or less by 2018!

I have been away from Staples since the last big purge which was in August of 2015. I was with the company for quite some time, and I saw over the years that the benefits of the 401(k) kept on getting worse. When I finally left, the offering wasn't... — read more 

Once again, the senior management person for LP has shown that he has no ethics engrained in his drunken body. Just so everyone knows, a former employee that worked in the home office, left Staples because he was feed up with his boss, and the way he... — read more 

Just received another company wide email concerning ethics when selling. Funny, I have reported unethical behavior multiple times this year and it was swept under the rug. Marking down liquid armour, creating false rewards accounts, price matching to... — read more 

There's a lot of buzz going around regarding the overdue closing of Furniture Operations. Anyone?

Yes my friends another fiscal year is about to end and the results S---! Staples in brick and mortar continues to lose market share, hell I bought my last ink cartridges at CVS, they have done nothing to differentiate themselves from competition and... — read more 

Long, long time ago I can still remember How that stock price Used to make me smile And I knew if I had my chance That I could make our customers dance And maybe our profits Would rebound For awhile But Shira made me shiver With every toner cartridge... — read more 

Because I know that the Staples people read this, I thought I'd post that the frequent network failures in stores are inexcusable and are costing this company a fortune in lost sales, diminished morale and very angry customers. Today stores again... — read more 

I have not posted much lately because in truth NOTHING has changed. More stores will close. Staples.com will not do well either. The stock has floated up recently with an inflated stock market. This too will end. HOWEVER, there is a hard break (using... — read more 

From one sinking ship to another http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/demos-parneros-named-coo-of-barnes-noble/127296

How many times do we need to be surprised - I am not - do you think that we might have job cuts in corporate again - here in Framingham.

Is the Peru il store closing? I hearing in December but not sure

It appears there are some disgruntled staff/customers at the Big Box stores so there might be interest in a program we offer. My company, Toners Plus, specifically targets businesses with pricing contracts for toner supplies through the Big Box... — read more 

So now the scramble to save jobs have started. On the last conference call we were shown a slide on integrity. As soon as the slide was gone, we were told that if we weren't cheating we weren't trying. So let's all take csats from home, fill out... — read more 

Tt should be around $90,000 but that could probably be more now. They also get bonus's which have the potential of 10% of their $90,000. How many Associate Project Managers are there still in the company? Have they been reduced due to the stores... — read more 

starts today. Anyone attending, keep us posted if anything good comes out.

Can't wait to hear the dismal earnings report in a couple weeks.

Has anyone heard anything lately? I keep hearing that the closures have been pushed back.

....Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. I always thought he was purposely going for the wise guy wanna be look. I was watching a documentary on Russia and Germany in WWII and the more I watched , the more noticeable it was. A blood relationship with this... — read more 

For people out there thinking about working at Staples. Think about this. The company will match only once you are fully vested, which should only take 4 to 5 yrs if memory serves me correct. The company will match 50 cents on the dollar for the... — read more 

Corp. layoffs are overdue.... and the RVP positions have yet to be culled. Otis has been demoted, so no more EVP SVPs have been cut down to 2 positions DMs were cut last winter, but there is still room for more cuts as stores close. Cutting the... — read more 

How f'ing stupid and waste of "sacred selling time" was Oct 17's breakroom call day! SAL's on the east coast were once again forced to endure another disorganized, sloppily conducted day of calling customers begging them to buy breakroom crap. Then... — read more