The doomsday arrived and decades worth of hard work wiped out by SP. Go to market will be remembered as one of the most poorly executed plans in corporate history as the Staples name bleeds red seeping into nonexistence.
As hundreds put their battered hearts on the line sharing their love of our company that abandoned them, there were others who celebrated their promotions by posting celebratory updates on LinkedIn. That is your Staples leadership today, a combination of the good old boys network still thinking office products will make the company profitable while ignoring categories that can quickly meet yearly budgets in an account in a few months if it was only for a little effort.
To those promoted at this painful time, slow down before posting your promotions on LinkedIn and other platforms. It’s tacky and tasteless but validates the immaturity of this once great company. It also validates that those in positions of power need to better manage their inexperienced promoted hires. What is this, a rigged Student Government election in high school?
I survived today but this was it. How can I stay with leadership that is so out of touch as to promote leaders with the maturity level to not understand the pain of hundreds while gloating the same day of their promotion? I never thought I would see the day the company turned dark when things seemed so bright in Orlando with the beat box DJ bringing us into a new era. Game over.