@626 Yep, I totally agree. We lose far more bids than we ever win. Customers have also lost a lot of trust in us because of the constant reorganizations and leadership moving people around after we've spent years building strong relationships. Then, when new management comes in, they often provide little support and instead focus on excessive micromanagement. To make matters worse, many of them don't seem to understand the business, and there's a lot of favoritism. Wish we still had the old leaders, miss them!!
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@618 Entire furniture team is awful. I lose deal after deal due to lack of response or not being priced competitively. It is so frustrating having customer after customer ask if you still plan to bid after everyone else has submitted theirs days earlier. They keep the door open due to my relationship and are then flabbergasted when we have the high bid by a wide margin. Few deals I have won all go sideways with furniture AM making excuses and deflecting blame for their mistakes. Needless to say, we never get a second chance with these customers. Pre Sycamore furniture operation was awesome. We are now left with the worst of the worst.
The SLT in Furniture is the worst....used to have amazing leaders....now a bunch of micromanagers....I'm sure there will be more layoffs in this department even if you are doing amazing....never know when it will be your time to go. Lol
And they just promoted one of the managers they were all running from. I hate it here.
@hy remote work, outside of Staples? More money? Where is this?
@h7 lord send them my way please so I can be rid of this place! Remote is a DREAM I am much more productive at my house!!!
@h7 what do you mean? Elaborate.
It turns out if you offer Staples associates remote work and slightly more money, they will leave.
In other news, water is wet
Wait whats happening here? I didn't hear about this.
We hired a dei kid with very little leadership experience over qualified leaders. Of course it’s gonna happen. The other guy job hops every 2 years. Brilliant!