I don't know about you, but I thought the event in FL was amazing, inspiring, and covered everything that can possibly be covered to instill confidence.
Nearly 4000 people attended. One negative poster with a dozen pluses on their comments should not weigh down the rest of us.
Seriously, put the bitterness aside, let the past go, embrace the future, make Staples continue to be great and make Staples future the enormous success it has every right to be.
Let's do this!
"W.B. Mason is coming very very soon."
Clearly you're blissfully oblivious. We just bought Essendant. Ya know, the company WBM gets most their stuff from!
I'm astounded by your ignorance.
If you don’t know what the next chapter is, I’m going to tell you. W.B. Mason is coming very very soon.
You could put red lipstick on but it's still a dead pig. The moment you get back and still have mo--ns running the office (Asm's and Dir) you realize nothing will change. No one is drinking the punch except for the cell phone kids they hire living with mum and dad.
Oh God, more rebranding. Don’t we all remember Frank, prior CMO, rolling out the last new tagline? Pro time. What difference did it make? As he used to say, “we’re breathing our own fumes”. Does anyone really think a company in a declining industry can solve its problems with a new logo and brand? How about finding a way to offset the decline of the core products? Customers don’t care about taglines, especially when your products are commodities and ODP is lurking out there to bid against you.
Did I miss something? This website is called the lay-off for a reason. This is not your Twitter, instagram or Facebook page.
I didn’t even know it existed till 6 months ago till after phase 1 of GTM 2.0 rolled out and there were layoffs that made no sense. Phase 2 comes along and even a larger percentage of lay-offs that make no sense except high salary and seasoned reps. Phase 3 in February was brutal for even more people. Then the final cuts a couple of weeks ago. If you think the bleeding has stopped you’re wrong! You better update your resume and keep looking over your shoulder because you are next.
Go back to thinking everything is ok, the ship is sinking it’s just a matter of time before they close the doors
The next chapter for Staples? #7 bankruptcy
I know of multiple sales person RIFd and they were crushing their quotas. Veterans replaced by 2-3 years virgins. One Connecticut SAL was 235%% to plan, a NC SAL 150% plan. The bitterness is because the methodology of selection made zero sense. All of you still there know salespeople that are gone and you are scratching your head saying ‘whhvthem they were a top performer?”
It is deeper, it was a purge of the highest paid sales people(producers) and highest paid managers(most experienced).
Well said, Staples is lucky to have people like you to tell it like it is! The Next Chapter will be written by people like you! Superior, Smug, Soulless and Ignorant.
It is a new day at Staples! Wait......those qualities may not be new at Staples?
If they are competent salespeople they should be able to get a great new job pretty easily so no need to be bitter. If they can't, that speaks to their weak skills or poor work ethic finding a new job. As the few sour apples have said time and time again, Staples is a terrible place to work so they should be overjoyed that the company did for them what they didn't have the guts to do on their own. Move on with your life and stop trying to trash the people who were good enough at their jobs to not to get fired.
Chin up? You realize that you "next chapter" company only retains the salespeople that never hit their numbers along with their gutless "leaders" who can't sell. Maybe skilled people who did all they could and then got the boot anyway have a small right to be a little bitter. They cared. You don't.
Chin up...I'm sure there is a multi level marketing firm who would be happy to hire a bitter salesperson with a track record of never hitting their numbers.
“The next great chapter is about to be written.” Spoiler alert—it’s one page long and it reads, “The end.”
well, someone has to counter balance the two or three low level sales people who keep posting here who lost their jobs because they couldn't make their numbers.
I feel like leadership reads all the negative comments and posts rebuttals chocked full of rah rah comments and fluff. I never heard this BS uttered on the sales floor by a single AM.
Seriously...it is so obvious who keeps posting all the BS comments that we are totally gonna rock it. Gag...
They will say whatever they can to squeeze every drop out of you before sending you packing. When, oh when will you realize this?
Don't be too hard on the original poster. You have to realize that most of the true talent who built the sales and relationships are gone. They know the truth and would see through the noise. Look at LinkedIn and all the posts, it looks like a very slick cult meeting for excitable and low information millenniums. They are what is left along with the sycophants and parasites. The few really good people left are conspicuously silent on social media.
Consider the source.
The entire experience was a good one but I won't be surprised if in a month or 2 we receive our "restructured" compensation package and we are all looking for second jobs and/or new jobs because the goals will be impossible to achieve. We are making profits now because we cut half the company. The only thing left to cut is our pay and benefits. As Chris' Mom said "You can be or do anything ". I think we all need to believe that as we are applying for new careers. It's so sad because you really want to believe what senior leadership says but unfortunately we have heard it before. Do you remember when there was a employee/employer commitment and when we cared about one another? What happened to that? Where is the "transparency" that is always talked about? I only hope and pray that what was said by senior leadership had some sense of truth and honesty. Peoples lives depend on it. Actions will say it all.
Original Poster,
I am not about to bash you like these other people who commented. I think that having faith is a good thing, and if we are trying our best, then no one can say that we didn't try.
The only thing I will say is that while some of the stuff on here sounds like bitter, sour grapes; they may not be completely wrong. It is not good when a company is in as much debt as we are. But I do think that as long as the loans are being reinvested in the company, and not just on the same old c-ap we have had for a decade or two, then that's not a complete negative.
What I'm saying is just please have your eyes wide open. If we don't really push and sell these new products (with the higher profits) then we are going to have a problem. We literally HAVE to turn a good profit again for the next several years or they will find a way (aka cost cutting measures...aka more layoffs) to ensure the books look good at the end of the year.
You do realize that no one is going to buy a company with an unmanageable debt burden right.
I see someone drank the kool-aid. May want to check for that frontal labomaty
You do realize that Sycamore wants to saddle Staples with $1B and get out of its investment altogether, right? Hope you had a blast in Orlando; remember what Nero did while Rome burned? But keep telling yourself about how this time is different, the company is really turning itself around. SP was never in this for the long haul; it’s always been about gutting the company.
https://magazine.promomarketing.com/article/sycamore-foisting-staples-debt-highlights-the-negative-side-of-private-equity-investment/
Ha ha ha. That new logo. That alone really sets the tone for the ingenuity at Staples. Brilliant. You keep telling yourself you’re “excited for the next chapter.” Every generation says that within the company, and it’s usually followed by another round of layoffs, cuts and empty promises.
it's a puppet show to boost the sellout price.
get a clue.
Totally agree. An amazing two days. The next great chapter is about to be written.