r/Staples

Hello, it's me, the questions guy asking his questions again...seeking wisdom from individuals in a similar predicament. (Working retail at Staples)

Pivoting from my prior question about staying cool, I'm curious. Is there any tips y'all can offer about not wanting to completely shrivel up after a shift?

The only tip I know won't work, sadly, is caffeine. ​​I have ADHD and caffeine actually makes me wanna sleep. (Learned the hard way after drinking the mountain dew we had in the break room a few months ago.) ​​​

The only times I don't feel exhausted are usually when theres two cashiers up front or I'm sent off to assemble furniture.

Also, if y'all don't have any tips, feel free to vent exhaustion stories.

So I called out on my shift scheduled before July 4th. Many people have told that I will miss out on the bonus 4 hr pay if I call out of a shift before or after the holiday. I did in fact, receive the holiday pay. I don’t understand why people have different things to say on this. Anyways for anyone curious, you get the pay

So I'm going ahead and applying for unemployment even though my boss says they NEVER pay and told me good luck after she reduced my hours for three weeks straight and couldn't make it to work.

So now the unemployment case says I voluntarily quit -No call no show for three days or more. But that's highly untrue and I provided a good cause letter in regards and about phone communication that was done. They didn't offboard until 2/18 but I wasn't able to get to work since 2/5 and had been trying to figure it out hence they would have offboarded me sooner.

It's favorable unless they contest.

What do you guys think??

they have 14 days from 7/2 to contest with proof against my claim.

I used to recycle a battery each month and got points, but now I have to pay $3 to do so. Does Staples still give points for recycling anything else besides ink like tech items?

For the past few days my manager has scheduled me for opening, and someone comes in at 2 for closing. The manager knows my schedule and will not relieve me for a break. I have been going without break and have been saying that on the survey when I clock out. Just need to know if anyone actually looks at those surveys or not and if I can get in trouble for it

i was gonna off myself that last one was so bad

I’ve officially completed my last day at Staples after working consistently for 5 years. And can I just say, this company can SUCK IT!!!! I was getting the same pay as someone who was just recently hired and every time I asked for a raise they always had something to nitpick about because I wasn’t PERFECT. Yet, I was always relied on in cc. They are absolute trash and give ZERO shits about their employees only their profit. Good riddance Staples, I hope you all can make it out as well😔

hey guys i just started at staples after working office depot print. i had my first day friday and was told over the phone to come back next week 9-5.. but i never was shown how to get my schedule nor do i have anybody’s contact info to ask.. LMAO can anyone help me? 😭

I work print, sometimes we get dead, 0 orders, 0 training to do, 0 things to organize or do at all in the print center. Besides of course asking to help out somewhere else, what do yall do to kill time? (Besides looking at ur phone as well)

Is it decent in California? Just considering if I should apply for a full time position.

this manager literally caused me so much stress and ive been working for one week.

First, He literally forgot he hired me and didnt call me back for the start time until i called him

Second, He told me in an interview that he fired a bunch of people for their performance. And He hired 10 new replacements me being one of them.

He reprimanded me for not making sales. Even though I ask every time for signups and dont miss a single customer. He said hes gonna take me off register if i dont make sales. Mind u ive been working for 5 days like damn. Like why am i being threatened?

Then i got yelled at today for being a minute late. I was in the store at time in the morning. I cant enter the store if its locked. and it takes me like a minute to walk to the register and sign in.

When i got yelled at today for being late, i literally said “im one minute late” and he was like “yah but u need to be up and ready to work on time” but how can i do that if he doesnt even open the door for me when i arrive. do i wait outside for him to notice me waiting and for him to open the door?

Sometimes hes at the register and i have to wait for him to finish his stuff before he logs out the computer. so my clock in times show that im a few or so minutes behind.

Im really getting stressed out. I dont need this job, only for the summer, but i wanna report him because this is just not fair

i also feel like my case isnt strong enough

Don't get me wrong, super glad I didn't have to, just curious, but I got 7 colored pages in cardstock printed and the staff were super nice, i asked how I could pay and they said not to worry. Was it to save time? Or maybe because I look like a student? (I am a student😭) or is this normal?

I just started working here about two weeks ago. I really like it. It’s pretty laid back and working in printing/copy is super fun and keeps me busy. The only down side of this job is the customers. I don’t know if it’s my location, but I have met the most nasty people working here. Everyone is so impatient and rude if things don’t go their way. I’m still learning all the printing we do so when I’m alone I can’t really determine what can be done at staples or not. Yesterday I had some man get passive aggressive with me because he couldn’t figure out how to send an email to our print… I also cross train so I’m up front on registers too. I’ve never met such rude working in customer service. Is this an everywhere experience?

So like I know were allowed to wear black or blue jeans but just to clarify. Any kind of blue jeans in fine? Even blue on the lighter side?