Could be better - Technology Specialist Office Depot Employee Review

3.0
Jan 21, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible hours, retail job that isn't minimum wage base pay, store management is great, understanding, listens to their employees, and actually cares about what happens to the store. Gives hours to those who actually work and sell. Can be an overall fun or interesting place to work in if you enjoy sales. Sky's the limit for career advancement depending on where you're at.

Cons

District management and above is overbearing, micromanaging, and sets unattainable/conflicting goals in order to not give bonuses and to just give up on the store. Doesn't listen to ideas or suggestions if you're not part of the "clique" or out of fear of falling out of grace with corporate. No matter how well you do, how much you sell, it's never good enough. Constantly surpassing last year and the years before sales and still no recognition there's improvement. Commission off of warranties is ridiculously low, practically nonexistent since they cut the old program.... Hear they might bring it back though, so fingers crossed. Raises? What raises? You could sell your own family every month for a year and they'll put off your raise until the next year or give you a quarter like it's the "old days" and that was a lot of money. Opportunities for advancement? Maybe if they actually let go of incompetent supervisors and managers. Instead they're given chance after chance to avoid lawsuits and HR complaints and thus, lose efficiency and sales because, again, horrible management. Turnover is extremely high. Remember that coworker five minutes ago? Now it's someone else. Customers within tech can be horribly rude, and not know what an internet browser is to all of sudden telling you how to do your job. They want their computer fixed but refuse to pay a tech fee, or expect a miracle for their ancient e-machine from the 1980s.

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5.0
Mar 10, 2026
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Pros

Store never get overwhelmingly busy - mix of light/busy days Management does a good job at listening to employees

Cons

Have to push selling product on people that don't want it Schedule may be inflexible

1.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

There are no pros to working for this company.

Cons

Low pay, grueling hours, unsafe and toxic work environment. The company does not offer opportunities for its sore employees to advance to the corporate sector; especially if you have a college degree. As a store employee neither you, your expertise and skill set, nor your ideas on how to improve workflow and company culture matter.

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