great people, terrible upper management - Copy and Print Associate Staples Employee Review

3.0
Aug 14, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Enjoyed working with customers, learning how to use the copy and print technology, and got very lucky in that I had a great manager who cared about his employees and his store.

Cons

Upper management constantly pushing more work onto lower level wage workers while offering little incentives to do so. Customers ask the world of copy and print associates and there's often a significant gap between the reality of store and employee capabilities and what the customer thinks those capabilities are--something the company encourages to a degree to hold onto customers. Company is on the fritz due to less demand for its products and services and I got the sense that a real sense of panic pervaded every decision upper management made.

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Cons

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