Copy & Print Associate - Copy and Print Associate Staples Employee Review

3.0
Jun 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you want a good part-time job, you can count on getting hours. They would have given me the max 25 a week if they could, but I told them no more than 15 (I was working another job and doing school full-time), and that's exactly what I got each week. And the pay is pretty good. At my other job, I get paid minimum wage. Here I started off at $8.05 an hour, and after the first two weeks, got a raise to $8.20 an hour.

Cons

It was a very stressful job. You have to be super good at multitasking and balancing priorities, because you have jobs coming on online, through email, over the counter - and you're managing the Shipping Center as well. Pretty much all by yourself. Even when there are two employees on at the same time, it's pretty stressful. Most days I ended up having to stay an extra hour to give a hand with finishing up projects before deadlines. Especially since I was new and didn't know how to do everything yet, I felt like I could never please everybody: it was just about impossible to get every project done by the time the customer expected it to be done. In the end, I chose to quit and stick with my first job. Even though that job pays a lot less, it's much less stressful and I enjoy it. I really wish Staples could have worked out, because it did pay better; but I just couldn't deal with it anymore.

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Cons

The Escalation Specialist role was originally part of the Center of Excellence (COE) and fully remote. It is no longer remote. Management relies heavily on weekly “validation” scorecards to evaluate performance. These scorecards often feel subjective and based more on opinion than actual workload, metrics, or demonstrated knowledge. They do not accurately reflect your true performance or skill level. Recognition tends to go to the same small group of individuals (primarily within Vendor Management), even though the Specialists are responsible for the majority of the day‑to‑day work and issue resolution. This creates an uneven sense of visibility and appreciation across the team. You deserve better!

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