One of the worst Jobs - Print and Marketing Associate Staples Employee Review

2.0
May 17, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Easy to learn - Large database to learn from

Cons

- Hourly pay is less than fast food employees - Unrealistic sales goals (Selling protection plans for office supplies, signing up customers to rewards programs sometimes unknowingly) - Unmotivating quota rewards. An extra hundred dollars every quarter if your whole team made their signup goals. Less bonus money if you are part time. - A company vs employee mentality instead of company & employee - Boring training videos. I think the employees deciding which training videos are needed to be watched have never actually watched the videos they are assigning. They are so difficult to retain any information since they compete to be the most boring videos you have ever watched. Also at one point, they recommend using a fire extinguisher as a weapon in the case of a mass shooter entering the store. I am not kidding.

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5.0
May 6, 2026
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Pros

good coworkers and benefits and work life balance

Cons

no flexible hours for students

3.0
Jul 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The location I worked at was very kind and accommodating.

Cons

They are forced to run a skeleton crew, Amazon returns bring in excessively angry people who do not buy things, too much emphasis on signing people up for the rewards program, balloons are coming

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