FedEx Office reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(3,750 total reviews)
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67% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

FedEx Office has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,750 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FedEx Office employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Dec 31, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Some employees there are great people You MIGHT learn some tech stuff IF you take the initiative to ask questions Medical and other benefits are OK

Cons

The customers are ALL extremely abusive towards team members, and even worse, when the customers complain to management or corporate, NO MATTER WHAT the team member is always responsible and at fault.... FedEx has this policy of "never tell a customer NO" even if the customer request defies any and all physical possbility! So in turn that creates anger and distrust with customers, who simply come in to the centers and lash out at team members, complain to corporate, and then team members get repremanded again by management! It's a vicious cycle that seems like a neverending bombardment of abuse to the working team member.... Centers seem to be understaffed around the clock, and expectations from management only seem to grow asa the size of the team member workforce seems to be depleeting, all while the pay starts out low and only increases a few cents once a year.... If anyone is thinking of working here after reading all this, then ontop of it all, be prepared to be micro-managed and audited on a minute by minute basis. FedEx Office is HUGE on auditing a re- auditing....They change policies and procedures seemingly every few weeks, so once you learn one method of operating and seem to be capable of mastering it on on an audit report, corporate and senor management then void that standard operating procedure in place of an entirely new and different way of doing things, immediatly auditing centers, short on staff to begin with, on these new policies and wonder why most centers do poorly on these audits....and be warned, the FedEx auditers seem more eager to bring managers and team members down then they are to actually finding ways and means to make the company operate better....they seem like "Internal Affairs" police officers who seem more interested in how many managers and team members they can get written up more than actually trying to better a failing company structure.... Bottom line, if you don't like to work in an unorganized environment where every minute you feel like your job is in jeapordy and both managers and customers talk to you like you are sub-human, then this is not the place for you....I am a firm believe in anything is better than the unemployment line, however, driving a cab might be better for your mental health....

3.0
Aug 9, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Other team members are great. We all work together to handle the intense demands of our busy center. Once you learn the job , which takes many months, you can have a good sense of accomplishment each day, because you will do a lot every day.

Cons

Pay Does not reflect the amount of skill, knowledge, and responsibility that are expected of you. You will be a shipping agent, a printing technician, a cashier, a sales person, a stock clerk, and a receptionist. Especially difficult is the expectation of being a sales person, always trying to upsell and add more items to each order. Which you get no additional compensation for just more work to fill your already busy day.

2.0
Jan 19, 2015

Not worth it.

Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits. Usually flexible with hours depending on location.

Cons

Rude customers. I have worked retail, fast food, and been a waitress. I have never had to deal with the level of rudeness and ignorance that I have at FedEx Office. Customers wait till the last minute to come in a print important things like homework, proposals, or invitations and get really angry when we are too busy to do it on the spot. They will treat you like you are stupid and sometimes even curse at you. I have even had a customer throw something at me. The pay is not enough for all that you have to know and deal with. We are expected to know everything about shipping a package including, what is restricted, every type of packaging we offer, how many inches of bubble wrap to put of every different type of fragile material, and various other things. The shipping, however, is nothing compared to how much we have to learn to run the printing area of FedEx Office. There are various programs we have to learn how to use including Microsoft word, photoshop, excel, and many other programs that were created by FedEx Office. We also have to learn how to make all of the different print products we offer. Banners, canvas prints, adhesive vinyl, invitations, business cards, flyers, brochures, pamphlets, programs, carbon copies, note pads, resumes, booklets, and posters. Just to name a few. Lastly, we have a retail area so we have to change price tags, restock, reset, and organize all of the overpriced products we offer. Always short staffed. With a staff or 1-3 people (4 if we're lucky) we are expected to do all of the above while we are helping customers currently in the store and trying to complete all orders by the due times. On top of all of that we are also expected to vacuum the entire store, take out all the trash, clean the windows, and clean the restrooms. All they care about is numbers. FedEx Office does not care about the customers or their employees. At the end of the day the only thing they care about is if we hit our goals. We are expected to sell a certain number of pack and ships, a certain percentage of color copies, and certain number of signs and graphics. Those are just a few of the things they measure. They don't care whether the customers are extremely happy or unsatisfied. In their eyes you are not doing a good job unless those numbers are met. These are just some of the problems I had while working at FedEx Office. I could go on all day.

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