Office Depot reviews

Pay was abysmal. After working there for three years and being promoted to a key holder position, I was only making 1.00 /hr more than minimum wage. My biggest ever raise with a near perfect performance review, was 20 cents and that was right before I left the company. Also, the "tech bench" where I worked on computers was a joke. I had a three foot by two foot end cap desk where I was expected to actually work on computers. I didn't even have enough room to fit the company computer that I was supposed to use to monitor work orders, so I had to relocate it. How can you expect us to repair/upgrade customers computers when we are working in a space so small, I cant even fit my own work computer on it? We also used extremely out of date equipment / KVM switches to plug in customer PC's, had an internet connection of less than 1 Mbps, and were forced to install a "PC Tune Up" program on every computer we serviced. That program was ridiculous, it said every computer we installed it on needed a $160.00 service package, even computers that were brand new.

Sales goals for the department can be unrealistic and are very dependent upon walk-in traffic. If you don't look busy, it is easy for management to co-opt you into doing other tasks outside of your department as well, leaving you to do the work of two or three people at times. District management has an eye out for their own bonuses and slashes store payroll in order to meet their bonus objectives. This can cause severe understaffing in the store, again forcing you to do multiple jobs.