My honest opinion? Well, here it is. I worked at Office Depot for two years. I was very quick to learn things, especially in the print department. Within 6 months of being hired, I was moved up 2 positions. Once as the print advisor and the next, the Print Manager. My store manager was impressed with my progress and honestly, I loved my job. I loved working that department. Well... I loved it until things with the company started getting worse and nothing was being done. We were expected to work the workload of four different people with the hands of two others. Running a tier 5 store with only 3 people for the entirety of a shift, if that, is extremely difficult. The reason? Payroll being cut. Then hours were cut and raises were not being given. Oh and that bonus you supposedly get? I didn't see it once. We met goals too. And my last few months there were terrible due to the management there. The Assistant manager harassed me until the point where I had to turn in my two weeks because it was so bad. I did not trust my store manager because he had failed to take action in the past with the same said assistant manager who has harassed many women in my position, despite being a female who had the position once before. She failed to do her job appropriately and never took blame for her faults but accused me. Even on a couple of occasions where I was off and she was the one who had taken the order. This company does not praise their employees for their accomplishments. Rather, they harass you and tell you that you are failing at your job and that it is on the line if your metrics do not increase. My metrics were one of the highest in the store. Especially with that new business select stuff. It's a dumb program being pushed that is only going to rip customers off but hey, as long as you can harass your employees to harass their customers on the daily, I guess it is fine. It's not like they get paid 10 dollars an hour to do it. Work life there is stressful and honestly, makes your life miserable. Customers feel as though they are entitled to many things and if you do not wait hand and foot for them, they get pissed. And then it is our fault when complaints are made about how no one was there to help, but there was only two people running the entire store. And yes, that happens many times in the store I worked for. But if you would like to go home every night and cry in a pillow because tomorrow you are going to go right back to a place that just disrespects you and doesn't pay you right, you do you. Ever since I quit my job, my new work place has shown me that work is not supposed to make you want to eat a bowl of glass shards rather than go in. I hated my job and I did love it. I was so sad after quitting because despite having shitty management and a failing system, I rather enjoyed working the print department. I loved the creativity and the orders. I loved the complexity of that department and I would have stayed longer. But honestly, that company has failed so many of their employees due to greed and unwillingness to change. So I do not recommend anyone work their unless it is a last option. Because it is not worth the misery you will face in the coming weeks.

Anybody else just straight up refuse to shill the business select? We get hounded about it at least three times a day every shift, and I'm so fucking fed up with it that I just straight up will not talk about it. My GM keeps trying to shove it down customers throats every time they come up with ink or toner, and I'm so fucking sick to death. What the fuck do I get out of this??? It's not even like I'd get treated better if I DID get a business select bc nobody gives a shit about what you do, just what they notice you DON'T do.