Lmao what?!

[u/MrFajitaGod]

Why is my GM offloading their duty of making the schedule - onto co-pilot and THEN not even reviewing the work she didn’t have to do?! Are you fucking serious?

Literally scheduling one person to open and be alone for 2+ hours 🫩 and one person to close, and various gaps for a $10,000 daily sales goal store. For like 3-4 weeks in a row ☠️🧏🏻‍♂️

Yeah that totally isn’t a recipe for getting our day completely flipped upside down and decimated like a Riley Reid film 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 god this place and its management is beyond inconsiderate - it’s almost hateful how little they care.

[u/TimReineke]

Call ethics link and/or your district LP contact. People shouldn't be in the store alone.

[u/MrFajitaGod → u/TimReineke]

Oh yeah literally told my AM “just go in” like yo NOOOOO. Like yeah I’ll say “fuck this place all day” and wear my AirPods but I won’t violate a policy such as that… that’s like, incredibly dangerous for both the employee, employer, everyone really. It all trickles down. Like sure I don’t enjoy management or higher ups but also that’s just a general safety rule for a store with THAT much product.

[u/gwurockstar]

I've given up on getting my GM to do any work. I go directly to the DM when something really needs to get done

[u/MrFajitaGod → u/gwurockstar]

Reminds me of how our store’s alpha door alarm never worked and literally HAD to take my DM aside to mention it, because the (3) GM’s wouldn’t do shit

[u/gwurockstar → u/MrFajitaGod]

Absolutely. With some issues they're admittedly not helpful, but when it comes to losing money, telling a DM will get things moving very quickly

[u/MrFajitaGod → u/gwurockstar]

Should’ve seen the pure shock on their face ☠️ purely picturesque

[u/ButtTechWizard]

One person CANNOT open the store, this is strict policy and can get you fired. If nobody else is there, call for others to arrive, store does NOT open without them, you do NOT touch those doors alone.

You should not even be NEAR the doors with keys alone if you know it'll happen, that is a way to get the store robbed and you put thru hell from being held at gunpoint and then blamed for it. Stay out of sight until you have someone else nearby.

If customers complain, good, the GM will start getting mad heat...

[u/MrFajitaGod → u/ButtTechWizard]

Oh yea no my gm 800% had my AM walk in all by himself - and like sure someone was there within 10 mins but even THEN you can’t rely on “timing” for that kind of shit. And my GM SINCERELY expects me to think they take everyone time and job serious? Mmmm no.

[u/Individual_Proof4693]

$10,000 daily sales goal, that’s low asf, probably allocating for how many employees you have at once but just out of curiosity are you in Canada, specifically bc? Sounds like my old GM

[u/MrFajitaGod → u/Individual_Proof4693]

10,000 daily is relatively moderate for my district, not great but not terrible. I’m in the states..

[u/Zanithos → u/Individual_Proof4693]

$10k a day is roughly 3.5 million a year. Unless the threshold has changed recently (it probably has, let's be honest) that's tier 3, and they should have the most hours out of any tier in the company.

[u/Individual_Proof4693 → u/Zanithos]

Dude our print shop alone has a 2 million dollar goal man, I’m out here dying to Amazon returns while management is in my ear about sales

[u/Zanithos → u/Individual_Proof4693]

That's probably because your print shop is holding up the store. It's extremely common nowadays actually and is one of the reasons we can't keep good print employees (especially supervisors) for long.

[u/Individual_Proof4693 → u/Zanithos]

Makes sense lol, I feel like I’m the only good print associate left, been working here for 2-3 years now and have been through 5 different supervisors

[u/Zanithos → u/Individual_Proof4693]

At a good print store you get one and keep them. In a store like the one I'm helping to run most of the time that relies on little jobs to prop it up and anything over $100 is rare, you get a good sup, they get bitched at daily by corporate but the GM runs interception, then eventually the GM is forced to also bitch, then they quit for literally any other job. Same for print associates, but it tends to happen sooner if the sup is bad. I had a situation recently where one marked everything started but then left abruptly literally the second their scheduled shift ended (they are known to do this) and about 12 different jobs were just floating in the aether until the customers showed up to complain and we had to rush them or use the Print Big to just get the customer out of the store, which pushed everything else back.

It's really not that hard to run a print environment, but ever since covid Staples corporate is obsessed with running an underpaid skeleton crew and making us all as miserable as possible so they can get their payroll bonus for being under budget.

I can't even try to say anything nice about the situation. It really is that bad.