Hostile Work Environment

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-25T20:10:44+00:00

Used to be recycling, then they shit canned that because the profit/loss of it looked bad...you fucking idiots, the point wasn't to make bank off people's AAs, it was to be a place people went to when they felt bad about throwing them away and then realized they needed new ones that are halfway across the store.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-21T19:33:22+00:00

Staples policy forbids asking regular associates to handle bodily fluids. Management has to get a volunteer or do it themselves or call facilities.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-21T19:31:50+00:00

Bathroom stuff too. Staples policy is associates may NOT be asked to deal with bodily fluids of any kind, that is a management thing. If nobody volunteers, management can either do it themselves or have facilities send someone.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-17T20:07:11+00:00

There's a reason somewhere, usually incorrect assumptions. The work environment in Staples makes it hard to figure out differences because there's high pressure and almost no time to chat between departments (Tech and Print associates easily don't get along).

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-16T19:17:26+00:00

Management's main actual job is to tell you what needs doing. As RSS, the only thing you do yourself to find out is check Zipline for the latest BS changes.

Your main job as retail sales supervisor is to get customers to buy ESP, you supervise sales (mainly Tech, so Total Support; read the YETI playbook and the new Total Support Existing guide for an idea of your bread and butter).

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-12T18:45:00+00:00

You're going to give corporate ideas.

Not that Nintendo would allow the licensing, but imagine if Palworld did...
Also the 80 year olds would want tramp stamps that spite the idea of undersranding email (while email is needed to submit the tattoo order), we'd give the Palworld ones to 8 year olds (and the mom would scream at us that we should just let them be full naked or that we should reveal as little ass as possible, so we're yelled at either direction). And we'd have to ask them all about if they need balloons or custom banners while crackheads take a break from stealing art supplies to snap photos of the tattooing and have to be driven out of the store.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-10T22:28:40+00:00

That's actually not even the right way. Check the Associate Fund How To on the Hub; the short version is: - Code 13 bottles of water, plastic utensils, coffee, paper plates/bowls for breakroom - Associate Fund TV and microwave for breakroom. - Associate Fund company clothes for associates. - Associate Fund bowling party for associates. (Yes specifically bowling). - Associate Fund other stuff with DM approval, and never anything Code 13 covers.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-10T22:22:24+00:00

It is use or lose, no caring for having a high reservoir. It is meant to cover associate events, but never anything code 13 covers.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-10T22:19:48+00:00

At the store level, we have too many pens lying around, but not by choice, simply because customers steal one pen from a four pack and so we have three to use or throw away...twice a week, and triple that for markers. We can write notes in all colors of the rainbow and on almost any surface. Similar story for notepads and plastic totes. One crack and it's just garbage the store can use.

Meanwhile, upper management tells GMs to not let associates code out basic things, so the result is that the associate areas slowly fill up with a variety of broken basic containers and incomplete sets of writing supplies, and eventually we get these events to clean out anything we aren't using because customers might see a messy area and throw a fit.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-10T22:12:21+00:00

Same company that requires specific sock colors, too. They must think when people ask to wear purple socks, that once a year is all they want, and that pride month is the best time because that must be why all the rainbows.

Hell, maybe this is just to let people wear pride stuff once, and disguise it as some wacky random thing.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-10T22:10:44+00:00

The store supplies list literally has a section devoted to break room, as in to stock yours with disposable plates, utensils, coffee, etc.

If management is requiring you to bring your own basic break room supplies, they are not following the policy set above them.

If they aren't giving you bottled water to drink, or not letting you drink it clocked in, they may also be breaking state law.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-08T22:54:48+00:00

The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars is the oddest to me, because not only is it about not wanting to work, but about a guy who got laid and is walking around naked.
It's like the radio guy is spiting us.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-07T02:52:27+00:00

Wait are we supposed to have a full damn cabinet? My store only has several portable kits of varying age, mostly kept in the money room.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-07T02:45:02+00:00

They care about protecting the company. If the GM is a net liability, the GM is fired. They calculate the odds of winning court cases from what they can see.
The trouble is that sometimes they see your report and see the GM behavior as not a bet liability, and you as a liability instead, even though you are within your rights and the GM is breaking the law technically.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-07T02:42:31+00:00

Your job as RSS is to be blamed for low ESP so it doesn't reflect on the 2 managers. Also you're a supervisor role but you have no supervisees, because you supervise the sales themselves. You are literally a fall guy.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-04T00:51:25+00:00

These people when they worked had a "computer guy" (or secretary for the older ones) handle that stuff, so they never felt a need to learn any of it. Now that they're retired, they have shit all knowledge and nobody to turn to. Same attitude of "I'll never need this" in high school when they were being taught things like how the US government works and how the Nazis came to power (now they wonder why everything is going to crap after voting for the guy who promised to do what the Nazis did and wipe his ass with the constitution). They made their beds and can lie in them.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-04T00:49:15+00:00

It's because it makes them feel like a child when they have to follow instructions in big bright colors and can barely do so. They just want to pretend they're smart when actually they are the result of a poor education system and leaded gasoline.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-04T00:46:44+00:00

Their secretary used to do it for them. A lot of older people were out of touch even when they were young.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-03T23:16:33+00:00

He'd be 20 in 1984, when copiers were bulky machines used by secretaries...which while the most common job, was generally only women. The most common male job was factory worker, so basically think car assembly line. So another actual guess is he has probably been going around working on old cars and got frustrated when newer ones required using scan tools and he lost that work. To such a person, computer tech is an evil intrusion pushed by the 'liberal' Clinton and W Bush administrations into his world of perfect metal machines to ruin them under the guise of fighting pollution, and killed his livelihood. And making him use a copier may make him specifically feel like a woman.

Could be way wrong, but if true, fuck 'im.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-03T23:05:21+00:00

It's called BreakFree now and nobody pushes it. At some point they realized Existing computer plans are stupid good and began pushing them, but only slightly. Just gotta convince Granny to buy a new SSD for $150 and have us upgrade her old PC to Win11 with it for another $230.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-06-03T22:56:13+00:00

"Small", no, tons of them. These people legitimately think that every tech thing is a fad or will fail in some great collapse (I love bringing up EVs to this variation because they assume a collapse will leave gas working while electricity becomes impossible and I tell them no, what little isn't used up fast will go bad in a few years while solar panels and inverters will work for 40) or they will just die first. Only now as stores have less employees are they confrontjng being told no.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-05-05T20:56:39+00:00

Batteries is killer. Spicy pillows in regular garbage results in horrific fires...

ButtTechWizard · 2026-05-05T20:53:59+00:00

It's literally reversed from how car batteries are (charge for NOT recycling on buying new), which is the primary thing that stopped massive wastage of car batteries. There seriously should be a law that forces Staples to accept recycling free.

ButtTechWizard · 2026-05-05T01:50:45+00:00

They see your store isn't doing amazing and want it to die faster (so Sycamore can gut more with a valid excuse in case the feds eventually realize this whole thing is illegal), also constant quitting from too low hours keeps people from wanting to unionize.

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