Staples

[Demon_Skeith]

As in the store and not the actual item

Anyways, after 2 and a quarter years I officially quit tonight. I will say I met some great, strange, stranger and not so great people working here. My hate and anger for humanity has deepen thanks to this job and I now know when I get a gf I need to take her shopping to see what kind of person she can be.


As for the store itself and the company, I got to say if it got some real leadership this place could seriously be a giant in the terms of wal-mart giant power. But sadly the company has dictated that everything must go out with some kind of attachment, be it more paper, more ink, a Square Trade protection plan or whatever rings people of their money. Seriously, never buy a PC as the company demands the customer spend an extra 250 dollars or more otherwise the staff gets yelled at by the higher ups for hours.

But for anything else, Staples should be a stop for you. All the stores price match local stores and amazon and they do carry a lot of stuff from pens to shipping stuff to daily needs like paper towels or TP.

And I'll give you all a great insider tip!

Go to staples, sign up for rewards account.

Then sign up for a More Account, yes this is a credit card but worth it (buy something 150 or more and get a $25 on your first statement) and make sure it gets tied to your staples rewards account.

Buy something, anything really and this will bump up your reward account to Premier status, which this gets you 5% back on all staples purchases plus turn in 20 ink cartridges a month at $2 a credit per cartridge which the credit is good towards anything in store or on the website.

Go to ebay and buy a large box of empty ink cartridges for like $30 which will give you anywhere from 200 on up.

Go to Staples store (not online!) and buy $30 worth of ink, for the next six months you can turn in 20 cartridges a month and after that six months you must rebuy another $30 worth of ink again to keep getting the credit.

Minus the cost of the two month $60 spending in ink plus whatever for the box of cartridges, you are given over $200 to spend on day to day stuff like cleaning supplies, extra tech or just to stock up on free TP or laundry soap.

Granted the $200 is a yearly total at $40 a month, but I'm up for a free $40 a month which with price matching you can get a lot of stuff under that $40.

 

[VirusZero]

I don't usually buy from Staples because where I live it tends to be on the pricey side of things for a lot of items. Their games tend to be limited selection and not overly great priced. So for them I'd rather go to Gamestop. The chairs are pretty expensive and not always that comfortable. The desks are WAY overpriced for what you get (most of them being mdf or particle board, rare ones being metal). I'm sorry but if I'm about to drop 300+ on a new desk it's going to be actual wood and not some cheap pressboard crap with a veneer finish.

Their selection for non-game stuff is usually pretty good though. In some cases they are the only store that carries some items. Like looking for new routers they're the only store around that carries the Asus line. They also carry a better selection of computer components than a lot of other stores around. (Way more hard drives, graphics cards and monitors. Very few CPUs and no ram though.)

I have no interest in buying ink because I don't have a printer and it's not really worth it for me to buy one. I don't print often enough to justify the cost. So in the few instances I do have to print I'll just use a Staples print shop and pay the 10 cents per page cost. (I've had to print like 10 pages in the last year... So I think I can live with spending only a dollar on printing. I mean I've spent way more on other things and thought nothing of it.)

Though now that you're done at Staples, got a new job lined up? Or just planning on taking some time off and relaxing?

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I don't usually buy from Staples because where I live it tends to be on the pricey side of things for a lot of items. Their games tend to be limited selection and not overly great priced. So for them I'd rather go to Gamestop. The chairs are pretty expensive and not always that comfortable. The desks are WAY overpriced for what you get (most of them being mdf or particle board, rare ones being metal). I'm sorry but if I'm about to drop 300+ on a new desk it's going to be actual wood and not some cheap pressboard crap with a veneer finish.

Their selection for non-game stuff is usually pretty good though. In some cases they are the only store that carries some items. Like looking for new routers they're the only store around that carries the Asus line. They also carry a better selection of computer components than a lot of other stores around. (Way more hard drives, graphics cards and monitors. Very few CPUs and no ram though.)

I have no interest in buying ink because I don't have a printer and it's not really worth it for me to buy one. I don't print often enough to justify the cost. So in the few instances I do have to print I'll just use a Staples print shop and pay the 10 cents per page cost. (I've had to print like 10 pages in the last year... So I think I can live with spending only a dollar on printing. I mean I've spent way more on other things and thought nothing of it.)

Though now that you're done at Staples, got a new job lined up? Or just planning on taking some time off and relaxing?

Oh yeah, we are way over priced. But like I said staples price matches so find it cheaper elsewhere and you can get it there. Which by the way what place is your staples? Mine only carries netgear routers.

God I wish I could take more time off, I did pretty much take the last week off and next week I start at a call center type job.

 

[NameGervin]

So you finally gave the secret recipe eh.
(I'm referring to a meme that a guy was fired by KFC and he had to post the secret herbs and spices)

Anyway, quit, so you got a better job?

 

[froggyboy604]

Good luck with your new job.

Thanks for the Staples tips on ink cartridges.

 

[VirusZero]

Inbound or outbound calls?

I worked at a call centre for a short time myself and hated it. (I did outbound calling. Specifically handling surveys. So I'd call people and ask them what they thought of like McDonalds or whatever.) We had to do so many calls a night and very often by the end my throat was so ragged I could barely speak.

Add onto that the fact that so many people either were dumb or looking to mess with us. Don't get me wrong, I completely understand not wanting to deal with telemarketers or surveys. But at the same time, just either say not interested or put on do not call list. Hanging up on a survey anyway just meant we had to mark it as a hangup and the system would schedule that number to come up again a few days later. And just saying random stuff to screw results isn't overly useful either. Like one of the questions I often had to ask was "are you between the age of 18 and 65?" if they said no then the survey ended right there. But a lot of times people would say yes then later on I'd have to ask their age... there were enough people who couldn't figure out that 66 is older than 65 (or were doing it intentionally).

All that said though this was outbound calling. If you're inbound calling it's a whole other situation and you might enjoy it a lot more. (I've heard from people who do the inbound it's often easier. Though depending on the type of customers you're dealing with it can likely have it's own difficulties.)

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Inbound or outbound calls?

I worked at a call centre for a short time myself and hated it. (I did outbound calling. Specifically handling surveys. So I'd call people and ask them what they thought of like McDonalds or whatever.) We had to do so many calls a night and very often by the end my throat was so ragged I could barely speak.

Add onto that the fact that so many people either were dumb or looking to mess with us. Don't get me wrong, I completely understand not wanting to deal with telemarketers or surveys. But at the same time, just either say not interested or put on do not call list. Hanging up on a survey anyway just meant we had to mark it as a hangup and the system would schedule that number to come up again a few days later. And just saying random stuff to screw results isn't overly useful either. Like one of the questions I often had to ask was "are you between the age of 18 and 65?" if they said no then the survey ended right there. But a lot of times people would say yes then later on I'd have to ask their age... there were enough people who couldn't figure out that 66 is older than 65 (or were doing it intentionally).

All that said though this was outbound calling. If you're inbound calling it's a whole other situation and you might enjoy it a lot more. (I've heard from people who do the inbound it's often easier. Though depending on the type of customers you're dealing with it can likely have it's own difficulties.)

inbound, they call in to get their claim status and what not.