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If you want to see a video of a bunch of fools sledding down a 20+ foot high mountain of snow in a dark parking lot, click the link. Sledding Mount Staples

As we prepare for Black Friday and the holiday season, I thought I would update you on what’s been going on at Staples. Okay, so Back To School was two months ago, but hey, I’ve been busy. And so was the store. It was crazy! We did almost double the business that they expected. It [...]

Wow! I never participated in a “Grand Opening” or “Black Friday”-type sale in a retail store before. At least not on the employee side. Heck, I’ve only gone shopping on Black Friday once, that was all it took to cure me of that nonsense! So when I walked into the store on Sat. June 13th at about [...]

Wow! The first 60 days of the new store have breezed past us and I havn’t posted anything here. I mean it’s not like nothing is happening. So now I just need to figure out where to start. Hmmm….. The first few weeks that the store was open we did pretty good business. People seemed [...]

Last year the comapny I work for, Ninth House, merged with another company, Personell Decisions Inc. Since PDI was a bit larger (700 employees vs 60) we have adopted several of their policies and procedures. One of them is their annual performance reviews which are done every year in April and May. We are given [...]

So the store opened Saturaday to… well, nothing really. They are working on a big “Grand Opening” but that won’t be until May. So it was kind of quiet. I showed up at 3pm to find a laptop that needed a PC Tuneup *and* a virus removal. Also that the owner was coming back with [...]

T’was the night before the opening, and all through the store, not an item was out of place, not even the door. The product was lining the shelves to bursting, in hopes of customers coming in first thing. The ink was all hanging on their pegs, the toner on the shelves. The printers were shiny, [...]

So there I am, minding my own business at the EasyTech counter wiating for a system restore to complete when this dude walks up to the desk and starts mumbling about wireless access and getting a bad signal and disconnecting and he got the thing for the laptop but now he needs the other thing. [...]

Okay, so another day working at Staples and another story. Now this is second hand so I can’t guarantee it’s truth, but even if the guy who told me this made it up, it is worth sharing. Thursday afternoon a gentleman in his 50′s, of central Asian descent (Indian, Pakistani, etc), comes into the store [...]

As some of you might know, I have started working a 2nd job at Staples. Currently I am training at the Hicksville store but by April 4th I will be in the brand new Levittown store. I will be what they call an “EasyTech” at the store, which means that I will be offering services to [...]