The only Photoshopping of price tags that occurs in our area is when we have issues with our price tags, and they need to be corrected.

I just posted a story about how Office Depot Sucks. Went to buy a laptop, they said it’s in stock and would have it shipped to me. So then I gave them my billing and address info, and then he randomly said.

OH ITS OUT OF STOCK! WE WILL PUT IT ON BACK ORDER DONT WORRY! I said Ok, and they said they’d call by September 14. Well, the 16th came around with NO CALL! So I called them, they said,

OH SORRY, WE CANT SELL IT TO YOU (like we said we would) ON BACK ORDER FOR $699, MY SUPERVISOR SAYS NO. ANYTHING ELSE I CAN HELP YOU WITH?

I said, No… I won’t ever consider buying from you again. Good bye. -And I hung up.

Bottom line, I got F—ed over by Office Depot. I could’ve bought it from Newegg.com for $689 at the time, and could’ve had it by now, but Office Depot had to be lying asses about their stock, their Back order policy, and their “loyalty” to customers. So yeah. Thanks Office Depot. You’re the Worst!

why i’m here. down to business lol.
about the lying, it’s all true.
I changed prices and added ppp’s to merchandise that was marked lower.
I lied to customers, told them that we don’t have the laptop and never will get it, as it’s sold out, even though it’s a brand new item, – just because they were old and stupid and didn’t wanna buy a ppp.
I would constantly throw in ink and toner, hell didn’t ring people up for stuff just to get the company numbers.
Selling computers and laptops with no attachments was 10000000X worse then having missing products.
managers would literally pull the computer staff in the sales room yell at you how much you suck at selling, yet when merchandise is stolen it’s oh crap not again and thats it.
so eventually my store and the stores in the area , just started ripping the company off and giving outrageous deals to customers to bribe them into buying ppp’s and accessories and all sorts of stuff and the managers eventually got off our back and worried more about theft. you had to do this or you wouldn’t keep your job.. the sales goals were just out of this world retarded to get.. and in some locations they had stores with no customers just for the fact that it’s near corporate and that no competition would be able to compete because thats to close to “home” . Home being the main office depot central where all the fat big wigs are.
back to theft. boy it was great. i remember a manager (in which of my 3 year period changed 6 times) told me it costs 40k per store to run surveillance ( aka install cameras and higher some one to watch like bestbuy). so each store has a given amount of product ALLOWEd to be stolen. they actually include it in there budget. which is completely common for retail but od’s was real high as they don’t try to prevent it at all.
kinda funny though,that my store abused it, hah , some people i know still work there, still stealing anything they want. ( not my friends, hope they get under fire lol, anyone still there is a complete retard)
OH my favorite , a lady in copy and print center, brought in big copy jobs that costed 300 to 1000′s of dollars and do the job.. if the customer wasn’t satisfied you have to return the cash.. well lets just say she did a great job, but somehow all the jobs she did were refunded to her pocket… pro tip to the copy and center people who wanna make some real cash. well she got caught afte rshe stole thousands from od and i think her daughter now is stripping. go figure, but these are things that went on . .regularly. people constantly getting hired and fired cause half the staff is retarded, and thats the idea.. office depot wants stupid people to control and yell at so that the managers feel good. for me to survive 3 years in that company was outright insane when i look back on it. hell the only reason i stayed and people i know stayed for long is that there was so much free crap. hell the whole store was yours for the taking. to much about the internal stuff i guess. but yeah i screwed some customers, hell i was so good i got promoted like 5 times and still my pay was like 9.50 . ahhh…, it was a joke to work there.
i remember some assistant managers snorting coke off there desk in the main office when the main manager wasn’t around. those were good ol days to lol. things i had to keep my mouth shut to keep my job. i would be here all day the more i think about it.
but yeah, stealing all day.. lying all day. i don’t know how anyone else managed to make a living there without doing it. company would say ok , focus on customers in a meeting , we get on the floor. WTF YOU DOING SELL SELL SELL, Our numbers look like crap. last year was a Great year you suck right now. blah blah blah. back to stealing and lying. every day… every day …
oh, some one calls out, who ever is working needs to CALL all the people that work with them and finds some one else to cover the floor cause god knows a manager would not come out and sell. it was just terrible. always under fire, always dealing with bs.
stupid manager chris off of linton and federal, she was a trip. lady been divorced 5 times cause she sucks and ****’s everythign she see’s to get promoted. she would come to the floor scream put this box up do this do that.. Customers need help,what you doing !! all in the same sentence while you got a box and a box cutter in your hand doing something. so you go do it.. she comes back out wtf u didn’t do anything … meanwhile you been with customers for a few hours and no stock was put away cause the other employee’s are worthless as sheit. so you get the box’s in top stock another manager comes by tells you bring them down wtf u doing thats all for a display i making.. so i bring them back down, and she (chris) comes and goes wtf again and i bring them back up. this was regular business in the company. even if you told them whats up. they were just stupid as hell.
Stupid as f*** more like it. trust me i dropped some f bombs on the whole staff when i quit , but when i look at it the od giant as it is an’t coming down. they’ll just fire and hire till all they got is down syndrome people working for them and THEN . just then they might start making their company as a whole better. until the down syndrome people realize they can walk out the building with what ever they want and not get in trouble. that box cutter each employee gets is like a free ticket to whats in the boxes… not to open bigger boxes and put stuff on the shelf. i swear it was like Christmas every day. and this is office depot. the company this is how an employee thinks. this is why od is such a bad company. all the yelling all the stress, all the money money money.. CEO taking money for his 5 6 7 million + home after the 9-11 crash.. just banking on cash.. everyone forgot that he is only 5 foot tall that short prick. wife looks like a dog to, so im happy im not him.
oh the training thats funny also. we had to watch stupid videos of people interacting, basically.. and subliminally showed you how to ripoff and sell the customer at the same time. they sure did suck at it, but my point is usually you go on the computer and train in the back room, no you gotta sell to customers as your watching the video cause you don’t get break time… even though a letter went out saying you gotta be in the break room. yeah right . and when you don’t complete the videos .. guess what manager gonna come and say .. get to it or get yelled at for hours and hours on how much your team sucks ect.. funny i think the staff of my store was like 20 people tops , but in the coarse of 3 years i remember about 70- 80 people as so many were hired and fired. i only know of like 2 people who quit the rest all fired . 40 50 of them hahah for stupid crap to. mean while me and my crew just banking, off the place. it really is al lthe motivation to work there is to get free crap cause after all the abuse you get , you might as well. i remember having clsoign shifts one day then openign shifts the next.. but since the store was in such thrash i would be there till 12 at night and back there at 6:30 in the morning.. man thats not even a good sleep man, while i didn’t have dinner or breakfast cause thats unhealthy as sheit to be eating so late. thinks like that wearing you down. some weeks you get scheduled for like 50 hours others u get like 15. part time was torture, u just couldn’t survive on it. OH MY favorite.. you get called in to work . they ALWAYS make you feel like your doing the company bad even though the other a hole called out.. thats my favorite..
back to the lying hhaha, yeah i sent people to other stores which had no stock, just to get them out of mine. like every day… daily.. didnt’ wanna sell my sheit cause i needed numbers to get. i needed the cheap laptops in my store so i could sell ppp’s. and dood the ratio of laptop sales to ppp’s was stupid .. it was percentage based. so like they would print out a report.. i sold 2 laptops 1 with ppp another with not . so we 50 % ppp for that day .. holy crap thats awesome… meanwhile antoher store sold like 10 laptops and 1 pp so they are 10 % ppp ratio .. all the employees are currently getting yelled at … pushed around on the floor by managers. thats is EXACTLY whats going on .. we all know it.
customers would come to our store to return product from another.. know what we said.. sorry we can’t take it.. go to that store.. cause it would hurt our numbers of coarse. or i would lie and make up a deal and tell them to go to another store as they have something that we do not. like an exchange.. it was great.. it basically came down to who we can out screw the most.. almost like a game of tag but the customers are doing our running.. sheit was fun. man i can go on for days, oh stolen products missing products.. just throw the wrapper behind the shelf.. let inventory take the blame for miscounting. lets see, the stupid sensor things for the alarm… tell yall what. the key for their alarm system is generic.. buy on ebay and get anything you want.. or hell the access code is enter store number enter and look here, it’s disarmed .. there even is a admin function if u google the unit how to reset the password to 1234 enter to disarm… so all those laptops and cameras and ipods.. are free. we had so many people identified for theft that i swear it was internal employee’s running the theft sting around the country.. or its that od is just that stupid. the onyl reason they bank is the mark-up on all there stock is like some times in the 1000′s of %. i seen desks that cost the store 35 bucks being sold for 200 300 4000 . it’s stupid. and the 10% employee discount is a slap to the face. Best buy is 5% above cost, happier employees = better business, no od’s moto is steal from the people steal form the employees.. bitch slap everyone .. get money.. ( except the people who are saying it are the “jaba the hut” (head up people) who control the districts of the company) i remember one of the managers for a whole year.. longest alsting one that i saw . literally never came out of his office but only for meetings.. in a building with less then 20 employee’s total, how the hell does that work. the assistant managers did all the employee relations when customers are mad, and screamed orders to everyone. lunch breaks are fun.. sitting next to your managers.. hey lets talk about work and what u gotta get done.. how about lets kill you , nope you had to talk back to them . stupid crap like that.. constant under pressure the entire time.. managers would stand right behind your back and watch yo usell and have a smile.. when u didn’t sell , they come at you with .. your approach was bad.. Man the mofo’r came in with 500 dolla and the laptop is 450 .. what am i supposed to upsale, a friggen pencil. they so broke they been declined 5 times on the od credit card and they even told you they going for bankruptcy and you yelling at my sale approach.. THAT kinda sheit.. is why YOU will have the worst sale experience in office depot.. cause the smiels you see are really just lies and lies covered up from the employees screaming GET me the F-ck Out of here.
i did like how part timers got vacation . that was a + of od. thats about it..
thank you office depot, for that experience!

I worked for office depot for about 3 years and yes we did the same thing. There is nothing wrong with that practice. The way it worked was we would have a laptop for $899 it goes to clearance to $799 that’s all that the customer gets. The District manager would then give the Store managers the option to mark down the laptop further on the store managers Discretion or sell it at the current clearance price. So what the managers would do to make their store ppp or Product Protection Plan goals is to make a bundle price for a Laptop A PPP Plan and A Bag the manger would then markdown the price of the laptop and add the PPP and bag to bring the price back to $799 which is a great deal for customers other wise they had to pay the full price anyway now they get a replacement plan and a bag for the same price. Its not rocket science its just common sense and basic math plus the customer has the option to return the PPP back to another store or same store. I dont know what the hell is Alex taking about we never used Photo shop or any of that shit each item is ringed up separate so you can return any one of those items.