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Location: Atlanta
Company: Office Depot
Experience: Mid-level
Highest Level of Education: Undergraduate Degree



Job Responsibilities
CSM, Customer Service Manager
Job Requirements
Had some college, but came one year short of the 4 year degree.
Uppers
Helping folks with computer problems, showing people that networks, hard drives, and video cards,... need not be complicated. Also enjoyed meeting decision makers from other companies. I learned a lot from listening to them.
Downers
Daily abuse, double standards, race relations problems. pure flat out abuse. INfact, i have never even dreamed of such overtly hateful management as what i saw in that wretched company. Beleive me, its not for lack of soft skills training, that the leadership is so hateful. They really do resent the employees. This baffles me, because i know many, including myself that actually worked very hard to help them in any task needed. By the way, they needed a lot of help. Adding and subtracting, emails, reading reports... basic skills. Yet they still resented folks. Amazing.
Lifestyle
What lifestyle? I worked all day evry day, no weekends, and i was told it would all get me somewhere. Three reorganizations, two states, and two years later, it got me nowhere, but unemployed
Compensation
After 1 year i finally got medical coverage, and i never was able to sign into the 401 k they kept asking us to participate in. The problem? these things are all outsourced, and its no ones job to make any of this "HR " stuff to work. Med coverage quadrupled for families without noticed, and admin stff refused to cancell for many employees with families that saw they could simply not afford to have that much deducted from thier checks. Bonuses were taken away. I won a $$2500.00 sales contest from HP. gone!!!! thats right gone. and raises were a slap in the face. "were poor" they said. What tripe!!!
Advice to Jobseekers
Do not bother with this company. If by some unfortunate stroke of poor fate you were just hired into this company, then wear a damn microphone and digital recorder. It will come in very handy during the law suit. Personally, i would not even go back if they offered me double pay.

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