Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
Ok, I've spent some time thinking about this and I think I've narrowed down the Staples totem pole, and what your job title means.
Sales Associate - Peon, The lowest man on the totem pole. These guys bust their ass for pennies, and go far above the call of duty with no reimbursement. They are the ones that also catch the full wrath of everything. In the shit rolls down hill theory, these poor saps are at the bottom. If it wasn't for these guys who stay with the company for some stupid reason, the company wouldn't be shit.
Department Specialist - Fancy name for a sales associate, no added leadership ability due to the total lack of support from the management staff.What drives these guys? no one really knows. Department Specialists are considered the department head, supervisor if you will. As a specialist you will catch all the hell for your department looking like hell, terrible sales, lazy sales associates, but you are not granted any power to fix it. You also get the biggest fucking of all the associates, the most is expected of you, with no real reimbursement for going outside your job description to help. Although you would like to think better of yourself, you are just a worthless peon, and will be treated as such. Not only by management, but by our loyal customers.
Key Holding associate/Department specialist - The biggest hoax next to Roswell. By accepting this job you are just asking to get your asshole reamed out pretty good. You have every bit of responsibility of a manager, with zero power, zero preparation, and ZERO reimbursement for the HUGE responsibility you have taken. This is the stores way of having extra managers with out paying them. This job includes all the short comings of a standard associate or specialist, with even more bullshit thrown on top, its like a layer cake, with an extra layer of poop.
Assistant Manager - First in the line of god like rulers of our stores, they are above all law governing associates. Enough said.
General Manager - The head godlike ruler of a store, although some can be seen reasonably often lurking around the sales floor, more than likely you will find them in a giant guarded room called the "Managers Office". I'm not sure what they manage in that office, but they sure manage to piss off everyone below them. Some of these rulers do come out to offer guidance to the peons below them. This advice and guidance is often spoken in the language of bitch, moan, and complain. Not all General Managers are douche bags, but it seems to be part of the requirements to be one, and more often than not they are.
District Manager - The governing figure to all management on a multi-store level. Little is known about this elusive person, although he is a frequent visitor to some locations, their tongue in cheek compliments come back in form of "email" to tell the real opinions of the store.
Now, a little about my background with Staples.
Most of you know me, know about me, and how I feel about it. What you may not know is, as much as the place pisses me off to the point of homicidal dreams, it is by far the best job I've had. I would probably piss and bitch about any job, but since I have decide to make myself a fixture at my store by not going anywhere or aspiring to be anything I'll bitch about it.
If any of you would like to add anything to this, please feel free to send a comment or private message to me telling me what I missed.
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