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Office Depot reports $413 million loss. Taking care of business, indeed



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NeuroticRocker
2009-10-30 01:26:09 AM


Office Depot has the worst hold music of all time....OF ALL TIME!!!

I almost worked for them, but the manager kept sitting on his ass and postponing my hire date after I had been through the interview and paperwork. I am not bashing the company. I have no bad experiences. Bought my laptop from them. But their hold music....its just like 3 piano chords playing in fast succession over and over and over...

 
Asa Phelps
2009-10-30 01:49:05 AM


i know a guy who was laid off from office depot after 14 years pretty much strictly because his wife was diagnosed with leukemia, so, i think it couldn't have happened to a nicer office supply store.

 
NeuroticRocker
2009-10-30 01:51:54 AM


Asa Phelps: i know a guy who was laid off from office depot after 14 years pretty much strictly because his wife was diagnosed with leukemia, so, i think it couldn't have happened to a nicer office supply store.

Wait. He was laid off because of the insurance, or because of attendance.

What was the reason they gave when they fired him? Had to have been something else they said.

I knew a guy at another retailer I worked at who got pneumonia. He was in the hospital. For 2 days before he went in, he was at work, looked like crap. It was evident he was ill. He was in the hospital for 3 days.

He came back, ready to work. He had no note. They wrote him up for not calling in sick OR having a note.

He said fark you and quit.

 
Somaticasual
2009-10-30 01:52:08 AM


Office depot is kinda pricey, anyways. Their loss is the standard laws of business in action..

 
rackrent
2009-10-30 02:48:36 AM


A company I used to work for used Office Depot as their sole supplier, even though there wasn't an Office Depot in the state. I can only guess Office Depot had a big nationwide contract with them, as they probably do with other companies. So when companies fail, so does Office Depot.

/RIP Mervyns

 
Britney Spear's Speculum
2009-10-30 03:39:41 AM


But where else am I gonna get one of these?

www.kneelingchair.org.uk

 
100 Watt Walrus
2009-10-30 03:49:07 AM


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nesler
2009-10-30 03:59:02 AM


They're the shiattiest office supply store out there.

Staples is --by far-- the best of the chain stores.

 
Unobtanium
2009-10-30 05:58:25 AM


They seem to have a pattern of operations that may have helped them get here.

Depot State Contract Watch (pops)

Office Depot has become a corporate persona non grata in many government agencies.

 
Tickle Mittens
2009-10-30 07:14:01 AM


Horrible horrible company. Their board of directors is beyond incompetent, I can only assume the only reason they haven't been acquired during their long term implosion is because the entire corporate body of the company is so inept and dysfunctional that it is not worth it.

I guess that's why you don't put your HQ in Florida, you'll only export that state of dysfunction.

 
castufari
2009-10-30 07:25:34 AM


We have an OfficeDepot, OfficeMax and a Staples within a couple of miles of each other. Staples has a jazzy new building that's a PITA to get to but is always busy. OfficeMax is in a shared strip with a Dick's Sporting goods and an empty Circuit City and seems to go ok. OfficeDepot is in a dead mall center that it shares with a Big Lots. OD is filty, most of the lights are burned out and it looks like their idea of stocking is to drag a pallet of goods out into an aisle then open the box. Despite it being easy to get to and near everything it's always empty.

 
Ratbert42
2009-10-30 08:05:04 AM


Office Depot : K-Mart :: Staples : Target

 
ten thousand miles that way
2009-10-30 08:23:20 AM


Just started working there two weeks ago. :/

All my managers are nice though and our store is actually very clean and well organized. So far so good I suppose.

 
jaggspb
2009-10-30 08:47:44 AM


Britney Spear's Speculum: But where else am I gonna get one of these?

looks like something that should be sold in Orifice Depot

 
roddack
2009-10-30 09:03:06 AM


Just following the example of government

 
LonMead
2009-10-30 09:06:19 AM


Office Depot reports $413 million loss.

Strangely, it was all in office supplies.

/that's a lot of paper clips
www.gadgets.co.uk

 
Omnivorous
2009-10-30 09:51:59 AM


FTFA: Office Depot posted an operating profit of $35 million in its third quarter, compared with $12 million in the same quarter a year ago.

How do they get from an operating profit to a loss of $413 million? Article doesn't give you a clue.

They only closed 17 stores, so it much be leveraged financing that puts them in the hole.

 
mjohnson71
2009-10-30 11:09:20 AM


Office Max and Office Depot seem to be having a war around here by simply opening more stores. There are now 6 of these stores within a 15 minute drive of me. This won't end well.

 
Linux_Yes
2009-10-30 11:29:10 AM


I used to do help desk for those customers who bought their computers at Office Depot.

those jackoffs would insist that their customers bought extended warranties, and then not honor the warranty by having ME cite the 'fine print'. the customer would find out they dumped 1 to 200 bucks down the Office Depot money drain.

typical American piece of shhhittt company. Lie and cheat your customers, and hope they'll come back for more ass good ole' american style ass reaming.

frkkkk Office Depot and everything they stand for: Greed, arrogance, and cheating.

i hope they go out of business for good.

 
Linux_Yes
2009-10-30 11:33:01 AM


Linux_Yes: I used to do help desk for those customers who bought their computers at Office Depot.

those jackoffs would insist that their customers bought extended warranties, and then not honor the warranty by having ME cite the 'fine print'. the customer would find out they dumped 1 to 200 bucks down the Office Depot money drain.

typical American piece of shhhittt company. Lie and cheat your customers, and hope they'll come back for more ass good ole' american style ass reaming.

frkkkk Office Depot and everything they stand for: Greed, arrogance, and cheating.

i hope they go out of business for good.



the customer would never see the 'fine print' unless they specifically asked for it. Office Depot brass Turds that most folks would forget to ask for it, especially when they've just plopped down 1500 or 2000 on a laptop. cleaver bunch those Turds are.

Wall street would be proud of their shell game.

in America, the LARGE PRINT giveth and the fine print taketh away.

you burnouts wanted unbridled Capitalism. Well, you got it!!

 
PsyLord
2009-10-30 11:33:37 AM


LonMead: Office Depot reports $413 million loss.

Strangely, it was all in office supplies.

/that's a lot of paper clips


Lulz, I need to get me one of those.

 
Linux_Yes
2009-10-30 11:34:59 AM


Let us revere our Faithful Unbridled Capitalist Leader!



bayimg.com

 
IcyBlackHand
2009-10-30 11:37:36 AM


Omnivorous: FTFA: Office Depot posted an operating profit of $35 million in its third quarter, compared with $12 million in the same quarter a year ago.

How do they get from an operating profit to a loss of $413 million? Article doesn't give you a clue.

They only closed 17 stores, so it much be leveraged financing that puts them in the hole.


I'd say that most likely they have significant losses from discontinued operations and extraordinary losses, both of which are taken out after operating income.

 
wet_dream
2009-10-30 12:18:47 PM


One Nation Under God...

Sometimes Karma Sucks

 
m0llusk
2009-10-30 12:30:34 PM


Maybe check under the sofa cushions?

 
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