18 Replies to “New Rules Order”

  1. I might have been indirectly or directly involved with this verdict. Earlier this evening I saw the video tape of the refusal and it seemed rather obvious that it was a personal decision and not a policy decision so I decided not to look the other way this time. I got on the Live Chat for the Office Depot HQ and informed the AI that I wished to speak to the On-Duty Manager of the Customer Service dept. A woman joined the chat (we’ll call her Beatrice)…and I informed her in detail of the situation, then provided a link to the video. I then, provided my personal business account number for Office Depot, which gave them the opportunity to see that I’m not just a minor customer. The woman was very nice, and said she will make sure someone looks into it. I informed her that I would be following up tomorrow for a status.

    3 hours later they dropped that apology and fired the store representative. Whether I had any influence on that is questionable and unimportant. I’m still going to follow up tomorrow, if for no other reason than to compliment the Customer Service manager.

    😀

    1. I was an early adopter of Office Depot 25-30 years ago. Bought all my (small potato) supplies there. But their corporate structure changed/merged … and they suddenly carried only a single line of corporate stationery products and pens. They dropped most of my favorites … so ever since … I stopped patronizing their BigBox corporate banality … and started buying local from a small community stationery store that wasn’t beholden to a single corporate contract.

      So my boycott started about 15-20 years ago. Meh. Although I DO hope they get economically punished. Even … fatally … punished.

    2. I’m certain you contributed to the decision. Companies will ignore social media comments in the hope they go away, but live interactions with real customers do have an impact.

    3. On the other hand … maybe those fat pig liberal (likely lesbians) should be encouraged to speak up SO WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE ….. THEIR TIME IS COMING.

  2. I have worked (briefly) with people who have the same type of attitude and for the most part, they don’t care if they are fired and blame something else as the reason for their termination. I say briefly because most of these people don’t last long.

  3. I’m very much against punishing everyone for the actions of one and have written as much…
    But, an argument could be made to just say I’m done with you fckers and let something else rise from the ashes.

    1. I’m pretty happy to take people at their word. If they say they don’t want my deplorable money, I say no problem.

      Never really wanted to be the guy that called HR and raised hell over some fool employee. But now? I’ll be that guy. It’s shifted from a personal thing to a social duty.

  4. As a fundamentalist believer in Free Speech … I cheer every person, entity, and corporation who OUTs themselves … loud and proud. My scorecard of boycotted corporations has lots of room on it. Keep it up.

    Oh. You may have knocked off one of us … but you will reap the whirlwind. Eh?

  5. Even the biggest corporations are vulnerable to the misguided actions of one or a few employees. They can’t always prevent these things, but they can quickly and properly correct them.

    Office Depot probably did as well as they could in the situation, and as a result this should be a one-day news story. No one will likely compose a song over this.

    United Airlines, not so much.

    1. “The legend lives on from the internet on down, of the dread Charlie Kirk photocopy. With a couple of assholes steering them onto the shoals, they could see that the waters were choppy…” Yeah, that’s about as far s I can take it myself.

      1. I mean, I am searching desperately for the faintest hint of the shadow of a looming Juno, but I’m getting nowhere.

  6. I admit to being a tich perplexed. Was that manager saying that Office Depot’s printing dept. won’t print campaign literature? Or only for a candidate or Party whose policies she (on behalf of the company, according to her…) agrees with?!
    Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, lady.

  7. The Bud Light Lesson is memorable and effective and probably the most significant thing consumers have done for ourselves, in unison, for decades.

    2. He has the constitutional right to express his views and people have the right to decide where they want to eat.

  9. Based on the information given, Office Depot’s best choice moving forward is to rebrand as Office Despot.
    Otherwise every VP, the president and every board member needs to be scrutinized for promoting (DEI) policies that are not in the long-term interest of the corporation. Too often these people chase foolhardy initiatives to get a higher rating from Blackrock and a temporary bump in share prices. They can cash in their stock options and leave a terminallly ill company behind.

  10. Here’s why I don’t accept Office Depot’s “apology” …

    If Office Depot is so well-organized that it has a “Policy” against printing “campaign” or political literature. Then it should also have a “Policy” for employee conduct including differentiating between literature advertising a prayer vigil for a man’s murder/death … and a campaign flyer.

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