The location at 1016 E. Fort Union Blvd. Midvale, UT 84047 is a cesspool of the most incompetent, apathetic idiot managers I have ever seen.
I've used this location for about 6 months. I will never use it again. Without fail, every single time I submitted an order online, I ended up waiting for my printing. (Something you're not supposed to do, because the Online Printing option sure sells it as a plus.) And I don't mean 5 minutes, I mean 20 to 30 minutes while someone struggled to find my order or reprint it because it hadn't been processed. When I was lucky, they could find their ass with both hands, a flashlight, and a special ass-map. Without fail, every single time I went into the store, I saw the rank-and-file peons scrambling while the managers sat around shooting the shit. One of my longest visits was because the girl behind the desk was struggling to answer the half dozen questions of the man in front of me, while fifteen feet away management joked about moving a display. And then they moved a display three inches, which was clearly a critical task they needed to do right them. And when I said the girl needed help, they looked annoyed at being taken away from their fun time.
My last visit was this Friday. I submitted an online order at noon, and went in at 5:30PM. A manager was working the printing desk, and spent 20 minutes insisting that I must have submitted the order somewhere else, and then struggling to find my printing when a phone call to another location proved that I hadn't made that mistake. He had no idea where anything was, because the employee who normally worked the desk had called in sick. I was on a timeline, and when he finally offered to reprint things for me if I just so happened to have the files on me, I gave up in disgust. I asked for a chargeback to my card and asked to speak to a manager.
"I am the manager," this fellow said.
"You're the manager?" I said.
"Of the WHOLE store?"
"Yes."
"Then I think I need a phone number for whoever is above you."
I told him the incompetence of his store was breath-taking. And it is. I cannot believe how long it takes your employees, Office Depot, to print things when they have a machine that prints things for them. I'm awestruck by the number of employees working the printing area who have no idea what DPI is, or that when I haven't indicated "fit to size" I mean I really don't want shit blown up to 8.5x11. And lastly, I cannot believe your MANAGERS, of all people, are not trained OR training employees on the proper place to put things, organize, or for God's sake indicate where the Online Print Orders go.
Does any of this sound like good training to you? Or sharp employees trained by clever managers? Because this was black-and-white, occasional color on glossy cardstock shit; I wasn't trying to print photographs on canvas. Something this simple seemed to utterly and completely baffle your employees at Fort Union, time and time again, so I'm not exactly sure what you're paying them for, but it's most emphatically not to print things. When even your managers appear completely and totally helpless over basic tasks, it makes me wish I had a job where I could just suck air and get paid. read more