FedEx Office reviews

4.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(2,313 total reviews)
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Brian D. Philips

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FedEx Office has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,313 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FedEx Office employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Jan 6, 2013

Too bad I can't give it one star.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I've worked with some really great people and immediate supervisors. Other then that- nothing.

Cons

-I'll start by saying- this company is running itself to the ground. -No one cares about the frontline employees, you know, the ones that are paid measly salaries with an unrealistic list of responsibilities. -Every month there are numerous amounts of changes to internal manuals/binders, price increases (that's all they ever do), revenue behaviors, product of the month (which in reality is overpriced junk). -Half the time, no one knows what's going on because nothing is properly communicated to the measly Team Members. -The district managers care all about the customers, even when the customer is being "abusive" towards the Team Member. In this company, the customer is ALWAYS right. -Metrics, metrics, metrics. Every email from corporate is about how badly you are doing on this metric, and how you will be held accountable for not making your metrics. -You are yelled at by the 1-800-number customer service if a customer calls them and complains about something you didn't even do. -Everything is timed and tracked. When something goes wrong, they can look at one of the 12 cameras they all have on you to hold you accountable. -There is no trust in the Team Members. -I constantly feel like I'm ripping people off when I ring them out. Especially for the Pack and Ship services that they want us to shove down the customer's throats. If a box of shoes rattles, we have to charge a outlandish fee to put brown paper in it, or refuse the package if the customer declines the filler paper. -Ridiculous sales goals, if they're not met, managers are written up, then the Team Members hours are drastically cut. -We are not Staples, Office Depot, or Office Max. Stop pushing useless junk and get back to the basics of printing and shipping. -Business centers are opened on Saturday and Sunday, that makes no sense. They waste so much payroll by keeping the center opened with no business. -The company's technology is extremely outdated. We are still using Windows XP and Adobe CS3, that leads to some angry customers who are more up-to-date then we are. -When the centers get busy, it's complete chaos, customers don't know what line to get into, if a customer want's 12 sets of a presentation, bound, you are expected to get it done while they wait. If you tell them to come back and they complain, you are held accountable for failing to provide the cultish-Purple Promise. -They got rid of the cleaning service, so we're expected to clean the disgusting restrooms ourselves, on top of changing price tags, planograms, updating signage, producing complex orders while the customer waits, emptying the trash, vacuuming, dusting, cleaning the center. Do the corporate office employees have to clean restrooms, uh, no. -Our health insurance has gone up, but the coverage has decreased. I could go on, most employees are miserable because they are slaves to this company and abusive customers.

1.0
Dec 31, 2011
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Pros

Some employees there are great people You MIGHT learn some tech stuff IF you take the initiative to ask questions Medical and other benefits are OK

Cons

The customers are ALL extremely abusive towards team members, and even worse, when the customers complain to management or corporate, NO MATTER WHAT the team member is always responsible and at fault.... FedEx has this policy of "never tell a customer NO" even if the customer request defies any and all physical possbility! So in turn that creates anger and distrust with customers, who simply come in to the centers and lash out at team members, complain to corporate, and then team members get repremanded again by management! It's a vicious cycle that seems like a neverending bombardment of abuse to the working team member.... Centers seem to be understaffed around the clock, and expectations from management only seem to grow asa the size of the team member workforce seems to be depleeting, all while the pay starts out low and only increases a few cents once a year.... If anyone is thinking of working here after reading all this, then ontop of it all, be prepared to be micro-managed and audited on a minute by minute basis. FedEx Office is HUGE on auditing a re- auditing....They change policies and procedures seemingly every few weeks, so once you learn one method of operating and seem to be capable of mastering it on on an audit report, corporate and senor management then void that standard operating procedure in place of an entirely new and different way of doing things, immediatly auditing centers, short on staff to begin with, on these new policies and wonder why most centers do poorly on these audits....and be warned, the FedEx auditers seem more eager to bring managers and team members down then they are to actually finding ways and means to make the company operate better....they seem like "Internal Affairs" police officers who seem more interested in how many managers and team members they can get written up more than actually trying to better a failing company structure.... Bottom line, if you don't like to work in an unorganized environment where every minute you feel like your job is in jeapordy and both managers and customers talk to you like you are sub-human, then this is not the place for you....I am a firm believe in anything is better than the unemployment line, however, driving a cab might be better for your mental health....

3.0
Aug 9, 2017
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Pros

Other team members are great. We all work together to handle the intense demands of our busy center. Once you learn the job , which takes many months, you can have a good sense of accomplishment each day, because you will do a lot every day.

Cons

Pay Does not reflect the amount of skill, knowledge, and responsibility that are expected of you. You will be a shipping agent, a printing technician, a cashier, a sales person, a stock clerk, and a receptionist. Especially difficult is the expectation of being a sales person, always trying to upsell and add more items to each order. Which you get no additional compensation for just more work to fill your already busy day.

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