FedEx Office reviews

4.0

99% would recommend to a friend

(2,323 total reviews)
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Brian D. Philips

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99% positive business outlook

FedEx Office has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,323 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 Vendita al dettaglio e all'ingrosso industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Jan 19, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive pay for retail. Gain experience with large format printing. Employee discount on most services, including free faxing and computer time; shipping discount is significant. Wide variety of colleagues.

Cons

Office politics run the show. Asking for a raise is tantamount to treason. Frequent off-site meetings at inconvenient locations (be prepared to drive a lot or charge up a large Uber bill). It's retail. Understaffed when it counts. They practice hiring 'filler' positions, where the most basic training is completely skipped, and you will have colleagues who don't know how to provide expected support when needed as a result. They expect you and your colleagues to 'know everything' but you have to make a point to get the proper training yourself. Not only will management not set aside time to train you properly, but if you were one of the unfortunates hired into a 'filler' position, management may even outright refuse to train you and simply park you in one section of the store. Despite this, you risk humiliation when a District or Regional Manager visits and asks you surprise questions you have no way of knowing the answers to. Be prepared to spend a lot of time helping customers who are digitally illiterate, and then be scolded for spending too much time with them. At least one manager consistently goes against policy, but is rewarded for it by corporate because it brings in money (specifically: He convinces customers to pay for package filler when it obviously isn't needed - Filler is NEVER needed in a FedEx Pak or Envelope). This is only one example of SOME (not all) of the types of people they promote to management. Expect horrible grammar in your evaluations, write-ups, and company emails. One manager asked me in an email to "reframe" from something. She would also often not understand basic words in text messages, consult a dictionary, still not understand the true meaning of the words, and then blow up a situation that should not have even existed because she thinks she's supposed to take offense.

2.0
May 29, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

They didn't lay anyone off during the 2007 down turn because they cut everyone's hours to minimum. They also stopped the 401k match for a year and capped all salaries.

Cons

When you click on Dallas locations only, all of a sudden everything seems rosy. Obviously someone went thru and tried to boost the scores up. Basically the pay is low, the raises are small, and you are lucky to get 36 hours . You will be short staffed and stressed out during half of your daily shift. The higher ups are paid on a commission of what money is made, so the less they have to spend on payroll the more they make. They currently are replacing full time with part time only. They have 1340 job openings currently posted, and that's really only half of what is needed. I see a sell off , remember Circuit City. they ran off all their experienced people first, then it was all down hill from there.

2.0
Oct 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

FedEx Office has a very organized method and procedure for doing literally anything in the store.

Cons

Because it is such a big company, FedEx Office tracks every kind of metric you can think of. Customer satisfaction, color/black and white copies, Product of the Month, and others are all tracked, and if you aren't meeting the goals, you'll be talked to. Also, you have to keep up with computer-based training while you are busy trying to get trained on everything in the store. If that doesn't bother you, you also have to do "cold calls" which is horrible. You have to call everyone who has purchased a print job of 100 dollars or more, which isn't good because you play the role of a telemarketer bothering people while they are working. Like I said, everything is tracked, which means while you are working, your boss can spy on you through cameras while he is away, which I find to be quite disturbing. Of course, if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, then it shouldn't matter. But the use of cameras to "check up" on your employees doesn't inspire any type of confidence or integrity. I always felt like I was being watched. If any of these examples don't bother you, then maybe the idea of your district and regional managers calling you will. Your regional or any other higher upper management will call, pretending they are customers and will ask about services and products, just to see if you are "selling" the correct way. And still, if none of these are cons for you to consider never applying, FedEx has a strict budget with payroll, or so it seemed like. Meaning, we were always short on employees because we could never exceed payroll. This then caused customer satisfaction to go down, because no one could help customers waiting in line quickly enough. Also, it was such a hassle dealing with customers trying to print and ship. They would print all these projects and ship them. The only problem is that FedEx uses two different types of registers for both types of transactions. For customers, this means a headache of waiting in line to purchase a printing job, and then going to another line to ship it. It is seriously the most stupidest thing I've ever had to deal with, and trust me... I felt dumb telling customers to go to one register for one item and another register for another. It is ridiculous. No one tells you about the behind-the-scenes stuff and you definitely don't think of this as a sales/retail position, but it is exactly that.

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