Staples (The Store) Hates Us

[Pomeraniac]

Hi Everyone,

Just thought I'd let you all know that I was out of town this weekend and didn't have Internet access, so I tried using a Staples Hotspot connection.

The censoring scumbags at that store have blocked our website, however, and thety've also blocked other sites with "shooting" and "guns" in the name. Interestingly, though, the NRA's website was not blocked. I accessed that without any troubles.

Just thought I'd let you all know. I'm going to send an email to the corporate office in Framingham, and I'm ticked off enough about it that I will send a letter by snail mail, too.

Here's a link with their contact information: http://www.staples.com/sbd/content/help/contact/index.html.

 

[JonJ]

So you're pissed because you were censored by the owners of a free wireless hotspot? They own it they can limit what goes through it. You weren't forced to use it.

 

[Jose]

So you're pissed because you were censored by the owners of a free wireless hotspot? They own it they can limit what goes through it. You weren't forced to use it.

By the same token, the customer is king and has the right to tell the owners what pisses him off.

The owners can ignore the customer at their peril, too.

 

[Ultimate]

You're using a free wireless service and are angry at the restrictions that they have imposed? Not only is it their internet connection that they are providing free of charge, but most of the time its a generic restriction in the filter.

 

[JonJ]

By the same token, the customer is king and has the right to tell the owners what pisses him off.

The owners can ignore the customer at their peril, too.

This is true.
I could see the outrage if he had paid for the service but where it's free Everything comes with a price.
Don't like it, don't use it.

 

[Pomeraniac]

So you're pissed because you were censored by the owners of a free wireless hotspot? They own it they can limit what goes through it. You weren't forced to use it.

Yes, I wanted to point out that they limit the access to gun-friendly sites.

 

[jasons]

Well, Staples is a Mitt Romney company. Coincidence?

 

[Realtor MA]

Not this again.

http://northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=87448&highlight=panera

Screw them, it's Office Depot from now on.

 

[06LemansC6]

Not this again.

http://northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=87448&highlight=panera

Screw them, it's Office Depot from now on.

I was going to say.....I though I just read this thread.

Damnit now I'm stuck hungry from missing lunch and no longer have post-it notepads.

In all honesty, I have yet to use a free "hot spot" so I really don't care. I don't go to staples to get online, and I don't need internet access to eat lunch.

If you really need full access, leave your home computer on 24/7 and use remote desktop to access anything you want via your home connection.

 

[Pomeraniac]

Not this again.

http://northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=87448&highlight=panera

Screw them, it's Office Depot from now on.

Wow, good find! I haven't been online anywhere in about 2 weeks, up until I hit the hotspot this weekend, so I hadn't even seen that Panera thread on here. Thanks for pointing it out.

Who cares if the site is free? That doesn't matter a bit, no matter what the moderator picking a fight with me says.

Staples is censoring part of the Internet and I, for one, intend to let them know it is bad policy. I have tons of money to spend at stores, and I don't intend to spend it with any company who censors gun stuff from its Internet access, free or not.

 

[drgrant]

This is true.
I could see the outrage if he had paid for the service but where it's free Everything comes with a price.
Don't like it, don't use it.

Course, if he patronizes the store, in a way, he is paying for it.

That said, I can't see getting all worked up over this one.... I mean who hangs out at staples to use the internet?

-Mike

 

[theGringo]

Staples is censoring part of the Internet and I, for one, intend to let them know ...

Me too. I'm gonna wave my Teacher Rewards card in their faces and tell 'em I'm taking my pencil sharpener purchases elsewhere! That'll learn 'em!

 

[06LemansC6]

Who cares if the site is free? That doesn't matter a bit, no matter what the moderator picking a fight with me says.

I'd say it matters quite a bit. I didn't see anyone "picking a fight" with you.

I mean who hangs out at staples to use the internet?

They sell office furniture there. Show up at 9 grab a few notepads, a few pens, pencils and plop down at a nice desk with a fresh coffee. Hang out for the morning, ship a few packages, head out for lunch. I'm thinking screw the home office, I'll just use Staples.

 

[Fixxah]

Stop it Jon, this is a sympathy thread. No need to make sense.

 

[GSG]

So you're pissed because you were censored by the owners of a free wireless hotspot? They own it they can limit what goes through it. You weren't forced to use it.

So we shouldn't make our voices heard?

Not this again.

http://northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=87448&highlight=panera

Screw them, it's Office Depot from now on.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[Squished]

One word solves both the sammich problem and the office supply problem:

Delivery.


EDIT: On the other hand, pushing all the Easy Buttons when I go into Staples is fun....

 

[GSG]

On the other hand, pushing all the Easy Buttons when I go into Staples is fun....

They also have "Facil" buttons for those who speak Spanish.

 

[KMaurer]

As with the Panera thread, people are making the unjustified assumption that the corporation has actively attempted to block access to gun related content. I'd be willing to be a very large sum that they've done no such thing. The most likely explanation in most cases is that their system administration people, without any actual input from the corporate level, have installed some off-the-shelf filter software that happens to block gun content along with a host of other topics.

Ken

 

[Delta L Varmint]

Anytime you get blocked just use one of the sights like safelizard.com or atunnel.com

 

[alphawolf]

They also have "Facil" buttons for those who speak Spanish.

 

[FalArAk]

Did you just make yourself at home in the furniture section,pop open the laptop and start surfing the web ?

That's weird,almost as weird as the people that hang out in Panera bread and surf the web.

 

[Mike S]

It isn't an anti guns thing it's an anti PORN thing.. GUNS, yah, ha ha I like big guns...

 

[MassMark]

Did you just make yourself at home in the furniture section,pop open the laptop and start surfing the web ?

That's weird,almost as weird as the people that hang out in Panera bread and surf the web.

Call me a Panera weirdo... I live in the sticks and high-speed is a long way away...I grabs me a sammich, a cup of dark roast and surf the web in glee...I use their WiFi to update my phone, computer, surf NES and upload pics...

As to the OP, who gives a crap? If I owned a store and offered free WiFi, I'd block everything but gun sites and porn - so there....

 

[FalArAk]

Call me a Panera weirdo... I live in the sticks and high-speed is a long way away...I grabs me a sammich, a cup of dark roast and surf the web in glee...I use their WiFi to update my phone, computer, surf NES and upload pics...

As to the OP, who gives a crap? If I owned a store and offered free WiFi, I'd block everything but gun sites and porn - so there....

I'll make an exception for you Mark,unless of course you are one of the Starbucks weirdos that hangs out all day pretending to write a screenplay sipping shitty coffee from one those big ass cereal bowls they call mugs.

 

[MassMark]

I'll make an exception for you Mark,unless of course you are one of the Starbucks weirdos that hangs out all day pretending to write a screenplay sipping shitty coffee from one those big ass cereal bowls they call mugs.

Starbucks coffee is yucky....Tastes like oily earth.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

As with the Panera thread, people are making the unjustified assumption that the corporation has actively attempted to block access to gun related content. I'd be willing to be a very large sum that they've done no such thing. The most likely explanation in most cases is that their system administration people, without any actual input from the corporate level, have installed some off-the-shelf filter software that happens to block gun content along with a host of other topics.

Ah, no. The software they use is configurable by categroy, and customers have complained to corporate HQ - with no action or change.

 

[newenglandshooter]

It just shows the general ineffectiveness of these Nannyware packages. A while back there was one that forbid the word "breast," so people looking for info about breast cancer couldn't access the sites. Not to beat the personal responsibility drum again, but when you let other people make your decisions for you...

 

[GSG]

No, they really do. I saw one and had no idea what it was until months later when I saw a Staples commercial or something, it's a similar phrase to the English one.

 

[drgrant]

No, they really do. I saw one and had no idea what it was until months later when I saw a Staples commercial or something, it's a similar phrase to the English one.

You haven't lived until you try to throw away a defective easy button.

My GF tossed it in the trash (for whatever reason) and I carried it down the stairs from her apartment and it kept going off on its own every time I moved the bag.... so id put the bag down and it would go "THAT WAS EASY".

-Mike

 

[Garys]

As with the Panera thread, people are making the unjustified assumption that the corporation has actively attempted to block access to gun related content. I'd be willing to be a very large sum that they've done no such thing. The most likely explanation in most cases is that their system administration people, without any actual input from the corporate level, have installed some off-the-shelf filter software that happens to block gun content along with a host of other topics.

Ken

There you go again, making sense, using logic, being silly. Stop it or you'll have to ban yourself.

It just shows the general ineffectiveness of these Nannyware packages. A while back there was one that forbid the word "breast," so people looking for info about breast cancer couldn't access the sites. Not to beat the personal responsibility drum again, but when you let other people make your decisions for you...

My employer used to ban anything firearms related. Which was a problem when I was trying to research wound ballistics. The new set up hasn't had filtering added yet, but I'm sure they'll get to it at some point.