I’ve been working in OGP since 4/8. How long until I start occurring PTO I’ve got PPTO but no PTO so far? I seen some people said you won’t occur PTO unless you’re coded as full time. Which I don’t know if I am becauseT the interview they told me they only had part time but then when I started they scheduled me 40 hours. I’m not going to work full time if I’m not going to get full time benefits
Someone PLEASE tell me how to pause pick walks on the TC. My store wants us to maintain 100 picks an hour, but they don’t want us to NIL pick ANYTHING. They want us to search the back for it and radio to the exceptions worker to come check the same places we just looked (top stock, behind products, etc.). They want us to be fast but be careful with carts. They want it all and they just can’t have it. Exceptions job is to literally find stuff that is not stocked. Pick rates suck when we have to look in the back for 20 minutes or go to the back multiple times. Plus I work in rich people town so these customers think they’re entitled and don’t have to let us down any aisle with our carts to pick items. They’ll literally look at us, scoff, and proceed to stand in the middle of the aisle. please god someone tell me how to pause the walks.
I started at Walmart about a month ago and I genuinely can’t tell if this store is normal or if I walked into complete chaos.
My very first day was a mess. I got there at 7am for training videos and was told by a manager around 8am to come find them when I finished. The problem was my last few training videos required a manager login/approval and I literally could not find a manager anywhere for HOURS. I checked the office over and over and nobody was there. Nobody checked on me, nobody told me what to do next, and I still haven’t even met the store manager.
I ended up basically sitting in the training room most of the day because nobody gave me direction. The people lead wasn’t there either. The only employees I saw were on break and I didn’t want to interrupt them. I eventually just took my scheduled break because nobody had spoken to me since early that morning.
Coming from a management background myself, this whole thing shocked me. When I trained people at my old jobs, I at least checked on them regularly and made sure I was easy to find. Here it feels like managers disappear completely.
Now that I’ve actually been in the department for a month, it honestly hasn’t gotten much better.
One of the team leads snaps at people constantly. They snapped at me over the system messing up during a pick walk even though I was literally just doing what I was told. Then they stopped me from even finishing the walk and made me follow them around while they did it instead. They’ve also ignored me multiple times when I ask questions and will start talking to someone else instead.
Another team lead seems cliquey.
On my 2nd day during “training” multiple employees told me to watch out for another team lead. And apparently nobody likes them.
Then there’s the coach for the department who acts full of themself and seems more interested in hearing themself talk than listening to associates.
The vibe in the department overall is honestly rude and tense. There are maybe two employees that have actually been nice and helpful so far. Nobody would really even talk to me until I was here for 3 weeks.
What’s really throwing me off is that the turnover seems insane. I made a joke to two employees like “so should I just quit?” and both of them immediately said “I wouldn’t blame you.” I’ve also already been told that basically everyone they hire quits and people are constantly talking about transferring to other stores.
On top of all this, I’m walking like 16k–17k steps a day and my feet are dying, so I’m already physically exhausted while also dealing with the chaos.
I’m seriously considering transferring departments already because this does not feel sustainable at all.
Is this just how Walmart is? Has anyone else had experiences like this with OPD/pick departments or team leads/coaches like this? Does it actually get better once you’re there longer, or is this basically the culture?