Merchandising problems
I have been with pepsi one year exactly. Flex at first, then got my own route. It is two krogers. I know corporate sees these but i honestly don’t care. I have been struggling really bad. I used to get help when i needed it, but they changed and removed positions so i have new managers. They are making it so i don’t ever receive help anymore. One guy worked one of my krogers like 10 years ago, and think its not “busy” so he’s telling my other manager that its not busy but it is. I get like 8-12 pallets every other day of shit we don’t need. Then get bot ordered on top of that. Saturdays o we can go a little heavy, but the other days? No We don’t need that shit. We get an order every other day. No need to bring in 10+ freaking pallets every other day man. Shit doesn’t even fit into back stock, and they are bitching at me about how 10 palets don’t fit into back stock and how i’m not flavor stacking every single case completely, if i mix one flavor with another it’s “unacceptable”. There is no way i can flavor stack all this shit. then they still want me to break down the other pallets that will be out of area on another wmpty pallet and flavor stack those. They’re saying “i don’t care if we’re out of area as long as you flavor stack” Hut the managers are getting pissed off when we are out of area and instead of yelling at the sales rep they yell at me the merchandiser as if i have any control on what comes in. I miss how it used to be, They took away my help, and i used to get my weekend guy, on tuesday as a flex help, because of display changes and big orders, and they took that away from me. So i have been working 12-14 hrs every single day and they get so pissed off if i go over the 42-45 hour limit cus they don’t want overtime….. Dude i can’t keep working this many hours because they’re bombing shit in we don’t need and i’m the one getting in trouble for all of it when it isn’t my freaking fault. I got 58 hrs this week…. Because of this…. I can’t do this all summer i am completely freaking drained. No breaks nothing. they are having unrealistic standards.
I don’t know what to do anymore. It used to be great until these managers came in. Non order days, i go to my first store, then my second store and back to my first store again, (i do everyday but this day was different)
My manager came in 5 hours after i left my first store, just showed up, didn’t text or call me or ask if i was there. He was pissed of how empty it was n blah blah blah little shit, and he had the audacity to tell me that i barely worked and it looked like i didn’t do anything and he legit called me LAZY!! A manger straight up called me lazy and he couldn’t baby sit me everyday and that i need to do my job. That he shouldn’t have had to pull a bunch of cart fulls of merch out…… Like dude??? I have a second hit i still HAVE to do on a fucking saturday, the busiest day of the week. not my fault you showed up 4-5 hours after i did my first hit. That is the reasoning for the second hit, because it’s busy… and people buy shit…. They all think it’s just an easy two stores when it’s not, they’re really busy freaking stores man. N they don’t understand. They think i just didn’t do my job, but i did. It just sold down. I got in trouble for that, and he made me send pictures of all selling points, and pictures after my second hit. I literally had to put up two fingers in my pictures for my second hit because he didn’t believe i did a second hit. Smh. Pepsi is going down hill so fast. I can’t work almost 60 hours every fucking week with two stores having almost 10 pallets with no help.
What is going on ?