All the shifts I’ve worked the past few weeks are missing. I’m still on the upcoming schedule, even though my shifts are literally ALL over the place. I’m just paranoid about getting fired cause I called out one day and left an hour into my shift the next two days cause I wasn’t feeling okay.
And it’s that on the location, now there’s a small little EC or AA. I obviously know which numbers and letters are end caps and action alleys, but I have some days where my brain just doesn’t brain, and don’t realize right away it’s one of those things. It also would have been super helpful when I first started. More so for the action alleys than the end caps. Otherwise the update was unnecessary and just another waste of money instead of getting all stores new printers.
So I’m updating my resume, how would you guys list the responsibilities of our job?
I don’t wanna just put like
-shopped for lazy psychopaths
-flip flopped between pushing and pulling heavy shit
-competed for accomplishments that meant fucking nothin
Because that’s all I can think of. All my past jobs I have serious shit and responsibilities and this job it’s just like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have 4.5 points, and I don’t know how the hell I got that last half point. I’m NEVER late, and have only left early with approval from team leads.
I know a lot of people are worried about their store switching to spark drivers for all deliveries. And I figured why not start a conversation about why it doesn’t make sense, in case corporate does happen to stalk this, and maybe they’ll have the foresight to not roll it out at all stores.
So here’s MY list of why I don’t think it will work, at least long term.
-Losing an hour or two of delivery hours, there’s no way spark drivers will be allowed in the stores before they open, so you’re losing a whole hour of revenue from deliveries.
-No way to get nil picked items, there’s no way spark will even ask an associate to get something from the back, and that’s if they even find an associate willing to go to the back for them (I’ve only done it once for a hot dad)
-There would basically have to be a height requirement for spark drivers, because they can’t carry around ladders to reach stuff on high shelves, or even get top stock of things
-how would they even guarantee there’d be enough drivers to keep up with demand
-this one’s slightly controversial possibly? But would people who are shit tippers just get fucked? And this would include people who just don’t have the funds to tip generously, but NEED delivery, like are disabled and living on a fixed income, don’t drivers have to decide to take trips? They’re not just assigned? And what about the people who just order INSANE amounts of shit, like people who order 16 gallons of water, I’ve seen the spark drivers subreddit, and they’re always like ‘are you taking this’
-locked up things? So just heavily multiply the amount of times associates need to unlock cases for people. Especially orders where someone gets A BUNCH of cosmetics
-lastly, a lot of spark drivers are just incompetent. Today i had one ask me for help finding something, he was looking for a frozen dinner in the toy section (it was a Toy Story frozen dinner)
Anyone have anything to add? Or even see how corporate would handle the reasons i listed to this not working?
Also, there’s been no talk about this at my store, but my store also lets us know things have changed by just changing them and letting us experience it and not announcing it.
I should know this by now, but when using PPTO to prevent a point even half a point, do you need to use the hours for the whole shift? Like if I’m scheduled 2-7, but online it says it’s 4 hours because of the hour lunch, so I need to submit 4 or 5 hours to be covered?
It wouldn’t let me add this to my other post :( and I had to share it
In the normal episode when they stop to ask the two dogs for their phones, one says ‘I’m from Argentina’ and the other says ‘and I’m from France’ but in the compilation. They changed it to him saying ‘we’re backpackers’
I think I can guess why they changed it, but it just really messed with my head watching it, because my brain is all ‘THATS NOT WHAT HE SAYS’
I don’t know if it’s just my store, but we stopped using the handled paper bags, to the big tall ones without handles. I was told it’s because they’re cheaper. Which bugs the shit out of me, because we’re charging customers for the bags anyways?? I don’t know how many bags my store uses for orders a day, but I did the math, and if we use 1000 bags a day, and we’re saving .05 by changing the bags (I’m assuming that’s the MOST they could be saving by changing) it’s only a profit of $50 a day.
So the ones without handles, as I’m sure as many of you know, SUCK. They rip a lot more easily, you can’t see how full the bag before adding more stuff, they don’t even fit well in the totes, they block the labels of the tote above them, they make staging slightly more complicated, lastly, there’s nowhere to hang the bags, so they just sit between the top two totes. And then you’ve got to find a place for them to lay down while you’re staging.
Anyways, has anyone else’s store changed to this? And is there ANY way to make a formal complaint about this shit to even at least feel like I’m trying to change it
I don’t know if anyone else is having this problem, but whenever I have multiples of an item for oversized, it will only let me scan one of the multiple labels that prints out? I’ve been just changing the number to one and printing out one at a time, but it’s pissing me off. My TL said it was because they don’t want us lifting more than one at once??? But it’s like ???? They think I’m lifting 160 bottles of water at once????
ANYWAYS, is anyone else having this problem or has anyone found a fix to it?
WELL, officially back to 8 totes. Didn’t even know til the printer printed 8 stickers instead of 6. Great communication Walmart.
SO, I can’t remember exactly when we switched to pulling. I think it’s been a week? But shortly after I got plantar fasciitis in my right foot. I’ve been in OPD for 9 months, obviously my feet hurt after a shift, but this is like constant pain, and the only change was pulling the carts? Has this happened with anyone else?
Examples:
5+ item GMD orders that are clearly over $35: THIS SHOULD HAVE JUST BEEN DELIVERED
Customer orders some weird shit: ;)
Customer gets an insane amount of shit like 4 cases of 12 count monsters and 10 cans of baby formula:
Are you okay?
What would you guys write on orders?
I just want to know if anyone else’s store is doing this. When they changed to the 6 tote rule, I noticed regulated items started popping up in auto. Which pisses me the fuck off because it messed with the walk path even more. And then TODAY, when I’m selecting auto, I’m getting like 12 item GMD/Unscheduled walks.