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Leal posted:Once again the loving truck showed up late and I had to break it down and close. Also I forgot to pack food again so of course it was way too loving busy for a thursday in the middle of the month. California opened! Go to a loving park or a restaurant! You can do that now! Stop going to the loving discount grocery store! Are you still getting poo poo from your boss for"not doing enough" because I swear to God i woke up this morning after reading this last night and fantasized about driving north to poke someone with a lance 
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I've done call center jobs for GM, HP, Apple and a small cell phone company and every single one of them was hell. I would rather wash dishes all day than to put on the drat headphone again. HQ just told the floor they need to work harder, take on more responsibilities, and also cannot have overtime. In a climate where we are short staffed and have a hard time hiring people, the motherfucker is trying to piss what little people we have off. We literally offer lower starting pay than competitors so right now the only way we can lure people is to have no experience requirement. I hope the unemployment aid gets extended again somehow and then maybe we'll shut our doors for good and I can get a few months of break before going back into the job market.
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Holy poo poo this made me *so* goddamned happy to watch, and I'm ashamed because I'm not a violent person but gently caress did that guy have it coming. Sucks she would have lost her job though.
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Jun 20, 2021 09:28
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I've been unable to track down anything about the video, including original source and date. All recent coverage is from a mediating aggregator.
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Jun 20, 2021 10:29
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Discendo Vox posted:I've been unable to track down anything about the video, including original source and date. All recent coverage is from a mediating aggregator. it happened Tuesday June 1st at the Englewood, Colorado Walmart. https://nypost.com/2021/06/04/walmart-worker-knocks-out-shopper-who-apparently-spat-on-him/
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Jun 20, 2021 10:43
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Banned from working at Walmart. More than worth it. That customer hopefully learnt a powerful life lesson.
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Jun 20, 2021 13:35
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Yeah, the life lesson is "if you treat a retail slave so abusively they freak out and attack you, you can get a multimillion dollar settlement from the gigacorp that employed them"
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Jun 20, 2021 14:01
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Surely he wouldn't actually get anything from that. The man wasn't employed by Walmart anyway. Just some bullshit where he's subcontracted out so they probably washed their hands of the whole situation.
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ErKeL posted:Surely he wouldn't actually get anything from that. The man wasn't employed by Walmart anyway. That's actually an excellent point. And whereas Walmart would just dole out a couple million to impose a gag order and make the whole thing go away, the subcontractor probably won't and even as cynical as I am about juries I can't imagine any jury would watch that video and then award that rear end in a top hat a dime.
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Rainbow Knight posted:Are you still getting poo poo from your boss for"not doing enough" because I swear to God i woke up this morning after reading this last night and fantasized about driving north to poke someone with a lance Oh of course I am, I'm sure thats just gonna be the typical day now until I finally quit. Speaking of poke, got my vaccine 2 days ago. Left work 2 hours early on friday and called out yesterday, can't wait to see if they'll write me up for "excessive calling out" again.
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If they are regularly writing you up then I regret to inform you that means they've decided they want you gone and are pressuring you to quit, but if you don't, as soon as they feel they have enough write-ups in your file to deny unemployment comp they will fire you. Unless it's one of those outfits that regularly writes up every employee, just to make sure morale stays at rock bottom.
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It's explicitly to deny me a raise next year, they directly told me they were gonna deny my raise this year but they were gonna "take responsibility" for not giving me write ups for my apparently horrible performance. No this is just so they can deny me a raise so I get less stocks. I'm the only guy who is forklift certified that they have doing 5 ams and 1 pms and they aren't in a rush to hire anyone so I don't have to keep doing these swing shifts. Joke's on them though, they aren't gonna get the luxury of denying my pay raise next year anyways cause I'm quitting on the first. So I'll be more comfortable about calling out (need to burn my sick time anyways), just nodding my head and giving the most apathetic "yep" whenever they want to say something and just keep on going my usual speed. I'll also continue taking pictures of the atrocious product and any memos they leave laying around whenever they justify doing something "for the sake of the stocks" for after I dip. Leal fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jun 20, 2021 |
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We have job openings and no one is applying. There are radio announcements talking about competitive pay and all this other union provided stuff while kroger is trying to kill our union. I mean having to do more work sucks but god drat it I love to see when people slowly come to the realization that you can't stay in business by bleeding your workers dry. "Competitive wages" better become "bomb rear end wages of like $20 an hour" or else things are going to collapse lol
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Rainbow Knight posted:"Competitive wages" better become "bomb rear end wages of like $20 an hour" or else things are going to collapse lol My store recently teased a raise for everyone and it turned out to be "50 cent raise for some people but most of you get nothing". Now there's a whole new wave of long-time people quitting, and a 50 cent bump to our starting pay still isn't nearly enough to make anyone show up to their job interviews. My department, and ONLY my department, had a five-page "items not sent" report today. Roughly half of one page was the classic "sorry, warehouse ran out of $thing", which is common for pre-pandemic summers. The other 4.5 pages were (I forget the jargon term, but basically) "we wanted to send this to your store but we didn't have time/manpower to put it on the truck"
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Leal posted:I'll also continue taking pictures of the atrocious product  I am amazed at new ways our product can be hosed up. How do you gently caress up applying the loving wax? My god, thats it. The reason why the brands constantly flip flop, why they're always poo poo: Its because these warehouses we buy our product from in turn buy their product from other warehouses who have bad batches of produce. This is the only way it can make sense, they're intentionally reaching out to other warehouses and going "oh got some rotten or moldy product? Does it just not look right? Have you held onto it for a while and its probably gonna be rotting in a few days? How about we take it off your hands". hosed up wax? Sell it to this company, who in turn sells it to us. Corn that looks like  this? They buy it, we receive it. I spoke with someone who works in another store of mine and he says that even though we end up throwing away so much poo poo, its still cheaper than what we used to pay and I believe him for one simple reason:The reason why my boss never loving returns anything is because its more profitable for us to throw out half or more of the product and sell what remains than what we would make returning it. Thats the only explanation that makes sense. You can't be this loving anal about cutting hours and poo poo while ignoring the huge amounts of shrink from the sheer volume of poo poo we throw out (we actually run out of trash cans and have to start lifting the cans to dump into the trash compactor just to make space) unless it was worth more money going through with it instead of returning it.
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Jun 21, 2021 06:08
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Leal posted:The reason why my boss never loving returns anything is because its more profitable for us to throw out half or more of the product and sell what remains than what we would make returning it As my boss and I understand it, my department doesn't receive any credit for reporting things as "received damaged" or claiming they never arrived, but they also don't count against our all-important shrink percentage if we do those things. So from an hourly employee's level, it doesn't matter in the loving least what category I'm writing something off into, but as a courtesy to him I try to pick the correct categories. Our shrink numbers this quarter are gonna be through the roof anyway because our brain genius ASM decided we need to move all the most perishable items (tomatoes, peppers, avocados) as close to the front doors as possible and the temperature up front is absolutely destroying them. We throw out the majority of stuff on that front display every morning.
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Jun 21, 2021 08:16
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Wait you leave highly perishable produce on display overnight? We always pack it away into the cold room and cover other stuff like potatoes. And we have blinds for our fridge cases.
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Jun 21, 2021 10:50
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The Lord Bude posted:Wait you leave highly perishable produce on display overnight? We always pack it away into the cold room and cover other stuff like potatoes. And we have blinds for our fridge cases. I'm sorry, but accounting said that if we threw logic and reason out the window we'd increase this quarter's earnings by 0.3%
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cephalopods posted:My store recently teased a raise for everyone and it turned out to be "50 cent raise for some people but most of you get nothing". Now there's a whole new wave of long-time people quitting, and a 50 cent bump to our starting pay still isn't nearly enough to make anyone show up to their job interviews. It's cause of Biden! It's all cause of Biden and his tax hikes so companies have to pay more to use the roads! ---said by everyone on my mom's Facebook page. LOL the conservative talk show (even though they refuse to say they are, we only have loving conservative talk radio in Phoenix) keep harping on how lazy people are for not wanting to work and just get handouts...in between bitching about their golf game, and asking people to donate to a food bank because people can't eat and $40 can feed so many people!
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Well, one of our few remaining skilled dayshift workers left this week. Our nightshift has three people who have worked for us longer than four months, out of about 25 people. Our day shift of twelve people has two people who have been there less than three years. We start the day between 40-70 trailers behind, get it down to 20-40, and then night shift falls 40 behind again. Our claims (damages) are also way, way up over last year. We recently got bought by a different trucking company and our already low morale went down even further. Our raise this year basically matched cost of living increases. And, suspiciously, they won't tell us what a new hire starts out getting paid. I know the temp workers get a couple bucks less than a full time guy, but we haven't hired any full timers in a while.
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cephalopods posted:As my boss and I understand it, my department doesn't receive any credit for reporting things as "received damaged" or claiming they never arrived, but they also don't count against our all-important shrink percentage if we do those things. So from an hourly employee's level, it doesn't matter in the loving least what category I'm writing something off into, but as a courtesy to him I try to pick the correct categories. Our state's minimum wage went up so the manager took me aside and was like, "Because the state minimum wage went up, we're giving everyone a raise. Now you're making ten cents more an hour." I did the math and was instantly mad because it's less than nothing
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The Lord Bude posted:Wait you leave highly perishable produce on display overnight? We always pack it away into the cold room and cover other stuff like potatoes. And we have blinds for our fridge cases. We're supposed to be a 24 hour store. Currently closing at midnight or something, but when I leave anytime between 8:30 and 10:00 the store is always busier than it was during most of the day. If I tried to cover any of the displays I'd have to shove middle aged women out of the way, then they'd dig under the covers as soon as I put them down.
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JackSplater posted:Well, one of our few remaining skilled dayshift workers left this week. Our nightshift has three people who have worked for us longer than four months, out of about 25 people. Our day shift of twelve people has two people who have been there less than three years. We start the day between 40-70 trailers behind, get it down to 20-40, and then night shift falls 40 behind again. Our claims (damages) are also way, way up over last year. That is bleak.
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There's a story going around from bloomberg or some other poo poo site about how something like 600,000 people left retail in April 2021 and how retailers are scrambling because no one wants a retail job. Pretty weird that being paid low wages, having to deal with abusive customers, and very little, if any, opportunity to grow during a global pandemic that has killed millions and debilitated countless others has people burnt out.
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Sankis posted:There's a story going around from bloomberg or some other poo poo site about how something like 600,000 people left retail in April 2021 and how retailers are scrambling because no one wants a retail job. Look we bought a billboard calling you all heroes. What more do you want? And don’t start in on that whole “ the wages of a decent living, health benefits, and basic on the job safety” crap again. We have to return value to shareholders and my 2nd yacht needs its own yacht.
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IT PRIME DAY! Manager: why did you hit the E-Stop? Me: Well, maybe it was because I value my fingers and work was piling up behind it? Not to mention the straining belt and motor sounded like screeching demons and my desk is in the potential blast zone if it failed?  Also the lines have developed BRAND NEW CRUSH POINTS in the last 24 hours! That tote was not that shape when it left the pick station! Sankis posted:There's a story going around from bloomberg or some other poo poo site about how something like 600,000 people left retail in April 2021 and how retailers are scrambling because no one wants a retail job. Yup, service industries as a whole are failing. "Sorry dude, everyone up and quit right as your pizza order came in. I'd cancel it but I can't do that until the replacement manager comes in." https://twitter.com/TheSuperSNES/status/1407049209262620673
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Alkydere posted:
what the hell did he order? e: f;b
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My post office is the hub for Amazon Sunday in that part of metro Pittsburgh. What that means is that on Sunday, Amazon drops their shipment for several townships for Sunday delivery at my office, we part it all out, and letter carriers from those townships come and deliver. During the week, post offices sort their mail for whatever citt, rural, and highway contract routes they have. You can learn what your route is by looking for a number (usually in a rectangle) on the top-right corner of the label of your parcels that you received from USPS. If you see a number that begins with C, R, or H, like C004, that's the route your mail goes to. If it's a B, that's the box section your PO box is in. You will almost always see this on any parcel from Amazon that was delivered by USPS. For something like Amazon Sunday where that office is a hub for several ZIP codes, they switch to a dynamic mode because something like city route 3 in one ZIP code means nothing to a CCA that came from a different ZIP code. In dynamic mode, the clerks throwing parcels write the route mumber (Y or L) on the parcel with a marker and which number it isnin the carreir's sequence, throw it in the hamper, and the carrier assigned to thay route takes it. In order for any of this to work, Amazon has to generate a manifest of all the parcels we get and they have to be populated before scanning. If something goes wrong, such as an Amazon employee submitting a nee manifest while clerks are scanning parcels, those parcels will then scan incorrectly and scan for one of the C, R, or H routes for weekday delivery instead of Y or L for Sunday delivery. We then have to scan stuff that scanned for weekday delivery as available for pickup to stop the clock on them so we don't fail them and it creates a gigantic loving problem. So to whoever keeps changing the manifest at Amazon in the Pittsburgh area on Sunday that makes for some real long fuckin days of sorting out that mess: I want to break your fingers off and frrd them to a raccoon.
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Alkydere posted:IT PRIME DAY! There was an article in Dutch media about how AMZN just straight up DESTROYS unsold electronics. TV's, power tools, kitchen appliances, etc. Tell me again how capitalism is the best allocator of resources, neolibs?
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Alkydere posted:Yup, service industries as a whole are failing. This is special, because PJ breaks everything he touches.
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It's still confidential so I cant tell anyone I work with, but I just got offered a job at my same company that pulls me off the floor and away from customers! I will be doing ordering and inventory management instead, working with some of th coolest people I know. I'm hype as hell y'all, I've been in retail since like 2014 and this may seem like a small step away but it's big to me. Plus I'm not in charge of people anymore, hallelujah!
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loving hell, same. I remember stepping out to push carts just in time to see 2 stupid asses back up into one another and turned around back inside.
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About a month ago one of our assistants quit, and today I got the mass email that one of our really good employees last day will be this Friday. I'm not sure if this is quite rats leaving a sinking ship yet, or it's just that I'm the last one to get the memo. Another fun news, I had to swap vans today with someone who didn't take care of his very well, to the point he didn't know the high beam had burned out because and I quote he never uses those, I've had the van for less than 8 hours, and the check engine light has popped on, the fire extinguisher expired last year, oh and the cradle to hold said fire extinguisher broke. It has been an interesting few hours.
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Sounds like not bothering to take care of your van is the smart move there.
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I had a daydream that someone would do this when I saw the fireworks shipper in the back of the store. In a related note, we do not appear to have sprinklers in the loading bay so if it does catch fire there's good odds it'll take a hundred grand or so in backstock with it and spread the fire to the electrical panels which would, by my calculations, be cool and good
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Bomrek posted:It's still confidential so I cant tell anyone I work with, but I just got offered a job at my same company that pulls me off the floor and away from customers! I will be doing ordering and inventory management instead, working with some of th coolest people I know. Congratulations. While I don’t know your company’s specific culture, at a lot of companies getting away from the customer-facing area leads to far better and less abusive treatment. NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:I had a daydream that someone would do this when I saw the fireworks shipper in the back of the store. In a related note, we do not appear to have sprinklers in the loading bay so if it does catch fire there's good odds it'll take a hundred grand or so in backstock with it and spread the fire to the electrical panels which would, by my calculations, be cool and good Well whatever you do don’t throw away a lit cigarette butt into a garbage can full of greasy rags and sawdust that is sitting right next to the fireworks. That would be a huge mistake.
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I mean I think what I'd have done in that case is "call the fire department, hit fire alarm" Like gently caress it I'm not trying anything else to try to deal with a bunch of small explosives that are all in fire
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My second boss (As a "learning ambassador" I'm technically in two paths/have two different chains of command. It's like Office Space only not lovely because both sides are cool with each other) is having to re-train a bunch of problem solvers on stuff that only became standard after they were trained. Mainly: the SLAM Operators (the people who manage the machines who print labels, and all the rejects they kick out). Question: What is the maximum number of boxes you can downstack when the lines to shipdock go down? Me: Uh...infinity +1 until Operations finally figures out the issue isn't just going to go away and calls a Sev 2 to shut down our department? Actual answer: 6K Learning Boss: Yeah I don't know, apparently we're all supposed to count as we go and have a running group tally across half of the building? (that's sounds about right when Ops shuts us down anyways, but they have access to programs that let them track this poo poo as compared to the workers in the trenches) Question: What are some alternate options to downstacking boxes that have yet to be processed? Me: ...start a trashcan fire to force a Sev event so Ops stops us? Learning Boss: I like the cut of your jib! Actual answer: I already forgot because it was so stupid Also the repair crew did some cleaning in areas our janitorial staff can't go and gave me the resulting totes full of garbage to send to damageland to be thrown away. You know: boxes of poo poo that fell out of their totes months ago and have just been festering in/near the machinery. Every single one of these totes have been up there too so they're all grody with a coating of dirt and machine oil. The two highlights were: 1) A heavy rear end tote with 2 partially crushed 24 packs of red bull (and other assorted crap) I had to lug halfway across the building because the tote had no labels for the machine to route and someone (likely days) ran off with the little tote-trolly I'm supposed to have 2) The tote the guy had used as a dust bin and had 3 solid inches of dirt, dust, grease, grime and various tiny crushed boxes of small items in it (those tiny crushed boxes of pills meant I still had to send it on the line). My sinuses were screaming and trying to commit suicide just at the sight of this thing.
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