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Walmart manager moved all the vendor skids from their spot to the receiving aisle, and put them sideways so no one could get them out without moving everything. He also slammed my pallet into something  Walmart managers are some of the worst people I've ever met.
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So y'all who've been listening to me bitch for a while know I have a job that only a few people on my shift know how to do. It's more load bearing (absolutely must be loving staffed, often has gently caress-all work) and a bit obtuse (so those that know it are treated like we know some minor black magic) and you need people who are okay just standing in the corner and reading books/the internet. Anyways, the guy who's basically #2 is a conservative, libertarian, anti-vaxxer chain smoker. If you put him to work he'll bitch and grouse but get it done better than 95% of anyone here, but as said: he's more worried about catching 5G than COVID. Any-Anyways... He's been off work for the last couple weeks on medical leave because he's caught a mysterious respiratory illness. Apparently lost 15 pounds during it. A few years ago I would have been upset but...hey, you dug this grave of your own. Just kinda pissed I'm gonna lose a halfway decent co-worker and gonna be made to train his replacement. Not even gonna pissed at Amazon for replacing him real quick-like if they do. Dude had years to get shots but would rather listen to Alex Jones telling him about gay frogs. Admiral Joeslop posted:Walmart manager moved all the vendor skids from their spot to the receiving aisle, and put them sideways so no one could get them out without moving everything. Worked handing out free samples at Wal-Mart for a while. Not all Wally World managers are bad but the bad ones are actively the worst.
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Alkydere posted:Worked handing out free samples at Wal-Mart for a while. Not all Wally World managers are bad but the bad ones are actively the worst. Back when I was a third party merchandiser I went to a walmart to check on their gopro display. It was a mess and not properly built, so I notified them to which their response was to tell me to fix it, argued with me when I said I wasn't paid to do that, then refused to sign my paperwork and instead told me "If you just fixed it instead of arguing you'd be done by now"
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Leal posted:Back when I was a third party merchandiser I went to a walmart to check on their gopro display. It was a mess and not properly built, so I notified them to which their response was to tell me to fix it, argued with me when I said I wasn't paid to do that, then refused to sign my paperwork and instead told me "If you just fixed it instead of arguing you'd be done by now" I used to work in various positions as a lovely low level Walmart manager back in the day, and we were actually trained to gently caress with the third party people like this. The concept was basically that your company paid a lot of money to have that display, if you can't maintain it, we'll happily put up some other display in its place. It completely does not matter to the Walmart people because, again, your company already paid for the space. If you can't keep it stocked or maintained, well... you're still paying rent. And if we stuff that space full of something else then you go bitch to your corporate managers, well... none of us are going to get in trouble for you all failing to do your jobs.
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Department downstream from me started bitching I was sending them loose work. When I get loose work off of the router I work I'm supposed to just send it to prepare it to be sent back to inventory to be re-stocked and re-picked later. I like to find out where it's supposed to go and send it to that department: it helps make everyone look better so I keep my lazy job and gives me something to do. Only this department decided to go "Hey this work isn't ours!" without actually looking it up in the system. Then got frustrated when they couldn't find missing parts of the shipments they were assembling and missed shipment times. So they escalated and bitched about me. Well in that case everyone else gets their work. Your work is going on the putback pallet. If you want it you can ask for the system to re-pick that work. Oh, the two items I had were the last two items in the system? You can come upstairs and get them from my pallet.
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Coworker did a no-call no-show. I thought he was out sick, saw his van in the lot, but headed off on route. Manager called me about an hour later to ask if V was in. I told him his van had still been there when I left. Manager wanted to know if V had told me anything from the day before, like if he was sick, etc. Nope. Only thing I remembered was that he had lost his phone and was planning to retrace his steps to his last few stops after work. So I'm worried then because V never no call no shows. I texted him, no reply. Then an hour later he texts back: he has the day off. Taking his kid to some summer school thing. He got the vacation day approved weeks ago. Manager never put it on the schedule despite approving it. Apparently he has done this before and only realizes someone is not on route when dispatch calls and tells him. Manager also didn't loving TEXT OR COMM V himself before hitting me up first thing. I let V know about that. Kinda curious if V will hit up HR because I am not a manager or assistant of any kind. Kinda weird to reach out to a team member about another without contacting the latter first, right?
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Yeah that scans. I had a random manager assign me for a day I couldn't do. Not my line manager so no idea why they threw me on. I can't do it, give them a call to say I'm only available the days I have marked available on the calendar. Give them another call the day prior as a courtesy when I see the shift is still assigned to me. Get a call about 20mins into the assigned shift from the same manager I've spoken to twice, "You're rostered. Where are you?"
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Got to a Walmart today, put up the truck, then go take a look at the back stock to see how I'm going to fit the leftovers. This is after I've already started trying to fix it. Walmart receivers have to count the bins every day or so. They ask us nicely to make sure the same product is lined up to the back so they don't have to dig. Very little is actually lined up and the super chill receiver looks like he's as close to blowing a gasket as he can get. Tell him I agree that it's poorly done and should not be that way and tell him I'm fixing it, so we don't lose our loving back stock bin. Text the lead and she says it was probably the younger guy on the team and the sales rep for the store, which doesn't surprise me. Nice people but he's 19 and she's very spacy. Anyway I fixed it.  
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Got to a Walmart today, put up the truck, then go take a look at the back stock to see how I'm going to fit the leftovers. I used to have to count and pick those racks everyday. I cursed the people who would bury 5 types of beer behind each other and not label it.
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Our cubiscan (this: https://cubiscan.com/cubiscan-150/) is broken apparently. Every day there's 100-200 or so measurements (work orders) that need to be taken to correct or confirm product dimensions so stuff gets put on the right shelves, packed in the correct boxes and correct fees are charged for storage (for 3rd party products). If necessary, we are supposed to perform manual measurements with a tape measure and scale while the machine gets fixed (or if the product is not a box-shaped item that this machine can measure). Naturally, the back-half shifts decided that the machine being broken means they will simply do no measurements. It will all pile up until I come in on sunday and the managers realize that I can work on this needlessly created backlog. A day of manual cubiscan (I will almost certainly be pulled to do this) will be pretty chill, but also kinda boring and it does have a tracked rate. I learned of this all on my day off because somehow I got scheduled for overtime even with approved vacation applied to my schedule and needed to get that sorted out with HR. Thankfully the policy is actually crystal clear on that and on my side, so I did not have to drive back from another state or use up extra PTO.
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Jun 10, 2023 09:34
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The fates smiled upon me and I was allowed to request people to help me yesterday. Dunno how the entire department had 100+ hours to burn on support stuff by the end of the first period, but I got like 18 hours worth of that.
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Jun 12, 2023 11:13
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on this week's episode of My Pet Chudster, after a lot of talking about why things cost money and shouldn't he's like, "a lot of what you're saying makes sense." I do it for the cause, comrades 
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Jun 14, 2023 15:02
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I look forward to the season finale cliffhanger ending
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Rainbow Knight posted:on this week's episode of My Pet Chudster, after a lot of talking about why things cost money and shouldn't he's like, "a lot of what you're saying makes sense." Keep fighting the good fight
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You'd be amazed how receptive a lot of conservatives are to socialist ideals until you use the C or S word.
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Rainbow Knight posted:on this week's episode of My Pet Chudster, after a lot of talking about why things cost money and shouldn't he's like, "a lot of what you're saying makes sense." While you're at it, tell him not to spout hateful bullshit inside the breakroom as well as outside of it, not just the latter.
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So having been in my same department and store for lo these many years, I've noticed a pattern with new department heads I swear to god and the devil this happens every time without fail. A new department head will show up, looking out at a clean slate and a fresh start with bright eyes and a full heart. The positivity lasts for a short while, but after those first few months they'll get into a groove or we'll deal with a particularly lovely schedule or something that throws off the rhythm in a way that's hard to recover from. Slowly but surely they'll decide on who their Number One Best Employee is and start letting them get away with poo poo. I'll have to clean up their messes and it will take time away from what I am actually responsible for. Then the new department head and I end up having a conversation about how I do well sometimes and do poorly other times. Then the conversation turns into how they do well sometimes and do poorly other times. Then I show them pictures that I've taken of things I find after days off, like food that's been left to rot on our tables, or day-to day stuff like trash heaps that I have to deal with in our prep room. I show them how the stuff they put on our wet rack (where lettuce, cucumbers, greens and such live) is wilted and dirty, or sometimes the rack is half full or totally empty by the time I come in at 12:30p which is just before they split for the day. I remind them that I can't write and order and take care of the department during our busiest hours. We will come up with a *~*~game plan~*~* for what to do going forward. Within the next week or so things will get a little better, but then they'll turn bad and the *~*~*game plan~*~* turns into a poo poo plan. The department head will get frustrated and get the SM involved. The SM will take the department head and I into their office, we'll talk about how I need to do better. Then I'll bust out all my receipts. The SM will start riding the department head's rear end, and he'll start losing his mind, getting pissed at the SM and probably me, and finally reach a point at which they just give up and start to be normal because it's too hard to be that stressed all the time. I'll be finishing up my bag of popcorn that I've been munching on while the drama unfolds by the time they're ready to not be dogshit. It's weird but I guess not surprising. It's always "why isn't my guy doing things right  " and never "am I doing things right?" We'll have conversations about how lovely our schedule is and how broken we are from the poo poo corporate flings at us but it never sinks in enough to keep managers from blaming me in particular. I think it's because I look like I'm in my mid 20's in spite of being half a year away from 40, and people assume that youth = lack of responsibility or someone they automatically have authority over. Maybe they can actually sense who gives a poo poo about their work and will beeline to that person when it's time to offload stress because they know they'll get a response. My department head's current favorite literally doesn't give a poo poo. He keeps saying he's going to give his two weeks notice and I keep telling him to do it so we can get someone better  but he sticks around anyway and just causes bullshit drama. Managers can't go to someone like that and get a response because it's too hard. Just put it all on the closer. At least the conclusion to all this remains the same. Star Man posted:You'd be amazed how receptive a lot of conservatives are to socialist ideals until you use the C or S word. OH MAN that's been the easy part. Communism and Socialism are specifically what he thinks "makes sense." The hard part is undoing the hyper-online conservative brain poison that makes him think that nationalism is good and anything other than heterosexuality and white culture (whatever that is) is "cultural degeneracy." It's been shocking to listen to the vile straight up nazi poo poo he spews, and at least once every time we talk I have calmly explain that while I'm receptive to an open conversation he is never to say this poo poo around anyone but me because he will probably get fired (but also I will go straight to HR if he keeps doing it.) I've talked about boys I've had a crush on too so one day, like a ton of union made rainbow bricks, he will be hit with the knowledge that he's been getting styled on about politics and culture four times a week by a bisexual leftist and maybe it will put things into perspective. It's a slow but steady process and I'm hoping the season finale will be him spilling the beans about how comfortable a sun dress looks or how he cried during Ep.3 of The Last of Us or something. ssb posted:While you're at it, tell him not to spout hateful bullshit inside the breakroom as well as outside of it, not just the latter. so this, yeah. The ultimate goal. Rainbow Knight fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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I just bully my conservative coworkers mercilessly when they say dumb poo poo. So much for the tolerant left, I guess.
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Rainbow Knight posted:Maybe they can actually sense who gives a poo poo about their work and will beeline to that person when it's time to offload stress because they know they'll get a response. [...] Managers can't go to someone like that and get a response because it's too hard. Just put it all on the closer. I know this isn't a response you'll find helpful or cathartic... sorry about that. But: your story is more common than you know, and this right here is exactly what is happening. It's not hard at all to identify which one or two employees in the whole store are the ones that can't help but care, not even for the special kind of minds that wind up in store management. And then they (you) get the whip incessantly, forever, because putting the whip to people who don't give a poo poo would be a pointless and frustrating waste of time.
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Rainbow Knight posted:OH MAN that's been the easy part. Communism and Socialism are specifically what he thinks "makes sense." The hard part is undoing the hyper-online conservative brain poison that makes him think that nationalism is good and anything other than heterosexuality and white culture (whatever that is) is "cultural degeneracy." It's been shocking to listen to the vile straight up nazi poo poo he spews, and at least once every time we talk I have calmly explain that while I'm receptive to an open conversation he is never to say this poo poo around anyone but me because he will probably get fired (but also I will go straight to HR if he keeps doing it.) I've talked about boys I've had a crush on too so one day, like a ton of union made rainbow bricks, he will be hit with the knowledge that he's been getting styled on about politics and culture four times a week by a bisexual leftist and maybe it will put things into perspective. I'm not calling anyone out specifically when I say this, but it is absolutely possible for a person to adopt socialist causes, but still be an absolute homophobe, racist, sexist, etc. I think a lot of leftist goons get so caught up in "no war but class war" they fail to see the forest for the trees.
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Eric the Mauve posted:I know this isn't a response you'll find helpful or cathartic... sorry about that. But: your story is more common than you know, and this right here is exactly what is happening. It's not hard at all to identify which one or two employees in the whole store are the ones that can't help but care, not even for the special kind of minds that wind up in store management. And then they (you) get the whip incessantly, forever, because putting the whip to people who don't give a poo poo would be a pointless and frustrating waste of time. It's fine because you're right. It sucks to give a poo poo, but I do try to moderate myself. And really, the truth that you describe is just the flow that I've become accustomed to anyway so I don't think I could lose sleep over the issue even if I tried. I've got my plan and my tools and it's enough to offload unnecessary amounts of stress. Star Man posted:I'm not calling anyone out specifically when I say this, but it is absolutely possible for a person to adopt socialist causes, but still be an absolute homophobe, racist, sexist, etc. I think a lot of leftist goons get so caught up in "no war but class war" they fail to see the forest for the trees. That happens a lot, yeah. I think it's just because the internet is a terrible medium for communication in general and about high stakes topics in particular. Convincing someone that other human beings are real and deserve dignity feels like trying to will the universe into aligning the stars for you because you have to change someone's core values with empathy that they don't have so it's like, "why bother?" It's easier to just let that one go and focus on worker solidarity but then you end up with socialists who are also nationalists and bigots and if history is any indication....
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PurpleXVI posted:I just bully my conservative coworkers mercilessly when they say dumb poo poo. So much for the tolerant left, I guess. We had gross fundie/racist/terminally online conservative libertarian shitstains in my store but luckily there was considerable overlap between these people and antivaxxers so Covid gave us an excuse to fire them all.
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I'm officially back to work doing the evening shift and it turns out the assistant manager who was constantly calling out just up and quit earlier this week. Well then. Also I had someone ask if we were doing breakfast at 5:30 pm and I want to scream
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Leal posted:Also I had someone ask if we were doing breakfast at 5:30 pm and I want to scream Well, were you?
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After 10.5 months with my current employer I am being considered for promotion into a supervisory position. Currently working at the busiest location in the district in a test run of that position. Thinking it will be a relative cake walk as the manager who is evaluating me was trained in our specialty (shipping and printing) by myself (she came from managing in the restaurant industry), the assistant manager is the one who suggested me for the position, and she and I trained all but one of the other employees at this location, and I have some limited supervisory experience from my previous job in the same industry as well as the current (I've been the senior employee on Sundays for the last 4 months).
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Just be very wary if your supervisory position isn't an hourly position. If it's a fixed wage, many companies see that as pushing you into what is essentially shitloads of unpaid overtime, and remember that the company has zero loyalty towards you. That will not be repaid in any way.
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Yeah I’d consider being an asm with my company bc it’s hourly with mandatory overtime (I hate hr poo poo so I won’t despite the DM begging me), but I’d never be a store manager because they just expect you to work a million days and hours with nothing to show for it
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Being allowed to play basically whatever on the Bluetooth speaker so long as it doesn't drop any cursewords that easily offend the olds is just...so good. Some favorites so far https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaLSwwSn8Mk Pearl clutching lady: Well that sounds Satanic. Me: No, just German. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCGQiGEYl4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLaJlST2yYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFCD2cahGoA The looks of confusion on the customers faces sustains me.
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We lost speaker priviledges because one guy wouldn't stop adding Still D.R.E. to the playlist.
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I used to like to play the "vintage romantic coffee shop" station in the coffee shop I used to work in. Then our regional manager came in and forbade it because it wasn't sufficiently contemporary. despite us being a little coffee shop in a big resort that peaked in 1980. The main lobby in the building had a chandelier made of loving antlers, come the gently caress on its not contemporary
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CaptainJuan posted:I used to like to play the "vintage romantic coffee shop" station in the coffee shop I used to work in. Then our regional manager came in and forbade it because it wasn't sufficiently contemporary. despite us being a little coffee shop in a big resort that peaked in 1980. The main lobby in the building had a chandelier made of loving antlers, come the gently caress on its not contemporary Technically your musical choice was contemporaneous; but not contemporary.
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PurpleXVI posted:Just be very wary if your supervisory position isn't an hourly position. If it's a fixed wage, many companies see that as pushing you into what is essentially shitloads of unpaid overtime, and remember that the company has zero loyalty towards you. That will not be repaid in any way. Even store managers up to a certain level of store are hourly (we have 4 levels, managers of levels 1 and 2 are hourly, levels 3 and 4, as well as senior store managers, are salary). Everyone below that is hourly.
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Welp, the managers had a meeting yesterday and now if we call out without a note (doctor's note/note from court) we can/will be fired.
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dovetaile posted:Welp, the managers had a meeting yesterday and now if we call out without a note (doctor's note/note from court) we can/will be fired. Time to leave.
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Agents are GO! posted:Time to
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dovetaile posted:Welp, the managers had a meeting yesterday and now if we call out without a note (doctor's note/note from court) we can/will be fired. lol do the managers intend to run the store all by themselves
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dovetaile posted:Welp, the managers had a meeting yesterday and now if we call out without a note (doctor's note/note from court) we can/will be fired. Agents are GO! posted:Time to leave. Mcdonalds tried to implement a procedure of needing a doctor's note to come back if you called in sick. It got quietly dropped very quickly.
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njsykora posted:Mcdonalds tried to implement a procedure of needing a doctor's note to come back if you called in sick. It got quietly dropped very quickly. Oh, I don't think it's coming from corporate. It's literally just the managers (most likely the SM/ASM).
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dovetaile posted:Oh, I don't think it's coming from corporate. It's literally just the managers (most likely the SM/ASM). Nah it’s a corporate thing. I forgot the whole thing bc I read everything from corporate and then it immediately leaves my brain but it’s basically calling out without a doctors note is unexcused unless you have sick time accrued (so sucks a poo poo ton for stores in areas that don’t have required sick time I guess), and then certain things like calling out on a weekend or a holiday causes double occurrence . Mostly it only matters as much as your managers actively and accurately keep track of absences since they can’t actually put in for firing until you have 12 occurrences and they actively kept track of every call out. My store we barely keep track since generally people call out rarely or they quit right way anyways. And we’re a state with sick time required for everyone.
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dovetaile posted:Oh, I don't think it's coming from corporate. It's literally just the managers (most likely the SM/ASM). Someone should call corporate/HR then. In my experience they don’t like store level managers deciding major policy like this on the fly. At my company a store manager decided he didn’t like front end staff wearing shorts or jeans after our dress code was significantly casualised - someone took it further and all of a sudden all the stores got a missive from head office making it clear that under no circumstances did store management have the right to impose dress requirements beyond what was explicitly stated in our dress code.
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