Recent content by BadWolf4531

These raises are also painful considering everyone in our store was making a minimum of $4/hour above base on the weekends back in 4th Quarter 2021. I know that was temporary pay but damn those were some decent paychecks for a short time. 😂

You are not guaranteed full-time, but can get sometimes get 40 hours depending on the time of year and what other workcenters you are trained in. Your availability, your store's sales/payroll, and the overall staffing of your store will all factor into this. Be willing to extend your shifts when...

We are not an official pilot district, but we eliminated all GM DBOs after Christmas. We also selected a few team members who now focus specifically on pricing and/or POG every day. Overall, our store continues to struggle, and I'm not optimistic that going to back to old processes is going to...

Any word on changes to closing teams / closing TL? "Closing Experience" falling under Service & Engagement makes it sound like Closing TL may now report to the ETL-S&E instead of the SD. Just curious if leaders are going back to a rotating LOD schedule or staying with the current model.

The reaction from 90% of my store if they had to use a PDA:

It is like a fire aisle alert and is supposed to be claimed, but it can easily be claimed on the Zebra anywhere in the store and then just ignored. I believe it only sends two alerts - the initial and a second reminder some 20-30 sec later. There are times when I've seen the alerts go off again...

From a TM workload perspective - they are great. They are way less intrusive on your work, to the point where the majority of TMs either ignore them or don't even know what they are. From a guest perspective - best of luck. Unless there are TMs nearby who care about answering service hubs or...

I debated on whether or not to even post this, but honestly our entire team could use all kinds of thoughts and prayers today and in the weeks to come. One of our ETLs passed away in the store yesterday. I'd rather not give many details, but I had to call the Code Green and 911 and witness the...

Our PA is finally working this week! First time in 2 years. It was pleasant surprise when I heard the closing announcements the other night.

A big issue was COVID. A lot of full store remodels had already been planned out prior to 2020. These all included expanded hold spaces for OPUs and Drive Ups behind guest service - but nobody could have predicted the sudden surge in online orders when lockdown happened. Suddenly even those...

INF is only calculated based on the quantity of items you picked vs the quantity of items needed. It has nothing to do with multiple locations. "Can't Find" will only generate an INF when it is the last existing location on your batch. Example: If you need one pack of out-of-stock batteries that...

I think the issue lies with ePick. I think that (by design) ePick was never meant to generate backroom errors, only Audit tasks - unlike the old Move app or the current Fill tasklist. There was information on Workbench years ago explaining this - this was back when ePick forced you to AIS...

I have no words for the lack of payroll right now. I expect this stinginess during Q1 but not peak BTS season. We had 6 call-offs in Fulfillment alone Saturday. 6 again yesterday. More than 1/3 of the team, and that's just one workcenter. Yet we are still somehow 700 hours to the bad and we...

It can happen but like you said it's an extreme exception. It actually happened to me six years ago but I ended up turning the offer down. That said I was a GSA and TPS prior to the offer, so I think that helped give me some leverage.

By this do you mean are there ways of making more money that don't involve being a leader? Sadly, not anymore. The only way to make more money as a TM is to put in more time and getting a few additional cents during annual reviews (and those increases aren't even keeping up with inflation at...