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FCs in the RDC share nothing other than the occasional RDC team member when the sorter is down or Black Friday. The FC just takes up floor space and dock doors. The RDC still ships out trailers from the wing to the FC and the FC receives the trailers in their doors. Then, puts the freight in...

Seems strange to do this just before fall season. Maybe they hope to use the FC team members for the DC over the busy months. While I hate to see people lose their jobs, I would not mind our FC going away. They should have their own building and make no sense taking up space in a DC. We would...

The roll out that we were shown has. 3 periods per day. Days/swing and overnight. That does not keep them from paying the swing and overnight the same. I don’t remember the exact hours being B1. But the scale they showed had a rate change at midnight.

Shift differentials will be set based on time of day, as I remember, 6am to 5pm, 5pm to midnight and midnight to 6am and by day of the week Monday to Friday or Saturday to Sunday. So six different possible pay scales. You can be payed multiple scales in one shift. At my DC and as far as I can...

At my DC they just announced a part time option. Details to be set next month. It may create new work schedules for you. they are also eliminating and reducing most shift differentials on Mondays, so they are really looking for any options to staff Mondays.

Apparently, inbound had their forecast reduced by at least 25% for next month off an already slow month. We will see how it works through the rest of the building and to the stores. If the forecast is accurate.

After seven months of mandatory OT last year, Inbound is approving VLE all week long with up to a dozen people out of department. Last year VLE was nonexistent this time of year. It may be better staffing but really seems much slower. Capacity seems as bad as last year so freight may not be...

As 20+ year person, who signed up for VLE at midnight. I really enjoy having my days actually on the calendar so that I can make appointments. So far I have not canceled any day that has been approved or moved up the back up list from any other cancellations. With UPO I believe they will need...

They already have the expectation of weak sales so I would expect a 2% “bonus” for hourly workers rather than a raise. I expect vey senior executives will get a bonus for cutting costs(wages) again but everyone else will be losing ground against inflation.

My state required that they give us a printed standard. They gave us a PDF with many job function standards and the caveat that it all changes due to budgets. The standards used to bet set by DC every year with everyone expected to increase with the lowest performing DCs having the greatest...

It is very inaccurate, so it knows that you have earbuds in about 50% of the time even if you forgot them today. It gives off impact alarms a couple times a quarter sometimes when you are parked and regularly thanks you for exiting the vehicle safely when you are still in it. The check out...

3 years without a raise and with “warehouse associate expansion“ they are paying new hires significantly less. I assume that they are probably planning to make outbound TMs into warehousing associates and all PIT drivers can come from other departments.

My understanding is that these are all small format low volume stores and rather than admit it was a bad management choice they are try to blame shortage as the cause. SFS are high cost stores to run and supply with a low volume and somehow they thought they could earn a profit by understaffing...

We use MyTime PTO other currently. So yes, if you want to get paid, you get to have an “electronic trail” like any other PTO. If you call off before the shift you may also need to use MyTime manage the shift to avoid a NC/NS.

Our state mandate sick time is accountable so it can be use around paid holidays. Expect an adjustment time for leadership to figure out scheduling. Our team was padding the staffing by 20% to cover the extra no shows. Friday second half outbound is the worst. It seems the whole building is...